thanks for the tickets. morning joe starts right now. the man the authorities you know who is coming up up the coast? hurricane earl. right. hurricane earl up the east coast and he could hit new york city, winds so strong they think it might blow away the bedbugs! hurricane earl is headed towards the east coast and i heard that some towns in new jersey may have to be evacuated later this week. the cast of the jersey shore would have could relocate to neighboring communities, at which point, those towns would have to be evacuated so it s a cycle. welcome to morning joe. 6:01 on a thursday morning. i m willie geist. joe and mika have the day off today. really? they have the day off. only reason you re sitting there, my man! that s why! mike barnicle is with us and so is chris jansing, luckily, to save us from all of this. john heilemann of new york magazine and coourge of the juggernaut, that is game change. isn t that fair to say? yeah, it is.