There has never been a time they have not been able to step up this president should step down. If biden wins, the rioters, anarchists, flag burners, they win. Were also following breaking news this morning out of the Trump Administration with the new ban on downloads of tiktok and whatsapp, a live report on why this is such a big deal. Im Hallie Jackson in washington with our nbc news team on the campaign trail and out with voters mike memoli, garrett haake, Shaquille Brewster on the ground in minnesota, where early in person voting is starting today. Let me start with you in hermantown where joe biden will be in the area talk about his agenda after that town hoall eventer i near scrann last night reporter we talked about this a lot on your show, joe biden has recently begun to hit the battleground states on the campaign trail theyre targeting 15 battleground states. The blue wall states and in some cases that trump flipped from blue to red, in 2016, and in the case of minnesota, very
Breaking developments on Hurricane Sally as we come on the air right now. A slow motion disaster with the gulf coast getting inundated with torrential rain, storm surge, strong winds, the National Hurricane center says flooding will probably be catastrophic and they call it life threatening were talking about three to four inches of rain every hour, within some spots totals of three feet of rain you can actually walk faster than this storm is moving as it just sits and dumps water on the region sally made landfall just within the last few hours, near gulf shores, alabama, as a category two storm. Winds were stronger than 100 miles an hour, youve got tornado warnings and watches in effect, with 26 Million People feeling the effects of sally it comes exactly 16 years after hurricane ivan devastated the region good morning, im Hallie Jackson in washington with our nbc News Reporters on the ground in the storms path ali velshi in orange beach, alabama, not far from where sally made landfal
Weve got a lot to get to with the nbc news team. Lets begin with three new developments as we come on the air this morning. Cdc confirming first u. S. Case of unknown origin. That patient is being treated in Northern California at Uc Davis Medical Center in sacramento. Here is another first, too. The number of Coronavirus Infections outside china is bigger than the number of new infections inside china where more than 2700 people died from the illness. Extreme measures in japan. Overnight Prime Minister announcing schools will be shut down basically for the next month. Weve got it all covered with our reporters here in washington and around the country. Let me start with jeff at the white house. Jeff, President Trump is trying to reassure people, hey, weve got this under control, weve got this handled, but theres still a lot of questions this morning. Youre reight about that, hallie. The president put Vice President mike pence in charge of this whole of government response to address a
Direct campaign to interfere in our election process than weve seen in this case. We have all the angles of this covered. Kristen welker in new york and ken delaney in washington. I want to get to kristen first, covering the president elect ahead of the briefing. Tell us what the action has been and what you expect to see early this afternoon. The president elect trump heading to conde nast for a meeting there. We are getting information about that briefing learning that Vice President mike pence is going to attend. Its set to get under way at 12 30. Well be tracking developments very closely. Its a pretty heated backdrop. The stakes could not be higher. Kens been doing a ton of reporting. Ill lay out a few details about it. We know according to intelligence officials, their report shows based on intercepts, top russian officials were celebrating president elects win. Theyve identified some of the gobetweens who helped disseminate some of that information. That getting under the skin o
Pass with congress and mexico and canada. You have a number of republicans who say they arent quite sure they want to go that far. Were also expecting him to announce his intentions to pull ot of tpp. Thats that big multinational trade deal that president obama was a negotiating when he left office. Congress had not yet approved that trade deal so technically President Trump can pull out of it. Im also told that according to a white house official, hes going to task his top econoc advisers with renegotiating trade deals with the individual countries that were involved in tpp. President trump as a candidate, hallie, and you know better than anyone, campaigned on this issue. He campaigned on bringing jobs back on renegotiating these major trade deals. Thats one of the reasons he won working class voters in the midwest. Later this afternoon hell meet with Union Leaders to try to get them on board with some of his plans in terms of renegotiating these key trade deals. This is President Tru