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
Charlottesville now charged with Second Degree murder. The president still not calling out the hate groups w s behind the violence even though some of his top advisors are. That includes his attorney general who in the next 90 minutes will be arriving at the white house along with the fbi director to talk about that new investigation into what hes describing as potentially domestic terror. And now the mother of the woman killed in that attack talking exclusively with nbc news. Telling us shes upset, but not angry. Hoping her daughters death serves some greater purpose. We have our team set up and ready to go with all the details and i want to start with tom costello on the ground in charlottesville. Walk us through the hearing here for the suspect today. What do we expect to see out of this and how long might it take and what is it like on the ground . Hallie, good morning to you. 0yearold alex fields will be appearing before a judge now any second. He is charged with Second Degree mur
Yovanovitchs lawyer walk in. When this deposition starts up, and we expect that it will at this point, lawmakers have a lot of questions. They want to know what yovanovitch knows about this influenc we know from the evidence that exists in the Public Record that she is one of the former state Department Officials who raised a lot of concerns about the work that giuliani was doing outside of official state department channels. That is precisely what led to her ouster. Giuliani sent a pact of misinformation to the state department which house investigators have now released to the press. President trump referred to her as bad news before recalling her from her post in the ukraine. She spent the last several months here teaching at georgetown. Shes still a state Department Foreign service officer. When she shows up here, theres a big question as to whether or not shes doing it with the approval of the state department. Because earlier this morning we learned that ambassador Gordon Sondlan