president trump will return to camp david on friday with his entire cabinet. they are expected to tackle the widening nuclear crisis in north korea and tax reform. funding the government front and center after the president stunned republican leaders by cutting a deal with democrats on a short-term debt ceiling increase. the agreement funds the government, gets hurricane harvey relief money flowing. with siding with the democrats, the president infuriated republican leaders. one gop senate aide telling cnn the move killed any hope hear advancing the president s agenda this year. ryan nobles with more from capitol hill. reporter: good morning. there was a breakthrough here on capitol hill wednesday, but it was not necessarily the breakthrough that we expected. donald trump striking a deal,
when records began. guys, there s 2,600 storms formed. 32 have reached the category five. zero have been as strong as irma has for as long as irma has retained the intensity of 180 miles per hour or more. andrew is one of those 32. irma is much stronger at this point. great perspective. hopefully that generation christine was referring to learned from hurricane harvey and what happened to houston. thank you very much. heed the warnings. yeah. get out if you can. irma prompting new mandatory evacuations in florida. governor rick scott pleading with people to abide. i cannot stress this enough do not ignore evacuation orders. remember, we can rebuild your home, but we cannot rebuild your life. more on what florida is doing to prepare for irma next. you won t see these folks they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursue. how do they avoid trips to the post office?
julie: mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. what are expectations heading into this big four meeting with the president today? julie, good morning. a bunch of critical issues congress must address by the end of the month. president trump would like to hear from the house and senate leaders. at the top of the list are hurricane harvey relief money and also extending what is known as the debt ceiling. the government s ability to borrow money. i know that securing this emergency funding is very important for the president and i know that preventing a default or shutdown amidst such an historic natural disaster is also very important to him. these are the president s immediate priorities, pass disaster relief, prevent a default, and fund the government. we have to get all three of these things done and we have to do it very quickly. expectations are the house
budget deal. passing the budget is only one item on a busy september agenda for president trump and congress may not be the most important. the nbc first read team laid out the to do list for the month. providing hurricane harvey relief money, raising the debt limit by the end of september keeping the government open, crafting a tax reperform bill, and maybe giving one more shot in the senate. franko by any measure that is a aggressive agenda. for a congress that actually gets things done, that would be a tough agenda. and as you know from covering washington for a long time, budgets are something that even a congress that gets other things done struggles to get done. what does that agenda look like to you? it does look tough. it looks very difficult. i will say that harvey has kind of brought people together. you talked about the wall and
threat to shut down the government if congress doesn t provide funds for the border wall. the washington post article disputed the president s immediate commitment to the wall, quote, the white house has told republicans they will not shut down the government, potentially clearing a path for lawmakers to pass a budget. passing a budget is only one item on a busy september agenda, may not be the most important. the nbc first read team laid out the to do list for the month. including providing hurricane harvey relief money, raising the debt limit, keeping the government open, crafting a tax reform bill and maybe giving health care one more shot in the senate. frank oe, by any measure, that is a aggressive agenda. for a congress that actually gets things done, that would be