honestly, at this point we do not know. that said, this white house does leak like a rusty sieve straining acid. so i can promise you that this mystery will not be mysterious for too long. eventually we will find out what happened with this nikki haley surprise resignation today. until then, until we inevitably get the leak from someone associated with the trump administration or the white house who tells us what happened, until then, there is no real point in making up potential explanations that don t necessarily have basis in fact. so i feel like in terms of what we re watching ahead for in the news, obviously tomorrow is going to be hurricane landfall for hurricane michael. i think i feel like starting tonight, but certainly by tomorrow we should expect to be getting more well informed reporting as to what happened here with the nikki haley resignation. but in terms of what we re keeping an eye in tomorrow s news, one other sort of low profile thing that you might
to take a backseat for now because of hurricane michael. frr barrelling our way soon. and this isn t just our average storm. just a couple of days ago, could be a tropical storm. and now category 5 isn t out of the woods. and have an extremely rare category 5 hurricane land fall. penetrated and went through the eye. it s even lower now than it was. . wintsds are at 140. . and 145. remember to get to the a category 5, we have to be 155 and panama city pointing right at your. just extreme devastation and look at the lighting inside the
welcome back, everyone. hurricane florence is tracking toward the east coast. officials haare warning residen to prepare. the national weather service predicts it will become a powerful category 4 storm before making land on thursday. south carolina, north carolina, virginia have already declared a state of emergency. residents are advised to continue their preparations for a major hurricane landfall and to have a plan in place should they be required to evacuate. with all of that happening, let s get a check now on your weather with michelle grossman. you were describing this as a catastrophic weather event. where it stands now, that s the potential. you have four days to prepare if you live anywhere along the southeast coast. right now, already a category 2 storm. it s strengthening by the minute. it really doesn t have any ingredients that it s going to run into that will weaken it, so
i know he ll continue to make a positive difference. by tuesday evening, as many as 12 candidates have announced their bid for mayor. elections will be held in february. let s get a check on your weather with meteorologist bill kierans. you have an update on the path of the rest of the remains of tropical storm gordon. gordon, almost a hurricane landfall overnight from 70 miles to 40. we re not concerned with the wend. we have these feeder bands off the gulf. it s mostly going to be a heavy rain threat throughout this area. we have flash flood warnings in the area and we do have a problem we will deal with as we go throughout the next two days as the rainfall heads into arkansas. right now pensacola to jackson under flash flood warnings up through arkansas and central mississippi. one to three inches is likely. so significant rainfall for this region. we ve also had a ton of rain from iowa to wisconsin, still a
hospitals have been hit directly by this hurricane. you ll have that. also in the hotels and metro area. so we still don t know the full extent of the damage of this monster hurricane left us here. shepard: i know the greatest fears are for the very young and the very old. it s a good time to remember that puerto ricans are americans just like all of us. they die on the battlefield and salute the same flag. i know this nation and the generous people of america will respond as they always do. all the best, congresswoman. we re thinking about you. thank you. as you said, there s four million american citizens here. five million puerto ricans in the mainland. it s the third time in less than a month that a hurricane