Good morning, its wednesday, september 20th. We are following a number of stories. President trump was America First se u. N. And steps up his warnings to north korea meanwhile, republican as far as see daylight on Health Care Reform. Some gop governors arent so sure about that. The Russian Investigation rolls on with new details on whos paying the president s legal bills but first, two Natural Disasters unfolding in real time. Rescue efforts happening right now in mexico after a powerful earthquake ripped through that country yesterday and Hurricane Maria about to slam directly into puerto rico. Well go straight to meteorologist bill karins with a check on the storms latest track. Bill. Power knocked out. Roof damage done, structural damages beginning as the strongest weekends are moving on shore in puerto rico. Overnight, can you see the storm, 124mileperhour winds in st. Croix. Now the storm is about to make
landfall. Lets get into the zoomed in radar. You see san juan to the north
1.8 billion between the ages of 15 and 24. many of them are in places where extremists are recruiting them, bringing them over because they don t have opportunity. they don t have a say in their country. they don t have the possibility of a future. we need to be deeply engaged in possibilities of legitimate opportunity and work and taking our values and marketing them. that s the best of american diplomacy. when you cut off the ability of your ambassadors we don t have ambassadors in many of the critical countries in the world. we don t have assistant secretaries of state to meet. countries have told me we don t know who to talk to so how does the world get safer if you re not doing the hard work of diplomacy. thank you so much. your tan, your rested and ready, you re younger than everybody else talking about running for president of the united states. is it kerry 2020. i don t have any plans right now honestly.
we get a gift for mom and dad., and every year, we split it equally. except for one of us. i write them a poem instead! and one for each of you too! that one s actually yours. that one. regardless, we re stuck with the bill. to many, words are the most valuable currency. last i checked, stores don t take words. some do. not everyone can be the poetic voice of a generation. i know, right? such a burden. the bank of america mobile banking app. the fast, secure and simple way to send money. welcome back to morning joe . from the president s first address to the u.n. to a live report from mexico, following a devastating earthquake there. first, hurricane maria is bearing down on puerto rico right now. let s get to nbc meteorologist bill karins with a check on the storm s latest track.
russia still cast over enormous, obviously. it s the ball game. but they really have their destiny in their own hands. it s up to them to decide that they are going to be a model nation for transformation. and they re still stuck they re trying to have it both ways. i think we made it very clear, richard, myself, others who were there, that this say critical moment for them. richard, any fear of any realistic fear in ukraine of the russians moving westward? no. i think people understand that crimea is not coming back any time soon. the most interesting, positive thing is the russians put out an offer about, what, two weeks ago now talking about peacekeeping forces in the eastern part of the ukraine. and the question is, does that mean that maybe putin understands some of the costs of what they re doing? are they beginning to look for something of an exit? i don t know. the recommendation everybody made to the ukrainian government, we all saw the president, was why don t you
cleveland area of ohio that these two police officers involved in the shooting death of 12-year-old tamir rice, they will not be criminally charged based upon the findings of this grand jury. back with me i have joey jackson and jean casarez, who has been all over this. we also have sunny hostin on the phone with us. i think what s key is when we heard from the prosecutor saying the most critical piece of evidence, the recent enhancement of the video, indisputable that tamir rice was drawing a gun from his waist as the police officer slid towards him. that was the evidence. so it looks like this case may have turned on very fine details right there. because what was the grand jury presented. you talk about a complete case. here s one piece of evidence. it locks like recently enhanced video. e we don t know who enhanced it. the fbi normally does things