Brewing including a possible hurricane. Cosmic crime for the first time in history was a crime committed in space nasa is investigating. After just two days, taylor swifts lover is now the best selling album of 2019. Plus its National Dog Day and many of our loyal early today viewers have shared some of their favorite photos with us more ahead as we kickoff your monday early today starts right now good morning im phillip mena President Trump heads home today from a g7 summit that has highlighted the deep divisions between the u. S. And our closest allies on everything from trade to climate change. But in the most dramatic turn of events, france invited irans top diplomat to meet, blind siding the white house nbcs Hallie Jackson is traveling with the president in southwest france reporter a stunning summit twist with the Iranian Foreign minister landing last minute for talks nearby with the french, but not the u. S. No comment. Reporter its a risky move by the french president hoping to
The mtv Video Music Awards big half hour ahead. Early today starts right now good to be with you this morning. Im Frances Rivera and i am phillip mena a state of emergency thats been declared in puerto rico as Tropical Storm dorian gains strength overnight it passed by nearby barbados, and if this continues in its path, it could hit puerto rico tomorrow as a category 1 hurricane. The island is still recovering from Hurricane Maria, which made landfall nearly two years ago. Maria was the deadliest Natural Disaster in u. S. History, killing nearly 3,000 people and destroying the islands power grid now people will are stocking up on food, water, and back up generators ahead of time meteorologist Michele Grossman now is tracking this Tropical Storm for us its getting serious good morning hey there, guys its going to be something were going to watch at least through the weekend. Lets take a look at whats happening now. This is whats called the enhanced satellite you can see its a small stor
Eye to gain information on the storm. The engineer said this was the roughest flight of his career. Take a look at this. There goes the beds holy cow oh 2 million Power Outages and counting are being reported across florida and all Flights Canceled out of jacksonville today. We have correspondents spanned out across florida, ready to give us live updates on ians path and how communities are in responding. Lets get to jose balard in bradenton. How are conditions now in your area reporter boy, they have changed just in the last hour, i would say. I mean, when we were up and around two hours ago, the winds were still very, very strong that rain that had been insistent is now over. Were getting some bands of wind, but, boy, things have changed here in the west coast, where we are in bradentonsarasota area enormously the wind speed is down to 55 miles an hour. The movement is still extremely slow, 7 miles an hour, but it is now a Tropical Storm tampa appears to have been spared the worst of
We have the next hurricane update coming in two hours. Bottom line this remains a serious storm. Some people are breathing a sigh of relief its a category 2 hurricane. But still a very powerful storm that will dump a lot of water and create serious storm surges. I want to bring in meteorologist Michele Grossman to tell us about this storm. Were focusing on water. Were to concussion on the life threatening surge. This is what it looks like right now. A big storm about 300 miles wide, even 400 miles wide. Its moving fairly slow right now but really slow down as we head towards the overnight hours. These are the latest numbers as of 2 00. Ali mentioned we have one coming out at 5 00. Category 2 storm. Its a strong category 2 storm. But this is what were seeing already. Ali mentioned this depends where you are along the carolina coast. Some seeing terrible weather. Ali not seeing terrible weather but will be. This is what were looking at. Radar is active. Its lit up. Lots of colors. Darker
Good morning, everyone. It is thursday, march 7th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside louis burgdorf. As new Competitors Join the 2020 president ial race todays Washington Post highlights a losing streak for President Trump encore promises from his 2016 campaign. Trump is losing ground on Top Priorities to curb illegal immigration, cut the trade deficit and blunt north Koreas Nuclear threat. Set backs that complicate his planned reelection message as a can do president who is making historic progress. One week ago the president came away empty handed from a second facetoface summit with kim jongun and within 48 hours satellite images appear to show kims regime was rebuilding a longrange rocket site. On tuesday department of Homeland Security said february had the highest total of Illegal Immigrants crossing the border in 12 years showing trumps failure to secure the border. And on wednesday, the Commerce Department said the u. S. Trade deficit in 2018 went above 891 billion in merchandise. T