On monday with two other potent weather systems. Call it a hybrid storm. Its expected to send the full force of sandy careening somewhere in new york with damaging winds and torrential storms. The storm will impact some 64 Million People. Tonight, eight states and the District Of Columbia are under states of emergency as officials brace for severe flooding and prolonged power outages. Some mandatory evacuations are already under way. Forecasters sparing no words in warning just how dangerous this storm is. Weve got our team in place to cover it all. Lets start in new york with Weather Channel meteorologist jim cantore. Jim, good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. More and more preparations under way. Then by the time tomorrow night rolls around, we will start to feel the impacts in earnest across much of the northeast. Lets talk about this and lay out the impacts of the storm. First of all, the satellite shows a hybrid transition you spoke of. You have a cloud canopy that stretche
It has not yet officially made landfall. It is expected to keep gaining strength as it crosses warm, open water between cuba and florida. Its projected path has shifted slightly to the left, putting floridas gulf coast on high alert. Parts of downtown miami also starting to flood with all that rainfall. All told, 6. 5 Million People are being told to evacuate. More than 70,000 are now in emergency shelters throughout the state. And have a look at this video. Pleasure boats along the waterfront also taking a beating as the storm edges closer. The storm surge that follows could be catastrophic in certain places along that western coast of florida. Almost 300,000 customers have lost power. And of course, michael, youre really putting into perspective for us, worth bearing in mind as well, that irma hasnt even arrived and made landfall. What were feeling now in miami, the rain, the hounding winds, it really is just the beginning of the storm, the outer parts of the storm. But it has intens
Had Editorial Board has taken the rare step of calling on the white house chief of staff to apologize to a member of congress. And now for five days in a row the president s handling of the families of fallen american soldiers has been at the center of the news. A continuing story of the president s own making. The president has now spoken for the first time about his comments the chief of staff made in the White House Briefing room yesterday. Four star retired marine general john kelly was moved to discuss publicly something that is intensely personal for him, his sons death in afghanistan, just to stress how sacred that topic should be. Now in a new interview the president is talking about it again. He was so offended because he was in the room when i made the call. And so were other people. And the call was a very nice call. He was so offended that a woman would be that somebody would be listening to that call. He was he actually couldnt believe it. Actually, he said to me, sir, thi
Now. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. This was day 273 of the Trump Administration. And on this one day the president s chief of staff, retired marine four star general john kelly did something he an horse. He talked publicly about his dead son as a gold star father. And so did a service to donald trump. Also on this day former president george w. Bush 43 did something he an horse. He criticized a sitting president , not by name, mind you, but the association was crystal clear. This is now the fourth day in a row that we have spoken on this broadcast about the most sacred of president ial tasks, communicating with gold star families after the death of a member of our armed forces. It was a sacred topic and should be and will again, but its been publicly cheap end to an obscene degree these past few days because of the president s own comparison initially to his predecessors and now he is alleged to have spoken with a military widow. More on
Politics. All right, we have a fantastic group of Brilliant Minds here tonight. But before i introduce them as a tip of the hat to my former buddy, keyword former buddy, trump, its time to go to wall. Think of it as our fourth guest. I love this threesome tonight and first the great barney frank. 32 years in congress, head of the House Financial Services committee. We need your plain talk now more than ever, and were going to get it tonight and thank you for being with us. A real privilege to have you here. Thank you. One of the great communication minds. Ran hillarys 2016 communication campaign. It was not your fault. It was comeys fault. The numbers were going through the roof up until ten days before and then fell off. And my good friend, the great ari melber. Obviously host of the beat. Nbc legal analyst, chief legal analyst for msnbc. And i want to start with a tupac quote for you because of those of you who dont follow ari, it is the 6 00 record, and tupac said do everything you