Can you believe it . Rachel maddow on bravo. Never thought i would see the day. For all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. Ill see you at The End of tomorrow. Today started with bomb shell news. Last monday, Jd Vances Team contacted officials in Springfield Ohio to Fact Check claims on haitian immigrants eating pets. Springfield City Manager told vances people pointblank there was no verifyable evidence of immigrants eating pets. The claims were baseless, but still, Jd Vance repeated them online. And the next day, trump used one of the biggest platforms in the world, an american president ial debate, to push the claims again. Claims the campaign knew were lies. The new reporting from the Wall Street Journal should be devastating to the trump campaign. But the stunning thing is they probably wont care. Because trump and Vances Invocation of springfield was never about the truth to begin with. Springfield is less important to them as an
Its really an exponential effect of damage between the amount of rain we are seeing, the amount of storm surge we are seeing and the duration of it that we are seeing. It is easy in the first few hours after they pass where you say we dont see that much destruction. But it will take days to survey what happened. And there are areas we cant get to. We drove around a little bit today and we saw marinas decimated. That means peoples livelihoods taken away in addition to the homes most likely taken away. The Boat Captains are out here and they wont be able to make a dive living for a long time. Tucker it takes a long time to know what happened. Leland vittert, thank you. Move now to Rick Leventhal who is live for us tonight in wilmington, North Carolina. Rick . Rick we moved from
wrightsville beach. Two of the four fatalities reported so far was a mother and her infant who were killed by a falling tree on their house. Well, there are trees all over this town. And this state that are coming
we had to pull back from the beach because the water was rising too high. for past 30 hours it s been raining steadily. more than 20 inches in the area and moving around on the roads and it has gotten too dicey. some police here are blocking the traffic. the wind today was strong enough to cause damage to houses on the beach. we saw roofs taken off and other problems as well. the one thing that is clear in the storm, the message has gotten out to the people of north carolina. almost all the homes we saw even the damaged ones, boarded up. no one inside. and help is coming from around the country. at least 19 different states sending swift boat rescue teams to help people with the flooding ahead. tucker, back to you. tucker: steve harrigan, north topsail beach. if there is a storm, he is there. go to florence, and we have a reporter there. we didn t feel the effect until a few hours ago. the winds and the rain are
now another storm. not a metaphorical one, a literal one. tropical storm florence. in the country, some on the left are blaming the storm on donald trump. climate change. we will talk to an actual meteorologist, not just cable news yapper about whether or not that s true. that s next. (burke) that s what we call a huge drag.
he is not a trained scientist. he is an engineer of some sort. plus he has a widely viewed youtube video called climate 101 where he faked an experiment. he put co2 in a jar and shone a bright light on it and tried to show that it caused the jar to warm up inside because of the extra co2. but a tv meteorologist anthony watts cleverly showed that the whole thing was faked. it s ridiculous. tucker: what? you know and i believed in bill nigh, the science guy. thank you. it s nice to have someone who knows what he is talking about on the show. i appreciate it. thank you, tucker. tucker: american immigration levels are the highest they have been in more than a century. 1 in 7 residents was born in a foreign country. the people who run the country want the number to go higher. the population of the country does not. we will discuss next what it means for democracy. we will monitor the deadly path and the impact of tropical storm florence.