Floridians are heeding call to get out. Cameras captured the desperate moment people tried to get out of town. The bottom line officials say, get out right now. It is 5 00 a. M. , saturday morning, lets get you to meteorologist chris sowers with the overnight update on irma, chris this is a massive storm. A massive storm its back up to a category 5. The 5 00 a. M. Update is not in, these are the 2 00 a. M. Numbers, 165 Miles Per Hour gusts shy of 180. North of cuba, havana is right there. Heres the florida straits and the florida keys. Its moving west at 12 Miles Per Hour. Were seeing the feeder bands wrapping around the center working their way in towards southern florida. Heres a closeup shot on Storm Tracker 6 live. We set it in motion for you, heres the florida straits and the florida keys, marathon is right here. Heres key west. It is drifting west southwest at 12 Miles Per Hour. Whats going to happen over the neck 6 to 1 hours conditions will rapidly start to deteriorate in this
Impact of Hurricane Irma expected to make landfall sometime tomorrow morning. Abcs Stephanie Ram mows live with the latest on the system. Reporter so many iconic miami spots are ghost towns, no traffic or people, so many homes boarded up as the deadly storm rages toward the coast. Hurricane irma is inching closer and closer to south florida with winds with 106 Miles Per Hour. The storm shifting further west. The eye of the storm with its sights on the florida keys and tampa. The National Weather service tweeting this is as real as it gets. Nowhere in the florida keys is safe. We are running out of time. The storm is almost here. If youre in an evacuation zone you need to go now. More than 5. 6 Million People have been asked to evacuate. Many in low lying coastal areas. Cars for miles. Reporter as time runs out people are trying to escape the storm. Traffic so bad on the three routes out of the of south florida, some abandoned their cars. Those trying to get out by air finding themselve
Democrats and republicans are squaring off for Supreme Court confirmation it takes 60 yes books, eight democrats have to cross party lines. Neil goresuch is one of the most qualified to be on the Supreme Court and i dare any democrat to say hes not qualified. We explicitly say 60 should stay on Supreme Court. The reason is this is such an important position to should be bipartisan and mainstream in terms of nominees. Now the Senate Judiciary committee would be the one to first hold those hearings before it would two to full vote for confirmation. But the way were hearing from some democrats they say this will be quite a fight even in the hearing room saying they want exhaustive and robust examination. Melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. Melanie, thank you very much. 4 31 is donald trump is said to nominate rod j. Rosen stein to be Deputy Attorney general. He was appointed in 2005 and is longest serving u. S. Attorney in the cantry and earned praise from both side of the aisle in that rol
Reportedly explored trying to get mike flynn a pardon before he flipped on trump. And thats not all. The report is that dowd also talked to Paul Manaforts lawyers about the same idea. And the president does have broad pardon power under the constitution. But this report is raising profound questions about whether this was any time of potential effort to use an otherwise lawful power to commit the crime of obstruction, to actually derail an open criminal probe. Experts are divided on whether any of this would be obstruction, and were going to get to that with our experts. Let me walking you through this news, it suggests that trumps attorneys were so worried about what Paul Manafort might actually tell mueller, might drop a time on the sitting president , led them to try to cut a deal. And now dowd is publicly denying conversations about pardons. And the white house said no pardons are under discussion or consideration. But the report is that back in july, all of this was percolating. R
Welcome to morning joe, its wednesday, may 30th. With us we have pulitzer winning prize columnist, editor of the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst, Eugene Robinson. Political writer for the New York Times and msnbc political analyst Nick Compasori and nbc news correspondent and host of kasie d. C. On msnbc, kasie hunt on set. Still good with that . Are you sick of that yet . Dont get sick of that. I love her show on sunday night. It gets you ready for the week. Kasie d. C. You have been waiting a long time. Just to talk to her, willie . Its been worth the wait. Its been a long ride. And cj behind me, hes been waiting, too. There he is. Were going to get to the rose anne story, that was staggering in just a minute. Great action i think by abc. Quick, too. They acted quickly. Theyre on the west coast. When this stuff broke they went at it. Anybody that has friends who work on the west coast, they dont get into the office until about 11 30. They have lunch at 1 00 and then, they