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Likely republican rival as a threat to Global Security and danger to u. S. Diplomacy. Our latest nbc wall street journal poll shows voters are split on who can better handle isis. Meantime, president obama inching closer to fully diving into the 2016 race. The president who has yet to endorse in his party still ongoing primary now mocking the presumptive gop nominee. If we fall for a bunch of oaky doek just because, you know, it sounds funny or the tweets are provocative, then were not going to build on the progress that weve started. Lets start with Hallie Jackson in san jose, california. Good morning, its going to be a jam packed day in california. Reporter good morning, busy day in the golden state, donald trul p after his light night rally in sacramento will be here in san jose for another rally tonight before heading to potentially a different part of the state later in the week. Whats interesting rkts his preemptive attacks against Hillary Clinton, he knows that shes prepared to
Elizabeth it is, it is. Leland its terrible. It really is. And the worst is yet to come. Im leland vittert. Elizabeth im elizabeth prann. Hurricane harvey hit over texas towns and its over a big part of the state dropping rain. Its not going anywhere soon. Leland this is video coming from the port aransas fire department. You can see those squad cars headed in, lights and sirens on. Last night around 10 00 or 11 00 the Port Aransas Police department tweeted out that they could not receive 911 calls. All their communications were down and they, themselves, have hunkered down essentially telling folks in the path of this storm, you are on your own and thats very close to where the eyewall passed over and now theyre headed in just after day break to begin figuring out what went wrong and the damage that is in their city. So often now, its after the storm. Youve got the flooding, youve got live electrical wires that are down. You have gators that are now out in these flood waters and debri
Disaster relief for the area. But not before pardoning arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Arpaio refused to obey a court order to stop routine ly detaining people on suspension. And on top of that another white house official is out the door. Counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka has left his position. But there have been mixed messages on whether he was fired or whether he resigned. So, well continue to look at those stories, the next hour. But well turn to the storm. Our reporters are on the ground in the thick of it. And tracking the storm is Martin Savidge in Corpus Christi. Martin, a category three, but quite dangerous. Reporter absolutely, a category 3 considered to be a major hurricane. Remember, harvey was predicted to come ashore as a category 3 but it actually jumped up to a category 4 which is a monster of a storm. The wind speeds were projected to get as high possibly as 145 miles an hour. Did not reach that, we dont believe. But still, you had some intense gusts, and we are st
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