ian now setting its sites on the south carolina coast, as we come on the air, with the tropical storm expected to strengthen back into a hurricane as it moves, look at it there, very slowly across the atlantic and back towards the east coast, after a trail of destruction in florida. people there are reeling now from one of the worst storms that has ever hit them, and doing what they can to start picking up the pieces. sanibel island, captiva island, a storm surge, with a huge chunk of the causeway there, that is the only way in or out, in a state overall, more than two and a half million people are without power and look at where that deep red is, some counties in southwest florida are totally we re live with officials, from across florida, as well as somebody from part of the federal response to this storm. cabinet secretary, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas, hallie jackson in washington and we have the team covering every angle, and every location, and steve p
A show of strength or another threat happening the same day the u. S. Intelligence Community Officially determines that russia was behind recent electionrelated computer hacking. But our top story tonight is the president ial election. We have brand new fox polls releasing right now and breaking late this evening a blast from the past that seems to be exploding in the face of the republican president ial nominee, donald trump. It comes in the form of a tape of a tv shoot with access hollywood in 2005 where the now republican nominee can be heard speaking freely and crudely about women on a hot microphone. First, the polls. Hillary clinton leads donald trump 44 to 42 in the latest fourway matchup. That is one point closer than the most recent survey remains as you see, a statistical tie. Head to head it is clinton by 4, 48 to 44. That is also one point closer for trump than the last time. All of this comes as the Trump Campaign is in serious damage control mode tonight. We should point
By 2 00 today its lashing the northern coast of South Carolina. Then moving away from North Carolina during the day tomorrow. Hopefully that will be the last we have to deal with any effects on land from matthew. Meantime im tracking this cold front, the one i talked about all week long, thats kicking matthew east of new england. However some of the moisture may get picked up and move in and bring us some rain. We need the rain but it is were off to a dry start. Its clear, quiet, we have a little patchy fog in spots. That will be around through 9 00 a. M. 40s in most spots but near 70 this afternoon. More in just a moment. The death toll from matthew continues to rise. So far near 900 people are confirmed dead as a result of Hurricane Matthew. Mostly in haiti. This is a look at the out of this. An orphanage with local ties has weathered the storm. Fox 25 has been with the be like britt organization. Since that orphanage began getting ready. Well have more on the Recovery Efforts under
Hold on, baby. Hold on. You know what, i feel very southern. Hey oh, my gosh. Okay. Thats a crowd. Oh, i guess its time for us to get out. I might need a hand. Hows everybody . Oh oh you know what, they know how to party in charleston. Oh, my word. Well, well, well. You know what i want to say, hoda . What . Say hey yall. Ready . One, two, three. Hey, yall hi, guys. So good to be here in gorgeous charleston, South Carolina. We thought it was very, very important that we wore hats so we would fit in. Thats right. Thats right. Thank you for all wearing your corsets. You like my hat . Lets focus for a minute. I love your hat. We want to thank the beautiful ladies at phillips hats. I have a bone to pick with phillips. A tiny bone to pick. I like hats. I enjoy wearing hats. If dont you can find that fits. There was not a hat to fit my head. I had to have one of these because my head apparently is the size of willard scott. A large pump kip, but you look beautiful in it, hoda. Absolutely. We
August 19th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side Natalie Morales and mike bettis is in for al this morning. This is our temporary home. How does it feel . I like it. I think its great. I like it into august and maybe september. Not sure id like it in february but i like it right now. I hope it doesnt rain. We brought an umbrella. Well show you whats happening inside studio 1a, it is a bit of a construction site today. They cleared the set out over the weekend. They work a lot faster than most contractors obviously and hopefully well have this done, as we mentioned, sometime in early september. Well get back in there but right now its fan appreciation week on the plaza. Thats right. We have a lot of news about fan appreciation week. But in the meantime we have a lot of news to get to and well start with