we re tracking a potentially catastrophic hurricane as the category 4 storm barrels toward the east coast. one north carolina congressman, whose district could take a direct hit joins to us talk about how his state is blasing for impact. mitch mcconnell warning republicans they could ooze the majority in the senate come november. is this serious or motivating tactic to get voters to the polls?
to north korea, because anything else would be a disaster. thank you, good talking to you this morning. still ahead we re going to get the latest on hurricane maria as the storm barrels towards puerto rico. and bill karins will have the very latest for us, to give us a sense of how bad it s looking for the people in puerto rico and where the hurricane is moving to next. stay with us. kevin, meet your father. kevin kevin kevin kevin
against that three-month deal. what will be interesting is how closely mitch mcconnell worked with the president and the white house moving forward in terms of pushing a tax reform package that can actually get approved in the senate and perhaps the president thinks that i ve heard this from one or two republicans that by reaching out and doing this bipartisan deal with democratic senator chuck schumer that that could perhaps help him get some democrats to weigh in and to buy in to tax reform. all right. live for us in washington d.c., molly hooper, always good to have your insights. freedom caucus chair mark meadows will be joining morning joe later this morning. still ahead, donald trump jr. goes in front of senate investigators. we re going to show you what happened on capitol hill. we ll be following the latest on hurricane irma as the category five storm barrels towards the united states. we ll be right back.
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a man swept away in flood waters was later found alive. the high water derailing a train 50 miles south of dallas as the storm barrels over the gulf coast. janice dean has more. this was part and partual because of hurricane patricia. a category 5 storm that made landfall. the moisture pushed up the gulf coast and dumping two foot of rainfall. for the great state of texas. over 20 inches was rain over the weekend for parts of texas and a lot of areas got over a foot of rain. we ll dry out. and tennessee valley we have flood warnings in place.