thing, the multiple vortex tornado, these very small, mini tornadoes that spin around the main, parent tornado. and the eye sometimes of these strong hurricanes, you can get these mini vortices, and you can get stronger winds as those pass by. it s not a question of we could be looking at that situation there where you get these little spins that spin around the entire eye and create even stronger winds from the ambient winds, i guess, within the eye wall. so it s a very frightening experience because they come up on you really quickly, they produce shepard: live coverage with what looked like a picture in the parking lot. fort myers, of course, north of naples. the storm bearing down on naples now. we think the eye s going to cross over there soon, and we ll get back to our steve harrigan who s on scene. first, let s get to carlos who s riding out the storm near names. where are you and allow are you? good, thanks, shep.
elevated. it collects more than it usually does, making the rainfall even worse. shepard: mark demaria. how are you guys holding up down there? it s a bit of a marathon. we are holding up. shepard: we appreciated so very much. mark demaria and all the votes of the national hurricane center, thank you again. landfall is coming again. landfall this morning after 9:00 in the lower keys and now there is another landfall on the way. where will it be? no one is certain of that, but it looks like marco island, everglades city and up into naples somewhere. will be the storm that his marco island? we will know soon enough moving north at nine miles an hour with maximum sustained winds of 100 dirty miles per hour. a massive category for storm bearing down on southwest
coming in. we re just hoping and praying, you know, that we re safe. we have two small babies here, hunkered down. that was the main thing that they re safe. well, connie we really need you know, we need some help. we ve had no one here, no first responders, no one. people that live here are going up and down the roads and trying to help each other with machetes to you have to power lines are everywhere. and you have to be so careful. you know, with those. hopefully, if they can come and move the power lines, we can maybe get out and see how far the road will take us. but you can t go anywhere. you re stuck. and another storm bearing down on you. goodness. that s correct. we were able to get one shutter off on my neighbors and the landlord took one off so we can breathe.
government, these are the people they re attacking. yeah. this is the work that they re attacking. this is the work that they re pretending is unnecessary or that they re pretending is easy. yeah. this is not a time i mean anybody who is looking at the size of that storm bearing down through the caribbean right now and thinking that this is something that people should be able to deal with in terms of their own bootstraps probably should be kept out of electoral politics. and we ve got more than just that to talk about tonight, including as you know all of these developments in the investigation today, including donald junior down there at the judiciary committee. thank you, rachel. thanks, lawrence. tonight we are tracking what could turn out to be the worst or one of the worst hurricanes ever to hit the united states. category 5 is the most dangerous designation for a hurricane, and hurricane irma at the moment hitting turks and caicos islands is category 5. it is a cat
the president and first lady have now just arrived at camp david where they ll be joined by members of his cabinet and their spouses as the nation braces for impact. i d like to bring in my team of reporters on all things president trump. hallie jackson at the white house, with jonathan lemire from the a.p. and now an msnbc reporter. and glenn thrush, white house reporter for the new york times and an msnbc contributor. hallie, start us off with how the president is multitasking on this day of a really scary storm bearing down toward the main land. no kidding to say the least, nicolle, scary indeed. so let me start with the video that you just showed, the president getting on marine one and heading off to camp david for what you accurately described as this cabinet meeting along with spouses also invited to camp david. the president stopped and took some questions on irma as the reports as we were shouting about different things,