we opened our emergency operation center a week ago, started telling people about this thing is going to be may be a direct hit saturday or sunday. we are now into tuesday. i think it is tuesday. it is tuesday, and we are still waiting. we have been getting the message out. i have been out in neighborhoods. our public works departments have been out talking to people. heed the warnings. bill: heck of a way to end of the summer. we will be in contact with you and the rest of the folks in your office. then they are from jacksonville. we will be in contact. sandra, that s it. back to you in new york. mark coming up. sandra: thank you, bill. west texas community still in shock. seven people killed over the weekend. the con man had previously failed a background check.
florida or over here in western portions of florida. right now, it s just too early for us to say if we re even going to get a category 4 landfall. but it s still a possibility, and as long as that is the case, you have to prepare. yeah, no kidding. bill karins, thank you for that. all of the preparations for this storm coming just after the trump administration announced a plan to take away funding from fema, shifting $155 million from fema s disaster relief funding to pay for the president s border priorities. and when it looked like dorian could hit the already-battered puerto rico, the president sent multiple tweets attacking the island and its leaders, calling them corrupt and incompetent. all of this as trump faces growing pressure on everything from his trade policy to immigration plans. with growing signs of frustration from a key part of trump s base, farmers, getting ham pemered by trump s trade wa and new ethanol rules. plus, public outcry after the administration eliminat
blame, so is the federal reserve, you name it. he goes after anybody he can, and he seems to be doing more of that, lately. we also mentioned frustrations among farmers with the president s tra ee s trade . today the new york times s paul krugman wrote it, the frauding of america s farmers, saying farmers support of trump should be seen as a form of affinity fraud, in which they fall for a con man who they image to be someone like them. and as is often the case in such frauds, the con man and his associates actually have contempt for their marks. joining us by skype from his north dakota farm is bob ckylen a wheat farmer who says he s lost $400,000 since trump took office. beautiful piece of property you have there, bob. what s been happening with your business? well, we lost pretty much all of our markets since trump took over. he s dropped out of the tpp, he got rid of nafta. i raise a lot of wheat on my
look at the generational divide in the presidential race. among my guests will be somebody who would like to see that divide go in his favor. julian castro. the beat starts right now. chris jansing is in for ari. good to see you, chuck. i am chris jansing in for ari tonight. we re following a lot of stories. the walls are closing in. trump losing support as his trade war blows up and his administration got millions of dollars from fema. plus, more fallout as trump threatens to deport seriously ill children. i ll talk to one family whose 5-year-old is receiving life-saving care in the u.s., but has been told to get out. and the slow burn in the impeachment caucus. why dozens more democrats have come out in favor of impeaching trump since the mueller hearing. we ll get to all of it, but we begin with an update on hurricane dorian, as the monster storm barrels towards florida. nbc meteorologist bill karins is with us. bill, what should people be preparing for? that s the million-dol
brian: right. d.n.a., a lot of these companies out there want you to send d.n.a. to look into your background, is that a problem. i don t really like that. again, i don t who really these companies are. who they are selling my d.n.a. information to once they get it, et cetera. brian: frank, you say in today s age, when you were doing it and you admit, you know, if you watch the movie, you say the movie was pretty being a rat. you were able to do. this you were doing it face to face. right. brian: now something different about it. so cowardice. because people are doing it without ever meeting people. doing it digitally. so true. what it is in the old days it was the confidence man, the con man, he was well-dressed, well-spoken. but he had to deal with you one-on-one. he had a little compassion. not take all your money. a little compassion, emotion built into the relationship. now dealing with someone with a cup of coffee in a laptop in pajamas in moscow. they are never going to me