as hurricane dorian approached the u.s., president trump canceled his weekend trip to poland and to the netherlands. he said to monitor the storm. in between presiding over an emergency hurricane briefing at camp david on saturday and visiting fema headquarters on sunday in d.c., the president spent hours at his golf course in virginia. while tweeting up a storm of his own. more than 100 tweets on everything from dorian to attacking the news media. vice president mike pence took over the boss duties overseas sparking criticism by going well out of his way in ireland to stay at a trump resort and flying on air force 2 back and forth to dublin on the opposite coast. joining me now is peter baker and ed price, former special assistant to president obama and msnbc national security analyst. welcome both. peter, this was an unusual
we do know a lot of people sought shelter in a clinic in marsh harbour on abaco island and inside that clinic there were several pregnant women and people who suffered from diabetes. they were able to get here safely, get to a nearby hospital, and see doctors. in the meantime amidst all of this happening because dorian is such a slow moving hurricane there is still rain falling on grand bahama where more than 50,000 people, some of which are still seeking shelter from this storm. that s where flooding is one of the biggest concerns. the airport is still under water and the police station flooded and will likely remain so as the water is just sitting in the low lying areas. the prime minister had a chance to fly over some of the damage in abaco today and he says that it is simply devastating. we do expect an update from government officials later today. but today is the first day that really the search and recovery mission has gotten started in ernest and will be going for some time.
one of the rain bands took us by surprise. had to come up here just before air. we can see drenched in water right now. we expect this to get much worse, deteriorating conditions for tomorrow, as hurricane dorian begins to scrape the florida coast. gabe gutierrez in stewart, florida, we ll be checking in with him a lot in the next couple of days. and that western eye wall will be closest to gabe and the stewart area as we go throughout tuesday. that will be the close st call. the forecast path, look at the new one coming at 11:00 p.m. it didn t change much. most of our major computer m models have it just offshore. 30, 40 miles off the coast if you follow that center line. we have at least two of our hurricane specific models that even as far as this afternoon t making landfall over the kennedy space center. that s why this cone of uncertainty still includes all of the coastal communities from west palm beach northward.
it, of course for an american president whenever there is a threatening national disaster it s just good politics, good sense to remain in the united states. so the president did do that. he has nothing on his schedule today. of course it is labor day. that is not unusual. all of the facilities are here for him to be monitoring this. when we have a day, geoff knows this all too well. when there s nothing on the schedule that does not mean that there won t be something added or an opportunity to find out more about what the briefings include. so much of this when it comes to hurricane preparedness really begins at the state and local level. and federal officials come in after that. so the white house has been monitoring it. we ll keep you posted as we learn more, but the president has been visible at times curious and officials say very engaged. kelly o donnell, thank you. i want to turn now to tracking hurricane dorian once again. nbc news correspondent jay gray, our reporter, join
students skipping the first day same thing to the fisa court, of class to call for democratic did they take them onto their reforms democratic reforms own hands and give the court a predictable the government scrapped that controversial document that was unverified, extradition bill that sparked that they swear under oath all these protests? falsely that this was an sandra: plus, awaiting an accurate document justifying a update from the florida governor warrant? i am dying to hear about that ron desantis as his state prepares for hurricane dorian. because the rules and procedures regarding the leaked information it is now a monster category five storm slamming the bahamas. is damning, but the manipulating we are going to take you to that news conference as soon as it of a court process is illegal. let s just put it this way. begins. if they manipulated the fisa a migfrom aimovig. court system and nobody gets to be there for the good. prosecuted, what would deter and not so good. peo