Got failed is coming up into minutes, first this update residents of the big bend gulf coast of florida who have not already evacuated are weathering the worst of hurricane helene tonight the major category 4 storm now expected to make landfall in about 1 hour in a region that has been battered by big storms the last couple of years the senior correspondent steve harrigan is live on the ground in crystal river, florida, up here it how are the conditions where you are right now? the wind has definitely picked up in the last hour appeared we ve seen gusts knock down some street signs up your kiss is going to come to show sure as a category 4 storm. It s good to be a huge storm also. The effects will be felt not just in florida but in georgia and the carolinas as well there are also concerned about a storm surge that could reach 20 feet in some places. That s being called on survivable. Evacuations have been in effect of the past 2 days here. Cruise are set to go out as is the national gu
From all of our colleagues across the networks that nbc news, thank you for staying up, late be good this, weekend and i will see at the end of monday. In a federal court in miami at 10 30 am on monday. And then on Tuesday The Graduate special counsel jack smith has been using in his investigation into trumps attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, that jury is expected to meet again, which could mean more testimony or it could mean a possible indictment. And as much as everyone is and has been holding their breath to see what happens in that investigation, lets be clear that special counsel jack smith took us all by surprise yesterday with a new superseding indictment in the maralago investigation and that new indictment offers a potentially valuable clue about what we might see in smiths other indictment, shouldnt actually happen. All sorts of information in the maralago case seems to come from a witness referred to as Employee Number 2. It alleges that one of the cons
ruling against rudy giuliani, a sum that will bankrupt the former mayor of new york city. his attorney said it is basically a death penalty for him, an economic death penalty. plus an update from capitol hill on foreign aid negotiations, the package which would provide critical funding for ukraine. it s been held up by republican demands for stricter immigration policies. but it looks like there s progress there. might be some. we ll get analysis on the biden administration s push to get israel to scale back its war in gaza, what s going on there. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former state department official, elise jordan. politics nation reverend al sharpton. and presidential chair at vanderbilt university, historian jon meacham is with us. so let s get to it. at a rally on saturday, donald trump again used the language of 20th century authoritarians while separately praising this country s
conclusion n. a 360 -page report released today, durham says the fbi should have never opened the investigation at all, concluding that the bureau overly relied on raw and unconfirmed intelligence, writing that they lacked evidence at the outset of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. this stands at odds with the 2019 justice department inspector general s conclusion that there was basis for opening the inquiry. we ll talk shortly with andrew mccabe. he ll give us his first reaction to the report. the former president is claiming vindication, though it certainly does not, as he once claimed it would, reveal the, quote, crime of the century. for more of what s in today s report, we re joined by evan perez. what stands out for you in this? the lack of any new prosecutions. that stands out because we were expecting certainly we were led to believe by the former president, by the former administration, that this investigation was going to find crimes. they were g
Fasten your seatbelts, federal judge in hawaii blocked the travel been just before it takes effect, has extended that order. Derek watson further blocking the government from restricting noncitizen travelers from six muslim majority countries. In seattle mayor ed murray announced he is suing the Trump Administration over threats to withhold federal funds from Sanctuary Cities who refused to cooperate with federal immigration officials, that brought several Sanctuary City Mayors and Police Chiefs to washington for a meeting with john kelly seeking to find some Common Ground. It is absolutely untrue that our priorities anything other than keeping our communities safe. We dont have the resources to be the immigration police, nor would that benefit the population, nor will that be proven. We cooperate with ice, make sure we are aware of who is in our custody but we do not prosecute based on immigration status. First priority is to keep the bad guys off the street. Cutting funding, taking r