Did highrisk venture play off. The polls show a much tighter race. Well ask clintons running mate tim kaine. A new drug with a fight against alzheimers. Why it works and why researchers are hopeful. And britneys back fresh off her performance on the vmas, were catching up with Britney Spears. Shell have an exclusive performance just for us today thursday september 1st, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a rainy thursday morning. Remember earlier in the week we were Great Outdoor plans you had for Labor Day Weekend. Not looking so good. Were going to confront al. I mean, talk to al. Its our top story. The weather. A state of emergency in florida. Tropical storm hermine expected to make landfall later today. Its already brought heavy rains to the gulf coast. Could strengthen into a category 1 hurricane and, yes, the entire east coast is now looking at a we
Strong, in upper levelsf atmosphere all out of a northerly direction which actually displaced a lot of strong convection overland. The actually center is out over water. Now as we go through the say next 12 to 24 hours, it looks like that wind sheer will start to lessen with as it works its way out over into the middle of the gulf of mexico. Which should allow this system to basically gain more strength and organize itself better. You can see strong convection the Actual Center is locate right in this area here. So were s that thunderstorm activity kind of regrouping around the center of this system. Now the Hurricane Hunter was out there early this morning flying in the system. They did not find Tropical Storm force winds. It was still maintained as a tropical depression. Heres the latest coordinates 23. 6 north. 84 west top winds right now at 35 miles an hour. Its moving to the west at 7 miles an hour. But as i said, its going to work its way into the middle of so by late tonight, in
They dont think it would beuld done by tonight. The federal grant would go a w long way in funding the the quarter billion dollar project. Projt. There have been warnings there e if the bridge does not undergond the much needed repairs, it could close to vehicles asehless soon as 2021. 2 our other big story this stot morning tense moments during a congressional hearing on capitol hill. Tol hi metro officials tellingffic lawmakers that the only way to fix operational issues is withsw more money. On that didnt go over well. L. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is alncki live at the lenfant metrot met station with more now. Mel, good morning. Reporter good morning. R and so the point that metro met Board Chairman jack evans wasjaa trying to make is that metro m is an century source for the federal government. Therefore, metro board b believes that the feds should fd kick in as much money as d. C. C maryland and virginia do foro f maintenance and repairs to thept system. But some members of the House
One third of all of the oil travels to the street. Another that no one talks about is the straight that goes to asia. What is the South China Sea double thats about to pop, these are major issues that are going on dalia so what has russia done . It has expanded its relationship and production in the middle east and north africa. For example, israel. The leave it or not i spent a lot of time there and people are shocked when they see that it is natural gas potential to become the world lng exporter. Guess who is all over it, the gas pump. Europe depends on energy and putin has finalized the new Russian Energy which is in china and the rest of asia. This leads us towards the twilight of the dollar. What happens if the petrodollar falls . First of all the cost will be lower than it did appreciate and it will cost higher and Interest Rates will result into the debt will be more expensive to service. Remember todays is more than 100 of the gdp and the poor will decline much further but that
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