They are saying irma could be the strongest storm ever to hit south florida. Irma continues to be a threat that is going to devastate the United States. In either florida or some of the southeastern states. Direct impacts of the storm have yet to be determined because its a very powerful storm, but the nature of the curve and that forecast after 72 hours is going to be the key to the key to seeing who has the worst impacts. Get out of storm surge areas. Flooding watters world come up on shore. Thats the most devastating hazard associated with hurricanes appears to be live in miami beach, phil, it looks like youve already gotten some wins there. We do have some breezes which is pretty typical on the beach itself but all day long today as we move forward toward the weekend, the winds are supposed to strengthen. 650,000 residents of Miamidade County currently under a mandatory evacuation, thats the largest evacuation of people out of Miamidade County in history. If this storm is as bad as
There has been corruption on the island and we cant have that. Were sending a lot of supplies. I know your folks are working 0en that very hard, but we just cant have it, when it comes to texas as an example and florida, you know how smooth thats been, operating like a welloiled machine. They are really going well and the people are working very hard. All right. The situation on the ground in puerto rico is dire. Right now an estimated 80 of the island remains without power. More than a quarter of the population does not have access to Drinking Water, and are tapping into contaminated wells and the official death toll now stands at 48. Those facts arent standing in the president s way of giving himself a rating of 10 our 10 when it comes to the federal response in puerto rico. Joining me from the White House Briefing room is nbcs Peter Alexander. I see people coming in behind you. Is that starting . Reporter exactly right. It is. Lets listen in. Good afternoon. As you all saw earlier t
The first place. The pentagon looks into the incident as john mccain says the administration is not being up front about the attack. And minutes ago, the governor of puerto rico arrived in our Nations Capital to meet with leaders, including the president. But a new report raises red flags over femas use of no bid contracts as they try to rush out aid. Were drenched. Its wet. We need to cool off some kind of way. Theres no electricity. No bid contracts. And in the russia investigation, an exclusive report from the daily beast, some of the biggest names in the Trump Campaign, including his own son don jr. Pushed tweets from russianbacked trolls before the election. We have a lot to get through today. Beginning with the president and his administration trying to walk the line between defending their contacts with gold star families but not disputing what those families are saying. All of this growing under what under any ordinary circumstances would have been a private call to a grieving
In some way with isis. There are several terror groups in the region, military saying they were working with the Nigerian Army and getting a lay of the land meeting with local leaders. On that wednesday, 12 u. S. Soldiers went to a village near a place called tongo tongo in niger neared mauli board mahli. During that meeting they were attacked. Military says 40 to 50 militants well trained armed with ak47s and rocket propelled grenades. At some point in that Sergeant La David Johnson was separated from the group. How that happened and why it took two days to find his remains is what remains unclear. One official said there was a tremendous amount of confusion during and after the mission. Congress has a lot of questions about this timeline. A senior congressional aide whos been briefed on the situation tells nbc news that the ambush stemmed in part from a massive intelligence failure. How did this large group of militants assemble without raising alarms . Why no overhead surveillance a
We have reports from capitol hill, the pentagon and the white house, but i want to start with nbcs kasie hunt on capitol hill. It seems what weve seen over the last 12 hours have been increasing questions from lawmakers from both parties about what went on during this raid and when were going to get more information about it. Reporter hallly, thats right. And i think really at this point there are more questions than answers from a lot of lawmakers up here on capitol hill. And you are seeing this kind of bubbling under the surface and ready to come out into the open. And i think right now, you know, the question is going to be, okay, how does the white house respond to this pressure . Are they going to send people up from the pentagon to brief on this . But as you and your white house colleagues have come to find out the last 12 hours, its been very difficult to get information out of the white house about the backstory on this raid. I think we have a little bit of sound that we can sh