Their battle for the white house as bill clinton takes a break from campaigning to hang with beyonce, today, monday, september 5th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on thisab hope youre enjoying great long weekend. Im willie geist alongside tamron hall. Matt and savannah have the morning off. Hillary clinton back on the campaign trail with a new plane. Look closely. Its hard to miss it. Stronger together on the side. Her Campaign Slogan kicking off an Extraordinary Campaign season and now were in the last couple months. Matching plane for plane. Well have more on the president ial race just ahead. Hermines impact. Well get to dylans forecast in a moment. First, nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is on the east end of long island. Gabe, good morning. Reporter good morning. Hermine is meandering off the east coast and this area is under a Tropical Storm warning. Not expecting rain b
Clouds and some wind. I would be prepared for some here, and certainly by the end of the day, but if you have plans on this labor day, you have got some time. The storm is still entered nearly 300 miles south of nantucket, but it is a large storm. The wind field is expansive. You can see the cloud shield moved in. Rain, the outer edge up, south and east of nantucket now but that is backing in towards the island. Look at the sky over boston, the cloud shielak see the cameras shaking there. We are starting to see the winds pick up, getting gusts in southeastern massachusetts at 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour by the time that you get down to nantucket. As we go through the day the winds continue to ramp up, so the potential for wind gusts between 40 and 50 Miles Per Hour. Here, winds between 30 and 40 Miles Per Hour closer into boston, so its on the immediate south coast cape and islands deteriorate. Thickening clouds and gusty winds this afternoon with rain coming in, by this evening at boston
The water. Significant beachy rosen is a possibility. There you see on radar tropical bands that are spinning around and very slowly they continue to rotate off the ocean through tonight, through tomorrow, and through wednesday. Basically, we are in it for the long haul. Stronger wind gusts. Peak winds will be in the cape and islands. I would expeor we take a full look at the extended forecast including 90s on the seven day. Well see you in a bit. A jogger injured in a hit and run crash, but the driver did not get too far away. Strangers who saw that crash chased the woman down and stopped her from going anywhere until Police Arrived. Reporter the family tells me he was running home from the gym sunday afternoon when he was hit by a car. According to witnesses, he was the driver then took off. He did not get far down route 44. I just heard a very loud thud. I said, something is not right. Reporter paula was relaxing inside her home sunday afternoon when she was startled by that sound c
Coastline, the cape, the islands. Were getting gusts right now from plymouth out over the cape over 20 miles an hour, gusting over 30 miles an hour on nantucket. I can see a shield of clouds overmost of the area. The rain is offshore. Notice the movement. It is backing up toward the north and west. As the day wears on, we are going to get some rain. The center is 300 miles away. With High Pressure to the north, we are first going to see those winds increase. By lunchtime, were talking about hour with 50mileperhour gusts likely down on the islands, and these winds are going to be with us throughout the day. The winds are picking up. The clouds will be thickening. As we get into the afternoon, we will see some bands of showers come on in. I think were mostly dry through lunchtime. Its during the afternoon through the evening that these bands of rain start to move in. Thank you. Lets head to the areas that will be impacted. The south coast, of course, hermine today. And were live in westp
Just in from the National Hurricane center that mark was referring to. Winds still 75 miles per hour, still category 1 storm, has its eyes on the st. Marks area in the big bend of florida. Theres a lot of Nature Preserve in here, and few members where this track may go. That wouldnt be so bad, although obviously, there will be inland flooding that comes from this. That track comes up the coastline though and almost undoubtedly comes just near charleston and myrtle beach before it comes off of hatteras and enters our part of the world. This storm would have in this position in new england for Labor Day Weekend in a few minutes. Vanessa folks along floridas panhandle are preparing for hurricane hermine. Mark residents are securing their homes and boats right now. They havent had a hurricane hit the state in 11 years, as jeff deal reports from the coast near tallahassee, people are not taking any chances. The reporter looking out over the gulf of mexico, as hermine headed toward the coast