I apologize. This is horrific. The terrible land entirely predictable hurricane milton. Its a very dangerous storm in terms of Strength And Size as it approaches landfall. Is another Monster Storm heads toward florida powered by extreme temperatures in the gulf, and as millions across the South Dig out from last weeks devastating hurricane, reminder of what trump thinks about Climate Change. We will have a little bit more Beachfront Property. Life or death stakes in this election. Donald trump refers to rent a problems instead of fixing problems. He is not solution oriented it. The Media Blitz with 28 days left to go. His most Win Race in ohio when All In starts right now. Good evening from New York. Im chris hayes. Hurricane milton is expected to make Landfall Early thursday morning. At this hour, the storm is back to category 5 strength. As the national Hurricane Center advises, quote, florida residents should get the families and homes ready and evacuate if told to do so. Milton is reaching maximum sustained winds of 165 miles per hour and expected to pick up forward speed tonight. The storm will continue to move across arq see across the Gulf Of Mexico until it makes landfall. The latest data predicts a Storm Surge of up to 10 to 15 feet south of sarasota. Localized areas in central North Florida could also see up to 18 inches of rain, threatening catastrophic flooding. Hurricane specialist John Mireles, the longest tenured Tv Meteorologist in South Florida and got choked up as he delivered the devastating report last night. Its just an incredible, incredible, credible hurricane. It has dropped, it has dropped 50 millibars in 10 hours. I apologize. This is just terrific. Winds are sustained at 160 miles per hour. It is just gaining strength in the Gulf Of Mexico, where you can imagine the winds, the seas are so incredibly, incredibly hot. Record hot, as you might imagine. You know whats driving that. Global warming, Climate Change leading to this and becoming an increasing threat. As he says, we know why this is happening. Climate change is making the earth and especially the oceans hotter. The Gulf Of Mexico has seen record warm water this year. We covered it in the summer, warning this would happen. The higher Temperatures Fuel stronger storms with higher winds, more rain, and worse flooding. I mean, all this is complex. Storms are complex but this is simple. It sucks up the heat and uses it as energy. Its like packing more dynamite into the bomb. The warmer the water, the more energy. Hurricane helene just showed how this phenomenon is wreaking havoc even in areas previously thought to be safe from these kinds of storms. Tucked away in the blue ridge mountains, asheville, North Carolina, was considered a little slice of paradise. Some called it a climate haven. Suggesting it was immune to extreme weather. Last week, that paradise turned out to be an illusion. Helene bettering the area for days, ripping apart homes, washing out roads. Toppling trees and cutting off entire towns. New research out this week said theres strong evidence human driven Climate Change strengthen helenes power. One study said it made the rainfall up to 20 heavier and its winds 7 stronger. We are seeing these events that are boosted by Climate Change. Stronger, wetter, lasting longer. Another report from the Climate Led to 50 more rain over parts of the carolinas and georgia than would have been expected. Storms like helena what we can expect from milton are exactly, precisely what experts have been screaming about for decades as John Mireles told nicolle wallace, its why he got so emotional over the forecast. When i saw 50 millibars in 10 hours, just broke down with a mixture of empathy, angst over these increasing extreme weather events and frustration because for over 20 years, ive been trying to communicate a what we are becoming if we did not check the injection of Greenhouse Gases into the atmosphere. Well, here we are. Its not going to get better. We are now preparing for the second major Climate Change fueled hurricane in two reach which could put it strain on federal resources. The New York times reports a federal Emergency Management Agency is running at a staff to deal with the potential devastation. Monday morning, 9 of femas personnel were available to respond to the hurricane or other disasters. Of femas said there well equipped to handle the strains, its a reminder, the challenge of more frequent natural disasters. Noting fema is responding to flooding and landslides in vermont, tornadoes in kansas, the aftermath of tropical Storm Debbie and the watchfire in arizona and those are disasters that were declared in the past two weeks. Remember, what im telling you, what were looking at right now in the last week and preparing for with milton, this is what we are facing with global average temperatures a little over 1 Degrees Celsius over the preindustrial. One. Imagine what it will look like when it reaches 2 degrees or three or four. That is the world Donald Trump would push us towards faster if he returns to the White House. Not that he cares. He thinks it would be good for Real Estate values. When i hear these people talking about global warming, thats the global warming you have to worry about. Not that the ocean will rise in 400 years and ate the vintage and you will have more Seafront Property if that happens. I said is a good or bad . I said, isnt that a good thing if i have a little property on the ocean i have a little more property. I have a little more ocean. Every time i play this we have to stop and think about that, give it 10 seconds of brainpower. If the oceans rise, do you have more Beachfront Property . Does that make sense . The oceans rise. Do you have more or less beachfront . We have known the plan is warming and we would see the brutal effects. Conservatives rank so deep in their demaio their flailing around for anyone else to blame. Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene is a big Mover And Shaker in the republican party is promoting a bizarre Conspiracy Theory about a mysterious they, you can imagine what that is, controlling the weather. Suggesting theyre sending hurricanes to republican ears to impact the election. Like someone is sitting at a computer pressing hurricane. Its not just her. Shes being amplified by right wing media and the republican nominee himself. Has a government figured out how to build a storm into a superstorm that would destroy everything in its path and how to aim it right for where they went to him and . It happens to miss South Florida. The democrats live. Something strange is going on. These are trump counties. Dont Tell Me For A second that what we are seeing is a massive government pushed voter suppression operation. You know its largely republican area so some say they did it for that reason. I dont even think they are that bad, but maybe they are. They. They are sending the storms. Donald trumps running mate j. D. Vance, blaming it on immigrants. You have fema which is there for Disaster Relief for american citizens after a terrible storm being deployed repeatedly to deal with Kamala Harriss wide open border in the Mike Renovation is caused. The lack of focus on the core mission, that distraction and focusing on illegal immigrants, i guarantee its made the Disaster Response worse. That is falls. Fee man the white House Dispute is saying the relief and a separate from other programs. Again, its not surprising this is a way the right wing and republicans, even highranking ones, reacting. The guy at the top of the ticket. It would never be the case they would see the impacts of Climate Change. The carbon and the heat that strap that ends up in the ocean the feel storms to see that which is not hard to understand at all after decades of denial. You know what . My bad. Their behavior in the face of this dire consequence of this impending one two punch should serve as a Wakeup Call to everyone stuck here in reality about the real stakes of this election. Adam smith is a climatologist at the National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration one of the leading experts on the cost of Weather Disasters but Hurricane Helene was the first time he experienced one first and at his familys home outside of asheville, North Carolina. Adam its an honor to have you. I want to ask how you guys are doing . Thank you for having me. We are doing okay. Certainly, the last week and a half has been challenging for the entire community of western North Carolina. Cities torn apart, flooded, turned upside down by this disaster which we never really expected to peak and be as bad as it has been. Let me ask about that. Everyone ive talked to from there or his friends and family there and ive talked to a bunch of people, they describe it in this biblical terms. Unthinkable. Movie. You are someone who studies this. How would you describe it . Its a cataclysm, its a rare word, but its that bad. It will take years to rebuild. So many communities and infrastructure. Perhaps theres an irony. We hope to learn from these extreme events. The last five years there have been more than 100 separate billiondollar weather and climate disasters, parts of the country from hurricanes to droughts to wild flyers and flooding. Right before i moved to asheville, Hurricane Frances came through, the last big flood. They put the water pipes 25 feet below the ground. Those backup plans, what we try to learn from her tish Hurricane Frances, those were washed away. It shows the 20th Century And 21stcentury infrastructure sometime is challenged by these extremes we are facing. This is what you study. You fulltime study for this. The cost of Weather Disasters. This is showing the rise in billiondollar Weather Disasters. You see that top line going up. Part of that is where we are building, its not all climate. The costs seem like, thinking of what the costs will be. The human toll. The psychological toll, held toll. The dollars and sense of helena now milton, it boggles the mind. Yeah, i mean, with Helene And Milton backtoback, these once in a century events, first for western North Carolina and now for the coast of florida within two weeks. We will be above 1 Billion again this year. These billiondollar disasters used to happen every three months but over the last decade its closer to every three weeks. It shows responding to these and all parts of the country are increasingly difficult. The trends are going in the wrong direction for these hazards. Climate change is supercharged in many of these trends. Yeah, some of the numbers i saw out of Helene In Ashville were in comprehensible. The sheer amount of water. In a short amount of time. The numbers from milton. Whether max is complex. Generally, it seems like the errors going in one direction, the more energy in the atmosphere your rolling loaded dice when it comes to these things. That is right. We have more energy in the ocean and the atmosphere. We are getting explosive droughts of wildfires in the west. More Flood Events for, holds more Water Vapor and rainfAll In the east. Six out of the last eight years weve been hit by category 4 or category 5 hurricanes. Thats the highest Frequency And Record dating back to 1851 for the Top End storms. Exposure invulnerability is compounding the challenges and trying to manage our way to a more resilient future. Whether wildfire, drought, hurricanes, these events are supercharged by Climate Change. The future is dictated by the decisions we make in the present. Just at a human to human level, someone who, youre not in your home. You lived outside of asheville. You were not there intrafamily members and community members, what do you say to your fellow americans about what this could look like if it comes for them are the folks preparing in florida in the West Coast on the gulf coast. I mean, even studying these events and you feel you know them well, they can shock you and surprise you. Thats what we are experiencing an western North Carolina. I think the people on the West Coast of florida will experience that Shock And Loss in terms of what their lives and livelihoods used to look like. I mean, i study this quite deeply, and the trends are not linear in becoming exponential for the impacts in terms of not just dollars but the impacts on millions of peoples lives and livelihoods. Climate change is a multiplying force that amplifies a lot of these extremes in the billion dollar disasters. I really wish from a personal level, professionally and personally, we would not see these trends. All signs point to more of this happening in the future. We need to to learn from them. For Children and grandChildren looking to the future, what we do today matters. That Post Hurricane bearing the Backup Water lines 24 feet and thats not deep enough is a detail that will stick with me as we think about what we are encountering and what we have to mobilize across all society, the federal government, every level as we start marching into this new era. Adam smith, i hope you and your family and the people in your life are good and everyone in the country is sending you the best possible wishes. Thank you, chris. A new reporting on the people Donald Trump wanted to help most during covid. Here is a hint. It was not americans. Not amer its incredible that years later we learn absolutely crazy details about Donald Trumps time as president of the united states. Things we did not know before. Today that comes from an upcoming book by Legendary Journalist bob woodward. Early in the pandemic, covid spreading, thousands of people were dying. Governors were pleading with the Trump Administration FirmaCovid Test. There were not enough tests. You could not get tested and trump derided that as fake news. Trump was clear about this on the record. He said it all the time. He hated Covid Testing the reason the more who were tested for the virus then the higher the number of reported cases. We have the best testing in the world. Could be the testings, frankly, overrated. Maybe it is overrated. Thats probably the downside of having good testing is you find cases with countries who dont even test, dont have. If you dont test, you dont of cases. If we stop testing, we dont have any cases. Just a quick clarification. The biology of Germ Transmission doesnt care about the test. If you do not test, the case is still there, the person a but you dont know about it. Donald trump ignored the pleas of his own people for more tests. Desperate please. When it came to russian president putin, trump apparently jumped in to help according to woodward. In 2020 at the height of the pandemic, former President Trump secretly sent putin a bunch of rapid Covid Tests machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through russia. Please dont tell anybody you sent these to me putin said to trump, according to woodward. I dont want you to tell anyone