Category 2 hurricane hammering South Carolina with winds of 105 Miles Per Hour and heavy rain and dangerous storm surge. People in charleston bracing for the worst. Meanwhile, folks in florida assess the damage from what matthew left behind. Now ive got holes in the roof and its leaking in my kitchen. Dylans tracking it all today, saturday, october 8th, 2016. 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this very busy saturday morning. Im craig melvin alongside Sheinelle Jones and Stephanie Ruhle is here. Dylan dreyer is standing by. Charleston being hammered. Lets get to it. Hurricane matthew barrelling on florida. We will go live to our team of correspondents in the south. Dylan is tracking the storms path. We will get to that in a few minutes. Overnight, political news with the election 31 days away. Donald trump apologizing to women for what he said in 2005. This after the tape catching trump in an unguarded moment. He rally today. There is so much to get to this morning. Lets start with nbcs katy tur who has been following the Trump Campaign from the beginning and has latest from the fallout. Good morning, sheinelle. 16 months in and donald trump has refused to apologize to the judge or the gold star family or former miss universe. This changed this morning. He could grope a woman for saying he is famous. Is the damage after done . When you start it, they let you do it. Grab them by the [ bleep ]. After the outrageous remarks. Finally contrite trump. I said it. I apologize. Then the attack. Bill clinton has abused women and hillary has reporter the apology believed to be unprecedented came after a 2005 tape surfaced with a conversation and then access hollywood host billy bush. Trump brags about groping women and laughing off the attempts to seduce nancy odell. I moved on her heavily. I moved on her like a [ bleep ]. I couldnt get there. She is married. She totally changed her look. Reporter the comments caught on a hot mic on a publicity tour. Eight months after he married melania who was already pregnant. Overnight, deluge of condemn nation. Leaving trump no choice but to repent. One calling it their very own hurricane. One wr should described in the terms ever. And paul ryan withdrawing from a scheduled appearance today. Saying he is sickened. The republican governor along with Congress MemberJason Chaffetz withdrawing support. I cannot do it. Reporter some are calling this the end and some high we will discuss this more in the coming days. See you at the debate on sunday. This morning, new talks to see how the Republican Party can go forward and whether they can take trump off the ticket. Pressure to do so mounting from big dollar donors. It is a move highly unlikely because of ballot issues. Early voting has started already. Meanwhile, billy bush is apologizsa when he was younger and less mature. What is the likeihood there are other tapes out there . There have been grumbling like that. We could see more of the tapes from now until election day. I have spoken to somebody who has known donald trump for a long time. They said he has said much worse. Katy, thank you. Lets bring in political the press. Chuck todd. Good morning. I feel we have had the same conversation over the last year. Trump doing something ridiculous and it doesnt stick to him. Does this feel different to you . It does. I think, look, you already had a campaign that was reeling and sort of for conventional reason. Now this. I think it is ballot breakaway from him . Is it done by the leadership first . Is it mcconnell . Is it ryan . Is it the chairman of the party . It is unrecoverable. The question is what do people what does the rest of the party do . The apology or half apology or promise to continue the conversation likely during the debate tomorrow. Tomorrow . If this debate is what donald trump threatens, i dont think it is unchartered territory, craig. Im trying to envision what this would look like. Disaster doesnt begin to describe it if this is the road trump goes down. If this is what it turns into, i dont think he has any idea how or how poorly this would play to attack a woman for the infidelities of her husband. It would be of epic proportion of a political miscalculation. The defects of Jason Chaffetz and senator mike lee saying trump should get out of this thing. Will we see more of that . I think we will. I would be stunned if we dont. So far, the first people to break are two groups of republicans. One have been mormons. Obviously, this is an issue for utah republican rank and file leaders for months. You have some coming from republicans in competitive races in a month. I think today will see panic among house republicans. Remember, craig, lets talk about winning and losing. This is can the republicans hold the senate. If this is mishandled. If donald trump truly goes into tomorrow as political ied, the house could be in play and suddenly the entire party could collapse on itself over the next few weeks. I think its a total i think it sounds like you are saying that donald trump could very well bring down the entire gop. I think he could. Come november. To be clear, 31 days out, theyre stuck with him. Theyre stuck. Look, i had a conversation with some high level republicans in early august, craig, during the khan episode. When he was attacking the gold star family and khan family. There was chatter. Okay. If they can c quit, you know, how much time would they have and when would they have to do it and when would he have to get out. It was determined they had until the first week of september. Now it is too late. Ballot deadlines. It is too late. Maybe there is some weird Electoral College thing to get all of the electors that are promised to elect trump to sign some other pledge. Fundamentally, it is too late to we will see more tomorrow morning on meet the press. Hard to believe that is not all that happened in politics yesterday. At the same time the donald trump tape was public, wikileaks released more emails claimed to be from the Clinton Campaign manager email account. It reveals the private wall street speeches. Many want to know what is in those. Nbcs kaci hunt is in st. Louis at the site oth kaci, good morning. Reporter steph, good morning. So much news all at once here. We are finally getting a glimpse into the speeches that you mentioned that clinton gave to wall street and other private groups that Bernie Sanders demanded she released during the primaries. She never did. These are from wikileaks. We have not confirmed the authenticity of them. The campaign has not either. Happy about being hacked by the russians. This is a Hillary Clinton different in private than public. She went so far as to say as much. Politicians need to have one public position and one private position as they get things done in washington. And on trade which was important to sanders, she went so far as to say she would call for an open border my dream is a hemisphere common interest. And we raised doubt that the kremlin recognized wikileaks to meddle in our election. He says they will not confirm the authenticity of stolen documents from Julian AssangeHillary Clinton. At the same time, there are no major bombshells in the documents. It stands up to the story of donald trump and Many Democrats i talked to privately saying they think this race may already be over. Steph. Kasie hunt in st. Louis. See you there tomorrow. We will open up the conversation. There is too much to cover. Lets bring in sara flores. A deputy Campaign Manager for Carly Fiorina and we have carl edward. A political analyst. Good morning to both of you. We have to start with donald trump. These comments. Any other person could make them. It would torpedo their campaign. This conversation he has had over and over. He has a problem with women. 64 polled have a negative view of him. Will this change votes . We are heading into the election where we will have the largest gender gap in history by wont measure this outside of the debate on sunday. What does this is in the debate he needed to win and be on offense, he is heading in on his heels at best. They have to spend all of today and tomorrow preparing for how to handle this. I dont think last nights apology video does anything to help that. So i think this will all be tied into the debate he could not lose. Go back to the video that he put out around midnight. Half apology. Half threat. After bill clinton. The debate tomorrow in st. Louis how ugly could it get . It is really all on him. I agree with sarahs comments. In a lot of ways, it shows what his wealth provides him. He talked about the advantage of celebrity and how you treat women. You wonder how he treats his daughter. I thought convincingly at the speak of. It will be large. I think republicans alike we will hear from more republicans about him stepping down. If you have a daughter or sister or married. It is hard to look your family in the eyes and say ill get out and actively support and be for donald trump. Not only will the debate be interesting, but the next 24 hours will be in how he handles general. Thank you so much. We know this topic will come up tomorrow night during the second president ial debate. You can see Hillary Clinton and donald trump faceoff on msnbc. Coverage begins at 9 00 eastern 6 00 pacific. Tomorrow night. Im sure we will get a huge audience. Lets turn to the other story this morning. Hurricane matthew. That storm is now a weakened hour. It is battering South Carolina, but on friday, heavy damage and destruction left behind in parts of florida. At least four people were killed in that state. More than 1. 2 Million People are without power this morning through georgia and florida and the carolinas as well. We have Team Coverage this morning. We start with nbcs Chris Jansing in charleston. Chris. Reporter this is what hurricane conditions look like, craig. This wind and rain has been steadily worsening over the last hour or so. They say it will continue for several hours more. Hurricane conditions for at least another hour. Take a look at the flooding. You can see how deep my boots are. This isnt the worst of it. Were pretty far away from the worst of it. Having said that, the officials hurricane hugo. Governor nicki haley is upping the number of National Guard members to 35,000 people. We saw some of them out braving some of the earlier conditions and flooding yesterday. In addition to that, you have waves that are cresting at 20 feet. Measured off bouys off the coast. 90,000 people without power. That is expected to rise. Power crews here from as far a problem downed power lines causing burglar alarms and fire alarms to go off. That has been keeping the emergency crews busy. The one thing that officials are happy about is they told people to evacuate. 335,000 did. Many of those in shelters. Those who didnt heeded the warnings overnight. They had no problems and they kept off the streets. The only thing we saw at 8 00 or i just talked to a city official who said they did not have major problems overnight. Having said that, when you look at the combination of factors, wind, rain, flooding, the third highest surge in history. They will have a mess on their hands here in what is clearly, you know, craig, because you spent so much time here in the historic and most beautiful cities in thing south. Craig. The crown jewel. Lets go to dylan. Whats the latest on Hurricane Matthews track . The track is still expecting to make landfall somewhere near charleston shortly. It is a category 2 hurricane. It has been weakening. Winds down to 105 Miles Per Hour. That is strong. Look at the rain bands in South Carolina and North Carolina right now. Since we are very close to are making it onshore. You go up to charleston and inland a bit. 37mileanhour wind gusts. Some strongest gusts in tybee island, georgia, 39 Miles Per Hour. The highest storm surge they experienced. Speaking of the storm surge, 5 to 7 feet from hilton head north. And cape fear to kitty hawk. That push of water increases the coastal flooding. Here is the latest track. We will get an update later this morning. It is expected to weaken and move to a tropical depression before it loops around into the bahamas as we get into the end of next week. In the meantime, we are looking at heavy rain, torrential downpours and 5 to 9 feet storm surge. Look at how far north it spreads. We will see rain across eastern long island and southeastern massachusetts. Not because of the storm itself, but adding extra moisture. We will see the effects across the northeast. Guys. Dylan, thank you. We will get more from you throughout the morning. We want to get back to charleston, South Carolina and see how the city is doing. John techlenburg is the mayor. Good morning to you. Good morning, sheinelle. Welcome to ar we are looking at the pictures. Heartbreaking to see. What do you see as far as the damage is concerned . First let me say how proud i am of the Emergency Operations personnel both in the city and county and the state. I was riding around downtown charleston last night and despite the fact we always welcome people to our vibrant and lively city, it was we did a great job of getting folks evacuated and secure in the homes before the storm came. What we are concerned about today are the high winds that are about to unleash on the city as the eyewall of the storm actually hits the city of charleston. We are expecting over 100mileanhour winds and the triple threat of flooding which includes the storm surge and high tide that will be here midday today and rains that we are receiving as the day goes on. I was just about to ask you that. Lets talk about flooding for a moment. Charleston is low lying. Downtown floods easily. How much flooding are you expecting . A good bit. We already closed about 80 local streets due to flooding and some trees already coming down. The trees and Power Outages frankly will increase as the day but the flooding midday should be the worst because as that storm surge pushes water in and the high tide comes in and the rain has nowhere to go out, were going to have continued and increased flooding throughout today. Hopefully, god bless, we have no loss of life. Thats the most important thing. Amen 90,000 people without power. When can they expect that to be back on . Well, just to let you know, our city personnel both Public Safety and Public Service are stationed throughout the city in fire stations everywhere so as soon as the storm is over, well begin our response and recovery. Utility companies have prepositioned crews not only their own crews, but called in assets ready to go for response and recovery. We hope in just a day or two well be happy to welcome folks back to charleston and come down and join us. All the best to the communities affected there. Mayor, thank you for your time this morning. Dylan is back with the quick check of the forecast. Thank you, sheinelle. There is not a lot to talk about. The main focus is the cold front moving east than combining with the rain. Al jerry brown in the news 3 weather center. Really nice weather setting up. I mean a little warm, 90 on sunday, 91 on columbus day but a and thats your latest forecast. Dylan, thank you. More of our coverage of Hurricane Matthews wrath. But first this is today on nbc. When i was one year old, i was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer on my spinal chord. But i spent my whole life fighting back. That reporter he is talking about suffers from a chronic condition that impairs movement of his arms. I dont want a president who makes fun of me. I want a president who inspires me, and thats not donald trump. Priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. Horner i was proud to stand for our country. I will not stand for congressman hardy and donald trump insulting seniors and veterans. Hardy wants to raise the retirement age are a draw on government and the disabled are a drain on society. And then theres donald trump. Theyre just not for us. Still to come here, we are live in South Carolina as folks there wake damage from Hurricane Matthew. This is a live look at the beach. And one month to go until anchor good morning and thank you for joining us on news 3 im kyndell nunley. Hockey players battle it out on the ice tonight for game two over at tmobile arena. The very first game took place last night. Hockey fans were out to catch their first glimpse of the game between the l. A. Kingsen the dallas stars and frozen fury in the end dallas beat l. A. 63. Game two brings the Colorado Avalanche to las vegas. Jerry brown in the news 3 weather center. Beautiful day today. Mix of sunshine and high clouds light east winds 87 degrees. Mid 60s overnight with partly cloudy skies. Kind of a quiet evening, well, quiet meet logically. People are going to be partying in las vegas. Here is your sevenday forecast. Warming up into columbus da monday, 91. And then slowly subsiding through the 80s. Mid 80s by thursday. Lots of sunshine this we jacky rosen im jacky rosen, and as a computer programmer, i created apps. Before they were called apps olution to Rising Energy costs. Creating one of the largest Solar Projects in the state. 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