Good morning, everyone. Its friday september 2nd im betty nguyen alongside Louis Burgdorf. We want to begin with breaking news. Florida hit with its first hurricane in more than a decade. Hermine slammed into the florida coast early this morning as a category 1 hurricane. Packing winds of up to 80 miles an hour. Its since been downgraded to a Tropical Storm. Forecasters still warn the storm surge and flooding could be life threatening. So lets go right to nbc meteorologist bill karins with the latest on this as we continue to watch hermine as its making its way across the land there in florida. Again, being downgraded to a Tropical Storm. All right, bill is watching all of this as the rest of us, especially those in florida, how bad is it there, bill . Good morning to you, betty. All night long the north florida coastline was the one that sustained the most damage with a lot of Power Outages around the tallahassee area. Thats where they saw the highest winds. We havent seen any reports on land of Hurricane Force wind. It was estimated it was a hurricane at landfall at 80mileperhour winds about 1 30 in the morning. The storm has moved across northern florida, and is now in areas of southern georgia, the current time now downgraded to a Tropical Storm. It will continue to weaken. The wind effects from this storm will get less and less as we go throughout the morning. We still have this huge rain shield and now were going to worry about the possibility of flash flooding, and the possibility of any isolated tornadoes as we go throughout the morning. Right now 50 miles northeast of tallahassee, florida, in southern georgia and its going to make a leeline towards charleston and wilmington later on tonight. One of the things we have to worry about is tornadoes. Some systems typically produce more tornadoes. Others dont produce as many. We dont know exactly the science of that. But there is still a tornado watch. This has not produced any known tornadoes. Thats great. Doesnt mean there wont be later on today, especially this afternoon if we get heating and breaks of sun in between the bands. As far as the tornado threat is up around the savannah, georgia, area. If ee get any more wind damage near valdosta to georgia. Southern portions of North Carolina, the entire southern half of the state of South Carolina and then savannah to brunswick to jacksonville. Again these are typically smaller type tornadoes. Now the Hurricane Center just came out with the new watches, the new warnings, and the new path. Lets break that down. Still under a Tropical Storm watch from just about areas from virginia beach, norfolk area northward. The jersey shore still under Tropical Storm watch. Still some questions about just how close the storm will be to the jersey shore and also maryland and delaware. Still have Tropical Storm warnings from data beach area to cape hatteras. And the actual forecast track does take this as we go throughout the entire day today right through southern georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, exits as we go throughout saturday afternoon. So thats the highest impacts of rain and a little bit of wind gusts on the coastline there of South Carolina as we go throughout the show today ill break down a little more how much rain we can expect and what the effects will be for the Labor Day Holiday weekend in the midatlantic and northeast. Thats a large swath of area being affected. Dont go far because were going to check back in with you in just a bit. Florida residents are already surveying the damage. Parts of cedar key were pounded by high winds. You can see downed trees. A number of homes in the lowlying city are covered in water. Thousands were left without power. Apalachicola is in the dark. Right now a state of emergency remains in effect for 51 florida counties. Of course we will continue to follow the latest with Tropical Storm hermine throughout the hour. Lets turn to politics now. Donald trump is wavering in his rhetoric on immigration once again after giving a stridently prodeportation speech on wednesday in which he laid out a policy of no legalization for millions of undocumented within the united states, trump again said a softening could occur. And in another interview last night suggested his plans were uncertain. The line last week youre softening on immigration, then you come out with a very specific, very proenforcement plan last night. Wheres the softening . Oh, theres softening. Look we do it in a very humane way and were going to see with the people that are in the country, obviously i want to get the gang members out, the drug peddlers out, the drug dealers out. We want to we got a lot of people in this country that you cant have. And those people will get out. And then were going to make a decision at a later date once everything is finalized. I think youre going to see theres really quite a bit of softening. Were going to get rid of all of the bad players that are here. The gang members, the gang leaders, the drug dealers. After that take place, which will be a process, and it wont go that quickly but its going to go as quickly as any human being can do it, after that take place were going to sit back, were going to assess the situation, were going to see where we are. Because well have people in the country that, you know, that have come in illegally. Were going to sit back, were going to assess the situation, were going to make a decision at that time. All right. So in case he left anyone confused donald trump tweeted yesterday morning simply quote mexico will pay for the wall with an exclamation point. But later yesterday president Enrique Pena Nieto responded saying quote i repeat what i told him personally, mr. Trump, mexico will never pay for a wall. Trump, however, had no doubts. Oh, it will happen at the right time it will happen. This is just the beginning of a negotiation. If i win, if i become president , mexico will pay for the wall. He, you know, rightfully said i know their position for a long time. They say they dont want to pay for the wall, and every negotiation starts that way. But mexico will pay for the wall. If you look at whats going on with mexico, we have a tremendous trade deficit with mexico. Tremendous trade deficit. And, its thats so much more. I mean the wall is peanuts compared to the kind of money youre talking about. No, mexico will pay for the wall and i think theyll end up actually being very happy to do so. Now some hispanic leaders who have been advising trump say they feel betrayed following his most recent comments on immigration. Surrogate steve cortez told msnbc said most of trumps hispanic Advisory Counsel urged him to soften his policy while Corey Lewandowski said trumps target audience wednesday was not latinos. I gave him advice on immigration as did other people on the council. He didnt take all of it. But im not the candidate. He is. If you look at the polling data, he has about an 18point lead in the demographic of white males who are voting in this election. They have a high propensity of voting so hes got about on 18point lead on Hillary Clinton in that particular demographic. This speech is clearly geared at those individuals right now to make sure that theyre there. He locked them in for the election. Meanwhile another trump surrogate, marco gutierrez, who is also the founder of the group latinos for trump, made an unconventional argument for the candidates immigration plan last night. We need to understand that this is a different time and were having problems here. What problems . What problems are you talking about . My culture is a very dominant culture. And its imposing and its causing problems. If you dont do something about it youre going to have taco trucks every corner. Well, shortly after that exchange, the phrase taco trucks on every corr began trending on twitter. Hillary clinton has spent the last month working on the donor circuit and the results are in yesterday her campaign reported raising a staggering 143 million in august. 62 million goes to the campaign while 81 million goes to other democrats. To put that into perspective here its 53 million more than she raised in the month of july. Now the joint fund began september with a total of 152 million. In the bank. And they are spending some of it in twrad igsally republican areas expanding into georgia, arizona and even utah. And mike pence was campaigning yesterday the state that gave mitt romney his biggest margin of victory in 2012 and in arizona john mccain is taking on his well funded democratic opponents by seeming to suggest that clinton will win. My opponent, representative Ann Kirkpatrick is a good person but if Hillary Clinton is elected president , arizona will need a senator who will act as a check, not a rubber stamp. A new report says donald trump was forced to pay a penalty over questionable political contribution by the charity bearing his name. According to the Washington Post, the irs hit trump with a 2500 fine this year for a tax Law Violation by the donald j. Trump foundation. The paper says the organization gave 25,000 in 2013 to a group called justice for all which was supporting Florida Attorney general pam biondis reelection campaign. Now at that time, biondi was considering whether to investigate fraud allegations against Trump University but later decided not to pursue the case. The Development Comes amid a new Usa Today Suffolk University poll that shows trump and Hillary Clinton are nearly tied with voters saying they are untrustworthy. 61 to 59 . While on the campaign trail for clinton Vice President joe biden spoke with msnbcs kasie hunt where he tried to defend the controversial practices by the Clinton Foundation that have damaged that trust. Has the Clinton Foundation always been 100 ethical in your view . Look, i think the Clinton Foundation, like all foundations, have found themselves in a position where things are changing, and i think shes going to change, adjust to the realities of of how complicated its all become. And is she clearing herself up enough with that . Should the foundation have stopped taking foreign donations now . Well, i think youll see them stop taking foreign donations. The Trump Campaign pounced on Vice President bidens comments, releasing a statement that reads in part, the fact that even the Vice President cant vouch for the Clinton Foundations ethics speaks volumes about Hillary Clintons terrible judgment. Vice President Joe Biden didnt hold back when it came to going after donald trump while campaigning in ohio for Hillary Clinton. During his stop in warren yesterday, the Vice President ripped trump for not understanding the middle class. Im so sick and tired. I know im not supposed to get angry, but im so sick and tired of hearing people like trump and the chamber of commerce, the National Chamber talking about we get paid too much. That we dont give me a break. Give me a break. This is a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth, that now hes choking on because his foots in his mouth along with the spoon. Donald trump is set to visit a largely black church in detroit tomorrow as part of his continued effort to Court Minority voters and his campaign is reportedly looking to keep him on script during his conversation with the churchs pastor. The New York Times has obtained an eight page draft script showing Trumps Campaign has prepared answers for the republican nominee to give for a dozen questions by bishop wayne t. Jackson. The times adds that the answers were written with the help of africanamerican republican advisers and it goes on to say that q a session which wont be open to the public or media, will be edited with the help of trumps aides before it airs on jacksons impact network. Jackson told msnbcs tamron hall yesterday that he did not invite trump to his church but rather the campaign reached out to him. A spokesperson for the Clinton Campaign criticized the visit saying in part, Donald Trumps latest gimmick to act as if he cares about the black community is downright shameful, insulting and cowardly. Not surprisingly trumps ignorance on issues like the economy, criminal justice reform, the meaning of quality healthcare or systemic racism, has forced him to resort to scripted conversations, and staged engagements with our communities. And senator Bernie Sanders is set to hit the campaign trail for his former rival Hillary Clinton. Sanders will spend his labor day in New Hampshire where the Clinton Campaign says he will discuss the economy. The move marks the first time the senator has campaigned for clinton alone since he endorsed her back in july. Meanwhile, the closely watched battle for Kelly Ayottes senate seat remains in a virtual dead heat. 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I think once the sun comes up the tallahassee area, there will be a lot of trees down and thats where the Power Outages will take the long toast be restored. Estimates over 100,000 in that region especially thats where the storm made landfall. I had a little more time to read the new discussion out of the Hurricane Center, get their thoughts on this. Friction is taking its effect. When the storms were over the open water they were able to get the momentum going easier because theres no friction from trees or mountains or houses, whatever is in the way. Once the storm gets over land friction becomes more of a component and the storms weaken. Thats whats happening now. By 2 00 p. M. Today they think the winds will go from 70 down to 50 miles per hour. When you get to only 50mileperhour max we dont really see a lot of Power Outages after that point. Thats good news for charleston, myrtle beach, wilmington, northern east carolina. Not expecting a lot of Power Outages. By saturday at 2 00 a. M. Only expecting winds at 45. Then the storm exits eastern North Carolina by saturday afternoon. That leaves us with two concerns. One is what happens to the storm this weekend . Because notice it goes from 45mileperhour wind, it kind of loops out here and look how long, this is sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday. This forecast linkers this storm off the midatlantic coast for about five days, and look at the cone of uncertainty it goes all the way back to eastern pennsylvania, central new england and back out here to the open atlantic. So theres still a lot of questions