Yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. Well, this morning, cleanup continues across the southeastern United States in the wake of Hurricane Irma, the president and first lady are expected to travel to florida tomorrow to see some of the damage first hand. At least 54 deaths have now been blamed on irma. 12 of those in florida alone. In the watered florida keys, fema officials estimate at least 1 in 4 homes have been destroyed by the storm. In jacksonville, it could take a week for floodwaters to recede in some places. The local Sheriffs Office says their department has rescued more than 350 people. Despite the destruction in some places, life is returning to normal. In miami, for example, the curfew has been lifted and flights from there to ft. Lauderdale are beginning to resume but in broward county, school wont begin for at least another week. Farther north in South Carolina, the city has deployed pumps, and across florida and South Carolina are still without four as crews begin to restore electricity i should add. But the worst damage is being seen in the caribbean where the storm has wiped out homes, leaving thousands desperate for food, water and other flies. Maya rodriguez is joining us from that area. Maya, good to talk to you. That area hard hit by the hurricane. Whats it look like right now . Reporter well, yasmin, we can tell you in most of the state of florida there are 7 Million People without power. That includes most of the florida keys at this point. As you mentioned, 25 of the homes were destroyed. 60 , though, sustained damage. Right now, were is he sea breeze mobile home park, in islamorada in the middle keys. There is destruction all over the place. At the end of this road and it used to be a road, at this point. There is what remains of the home. Basically, the bathroom is the only thing that remains standing there. The rest of the home, gone. It was torn apart by irmas storm surge, the water, the Atlantic Ocean is not that far back, 40 or 50 feet beyond what remains of that home. People here were trying to pick up the pieces. See what they could do, recover from all of the destruction. One woman came out here to check on her friends home and was completely taken aback by what she saw, take a listen. If anyone is here, they hardly survived. And its just a demolishing sight right now, by the looks of it, it just looks really bad. I was at home thinking i didnt have a home. And i did. And i found out that friends just didnt. So it kind of it hurts the same way, you know. You just come here and say, check on my home. You got to come back and say, youve got nothing left. Thats just it hits home. Reporter and just to add to the misery here, aside from not having power, most of the keys that are south of us here now have no running water. Yasmin. Wow, unbelievable images coming out of that area. Were certainly thinking about the residents there that are going to be sort of dealing with the aftermath of irma for quite some time. Thank you. President trump has another bipartisan meeting as he seeks to cut deals on tax reform. Heidi heitkamp of north dakota joe donnelly of indiana and joe manchin discussed the tax pack acht with three members of the Senate Finance committees. The democrats each released statements describing it as a good and productive session. Senator man chin said we just do this without adding to our staggering debt. The white house indicates it wants to make a deal with white house treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin promising Corporate Tax rates to 15 . Take a listen. The president has made it clear, since the campaign, ideally hed like to get it down to 15 . I dont know if well be able to achieve that, given the budget issues, but were going to get this down to a very competitive level. And what the exact number is less important. And whats more important is making sure we have a competitive system. If its in the mid20s, is that a win . Again, im not going to comment on whats a win and whats not a win. As i mentioned this is a pass fail enter skis, so passing that in 25 years thats a win. And prus house secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders faced questions about whether the administration was stepping back from one of the few specifics it had outlined. To back off of that demand for 15 . The president is prepared to push as low of a rate as we can get. Were going to continue to push for that and make sure we get the best deal as possible. Based on that, it seems theyre hovering around 20 . Were going to continue to make sure we get that done. President trump will be hitting the road on yet to be defined tax form. The white house said President Trump will travel to about a dozen stays over the next several weeks. Joining us is jacqueline klein. Great to have you with us. Some Democratic Senators are feeling left out of the breakout bipartisanship that were seeing in washington. In particular, senator jon tester of montana saying he wasnt invited to that dinner last night at the white house but is open to discussion. Youve got others like senator ron widen who tweeted this out saying serious bipartisan efforts senior democrat on tax writing committee. Maybe my invite must have gotten lost in the mail. Do you think that capitol hill really trusts this president s efforts to reach across the aisle with these invites last night . This is absolutely a step up on bipartisanship. But i think theres still a lot of concern on both sides of the political spectrum that the president has not yet released a lot of details about this bill. Were hearing 15 . Now were hearing it might not be 15 . And theres a lot of concern among members of the congress that theyre not going to have the details of what theyre voting on until theyre voting on it much like the effort this year to repeal and replace obamacare. Plus, a lot of people pushing whether or not the president will be satisfied with 20 . Also the senate is expected to take an on rand pauls proposal to oppose the authorization of wars in iraq and afghanistan. Paul who is on morning joe is actually battling this for years. So, rand paul is trying to repeal the 2001 and 2002 war authorizations. And lawmakers will have six months to pass a new authorization. This is certainly a bipartisan effort. Congress has been talking about doing this for a long time. But theres a lot of concern about what if congress cant pass a new war authorization. What does that mean . I dont think anyone wants to find fought we just pull out troops overseas. And it definitely sends a bad message if lawmakers cant come to a consensus. Weve definitely seen efforts at this sort of thing before and just really have never taken off. And it will be interesting to see perhaps with a vote. Before i let you go, ive got to ask you about former white house chief strategist steve bannon. He seems to be talking out, first 60 minutes and recently spoke at a conference in hong kong in which he says he talks to President Trump really every two to three days, especially even before that conference in hong kong saying they spoke the night before in a lengthy conversation. The white house is pushing back saying theyre not speaking that often. Do you think that steve bannon is just making a lot of noise . Or do do people in washington feel he still has power with this white house . If what he says true and he still has the president s ear, i think its definitely significant. Defense secretary jim mattis said the president is someone who can be swayed by a good organization. If theyre talking that often its definitely an important thing to watch. But the days after his departure, we saw the president come out with reviews that were different than this especially on the afghan strategy. That could signal he maybe doesnt have as much sway as he used to. Thank you. This morning, the the New York Times reports the Trump Administration is considering reducing the number of refugees admitted to the country next year by below 50,000. By comparison, 84,000 were admitted into the country last year. Also yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed with the Trump Administration putting a hold on a Lower Court Decision that would have allowed more refugees to enter the congress. Meanwhile, despite the Congress Moving quickly on daca, it considers a slow start in congress. Nancy pelosi is meeting with the hispanic caucus and americanpacific caucus. But the reality is it has fallen from the top of the agenda. The congressman working on the bridge act elizabeth gutierrez, saying with everything going on its but put on the back burner. A Senate Document was postponed in Hurricane Irmas wake. There are still deep misgivings like House Republican chair bob goodlatte. And white house legislative director morning shore said that President Trump may not insist Congress Fund the border wall as part of the deal to resolve da daca. I think that we are most interested in getting border security. And the president has made a commitment to the American People he wants, he believes that a physical barrier is important to that equation of border security. Whether or not that is part of a daca equation, whether or not thats another legislative vehicle, i dont want it to bond ourselves into a construct that makes reaching a conclusion on daca impossible. And moving to health care, democrats are moving to a Single Payer Health care bill. Party leadership is not among them, chuck sure, nancy pelosi, they both declined to endorse the bill. Schumer says hes currently looking at all of the bill proposed by democrats while the congresswoman is protected by health care. Zbielt the potential contenders racing to support the socalled medicare for all proposal, cosponsors will include senators elizabeth warren, cory booker, kamala harris, and jeff merkley. One of the biggest cities in america, seattle mayor ed murray has resigned from os following another claim of sexual abuse made against him. The Seattle Times was first to report the latest allegations made by one of murrays cousins who said he was sexually abused in the 1950s in a family home. Murray says hes stepping down not to affect the ability of the City Government to conduct its public businesses. 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All of this really comes as there are reports today, in the New York Times, that seoul is planning, quote, a decapitation unit to infiltrate the north. What more can you tell us about that . Well, in this latest example with all of the rhetoric, the propagan propaganda, the threats are growing more and more aggressive every day. Yes, the south korea government letting it be known that they are forming the socalled capitation quads that can infiltrate in enemy lines. This is something that the South Koreans have threatened in the past when tensions have flared in the north. No word on what theyve been able to accomplish, however. Also coming on a day when the south koreasens have been able to answer a new fire drills. The South Koreans claiming that they now have a Cruise Missile, an advanced Cruise Missile that can be fired from a fighter jet, evade radar and hit target hundreds of miles away. So theres day. In recent days the South Koreans have also increased the capacity of the Missile Defense systems, the socalled thad systems. President trump said the South Koreans will be able to buy billions of dollars in new weaponry. And Nuclear Weapons to face the threat of north korea. Something that the government is pushing back on but theres still calls to do that. Of course, the military remains on high alert because theres anticipation that the north korea will fire off more ballistic missiles. Ayman. Thank you, alan. Lets get a check of your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. Bill, looks like a nice day here in new york. Yeah, many areas are actually looking very good. We do have still the leftover moisture from irma. And the track of clouds for the next two days. And the annoying storm jose, five, ten days, yeah, i said annoying for a reason. Irma is still spinning over tennessee, some showers through nashville and paducah. That will be about it. It drift torltdz thwards the ea. 87 in minneapolis. Few spots 90 in south dakota. 91, dallas, san antonio very hot at 96. Still thinking about people without power in southern florida and georgia. It gets very hot in those houses even with the doors open. Interior sections of florida will be in the 90s. It is a little humid. Its very uncomfortable in florida this time of year. September is still very much a summer month. Where irma is located, 60s today with all of the clouds. D. C. , slight chance of a shower today, about 81 degrees. So, lets take you through the timing of how were going to deal with as we go throughout the day. Again, the showers move from the south into the ohio valley. West virginia tonight. Then some of this moisture from irma will move into areas of pennsylvania, new york state, d. C. , philadelphia and new york as we go through thursday afternoon. Lets get to that hundred storm called jose. Heres that forecast path. The good thing about jose, its never going to be a big powerful strong storm. Its too far norm. The waters a little cooler and dry air and shear. So the hurricane has become a Tropical Storm. So, monday, safely in between the outer banks and bermuda. Now, what happened overnight, unfortunately, all of the longrange models, the usa model, its way too close to the u. S. , i dont like that. The europe model is far offshore but it did track itnortheast. We didnt want to nudge this. Ive got another week of talking about jose. I guess its better than talking about a cat 4. But, you know, well see. All right, bill, well stay with you on that one. As we mentioned earlier on the show, much of florida just beginning to clean up. Miamidade officer captured this of a chain saw wielding nun after a storm knocked often the tree. The Police Department thanked sister Margaret Anne for pitching in on the Recovery Efforts. Just because you are one of the cloth doesnt mean that you cant cut down a tree. 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