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 i've got holes in the roof and it's leaking in my kitchen. >> dylan's tracking it all today, saturday, october 8th, 2016. >> annouer this is "today" live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> and welcome to "today" on this very busy saturday morning. i'm craig melvin alongside sheinelle jones and stephanie ruhle is here. dylan dreyer is standing by. charleston being hammered. >> let's get to it. hurricane matthew barrelling on charleston, south carolina after florida. we will go live to our team of correspondents in the south. dylan is tracking the storm's 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 has been rally today. there is so much to get to this morning. let's start with nbc's 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. 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 shamed h victims. >> 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 o'dell. >> i moved on her heavily. i moved on her like a [ bleep ]. i couldn't 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 writes, priebu 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 member jason chaffetz withdrawing support. >> i cannot do it. >> reporter: some are calling this the end and some high profile voices demand he drop >> 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 apologizing saying he is embarras 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. >> let's 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 doesn't 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 unrecoverable. ballot break-away 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 don't think -- it is unchartered territory, craig. i'm trying to envision what this would look like. disaster doesn't begin to describe it if this is the road trump goes down. if this is what it turns into, i don't think he has any idea how much of a 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. paul ryan uninviting himself to will we see more of that? >> i think we will. i would be stunned if we don't. 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 and tomorrow, you republicans. remember, craig, let's 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 it's a total -- i think people will start running for that donald trump could very well bring down the entire gop. >> i think he could. >> come november. to be clear, 31 days out, they're stuck with him. >> they're 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 convince him to 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 replace him. 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 e-mails claimed to be from the clinton campaign manager e-mail account. it reveals the private wall street speeches. many want to know what is in those. nbc's kaci hunt is in st. louis at the site of the big 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 li 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 assange hillary 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. let's 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 won't 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 don't think last night's 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. basically after bill clinton. the debate tomorrow in st. louis -- how ugly could it get? >> it is really all on him. i agree with sarah's 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 convention and his wife. 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 i'll 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 presidential debate. you can see hillary clinton and donald trump face-off on msnbc. coverage begins at 9:00 eastern/6:00 pacific. tomorrow night. i'm sure we will get a huge audience. let's turn to the other story this morning. hurricane matthew. that storm is now a weakened category 2 hurricane with top 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 nbc's chris 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 isn't the worst of it. we're pretty far away from the worst of it. having said that, the officials say the combination of wind and 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 away 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 didn't heeded the warnings overnight. they had no problems and they kept off the streets. the only thing we saw at 8:00 or 9:00 last night were police 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. chris >> let's go to dylan. what's the latest on hurricane matthew's 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 possible landfall, you can see are making it onshore. you go up to charleston and inland a bit. 37-mile-an-hour 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 which 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 have approaching cold front from the west. 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 charleston. >> thank 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 100-mile-an-hour winds and the triple threat of flooding which includes the storm surge and high tide that will be here midday today and the rains that we are receiving as the day goes on. >> i was just about to ask you that. let's 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, we're going to have continued and increased flooding throughout today. hopefully, god bless, we have no loss of life. that's the most important thing. >> amen to that. my colleagus 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, we'll begin our response and recovery. utility companies have pre-positioned crews not only their own crews, but called in other crews. assets ready to go for response and recovery. we hope in just a day or two we'll 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. all eye and that's your latest forecast. >> dylan, thank you. more of our coverage of hurricane matthew's wrath. still to come here, we are live in south carolina as folks there wake up to assess this is a live look at the beach. and one month to go until the average age of a homeless person is 9 years old. my dream is to help kids living on the streets with education. charles what's up man? 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>> reporter: craig, i can tell you so many are waking up to massive power outages. according to georgia power, 200,000 people in the county. here in chatham county, 600,000 are without power. you see street lights on. that is a good thing. you don't see anyone. in this particular county, according to officials, about 75% of the residents did heed the order to evacuate. that's something like 200,000 people. the good news is that while the wind is still surging at gusting at 46 miles per hour now, the storm we got that hit the area overnight did not force the wind and rain, i should say, up into the streets here. pretty dry. but there are power outages and downed trees and down power lines. on the island, a lot to deal with. tybee island got the record storm surge of 12 1/2 feet overnight. to assess the damage, they will wait for all of the wind to calm down before authorities send in emergency crews and their assessment crews out to figure out exactly how much damage has be craig. >> rehema ellis in savannah. stay safe. >> be careful. dylan, what is the latest on matthew? >> savannah was hit hard and tybee island. because of the fact because we saw the high tide occur right when the strongest storm surge occurred. i want to show you exactly what a storm surge is. it's basically a rise of water in addition to the regular high tide. you have your normal tide levels if you add water on top of that, it is a huge push of water that comes onshore. obviously this is a bit exaggerated. on tybee island, 12 feet above normal high tide. to put that in perspective for you. i'm 5'3". if you take your average high tide level and you add perhaps up to 4 to 6 feet on top of that, this is a wall of water coming onshore. the water it continues to push inland. although savannah is a little bit farther inland, it is still close enough that the water floods savannah. we will see the same situation in charleston as well. it is not just the coastal flooding because of the storm surge, but also the rain itself. you can see all of this is pushing onshore as the system wraps around. we are looking at flash flooding which is a concern. inches of rain possible in what we will see today. it is the combination of the storm surge pushing water onshore causing coastal flooding and inland flooding and flash flooding from another foot of rain. some and that's your latest forecast. >> thank you, dylan. still to come, following in her father's footsteps. can't get cuter. is never too early to start playing piano. and the story behind this incredible half-court shot. incredible half-court shot. >> looking like incredible half-court shot. >> looking like i was infected with hpv. maybe my parents didn't know how widespread hpv is. while hpv clears up for most, that wasn't the case for me. maybe they didn't know i would end up with cancer because of hpv. maybe if they had known there was a vaccine to help protect me when i was 11 or 12. maybe my parents just didn't know. right, mom? 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good morning. welcome back to "today" on this saturday morning. >> we have a lot to get to this morning. we will go live to south carolina which is currently taking the brunt of hurricane matthew in just a few minute the breaking political news that took place overnight. a rare apology from donald trump. >> the candidate forced to say he's sorry after a tape from 2005 surfaced where he said vulgar comments about women. a lot of backlash this morning. nbc's katy tur is here with the latest. >> good morning, sheinelle. donald trump facing pressure overnight and finally succumbed apologizing for the first time tape him caught him bragging about groping women because he is famous. >> when you are a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. grab them by the [ bleep ]. >> that conversation happening eight months after trump married melania. she was already pregnant at the time. he describes trying and failing to have sex with a married condemnation. house speaker paul ryan saying he is sickened. that is forcing trump to do what he never had to do before. apologize. >> anyone who knows me knows these words don't reflect who i am. i said it. i was wrong. i apologize. >> the apology was 90 seconds long. hillary and bill clinton. >> bill clinton has harassed women and hillary attacked and shamed his victims. we will discuss this more in the coming days. >> the debate is sunday. we will see how aggressive trump gets in trying to defend himself. it seems the clinton marriage is fair game. one thing for certain here. there is a lot of soul searching going on for republicans over their nominee. sheinelle. >> katy tur, thank you. >> donald trump was supposed be in wisconsin today, but after the comments overnight, he was disinvited by paul ryan. we have jacob rascon in elkhorn, wisconsin with more. >> reporter: good morning. paul ryan was supposed to be on stage. the stage you see behind me with trump for the first time campaigning today. it was supposed to be a big mentioned, he was uninvited and now paul ryan has come out with a statement condemning trump saying he was sickened. that was followed by other republicans including mitch mcconnell saying it was repugnant and senator john mccain said there are no excuse. marco rubio says they are and reince priebus said no woman should ever be talked about that way. none of the top republicans unendorsed trump. other republican leaders did begin to rescind support. many including from utah. the governor and former governor and congress member jason chaffetz. saying it is over. i can no longer support trump. ticket. many suggesting mike pence. mike pence will be on the stage with paul ryan. >> jacob rascon, thank you. no doubt all of this will come up in the second debate in st. louis. donald trump and hillary clinton face-off on msnbc. we will stream it live on nbcnews.com. now let's go to the other big story of the morning. different kind of storm. hurre category 2. it is packing a powerful punch and hammering south carolina. let's go back to charleston where chris jansing has the latest. how bad is it? >> reporter: as a matter of fact, officials say the worst is yet to come. we have seen some widespread damage. i'm not sure what that cracking whipping up. the rain is coming down and here's the problem. take a look down here. we already have flooding. there have been dozens of streets. this is a rare car coming by. in fact, i-95 in both directions is impassible. having said that, over at the waterfront, it is low tide. yet, the water is six feet above normal. this afternoon, high tide, it is just about the is expected to pass in charleston. that is why governor nicki haley upped the national guard members here as the rain comes down heavily. 3,500 guards will evacuate people. about 335,000 people took advantage of it. a number of the shelters have seen a significant number of people there. what they are telling people who have hunkered down in their people were mostly adhering to a curfew overnight. we saw almost no one out overnight except police officers. there are areas where they have not figured out where people are doing. particularly the barrier islands. at least 90,000 people without power. that is expected to rise. a lot of power crews here as far as from texas. they are in place when this ends. they are looking at 1:00 for the worst of the flooding, downed power lines and you can see, while this is coming the wind and rain is coming down significantly and they're waiting to see what happens in the next three or four hours. stephanie. >> thanks, chris. we learned it has been downgraded to a category 1 with winds up to 85 miles an hour. >> to georgia now. that state getting pounded overnight. we have nbc's rehema ellis with more. >> reporter: good morning. take a look down the street. outages. you see no light with the exception of the police cruiser down possibly assessing the damage. we will see a lot of that throughout the area in the morning. let's turn here. the power outages and trees is spotty. you can see some of the trees have come down. look down the street. we have power. at least to the traffic lights and the building next to it, we have no power. according to the georgia power company, it is widespread power 260,000 people along the coastline without power. and here in the county alone, we are told 134,000 people have no power. many people did heed the order to evacuate. authorities tell us here in savannah about 134,000 people, 75% of the county did decide to leave the area in order to get to safer ground. if we just turn a little bit over here, you can see that one the trees, they are still moving in terms of the wind. just on the other side of that is the savannah river. the river is moving at a fast pace. that's because of the gusting winds we get from time to time. we are told they are going up to 50 miles per hour. a lot of assessment will be going on in the community today as they try to figure out how wide spread the damage is and when they can tell people it's time for them to go back >> rehema, thank you. be safe. let's get to dylan dreyer. national hurricane center just put out the new coordinates a few minutes ago. >> craig, it has been downgraded to say category 1 hurricane. winds up to 85 miles per hour. it is close to charleston. we have not gotten reports of official landfall yet. sitting 20 miles south/southeast of charleston. it is moving to the northeast. rain is falling. the torrential downpours in charleston right now. you can see all across northeastern parts of south carolina. the rain is coming down heavily. we also now have a tornado watch in effect until 4:00 p.m. with some of the bands of rain, you could get enough energy to produce and spin up the tornadoes. right now, gusts up near 87 miles per hour in hilton head. charleston with winds up near 52 miles per hour. some high gusts have been tybee island, georgia, 96-mile-an-hour winds gusts. the gusts off the water and pushing the water onshore and the high tide at the same time with the gusts to produce the significant flooding with more than a 12-foot storm surge. as we go through the day today, we are looking at tropical storm-force winds with higher gusts. this will continue to ride along the coast and eventually north carolina and cape hatteras will and in norfolk, gusts up near 50 miles per hour. the push of water that comes onshore. the next high tide in charleston is 1:55 this afternoon. the good thing is the storm should be moving on at that point. it will not hit like in tybee island. kitty hawk could get coastal flooding. here is the latest from the it skirts past the coastline and should downgrade by sunday afternoon. it loops back around and turns into a tropical depression approaching the bahamas. we are watching the rain throughout the rest of the afternoon. some flash flooding is possible as well. it is eventually going to combine with the cold front. that will help push it out to sea. it means it will draw on the tropical moisture. we could see rainfall as far as new jersey and eastern long island and southeastern massachusetts tonight and update. hurricane matthew tore through much of florida's east coast on friday. this morning, those residents are starting the tough job of cleaning up the damage that matthew left behind. nbc's gabe gutierrez is in st. augustine, florida with more. good morning, gabe. clean up time. >> reporter: stephanie, good morning. this is the oldest city, but today a ghost town. thankfully the waters receded, but uprooted trees and authorities are is assessing the damage after the storm surge. this morning, hurricane matthew was taking aim at georgia and carolinas after scraping the coast. communities from st. augustine to jacksonville beach with storm surge. brutal winds toppling the church steeple. look at this massive tree. it was slammed into the house. >> i have holes in the roof and i hope it doesn't start leaking in the rest of the house. >> reporter: in orlando, mark's wife narrowly escaped the tree that hit while she slept. >> it was amazing. it missed her. >> reporter: north of daytona beach, this coastal highway washed out. at one point, more than 1 million customers without power. 5,000 flights canceled after matthew the massive international relief efforts ramp up. it veered east and the storm spared heavily south florida. for many others, there was no escape. the water overwhelming. florida's governor now asking for fema assistance. in florida, the death toll is at least four and at one point 23,000 people were in emergency >> that tree. you know, to see the sheer power of the storm. i was down in florida yesterday for hurricane coverage. i didn't see anything like that. limbs and branchs and power lines. they will clean up for a long time. >> lucky so many evacuated. >> a lot of people listened to officials. dylan dreyer on the plaza now with the look at the rest of the country's forecast. >> guys, taking a little bit of a turn on the plaza here in new york city. >> texas. >> nice to have you celebrating here in new york. we are going to see showers here as we go into tonight and tomorrow morning. of course, we are focusing on the heavy rain and possible flooding down through the carolinas as matthew continues to make its way close to landfall. and that's your latest forecast. guys. >> all right. dylan dreyer,ha still to come, tiger woods back at it. why the golfer is choosing now to make his reentry into the profes i'm here in bristol, virginia. and now...i'm in bristol, tennessee. on this side of the road is virginia... and on this side it's tennessee. no matter which state in the country you live in, you could save hundreds on car insurance by switching to geico. look, i'm in virginia... i'm in tennessee... virginia... see how much you could save on car insurance. or am i in tennaginia? hmmm... hey, pal. what, you got a cough this winter? you want tough love, mentholyptus 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