Raj h Jessica Aguirre raj has the night off. You are looking live at ft. Myers florida. Tampa also can be hit much harder than anticipated. Warm atlantic waters helped irma strengthen to a category 5. Lashing the island of cuba with fierce rain. We have meteorologist jeff ranieri with more on the shift. Much more dire impact for key west and ft. Myers and tampa right now. Moving along northern cuba. It is still powerful by all standards. Hurricane force winds go out 75 miles from the center. You are seeing the outer feeder bands. Center of the storm where the eye is located. Now in terms of the path in that more westerly shift, here is what we are looking at over key west category 4 storm. And now what looks like it may pass directly over ft. Myers sunday at 8 00 p. M. 130 Miles Per Hour and move over tampa, 110, 120 Miles Per Hour sometime late sunday night early monday morning. Daytona beach getting battered as well. Coming up at 11 0020 i will have specifics. Now at this hour, it is
San francisco, 63 and those gray skies in san jose, currently 67. Mid 80s for san jose. Oakland, close to 90 inland today. Temperatures will trend hotter for tomorrow. Could see some upper 90s in those east bay valleys. The latest on Hurricane Irma. Category 4 hurricane, winds of 140 Miles Per Hour. It continues to shift towards the west. Potentially better news for orlando, miami, jacksonville on the east coast. The storm surge from this storm could be greater than nine feet as you get into ft. Myers and tampa bay as the storm makes its approach from south to north overnight tonight into tomorrow morning. Youll continue to follow that for us i know. Well stay tuned throughout the newscast. As rob just said, Hurricane Irmas aim is shifting. The latest forecast shows her heading for the west coast. The monster storm is shifting away from floridas east coast. Miami beach may not bear the brunt of irma tomorrow. But a Tornado Warning was in effect within the last 30 minutes for that area.
This is how he responded when asked what would your fathers message be to mr. Trump . I think my father would be concerned about the fact that 50 or 60 Million People areallying i are living in poverty. Congressman john lewis spoke at a meeting in miami. Lewis implored the young audience to speak up and never give in when facing injustice. Stand up, speak up. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something, to Say Something and not be quiet. Lewis is the civil rights leader legitimate president on nbcs meet the press. That triggered a bit of a feud between the two. Trump responded on twitter saying lewis is all talk and no action. Today trumps Incoming White House press Secretary Sean Spicer said lewiss comment about the president is disap pointing and unfounded. More than two dozen lawmakers are boycotting the inauguration. Mr. Trump is entering the white house with a disApproval Rating of president obama had an Approval Rating
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Get a check on the day ahead. Primary elections held in alaska and wyoming today. Voters will decide who will run against mark begich. Paul ryan is more focused on his partys image and we will have a chance to ask him about it when he join the set of morning joe tomorrow. That does it for way too early. Morning joe starts right now. Good morning, everyone. Its tuesday, august 19th. Welcome to morning joe. That is what t. J. Does. Hes into the glasses. Im glad someone does. I love those glasses. You have the situation with the last contact lens that falls and you just cant find them . I like them. Im telling you. Thank you, willie. I do. Its different when he says it in a way like he is not panting like t. J. Oh, yeah. Its different. Did he just wink at me and go is that bad . No. From the will meister . No. Morning joe contributor John Heilemann, what a weird start. He joins us. Usually youre the weird one, john. All right. Today, im innocent. Today, you are innocent and elegant. We al