He says, count him out from this weeks republican debate. We will tell you what he plans to do instead. Plus, what trumps refusal to pay for Rudy Giulianis legal bills may mean in that georgia case, in which their codefendants. Thats later on this hour as well. We want to begin, though, with the weather. Hurricane hilary specifically. Now a category three and expected to bring catastrophic and lifethreatening flooding to parts of california, nevada, mexico as well. Southern california now under a Tropical Storm warning, as residents are bracing for what could be the first storm like this to make landfall in the area since, get this, 1939. You see that thing turning towards the state. Nbcs guad venegas is on the ground for us in san diego. But first, i want to bring in michael brennan, director of the National Hurricane center. Michael, start us off if you will. What you are seeing this hour, the track of hillary, and if it weakens as some reports are saying it might, how dangerous coul
telling you that it s going to be 45 mile an hour sustained winds, 60 mile an hour wind gusts. why not shut the power off at that point? why not have something that would trigger, to safely shut the power of? we do have a little bit more on that,. what with certain officials saying that the power it s so intrinsically tied to the sustainability of a place like lahaina, that that, in effect, would also be showing off certain water comes and shutting off certain medical devices that are needing that power, in order to flow. all of this, again, part of the investigation i mentioned. another lawsuit came overnight. we are up to five, at this point. there is a third question, though, which concerns the sirens that did not go off during this fire event. why didn t that happen? what we know just two days ago, the emergency manager, the chief operating emergency manager in maui stepped down, citing health concerns. but before that, he defended the decision not to turn on the sirens. his reason