Right now theres widespread devastation, and an urgent search for survivors. The storm decimated towns with historic flooding washing out bridges and roads, and leaving some neighborhoods completely under water. Take a look at asheville, North Carolina, where homes and trucks were swept away by Raging Waters that have turned roads into rivers. At this hour, more than 2 Million people across the south are without power, hundreds are still unaccounted for. Well have live Team Coverage from across three states this morning. Joining us now, nbcs reporter, florida was the first place the Storm Hit. What are you seeing there . And im seeing George Solis there, who we will have on shortly. There is guad, also with us priscilla thomson. Guad, lets begin with you. Reporter total destruction in this area. So we are on treasure island. This is one of the islands on what they call the barrier islands, furthest west from the Tampa Bay Area, and i dont even know where to start here. So, the sand you
parts of the country that maybe weren t covered the same way, but i was directly exposed to one when my mom wanted to come see my new law office. there s this jacked-up truck with go confederate flags coming out of the back. the way they were looking at us as we were driving down the street made us feel like it was not a safe place to be and that i shouldn t show my mom my office. people experience enough things like that where this lawsuit is symbolic of combatting that type of hostility. i want to read some more from the coverage of how unusual this approach is. this is also from the washington post, donna. suing two dozen white supremacists and hate groups means virtually everything about the trial is unusual. the judge has ordered litigants not to discuss the extraordinary security backdrop to the trial. personal security is the top expense for the plaintiffs. potential jurors will be asked their opinions on, for example, black lives matter and anti-semitism. court exhibits wil
several new videos were just released by the department of justice from january s attack on the u.s. capitol. they were part of court exhibits in the case of alleged proud boys member charles donahue of north carolina. the prosecutors say i video show him in the mob breaching the police line on the east front of the capitol. the circles and arrows used here to highlight donahue in the crowd were added by the doj, not by nbc news. donahue is seen carrying a stolen police riot shield, according to court documents. again, nbc news did not edit or add the blurs to the video. all this woke on msnbc, we ll be examining the future of policing in this country. today we ll look at morale which officers say is at an all-time low. they ve seen a surge of retirements and resignations. here is gabe gutierrez. reporter: night after night
room when it drags on this long and not all of them are good. let me ask you. melinda, what is this juror issue that came up? what was the problem there? we don t know for sure what the juror issue was. there has ban lot of talk in the courtroom about one of the alternate jurors who has been reported as flirting openly with the defendant and he with her. i don t know. as one of my colleagues at the post wrote, there s one place not to meet mr. right and that would be at his trial. it s truly unbelievable. on the one hand you see them taking this so seriously looking back at every single scrap of paper. they have asked to see 500 different court exhibits. then this complete circus