I dont think i can stress enough, like, how much help the island needs. And former president Donald Trumps lawyers propose delaying his federal election interference trial for almost two years after the 2024 election. We begin this morning with Breaking News. Hurricane hilary has rapidly intensified from a Tropical Storm into a category 4 hurricane as it barrels toward the southwestern u. S. , bringing winds up to 145 miles an hour. Right now, the hurricane is located 400 miles south of cabo san lucas. The Mexican Government says a weakened hilary could hit sunday night in baja, california, and has issued a hurricane warning. It is expected to hit mexico. 24 Million People across parts of california and nevada, utah and arizona are under flood watches. Hilary could mark the first Tropical Storm to hit Southern California in 84 years. I want to bring in nbc news meteorologist bill karins. Bill, good morning. How severe is this hurricane . Were going to talk about flooding in areas that
come on, that s absurd as well. i think things will as they do in trial courts, they will play out. the judge will keep track and the judge, i hope, will set periodic dates for review, where the parties come in and she s able to assess where everyone is at that time. what would be a consensus period between what one side is asking for and the other? well, there isn t. that s the point. this is something that has to be decided in real time. and you have to add in another factor and it is that as things go on, donald trump continues to say things that threaten people, that he s really sending out not so subtle dog whistle messages to his followers that there are people on his radar he doesn t like, that are standing in the way in terms of there being witnesses and also potential jurors. so all of that has to be taken
recent inappropriate incidents. the university of nevada, reasono police officer wore a halloween costume mocking colin kaepernick. many felt it was racist. anti-indian were sent to homes in he had son new jersey proclaiming make america great again. is this the type of this is the type of discourse that we hear across the country. we ve heard it from the campaign. sometimes we hear it from the white house and beyond. is this fanning the flames here. absolutely it s fanning the flames and it s unfortunate because there seems to be an attitude out there that s becoming more and more emboldened and certainly we hear where we know where we re hearing some of these dog whistle messages coming from. but i think that aside, we as americans have to decide that we re going to have to be a lot more sensitive, particularly now in the climate that we re in, and we need to be conscious of
edison great again and calling for the deportation of two asian school board candidates. this is the type of discourse that we hear across the country. we ve heard it in the campaign. sometimes we hear it from the white house and beyond. is this fanning the flames here, cedric? absolutely it s fanning the flames. it s unfortunate because it seems to be an attitude out there that s becoming more and more emboldened. certainly we know where we re hearing some of these dog whistle messages coming from. but i think that aside we as americans have to decide we re going to be a lot more sensitive, particularly now in the climate that we re, in and we need to be conscious of what we say. we need to be very sensitive to each other. and we have to remember that we re all americans trying to live our lives in a democratic way every day but we cannot allow ourselves to, don, to be offensive and just make statements and act out in
you know, as we look at the live pictures, i was thinking about the comments he made yesterday, listen we all bleed red, doesn t matter when you re black, white or what have you. we bleed red blood of patriots or something like that. even though he couched it by saying it doesn t matter what color you are. people didn t take it that way. i don t know how you could take it that way. he still sends all of his dog whistle messages. it was clear in the speech yesterday that he even wanted to continue the petty fight with representative john lewis. he said the same things yesterday in his speech that he had tweeted out. and if you go to his website, he is sending a very clear message. he removed all of the references to civil rights, to women, to climate change. he talks about how this is going to be a new day with the police making no mention of police accountability. proposing jeff sessions to be the attorney general when we