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good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. we begin this very busy hour with breaking news from the supreme court. in a major 8-1 decision, the court upheld a statute that bars people subjected to domestic violence restraining orders from having guns. joining us now, nbc news washington correspondent yamiche alcindor. good morning. break this down for us, if you would. reporter: this is a supreme court saying there are limits to the second amendment and in this case if you are somebody who is found in violation of domestic violence laws, and restraining order, you can temporarily have your firearms and access to firearms be taken away from you. i think it is interesting here because as you said, it is an 8-1 opinion. we talk about the supreme court being a 6-3 conservative majority. here in this case, you had liberals and conservatives on the same side, with chief justice john roberts writing the majority opinion here. the one dissenter ....
Island without power, their singing could take months get power back on a very brittle and broken grid. this is something that government resources will have to help rebuild this, the grid in the infrastructure. it s going to be a lot more challenging than we are going to see and florida s bounce back or houston s bounce back. simply because the government there is not going to have the kind of resources to deploy, fema will be active. i expect you re going to see u.s. military ships come to the area to help provide emergency services as well, as we ve seen after irma, but this is going to be a very, very challenging recovery effort. jon: there has been talk of fema running out of money after the hurricanes on this country, ....
District. laura: we know the president is a deal maker. why are people surprised he had this moment as he called them with chuck and nancy. susan: it didn t surprise me. he wants to get something done. congress republicans in charge did not get anything accomplished. what the president was looking at with this deal with the democrats. two hurricanes, massive destruction in the southeast. fema running out of money, up against a deadline days away from running out of disaster relief fund. democrats said we ll give you three months. the president said that sound good. he wasn t thinking long-term strategy if i agree to this i may have to agree to democratic terms in the future. i think trump gave republicans a way out from having a spending standoff in the middle of a very ....