Even with these storms moving inland, we are going to see the threat for flooding extend well into alabama as well as north georgia. remember, it s a fast-moving storm. so while it may look okay outside one hour, within the next, the conditions will deteriorate very quickly. wind gusts right now, not that strong at this hour, but things are going to change. we re expecting the winds to really pick up. this is not what it s going to look like at midnight tonight. the winds will get stronger and the winds, even tropical storm force, could cause power outages. so this is the forecast. 9:00 tonight, well into the 35-mile-per-hour range. and the gusts are going to get even stronger. look at that. gulfport cli gulfport climbing all the way to 50 and the winds will get stronger through the evening. the big threat for the storm, storm surge and the landfall expected at a strong category 1 or category 2. hurricane nate is a powerful storm and it will impact the gulf coast tonight.
But addressing really so many different topics from health korea to sorry from north korea to health care to harvey weinstein. and also tillerson. saying he would like to see him be tougher. what s the dynamic at play here? reporter: the dynamic as we understand it, nbc news reporting on the details of rex tillerson, as we noted last summer after a meeting along some other aides, referring to the president as a moron. as we ve reported exclusively, the president was furious after he learned that news from nbc s reporting earlier this week, which has obviously put a great strain on the relationship. foreign policy experts tell us they believe this relationship between the president and america s top diplomat is irreparable at this point, that there s no way they can piece it back together. we ve heard from the president saying it s all fake news. he pointed at me and said, soit
Moron. the president has said since then that he still has confidence in him, but during our conversation just now, he said that at times he would like to see tillerson be a little bit tougher. as we look at pictures of the president arriving at joint base andrews, here s part of what he said just a short time ago oh, i m being told we don t have it yet. we ll have it momentarily. i ll tell you what he said about his chief of staff john kelly. he spoke of john kelly with effusive prads, saying he s a great know ma, the best person i ve ever worked with and insisted that he would be here throughout the remaining seven years of his term, suggesting that he ll be back for re-election, that he would run again as well. those were some of the primary comments we heard from him on this day. we also asked him about harvey weinstein, given all the new headlines now, the acknowledgement of his mistreatment of women is insufficient, just the terrible allegations of the way he treated women. the
Will deteriorate rapidly. if it was sitting in the gulf longer, it would likely strengthen. but here s the immediate impacts along the gulf coast. heavy rain, flooding with hurricane-force winds. even though it s a compact storm, we re still looking at a decent wind field for tropical storm force winds with a diameter of 250 miles. storm surge, this number has gone up, expect the storm surge to be higher than it was, particularly along the mississippi coast when it s 7 to 11 feet. as well as mobile bay, all that water funnels into this region and it piles up. with the storm the way it s structured to make landfall, it s possible we could see very strong storm surge for mississippi and alabama. i also wanted to detail i-65, west of it, we ll see some of the worst wind along the coast, as well as the heaviest rain. here s a look at the impact in terms of flooding. flash flooding is possible.
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