it is 8:00 on the east coast, 5:00 a.m. as you wake up out west on this july the 3rd. it s a live look at new york city. with us on set, sam stein, mark halperin, michael steele and down in washington, katty kay. several counties in north carolina are under a state of emergency, as hurricane arthur looms over this busy july 4th holiday. right now it s spinning about 150 miles out to sea. officials say the system could intensify from there. while it s not expected to make landfall, a big section of the eastern seaboard bracing for really heavy rain, some wind and potential riptides through the weekend. it s enough to trigger mandatory evacuations along portions of the coast. the view from space shows the scope of this storm, why officials all the way up to new england are paying very close attention this morning. nbc meteorologist bill karins is looking at this thing and he has been from the very start. bill, walk us through where it is and where it s headed. yeah, willie. this storm
[ sponge ] the champion! [ female announcer ] dawn platinum does even more. [ sponge ] so it s not a chore. welcome in to the mix. we have a story that might get people upset. some people, like me, may say each his own. a mom in england has decided she s going to enter her children in to pageants, right. beauty pageants she s done it with one of the other children. a mom of three. she was seven months pregnant, exactly where i am in my pregnancy, knew she was having a girl. and she entered her unborn child in to a pageant. little early. so the child is born july the 3rd and she is adorable. her name is ella. 68 days after she was born her mom dressed her up and carried her down the catwalk
[ sponge ] the champion! [ female announcer ] dawn platinum does even more. [ sponge ] so it s not a chore. welcome in to the mix. we have a story that might get people upset. some people, like me, may say each his own. hey a mom in england has decided she s going to enter her children in to pageants, right. beauty pageants she s done it with one of the other children. a mom of three. she was seven months pregnant, exactly where i am in my pregnancy, knew she was having a girl. and she entered her unborn child in to a pageant. little early. so the child is born july the 3rd and she is adorable. her name is ella. 68 days after she was born her mom dressed her up and carried her down the catwalk to be judged. she didn t win anything but the mom didn t put makeup on her
president mohammed morsi on july the 3rd. we re getting conflicting reports of the death toll. many of the casualties were brought here, the home base of the pro-morsi supporters when you talk to the doctors here, they say between 50 and 70 people were killed, more than 2,000 injured, but the health ministry is saying 46 people killed and more than 600 people injured. we re also getting conflicting reports. when you talk to the demonstrators they are protesting and marching towards the downtown area, that, of course, morsi protesters when all of a sudden the forces started firing at them with live weapons and bird shot, but they deny this. they say they didn t fire any weapons, all they used was tear gas. we ve also reviewed some amateur video of the clashes from last night and we see what appeared to be people on on both sides in civilian clothes, also see people in civilian clothes next to police officers firing guns,