Telling reporters that the assassination of Haitis President is very worrisome. Katie beck starting us off down there in tropical Storm Elsa. Bill karens is tracking the path, and waiting to get a update on the building collapse. Lets start with you. Apologies if we have to break away to this surfside Press Conference. Were getting ready for a deadly Storm Surge there. What are you seeing from your Vantage Point . Conditions have improved quilt a bit here. The surf as you see these waves are still strong as theyre coming up here on the sea wall. You have folks taking advantage of the big waves. For right now i think the Sunshine State is taking a sigh of relief as it goes northward and inland. That is not the end of the story for those folks in Elsas Path moving forward. There are millions of people that will be impacted by this weather. Power outages, and there is some severe weather attached to the storm, but florida seems to be out of the way mostly. Before it goes through the carol
Platforms banning the former president for his unrelenting false claims over the 2020 election and dangerous rhetoric ahead of the January 6th insurrection. And there is national disappointment with the decision to keep Track Superstar Shacarri richardson off of an olympic Relay Team running days after her suspension for a positive Marijuana Test is set to be lifted. Ill speak to fourtime Gold Medalist Sonya Richards ross about the decision. We begin with bill karins tracking the Storm And Nbcs Vaughn Hilliard in surfside, florida. Bill, lets start with you. The storm made landfall late this morning. What is the forecast for Northern Florida and the states along the Atlantic Coast over the next few days . Yeah. This is a giant inconvenient storm. So its not going to cause the destruction, it doesnt look like in any low area, but as it moves up the coast it will be a six to 12hour period of Heavy Rain, Gusty Winds and maybe scattered Power Outages and the highest Wind Gust we have is 30
Families. it s been a long, long two weeks of emotional trauma as this operation continues. i know they found some additional people. what s the latest? reporter: yeah, good afternoon, kasie. the mayor of miami-dade county just a few minutes ago made the statement that ten additional bodies have been recovered since last night. that is progress and the goal is here to recover these individuals and that puts that number at about 18 in just the last 36 hours alone. there s a reckoning here that again, there s been no survivors pulled since the national moments after the collapse and the fire chief here in miami-dade county also making the statement acknowledging that there is no signs that any of these now total individuals have recovered have shown signs of life after that initial collapse which puts the context of the search for those potentially additional 94 in greater context about the extent to which this
The top of areas like new york city, long island and even boston. here s how it s going to play out. for the rest of today, the rans will be heavy from jacksonville to savannah and the heavy rain threat goes along charleston area and myrtle beach through raleigh and by thursday afternoon and evening the heavy rain will be in d.c. it looks like the worst for philly and new york city will be overnight into very early friday morning and that will help with the morning commute. 6:00 a.m. friday it looks like the rain could be over with in new york, hartford, long island, providence and boston it looks like a rough, early friday morning for you and then the storm will begin to head out. kasie, the other thing we haven t talked about and this is not related to elsa and there is a huge flooding area and threat of texas and it doesn t have a name, but they re expecting up to 15 inches of rain near corpus
Of plains this weekend. thanks to andrea, of course, for that, and our best wishes to the carters. congratulations. let s go now to this story. the decision by us attraction and field to keep superstar sprinter sha carri richardson off of an olympic relay team is frustrating millions of american sports fans or worry her absence will keep the u.s. from another gold. sanya richard-ross is a four-time gold medalist for the olympic track and field team and now an analyst. thank you so much for doing this. we really appreciate it, and i just want to start with your immediate reaction to this and to what her fellow athletes who did make the team are saying about not having her there at all. hi, kasie. thanks for having me. this has been a tough one because i think it is hard to separate the emotion from the reality, and i think many of us have fallen in love with sha carri and wanted to see her