Coastline. Now, thats good in one way. You never bring the eye on land. Essentially we keep pounding the water against the shoreline and were getting storm surge in a number of spots, and, of course, were getting wind damage up and down the coast. Thats the satellite part of it. Now, one thing were starting to see shape up now is a tornado threat. Believe it or not. We had a Tornado Warning out over the georgiaflorida line. That has been now extending farther to the north in terms of the tornado threat. Its a low threat for many. Its a moderate threat at the coastline of south carolina. This is going to last all the way into the evening. The storm track this is why. You can see its coming up along the coastline, and paralleling the shore through south carolina. It may come very close to the coastline around charleston. As we get into the day tomorrow, then eventually south of north carolina. There is another threat. Its the threat that president obama highlighted and a threat weve been
Im sara eisen alongside dom ch chu. An update on Hurricane Matthew as it makes landfall in florida. A quick check of futures, under pressure just a bit here. The jobs report at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time for september. S p futures down almost 2 points. Nasdaq futures are down 6. Well keep an eye on that as it unfolds over this morning. A huge story overnight. Take a look at this chart. The british pond versus the u. S. Dollar. It all started just after 7 00 p. M. Last night in new york time, 7 00 a. M. In singapore and hong kong. Look at the intraday move. The currency plunging. In minutes. In minutes, by 6 against the u. S. Dollar. An extraordinary move like we have not seen before in this currency pair before recovering most of its losses. Concerns of the uks exit over the European Union, that shortterm drop speculating that it could have been triggered by a fat finger, rogue trade. Some traders are attributing the move made to comments late yesterday reported by the Financial Times fro
Squawk the vote. Hes where . Hes where . Ohio . Columbus, ohio, my friend. Dude. Were at tommys diner right now. Gods country. Where the best people come from. I was born there. You were born there . Dayton, ohio. Wow. Well talk to you in a second. First this big move in the british pound. It fell as much as 6 at one point. There seemed to be no trigger for the move. Some comments out of hollande could have triggered it and then the handoff to ashea where the trade is very thin. Traders suspect a wrongly entered order or fat finger. Lets check european equities at this hour. They are mixed. Germany, france, theyre all generally flat except the ftse which is up 1 as the pound weakens. Makes them more competitive on international markets. I read earlier the gains in the ftse moderated as the pound rebounded. Some of this totally volatile flash crash, its like the market is we talked about this as i sat down. All the things happening in europe. Pmi in europe for manufacturing and Services
Facetoface, the president s lawyers set to meet with Robert Muellers team this week. As an exclusive new nbc news report reveals the fbi warned then candidate trump about russia. And it is the final countdown, the house votes today on the final tax bill. And remember this have you ever tried a jury trial . I have not. Civil . No. Criminal . No. And the nos continues. One of trumps judicial nominees withdraws his name after failing to answer basic legal questions. All right, weve got a lot to cover today. Beginning with that deadly derailment south of seattle that took place yesterday. One that sent train cars plunging over the side of an overpass on to a highway as commuters were trying to get to work. Was it the speed, was it the engineer, was it something about the newly rebuilt train line that caused the deadly crash . I have a great team here. Including a representative from the ntsb which is investigating exactly what happened. I want to start with nbcs blake mccoy live at the sce
Here happy to have you. Were tracking Hurricane Dorian because National Hurricane says category 2 storm is expected to upgrade to a 4. Wow. Youre taking a satellite image after dorian. Forecast predictors expect it could hit the u. S. On monday somewhere between the florida keys and southern georgia. Lets bring in the expert here for a moment. Meteorologist michael page in the building for matt noyes. Were watching this carefully for florida. This is going to be a slowmoving storm, no doubt about it. Days of impacts to the southeast. Meanwhile here at home, we have a warm day ahead with temperatures surging into the middle 80s. A great beach day, perhaps, if youre starting a long weekend, perhaps even a little earlier. Were starting off clear. If youre careful, there are a couple showers in southern quebec. A weak front will come through today, an isolated spot shower is possible this afternoon. Heres a snapshot of labor day weekend. That spot shower today is warm and breezy with mid80