a system. fema warning it will be the strongest storm to car get the carolinas in decades and that s saying a lot. where it is headed. when it should arrive and what to expect to see on the ground if you live in its path. also, tremendously big. that s president trump s characterization of the storm. he insists that the feds are totally prepared. so, are we ready? america s storm and rescue infrastructure will most certainly be tested with lives potentially on the line. fema s director just minutes ago telling my colleague andrea mitchell that people are running out of time. we ll get to that part of the story in just a moment. but we start, we start with the storm of a lifetime. that s what the national weather service continues to characterize it as. a dangerous cat 4 storm right now about 485 miles southeast of where i am standing right now. the storm massivement bigger than the entire state of michigan. with 130-mile-per-hour winds. expected to make landfall friday mornin
organizational allen weisselberg described as trump s fm gatekeeper was granted immunity by federal prosecutors in new york for providing information during the michael cohen investigation, that s according to multiple people with knowledge of the matter. the timing of when this immunity happens still remains unanswered and according to stormy daniels attorney michael avenatti, the answer could suggest where federal prosecutors are headed. in if immunity was granted to mr. weisselberg late in the process, and it appears that it was, that is very telling. now, the only reason, then, that they would give immunity to mr. weisselberg is that they were looking beyond michael cohen. they would need potentially his testimony in cooperation to look at someone else higher up the food chain, if you will. there s only one person that that is likely to be, and that is donald trump. all right. this comes right after a new york times bombshell report that the manhattan district attor
bands of hurricane florence will make their way. the torrential downpour that we re expecting. this is a powerful storm that can kill. today the threat becomes a reality. we got to get away from what s coming. we know it s coming. we know it s going to be bad, and we know we re going to have flooding afterwards. this is a mandatory evacuation. the storm surge is why you have been placed under many of you have been placed under evacuation, and we are asking citizens to please heed a warning. your time is running out. i ve talked to a lot of people that have been here for a lot of years, and they re all staying and riding it out. we have brick homes here. we re all batting down. everybody s brought their furniture in. we re not going to be able to send emergency personnel out to save and help you. life and health is a little more important than possessions. . reporter: i m here on myrtle beach. the winds have picked up within the last hour. the surf is pick
briefed on what the u.s. knows about the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi, but not by the cia director who actually heard the tape of his murder. coming up, the insooider s viewf the former cia chief john brennan. and unopposed, nancy p pelosi no competition as she seeks to take the speaker s chair, but will she be able to control the e e vvolving caucus? i think that the caucus is coming together very well, and we all agreed on everything all of the time, then there would not be much growth. hi, and good morning, everybody. and goodday, rather. andrea mitchell here with a shocking fallout of a new york times report that paul manafort s lawyer has been secretly briefing president trump s team on the talks of the federal investigators and a possible reason that mr. mueller canceled mr. manafort s plea deal. and could the latest twitter tirade break the senator s longstanding resistance to protect the mueller probe? kristen welker is joining with us the very latest.
answers the same team said would be done last week. complicate matters? the fight of the person who will oversee the investigation. now three state democrats are suing over acting attorney general matt whitaker. the president is standing by picking someone who talked so openly about shutting down the probe. i did not know he took views on the mueller investigation as such. reporter: and when you found that out? i don t think it had any effect. if you look at those statements, those statements can be viewed either way, but i don t think reporter: you said there is no collusion. what do you do if a person is right? there is no collusion, he happened to be right. add to all that the president s battle with the media. we expect the key ruling on cnn s suit against the white house and its decision to revoke press access for jim acosta. let s start at the white house for nbc news jeff bennett and nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. pete, i want to talk to yo