Good morning, everyone. Its friday september 2nd im betty nguyen alongside Louis Burgdorf. We want to begin with breaking news. Florida hit with its first hurricane in more than a decade. Hermine slammed into the florida coast early this morning as a category 1 hurricane. Packing winds of up to 80 miles an hour. Its since been downgraded to a Tropical Storm. Forecasters still warn the storm surge and flooding could be life threatening. So lets go right to nbc meteorologist bill karins with the latest on this as we continue to watch hermine as its making its way across the land there in florida. Again, being downgraded to a Tropical Storm. All right, bill is watching all of this as the rest of us, especially those in florida, how bad is it there, bill . Good morning to you, betty. All night long the north florida coastline was the one that sustained the most damage with a lot of Power Outages around the tallahassee area. Thats where they saw the highest winds. We havent seen any reports
The former football legend released from a las vegas prison early this morning after serving nine years for armed robbery. Then, locked in unity. Nfl players take a knee while others stand arm in arm for another week of National Anthem protests. And rapper jay z makes a statement on the controversy, wearing a Colin Kaepernick jersey as saturday night live kicks off a brandnew season with a focus on trump. Maam, i dont know if you know this, but youre in an island in the water. The ocean water. Big ocean. With fishies and bubbles and turtles that bite. We want to help you, but we have to take care of america first. Wait, you do know were a u. S. Territory, dont you . Well, there were going to start with puerto rico, where Critical Resources slowly starting to stream in 11 days after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island. Yesterday fema delivered 214 shipping containers. Those were filled with food and water. They say 2. 5 million liters of water and 2 million meals have been delivered. Pow
Two russianborn English Speaking men working with President Trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on some sort of scheme involving ukraine. And allegations that giuliani was making about joe biden and what appeared to be sort of pressure on the ukrainian government. This would take awhile to unspool, but it of course would ultimately become in President Trump becoming only the third president in u. S. History to be impeached. And, of course, we are right in the middle of that impeachment process right now. The house will vote tomorrow to appoint the members of congress who will act as impeachment managers, effectively the prosecutors, who will try the case in the senate against President Trump. The house will simultaneously vote tomorrow to formally convey the articles of impeachment from the house over to the senate. That means that at some point tomorrow we expect some point after 5 00 p. M. Eastern tomorrow, we will see this dramatic ceremonial thing in which the house impeachment