You can take a look. I will be on the daily show with trevor noah, if all my travel goes okay including the many flights ive been taking just about every single day. Im looki ing forward to being back on trevors show. If youre in the area, it would be great if you could come by. I might see some of you in a little bit in seattle. That is all for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show does not start right now apparently. So she is there. There you are. I am here, sorry. It was actually me and a member of our ground crew both here about to start the show together. Perfect. Go to it, then. Thank you very much. Thanks to everybody who works here who has such patient with me arriving at the set usually four seconds before this camera turns on, tonight, arriving four seconds after the camera turned on. Very sorry about that. As you might imagine, as you might be able to tell from my composure right now we have a big show tonight. We have here tonight live the former Secretary General of nato.
they will change like that many more times over the next several hours. within a few hours the rain will come in and stay for 24 hours or maybe even longer. hurricane dorian causing major concerns all up the florida coast and mandatory evacuations as the water comes in here where i m standing. mandatory evacuations in several counties up the coast in florida, georgia and south carolina as well. i want to go to rosa flores who s in daytona beach, florida, where there are mandatory evacuation orders under way. rosa, tell me what you re seeing. reporter: well, john, we are seeing that people at least here in the barrier island are heeding that warning. if you take a look, you can see that a lot of the businesses here are boarded up. we ve seen this all along the beach. just like you, what we have been experiencing are those outer bands of hurricane dorian. right now we can see sunny skies. it feels like a beautiful kay on the beach. and then what we ll get is one of those gusts. the win
right. even some of these modest proposals, like these so-called red-flag laws, which are really narrow and essentially just allow the courts to temporarily seize guns away from people who are deemed dangerous, even that is running into hurdles with the gop. you heard some of these top-ranked republicans coming out against them, raising due process concerns. so that just really underscores the challenge that republicans are facing on capitol hill and i might add there s not a whole lot of confidence that even if trump does come out in support of something like a background check that inevitably he s not going to go back to his original position against it. i was just texting with a senior republican who said there aren t a lot of gop lawmakers who don t believe that he isn t going to just reverse course and that s a huge problem for them. a huge problem. that has been the story line, the narrative of will they or won t they get anything done on tough issues for wrepublicans since t
it will get wet and it will be brief. it will be powerful but very brief. but of course nothing compared to what the bahamas have been seeing. if you take a look behind me, you can see there s high tide, a few people on the beach. we ve been seeing that throughout the morning. about the latest information that we ve received from county officials, they are expecting thunderstorm-force winds starting tomorrow at about noon or 1:00 p.m. now, here s the other thing that they are warning residents about. they re expecting 4 to 6 inches of rain and a storm surge of 4 to 7 feet. that is the reason why this barrier island, which is about 47 miles long and all of the low-lying areas, anyone that lives in a mobile home park or rv parkes under a mandatory evacuation. we ve talked to people on the mainland as well. a lot of them are not in the mandatory evacuation order but they are hunkering down and being vigilant, listening to
i ve been speaking to a lot of house members, a lot of republicans, a lot of democrats. people want to do something. so we re going to see. this really hasn t changed anything. i will say that for the most part sadly if you look at the last four or five, going back even five or six or seven years, for the most part as strong as you make your background checks, they would not have stopped any of it. that s a really different tune from what we heard after what happened in el paso where he was talking up the idea of background checks. exactly. and you re seeing a shift, and dare i say an inevitable shift in the president s rhetoric to start to align more closely with the nra, with republicans and people in his own party who are very wary of going too far on background checks. wary that it will backfire with their base. the white house is talking a lot less about background checks these days and a lot more about