hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it is 1:00 p.m. in washington. thanks for joining us. this is cnn breaking news. >> we're tracking two major stories this hour. downgraded but still dangerous. hurricane hermine weak ns to a tropical storm. it's now moving along the carolina coastline. forecasters warning of li life-threatening flooding throughout the wake. we will tell you how it is headed west and how it will affect the weather for millions of holiday travelers this

weekend and presidential politics. the election now less than 67 days away. donald trump is trying to expand his reach among african-american voters. we has a round table in philadelphia next year. hillary clinton's lead over trump has been cut in half according to our new cnn poll of polls. that's an average of the five most recent surveys. it shows clinton at 42% to trump's 37%. donald trump tries to convince african-american voters to give him a chance. he will make a direct appeal next hour in philadelphia and once again tomorrow in detroit and the campaign is reportedly taking steps to keep trump on message. our political reporter is joining us from outside trump tower in latest. sara. >> reporter: while donald trump is going to philadelphia today, it is really the trip to detroit that's getting a lot of

attention and that's partly because "the new york times" unearthed a transcript prepared by his campaign tailoring the answers he wants him to say. today people are trying to iron this out, and the pastor says he does not want to see these kind of answers from donald trump and he will be changing his questions. >> i have questions that they don't know about, no one know about. i changed them after that came out. i want to make something very clear. there was no coercing with the trump campaign and myself to try to get him up in hand on these questions. >> reporter: now, wolf, that's really going to be the challenge to donald trump as he goes to communities like philadelphia and detroit. it is not a matter of sitting down with an african-american pastor and holding a round table but trying to convince the

voters that donald trump cares about their problems. so we will see soon how it goes in philadelphia and of course how that plays out tomorrow in detroit. >> we certainly will. sara, i understand he had an intelligence briefing over at the fbi offices in new york city today. what do we know about that? >> reporter: well, we know very little about the intelligence briefing, in charge part because they are classified intelligence briefings. but chris cristie was with him as he left trump tower earlier today. they believe this is a way for chris cristie to not only be there to help donald trump understand what he's learning, for the two to bounce these issues off each other, but for christy, who is the head of the transition team to prepare in case donald trump does win the presidency. donald trump will be going up against hillary clinton in these debates. she obviously has a much longer

experience record in foreign policy than he does. so this is supposed to sort of help inform his thinking of the different challenges around the word, but obviously the challenge for trump is to make sure you don't leak that classified info when you go on the debate stage. >> the tradition is the cia offer the exactly the same intelligence briefings to both candidates, hillary clinton and donald trump. i also understand michael flynn, a former head of the intelligence agency accompanied donald trump and chris cristie earlier this morning. thanks for that, sara. our other big story, the threat from hermine far from other. more than 30 million people from georgia to new york are currently under watches and warnings. hermine made land fall this morning. one death is reported in the state. hermine brought strong winds, heavy wind and surging waves but weak end to a tropical storm.

officials are still assessing the damage. but governor rick scott says 253,000 florida are without power. we want to bring in chad myers who is in the severe weather center. what is the latest you are getting. >> the latest it is 50 miles per hour, so down from 80 where it was. it's picked up forward speed, now doing 18 miles an hour. that should lessen the flooding possibility if you spread the rain out more quickly. but also the 50 miles an hour winds getting on top of areas that had been already saturated. so now we have treed with roots in mud and you will put wind on top. so all of a sudden we will see these trees coming down and power lines still coming down today. for the weekend the storm goes back out into the ocean and goes to the gulf stream and sits there for three days.

and the forecast is supposed to get stronger, back up to 75 miles an hour. but notice this big circle. that's where it could be at 75 miles per hour. so it could be back on land, the same kind of left-hand turn that sandy did, but it could be way out in the atlantic because that's part of that cone of uncertainty. it's still a possibility. now for connecticut, long iceland, aic island. let guess dote to the map here and i'll show you what happened. hermine came on shore in the -- for the people of the saint marks the worst possible place. but for the state of florida there are so few people there compared to the rest, this was an area that has a lot of man groves, a lot of trees. but all of a sudden it has moved up toward charleston and those winds are going to pick up. the flooding in charleston may pick up as well. here is what happens on sunday

night. all of a sudden this thing is in the atlantic motion and getting stronger. it tries to go out to sea. but the computer model says, wait, not too fast. i am going to turn around and possibly come back. this is the come back part that no one is sure whether it's going to come back too far, not far enough and with the winds here, that could be trouble. we certainly don't want. but it's a possibility. wolf, it is five days away. we have trouble with the 12-hour forecast with a hurricane, but this still is a possibility for your labor day weekend at the beach. not much fun. >> yeah. we are going to watch it closely together with you, chad. thank you, very, very much. as chad just mentioned it is going to go over charleston tonight and over the atlantic. right now 33 counties there are under a state of emergency. let's talk about this with the

north carolina governor. governor thanks for joining us. i know you are incredibly busily. how are you preparing. >> our goal is to be overprepared and underwehen he will med. we've got swift water rescue ready, the guard ready, all our local shelters are ready. our main concern is flooded roads, flooded beaches and also electric power going out. but we've gotten some good news in the last 10 to 15 hours based upon the track of the storm and hopefully the rain won't be as heavy as predicted five to ten hours ago. >> i assume you will start losing some power in various parts of the state at a minimum, right. >> yeah. that's what we anticipate and we're ready. we've got our electric utility crews on the edge of where the storm is hitting ready to go in for repair and we've got the guard at dot, our transportation

of transportation ready to move in. again our major concern is flooded roads and with the tree roots being very loose it's usually that's how the power outages go and that's our biggest concern at this point in time and the safety of our residents because, sadly, if we have a lot of swift water, sadly we have automobiles try to go through that swift water and what comes with that is tragedy and that's what we're trying to prevent. >> what is your advice to residents in north carolina? what should they be doing right now to prepare? >> well, i know for coat island, we have evacuated that. but everyone else need just stay still, stray in their house and stay at any low lying areas. right now it is raining pretty hard. you know, just stay home or stay at work right now and stay off any wet roads and especially areas where you could have flash floods. we have the possibility of

having from 2 to 12 inches of water and in low lying areas it could get higher and if it gets higher than that we could have potential serious problems. and we are hoping this is a fast moving storm because in the past we have had a stalled system that caused major flooding in decades. >> good luck to you and all the folks not only there but in south carolina and up the east coast as well. we'll watch hermine closely together with you. >> thank you very much, wolf. >> up next donald trump heads to detroit this weekend to visit an african-american church. our panel joins us and we will talk about the republican presidential candidate's message to black voters. take a look at this. live pictures from north carolina as we continue to monitor this tropical storm, hermine right now. much more after this. we have to be very precise. if we're not ready when the planets are perfectly aligned,

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audiences. some critics have dismissed his outreach as insincere and even insulting. in an interview, trump painted a break picture but conceded not all blacks are living in poverty. >> i have so many african-american friends that are doing great, have the american dream going. but you have tremendous numbers of african-americans that have had a hard time, beyond belief. and i read the numbers where you have so many in poverty and the crime is horrible and the education is terrible and they live terribly. and i say what do you have to lose? i say to them, what do you have to lose? give it to me. i'm going to fix it. >> joining us now our politics executive, political writer for the atlanta and sooek miller. this new york times report suggesting that the questions and even the answers for donald trump's interview that he's

giving to this african-american pastor in detroit pretty much all scripted. >> right. and what we should tell our viewers, this often happens during interviews where the campaign tries to find out at least the topics you are going to discuss, let alone the questions. it is not often the questions are submitted in person. the pastor was on our air just a few hours ago and he said he has done it before. he did it when he gave a prayer at an event with the vice president was at and he had the prayer vetted by the white house. the white house asked for it. but to the point of whether they were going to go piece by piece and let donald trump answer them the way that he said, he said that's not true. so it is a little bit he said, she said. we don't know the full answer. >> the answers that were scripted, those were talking point recommendations for donald trump, what he should say. they knew the questions and the staff came up with the suggested answers. >> the irony is you don't need

this scripted out. it's basic questions how you would take care of a community. this isn't necessarily very difficult questions to answer. that was most surprising to me. >> molly, as you know, duane wade, his cousin was shot and killed in chicago. donald trump was criticized for an initial tweet that didn't seem to show enough empathy for what had happened and he used it to tell people vote for me, i can fix suppose types of things. dwaun wade as responded. listen to this. >> i was grateful it started a conversation. but on the other hand, it's a bad taste in my mouth because of what my family is dealing with and what our city of chicago is dealing with and it looks like it's been used as political gain. >> what is the fall out for that initial tweet with a couple hours later he tried to express by expressing his deep remorse. >> this is the reason you see

donald trump trying to go to the african-american community and make contact and do outreach because he has been so damaged by the kind of long distance interactions he has had on issues of significance to the african-american community where he has seemed opportunistic and using people as pawns. so the hope of his campaign is to change that impression. but it is then very damaging when you have the script come out and it reveals they don't trust him to have an actual conversation with black voters without being told what to say in advance and the substance is also very interesting because they're boilerplate and traditional, shifting the subject away from race and it's very different from the message we've heard donald trump speak to the african-american community thus far. >> he is also speaking out to the hispanic community. i got some criticism in recent days from some people, some hispanics who actually supported him earlier. one of the guys who did that,

the founder of a group called latinos for trump set off a fbi of a firestorm. he said this, my culture is a very dominant culture and it's imposing and causing problems. if you don't do something about it, you are going to have taco stru trucks on every corner. not necessarily working all that well for donald trump right now. >> it's been a jekyll & hyde from donald trump. from poll to poll there is not a coherent message of what they want voters to understand about what donald trump thinks about his immigration policy specifically but his outreach to a different affinity group. he doesn't have -- we saw on wednesday alone he's going into mexico and saying he greatly respects and holds mexican americans beyond reproach is the

same campaign that said many of them are rapists and talking about the alleges crimes of many here illegally. and it is -- we're paid to do this. the people who are a general observer watching at home, i think they will be confused. their head must be spinning. what is he trying to communicate? it seems me walked away without a win. >> the cnn polls show a decline in support for hillary clinton. right now we'll put it up on the screen. this is an average of five of the most recent polls we accept. hillary clinton at 42%, donald trump at 37%. that's half of the support she had a few weeks earlier. >> this is the double edged sward of donald trump being able to dominate the media coverage. hillary clinton has had a bad couple weeks, and she will continue to have a bad couple weeks because this e-mail server situation is not going to go away. however, donald trump still can't get out of the way of it and what he should have done is

take a step back and allow hillary clinton still to come under the scrutiny of the media as opposed to going in and try to suck all of the oxygen out. that's why you are seeing a dip in the polls. but if you look at the battleground states as of today hillary clinton becomes president. >> because she is ahead in all of these key battleground states. >> guys, we are much more to discuss. up next the new jobs report. that number is out and the campaigns have plenty to say about that. we will break down the arguments on all sides. stay with us.

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there is some breaking news this hour in the race for the white house. the fbi has released the notes for their interview with hillary clinton. evan perez is joining us live. we have been waiting for these notes. what have you learned. >> reporter: wolf, one of the remarkable things we have learned is the way in which the fbi approached and questioned the secretary of state about how much she knew about the handling of classified information, whether or not she was properly trained and how to deal with the stuff, how to properly dispose of it and frankly what to do when she finally left the state department with all the information that she had on this private server and repeatedly what you see in her answers from her 302 from the interview that

was done with the fbi is that she doesn't recall ever being trained or ever being told how to handle this classified information and that's one of the things that really stands out here. i think we got a picture of that a little bit from the fbi director who said in his testimony to congress in july and august that he was surprised to find that mrs. clinton was -- seems to be ignorant about the rules that govern how to handle classified information. for someone in her position he was shocked to see how little she knew about how the way information was supposed to be labeled when it was being sent and you get that sense with that interview from the fbi. she repeatedly says she does not recall when she's asked about it. another thing that stands out, wolf, is you see a lot of what this is about. this is about the cia and in particular the cia being very concerned about the discussion

about the drone program, which is a covert program on these state department e-mails, including ones that were sent to mrs. clinton. and that is what has been driving this controversy all along. there is a lot of redeposition exhibit no. -- redactions. everyone knows exists, obviously, but which members of the state department team were openly discussing on unclassified e-mails and this is what has given a lot of concern and what has driven a lot of this controversy. we're still going through these documents, but these two things stand out here, what has made this controversy not go away for mrs. clinton and her campaign. >> did they release the notes that were taken by the fbi agents in the interview that hillary clinton gave hem about the e-mail server as well as the recommendation to the justice department from the fbi director that no criminal charges be filed against hillary clinton? they were supposed to release

both. did they release both of those documents? >> they did, wolf. they did. the first document is a longer document, about 30 pages long sent from the fbi and summarizes what they found including according to the fbi ease report 81 e-mail chains which fbi investigators determined contained some level of classified information, whether from confidential, which is the lowest level, to top secret special programs. that last part would be the drone program, which is what drove a lot of the concern about this information being contained in a private server in her basement in her home in new york. both documents are now out. we are going through a lot of it to see how the fbi arrived at their recommendations, but what you see repeatedly is that her answers are i didn't know. i simply did not know that this was inappropriate for me to do and we have heard that from her repeatedly in her answers to questions about this. >> all right. we are going to get back to you,

evan. i know you and your team are going through the documents. we will obviously have a lot more on this in the coming hours here on cnn. evan perez reporting for us. the new jobs numbers released this morning will become potentially a key talking point for both of the presidential campaigns. we'll talk about the political impact in just a moment. i want to bring in christine romans who is in new york to break down the numbers for us. what were the highlights and low lights. >> this was a number, jobs growth not exactly as strong as economists expected. it was a strong june and july. when you look at the unemployment rate, that's where you see a trend that some economists are calling near full employment. you could see how it has come down from those terrible days in the years -- last seven years. one thing you talk and the good, the bad, the ugly, the lay bar

force participation rate. they are leaving the labor force and young workers getting into the labor force a little bit later, but you wow would like to see more people engaged in the market. but numbers looking pretty solid numbers. this is a mature recovery here at this point. you are seeing jobs in food service. business information services, financial jobs, higher paid jobs. we lost jobs in manufacturing again, and that's something you have seen res nating on the campaign trail as you know, wolf. i would say this is a b, if i had to give it a letter grade of what has been an a labor market in the past couple of months. >> thank you very much. a job creation is a major issue. the trump campaign released a statement saying the august jobs report shows the stagnant

clinton-obama economy fails to deliver the jobs american's desperately need. that's a direct quote from the trump campaign while the clinton campaign fired back on this. donald trump is doubling down on the trickle down policies that led to the crisis on the first place. trump has no grasp of reality and no clue how to help working families. here with us right now is the u.s. labor secretary, thomas perez who has gone through these numbers. you are here in your official capacity. i know you are a strong supporter of hillary clinton as well. what do you say to the republicans who say these numbers are ace isappointing. >> that's incorrect. you look at the job growth over the last two to three years especially and the sectors that have seen the greatest growth are middle and upper class jobs, education and health, financial services, construction, 200,000 jobs. at the beginning of this recovery, the jobs that were

created for disproportionately lower wage jobs. now we have seen not only quantity of jobs created but quality of jobs created. it is important to remind folks where we were at the beginning of the president's administration. 2.3 million jobs lost before this president took office, unemployment inches toward 10%. we've got more work to do, but people are better off now than they were a year ago. >> donald trump says that number is fiction. he says it's much, much higher, especially for african-americans or hispanics because so many people have given up hope and left the job market. >> well, i won't comment on any one particular candidate, but i will say this. you look at the last 30 plus years. you had 20 years of republicans controlling the white house and you have had 15 years and change

of democrats controlling the white house. jobs gained nigh pterygoid jobs lost, when the 20 years of republican control of the white house, 15.8 million. net new private sector job growth with democrats with four-plus less years, 31.8 million net new jobs grown in fact private secsector. you look at that and those numbers speak for themselves and look at what this president has been able to do and what we see in these numbers. 182,000 jobs on average this year. we see an economy that's moving in the right direction. we have unfinished business. there is no doubt about it. the economy is out of balance for too many people. we have to work on wage growth. although in the last year we have seen 2.4% wage growth. so we're moving in the right direction that way, but we have more work to do and we know how to do it. >> especially with

african-americans because 8.1% is almost double it is for the rest of the country. >> absolutely. and the unemployment rate of the african-americans was over 16% in the depth of the recession. so we have made tremendous progress. >> how do you get that 8.1%. >> the president has been doubling down on investments and apprenticesh apprenticeship, for instance. earlier this week i was in minnesota. their construction project, the new stadium that will open for the vikings in a couple weeks, they had 37% minority participation. they had a project labor agreement that was a partnership with labor unions and businesses and they had 9% female participation. i met young african-american women who not only helped build that stadium but punching their ticket to the middle class and these are the investments that the president has been doubling

down so we can build an economy that works for every zip code. >> veterans, we're told now the unemployment rate among vets is slightly higher than it was a year ago. how do you fix that? >> the unemployment rate among veterans is still lower than the national rate. post-9 s post-9/11 area is still too high. we have an office devoted to veterans employment and training. and one of the things we have to do is meet that veteran where we are. so we have a lot of veterans who have disabilities, including but not limited to ptsd. they have tremendous talent and we have got to make sure we address them where they are and we have worked clob ratively with so many businesses and aapplaud businesses across the country. everybody understands that veterans, they not only got those hard skills, but they have those equally important life skills.

they know what working on a team is. they know what working under pressure means and i am proud of the record we have at the department of labor hiring veterans because they are among the best and the brightest. >> thanks very much for joining us. good conversation. >> thank you. up next, the new cnn special report digs into donald trump's life and nothing is off limits. his childhood, his businesses, his fame and tabloid scandals all explored. >> you can't equal donald's fame and also he never found a blond he couldn't touch. e he couldn't touch. hi, i'm dominique wilkins. when you have type 2 diabetes, like me, good conversation.

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trump potentially could be elected the next president of the united states. so how did a man once known for filling the pages of tabloids and coining a reality show slogan get steps away from the most powerful office in the world. we take a look at his life and unconventional path to nomination. here is a sneak peak. >> every place they went they were covered. >> attorney jay gold burg was donald trump's divorce lawyer. >> it was world war 3. it was on front page, back page inside covers, inside stories. >> cindy adams, a friend of donald's covered it all for the new york post. >> they were on the manhattan social scene. they were at events and ivana always had much to say. the problem is you can't equal donald's name. and also, he never found a blond

he couldn't touch. >> enter marla maples. she was a beauty pageant winner and model and aspiring actress. >> when did the relationship with marla started? >> when he was still married happily to ivana. that's when the relationship started. >> when donald was still married to ivana and slipping away as marla, i was what was known as the beard. i would take marla to dinner and at some point she would disappear into the limousine. >> marla stayed at trump plaza, while ivana worked at trump's castle across town. they would eventually cross paths here on the slopes of aspen. the tabloids exploded and so did the marriage.

>> gloria borger is behind this report. she is here with us now. gloria, explain what this piece is all about and why you decided to do this. >> cnn made a commitment to two two-hour biographies and what we tried to do is take a step back and provide a portrait of donald trump's life starting with when he was a brash, young builder moving from queens into manhattan, through atlantic city, through the apprentice when he became a reality tv star up until this moment when he is a presidential candidate. >> what did you find most surpri surprising? >> in interviewing an awful lot of people who have known him for 30 years plus, what i found surprising is they say this is the same donald trump that they

knew 30 years ago, that he has always been the same person and that nothing that he has done during this campaign that surprised many of us surprises them at all. i've had people say to me, look, he used to walk into a room and disrupt a meeting and then walk out and we were all sitting there going, okay, what do we do next? and i think that's exactly what he's done in many ways with this campaign. >> terrific two-hour documentary. you can watch both of these monday, labor day, hillary clinton at 8:00 p.m. eastern and donald trump two hours later at 10:00 eastern only here on cnn. up next cnn goes one-on-one behind donald trump's unusual letter of health. he is standing by the assertion that trump would be the healthiest president ever elected in the use. take a look at this.

donald trump's personal doctor is taking heat nor a rather unusual letter of health he wrote for the candidate.

dr. harold bornstein has treat donald trump for more than 30 years, and today he's defending his career in a signoff on trump's health in a one-on-one interview with cnn's drew griffin. >> reporter: good morning, dr. bornstein. we met donald trump's doctor entering his park avenue office just as he's done for the last 35 years. >> how is it going? >> nice to see you. >> reporter: harold bornstein is a 69-year-old gastroenterologist who took over this practice from his father and suddenly finds his lifetime of serving patients being turned upside down because of one letter. >> hey, can i ask you in just a couple questions, did you really write that letter? >> did i really write that letter? yeah. >> reporter: it is a letter donald trump produced last december to prove he is healthy. a note that has been ripped apart by other doctors because of what they say is "strange wording." medically incorrect terms and its unprofessional conclusions. trump's test results were astonishingly excellent, he writes. and if elected, mr. trump, i can

state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency. combined with his somewhat unconventional looks, and his unconventional patient, bornstein has been made out in the aggressive election coverage to be somewhat eccentric. >> sir, can we just ask you a few questions? >> reporter: the soft-spoken doctor finally agreed if we weren't intrusive or insulting to take a few questions on the bench outside his office. warning us, his wife will not be so hospitable. >> right here is fine. my wife will come back and get angry with you. >> the press has kind of tried to make you into some kind of a lunatic or something. >> well, lunatic doesn't have my credentials. the only thing i want to do with my life is practice with my father which i managed to do for 35 years until his death in this office. >> and we've looked, believe me, sir, we've looked at your record. we've looked for any signs of trouble. you've had a couple of medical malpractice suits that were

settled. >> that's normal. >> reporter: the fact is, that is normal for a long-practicing doctor. a few malpractice suits from decades ago settled. he's never lost his license, has never faced any criminal allegations whatsoever, and experts cnn has talked with believe whatever his looks or his clients, dr. bornstein seems like a fully competent medical professional. >> are there any regrets you have getting involved in this crazy election? >> no. these people are my patients. i take care of them. >> and you fully -- whatever you wrote in that letter, you fully believe mr. trump is capable of being president physically. >> oh, absolutely. there's no question. >> why did you write that letter? was it a joke? the words you chose, the way you wrote it? >> reporter: there was no trump limo waiting outside, he says. he just wrote the letter for a

patient that at the's been seeing for the last 30 years, a patient his mother found. >> what do you make of being interjected into this election? >> i make the injection i grew up in jamaica, new york. here's my wife. grew up in jamaica, new york. they lived across the street. my mother found him across the patient from a member of his golf club and he stayed for 30 years. >> and then, as he warned, his wife arrived. >> you're done. you're done. you're on private property -- >> ma'am, we're not -- >> i'm going to call the police. i'm going to call the police. >> i appreciate your time, doctor. >> i'm going to call the police right now. >> thank you, doctor. thank you very much. >> drew is joining us now. drew, pretty odd way of that interview ending. what was the fallout? what happened after that? >> you know, nothing. we just left. i thanked the doctor and we didn't hear anything back. obviously this has caused a lot of stress in that couple's life. the wife being very protective there of her husband, dr.

bornstein. >> he still believes, dr. bornstein, that donald trump is the picture of good health. right? >> absolutely. and that terse little letter aside, he believes that because of the 30 years that he's been seeing donald trump. they have a very long history together. he's a fine doctor and he says donald trump is healthy. whether or not he says that in a conventional or unconventional way can be debated. but he is a doctor. >> did he say whether or not he'd be writing a new letter or filing more documents about donald trump's health if more is needed? obviously donald trump is running for president of the united states and the american public wants to know as much as possible about his health and hillary clinton's health as well. >> you know, he didn't discuss that. i think he believes this matter is closed. he wrote that letter back in december. he still believes it today. obviously because they're personal health records, it would be up to donald trump himself to release his own records, not up to the doctor. but i get the -- the conclusion

i think i draw from that doctor is, he believes trump is healthy enough and you should take his word for it because he is donald trump's doctor. >> he's not only donald trump's doctor, right? he's got some credentials. he's a gastroenterologist and he is a member of various medical societies. he's got some pretty good credentials, right? >> that's right. graduated from tufts university. his father whom he took this practice over from graduated from harvard. the two of them worked side by side for some 30 years before his father, dr. bornstein's father, passed away. and he has been in that office for decades now treating patients who love him. we talked to several of those patients and they all think he's a terrific guy. like i said, he has somewhat of an unconventional look and maybe an unconventional writing style, but he's a totally legitimate doctor with no real signs of any major gaffes or trouble in his career but for those couple of settled medical malpractice claims. and they, by the way, date back

some 20 years. >> drew griffin, excellent reporting, as usual. thank you very much. any moment now, by the way, donald trump will meet with a roundtable of african-american business and religious leaders in philadelphia. we'll bring you that when it happens. stay with us. but did you know your eyes, your brain, and your joints really love them too? introducing megared advanced 4in1... just one softgel delivers mega support. sdz here we go, top of the h.

i'm brooke baldwin. happy friday. thanks for being with me this afternoon. two stories we are watching closely. first up -- millions in the path of tropical storm hermine as it is barreling up the east coast. a lot of you, labor day plans. you are keeping close eye on this, as are we. we'll get you to that in just a moment. also any moment now, heads up -- donald trump is holding a roundtable with african-american leaders in philadelphia as is he getting criticism on