untrustworthy, something that bernie sanders made clear and donald trump made that -- >> you can't bernie for that. he already had that argument. >> bernie did not raise the e-mails, which certainly trump did. >> we will continue this conversation after this show. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation. erin burnett outfront starts right now. next, the breaking news, hurricane irma a category five storm headed straight for the united states. florida about to begin i v evacuations. and vladimir putin warns of a global catastrophe. what is he talking about? good evening. outfront tonight breaking news, hurricane irma, a category five monster on a collision course with florida. the white house issuing emergency declarations for the state and puerto rico. here is how irma tooks from the

space station. it is massive. it is the second most powerful storm ever recorded in the atlantic ocean. the satellite image is just as ominous. the national hurricane center calls it a catastrophic storm. winds right now are up to 185 miles an hour. just think about that for a moment. 185 miles an hour. only one storm, nearly 40 years ago, was stronger clocking in at 190. and this storm is not yet near land. the governor is activating 7,000 members of the national guard. some store shelves already bare. mandatory evacuations have very begun. schools are about to close and at this tour, vir inislands and puerto rico are in irm a's sites. they could get hit tomorrow. tom, you say you have never seen a storm like this. >> erin, only one comes to mind.

2013 in the western pacific. that was super typhoon hi-yon. largest tropical system to ever make land fall and it took over 6,000 lives in the philippines. this storm system here is only 10 miles an hour weaker. to make land fall with something so massive, it is hard to fathom and get your mind about what this system is going to do. moving toward the northern islands, it's got the british islands in its eye sight, puerto rico as well. storm surges, possibly 7, 11 feet. heavy rain fall. but the winds are really going to devastate the area, knocking out power and communications and water supplies. you can see where the storm surge is going to be a problem. if you look at the radar, the eye of irma is 23 miles in diameter. that is going to swallow, most likely, in the eye.

for thousands that live there, you can't just evacuate. that system moves in as conditions deteriorate tonight. as we go forward, we will be able to watch this system remain over waters that will only get warmer. that is jet fuel for this. and mainly, the coast of florida. national hurricane centers track, again, this is hard to fathom here. when you continue to continue category five, making its way through the warm waters, we could have storm surges 20 to 25 feet. that's because it's circulating counter clockwise. so this system, again, all the computer models are in agreement, but some time saturday they turn to the north. until that turn to the north occurs, we are not going to have a great idea of exactly where this system is going to make land fall, so we will have to wait. it could go to the west, but that indoe is shutting.

still a possibility and it could head into the gulf. >> hard to imagine here, tom. you also of course are talking about the context, right? this tomorrow hitting the united states about two weeks after hurricane harvey devastated houston and parts of texas. how unusual is it to have two major hurricanes strike the united states at such strength so close to each other? >> well, we're getting toward the peak, and that's the 10th of september. so the conditions in the atmosphere are right. the u.s. went 12 years in a draught without a major hurricane making land fall. take a look at this. we had july, dennis. then katrina. then rita in september. in october we had hurricane william. you can go back to the previous year and look at how many times in 2004 that florida was hit just for august and september. it's been a draught and it can happen. the environment is just perfect right now. >> and it is not just those two, right? there is also another tropical storm in the atlantic.

what do you see with that? >> yeah, okay. as we watch irma here, this is jose. jose most likely will become a hurricane. looks like it is following the same trail. but we expect this one, erin to move north, become a fish storm which would be great and there is still a slight window that possibly irma could stay away from the carolina coast and head out to the atlantic, but that window is shutting quickly. >> the national hurricane center calls this a potentially catastrophic category five hurricane. i want to laila in puerto rico. it appears the storm is coming for you. you are starting to see some of the weather starts to come in. what is the biggest fear there? >> reporter: well, you know, the governor used some of the same words you just used, catastrophic, historic, even devastating destruction that could be seen here in puerto

rico. he was actually live on tv when he announced that president trump declared this a state of emergency before it even made land fall and you can sort of see the sense of relief he had because that means they can activate more resources that could help the people of purt toe ree key. and a conversation that stuck with me today while i was at the store. i was talking to a cashier asking her about what were the products that are most in demand for this hurricane and she just looked at me in shock and said, hurricane? this thing is a beast. so you can really tell that they are taking this seriously. the store shall vs are any indication that they are preparing for it. it was hard to find water. one cashier told me they can only keep it on the store shelves for about half an hour. they have hundreds of shelters ready to take people in, so they are getting ready. but fear is very much what i'm

seeing here when i talk to people. >> all right. thank you very much. she of course is going to be there as that storm as we anticipate comes to puerto rico tomorrow. i want to go to the mayor of part of the florida keys. obviously i know you have got an evacuation, mandatory starting tomorrow morning. some people already starting to leave. do you think everybody is going to get out? >> right now, traffic has been bumper to bumper northbound out of the keys all day long. moving nice and slow, but it's moving. and, you know, tourists first. all our visitors have to go first. around town there is no question a lot of locals are leaving. i grew up on this island, so i was here through hurricane donna, which was the last monster storm to hit. so there is a real awareness of how dangerous the storm can be

and people are heeding that danger. >> when you hear these forecasts and you hear how strong this is right now, 185 miles an hour and obviously starting to hit warmer water, do you -- you said you lived there a long time. have you really ever seen anything like this? >> our closest storm to this would be hurricane donna back in 1960. this is sort of on the same track as donna, too. so, yeah, i was young. i was ten years old, but i remember that and it's there and the awareness is there and of course 87 years ago we had the hurricane hit here on labor day weekend. the islands are aware of how bad it can be. we're very fortunate. our building codes since '65 have been strong since hurricane andrew, they have gotten stronger and our local codes, we

really, really pushed, we don't let anything below flood get built here. we're fortunate in that aspect. but we're fortunate that not everybody that lives here is here because it's off season so that helps a lot. but we have people on medical aid and stuff that need to be prepared to leave and be safe on the mainland. no electricity, water loss, that's going to be catastrophic and people are going to have to deal with a lot of adversity in a very short time. >> all right. mayor, i appreciate your time and it certainly sounds like you are getting everybody out there. we hope that you do indeed succeed at doing that. thank you for taking the time to talk to us tonight. those mandatory evacuations already in progress there. i want to go to the former director of the national hurricane center. when you look at the comparisons

here, this could be the strongest storm ever recorded in the atlantic ocean. it is only 5 miles shy of that right now. 185 miles an hour just to become a category five it is 157 miles an hour. we are well, well passed that. there is no such thing as a category six. how big and strong is this? >> well, given the size of the wind field on it and where it is going to go, it is really going to be a tragic night in places like saint martin because they will have winds that effectively are like an ef 3 or 4 tornado. >> and what happens in those scenarios? i mean, we were just -- i don't know if you heard tom because he was talking about the storm in the philippines when that hurricane struck or cyclone as it was in that case. is the situation so different here in terms of the preparation

and all of these places? >> well, they have good plans down there. i visited many of those islands when i was director and they do have substantial buildings they built with concrete and steel down there so they can be survivable. but it is really a difficult, very difficult event for them to deal with. >> what's your anticipation, bill, about what happens here? the storm formed very, very early. you know. it coalessed into an actual storm and now here it is coming in as a category five. going to hit islands and strike the mainland united states, maybe. what's your -- when you look at the storm track, where do you think it goes? do you think it strikes florida or do you think it is truly uncertain at this time? >> well, the next 48 hours i would say are as high confidence in the track taking it through the northeast islands of the caribbean and then puerto rico

and gets into the southern and southeastern bahamas. the difficult part of the forecast is that turn to the north. the models have been somewhat changing on it and it is a big broad gap between two high pressure areas, and i don't think we'll know for certain how that turn is going to evolve for another couple days. >> thank you very much. these will be crucial days. that window for that north ward track would miss the u.s. is closing rapidly. but still there as we watch for those next 48 hours. next, live pictures from chicago. these are protests, growing protests to the president's decision to end the dreamers program. as president obama makes a rare public statement. south korean intelligence showing north korea may be preparing another test. and why michelle obama is looking a lot like beyoncé.

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silent on president trump's decisions but he slammed the vote today saying let's be cleared. it is a political decision and a moral question. ultimately this is about basic dekrensy. this is about whether we are a people that kick hopeful young strivers out of america. sara murray is outfront at the white house. and president trump speaking a short time ago. he is not backing down. very clear. he believes this is the right move to make. >> that's right. even though this is someone who has sort of wrestled over to rescind this program entirely, the president seems to believe he towed that line today, insisting his program still treats the dreamers with heart. >> i have a great heart with the folks we're talking about, a great love for them. they're really young adults. i have a love for these people, and hopefully now congress will be able to help them and do it

properly. and long-term it is going to be the right solution. >> now, trump has basically punted this decision to congress. if they want to do anything to stop it. and obviously people are skeptical about whether congress can gets its act together to pass any kind of immigration reform, whether it's a dream act or something broader. in the meantime, administration officials are insisting the dreamers are not the group they are targeting for deportation, but the reality, erin, is we heard from the acting ice director earlier this summer who made it very clear that it is a crime to come to the u.s. illegally and if any of their agents encounter someone who did so, they are going to put those people in front of a judge, whether they committed another crime or not. >> thank you very much. and let's go now to the former deputy communications director for the trump campaign, brian and the california senate leader, kevin. there are more than 220,000 dreamers in california. i know that's about more than

25% of about the 800,000 in the united states. brian, let me start with you. former president obama came out with this letter. took the time to write it. he says this move was both cruel and wrong. why is he wrong? >> you know, i just wish president obama would put the same amount of energy into this letter that he put into these types of dreamers in his first two years of office where he had control of the u.s. senate and the majority of the veto proof majority. he proved back then that we weren't a priority to him then and at the end of the day he ended up giving this doca frame work that wouldn't work that we would have to deal with eventually. my disappointment is with obama for not acting sooner and punting it and creating these dreamers who are the best and -- one of the best and brightest we have into a political football. president obama should be ashamed of himself for that. >> kevin? >> well, the past is the past and now is now. and today's actions by the president and jeff sessions is

nothing short than cruel as well as compassionless. the reality is this, the president knows exactly what he's doing and he's punting this to the congress. he knows the congress' ineptability to get things done on the hill. it's never going to happen in the next six months. so the reality is this, that president trump is kicking to the curb more than 800,000 young dreamers, young adults, young women and men who came to this country as young children. they know no other country. and they pledge their allegiance to the red, right and blue. what he's doing today is completely un-american. today is the president. and the focus is this, this is not a legal question or a legal decision. this is a political decision that the president made along with steve miller as well as chris koe vac and jeff sessions, three individuals very clear about the anonymous they feel.

>> how, though, does the president get around? look, i think kevin is conceding your point. there was a lot of frustration with barack obama in terms of how he handled this issue. but what about the point that kevin just made? a lot of these young adults, kids, they don't even know they're not american, frankly. some of them don't know. their family doesn't tell them. so they don't find out until they get a driver's license or something like that. i mean, where are you even going to send these kids to? they don't know another country. >> listen, by every measurement they are americans. the key is finding the workable solutions that includes them as part of their system, as opposed to a process president obama created. there is a legislative fix for. this i actually agree with senate feinstein that we need to have a legislative fix. i think you are looking at people on the left who are willing to put partisan ship aside and put sort of the daggers that comes with partisan

ship and you have on the right president trump who has spoken positively about dreamers and said we need a legitimate legislative fix. there is nothing wrong with having a legislative fix. >> why do you have to get rid of it now? why do you have to make them all illegal? >> it is not now. it is a six-month phase out process. what you have going on are lawsuits from 13 states attorney generals that forced the president's hands. so rather than do the cruel thing as kevin would like to say of just, you know, kicking them out, he's giving congress a six-month window to get their act together to have that be some of the principals of how we can actually come up with a legislation. >> does the president have a point at all that doca wasn't the law of the land? this is an executive order. >> it was an executive memorandum. he didn't have the courtesy to give us an executive order. he gave us the lowest possible thing probable for this, obama. >> does president trump have a

point that president obama put him in this position and now congress has to do its job? >> this is not an indictment on president barack obama. let's focus on president trump because it is his actions through jeff sessions that are scaring and sending terrors of fear into these students, these young men and women throughout the country. over 100 legal scholars have already opined that, in fact, docca is constitutional. if the attorney general jeff sessions wanted to test the constitutionality of docca, he could have let it elevate itself to the supreme court and a lot of justices to decide if it is constitutional or not. ir regardless of the 10 or 13 attorney generals, you know, he doesn't have to follow their lead. he is the president of the united states. he can extend real come paegs by extending it if he wishes to do

so. he has not. he had punted the ball to mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. to date, these are two individuals not capable of moving any complex legislation in washington, d.c. >> brian, i want to just -- you heard sara murray play the president today saying he love it is dreamers, which of course in light of what he decided to do today seemed to be some pretty choice words. he has struggled with this decision. here he is. >> i'm one of the world's very conservative people, but i have to tell you on a human basis, how do you throw somebody out that's lived in this country for 20 years. >> we're going to keep the families together. >> but you are going to keep them together out. >> they have to go. >> you have some absolutely incredible kids. i would say mostly. they were brought here in such a way. it's a very, very tough subject. we are going to deal with docca with heart. >> brian, does he really understand the repercussions of his decision today?

>> absolutely he understands it. i mean, this is a conversation that we had during the campaign. the president has articulated his view. i want to do a little correct n correction. there are about five courts that decided that docca is unconstitutional. >> that would be an insult to the u.s. supreme court. >> that is the process when you are trying to fix these executive memorandas. i do know the president's heart. we actually had this conversation. he believes these dreamers for all intents and purposes they are heroes because of the communities they have come up in believe they are americans and that's why it is critical to have a legislative fix for them and that's why we need to stop treating them as a political football. i get it is inconvenient to talk about how president obama turned base back on the hispanic community, but those are the set

of facts we have to deal with and he's created a football they have to deal with. he's made his position and i actually call on speaker ryan and mcconnell to follow the president's lead. >> certainly there has been no indication that's going to come out of this at all. kevin to you since brian started. >> erin, tit is an accurate reflection of the white house. the reality is this, he's speaking out of both sides of his mouth. the president could have extended this. didn't have to touch docca. let it go through the court proceedings. if they want to sue, they can appeal court case of court case. this is gutless, a lack of courage. this is cruel and quite frankly it is un-american. >> thank you both very much. much very to come on that. next north korea possibly moving an intercontinental

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nuclear test and just days after even more missile tests. today north korean state media reports the great success of the nuclear test reflects the will of north korea to blow up the u.s. mainland and annihilate americans. jim, obviously, very significant development on a mobile launcher for the icbm. but you have breaking news that the blast on this nuclear test was bigger than anybody thought. >> that's right. possibly the biggest that north korea has ever exploded before. earlier on, it was about 5.2 on the richter scale. now up to 5.9 or 6 and it looks like this explosion may be more than 100 times of the bomb dropped on hiroshima, more than six times of north korea's previous and discussion they don't know for sure that it could be as north korea claims some sort of hydro again device,

which would represent a significant advance, this happening with evidence from south korea that north korea should be preparing another icbm launch on a mobile missile launch. they are just 18-wheeler trucks. makes it difficult to know when and where that's going to happen. that's a bigger threat. that happens the worry is if they will be able to wed the device with the missile. in the span of 24 hours or so, two very potentially alarming developments with north korea. >> that morning you very much. let's go straight now to someone in the center of the u.s. response, a democratic senator on the foreign relations committee. i heard jim sciutto talking about a mobile launcher, they could move it around and impossible for us to know where it could launch from but also the size of this nuclear test

was escalated, elevated. they now say it could have been 100 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on hir ree shee yeah. >> i am concerned about the steady and escalating advances that north korea is making in its pursuit of its goal, to have an icbm and a very powerful nuclear weapon that it could deliver against the united states. the idea that this was an effective test, their sixth nuclear test that was 100 times greater than hiroshima is frightening and it will be elevating our level of concern. tomorrow the united states will get a briefing from the secretary of defense and i'm hopeful that we will hear specific and concrete proposals from the trump administration about how we can work together to confront this national threat. >> so you said before this recent spate of tests and before president trump's war of words

with kim jong-un, you said north korea could have an icbm capable of hitting the united states by 2017. the north korea conducted three missile tests since you gave that estimate. one of them of course the one that could be 100 times stronger than hiroshima. are we looking at sooner than that? >> we have to presume that north korea is making greater progress than estimated. the one remaining element to delivering an effective weapon against the united states that we don't know whether they've mastered is reentry. when you shoot a missile far up into space and it reenters earth atmosphere, that subjects the warhead to tremendous heat and pressure. we don't believe that the north koreans have mastered that yet. i haven't gotten any briefings on it yet. but from what we have heard here in the senate, that's the one

remaining thing that may make them a year away. but we should be assuming they have made more pregrogress than know because so far they have surprised us. >> right. so you are saying you were thinking 2019 but you are now saying it could be a year away. we could be looking at the middle or fall of 2018. >> i think this needs to be an urgent focus for the congress, for the administration. we need an all hands push to make sure that china feels the pain of this and is engaged in putting more economic pressure on north korea and frankly to escalate the preparations for our vital allies in the region to make sure that south korea and japan have the anti-missile defenses they are seeking. i approve and support the president's efforts today to authorize additional weapon sales to south korea and japan, but i don't think it is a great idea for the president to be at this time picking fights with

south korea over trade issues or showing any daylight between the united states and our vital regional allies japan and south kor rea. >> he has not ruled out war. >> he said, we'll see. is he right to say that? is he right to keep the door open to that? >> well, erin, he's right to leave the door open to the idea that if north korea continues to threaten to attack the united states and continues its reckless missile launches and nuclear tests in violation of un security council resolutions, we continue to say to all options are on the table. i do think it is important that we continue to emphasize that the united states doesn't seek regime change in north corrkore the united states won't use any preemptive attack here as long as north korea doesn't continue

its provocative actions. i think it is important that we consult closely with our allies. if this situation deteriorates further, it could be the south korean people that would most likely bear the tragic human costs of any military conflicts. it is more important than ever that we consult closely with our allies and it is my expectation we use every possible diplomatic avenue for finding a peaceful resolution to this. but all options will stay on the table as long as north korea threatens the american homeland. >> i appreciate your time. one of the great difficulties there is the united states can say they don't want regime change, but kim jong-un of course knows that the united states wants just that. next news breaking in on the russia probe. investigators sending subpoenas to the fbi and justice department. they want records on that infamous russian doccile on president trump.

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breaking news tonight. we're learning the house intelligence committee wants more information on the infamous trump russia doccile. e venn perez is breaking this news. outfront in washington. evan, what are you learning? >> you have three congressional

investigations and a criminal probe led by special council robert mueller. to want we learned the house intelligence committee sent subs to the fbi and justice department to get records on that doccile. the justice department and fbi have been delaying because they are worried it could alet the record reflect the mueller investigation and another tussle like that happened when laushs working with the mueller investigators asked the senate intelligence committee for a transcript with the committee's interview with paul manafort, the former campaign chairman. manafort's lawyers blocked that request and claimed they were given consent prompting a brief fight of what they were authorized to have. as you know, erin, manafort is a top focus of the investigators looking into financial and tax charges. manafort denies wrongdoing and congressional sources tell us one of the problems here is they keep allowing people to have

these behind closed door interviews that it is difficult for the fbi and mueller team to get access to. >> i know you have the committees coming out and speaking and saying they want to get this done, but where are we, right? we have some big deadlines and interviews coming up in the russia investigation. >> right. we heard conflicting words today from the two top officials on the senate intelligence committee. some say it can go into next year. the republicans would prefer this to be done this year. but we expect, erin, in the next couple of months trump attorney and the russian american businessman both agree to be called to meet with the senate intelligence committee in e-mails provided with congress both men discussed efforts to move forward in a trump tower project in moscow, undercutting the president's claiming that he had no business ties to russia. in the coming weeks we also expect to see donald trump jr. will be providing a private interview, another one of those private interviews to the senate

intelligence committee. >> thank you very much, evan. let's go to john dean and former presidential advisor. so let me start with you, john. your reaction? house investigators have subpoenaed fbi and justice department records over the russia trump doccile that alleges those things. >> we all know that there is an elicit copy floating around that was published on the internet. so they don't know the contents. they just want to see what else is there and i think they're exercising their muscle to show the hill is serious about going into these inquiries. this is traditional. it happens with all these high profile investigations where the congress competes with the executive branch with different interests. >> there is also the question of course of what they want out of it. when you listen to house

oversight chairman who was saying we want to know every bit of this and whether the fbi used any of the allegations to get any warrants, right? so the other side of this could be was it used inappropriately. >> the big picture is that tradition has been that when you have four different investigations going on simultaneously, three on the hill and one with the mueller investigation, they are inevitably going to be complications about who gets what document so they all share. each one of these groups have received over 20,000 pages of documents apparently from the trump side and there will be conflicts. i do think this. they have different purposes. the hill investigations are really about determining not just what happened but what policies and law should be embra embraced. and the mueller investigation is about what happened then and are there criminal charges that

should be brought. very different. the hill does serve a valuable purpose. it is worth remembering that in watergate it was the hill investigators who found that a member testified to the existence of the taping system. that came through the hill investigation and really opened that whole thing up a lot. on the other hand, traditionally, privacy has to gone to the special council because they are investigating for criminal. and the hill goes too far, they can compromise the capacity of the mueller group to investigation and where they go with charges. >> david brings up watergate and it came up today from the republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee. he told cnn he is not sure they have done anything like this since watergate. what does that say to you, john, coming as it does from the republican chair? >> well, certainly the

republicans haven't. but there have been investigations that were certainly close to the dimensions of watergat with iran contra, the clinton-lewinsky investigation got very, very far along and resulted in impeachment, which i would say was certainly in the same league as watergate. so that's an interesting statement he's made. he's acknowledging the importance of it and the fact that he's giving it the weight of watergate is kind of surprising from a republican, frankly. >> what do you make of that, david, that that is coming from a republican? >> absolutely. richard burr is not just a republican. he's a strong conservative, and he has acted, i must say, i think the burr-warner, mark warner is the democratic co-leader of this effort on that committee. i think they have worked very well together. but for burr to say that, i was kind taken aback by that because it really -- i think a lot of

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of their belongings in a pile of trash. nearly five feet of flood waters destroyed their houston home. >> when we opened the cabinets, they were full of water. >> reporter: then she says a second tragedy struck when the trump administration announced it would start ending the daca program. she couldn't believe it. >> daca is one of my only salvations in these moments, because my parents are going to need my support and help in times like this. losing it is going to be very devastated. it's going to be another emotional wreck for us. >> reporter: she's the daughter of undocumented immigrants from mexico brought to the u.s. at age 2. she's a college junior, hoping to become a lawyer. but as she cleans up, the idea of being deported now haunts her. >> this is my home, it's all i know. >> reporter: there are tens of thousands of dreamers in the houston area making their mark in the aftermath of hurricane harvey. some saving lives like jesus

delgado, a paramedic who worked six days straight rescuing flood victims. alon alonzo drowned after trying to rescue others. and groups of dreamers, like scarlet, who came to honduras at age 5, spent days cleaning her neighbor's homes. white house officials say president trump, who promised to treat dreamers with compassion, wrestled with the decision. but velasquez doesn't see the passion when the fear of deportation to a country she scarcely remembers looms over her. >> i'm grateful for everyone that has been supportive and has just been -- they have our backs. so at the end of the day it's okay. my only thing is that it's not over. yes, he might have ended daca, but we're not going to stop fighting for it. >> reporter: the texas federation of hispanic republicans says the actions of

dreamers across houston should motivate lawmakers to protect these young immigrants. >> these guys are working, they're contributing. they're not committing crimes. and what else do you want in an american? >> reporter: in her flooded out home, deanna did salvage a piece of cherished artwork that carries greater significance. >> it's a little poem saying when we grow up, they're not going to be there any more, but i'm going to leave my fingerprints everywhere in this house. >> reporter: that's even more poignant now. >> yeah, it is. >> reporter: erin, one of the things many of the dreamers we have spoken with over the course of the last day that concerns them is that in many cases in these families, where there are undocumented members and members that have this dreamers status, that they are able to work and bring home money for like deanna's case, money to rebuild, working outside of the home if she goes to school, not being

able to do that as they pay for the recovery here in houston weighs on them even more heavily than being deported. airen? >> ed, thank you very much. poignant stories there. michelle obama channels beyonce. y jeanne moos has the story.

michelle obama sporting a new look. all for beyonce's number. that's 36, her birthday. here's jeanne moos. at the firs inaugural dance. she performed the national anthem. but michelle's photo, even a hint didn't help.

michelle once answered the question, which famous person would you want to be stuck with on a desert island? now they're stuck looking like twins. >> that's obama's wife? >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn -- >> girlfriend got it going on. >> reporter: new york. >> that's obama's wife? >> yes, it is. >> thanks for joining us. anderson starts now. good evening. take a look at this. hurricane irma, now one of the most powerful hurricanes ever seen in the atlantic, ever. not just a category 5 storm, a strong category 5 storm, and it's head thing way. the president declaring emergencies for florida, puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands, which is why we're starting off tonight with cnn's tom seder. so let's talk about the forecast. what's the latest showing for irma? >> this is amazing. we're just stunned by this