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waking up here, we know that nate made landfall as a category one overnight and here are some of the pictures to prove it. the biggest concern right now for some areas is storm surge but this is how powerful it was when it hit land at biloxi. >> this casino had to be evacuated. look at the cars, a couple of, still in the hotel's parking garage just floating around' tossed around by those water. >> the storm knocked out the walker to nearly 73,000 customers in alabama. the florida panhandle and mississippi and got numbers a a couple of minutes ago. 270,000 actually is how many people in mississippi right now do not have power. we do know that crews are on stand-by there and getting ready to go out as soon as the sun

comes out to help a lot of you sitting in that mess to get power back this morning to hopefully remedy the situation. >> we have meteorologist in alabama and reporters in alabama and mississippi. chad myers, not done yet with nate. >> no. >> where is it headed next? >> it's headed to dothan and montgomery, alabama. . it still has a lot of wind and power line damage potential making landfall here second landfall near biloxi and last night near venus. that little finger that sticks out there as the commissioner talked about earlier, it's still wind damage. we did see wind 90 miles per hour, 89. that is close justify. and surge. surge was the big deal. ten foot of surge in biloxi. ocean springs and gulf port and

dolphin island and that area had that type of surge so our focus is where our crews on but the entire area is suffering as well and now we are getting the storm into parts of pensacola and panama city and then moves up. this is the game-changer for tennessee, for kentucky, for west virginia. this is going to be a flood event for you. flood warnings going on eventually here today because we could see 5 to 7 enchs inches o rainfall as it slides along the front. front will not let it go to the west and it will focus in one spot closer to the center of the storm and east of the storm and still 35-mile-per-hour storm in louisville. we are going to see power lines, trees damaged all the way around mississippi and alabama and georgia and chattanooga and knoxville as the day goes on. it was the fastest moving storm ever in the gulf of mexico and still moving at 23 miles per hour. so there is still damage out there. there is still the potential for tornadoes today as well.

biggest i've ever seen water spouts came on shore yesterday with tornado warnings there across the gulf coast. they are still possible today. >> they are. okay. >> chad, thank you so much. we got an update from officials in alabama. the number of customers without power now up to 50,000 there. add that to more than 270,000 in mississippi and thousands more in alabama and along -- rather the florida panhandle. we are going to -- the morning goes on, see the full scope of the damage created by nate. we do know louisiana, no power outages there. we learned that from the lieutenant governor billy nunguesser and let's go now to mississippi. >> they felt some of the worse of nate not too long ago. the storm surge is one of the biggest issues there right now and who stood through the whole thing, one mr. martin savidge who is still there in biloxi. so let's see here, martin. sun should be coming up here

shortly. what are you noticing? >> i think that is going to be a big tale right there, the sun coming up. i can see breaks in the clouds which means we will see sunshine here. wind still blowing but the surge we had has subsided. behind me is highway 90. at one point the water was almost up to where i am standing here in the front of the tourist bureau so that is how much water came out of the gulf of mexico, came pouring on to land here and blocked that major highway. the big concern especially for spirs responders because the main east/west road along the coast here. there is nothing to do and going to be a problem with that flooding. you saw some of the casinos have suffered. it didn't get into any of the gaming areas we are being told but it did get into some of the public spaces and got into the garages and other areas and no doubt assess the day wears on and we begin to hear from more outlying areas, flooding is going to be a real, real problem. the good news is they are

starting to have traffic go on this roadway. we are still under curfew here and going to be until 9:00 a.m. local time then you talk about the power outages and those are adding you. not like the storm came and went without any problems. it's clear there are going to be problems. it just wasn't as bad as perhaps they feared but they are still adding things up. back to you. >> martin savidge there in biloxi, thank you so much. let's say in biloxi and bring in the public avers managffairs ma the city. vincent, good to have you back this morning. what is your priority right now? >> our priority is going to be getting down on highway 90 and as martin referred to, getting that roadway cleared to where that is our economic life blood, highway 90, which runs along the entire mississippi gulf coast. getting that roadway back up and running. i got to tell you, originally, i

thought we were going to have a fast moving freight train coming through biloxi and talk of a category 2 with an 11-foot storm surge. we will take what we got any day of the week. if you look out there, there is a lot of debris that needs to be cleaned up and power outages but frankly we are not aware of any serious injuries or loss of life so we are thankful today in biloxi, mississippi. >> how many people do you have on standby to try to assess and clean up. >> yesterday, the state had assets down here, that as soon as those kinds died down adied e team he people cleaning up. i know the public is anxious for that curfew to end at 9:00 a.m.

so we can get things back together and let the public know we are open for business and ready to move forward. this was something that could have just been so bad and it was just such -- it was a storm, quite frankly, you have to wonder if it lived up its billing and we are very thankful that we escaped the way we did. >> we have video and pictures. obviously the water doesn't move out as quickly as it comes in. any reports yet of standing water still several hours after the worst of the storm? >> for the most part, throughout biloxi, as i understand, the water has receded. unfortunately the remnants we are seeing is debris left in its wake. i think that is one of the really big issues in addition to our power crews that are out there looking to restore electricity to those who lost it. this was quite an impact for the

city of biloxi and the gulf coast when you consider here, here on the mississippi gulf coast, we had just thousands of visitors in town all week who were looking forward to winding down an event that grew people from across the country. i'm referring to crews on the coast where we had 8,200 vehicles from, i believe, 47 states here in biloxi. do you know before this storm struck, we had 750 rvs along our waterfront? just right there exposed to the elements! >> you had to get them out of town two days before the storm started. >> without injury or anything was just fantastic. people listen to you and very good to hear and we are glad you have no injuries or rescues or anything to report to us. we hope that everything goes smoothly as the sun comes up we are going to keep checking in to make sure that everything is okay throughout the day.

thank you so much, vincent creo. >> thank you so much. >> alabama is feeling nate right now. some parts of the state are dealing with significant flooding as we have seen and thousands more are without power. ryan young is there in mobile for us. what more are you seeing, ryan? >> good morning. you can see the convention center and they built that a little higher. they have had to make several rescues here because of cars getting stuck in the intersection. on this side there is actually a car still sitting in that intersection with its lights flashing antifirefighted the fi did another check to make sure nobody was in that car. overnight they had to save people from homes because of localized flooding. as we drove through the area the flooding is near where the water is so that is where it was expected to be this is some of the storm surge come into this

area. throughout the areas a little higher we haven't seen significant flooding or trees down. did make rescues for people to go out and try to tour and see what is going on. in fact, we had firefighters and rescue workers trying to stop cars that were trying to drive through this. you can tell the water once it takes over that car is too late to get someone to stop driving through it. so, obviously, they want people to stay inside during this time. you can see how high the water is in this part. we walked all the way out to that way it would be waist high. the good news no in terms of significant damage. no serious injuries. none of that happened so overnight really a sigh of relief. >> no doubt about it. ryan young, thank you so much. >> president trump talked a lot including his relationship with rex tillerson and john kelly and what he plans to do about north korea. you'll hear it next. also, the las vegas gunman

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for the entire seven remaining years. [ inaudible question ] >> no, no. he likes secretary tiller son and so do i. we have a very good relationship. we disagree on a couple of things. sometimes i'd like him to be a little bit tougher, but other than that, we have a very good relationship. >> the president said, again, he wants to make a deal with democrats on obamacare. he says that program is exploding, but he would not clarify something else. his calm before the storm comment. he also would not talk about his tweets on north korea. all this is coming as this is new a.p. university of chicago poll that finds president trump's approval rating is at an all-time low. 32%. >> julian zeleny is a historian and professor at princeton university is with us now and errol louis who is of spectrum news. good morning to you, gentlemen.

we heard there from the president what he was saying about rex tillerson. it's interesting, julian. i know you wrote a piece for cnn and in it you say sometimes unhappy cabinet officials can have a beneficial effect by staying on the job but not with trump. why not? >> well, sometimes the point of tension becomes so severe over policy where secretary fundamentally disagrees with the direction of administration, that stain in the administration is not necessarily the best thing to do. if secretary tillerson ultimately departed, it would have big political ramifications and it could certainly help to undercut some of the support that president trump has retained among republicans. >> i want to say what is he saying about north korea and had a couple of tweets yesterday. president and their administration have been talking to north korea 25 years and

agreements made and massive amounts of money paid has not worked. agreements violated before the ink was dry making fools of u.s. negotiators. sorry. but only one thing will work. >> he is not giving any indication what that one thing is. errol, is there any sense that the president, when he says only one thing will work, does have a plan for one thing? >> i'm not sure he has a plan. the reality not much has changed as far as stale meat we have been in before. give him the 25 years he is talking about. it's a lot longer than that. if you've got a situation where the president says we have been wasting our time and money and nothing has, quote/unquote, worked. well, look. we haven't had a nuclear war on the peninsula. that is not a small thing. i think what past administrations have done has, in fact, worked. the president seemed to have a

different opinion about that but there has been a lot of bluster and talk about one thing only, you know, one thing is gocking work and so forth. until we see something more real he is well along the way to being one more administration that did the best they could to make sense of a very bad, very tough, very ambiguous situation. >> julian, is there credence to his comments this is something that should have been taken care of long time ago but have things changed since kim jong-un has come aboeed? >> no one disagrees that we wish the united states had a better path over the past 25, 30 years. but no one has been able to put forward that path short of a military confrontation and the military will use military power in a way no one else has been able to do and successfully, in

warks no one else has been able to do. so you can argue this has been the best alternative that we had. it's a version of containment which is what we saw during the cold war. >> all righty. i want to talk about something that we haven't talked a lot about yet but out there. harvey weinstein, he has been very generous to democratic candidates. he has hosted fund-raisers for president obama and for hillary clinton. he is somebody that president trump knows as well. and the president talked about that. listen, as he was asked about harvey weinstein. >> i've known harvey weinstein for a long time. i'm not at all surprised to see it. >> he's not surprised to see it, the allegations of sexual abuse that are coming out regarding harvey weinstein. harvey weinstein, we should point out, has, for the most part, admitted to it saying that he has to deal -- he has to got to confront his demons. but this is a man who gave a lot

of money to a lot of democrats. how well known, first of all, how extensive was the knowledge of his behavior? the president knew about it, errol. how many other people knew about it? >> welook. i don't know what the president knew or didn't know. he often throws out these little teasing comments. the reality is "the new york times" has already sort of shown is that there have been stories out there. there have been rumors out there for decades. if past scandals are any more of a guide, we will see a lot more people coming forward saying, oh, by the way, x, y, and z. these kind of things. it's part of the crime and part of the misconduct that it's always one-on-one, it's one person's word against another and people don't have quite enough information to want to mount criminal charges or allegations or quit a job or take back their support and so

forth until the dam burst. ask bill cosby about that. >> julian, here is the question a lot of people might be looking at this and saying if it was well known, even though errol brings up great points, if it was one-on-one, you didn't know what to believe, but if it was well known you'll have poem say the dems took this money any way. to that you say what? is there a risk to democrats right now? >> absolutely. i think it's a fair criticism and i think democrats certainly have to respond at least with clarity by disassociating themselves with him and being vocal about this conduct and it was not acceptable. it seems that some of them won't be able to walk back having known about some of this but now they can take action and i think they will hear criticism if they don't, and it's particularly important, given many of the controversies that are swirled around president trump that there is no ambiguity in terms of where they stand on this kind of behavior. >> errol, we do know there are senators, patrick leahy, richard

bl blumenthal and elizabeth warren have said the money they received from him will give back or direct to a charity. is that to distance themselves? >> probably not. i should say there will be some accountants going through campaign finance records this weekend who are going to have quite an uncomfortable time coming up with a number they have to dispense of. but that is the flip side of our raising campaign finances. as long as you're taking money from people in the amounts that democrats and republicans are taking, you're going to be bound by their -- you're sort of attached to them at the hip. if you can't come up with a better system -- i must tell you, i have no sympathy for any of the lawmakers who are now going to to go through this because if they would simply come up with a sensible system to put limits on the kind of outside money, you wouldn't have this public/private partnership where you're tied to all kinds

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since hurricane katrina 12 years ago in 2005. >> the storm is bringing strong winds, heavy rains. look at the flooding that was happening there in biloxi. this is video taken inside the golden nugget casino there and this storm is expected to weaken as it continues to move farther inland but take a look what they were dealing with there. we know that there are 330,000 customers who do not have power in alabama, florida, and the panhandle. the florida panhandle and mississippi. meteorologist chad myers is tracking nate and wondering now that it's come on to the coast, how much power is it packing as it's going to move up toward tennessee, chad? >> it's still 70 right now so it's still a pretty good storm. by the time it gets to montgomery or birmingham it's going to be 50, then 40, then possess. by the time it gets up to d.c. it's going to be 10 or 15. nothing really left except rain. right now a 70-mile-per-hour storm. came on shore last night close to biloxi, mississippi. that's where the storm made its

potential eye wall landfall. but the storm surge spread all the way to almost pensacola through glve shores and glve port. this is an area that really is susceptible to surge because it act like a catcher's mitt. all of the water comes up and has to stop. not like a glancing bowl from irma or maria. 85 miles per hour when it made landfall but still the potential for today for tornadoes. certainly tornadoes. and coming on shore water spouts even maybe a bigger story for all of those populated areas along the beach. here comes the rain. this is just today and where the rainfall goes today and a fast moving storm and 25-mile-per-hour forward speed storm or call it 23. the rainfall is going to spread out and rain quickly.

this is a tropical rain like you've never seen. this may be a day you get a rain shower over your car you may need to pull off the road and just let it rain and don't forget to put your flashers on. it is going to rain so hard you may not be able to drive through it. tropical storm now is it's dying itself because as the storm comes on land it is going to die. here is what is going to happen now for the rest of the day. the rain showers are going to be right along the gulf coast. but then as it tracks up and along there is going to be flooding, kentucky, tennessee, maybe into parts of pennsylvania. everywhere that you see orange, you are going to see that 3 to 4-inch rainfall potential and talking about that in an hour two. that is enough to make significant flash flooding as we work our way into the afternoon. that is the story. heavy, heavy rainfall but brief heavy rainfall and the wind will be maybe 40 or 50 and even here in atlanta the winds will be 40 miles per hour and that will

knock down some pour lines and take some trees down and the branches. that is happening now and that's why our power outage numbers are ramping up so quickly this morning. >> chad myers, thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> as we said, mississippi really got hit but we are understanding dolphin island is getting hit as well. their barrier island there in alabama. there is some serious flooding there so we are waiting to try to connect with somebody there to see if we can get the latest. >> we understand the causeway that gets people from one end to the island has been cut off. there is about 4 to 6 feet of water there. if we can drop that banner and people can get a better idea of what they are seeing here across dolphin island, alabama. we are hoping to get an official on. we will get the mayor of dolphin island to talk about what is happening in alabama as we go across the gulf coast. good news from louisiana.

not much going on there. we spoke with the lieutenant governor there and all things going well there. in mississippi, the majority of the 330,000 power outages, they have 270,000 of them. also 50,000 in alabama and then tens of thousands more across the florida panhandle. you see the path of the storm, as chad said, this will be heading up the coast here and eventually getting to boston and just be rain by tuesday morning very early morning there. >> it is interesting to consider how far off the coast it is when you're talking about getting into tennessee and what not. and it still has that much rain associated with it. martin savidge is in biloxi and he felt the brunt of it when it was coming throughout. we have seen the pictures and we are glad to see, what, are you experiencing just wind now, martin? or is it raining? >> i think so. no. the rain has stopped. that actually ended when the eye

went past. we didn't get much rain after that but the wind is still blowing and still stuff blowing around. you can see a little more traffic out here. a lot of this is still first responders those people have clearance to get to some of the areas that have flooded inside biloxi itself. there is a curfew still in effect and good reason too. u.s. 90, just walking along it. there are parts of piers. in fact, the fishing pier that used to be back there is all torn up and now large chunks are strewn across areas of u.s. 90. on top of that a lot of the beach is on u.s. 90. sections you can walk in and you'd swear you were walking on the beach until you see the center line. they got a lot of that to clear up. is it really severe stuff? no. you probably get street sweeper going by and you can clean a lot of it up. i think they have to wait until daylight to get a good assessment of that. you we soot vehicles are moving

so at least it's patable for first responders but not the way it was, say, four hours ago when you just had the gulf of mexico had flowed right all over. it. the concern what kind of flooding did you have on the ocean front here in biloxi and they are just starting to assess that. >> as the sun comes up there. martin, glad you and the crew are okay. you have toughed it out through a couple of hurricanes already. we hope you get home and get dry there. thank you so much, martin savidge. >> thank you. there is key information being revealed on the note we have been talking about that was in the las vegas gunman's hotel room. >> there were numbers that were on that note but we are now finding out what those numbers mean potentially. we will tell you after the break. this is electricity. ♪ this is a power plant. this is tim barckholtz. that's me! this is something he is researching at exxonmobil:

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alabama is getting hit hard by hurricane nate. mayor of dolphin island in alabama jeff collier is on the phone bus. thanks for your time, mr. mayor. i understand you have problems with the 4 to 6 feet of water there. describe what is happening there on the island. >> yes, sir. we are -- first of all, we are a barrier island so we are susceptible to these type of things. we had the western most portion of the island was under 3 to 4 water before nightfall yesterday. an then overnight, as the storm came ashore, probably around 1:00 our time we have experienced even further significant flooding throughout other parts of the island. as much as 1 to 3 feet of water, salt water throughout many other parts of the island and we have had some homes flooded, numerous vehicles, things of that nature,

that have occurred. fortunately, we don't believe we have had any types of injuries from this. >> have you had any calls from anybody? as i understand it, you have about 1,200, a little more, perm nantz residents there and you believe all of them stayed? >> i believe most of them do. i don't have an exact head count but looking around the island yesterday when i was surveying, it seemed like there were more people here than not. of course, most of the visitors, tourists were not here. a lot of the realtors encouraged them to leave, particularly the more flood-prone type areas. so -- yes, we did have calls. i talked to our police chief early this morning and they did get numerous calls from individuals but it was more inquisitive as to when is the water going to start receding? and fortunately i can say that in the last hour, it has. i think the worse is now behind us. >> dolphin island, alabama, mayor, jeff collier, thank you

for spending a few minutes with us to give us the latest from that barrier island and we wish everybody there well as the water starts to recede. we will have more on the impact of nate in a few minutes. first, we want to turn to the latest in the investigation into the las vegas shooting. >> yeah. remember we have been talking about this note that was left in the hotel room of the shooter? there it is highlighted on your screen. well, a source now tells cnn that note did contain written calculations and they believe those calculations targeted the crowd at a country music festival, gauging how far they were perhaps. where they were. paddock, remember, killed himself after he killed 58 people and injured nearly 500 last sunday. cnn scott mcclain is in las vegas. scott, what are you being told about how authorities have moved into this investigation and particularly how this note plays into what they have learned?

>> reporter: yeah. good morning. we haven't heard anything yet specifically from police on this. though we are expecting a press conference later on this morning. but so much has been made about this note found notice the shooter's hotel room because there have been so few clues, up to this point, as to what his mindset was or what his motivation may have been. this was not a suicide note. this was not a manifesto. this was a series of numbers that relate to the trajectory and the distance from the shooter's hotel suite so that concert venue that he was shooting down on. it really shows how meticulously he planned this attack and perhaps not surprising considering the distance between that's hotel suite and the concert venue. it was probably a couple of football fields away, at the very least. vice president mike pence was in las vegas yesterday to offer his support for the victims and their families. he said this was a tragedy of

unimaginable proportions. he praised first responders, hospital staff, and all of the ordinary people who showed some pretty extraordinary courage sunday night. listen. >> in america, we mourn with those who mourn. we grieve with those who grieve. i stand before you today on behalf of my family and every family in america to say we are with you. today, we are all vegas strong. >> reporter: and the family of one of the victims killed on sunday night is now asking the state of nevada to seize the suspect's assets. we know he was a gambler, a retired accountant. potentially also a real estate investors, according to his brother. a guy with some pretty deep pockets. he wants that court to seize those assets so they are able for any potential future lawsuits from the victims' families against this estate.

>> scott mclean, thank you for the update. appreciate it. >> let's bring in senior law enforcement analyst tom fuentes. tom, good morning to you. i want to start with the question why. everybody wants an answer to that one. almost a week since the massacre. what phase is this investigation going into now with no answer to that question? >> i think it's not necessarily the phase. they continue to do as much as they can do to learn all about this and to try to figure out if he had anybody else knowledgeable or even an accomplice in this. but i think we have to accept the idea that we may never know. we just may not ever know the true motive. he worked at this a long time. he was meticulous. now we are hearing about these number calculations but we haven't heard anything anywhere, any posted manifesto or comments to a friend or a relative or anyone of what his complaint was, with society, in general?

or with the people at this festival specifically. so we may never know. >> short of offering some closure to those families potentially, and finding out if there was a network of people helping him. there is a piece on cnn.com that asks why does it matter why he did it? it will never be justified. there will never be able to change policy, specifically to meet his whatever mental situation was. and he's not going to be prosecuted because he killed himself. what is the answer to that question? >> well, the answer is that there may not be that kind of closure for the people, the families and other loved ones of the victims. you know, i think that is just -- it's hard to accept it, but there are some really evil demented people walking on this earth and that is why these things happen. thlf this type of event hasn't happened very often so it doesn't happen often enough to have a set profile on, okay,

here is why he did this, we know this and seen it before, we don't want to see it again. but we may. >> tom fuentes, investigator still doing that work now and putting up billboards around las vegas trying to get anyone who might have seen something to say exactly what they saw. tom, thanks so much. >> thank you. we are continuing our coverage of tropical storm nate. there are 300,000 people, more than that, actually, waking up this morning without power in mississippi, alabama, along the florida panhandle. what is the biggest concern along the gulf coast right now? we will talk about it. stay close. healthy cholesterol starts in your gut. so we made cardio-health, an innovative way to support healthy cholesterol containing lrc, a probiotic strain that helps you metabolize dietary cholesterol. because we all want to be healthy for whatever comes next. nature's bounty cardio-health.

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the storm still could spawn tornadoes as it moves north. so the threat is not over. joining us on the phone now storm chaser brant beckman who is following nate all through the night from gulf port, mississippi. give us an idea of the worst of it and what you're seeing now, brant. >> we noticed so far is along highway 90, things are completely shut down. if you're right along the shore, the storm surge was a real threat and even into the morning hours, as we go, those are still going to be closed due some back winds over the next couple of hours. we made our way towards pascagoula, mississippi, where as the storm came in, things actually held together pretty well but as the back winds started to change direction and the eye of the storm came over, that is when transformers started to go because as the winds changed direction that is where trees start to go down and

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>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> right now, more than 330,000 people across the gulf coast are in the dark after nate slammed that area overnight. while you were sleeping, nate made landfall and then a category 1 hurricane and since been downgraded to a tropical storm and headed towards tennessee. there are threats of potential tornadoes. >> in biloxi, cars in a parking garage in a casino parking lot. cars under water and floating. take a look at the video of firefighters as they were wading through it. the first responders. mississippi seemed to really see a lot of this as the first light is coming up noucw. we are in the 7:00 hour. good morning