in progress, right? >> that's right. it has been years in the making. it starts in fits. they have been putting together the pieces of this memorial. the touwer with one wind chyme for each of the 40 victims. >> thank you so much for being there. thank you all for being with me. inside politics with john king starts right now. >> thank you, kate and welcome to inside politics. thank you for sharing this busy day with us. florence now a category four hurricane with the carolinas in her sights. more than one million people are being told they must evacuate. our new poll exposes a giant republican problem. president trump's approval rating is falling well below the line at which strategists believe they would have any prayer to keep the house.

america remembers 9/11, 17 years later. >> your tears are not shed alone. for they are shared grief with an entire nation. we grieve for every father and mother and sister and brother stolen from us. we honor their sacrifice by pledging to never flinch in the face of evil. >> that's the period in shanks shill. we will go back to that, but we begin with the reality of what's coming. it's just getting a lot more urgent for millions of people along the east coast. florence is bearing down and evacuation orders in effect for nearly every coastal county in south carolina, north carolina and virginia. they are imploring those in the danger zone to get out of the

way. this is a monster storm. >> this is a serious storm. somebody is going to get hit significantly. communities will be affect and devastated by the impacts of this storm. it's critical that we continue to communicate regularly which is what this is about. >> people in north carolina and virginia as we mentioned being told to pack up and head inland. not clear where this major hurricane will hit land, but many are heeding the warnings and evacuating now. packs winds, hurricane florence is at least 130 miles per hour. as forecasters stress over and over, the storm surge and the flooding florence is expected will be just as likely if not more so than the winds. reporters are tracking the storm as it approaches. kaylee hartung will join us in a moment. let's check in with chad meyers for the latest from the

hurricane center. update us on the path and what to expect. >> what we should expect is overnight tonight, the storm to get back up to a strong four. maybe 150 miles per hour. right now we are at 130. it doesn't seem like much, but it is. this storm will get a new eyewall in the middle of where it was last night. we lost that eyewall. a bigger eyewall start and it generated into a round circle. not quite round yet. we are waiting for it to get perfect before we blow this thing up. it's oblong on one side. not allowed to breathe properly. it's going to breathe tonight and get much stronger. 150 miles per hour by 8:00 a.m. that is the official track and the official forecast. now the reason why people are starting to breathe a little bit easier is the cone is getting smaller. the storm is getting closer. why the cone?

because the storm is far away it's almost all the way down to charleston, but not quite. strt of the cone is the most important part. we don't want to watch t but the chance of something hitting in the center part is about 30%. you move away about 50 miles and it's 20%. out to the edge is 10%. outside there is only a slight chance of it moving away from that cone. it's never a perfect cone, but the models have been doing stellar work. is problem is here when it makes landfall friday 8:00 a.m. to sunday it's about 200 miles. this thing will stop and rain and rain and people will say okay, enough with this. no more with this. stop the rain. it's not going to stop raining. we could see three feet of rain. >> three feet of rain. keep in touch and anyone watching, listen to this.

listen to chad meyers and the rest of our team over the next couple of days as they adjust the track. that rain, listen. appreciate it. cnn's kaylee hartung watching evacuations along north carolina. it could be right in the path. she joins us now from wilmington. you understand how this works. people look at the skies behind you and say you have a couple of days? the officials say don't do that. get the urgency now. >> it's a tough call and depends on who you talk to. time on a lot of people's sides, but they hope people take advantage and get far ahead of this storm. there are two ways out of wilmington. we are at the food of one of the bridges. that city is voluntary evacuation, but the barrier islands or the beach towns, they protect them from the ocean, those under mandatory evacuation. it's a mixed bag.

you can always bet on finding those folk who is say they want to try to ride out the storm. >> i'm gassed up and ready to go. i plan on sticking it out. i will make an evaluation coming at us at about 120 miles an hour. i may change my mind. i'm planning on riding it out. >> that man is a resident of brunswick county said his brick house built about five years ago could easily sustain 100 mile an hour winds. the gas station we are at, the pumps are staying busy. two young men said they had to drive 25 minutes from the homes to find a gas station that even had gas. they have got it stocked up here and people are here fueling up, whether they plan to stay or go. >> always the fascinating debate. kaylee hartung in the center. we will keep in touch in the

hours and days ahead. live from wilmington, a meteorology and a storm chaser. you have been doing this and i heard chad meyers in the weather center. you are on the ground and have been at this for 15 years. when you hear florence and how it is described, what are you you look are for now? >> they have been on this thing as a serious threat. we are looking at the impacts of florence. i will tell you it looks like a beautiful day. do not let that fool you. you can see they are taking a lifeguard stand down here on wrightsville beach off the pedestal. they are getting prepared for florence as it begins to move towards the coastline. we have another 24 hours of good weather here. don't let that fool you again. we spoke to the mayor yesterday and he mentioned mapped torrey evacuations would come late this afternoon or early in the morning. what we have been stressing to everyone is this is a serious storm. since hurricane hazel hit in 54

and hugo in 89, this is the most serious potential impact to the carolinas. everyone needs to take this thing seriously. >> in the most recent memory, you have been part of both of them. maria in puerto rico. no one is ever the same, but as you prepare for florence, what comes to mind? he mad the harvey comparison. where you are, what would that water do if you were near that size and scope. >> the biggest difference between this storm and hurricane harvey is the size. the size of florence is much, much larger than harvey. it can have the same impacts here, but it can be over a larger span so that's absolutely what we are looking for. the hurricane force winds to gust over 100 miles an hour and be sustained well over 100 and one of the largest was around 20 feet.

>> two of the people are on the road to family in maryland. he joins me on the phone now. randy, this is your house. you just decided to leave it behind. i understand some of your neighbors have stayed. how did you make the decision not this time? i'm out of here. once we heard it made landfall and we called and this happened, we decided to go ahead and head out of there. >> any conversations with the neighbors who are staying? >> um, not really. just that they were staying and

doing the same kind of thing as us. preparing and batten down the hatches and bringing things inside and hoping for the best. >> you have your husband with you. you have bertha, your dog. are you worried at all about what you left behind? how well have you prepared what you left behind? >> we prepared the best we could and tied everything down outside. brought things in and boarded up the windows which we have never done before. we have all the important paperwork with us. i had to leave my art and supplies at home and we are hoping for the best, but we are definitely nervous. >> you mentioned you are an artist and you are also pregnant. is that of the reasons you decided this time i'm not going to take the risk and we understand you used your artistic license, i shall call it, on family television to leave a message for florence. >> absolutely, yes. being pregnant is one of the big

reasons we decided to leave and i did leave my mark. >> we are not going show it here in the noon hour, but it is a pointed message to florence. best of luck to you and make it up with your family and you see anything along the way. appreciate your help today. best of luck. and we are going to continue to keep an eye on the storm. as we go to break on september 11th, let's listen to president trump earlier today in shanksville, pennsylvania honoring the flight 93 person who is took on the terrorists, sacrificing their lives to save many others. >> they boarded the plane as strangers. they entered eternity linked forever as true heroes. a piece of america's heart is buried on these grounds, but in

its place has grown a new resolve to live our lives with the same grace and courage as the heroes of flight 93.

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>> our new cnn poll shows a significant drop in the president's approval rating and the timing is potentially catastrophic for the republican party and the shrinking odds of the house majority. why the drop is so worrisome for the president's party. this among registered voters. disapproval at 57. way under water. approval only 37% let's look at how this played out overtime. you will watch as the president comes through. the president recovers around 40%. it's the timing. 56 days from the mid-term election and boom, you see that

drop from last month. disapproval spiking up in the last month. in a polarized climate, how does it break down? only 5% of democrats approve of the job performance. you know what they are going to do in november. 83% but he would like that number up close to 90. if the democrats are so against, he needs republicans to be completely for. the numbers among independents, if you have the democrats against you and most of the republicans for you, this could be the swing vote. in big wave election years. the approximate the is in trouble right now. let's take a closer look as it plays out. it is the timing here. don't invest in one poll. there are several recent polls that show this happening right now. the president's overall approval rating is down and support among independents dropping as we get closer to the election. if you are republican, don't

invest in one poll. you look at the calendar and you get very, very nervous where trump was already trouble for you. this is ryan costello who decided no the to run for reelection because of the trump effect that seems to be getting worse. >> as the party is more and more defined by trump especially when he wades into primaries and the trump-backed candidate wins, that's not a recipe for long-term success of a political party. it's simply not. in the suburbs you are seeing the acceleration of independents move to democrats. either voting or in party registration. >> let's talk it over. cnn here with bloomberg. host of the "new york times" and davis also of the "new york times." don't invest in any one poll, but several in the past week or so, more than a half dozen show

the president's numbers going down. one of the smartest republican pollster in town had a slide show he shows to his clients and here's what they say. if you look at the past mid-term election waves, the republican figures in 2010 and 2014. he analyzes all that and makes the point you can predict the congressional vote based on approval. always the magic thing and if the president is at 45%, then maybe the republicans can hold the house majority. there will be a democrat plus four. if the president it at 39%, he projects the democrats would win by 13 points on election day. we have the president at 36 or 37. that's a catastrophe in the making. >> the president is slipping and coming at the wrong time for the republicans about 56 days before the mid-term elections. in 2006, president bush was in the high 30s when the party got

decimated. in the 40s when his party got decimated. bill clinton was in the 40s when his party got wiped out. these are troubling numbers. other things were devastating. on the issues of caring about people like you. honest and trustworthy, under water. not a uniter and 2-1 said they are not proud to have him as president. this is a lot to overcome. >> she going to defy history and be the one mid-term after a big presidential win that is not going to cost the republican party the congress or control of one chamber of congress. that could be true if as you pointed out earlier, the robb y republican number would offset. not just for him, but for congressional candidates in the places who absolutely need the turn out of the very conservative trump supporters who would be activated and him talking tough and tweeting.

they need the middle people to come out. there are not enough of them on the president's side on the side of things going in the right direction. it's fallen. >> we can show the numbers and this is the overall job approval numbers. 57% disapprove. 57% disapprove of the president of the us and only 37% approve. you have 56 days, but i have been through a few and it gets harder to harder to change the dynamics. the frustration is these numbers are going down as the economic numbers nationally are going through the roof. they have reached the conclusion that they can't change them. there is something about this president among independents and in the suburbs. we have to ride this horse and be in trouble. >> they are not running on what they thought. all the president about the president's base and no matter what the president does, the

base, anything like that, the big issue is those independents. they were not going to vote for trump and they voted for him because they didn't want to vote for hillary clinton. though the president is not on the ballot in the fall, people don't like what he has been doing and tweeting and saying. that's going to be a big issue for them. it may not come down to who is in the race and referendum on the president. >> this is what presidents are fighting. the whole strategy was tax cuts. that's the only thing they did last year. they thought mitch mcconnell said if we can't win on 3% growth, we shouldn't win anyway. here they are. now they hitched themselves to trump and he is diving down in the polls right at the last minute. this hurricane could play into this right now. if they don't have a good response and this hurricane is a real disaster, it's going to figure into it more.

>> if you look at it, a very thorough analysis. if the president is above 40, they have a france. at 45, they can hold the house. if he's below 40, it's over. right now we have 36 or 37. if he's down there, it's not just the house. the house is gone. that is 30 or 40 seats. what about senate races? the map favors the republican fist you look at democratic incouple bents on defense. mitch mcconnell speaking in louisville said ted has a competitive race by all indications. we expect a win, but he has a competitive race. this is texas. if the president is going there to help his good friend, ha ha, ted cruz, but if the president is at 33% with independents,

even a senate race in texas or tennessee or arizona. >> and nevada. >> and it increasingly sounds like that super changing turn out. president obama was excellent in turning out his base. he failed to do it in 2010 and 2016. he is trying to mobilize the voters by talking about crime and the issues that worked for him. are those people going to show up to vote for a republican who they hold in lower regard when he's not on the ballot? that will be the question on whether they hold on to the house and the senate. >> it cuts both ways and makes it harder for the republicans to win the places they think they should win. indiana we have seen improvement and it makes it harder for them to win in a place like tennessee where there is a real democratic threat. people are saying right now, the senate is in a little more play than we thought it was going to

be. still uphill, but if the senate and the house changes the dynamic for the next two years. >> agenda-wise and investigation-wise. the president at 36 or 37%, that is a recipe for a catastrophe for the republican party. those numbers don't lie. hurricane florence lurking off the east coast, but we heard little from crisis communication. the commander in chief.

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returning now to our top story, hurricane florence threatening more than 20 million people in the projected path. the eye of the storm due to make landfall in north carolina 13 thursday night and friday morning. perhaps a category five storm. if florence maintains that momentum which at the moment it is on track to do, it is the strongest storm to make landfall on the east coast since hurricane andrew in 1992. more than one million people facing mandatory evacuation orders. officials are notes mincing words saying take this seriously. >> hurricane florence is the strongest to target the carolinas in this part of the

country in decades. we will have power outages and homes damaged. debris on the roads. this will be a storm that creates massive damages to our country. this storm is not a glancing blow. this storm will abe direct. >> you see that fema briefaing and the warning. they are prepared for florence even if keeping the president's focus might be an issue from time to time. no tweets on the coming storm from the president. the russia investigation was his top priority. the storms encourages anyone in the storms to prepare themselves. ready to assist. we are with you. that was the message yesterday.

including hurricane irma and har fee. he went down with the first lady. widely criticized after hurricane maria. according to a recent estimate, that storm left nearly 3,000 people dead across puerto rico. when asked back at the time. >> between one and 10, how would you break away. >> i'd say it was the most difficult when you talk about relief. when you talk about search. when you talk about all of the different levels. even when you talk about lives saved, you look at the number. i think it was worse than katrina. >> it was not a 10. it wasn't the federal government. the problems in the response were not all federal.

everybody failed in puerto rico. some would argue they are still failing. the president at times because of his own desire to say we are great, i'm great, a 10. that sounded tone deaf on the things. is that a challenge? >> just last week the president was defending his administration's response and thinks they did a great job. initially when the hurricanes hit texas and the president was down there, there was a lot of praise how they handled it and the rare glimmer of competence that came from skpreek the president's reaction seemed tone deaf. he compares it to katrina and they said dozens of people died, but it's in the thousands. that has been a response to them. a few people that helped last year in the administration. including tom bossert and the

fema administrator, he is still here and briefed the president yesterday. it will be interesting to see how they handle this one. >> it's interesting for those of us who covered the aftermath of katrina and what a debacle that was. obviously not initially, but soon there after what a pr crisis this was and what a whole of the government crisis they had and the shortcomings of the local response and the federal response. this white house does not seem to be there. even in the aftermath of the death toll study that was done, the initial estimates were so much lower and this president did not suffer the consequences if you were looking at the polls of the response to that being inadequa inadequate. i think there is going to be a higher bar for them to meet in terms of his own responses personally and what the whole looks like.

>> in the past few days, aides have been trying to focus on the hurricane and get off of the "new york times" anonymous op-ed. they have been trying to convince him that this is something that needs your attention more than the hunt for who it was that wrote that. they have been trying to guide him. >> that are i had success yesterday, but not so much in the early morning tweets when they are not around. it am cans down to the fema under this president, fema being not prepared. irma and harvey, fema got high marks. it's the president's words that seem to disconnect. this is october of last year when he was talking about the death toll in puerto rico and he makes a katrina comparison that made a lot of people cringe. >> every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina and look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, what is your death count as of this moment?

17? >> 16 or 17. >> 16 people certified. 16 people visit in the thousands. you can be very proud of your people working together. >> in defense of the president, you are trying to keep morale up and the team in at that moment. this did not look like katrina in terms of the scope, but to the people in puerto rico, it was a kick in the teeth and worse. when you use words like real catastrophe like katrina, you have the delivery part, but also the empathy. >> this is what presidents are supposed to do and bill clinton was a master of it. you have to show empathy in the situations. maybe not throw paper towels to the crowd or whatever that picture was. a couple other things will come from us. you remind they will be boating

there. maybe how their hurricane response was handled and it throws another issue into the year and budget debate as they see who pays for all of this. >> president obama in 2012 with super storm sandy was hitting the east coast. high marks for the republicans who thought his handling of it and the warm relationship we had, he had with a certain former republican governor helped him a lot. it's not as if they won't reward you. you can't fudge your way through hurricanes. if you say they did a great job, you know somebody who died, it doesn't compute. >> chris christie is grateful for the memory. >> before we go to break, we remember the nearly 3,000 lives lost 17 years ago today on september 11th. earlier today families gathering at ground zero to pay tribute to those they lost. i can't believe it.

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russia kicks off a week of military exercises, billed as the biggest since the fall of the soviet union. thousands more from china and mongolia. the war games being decided between president putin and the chinese leader. the trump administrator rolling back another obama era regulation to curb green house gasses. the 2016 rule requiring energy companies to expect methane leaks every six months and repair them within 30 days. the epa will start allowing 60 days for a leak and a year between inspections. again as we head to break, it is 9/11 and james mattis among those paying tribute to the vikts of september 11th. this from a ceremony at the pentagon. >> we keep faith with the innocent who perished. we take solace in their deaths for not invading for in their

passing, they empowered us forever with our enduring sense of purpose. we remember that hatred disguised in false religious guard of innocence will not prevail.

>> today at noon, a vehicle reminder for the president. it is not solved and even close to say it struggles to sell one of the president's big talking points. touting a new letter suggesting another summit is in the offense. pointing to evidence that denuclearization is on track. >> the recent operate was not about the arsenal. they have come back and the hostages have returned noechl testing of missiles or nuclear material and of course the summit between the two leaders.

this letter just further indicates your process. >> north korea still moving ahead with the nuclear program. the adviser is speaking to reporters after a speech in washington sounding skeptical that north korea will deliver on big promises. >> we are still waiting for them. the possibility of another meeting, but president trump can't make the north koreans walk through the door he is holding open. they are the ones that have to take the steps to denuclearize and that's what we are waiting for. >> and forgive me, bah we all know if he were not working in the white house, don't believe what you see in the operate. that's propaganda. the president believes what he saw in the parade even though his people are telling him they are not going back at all and by

some accounts making more. >> some of the most telling parts is when sarah sanders was listing the signs prove gress, he listed the sign in singapore as if the meeting itself is in and of itself a big step towards denuclearizing the korean peninsula. he has the ability to manage it relationship to force kueng to do these things, but there is no evidence he has done anything. no progress visible to the united states is not the same as taking the steps to denuclearize. >> what she said yesterday compared to what they said not that long ago when they canceled the planned trip to north korea, citing the lack of progress. since the singapore summit, in the tune completely changed, nothing has changed since the weeks that they canceled the

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he said this book does not accurately portray my experience at the white house. i continue to support the president and his economic agenda. porter, remember the staff secretary who had to leave is speaking to axios said he was struck by the selective and misleading portrait participated by the president and his administration. the president is mad at everybody, but especially mad at these two because it is clear from the book that they cooperated. porter saying that he felt he had to cooperate to try to get an accurate portrayal. these are not complete denials, but only two guys trying to answer the president's fury. >> the president has been privately claiming about them specifically while saying in public they are made up and fiction. he has been fuming about it and we should note bob woodward said a lot of times he asked people who worked sources for him to issue the public denials.

he said sorry, i have to save face. that's what he has been saying. the porter statement is interesting because as we were discussing, in the book it glosses over the scandal. he was accused of abusing two ex-wives. that was one of the biggest scandals to hit this administration, which is saying a lot from the scandals they have. >> they slow walked the response dramatically and it's not covered in the book supposed to be about the fundamental management issues. if you cooperate with woodward, he is more kind to you. >> that are scandal changed the dienalic. john kelly was not nearly as powerful as it was before. a lot of distrust and anger from people who were involved. it's interesting to see him selectively deny things. >> this you cover the president every day. oh, good, he is happy now.

he praised jim kelly and jim mattis about the book. i'm not the author of the op-ed piece.kelly and jim mattis about the book. i'm not the author of the op-ed piece. it doesn't say bob woodward did something wrong. is toast the right word? >> privately i don't think it will satisfy the president. he knows just as well as the rest of us the cat is out of the bag. the book say damaging account and a statement you put out one day after or on the day of publication after everybody has been talking about it, it's unlike the premises of the book. i'm positive all of us who have been around him watched his tweets know he will point to this as an absolute denial and add it to the list. either on his desk or close by, summer in his head of people who denied the book in his mind and makes the case publicly that

this is made up and dis-grundled people now saying they never said what they are voted as saying even though that's what they are saying. >> these statements are going first to ax yoes and making a point that many of us made and all the other news accounts, too. there were startling anecdotes and the scenes, the information and dynamics have been reported since the early hours of the administration. when people say this is not right, it runs against history. >> these are not really denials. there is no factual assertion being challenged. this is what you do what you don't want to contest the facts that come back to bite you later if they are proven. this is something the two men who worked with the president and have been close to him know he is fume being this book and he is fume being it. >> when you put out the statements t leads to more informations about the premises

of the book in chaos. the president wants people to say not true. here we go. thanks for joining us. hope to see you back here this time tomorrow. keep your eye on the weather center. jim schutto in for wolf and he starts right now. have a great day. >> hello, i'm jim schutto. it is 1:00 p.m. here in washington. millions on the east coast are bracing for a monster hurricane heading straight for the carolinas. hurricane florence backi ining s of up to 130 miles an hour. a category four storm. this could be the strongest storm the carolinas have experienced in more than 2.5 decades and still gaining strength. a million and a half people are told to get out now and prepare for catas