yellen saying we're ready to get back to normal but boy it will be slow. we thank our jewish friends for the new year, rosh hashanah. now we have "countdown to the closing. david: climbing in the final moments of trading to close yet at another new record. seven in a row, folks. s&p just turning positive. melissa: nice. david: nice indeed. not so for the nasdaq. still we'll take two out of three. i'm david asman. melissa:er we're not pick at thisky. i'm melissa francis. here is what else we're covering in the very busy hour ahead. hurricane maria slamming puerto rico at a category 4 storm. thousands in shelters as flash flood warnings are in effect.

the entire island is now without power, the whole thing. a live update from san juan coming up. maria is the third category 4 hurricane to hit u.s. soil in a month. there has never been anything like this in modern history. the demands on the federal emergency management agency have never been greater. brock long, is the director of fema. he will tell us how they are managing these catastrophes. meanwhile the president is sitting down with world leaders from the middle east, africa, and the uk. this as he says he is made a decision on what to do about the iran nuclear deal. former u.n. ambassador john bolton, we are so pleased he is here with us with his take. david: we have an all-star lineup. melissa: sure do. david: markets, dow, s&p 500 at new record highs as federal reserve announces it will reduce its stockpile of u.s. bond worth $4.5 trillion. also says they see a rate hike coming by end of the year. phil flynn watching action in

oil and gold in cme. nicole petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. nicole, i remember when to suggest there would be a rate hike was a knee-jerk negative reaction on the dow. not so today. >> not so. no dramatic move to the downside. we pulled back a little bit. one of the traders came to me and said everything they said about unwinding the balance sheet slowly and method i canally, the part that spooked them, the year-end rate hike is still on the table, three for 2018. two more for 2019 and one for 20 to. the rate hikes were still there. why you saw dividend-paying stocks such as utilities and consumer stocks, those came out of favor. those sold off with higher rates you don't necessarily need those dividends. we did see a record, david, melissa, dow, new record. s&p, new record. there were certainly up arrows. what did not have an up arrow was apple. apple sold off because investors are a little spooked by some

reports that cellular connectivity for the watch is not foolproof. apple is investigating on that. the cellular portion has to be investigated. goes on sale 399 on friday. apple dropping two bucks. google, the gain part of taiwanese phone-maker htc, that gets them in that gain. bed, bath & beyond, sold off 15%, goes back to the 2009 levels. that was on weak sales and the like, down over four bucks. david and melissa. back to you. melissa: nicole, fantastic roundup. phil, oil spiking to end a four-month high. what was driving rally, my friend? >> i think a big drop in gasoline supplies, lowest level we've seen in two years. this market realizes it they will have to work very hard to get supplies built back up to where they need to be. even with a big impact from

hurricane harvey and hurricane irma, the demand for gasoline didn't fall as much as people thought. of the overall demand for gasoline is absolutely smoking right now. that means refiners have a lot of work. in puerto rico in the storm, there are small refineries in puerto rico. they will be shut down. supplies of gasoline stored in that part of the world. gold, strong dollar will hurt gold a bit. melissa: always brilliant, phil. thank you. david: we have jonathan hoenig from capitalist pig hedge fund. also a fox news contributor. danielle dimartino booth, former advisor to the federal reserve. danielle, to you first, i have a theory when the economy is doing badly, the fed is important, the fed will move markets but when the economy is rolling along, the fed is not irrelevant but much less relevant when the economy is bad, what do you think? >> that is certainly what markets broadcast today.

we saw a dramatic rebound. the fed took market by surprise with indications that it would go ahead and raise rates in december. i don't think most bond traders at least were anticipating that. but you're right. add to that, david, the fact that the fed really broadcast widely the message about beginning to reduce the size of its balance sheet. so it did not take the markets by surprise. david: not at all. jonathan, you and have a friend. libertarian friend named john tamny. he wrote a book. editor of real clear markets. that is great website. every morning they change it up. he says the fed is already irrelevant. its general effect on markets worldwide is far less than it used to be. eventually it will disappear. what do you think? >> that 4 trillion has to disappear before the federal reserve does. we're talking about a pretty monumental shift. almost a decade's worth of

quantitative easing. david: jonathan, let me stop you there. don't they just let the bonds go, instead of rolling them over, let them mature and they poof, disappear? >> david, what we will literally have to see what happens. this is uncharted territory when it comes to modern economics finance in the economist. didn't see any major action in the stock market today. i have to tell i think it's a bull market despite a indication of one more rate hike this week or this year. 260 new 52-week highs. only a handful of new 52 week lows. what happens other sectors might take lead. citigroup at new 52 high today. banks and interest rate-sensitive stocks, do well with higher rates, they're taking a charge. david: good wrap up. jonathan, danielle. appreciate it. melissa: hurricane maria tearing through the caribbean and hitting puerto rico with powerful wind, nearing it hundred miles an hour, devastating the island which has lost power entirely.

steve harrigan is live in san juan. steve, what is the scene like there right now? reporter: it is going to be a remarkably bleak night when you think about this u.s. territory. 3.5 million people on the island. 3.5 million people without power. we saw some crews out there. they were actually on foot, the electrical crews. it is so hard to get around to walk through the streets with downed power lines, downed trees and flooding. conditions getting a little bit easier as far as wind goes, below 50 miles an hour. that has been allowing first-responders and police to go out there to assess damage. real damage still unknown at this point. there is a lot of areas without cell phone service you just can't get to. so the death toll and damage still uncertain at this point. they have provided fema crews here, prepositioned across the island. they will be helping getting water and electricity to people. really looks like a slow road. when you walk around, it's a ghost town.

some houses serious structural damage. roofs gone. wooden buildings gone. it will be a long slow road to recovery here. back to you. melissa: wow, steve harrigan, thank you. the u.s. is committed to protecting and assisting u.s. tear -- territories and from irma and maria. brock long from joins us now. sir, we're pleased to take a second away in order to talk to us given everything going on. we all have to wonder how you possibly have the resources to deal with these three huge disasters in a row? >> that's a great question. so, obviously the response phases of harvey and irma have basically come to a close. so we were able to reposition search-and-rescue crews, disaster medical teams. our incident management teams, to focus on maria. we also left about 3200 staff, federal staff from national to

fema staff, to hhs staff on the island territories. so we're looking at devastating impacts from st. croix to puerto rico. melissa: how serious is the situation? >> very serious. both territories are basically without power and will be so for a very long time. they have both have very fragile power systems. we don't have a good handle on search-and-rescue from this standpoint of fatalities or people trapped but our folks are moving out as soon as the weather allows and going to, performing life safety mission. melissa: when you say they're going to be without power for a very long time, what do you anticipate that to be? >> so, anytime after a storm like this what we focus on first of all is restoring emergency power to critical facilities such as hospitals. that takes a lot of work. we have to first clear roadways of debris. we have to make sure we get the trucks into the areas to fix the

emergency power. and then after that we start to focus on working with governor roseeo and governor mapp how we fix the greater grid that provides power to everyone. melissa: yeah, i have to imagine in an island situation it is even harder than it is here on the mainland on the u.s. how is it different? >> logistically it's a big challenge. typically you don't have the resources you need stored on the island. they have to come from the continental united states. we have ships out of jacksonville with power poles. over next few days the ships will make their way as ports become open and crews come on from the continental u.s. as well, to be able to assess what needs to be done to bring the grid back up. melissa: what is -- you talked about moving on from the other disasters that we've just seen go through. people are already forgetting about houston i'm afraid and

what happened there. can you bring us up-to-date? you said i guess you finished your services there but what is the situation like? >> well, we haven't finished our services in texas by any means. that is just the response phase. melissa: i see. >> we're working with the state of texas every day. we still have a tremendous amount of staff in texas helping to formulate the road and pathway to recovery. we work daily with governor abbott's staff, particularly biggest challenge will be housing mission, how we can expedite the mission to get people back into their homes in bert situations than where they are. melissa: i think people out there that are in any of these areas are wondering, how do you prioritize what to do? i mean, there is so much, there is so many different places, there are some people that need help right now? >> well, saving lives always takes priority over everything else. you know, we can't bring people back to life. so that's the first goal is saving lives and taking care of people. all of the infrastructure that

is damaged, we can rebuild that. hopefully we rebuild it in more resilient fashion so it doesn't occur in the future. melissa: we're looking at pictures in puerto rico, these poor people, remembering they are americans. thank you, sir. brock long, thank you for your time. thank you for all your work, appreciate it. >> thank you. melissa: wow. david: he is getting a lot of praise. we had governor roseo saying this guy is doing incredible job before the hurricane, setting up methods to save people in trouble today. so they were planning for this several days beforehand. melissa: because we've seen it done differently in the past. there has been great disasters and great criticism. so you definitely need, there is a lot of work ahead. you want to praise where it belongs. david: another disaster, live pictures of a search-and-rescue mission in mexico city after yesterday's massive earthquake. the death toll in the hundreds. it is expected to climb. melissa: meanwhile president trump hosting a slew of world

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melissa: president trump pushing his agenda. the commander-in-chief meeting

with world leaders including british prime minister theresa may and shortly egyptian president mohamed el-sisi. he says he reached a decision on what to do with the iran nuclear deal. john roberts joins now. john, what are you hearing about this one? reporter: good afternoon, melissa. there is a lot of discussions on iran nuclear deal, the jcpoa. the involvement of the discussions whether or not that agreement can be reopened. white house is only one of six signatories to the deal, if the deal can be reopened can a better deal be negotiated? if neither one of those things can happen, maybe the president is bert off pulling out. the president indicated in a bilateral meeting with mahmoud abbas, that he has reach addition. let's listen here. >> [inaudible]. >> i have to start it.

[shouting questions. >> i will let you know. i will let you know. reporter: he has decided but will not tell us what he has decided. i'm told pulling out of deal, opening up, may be very difficult. so maybe the president does things around the i believes. certainly the idea of the united states trying to pull out of the jppoa drew sharp reaction from iranian president rouhani in his speech during the general assembly. >> ignorant and absurd, hateful rhetoric filled with ridiculously baseless allegations. reporter: he also said it would be a pity if this agreement was destroyeded by rogue newcomers to the world of politics of the world will have lost a great opportunity. the president keeping up pressure on trying to forge a middle east peace deal, meeting with the palestinian president, mahmoud abbas, meeting with king of jordan.

be a did you -- abdullah. he sent a lot of people to the middle east along with jason greenblatt. the president knows this is very difficult thing to do, melissa. but he is optimistic. listen what he said a short time ago. >> we're at a very important juncture. there is a small period of time. we'll see what we can do. so many people have talked about it and it's never happened. but we're fighting very hard. reporter: you know he is being very realistic about the whole thing saying maybe it will work, maybe it won't but you remember, melissa, that a number of presidents, probably bill clinton most prominently among them thought they were really, really close to a mid-east peace deal only to watch it fall apart before his very eyes. >> sounded like iranians love the speech. seemed like it, no. >> reporter: they have always high praise for american presidents. melissa: john, thank you. david: sarcasm usually doesn't

work on television but it does this time. john bolton, former ambassador to the u.n. joins me now. let's talk about the iran deal first of all. it is important to emphasize what that deal did. in reality it gave the iranians tens of billions of dollars immediately over time, perhaps hundreds of billions of dollars. what are they doing with that money? they're working with the north koreans. the north koreans don't have money but they have nukes. the iranians have money but they don't have nukes. it is perfect synergy axis of evil to use an old phrase. that is what the president is so frustrated about, isn't it? >> that is exactly right. the head of iranian atomic nuclear organization said a couple weeks ago we can resume uranium enrichment at levels we were before the deal within five days of the deal being terminated. taking everything a iranian leader says with a grain of salt he is not far off.

iran got huge benefits up front for easily reversible concessions on nuclear program. those are only things we know about. david: but the iranians don't have to develop nukes in iran. they can do it through surrogates in north korea? >> i believe that is quite likely happening. wouldn't surprise me if substantial part of iran's nuclear enrichment program is under a mountain in north korea. david: here is the problem you can kill the uranium deal but won't get europeans back into sanctions against iran. they love money coming into the pocketbooks of businesses in europe. >> a demonstration why the deal was a scam to begin with. that iranians perpetrated with obama's willing assistance. i think if the united states were to withdrawal, it would create a new reality. why the president has to lead with clarity here. ambiguity whether we're still in the deal or partially in the deal is one show on, one shoe off isn't going to make it. he needs to get out and goes to

the europeans says, what are you doing now? come with us or we will face with iran what we faced with north korea. slim to none chance of getting a peaceful resolution and looking at military force. david: let's switch to the speech yesterday. you said right off the bat, in fact i saw you after he delivered the speech, you said best speech ever he had given. reviews are out. here is the top review. "the new york times," melissa will be talking to howie kurtz in a minute to focus on media but i had i had to bring up "new york times." first page, not written as analysis, says donald trump repeatedly extolled sovereignty in a setting where term is brandished by nations like russia, china, iran, and north korea to deflect criticism. in other words, they're comparing his speech to north korean propaganda. that is beyond the pale. >> "the new york times" continues its long tradition of

putting editorials on the front page and calling them news articles. that is not a surprise. the fact the president caused a lot of jaws to drop in the u.n., on the sovereignty point with respect to what he said on iran and north korea. what he said about venezuela and it reflecting socialism faithfully implemented. thank god. i think that an american president has to speak with political and moral clarity. i think americans understand plain speaking as a virtue and it is a good therapy at u.n. david: to your old institution at u.n. -- >> don't say my old institution. david: you represented the united states there. let me put it that way. >> that's it. david: "the times" did say something you might agree with even though they said it critical way. in the space of 42 minutes trump upended decade of rhetorical support from the united states for the collective philosophy of the united nations as he defended his america first policy. that is what the america first policy is about, going against

the collective notion or philosophy as "new york times" puts it of the u.n. which is something he is against. he should be against it, no? >> when he defend sovereignty, he is implicitly criticizing the notion of global governance. since most of the people at u.n., want the u.n. to be part of a structure of global governance it is a revolutionariry thing to say. i wish i could take credit for it. it is not that different from speeches george w. bush made, ronald reagan made. after eight years of obama they have been anesthetized. now they're awake at the u.n. david: john bolton, former ambassador at the u.n. he didn't represent the u.n. he represented us at u.n. good to see you. melissa. melissa: desperate search for survivors. victims are trapped under rubble after a powerful earthquake rattles mexico. an update on the recovery next. hurricane maria moving through the caribbean, slamming puerto rico with heavy wind and rain. the latest on the path of the

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david: mexico in mourning as crews scramble to find any survivors. live pictures here of search-and-rescue efforts taking place right now in mexico city. it is awful. a school collapsed. the death toll in mexico rising to more than 200 after a 7.1 earthquake struck the city of puebla and reverb greated throughout the nation's capital. we are monitoring the situation out of i believe you're in l.a. today, right, adam? reporter: david, we're getting all the video feed here. we've been to mexico and mexico city many times. we're familiar with the area of it. latest number for the death toll

is 225. that is expected to go up. the numbers of those rescued is 65 or 70 depending which outlet you get that from, government or not. those numbers expected to change. very fluid situation. it has been 24 hours since the earthquake, 7.1 earthquake rocked mexico city. came two weeks after a 8.1 rocked mexico city, 65 miles to the south. there are all sorts of scenes people digging through with their hands, whatever they can. people coming through the area, along with military, firefighters, going through older buildings that collapsed. we're told the number could be 77 in part collapsed. the mayor of mexico city said at least 30 have come down. the u.s. 2 team based here in los angeles, search-and-rescue team, work all over the world in japan, for example, they're on the way mobilized to help. a team from israel is going to help as well.

the time is ticking. it has been more than 24 hours. we have amazing stories of survival with other earthquakes. there is the chance and possibility to hold out hope. as every hour passes the probability does diminish. we, again, don't have exact number, david of number buildings come down. for people not down there. mexico city is built on an actual lake. it was filled in over the centuries. it is very unstable. the second thing to take note. they have strong building codes but new buildings nice and new were able to with stand it. but they have a lost colonial buildings, hundreds of years old and even down to shanties and you have a wide difference in buildings. you see a neighborhood where one building is down and four or five others are fine, complicating things, david. a lot of search and rescue still going over there. david: adam, thank you very much. melissa: the deadly quake has

made communication limited for areas in and around puebla, mexico. local businesses are opening up wi-fi connections to help victims to help connect with family and friends. companies like google and facebook launching their people finders and safety check-in features as well. the ongoing recovery is expected to take several months at least. david: we just talked a little bit about it with john bolton but there is more outrage over the president's speech. the mainstream media is going nuts, tearing president trump's u.n. speech apart piece by piece. howard kurtz is with us to discuss the outrage. you don't want to miss that coming up. melissa: plus a new health care bill stirring up excitement in the senate but does it have the votes to pass? "the hill"'s bob cusack is here after the break, what to expect out of washington. ♪

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last-ditch attempt to overhaul obamacare. president trump set out a series of tweets that the called the graham-cassidy bill at center of all this, great. he urged senate republicans pass it up at the united nations. vice president mike pence is making phone calls -- melissa: i have to break in on you. president trump is meeting with the president of egypt at the palace hotel. let's listen in. >> the representatives, the relationship has really been very, very good. we look forward continuing today and tomorrow. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: thank you your excel len sy for making the time to meet. and i would like to thank you and extend my appreciation for all the support you have give enus. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. everybody. [shouting questions]

>> thank you very much. melissa: we want to wait to listen to see if he answers any of the questions? >> thank you, folks. >> is graham-cassidy going to pass? >> i think it has a good chance. obamacare is a disaster, failing badly. premiums for people, can't afford obamacare. it has been a catastrophic situation. i believe that graham-cassidy really will do it the right way. it is doing it the right way. there is tremendous support from republicans. certainly we're 47 or 48 already senators. a lot of others are looking at it very postively. mike pence is working on it. our vice president has done a great job in health care and knows health care so well, loves it. you might want to even say a few words bit, mike. >> president trump made a commitment to the american people we would repeal and replace obamacare and we're grateful to senator graham,

senator cassidy and others that have come together to keep a promise to the american people. president said many times obamacare is collapsing. american families and american businesses are bearing the burden. this president and our entire administration are absolutely committed to support graham-cassidy and move forward with the legislation, to give american people a fresh start on health care reform, not with government mandates but repealing mandates on businesses and individuals and giving resources to the states to create health care solutions that will work for reach -- each individual state. >> for seven years i've been hearing repeal and replace obamacare. for seven years i've been hearing how bad obamacare is, really more last two or three years if anything. for last seven years i've been hearing repeal and replace. we've been hearing how bad it is. we've been looking at premiums go up. we've been looking at deductibles through the roof. you have states like arizona where the premiums will be worse

this year than last year. last year they were 100% increase, 116%. i think there is tremendous support for it. i think it is actually much better than the previous shot which was very sadly let down but again, we've been hearing about repeal and replace for seven years. they have a chance. i thought that what i would want, go to the oval office, sit down at my desk and there would be a health care bill on my desk to be honest. and it hasn't worked out that way. i think a lot of republicans are embarrassed by it but i have to tell i think they will do a great job if this happens, it will be a great thing for the country. obamacare is a disaster. it's a wreck. it's a train wreck. it is only getting worse. and i must be honest with you, whether it happens or not, something is going to happen, and it is going to be positive because frankly obamacare can not make it. it can not make it.

we think this has a very good chance but obamacare is only getting worse. it is dysfunctional now, it is totally dysfunctional and at some point we said they will be forced to make a deal. they're just about at that point right now because obamacare is so bad. so i do think it has a very good chance of passage. i certainly hope it passes. and they will be voting in the not-too-distant future. thank you very much. [shouting questions] >> thank you. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. melissa: you got to wait because you never know when he is going to answer the questions when they say he is not going to and there he did answer them. the egyptian president in the background, poor guy, palace hotel. a lot about health care there. bring in our own blake burman was talking about that subject. blake, what did you make of that? reporter: a lot of news from the

president, melissa. he thinks as it relates to graham-cassidy there is a very good chance it passes at least on the senate side. that is phrase, very good chance he reiterated. he feels he has 47 or 48 votes. that is problem for republicans this president. even though the president is optimistic. they need 50. right now it appears they are short. this is basically what republicans went through earlier this summer trying to repeal and replace obamacare. they need 50 votes at least, so that mike pence, the vice president can come in to break the tie. appears they are still short. here is how it breaks down. you have 52 republican senators, melissa, we know rand paul is a no, a very public no at this point. three senators to watch are three senators that voted against the last iteration of this earlier this summer. that being john mccain, lisa murkowski and susan collins. so far, mccain and murkowski have not tipped their hand what

exactly they might do. collins expressed she was very frustrated with the process. listen to murkowski and collins as they spoke to reporters on capitol hill. >> are you going to support it? >> nope. >> why not? >> because i am doing the due diligence that i committed to doing yesterday. >> i'm going to wait until the cbo analysis comes out before making a final decision. reporter: melissa you saw pitch from the president, much of what we heard from him earlier this summer, that republicans talked about that for seven years. they need to finally enact health care. he said, that he thought there would have been a bill on his desk at beginning to begin with. fast forward to the end of september. republicans have until the end of next week to act on this because their ability to only go forward with 50 votes plus one expires then. tick, tick, that is the clock,

melissa. melissa: president had chuck over for dinner. you never know what could happen. blake, thank you for all of that. great breaking news. david: bob cusack, "the hill" editor-in-chief. very interesting development. the president is clearly behind it. let us spell out if we can what is in this new bill, the graham-cassidy bill. it removes obama care mandates on both individuals and businesses. we can put up the full screen. it cuts obamacare taxes. it replaces federal control of obamacare spending with block grants to states. that is very important. and it also increases amount of tax-free earnings that consumers can use for their own health savings accounts. it is a far cry from complete repeal and replace. it is a good start dismantling obamacare, is it not? >> this bill definitely without a doubt has momentum this is remarkable. this is coming down david to binary choice. you vote for this bill or voting to continue obamacare. why i think that it has captured so many votes.

it still need more. in trump's remarks you played. he singled out arizona, why? because he is talking to john mccain, premiums going up. mccain and lindsey graham are close friend. that could change the dynamic. david: if anybody could be persuaded by lindsey graham, i would think it is mccain. >> but he is undecided. i think they may have to sweeten the deal where they go to these on the fence senators say, what is going to take to get to yes? remember that is what the house did. they couldn't pass it first time. they changed it. they passed it. david: sweeten the deal or twist the arm a little bit. now president trump is getting a little more popular. he has a little more influence with the republican party. by the way, remember last week, look at this, the president's approval rating has increased among republicans to 87%. you and i were on a week 1/2 ago. the meme back then, the sort of narrative among media experts so-called was that because he was talking to democrats he would lose supports with his

republican base, exactly the opposite has happened. meanwhile it is democrats, pelosi having trouble with her democratic base, at least left-wing part of the party. >> that's right. september was going to be a very bad month for the republican party. now it turned where democrats were talking about single-payer. they're scrambling to take the bill down, left that remarkable press conference with nancy pelosi. the tide has turned but can they actually get this bill over the finish line? i think you can see a lot of twists and turns. david: it will be very close. the finish line is september 30 as we were saying before. we should remind folks the only reason republicans can vote on this at all because donald trump made a deal with the democrats to get the budget through. if he hadn't done that, something that he was excoriated by a lot of republicans for having done, if it wasn't for that they wouldn't be able to vote on this. >> they wouldn't have the senate floor time, can only deal with one issue at a time in the

senate. the fact that he struck the deal allowed this time to actually pass a bill. it is remarkable turn of events. david: isn't called deal-maker for nothing. bob cusack, good to see you, bob. thank you. melissa: switching gears, hurricane maria hammering puerto rico. the strongest storm to hit the island in more than 80 years, wiping out electricity on the entire island. fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is in the weather center with the latest on maria's path. rick. >> melissa, 100% of the power is out on the island of puerto rico which is hard to imagine. it hit the island and tracked through diagonally and really impacted everybody on the island. these images that we're getting, certainly very scary. we're also getting some of these images out of there. the storm still impacting the island. hard to get in and get some images. same for st. croix, the eyewall going over western tip of.

these northern islands were impacted by irma. we're watching i'm afraid, very devastating conditions around st. croix as well. puerto rico, after this, i will tell you it was weakened because of interaction with the land. didn't go over highest mountains we have here but it did go over enough land it took it from 155 mile-an-hour storm, now the latest advisory, came in, dropped to a category 2. that is certainly good news. future radar, impacts across the north coast of the dr then in towards tuesday, and caicos. both -- turks & caicos. that is good news. after this it will pull off towards the north, look at model guidance. still a big spread, for most part pulling this between east coast and bermuda. that would be great if we keep it in that space. i will tell you we have concerns across parts of the eastern

seaboard. certainly outer banks we'll watch. maybe in towards the northeast behind this. it will be a weaker storm by that point. take a look. this is jose. it is a tropical storm. we've been talking for the storm about three weeks now. it has stalled out across parts of the northeast. created enough of a weakness in the atmosphere pulling this storm up. likely pulling storm behind it. wednesday or thursday, if we have impacts that will be time frame. continue to track it, keep everybody abreast of it. we potentially have a storm out there behind jose. beaches certainly not good news. any bigger impacts from that we'll continue to track. melissa. melissa: rick, thank you. david: you can feel jose here in new york. it has been wet for a while. slamming the president's message. harsh criticism from the mainstream media over president trump's u.n. speech where insults are now passing for news. what's up with that? we'll talk to fox news media analyst howard kurtz coming next. ♪

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melissa: president trump took to the united nations stage to push an america first platform, and unite with our allies and warn our enemies, this is what the mainstream media though had to say about it. >> for anybody wondering whether he would borrow from recent tweets, make dire threats to north korea, echo some of the name-calling of the campaign and retate the america first platform he campaigned and won on, rest easy. that is what he did. >> spectacle we have not seen from an american president ever. >> why does he have to be provocative all the time. we're talking about annihilating millions of people. this is not baby stuff. melissa: here to react, howard kurtz, media buzz host and fox news media analyst.

so i watched that speech in real time, and at the end of it, he never went off prompter. it was, well-thought out. i mean it was one of the best speeches if not the best one that he has given. i actually thought to my seven, i was watching it, i don't know what they will pick on here. he went down the list what you expected. it was a strong speech but to me there was nothing outrageous, immediately they left out the first part of the sentence, if north korea attacks us or our allies, we will have no choice but to, you know -- just amazing to me the way they chose to chop it up and interpret it. >> amazing what one elton john reference can do. melissa: "rocket man." >> rachel maddow was liberal commentators. some coverage was respectful. "new york times" said it was bombastic speech with flourishes that was true. amazing how it broke down on partisan lines. people on the left no president has ever spoken this way at u.n.

got overheated about it. many on the right thought it was great that the president was standing up to people like kim jong-un. melissa: is anderson cooper, is he opinion in your point of view or he is trying to do a straight news show? >> he is sort of a hybrid. a prime time news anchor. he let us know what he thinks. he is critical of that president perhaps for example than interview with hillary clinton which was pretty soft. melissa: that was ridiculous. media running with video, we don't know what this is all about, of general kelly during the speech where he seemed to be holding his head in his hand here. and they're saying really like, look at this, even his own, you know -- >> own president, own guy -- melissa: his own guy is sitting there holding hand in his head. do we know anything about this? >> we don't. caused a lot speculation. one of the reasons getting so much attention, when president trump made the second or third round of remarks about

charlottesville, a lot of people reignited controversy, there was picture of general kelly holding his head in his hand. maybe he was tired. we shouldn't read his mind. but certainly one of those pictures that goes viral. melissa: yeah. and then shocker, hillary clinton out in a book tour took the moment to say she didn't like the speech. listen to this. >> i thought it was very dark, dangerous. not the kind of message that the leader of the greatest nation in the world should be delivering. what i would hoped the president would have said was something along the lines of, you know, we view this as dangerous to our allies, to the region and even to our country. melissa: because all of that has worked so well. because all of that is how we have gotten into this place in the first place. for her to say what he said was dangerous -- >> yeah. melissa: what is going on is dangerous. >> in fairness, stephen colbert asked her the question. what a week for stephen colbert. he gets to bash trump at the

emmys. and nice interview with. on election night was a funeral. still wishes she was our president. colbert has ridden his liberal politics number one late night, not hiding his views. for hillary of course she will differ. she is democrat wishes that she was giving that speech at the u.n. melissa: you have to tell us sometime, people ask me why there is no right-wing comedian with a late-night show. i don't know the answer to that. david: wonderful fodder for howie. he wouldn't have a show without all this great stuff. the battle for bezos. why amazon's hunt for a second home has cities fighting for the company's attention. we'll tell you how. ♪ she needs more care though. she wants to stay in her house. i don't know even where to start with that. first, let's take a look at your financial plan and see what we can do. ok, so we've got... we'll listen. we'll talk. we'll plan. baird. and life's beautiful moments.ns get between you flonase outperforms the #1 non-drowsy allergy pill.

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