fox news alert, hurricane nate strengthens and is likely to become a category 2 hurricane when it makes landfall on the u.s. gulf coast just hours from now. hello and welcome to a brand new hour inside america's news headquarters, i'm molly line. >> i'm kelly wright. good of you to join us today, molly. we want to talk to you today about preparations they are in full swing for millions of people along the gulf coast from the florida panhandle to louisiana. at a new orleans flood-prone underpasses will be blocked to traffic in anticipation of possible heavy rain. that's where we find rick leventhal with more details. rick? >> well, the wind is starting to whip off the lake and we're told it is going to get a lot rougher

over the next few hours. earlier today, president trump approved the emergency disaster declaration, so homeland security and fema will now coordinate the relief efforts here in louisiana, one of three gulf states that have declared emergencies ahead of the approaching storm. a lot of the preps going on all day, including the closing of some 200 floodgates, like this one, in and around the city of new orleans, and they have also installed protectively about 150 of those barricades to close the streets that are most likely to flood. residents have also been filling sandbags. they are still doing it at this hour. at least 17,000 bags have been given away already. now, they are being given away at several locations around the city, including one a few miles from here, in orleans parish with folks obviously trying to keep high waters out of their homes. >> the city ain't done nothing with our drainage system. i'm worried about getting flooded out again for the second time in two months. >> i have concerns about flooding in my backyard.

so i'd feel more comfortable if we could create a little wall there. >> oil rigs and oil platforms have been evacuated in the gulf along with residents in low-lying areas mostly south of the city. another big concern are the pumping stations described as tired and underfunded by new orleans mayor. 11 of those 120 pumping stations don't work and the ones that do are as old as calvin coolidge according to the mayor and easily overwhelmed. this city has flooded several times already this year including last week and this storm of course is expected to bring a big surge and a lot of rain. the good news for new orleans is that nate is not expected to park itself over the lake or the city. it is a pretty fast-moving storm and it's also tracking a little further east so it is more likely to hurt mobile bay than it is the french quarter, but despite that, there is a curfew going into effect, in the city of new orleans beginning at 7:00 p.m. local time tonight. guys? >> all right, rick leventhal -- leventhal reporting for us.

we will continue to follow that story. another fox news alert, vice president mike pence is on his way to las vegas right now where he is planning to speak at the las vegas city wide unity prayer walk this afternoon. this comes as investigators continue to pour over leads searching for a motive in the concert massacre. dan springer is live in las vegas. dan? >> yeah, hey, molly. according to las vegas police, those thousands of leads and a thorough examination of the shooter's electronics, his cell phones, his computer, and looking into his financial background and also his recent movements still have not produced a motive. and some now believe police may never find one. there's of course frustrating -- and that's of course frustrating to police working this case and all the victims. but today is about the healing process. that's why vice president pence and the second lady are headed this way for a unity prayer walk that begins in about an hour. for security reasons, pence won't walk, but he will give remarks at city hall when it's all done. we have new video in that was shot with a go pro camera of the first moments of the shooting

sunday night as investigators continue searching for a motive. they learn more about the planning that went into this. stephen paddock apparently studied the security detail of the mandalay bay hotel staff, so he could get 23 high-powered rifles into his room. he did leave a note, but it only contained some numbers which police are still trying to decipher. he also apparently acted like he was talking to other people in his room when he got room service, but after watching days of surveillance footage, police say no one else went into that room. >> we're very confident that he did not -- there was not another shooter in that room. what i cannot confirm to you today and what we continue to investigate is whether anybody else may have known about this incident before he carried it out. >> las vegas residents keep pulling together. we've seen a memorial of 58 crosses built and late yesterday a memorial garden with 58 trees, one for each innocent victim. 500 volunteers helped a

landscaping company. mean time retired fbi agent doesn't think that the motive will ever be solved. >> this guy's a complete anomaly. i mean he's the antithesis of what i expect to see when i see regrettably see one of these mass shootings. >> and the fbi yesterday at that same police news conference said that they are working with the local communications company to put up billboards throughout the company asking people if they know something to say something. that's really an admission, molly, that they are really trying to find out what happened here and they don't have many good leads as to what the motive was. molly? >> dan springer on the continued hunt for answers. thank you. with more on this, we go to a former special agent in charge for the atf, also an associate, arizona state university school of criminology and criminal justice. thank you for joining us this afternoon and shedding -- or sharing your insights into this tragedy.

this horrific tragedy. and i want to go what dan springer was reporting on when he was talking to the former fbi agent who said this guy might be the anomaly that we may never know what caused him to conduct himself in such a heinous way and carry out this brutal mass murder. >> well, it's really hard for everybody involved, particularly the victims, the survivors, those that are still injured, their families, this thing will be like a shockwave that will go through the lives of so many people and our nation with this act. unfortunately without context, having some type of motive determined, makes it that much more difficult. but unfortunately, it is very possible that the only knowledge of the motive was in the mind of the shooter. >> so when you look at that, it's difficult to tell what was in the mind of the shooter since he is dead. no one can talk to him. are we getting any details that might lead psychologists or

forensic specialists to analyze what might have been in his mindset to make him carry out this attack? >> we can be assured that this case will be a case study for both those disciplines, the mental emotional analysis of this person, but also as you know, the law enforcement officers and federal agents involved in this investigation have been working tirelessly to exploit every set of data and connectivity between him and all the people he's come in contact with, for whatever purpose. the exploitation of electronic information, digital information, financial information, all to -- number one to ensure there was no conspiracy, there's no others involved, no future events planned and secondly all of this will combine to perhaps lead those people in the disciplines of forensic psychology to get some type of context. >> bernard, there are reports that -- and there's so many reports right now, reports about this, reports about that,

everyone trying to look for an angle as to what might have set this ste feen paddock off -- stephen paddock off, there are reports that they are talking to people he may have been contact with, obviously not only his girlfriend who he sent off to a foreign country, the philippines where she was found and returned earlier last week, but they are also talking about the fact that he may have solicited the services of a call girl, now they are actually interviewing people like her who may have been in contact with him, or other people who may have had transactions with him, in terms of cars or whatever he was doing. will that help lead police to be giving a more definitive profile of what might have been going on with him? >> every bit of information, whether it comes from other people, the interviews as leads are determined has to be exploited to the complete extent to derive all possible information. obviously with this event, there

was a tremendous amount of planning, proactive staging, infrastructure, funding. he went through a lot of deliberative acts to get to this point, where he chose this target and executed his plan. >> if we never find out what caused him or what his motivation was, what does it say to all of us, not just members of the law enforcement community, but to all of us about making sure we are aware and vigilant about the possible deterioration in a person's personality. i mean it is hard to sit there and look at a millionaire who gambles and say oh, he will never do anything wrong. his own brother admitted that this caught him completely by surprise. so what are we looking at today, in terms of the -- of actually the climate that led to this? how can we be more proactive?

>> personally i find this the most disturbing and the most terrifying because often times when you look in retrospect to a crime of violence, the person or persons responsible, they telegraph their punches. they did or said things that gave some indication that something was happening. the conspirator of one, the person that keeps it to themselves and goes through great efforts to conceal what their intent and motive are could go undetected and that is very difficult for us as a society in order to look for the things that are going to help all of us be safer. >> yeah. and that's why it's a head scratcher and very perplexing because everyone wants to know the reason why so they can perhaps plan for a better future, but in the midst of all this, there's still the tragic consequences of what he did, and as we saw in dan's piece there, there are many people still trying to embrace themselves and embrace each other. so what would be your advice to the people in terms of how -- all of us -- how we move on from this, whether we know or not

what his motive was? >> yes, i think what is of absolute certainty and important for both public safety agencies, communities, the way we educate our corporations and our employers and any place where there's a mass gathering of people is that we can't get lost in the noise of potential ideology and threats. we're living in a decade-long era of terrorism on the u.s. soil, and there's a lot of these things that can be distracting from people that are hatching their own really nefarious evil plan and could go under the radar, unfortunately. we cannot be blocked out by the noise of, say, the international thing or the things that we would expect and just pay attention to the odd behavior, the odd strangeness and for people to share that and talk about it, say something -- or see something, say something. >> this case was all too

difficult to do that. maybe the president of the united states had a good understanding by calling it exactly what it appears to be, pure evil. bernard, thanks for weighing in and giving us your perspective on this. thank you. >> my pleasure, thank you. an investigation is also underway in london after a car slams into a crowd injuring at least 11 people. that incident happening right outside one of the city's biggest attractions, the museum of natural history. benjamin hall is live from london with the latest. >> you know, if you have been to london, you will have been to this part of town. i mean it is one of the most popular places to go and on a saturday it would have been crowded, full of tourists, full of families and around 2:20 p.m. this afternoon, this car, careened off the road knocking down a number of people, injuring 11, anyone of them were hospitalized. crashed into another car, at which point passers-by and fellow drivers got out and pinned down the suspects, he is

now being detained. we do now know unfortunately this was not -- we do know now fortunate that this was not terror related. police helicopters overhead. certainly this crime scene where people are trying to determine the motive of this man. so it's been a serious incident here certainly and of course reminders of the attacks, we have had, five this year in fact, terror attacks but this one in fact not terror related but very much london on edge. >> the threat level there has generally been elevated. how much of a relief is it that this incident was not terror? >> molly, you and i have covered some of the attacks that have happened this year, five of them. three of those were vehicle born. so when you hear about a car careening off the road into

people your heart immediately sinks and you feel this may be terror related. yes, a huge relief. what it does is it does remind you of what a threat there is at a moment. isis propaganda comes out and says use vehicles it is an easy way to attack people. huge relief in london this was not terror related but a big reminder of how easy it is for terrorists to get ahold of a vehicle and use it as a weapon and how often that has happened this year, so yes, great relief, but certainly a reminder of the threat we all face over here. molly? >> we think of those injured today. benjamin hall, thank you very much, from london. there are rallies across russia today as protesters push for an alternative to president vladimir putin in the next year's election. why today holds special meaning for the russian leader. plus, the white house is denying claims that secretary of state rex tillerson may be on his way out. but could there be any truth to this report? we will debate it coming up. but first here's tillerson in

his own words earlier this week. >> can you address the main headline of this story that you called the president a moron and if not, where do you think the reports are -- >> i'm not going to deal with petty stuff like that. i mean, this is what i don't understand about washington. again, you know, i'm not from this place. but the places i come from, we don't deal with that kind of petty nonsense. liberty mutual stood with me when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night. hold on dad... liberty did what? yeah, liberty mutual 24-hour roadside assistance helped him to fix his flat so he could get home safely. my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. don't worry - i know what a lug wrench is, dad. is this a lug wrench? maybe? you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance.

russian president putin getting an unwelcome gift on his 65th birthday as protesters lined the streets of moscow. several hundred protesters gathering at downtown moscow waving russian flags while chanting let novani run. that's in reference to opposition leader novani who plans to run for president next year, despite a criminal conviction which bars him from entering the race. >> nothing has changed despite what you may read in the media or watch on tv. i would certainly trust the president in my comments far above those of other reporters. >> press secretary sarah sanders yesterday dismissing reports of tension between secretary of state rex tillerson and

president trump. sanders saying the president continues to have confidence in his top diplomat. this comes just a few days after tillerson denied reports that he considered leaving the administration. joining me now christopher bedford, editor-in-chief for the daily caller news foundation. thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> well, we will kick it off here. is he safe? is he staying? is he going? >> i think he's safe for now. you didn't get that we will see that you've seen occasional from president trump when people say hey what's going to happen with this cabinet official and he says we will see, then you are in trouble. trump has so far shown he has a lot of confidence in tillerson. tillerson despite the rumors and gossip mill that's replaced reporting in washington, d.c.'s newspaper industry, despite the gossip, he's been largely executing the president's agenda faithfully. there's no public sign that he's on his way out. it is all based on unsourced rumors. >> when you look back at what happened this week, a little

unusual for the secretary of state to jump out there and have a press conference about this topic, that i'm staying, not going anywhere. he was asked if he called the president a moron or not, he pushes back against that saying it is petty nonsense but the press keeps going and says he didn't deny it exactly. what does that mean when you see the press kind of jumping on something like this and not letting it go? >> well, what we saw right there was basically a one-on-one meeting between rex tillerson and the president. he knew that the president was in the air on the way to las vegas, and we know that the president watches fox when he is on his plane. fox aired that conference in its entirety so he was able to speak directly to the president and maybe get ahead of all the rumors and cut through the mess. the president has been pretty busy the last few weeks. he's been dealing with the hurricanes and las vegas. tillerson i think cut through it. he didn't deny the moron thing. and the chances a guy like him who is a tough talking guy said that in anger are pretty high or at least said it casually talking in private. the other things he said which he was on his way out or he was

against the agenda he steadfastly denied it. i think the fact he dodged the moron comment and denied the others lends a little bit more credence to the fact there is less actual policy separation between the two. >> let's look at this from a world perspective. world leaders looking at whether or not they can believe secretary tillerson. how los is he to the president -- how close is he to the president? are think in line as far as moving forward on the global agenda in the united states. when you see this from the press, does this affect what other world leaders might be thinking of when they meet with our secretary of state? >> it absolutely does. word from global leaders is that u.s. foreign policy in chaos. by chaos, they mean that they don't know quite what's coming next. president trump laid out basically the first massive change in foreign policy that this government has seen since world war ii. he said that the united states role in the world should be changed. kind of what george w. bush campaigned on but world events

saw us go a different way. he said he was going to pare back and going to reinforce our alliances, attack our enemies and you would see a different u.s. so far that's just starting to take shape. like he said last week, it is the calm before the storm. he's put a lot of different things in place. he's put syria on notice. north korea on notice. china on notice. russia on notice. and what happens other the next six -- over the next six months is up in the air and i think it will be interesting to watch. >> sometimes the president can seem to be at odds with some of his key advisors on for instance tillerson told reporters in beijing that he had a direct line of communication with pyongyang and we see a tweet coming out from the president i told tillerson our wonderful secretary of state that he's wasting his time trying to connect with little rocket man. when you see a little back and forth going forward so publicly, what do other nations think? >> he's not an easy boss to work with. i think they probably understand correctly that there is a disconnect. trump has a certain management style that he's developed over his decades in private business

going up in new york city and even dealing with local politics and it has taken on a different shade. he's got to change it maybe or tweak it a little bit. it's taken on a different stage in the public spotlight and international affairs where everyone one of your management guys are no longer just businessman but they are leaders of cabinets who establish u.s. foreign policy. nikki haley has stepped into the gap and stood up and tillerson has seemed to largely busy himself with his mission kind of deconstructing the bureaucracy of the state department. but the president is the number one leader of the foreign policy and our global leaders around the planet should look to him more than anyone else for where we're going. >> he does take the opportunity to communicate directly many times. thank you very much, christopher bedford for your insight today. we appreciate it. >> thank you. we continue to monitor hurricane nate. the storm picking up strength as it barrels towards the u.s. and it is now expected to make landfall as a category 2 hurricane. meteorologist adam klotz will tell us how nate will impact the gulf coast and beyond.

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fox news alert, we are tracking hurricane nate as it heads towards the u.s. gulf

coast. the storm is picking up strength and is expected to make landfall as a category 2 storm overnight. residents along the coast from louisiana to the florida panhandle are bracing for heavy rainfall and strong winds. let's get to meteorologist adam klotz in the fox extreme weather center with more details on this. adam, a nail-biter for the people living along the coast. >> it is, kelly. you are right, it continues to strengthen at this point, looking at these winds 90 miles-an-hour. it is currently at cat 1 but at 95 miles-an-hour it becomes a category 2 storm so we are knocking on the door of that already. fast mover moving northwest at 25 miles-an-hour. typically when talking about these storms closer to 12, maybe 15 miles-an-hour. this one is lifting very quickly which will bring us the overnight landfall. more and more we're looking at perhaps landfall coming in closer at 10:00 or 11:00. that's what we will be looking at if this system continues to lift and run there right along

the coast. tracking this and if i can please have -- i'm using weather 8 is the system i need. but tracking this right along the coast, this is lifting its way up there right along that gulf coast. it is looking at 11:00, perhaps 10:00 is when this will be running its way. if i can get weather 8 from the folks in the production room. that is the system we're tracking. winds 90 miles-an-hour. kelly, it looks like right now this is the only graphic i have for you, unless i can get weather 8 up. there it is. our future radar, this is now taking you from 3:00 p.m. on saturday. i can get this into motion for you. and you start to see it lifting there. so that's the time frame we're talking about. this is going to continue to work its way up through portions of alabama into georgia, but it is going to be an overnight event and as a result, no surprise here, put that into motion, 10:00, 11:00, 2:00, 3:00, lifting its way up.

no surprise here, hurricane warnings, watches and warnings stretching there along the entire gulf coast. i think one of the big concerns here, obviously the winds, getting up 80 to 100 miles-an-hour but as the winds come up on the right hand side or eastern side of this, we will be looking at a good possibility of storm surge 3 to 6 feet, some cases getting up to 9 feet, and then of course the rain will be another issue where we're looking at spots running us all the way from the gulf coast up into the ohio river valley anywhere from 6 inches in some cases getting up to 10 inches or a foot, so this is going to be a big system for them and again, it happens tonight at 10:00 or 11:00. it is going to be lingering into early tomorrow morning before eventually it makes its way off the coast. it's one we will be watching very closely. >> adam that causes me to frown because i know what the people living in that area face all the time since they are already low levels. >> uh-huh. >> there have been some evacuations. there's a curfew in effect in some parts of the area. we saw rick leventhal reporting

on the events, what they are doing in preparations. anything that you can advise the people about what to anticipate or how to get out of this storm's way? >> well, unfortunately, and there still is just a little bit of time there, as far as, when we're talking about where this is going to be coming on to shore, so if it just jogs a little bit farther off to the west, we could be talking about the brunt of this hitting somewhere like new orleans, but the most recent information we have stretches more over towards biloxi mobile. -- biloxi and mobile. if you are right along the coast, it will be good to head inland. it's really low lying. 3 to 6 feet could be stretching inland for a long ways. that's the baseline. waves on top of that. >> it's been such an active season and dangerous and treacherous season and a deadly season. adam, thanks for the update. we will keep our prayers and

fingers crossed that it will not be the kind of devastation that could unfold from this kind of hurricane. adam klotz, thank you. >> thanks. molly? >> right now we are awaiting a decision on whether or not president trump will once again certify the iran nuclear deal. the white house says a decision will come quote in the coming days but already there is speculation the president will declare the 2015 agreement does not best serve america's national security interests. this comes as iran's president today warned the u.s. about backing out and told a crowd that not even ten donald trumps can roll back the benefits the deal has brought tehran. jim walsh is an international security expert at the m.i.t. security studies program and joins me now to give us some insight into what this means. thanks for being here. >> good to be with you, molly. >> we have this october 15th deadline looming and really this is something that congress did with the intention of holding

the former president, president barack obama to account when they did not like this deal going into play. here we are, another deadline coming up, and the administration has signalled that perhaps this time they will decertify but they are getting a little pushback from some of the leaders, some of the advisors. give us some insight into what's happening amongst the trump team. >> well i think you heard secretary of defense mattis testify before congress last week. he was asked a very pointed question by senator king, he said yes or no, should we stay in the iran deal? and he said yes as did the person he was testifying with as has the secretary of state and essentially the entire national security team is saying we've got iran's nuclear program in a box. let's not let it out. but the president, you know, has strong feelings about this, and i think at the end of the day, if he decertifies, it is not so much because iran is not complying, iran is complying according to our intelligence community, it is that he doesn't like iran as a country and he wants to send a message that

he's upset. >> well, earlier this month, the u.s. ambassador of the united nations nikki haley really kind of dug into this and hinted this might be the time to decertify. she painted this with a broad brush and said this was more about all the problems that iran causes and frankly there are a lot of challenges that iran causes, the destabilization of that area of the world, the backdoor channels of funding terrorism, is this a way to kind of hint that things could really change if iran doesn't change its ways, not just when it comes to its ambitions for possibly nuclear ambitions, but in all other areas as well? >> well, i think you are right, molly. i mean, there are a lot of things that iran does that we don't like, and rightfully so. but i have said all along, the only thing worse than iran that does bad things is an iran that does bad things and has nuclear weapons. i mean, that's our number one, you know, you have to list in order the things that are most important to you. you have to have a sense of priority. for us, it's been -- for the united states, it's been no

nuclear weapon in iran. that is job one. and yeah, we might be upset that they have human rights problems or other issues but i don't think that's a reason to destroy an agreement that is basically accomplishing our number one national security priority which is no nuclear weapons. yes, iran does things we don't like. we should use other foreign policy tools to address that but we shouldn't be pulling out of an agreement that we signed with our partners. it seems to me all that does is isolate us, you know, going back to colin powell, if you break it, you own it. i think that's the way the world will see this. >> if we do decertify, if the administration chooses to decertify at this time, what's the impact? >> yeah, it's a great question. this is a little confusing i think probably for viewers and understandably because we've got this decertify case thing. -- this decertifying thing. just because mr. trump

decertifies doesn't automatically wreck the international agreement, but it puts you on a path for that to happen and if the senate comes in under this law, the senate can respond to this decertifying and pass a whole new bunch of sanctions, if they do that, i think the rest of the world will see us as the violator, not iran. that's what i'm concerned about. >> right. as you mentioned it wouldn't disappear, it stays in place, the sanctions would stay in place, but the world community would be looking at this and looking at this action taken on the part of the united states. >> oh, yeah. >> what are they going to be seeing? >> well, i was talking to europeans yesterday. they are begging congress not to do anything that would reck the agreement. and -- that would wreck the agreement. frankly i think some in congress are a little reluctant. it is one thing to say you will destroy something in a campaign it is another when you are facing realities here. the europeans have been clear. they are begging mr. trump and begging congress this thing is working let's keep it together.

we will have to see what it unfolds. if he does it, all sorts of possibilities are on the table. some are positive and many are negative, but we will have to wait and see. >> absolutely. we won't have to wait long. october 15th, that day is looming >> exactly. >> jim walsh, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, molly. >> thank you. and a fox news alert, vice president mike pence arriving in las vegas soon helping to bring some healing to the city following last sunday's massacre at a country music festival. he boarded air force two earlier today. when he lands, he will give opening remarks at a unity prayer walk. rich edson is live at the white house with more details. rich? >> good afternoon, kelly. and vice president pence will be arriving in las vegas just a short time from now. this is less than a week after that deadly shooting killed nearly 60 people in las vegas last sunday night. the vice president will speak at a las vegas unity prayer walk, so that's expected to happen just a short while from now. become here in washington --

back here in washington, president trump is issuing warnings, flanked by military officers earlier this week. he proclaimed that this was the calm before the storm. he was asked repeatedly what exactly that meant. president trump would and say you will find out. reporters then asked white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders what he meant, and we didn't get more information out of that saying that the president refuses to telegraph or say what exactly he is going to do. so there are a number of different things that this could be, one you just talked about it at length with your guest there, the iran nuclear certification is due just a week and a day from now. that's something the administration has been working on. there's also north korea an issue that the administration has been confronting for sometime now. north korea right now the strategy from the administration is diplomatic. the defense secretary, secretary of state all say that they prefer a diplomatic course of action, not a military course of action, but reminding that the united states does stand prepared if kim jong-un were to

decide to attack south korea or the united states. the secretary of state has been lead what the state department calls a diplomatic campaign, trying to get other countries to cut off north korea economically and diplomatically and that is slow going at the state department though officials there acknowledge that will take time. the rest of the day, when the president gets back to the white house, he will leave the white house, he's off to greensboro, north carolina for a fund-raiser there. back to you. >> rich, thank you, reporting from the white house. remember when president trump met with the democratic leadership at the white house about a month ago? well, now the president is reaching out again, this time on healthcare. can he strike a deal by reaching across the aisle? the panel weighs in next. ♪ ♪ you nervous? ♪ ♪

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and welcome back. president trump once again reaching across the aisle to democrats. this time hoping to negotiate on healthcare. the president tweeting this

earlier, i called chuck schumer yesterday to see if the dems want to do a great healthcare bill. obama care is badly broken, big premiums, who knows. the latest outreach comes as republicans in congress have failed repeatedly to get anywhere on their efforts to repeal obama care. so what's next? joining me now is michael starr hopkins, a democratic strategist and contributor for the hill. and danine, chief political correspondent for the conservative review and a fox news contributor. thank you both for joining us. this is a topic that seems to be perpetual. we're always talking about healthcare in some form or fashion. the president reaching across the aisle once again to see if democrats will help him. and i will start with you, danine, because initially one would say that's a good thing but then senator schumer saying we're not going to repeal obama care, that's off the table and

that's one of the things the president is seeking. >> time stamp this moment, the left is loving a tweet from president trump. okay? they are usually complaining about the tweets from the president. >> we will take them as we can get them. [laughter] >> stamp the date and time. listen, we're not aware of any details or what the conversation entailed, but what we do know is that under former president obama, we're in the situation that we are in by him trying to fundamentally transform the country, our health insurance industry. we have millions of americans who have been harmed by obama care. premiums are going up, deductions and also in 2018, it's been reported that insurance companies on the exchanges, they are talking about a 57% increase in premiums so these damages are continuing forward that are harming hardworking americans >> that's a lot of pain that you just introduced and put on the plate. >> it is. >> michael, what do democrats have to do in order to, one, we know they want to salvage obama

care. they've also agreed that something needs to change drastically to help improve obama care. so what do democrats have to do in tandem with the president of the united states since it appears republicans are not reaching across the aisle? >> so democrats and republicans actually have already introduced some bipartisan legislation that would aim to fix -- to shore up the marketplaces and bring insurance back. so what alexander has done is introduced legislation that would offer incentives to bring insurers back to the marketplaces, it would guarantee the cost share payments that would stabilize the marketplace and put some faith back into the system. you know, republicans have sabotaged obama care when it comes to advertising and making sure people get enrolled which then affected the premiums and made them go up. obama care is not perfect. democrats have admitted that over and over again. we're working with the president in getting this resolved. >> we can go back and forth, left right, right left, let's

try a kind of an approach, where the right and left can work hand in hand. i can't function without both of my hands. >> absolutely. >> congress can't fupgs without a left and a right -- congress can't function without a left and a right. let's try to glean the best of ideas from both parties would that not work in some way in achieve what the president is trying to accomplish and that's healthcare for everybody? >> first of all, i think stabilizing the insurance company is code for bailout for the insurance companies, and that's the last thing americans would stand for. >> okay. >> if i were advising the president, i would say allow consumers to buy insurance across state lines and also allow consumers to have the pool where they can have, you know, the associations pool. >> i'm getting a wrap. >> okay. >> i've got to let michael get a final word here. your points are well and duly noted. >> healthcare affects every single american, a third of our economy. we will be judged on what kind of country we are by how we treat our citizens. i think the left and the right,

we can all work together in shoring this up. i think we need to be politically honest and be aggressive in making sure we're helping every single american. >> let's see what happens. clearly the president is not afraid to reach across the aisle. michael and deneen, good of you to join us. have a great afternoon. >> thank you. molly? >> the humanitarian crisis in puerto rico as people struggle to recover from hurricane maria. coming up, an update from san juan. retirement rabbit, from v. i'm the money you save for retirement. who's he? he's green money, for spending today. makes it easy to tell you apart. that, and i am better looking. i heard that. when it's time to get organized for retirement, it's time to get voya.

most people in puerto rico are still without power weeks after hurricane maria barrelled through the island. the storm took down power lines, trees, really almost anything that was in its path, and there is still no specific timetable for when everything will be restored. mike tobin is live there on the ground from san juan. mike? >> and molly, the wreckage you see behind me is a pretty familiar scene, you see it all over puerto rico, downed power lines, things that were knocked down by trees. earlier in the week i spoke to the lieutenant who said all the different relief efforts going on, everything will ultimately boil back to power and that's going slow. more than two week since the hurricane struck, you have 9% of

the power customers who are back on the grid. most of them as you mentioned are off the grid. it is taking a long time. not a situation like in florida where they staged a bunch of trucks outside the reach of the storm and then descended on florida by the thousands. you have a situation here where they are loading trucks up on barges and floating them across the ocean to get here, same thing with the power poles. you could put some power poles on some bigger aircraft but not in the ballpark of cost effectiveness to do that. the power poles are also float eight cross the ocean to get here. -- floating across the ocean to get here. it takes a long time. elon musk reportedly talked to the governor saying he will divert some resources from another project to start making batteries that would store electricity from the solar farms here in puerto rico also to modernize the grid. to problems with that, one the solar farms were badly damaged during the hurricane and it takes a long time to modernize the power grid. thus far we are unaware of any solutions that would amount to speeding up repairs of the power grid out here. back to you.

>> that backdrop that you are standing in front of i mean just tells what the big challenges are and how far there is to go. thank you very much for the report. >> and we continue to monitor nate which is expected to strengthen into a category 2 hurricane before it makes landfall along the u.s. gulf coast just hours from now. stay with fox news channel for the very latest developments on this storm. and that does it for us. . . . .

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>> that will do it for us right now. we're back here at 4:00 p.m. eastern for more news. >> see you on "the fox report" at 7:00. "the journal editorial report" is next. ♪ >> welcome to the "journal editorial report." i'm paul gigot. as the country reeled from the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history and investigators scramble to uncover the motives and methods of gunman stephen paddock, president trump traveled to las vegas wednesday and meeting with shooting victims and first-responders at after the attack at a country music festival. let's list len what he had to say. >> the mass murder that took place and night fills america's heart with grief. america is truly a nation in mourning. tr