hurricane dorian is coming violent winds and driving rain battering the caribbean, now taking a direct aim at florida with massive storm surges and mill wrnz in the path. stop vaping immediately. that is the word from health officials as the number of vapors with lung disease grows breaking overnight, president trump's trusted gate keep cann keeper of the oval office is out. dozens of loaded guns, multiple grenades and thousands of rounds of ameo found in a home and that is just the beginning.

and goes deep reporting on what it's like to be in the middle of category 3 hurricane winds. a very busy friday ahead "early today" starts right now good morning >> 21 million people in the state of florida are on high alert as hurricane dorian threatens to batter the sunshine state, unleashing a dangerous combo of devastating winds and heavy rain the governor has expanded the state of emergency and president trump canceling his trip to pole tonight over see the response. a major airlines like american, southwest and delta issuing travel wavers ahead of the storm.

>> reporter: dorian's early calling card, violent winds and driving rains battering the a n caribbean and warning it could be a category four storm with winds over with 130 miles per hr >> and a major hurricane coming our way. >> reporter: covers the entire florida peninsula and so does the state of emergency >> the time to act is now. >> reporter: millions stock piling food and water, topping off fuel tanks, gathering li flashlights, zgenerators, extension cords. anything they can use that is going to give them the survival. >> reporter: and tsing generators to make sure they're ready.

>> just make sure contaminated water, electricity, how long is it going to go out if it does go out? >> reporter: concerns shared by millions in the storm's path right now. as dorian takes aim at the florida coast. jay grey, nbc news, coco beach >> bonny snider tracking dorian for us we're looking at the results of hurricane hunters work overnight. this storm, this hurricane is expected to intensify and really within the next 24 hours it's going over a more favorable environmenter for development, meaning it will get up to category three and category four strength before potentially making land fall in florida. t

five and we're watching for florida to be prepare interesd storm to potentially make land fall and reportedly opening a probe into whether the popular e-cigarette maker used deceptive marketing and targeted minors. they're considering seeking monetary damages for sparking what regulators have called a teen vaping epidemic it denies it targets minors and has since shut down the social media pages. the company says it will fully cooperate. it announced it's working on an electronic verification system to further crack down on teen vaping a new danger from vaping

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>> reporter: the justice department's independent watch dog is bashing them for not safeguarding sensitive information during his time in the fbi. describing being asked for loyalty and to let go of an investigation into former national security advisor michael flynn. and comey shared one of the memos with a friend with the revelatio revelations triggering special counsel robert mueller er >> i thought that might prompt the report of the special counsel. >> reporter: and not permitted to -- the ig says he violated fbi policy and although some of what he released was deemed class fewed, it was not at the time comey responds defending himself. to all those who have spent two years talking about me going to

jail or being a liar and a leaker, ask why you trust people who gauv you bad information for so long. and the president tweeting never has someone in the history of our can untry been so thoroughly disgraced. >> can come canny bhoo lied and leaked >> reporter: comey has become a political lightening rod for the right. >> this report confirms it mr. comey is a meat head he's a political hack. he hurt the fbi badly. >> reporter: but democrats argue he did what he had to do at an extraordinary plit canical moment >> i think they'll be important well after this administration wraps up >> reporter: the white house is accusing comey of disgracing himself and his office while comey says he'd like the hear sorry, we lied about you from his attackers.

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idea of what it's like the be inside of a hurricane and feel those extremely powerful windsl in store when dorian blasts ashore with all the talk of wind speeds and categories, the university of maryland's research wind tunnel shows us what that really means >> this is too late to be boarding up your windows >> reporter: by the time we hit hurricane strength -- >> category one mouth be destroyed. we start to see a lot of power lines down even some stronger structures would see real damage. 96 miles per hour. we're now at category two strength i can barely anymore >> reporter: category two can bring damage to older structures, uprooted trees and

significant power outages. this is category three now devastating damage power, water >> so that's as high as they let us go and a cat four five can be catastrophic but what researchers learn from test kz can be life threatening. >> once the water rises, terrirr not as prepared as they think. >> a stark warning and the time to get ready may wi quickly run out. >> good thing the aders dropped inhe

and a good friday morning on this august 30th for you. wow, august 30th. moving into labor day weekend for you this weekend. taking a live look at the golden gate bridge. you probably can't tell there, it's a little foggy but that's what you're looking at. good morning. thanks for starting your morning here with us. i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia. let's get a look at the forecast. a little hazy out there? >> yes, we'll start out with great weather, just some fog near the coast. a live look in fremont, a few clouds rolling by and we'll see some clearing headed into the rest of the morning with our temperatures starting out cool, lower 60s, leading into some low 70s. south bay we're going to be just a degree or two warmer than yesterday. it was so pleasant. we're reaching up to 81 in san se