in the florida panhandle which has brought to a standstill in pensacola. six inches of rain fell in 45 minute which is more rain than the city got during hurricane ivan. the governor has declared a state of emergency in 26 counties and mobilized the national guard to help with the rescues, and he is warning people that more bad weather is on the way. >> every family member needs to be careful. and the floods in alabama are in the highest they have seen in 60 years. much of downtown mobile is completely flooded overnight, and the severe weather is part of the same system that has been tearing through the southeast this week, killing at least 35 people in six separate states, and gabe gutierrez is in pensacola with the very latest. >> tamron, we have been seeing the amazing pictures here out of pensacola, and the florida governor has declared a state of emergency for 26 counties, and this is why. heavy flooding across many neighborhoods and roads are

shutdown, and parts of i-10 are impassable. over here, there is a train that is not going anywhere, and many businesses are also reporting damages. florida highway patrol confirms that at least one person died overnig overnight, and this driver was stuck in her car as the waters rose. now, water rescues are still under way. this is a very difficult situation for many of these residents. this area got some 20 inches of rain or so in the past 24 hours. more rain is expected later today. tamron, back to you. >> thank you, gabe. let me bring in our msnbc meteorologist bill karins, and let e let's talk about the situation on the ground, bill, and then move into the rain that is expect odd tr fur -- pex expected or the further turbulent weather. >> yes, florida has a history of sandy soils to take a lot of rain, but when you are talking about one to two feet of rain in

a few hours, that is going to build up, and go into the rivers there flow fast, and florida has sandy soil which goes against them, because it easily erodes it. we have dozens of bridges and roads washed out and homes leaning one way or another, and it is a a brutal scene. in the last 12 hours, first responders have been out there trying to e rescue the people, and the people are trapped near the rivers and they are in boats to try to get the people out, and people stuck in water, too, in the vehicles that they have been rescuing, and the bottom line is one foot of rain, and widespread and mobile all of the way to destin and panama city, and numerous reports of up to two feet. this is one guy's rain gauge, and the highest total i have seen, and this is as of 5:00 a.m. this morning, and it said 24 inches in of rain in 25 hours. as far as what it looks like at daybreak in pensacola, the water is covering the downtown area,

and a lot of it is heading up the eastern seaboard, and we won't see the epic flooding like we did in panama city and mobile and pensacola this morning, but we will see the potential of isolated flooding in rivers all of the way up the mid-atlantic, and expects five to six inches of rain wit, and tamron, people want to know about the threats of tornadoes, because was this is day four of the threat of the same stort storm. and then isolated threat of t n tornadoes in central virginia, and south carolina and north carolina, and you have to keep your plans in order in case a tornado heads your way this afternoon. but this flooding, tamron, it is once in a lifetime stuff for those residents and much worse than hurricane ivan which is the storm of record. >> unbelievable. thank you, bill. >> well, the governor of oklahoma is ordering a review of the state's execution process after last night's botched execution of a death row inmate.

they were administer iing the n state's three-drug cocktail to 38-year-old clayton lockett last night when something went wrong. the officials halted the execution, but then he suffered a heart attack and dies. witnesses said that he tried to speak. >> when they closed the curtain, it seemed that he tried to say, "man." >> he was trying to come up off of the gurney. >> he said, man, and something wrong. >> and news chief, and medical editor nancy snyderman says that in this case, it is like ly tha lockett's veins were damaged in the process. >> it is sounds as if the vein stopped working after the first drug was giving so that the

paralysis and medication to stop the heart never worked. >> and charles warner was also to be put to death with the similar cocktail, but the state has postponed his execution for two weeks. and lockett was on death row for the shooting death of two -- of a teenager, and burying her alive. and the other inmate was to be executed for raping and killing a child. and now let's talk about the history of the state and the history of this cocktail that this new use of lethal injection drug drugs and a huge debate of what was happening, and this is supposed to have been the solution. >> yes, as you know, that this combination has never been tried in oklahoma before.

we understand it that the state of florida uses something similar, but in a different d e dosage, and in oklahoma, they had to resort to this because the previous combinations that they had used with executions that i had witnessed previously and other colleagues that i work with, and some of those drugs involved started to become hard to obtain or unavailable, and the manufacturers either wholeheartedly block ed them frm being used because they objected to the death penalty or sometimes the import of compounding pharmacies involved that raised the questions about the safety and the purity of the dr drugs, and also, there are just some xans thcompanies that make different drugs like propanol and a prior drug use that the drugs are not intended for lethal injection, but surgery, and the companies don't want them used for nonmedical purposes to kill people. >> and so the attorney for

clayton lockett says that the state rushed this execution with unproven mix of drugs, and he said that basically, no transparency e regarding the lethal dosage, a a nd violatede his client's rights. >> they wanted to hurry up and get it done without any transparency, and there should not be another execution in this state until there is a full investigation of what went wrong. >> what do we know about the investigation, because it is early there and people are trying to understand what happened, but what do we know about the investigation? >> well, the medical examiner will now have to look at mr. lockett the's body and do an autopsy, and figure out which one of the drugs killed him or cardiac arrest or what was absorbed of the drugs he was given. we do know what drugs he was given and the dosage to be

administered, but we know that he got all of the midsazolam and there will be a toxicology to determine the cause of death, and we will find out who is involved in the investigation, and a lot of people are calling for it to be an outside independent group and not the department of corrections to k make sure that everything is transparent and straight forward. that is the big dispute is that the state felt that it had given the necessary details and information and the basics that it was supposed to give and had to give under the law, but the attorney attorneys for the clients don't agree, because this went horribly wrong. >> and 46-year-old charles warner who was scheduled to be executed last night as well has been postponed for two week wee and is that the all of the information coming from the governor? >> well, that is all of the

information we have now, and mr. warner was to be executed at 8:00 last night, and that is the execution they was to witness. and we have two weeks now, and i would be really surprised or shocked because of the legal challenges coming up now that the two-week date seems odd, and not enough time to get an autopsy, and investigation done. so we will see what happens. >> thank you, carrie, for your reporting on this. and nba commissioner wants donald silver to sell the l.a. clippers, but he needs 3/4 of the owners to agree, and does he have the votes? and what the win said last night against the warriors. >> the magnitude of this was a little crazy. >> and the guys are supportive, because we understand that it is bigger than basketball. >> and bigger than basketball, and we will talk with normer nba player and coach john lucas. >> and the senate is set to vote on a minimum wage increase, but the senate is vowing to stop it

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there is still no reaction from the l.a. clippers' owner donald steriling to the unprecedented lifetime ban handed down by the nba commissioner adam silver. due to the recordings turned over to the nba. and as the clippers played the

first home game since the scandal, chants of "we are one" could be heard throughout staples center last night, and the team pulling off what is a cathartic victory over the golden state warriors 113-103, and adam silver handed down the decision yesterday. >> i am banning mr. sterling for life with any relationship with the los angeles clippers or the nba. as for the ownership of the clippers, i will ushlg -- urge the board of governors to force a sale of the team, and do everything in my power to ensure that that happens. >> and silver is getting praise from the coaches and the players

across the league, and last night many were vocal about the dis satisfaction of the decision, and the support from the fans. >> one of the most emotional thi things that i have ever been a part of, you know. you know, we have a tough locker room, and all of us are tough, but it almost brought tears to your eyes to feel the support from, you know, our fans. >> i think that it definitely made sense, and it with was the right thing. >> and sterling's fate lies with the 29 other owners and at least 22 of them will have to agree to silver's recommendation that he is forced to sell, and it seems that is likely to happen, because all of them have released a statement or shared some message on the social media supporting the commissioner's decision. mark cuban said, i agree with the findings and the he actions taken by commissioner silver, but earlier he had said it was a slippery slope. and this one from michael

reinsdorf of the bulls said that the commissioner was correct to ban mr. sterling from all official nba events, and we will support mr. sterling. thank you so much for joining us, john lucas, and everett, our legal expert. and you say that donald sterling has a lot of cash, and he could tie it up legally for the team, and say he gives the team to his estranged wife or another family member? is that accurate? >> well, the league has wide discretion in imposing whatever penalty they believe is appropriate, but really a that is not the issue. we are one, and we are one together at the intersection of race, sports and money in this country. mr. sterling's comments are

symptomatic of a situation that needs to be addressed and hopefully the nba will take the opportunity to look beyond mr. sterling's comments and address problem problems that result from that kind of mindset. >> are there problems within the nba that are still being swept under the rug, and are you referring to that or you say society? >> well, there is a whole system of the taking the young men from the time they are in high school and they force them into a system that they track them into a program where they don't know how to read and write and think, and they don't know how to dribble or shoot, and they don't know how to really be whole and position and prepare for the life purpose, and the nba can take this opportunity to look it, and use it as a springboard to look at the issues that really result from this kind of thinking of mr. sterling. we are one together at the intersection of race, sports and

money in this country. >> and john, let me bring you in to hear chris paul and the other players talk about the emotions of it, and i was having a conversation last night, and talking about bill russell, and muhammad ali, and jim brown, and the sports legends who knew the social responsibilities, and to the point, these guys are young, but it is almost as if in some cases if they were living a quote, unquote sheltered basketball life, the reality of being a black man was sxwar on with them, and they had to make a decision last night. there was a story that four teams planned to boycott if the commissioner did not come down hard, and what about the reaction after the game? sgl >> well, one of the main things that was accomplished is that first of all that our league is knocking down walls that have been up for so long. through the media and the press and what other way would the owners have to react other than the way they did?

but for the young players, it is really good to see that happen, because they have lost the sense of where this league has come from, and where it once was and where it was from the economical and the money standpoint, and from where it is from taking care of the retired players, and from all of the way of the whole concept, and so what is really coming forth is that the presence of them to remember what the past was about. and to what stel still is there to knock down. and if we don't take advantage of this, they don't know what has happened to them, but what they can realize that in ten years from now is the impact of this decision through adam silver did we can continue the do, but if we don't continue to knock the walls down, then it is not going to help what we can do and something that was also said is that we have to do a better

job of educating the players of what that is. and one of the reasons that i got into the grass roots basketball is to emg kate and to help them understand what that basketball once you leave high school is a business. it is not a sport. people use it as a business. >> and do you believe that it is for the conversation to move forward for the league to move forward and the owners have to provide motive for steriling to sell, and if not, this is unsatisfied? >> no, that is the issue of the economic dollars for him not to sell the team, and for what the league is trying to represent, and especially with the we are one concept. it is a bigger picture. that is the small environment to what is going on. what we have to do is to continue to talk about the, the

hidden racism that is among our society as well. i think that obamacare is going to be one of the greatest things ten years from now sh, and righ now, everybody has rejected obama care, and this may help to knock down walls yet in sports, and we are fighting for this equal rights today, and yet, something that is going to help the whole masses that our sitting president cannot get past, and we are not as outraged about that as we are sports. >> interesting point, john. thank you for joining us, and ever so great to have you on. thank you, both. sghoo and a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows that the president's approval rating and the health care can law -- health care law, and political can editor mark murray will be joining us. and today, paul ryan will be meeting with the congressional black caucus to discuss poverty.

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vote will demonstrate whether they truly care about our economy. >> the senate democrats are pushing legislation today that would cost as many as 1 million jobs today, and legislation that the left flank of their party demands. >> joining me is tim bishshop who is leading the push for john boehner to schedule a poet vote in that chamber for raising the minimum wage, and thank you, congressman, for coming on. >> thank you for having me on. >> and you know, earlier in the week, senator bob corcoran said that he would not vote for the legislation's final passage, but he would give it the key procedural vote, and that is one republican in the senate, but your chamber is always the more completion, and some say the most difficult, but what if any progress are you seeing with the republicans regarding your push? >> thus far, none. i filed the discharge petition

to bring the minimum wage bill to the floor four weeks ago or five weeks ago, and we have 195 democrats out of 199 on the bill, and not a single republican. when we last took up this measure in 2007, we had 82 republicans vote for an increase in the minimum wage, but the membership of the house republicans has moved so far to the right now that the number is simply not attainable any longer. >> and as you know that part of speaker boehner's response was that the senate democrats want to push a bill in his words costing the economy 500,000 to 1 million jobs and we have asked the congressional oversight office about this, but to this point, it seems that the back and forth ends in gridlock in the house, and what if anything can move this forward?

>> well, honest debate could move it forward and that is what could happen if enough members would sign the discharge to bring it to the floor or speaker boehner would decide on his own to bring it to the floor. i would also say that what the speak ser doing is citing incorrectly a cbo study. what the cbo study said that he is citing is that there is a 60% chance that the job impact would be between zero, no job impact and $1 million. what they are saying that is we don't know what the impact is going to be, and they are picking a middle point of 500,000. that is incorrect. factually incorrect, and it is misciting what the cbo report said. >> and so with that said, sir, the point is that you would like to see an honest debate here, and if you are saying that the speaker is deliberately miscategorize org misinforming the public about the cbo report, how can you have a debate with

the speaker and the republicans if they continue to miscite that? >> well, it is a great challenge in the congress, and that is one of the reasons that we have the paralysis and the gridlock that we v because it is not honest debate if we have debates at l all. we call ourselves the people's house, and 73% of americans s support the minimum wage increase, and yet we can't have the debate. so at the minimum, we should have the debate if we are truly sent here to do the work of the people, and 73% say to give them a raise, then we should be having the debate and passing it as well. >> and thank you much for your time, and we will keep an eye on the events today, and stay with msnbc's coverage of president obama's comments about the minimum wage vote today at 3:00 p.m. during "the cycle." and now a million woman march is under way in nigeria where the people are demanding that the government do much more

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in an extremely disturbing story that we brought you yesterday that got a lot of reaction on the social media. a community leader now says that 230 young nigerian girls remain missing more than two weeks after they were abducted by gunmen in a midnight raid at their boarding school in northwest nigeria. 43 girls have returned a after managing to escape, an meantime, a million woman protest march was held in the nigeria capital demanding that the government do more to rescue the girls held captive. this is pictures of the march, and using the #that has been trending bring back our girls. it is believed they were taken by an islamist fundamental list group whose name means education is sinful. and they have claimed killing more than 3,000 people in the last five years in waves of bombings, and other at a tacks.

joining us is the executive director leader located in washington, d.c. >> thank you, tam rrontamron. >> the images are stirring, and why this has not been headlines sooner, and it is bringing kws of why isn't the government doing more? what is the answer to that? >> well, several ways to look at it, tamron. first, i would say that the nigerian american community, and the council are outraged after follow following the group for more than a year. part of why the government is not doing well is refining the message so that they can carry the entire citizenry of nigeria

with them along and they have to proactively go to the neighboring countries providing refuge to the group across the borders, and third, the government needs to do a better job of reaching out to international assistance. this council has provided some advisories to the government that we are waiting response on, and all of these things the government needs to follow through very quickly, and immediately as a matter of fact in order to contain the situation from getting worse. >> and in 2010, the leader of the boca rahon promised to annihilate western education in the nation, and that is the video that you are seeing here, but the targeting of girls, and speaking of education, has escalated and incidents last year as well as the beginning of this year were girls being

target targeted -- why -- i geuess, i don't understand, because we don't know all of the circumstances, but were the girls being protected? was the threat of them fully realize realized? >> well, as a matter of fact, i don't think that the girls were fully protected in respect to the previous threats of the group. the response is for them to go after the boca harem in a total way, and that is not going to be all military, but there is a need for the groups up in the nigeria compare td to the south which is a lot more stable, but the bow -- boko haram has made

threats before these activities a and in the past, he said he would start kidnapping young women, and infidels he calls them, and non-muslim women and take them as hostages or bring them to his foot soldiers as wives. that is a horrendous picture to imagine, but it is precisely what has happened right now. all bets need to be off right now, as the neighboring countries have to be brought into the fight for the government to contain it, and carry the entire nigerian populous along. >> and the girls range in ages 13 to 18, and many of them were forced to marry the abductors, and the government is not doing enough to search for the girls, and has the response been enough in your opinion? >> well, a lot more needs to be

done, and speed kills the enemy. if you sit around and have meetings, and meetings, and so much can get done. now sh now, the president of nigeria is trying and doing a decent job, but the speed of whatever policies are enacted needs to be of primary importance here, and the country also needs to converge around the president. this is a fight that is pretty much for everybody, and the president sitting in nigeria is not going to be able to do it alone. everybody has to line up with him, and the civil society, and everyone, all have to go into a mode to fend them off, boko harmam.

. >> thank you, samuel. the images of the women on the streets protesting and ask iing that their daughters, the girls be brought back. thank you so much, samuel. >> thank you, tamron. news in from the president regarding the health care law, and the new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll out this morning, and before october of the rocky health carka care rol showing a small uptick. joining us is the political editor mark murray, the headline is that the numbers are up a little bit, but far lower than what the administration would like to see. >> that is right, tamron. there is a difference between better and good. the numbers are better, but they are not good with the election

environment six months from now, and this is all in the contextt of the better news in the health care front, and the best stretch they have had in the roll out of 2013 where they have a long ways to go, and one of the other pollsters put it, tamron, you were down five runs in the baseball game, and now down a run or two, and you are still behind, but in a better position than you were. >> and speaking of the position, the president is going to be positioning the minimum wage debate. you know, we spoke with congressman tim bishop who said that the gridlock is evidence in the house, and what can we expect, mark? it is the bully pulpit to the say that this is what the party is for the give the job wage increase to millions of americans, and to boost the minimum wage which is not worth as much as it was in the past years due to the inflation, and in some ways with the

battleground in some of the southern states with populations that are not favorable to the president. he is trying to win some of the folkings over that might not be with him in the health care law, but gosh, i make close to the minimum wage, and that could benefit me and that is the message of he and other democrats are going to be hammering even though the prospects are not good. and a brand new report finds that 150 million americans are breathing unhealthy air everyday. a major inkrecrease from last y by the way. it is one of the things that we are following around the "newsnation" today, and we will talk to a man who suffered a traumatic head injury only to wake up the next day with an extraordinary gift. he is out with a new book called "struck with genius," and how the injuinjury made him a mathematical genius. in about two weeks in most men. axiron is not for use in women or anyone younger than 18

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geni genius. jason page jet was a college dropout who had not made it past college algebra, but one night when he was leaving a bar in tacoma, washington, he was mugged and brutally beaten and that left him with a profound concussion, and changing the way he sees the world. this is pageant today, and he has acquired a savant, a proj ji in one specific area, which is math. it is showing the incredible capacity of the human brain and also what we have not understood about the brain, and he has chronicled his experience in "struck by genius." >> there was one headline called the mullet to mathematical genius, and the girls loved it in the 1980s, and not so much now. but one doctor said it is

extremely rare, and we don't understand it, but it is real. when did you see the first signs? >> well, right afterwards. i thought it was the pain medicine at first that the hospital gave me, and then after that wore off, i realized it wasn't. everythinged ha changed completely. it is like seeing individual discreet picture frames coming th in but by real time. and every time i make the grid small, ki make the motion of everything that i am looking at line up with the vertex point on the grid which is what it turns out calculus is. >> i need somebody to hit me on the head to understand what you just said. so as i understand it, you see the world in formulas and geometric shapes? >> absolutely. >> break it down to the rest of us mere mortals? >> well, basically, imagine like if we have an equation, and we can graph it. and every equation in math and physics is describing the geometry of what is occurring in the universe, so for instance f of x is f squared opens up the

parabo parabolas, and in the real world we have parabolas and x squared and so a good way to think of it is geometry which is the universe is the naturally occurring form of equations. >> jason, did you know anything of this before the e attack? >> no, i was one of the kids who hated math and i would say, when are you going to use this and what good is this for, and now i have actually drawn pi out in several way and put it online to explain it in layman's terms and equations so no matter the level, you can understand the root of mathematics, and understand it. >> and these individuals took your jacket and hit you in the head multiple times, and lucky to be alive and here you are not only alive, but almost a super hero for lack of a better word,

but how much research are you allowing the happen on the brain, and what you have acquired? >> well, they have done the functional mris on me, and three-dimensional maps of my brain, and functional mris show how much oxygen your brain is using and where. and so if i'm writing with a pencil, the part of the brain that uses oxygen is going to show that part uses writing, and so every once in a while, they will flash up an equation, and see what part of my brain works hard come can paired to control subjects, and they find that i have conscious access to parts of the brain that others don't have. >> and what is next for you? >> i would love to be able to teach it to as many people as i c can, which is why it is on line, and do lectures and anything to help spread this knowledge, because it is so easy to understand, and it is exciting. >> well, you are extraordinary, and i know that you have a lot

of things to accomplish, and i want you to get my niece to do better in math, and if we can hook that up, that is my life's goal. jason, i am happy that you are safe and sound and absolute lyj. i could talk to you all day. i probably wouldn't understand it. but thank you for the time. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. all right. get you caught up on some other stories here. the death of beloved actor bob hoskins. best known for "who framed roger rabbit" and "along friday." he retired in 2012 after he was diagnosed with parkinson's disease. he died last night after a bout of pneumonia surrounded by his family. 71 years old. according to a new report by the american lung association 147 million of us, nearly half of all americans, now live in areas where air pollution levels are unhealthy to breathe. that number is up from last year. but the report notes that overall air pollution has

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approve the airmen for their medal. time for the news nation gut check. the united states congress can't seem to agree on a way to extend unemployment benefits here at home. across the pond, stringent new rules are now in effect for those who've not been able to find work in two years. there have been some unemployment proposals for politicians in the u.s. that have drawn con tro strtroversyc. nothing like what's now in place in the uk where the long term unemployed will now have their benefits cut if they don't enroll in a new program called help to work. it requires them to show up at a job center every day, commit to six months of voluntary work or enter into a training program. under the old system people were only required to check in at a job center once every two weeks. the government says there are at least 600,000 job vacancies and the program is not intended to punish the jobless. if people don't comply the government will dock their benefits by four weeks. britain's biggest union calls it forced unpaid labor. prime minister david cameron says it aims to help those who

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