one day away from the republican debate in california, donald trump is getting ready to deliver a speech on national security aboard a battleship. trump says he's defying his critics and here to stay. >> one person, a real loser said, he's a clown, he's a clown. now they're saying, oh, how do we stop this guy? no more clown. i haven't heard the word clown in a while. >> deadly natural disasters in two states. flash flooding kills eight people in utah as a rapidly moving wildfire in california torches hundreds of more homes in businesses. plus, preparations for the pope. new york police commissioner is calling it the largest security challenge this city has ever

faced. fresh off his address to a packed rally of supporters in dallas, tonight donald trump is in los angeles where he will speak aboard the uss iowa. while many see national security as a potential weakness, trump says it's a topic he knows a lot about. >> we're really talking about, in my opinion, the military, of which i really know a lot about. i think one of the biggest surprises will be, if i win, how good i'll be at national security. >> trump's speech comes as a "new york times"/cbs news poll out today contains the most dramatic evidence to date that the primary contest is becoming a two-man race between trump and ben carson, this as others, notably jeb bush lag far behind while trump prepares to be center stage at tomorrow night's debate, the attacks aren't just coming from other candidates. today the club for growth is out

with a million dollar ad questions trump's conservativism. >> which presidential candidate supports higher taxes, national health care and the wall street bail-out? >> it's donald trump. >> trumpme wants us to think he mr. tell it like it is, but he has a record. he's playing us for chumps. >> joining me now, let's start with today's club for growth ads. is this another indication that trump is finally being taken seriously and real money is being put up to stop him? >> well, he had a great line about how the club for growth asked him for a million dollars, so i guess now they're $2 million in the hole, spending a million dollars trying to take him out.

the conservative movement is concerned about him, because he's not a real conservative, and they see he's appealing to conservative base republicans in a way that he's not even talking about issues, just a cult of personality. so for the conservative movement, especially donald trump is a real threat and that's why they'll go after him. >> and romney strategist told the new york magazine for donald trump to win, everything we know about politics has to be wrong and i don't think it is. the timing of when it falls apart is always more difficult to know than inevitably that it will. do you think he's right? >> well, i think a lot of republicans strategists in new hampshire and iowa and nationally, do continue to think that at some point trump will implode. but i'm heard them say they think somebody needs to beat donald trump and they don't know who it's going to be. doesn't look like it's jeb bush. i think this club for growth is important. if they can't knock down donald

trump a couple of pegs, the big question is, who will? >> angela, this was trump last night. he delivered a speech, plenty of bravado, but short on policy specifics, something he's touted proudly in the past. here's a sample. take a listen to this. >> we're going to have so many victories that at some point, they're just going to be coming out of your ears. our military is going to be so strong and so powerful. everybody hates us and they're all winning. i'll make it so we do well with these countries and we'll actually have a better relationship. we'll have a plan that will be so good, we're going to get rid of the borders, you know, the phony boundaries. we can do things with oil and gas that will be unbelievable. we're going to be doing something that's going to be really pro growth, really reduction in taxes. the wall works, just go to israel and say, how's your wall working? walls work. >> so a lot of positive messages

about what he's going to do, but not a lot of specifics. so do you think that tomorrow night that's the best way for candidates to go after trump by making him try and get specific on some of these issues? [ inaudible ] okay, john, let me ask you that question. seems like we're having a problem with angela's mike. we'll get her in a minute. but you heard the sound bites there. do you think the key to going after trump for the other candidates is to try to get him to talk about specific policies? all right, seems like we're having another problem with our microphones in washington. erin, are you still with me? >> i am. i believe so. >> so let me ask you that question. should the candidates go after donald trump with specifics on

policy? >> i think they can try, but it hasn't worked so far. i'm excited to see this national security speech that donald trump will be giving. so far we know he has this aggressive bullying approach, and quite frankly, i think that's what a lot of republican voters want to hear these candidates be doing on topics like national security. i've been hearing scat walker on the campaign trail saying he wants to unleash the u.s. military on the job they were trained to do, to have a more aggressive approach to fighting isis. i think that's what we'll be hearing donald trump saying. and i think other candidates are going to begin to follow suit. i don't think just pinning down on specifics, even if that's better for them, that's what we're seeing from jeb bush and john kasich, that's not what's cutting into donald trump's numbers. the one person who is beginning to gain on donald trump is ben carson. you earlier showed the cbs/"new york times" poll, with them in

about four or five points. reuters has a new poll out today with trump at 32% and ben carson at 16%, and those are newer numbers as well. so while ben carson is the one person who is coming up on donald trump, he's not giving specifics either. and i do think tomorrow and tomorrow night's debate, we'll see the debate moderators try to get ben carson on specifics as well. >> angela, my question to you is about bernie sanders. today he said that trump and other gop candidates were appealing to racist instincts. take a listen to what he had to say. >> i have really very strong concerns with trump and other republican candidates, appealing to really some bad instincts in the american people. you do not call people from other countries, in this case, mexicans, rapists, or criminals.

you don't categorize a people like that. that's racism. that should not be taking place in the year 2015. >> so is that fair criticism? >> it's 100% fair. the one thing we need to pay attention to is the fact that that came from the democratic side, and that's the place where we hear that type of rhetoric. where we're not hearing it yet are from republican candidates who are still in the race. yes, we heard it was nativist and racist from rick perry, but that was in his speech saying he was no longer running. so we have to pay attention to what the gop is going to say while they're still running. are they ever going to flip what they said they need to address in the gop autopsy report? donald trump should be accountable tr that whether he classifies himself as a conservative or not. he's not the only one that was once democratic leaning. also rick perry was, who was also ahead and the front-runner at this time in 2012. >> and same question to you, jonathan. do you feel it's fair criticism

to describe donald trump the way bernie sanders did, not just donald trump, but as bernie sanders said, other gop candidates? >> i think we need a big tent in the republican party. we need to talk about things like immigration reform in a way that can appeal to all voters. we need to fix the border and make more people accountable in the system and get rid of illegal immigration, yes, but make people legal so they can function fully in our economy. we're looking at the polls, looking at the numbers. dem graphically, if we don't appeal to a broader group, we'll lose elections. and that's the reality that republicans have to face. >> you were talking about ben carson earlier. what's he doing right to get the surge in the poll? last time, he flew a little bit under the radar in the last debate. this time, he'll be standing in the middle next to donald trump. do you think ben carson is ready

for primetime? >> well, that is not entirely for me to say, as i am not a voter in these primaries. what i would say, voters really like his personality. they say he's authentic, that he's has the right temperament to be president. that's separate from donald trump. but a lot of the same voters come to trump events that come to carson events. a lot of people say ben carson is nicer and that's why they choose him over donald trump. but for both candidates, it's really about an outsider and personality sort of thing, why they like these two candidates better than anyone else. >> eric mcpike, angela rye and john theory, thank you very much. we'll be following this in the next 24 hours. thanks again. coming up, a terrifying scene in utah as a wall of water sweeps away several cars. at least eight people are dead and five more missing. plus, the officer who was fatally shot in kentucky late sunday night, turns out that he was trying to help the driver

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survive as rescuers rushed to pull people out of a submerged car. jennifer, what's the status of the search that is under way right now. >> the search is very difficult at this hour, because they are searching still for the missing, but with the potential of more thunder showers in the mountains, rushing down like you saw yesterday, and you're seeing in this video here, into flash floods, they have people upstream looking to see if the bank starts to rise again as the thunderstorms move over the mountains. just in the last hour, we did get word from the washington county sheriff's office that a ninth body has been recovered. unaccounted for. said, an of the dead, six were found in utah, two others were found miles downstream in arizona and they were all in two vehicles carrying women and children on their way home from a park yesterday afternoon, 16 people in all. that downpour yesterday was 20

or 30 minutes long in the mountains, but it was so intense with two separate storm cells, that two and a half inches of rain became a 20-foot wall of water as it returned downhill. witnesses say the caravan of two cars had pulled over and was up on higher ground, but the flash flood came up behind them, swept them into the water. the news today is not too encouraging, because they are expecting more thunderstorms, and they've had showers on and off again. if they get up to a half inch of rain that they're expecting all at one time, that flash flood situation could happen again as the water collects and roars down the canyon. so they're being very careful and cautious as they continue the search for victims and hopefully survivors. >> jennifer, thank you very much. now to the fight against the wildfires in california. thousands of firefighters are battling 12 blazes in that

state, while as many as 23,000 residents hope against hope that their homes are spared. jinah kim is in middletown, california for us. what's the latest out there? >> well, there is some good news. we are turning the corner on this fire, thanks to cooler temperatures and rain that is headed our way. but firefighters caution, there's still a ways to go. out of control and on the move, the so-called valley fire, growing to more than 100 square miles. chewing through a tinderbox of drought-stricken forests and decimating neighborhoods. it claimed the life of a 72-year-old disabled woman who couldn't escape in time. >> it came like a freight train. >> 600 homes and buildings destroyed, 9,000 more structures are in danger as the fire burns north of napa wine country. today some residents got their first look at the destruction. >> it's scary to know so many of

our close friends and almost family are out of homes and they have nowhere to go. >> this is just one of about a dozen fires burning throughout california. in all, some 800 homes and buildings have been destroyed. a half million acres charred, and 23,000 people remain evacuated. >> you can't fathom it. like, i don't know if my house is there. >> thousands like bill and his family living in tents and anxiously waiting to see if their homes still stand. >> that's what's left of my home. >> reporter: some already know. it took mere minutes to take everything. >> we're survivors. we'll build anew. >> reporter: but many say their community spirit is stronger than ever. the next update that we get on this fire is about 6:30 p.m. at that time we expect to get a lot of new numbers, containment levels to go up, but also the number of homes destroyed may also go up. >> all right, jinah kim, thank

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found the woman he lived with, 41-year-old amy prentiss dead. they also found a note that said, very sorry, i wish i could take it back. i loved amy and she is the only person who ever loved me. police say lamb also fatally shot university professor ethan schmidt shown here. the massive manhunt for the suspected killer ended overnight when police found lamb driving near greenville, mississippi. he pulled over his car, ran into a nearby wooded area and apparently shot himself. a vigil for professor ethan schmidt is planned for 7:00 p.m. tonight. adam reese joins me now from the delta state campus in cleveland, mississippi. adam, let's talk a little bit more about a possible motive here. are we learning whether or not that has been clear, and whether or not there's any connection between the two victims? >> none of that is clear right now. it's possible the president here says he's just a disgruntled employee with an axe to grind.

these professors knew each other. professor schmidt had acknowledged him in a book he wrote about history. one thing they'll be looking at, he had asked for a lighter load. he had asked to lighten his professorship, he was teaching two courses online. he lived a distance from here in gautier with his girlfriend, who you just mentioned. so they're still trying to connect the dots here, they don't have a motive, other than to say that it's quite possible he just snapped. >> you mentioned a vigil that will be taking place tonight. tell us about what we're expecting, who's expected to attend, what kind of turn-out, and what's the mood been like there on campus all day. >> not a lot of students. most of them have sort of dispersed because there are no classes today. the lockdown was relieved and the classes will resume tomorrow. but tonight we expect to see a lot of students and faculty coming together, trying to come to grips with this, because they

not only lost one proffessor bu two. they were friends, they knew each other. so this is really complicated. they're trying to figure it out. at this point, they don't have a motive. a lot of questions. >> all right, adam, thank you for that update. now to kentucky where we are learning new details about the shooting of a state police trooper that happened there late sunday night. according to police, trooper joseph ponder wanted to do a favor for the driver he pulled over on a rural kentucky highway, 25-year-old joseph johnson shanks was driving with a suspended license, so ponder tried to arrange lodging for him and his two children. but the driver took off. after a nine-mile race, shot and killed the trooper. police say the suspect drew a weapon at police, ignored commands to drop it and was shot. shanks was pronounced dead at a

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striking for a fifth straight day. they say they will remain on the picket line until the deal is finally approved. european union ministers are set to hold a new refugee crisis one week from today as the massive influx is provoking new border controls in europe. hungary has declared a state of emergency, sealing its border with serbia. deta richard engel has more from along the hungary/serbia border. >> reporter: about 24 hours ago, this entire area was flooded with people, refugees and migrants, mostly from the middle east, but not all, trying to get into hungary, entering the country and then making their way north and west toward germany and sweden. now, with this border fence up, that is being patrolled 24 hours a day, by soldiers and police, the flow has stopped.

hungary says it will allow case by case applications, people who want to seek asylum here, but don't try to cut the fence, don't try and sneak in, those who go in legally, their requests will be considered. but hungary says unless they can make a very good case as to why hungary should take them, compared to serbia or macedonia or any of the other countries where they were safe from bashar al assad's bombs or the conflict in iraq, unless they can say why hungary in particular offers unique refuge, that hungary will reject their claims. so it's created an enormous amount of frustration, people who have gotten this far, most of the refugees and migrants have been on the road for weeks. they have spent thousands of dollars. in many cases, they've spent almost all of their life savings only two arrive here at this fence and are being greeted with

a legal argument which says, you don't need to cross it, you're already out of harm's way. unless you can argue why we should let you in, we won't let you in. the migrants aren't accepting this. the refugees don't have a home to go back to that's safe. so they're even in a more difficult position. now both communities, the economic migrants, and the refugees, are facing this situation, this choice. do they go home? for the refugees, not much of a choice at all, or do they find another way around this obstacle? >> richard engel reporting for us. we know many of you out there want to help these people seeking a better life. go to msnbc.com for organizations that can you contact directly. now to a major driver of the migrants' refugee surge into europe, a mass exodus from syria. syrians make up just over half of more than 400,000 migrants crossing into europe this year

alone. just a fraction of the four million syrians who have sought refuge in neighboring countries. fleeing a civil war which has internally displaced more than seven million syrians and left more than 200,000 people dead. lester holt spoke to one syrian man who just arrived in hungary, who had a simple explanation for why he and his family fled. >> we are escaping. when i see my kids, my family, we're afraid. >> i'm joined by human rights watch executive director, ken roth. we'll get into specifics of the reporting that we saw there. we're hearing about the sudden flood of migrants and refugees on the doorsteps of europe, but the truth of the matter s it's been going on for some time. you were there in july. why is there a sudden spike that the world is focusing on this

and what is life like for ordinary syrian civilians? >> the world is focusing on this because these refugees are showing up in europe. you just gave 400,000 as the people who have kraffed the mediterranean to europe every year. that's a lot of people, but it's less than one-tenth of one percent. it's a number of europeans can handle. lebanon today, between 20 and 25% of the population is composed of syrian refugees. so the countries of the region have been accepting a much larger burden. but you wouldn't know that from europe where all this belly-aching is taking place. >> and we saw richard reporting on the hungary/serbian border and the fence that's been put up by the hungarian government. they want to curb the flow of people coming through their country. >> i've got to say, nobody wants

to settle in europe. th -- nobody wants to settle in hungary. these people have all come from greece, the european union member. once they arrive in greece, they have the right to seek asylum. there's a question as to which country they should be settled in. but the european union should be bussing people or training them to the north, not forcing them to go through this ordeal. >> the concern is that you can only apply for asylum in the country in which you arrive, so countries like greece or hungary don't want them to come in and apply for asylum so they're not forced to deal with the cases in hungary. >> those are the dublin rules. everybody understands these rules are not workable. it's northern europe's effort to dump the asylum problem on southern europe. they've got to change that and germany already has. so you need a more orderly process to let people get to northern europe.

>> the overwhelming majority of these people are refugees leaving war-torn countries, including libya, syria, and some from afghanistan. can you address the european refugee/migrant crisis without addressing the conflict in syria and libya? >> i think syria is the key. roughly half of the refugees are from syria. if you look at why they're fleeing, yes, there's isis, but the dominant force pushing people out is the way the government is targeting civilians. there's no place safe to stay in syria. the weapon of choice for assad has been the barrel bomb, oil canisters filled with explosives and shrapnel that are dumped out the side of helicopters. >> indiscriminate? >> yes. >> secretary of state john kerry will travel to london to participate in these ongoing

refugee emergency crisis talks that are taking place there. let's talk about what the united states can do. one of the major concerns among u.s. officials and european officials is the security concern, with a mass exodus of syrians and others from the region. you don't know who is good from who is bad. from an official government point of view, they use that as a major cause of concern for them, as to how we'll screen hundreds of thousands of people to try to take them in. what is your response to that? >> i got to say, these concerns are so overstated. first of all, there are 34 million people who enter the united states in 2014. most of them, you know, who knows where they come from? but there's not in extensive screening. it's just because obama sees himself as politically responsible for the 10,000 he's now said he would admit from syria, that they're going through this two-year screening process, which is just excessive. if you were a well financed terrorist group, would you be putting people on rickety boats across the mediterranean?

no, you'd fly them over or recruit people from within the country. the u.s. should be opening the doors the way germany is. >> thank you very much for that update. it's a tragic situation that continues to unfold. we appreciate your insight. >> thank you. coming up, the plot against the pope. the fbi arrests a teenager for planning a major terror attack. the pope, one of the targets. new details just ahead. and next, it's the group hillary clinton has always counted on, so why are women abandoning her in droves and the continuing bernie sanders' surge in the polls. right after this break. everyone loves the picture i posted of you.

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founded by jerry faldwell. today the self-described democratic socialist described why he thinks his message can resonate with evangelicals. >> i went to liberty university because i think it's important for us politicians to reach out and talk to people who have disagreements with them. but secondly, i think there can be common ground in people coming together, in terms of addressing such issues as the collapse of the american middle class and the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that we're seeing in america today. >> meanwhile, hillary clinton is seeking to show off her support among women this week, criss-crossing iowa. the former secretary of state unveiled a new campaign platform for combatting sexual assault on college campuses and pledged to defend abortion rights. she's trailing sanders in new hampshire, including a 4% gap

among women. joining me now is nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell and chief political correspondent jonathan allen. andrea, a question i never thought i'd be asking, but is bernie sanders now the front-runner in this race? >> he's certainly ahead in new hampshire. he's not ahead in iowa. he's not ahead nationally, but he's got a lot more enthusiasm and passion among his supporters than hillary clinton. she has more money, a better organization, but he has people coming out to see him. and coming out to see him with the kind of enthusiasm that campaign organizers like to see. it's critical to get people to the polls obviously. and so she has yet to generate that. and she's losing a lot of people, 29%, in the latest cbs -- excuse me -- "the washington post"/abc poll showed her losing 29% of her white women supporters just in the

last eight weeks, and losing them, not to bernie sanders, but to joe biden who is yet undeclared. >> we'll talk about the campaign in a moment, in terms of how they're responding. but jonathan, i wanted to ask you about hillary clinton and the spat between a super pac and bernie sanders. you know, she herself is avoiding criticizing bernie sanders, but as i was saying, a pro clinton super pac recently sent out an e-mail linking sanders to the late leader hugo chavez. and sanders shot back today, saying it was the kind of onslaught i expected to see from the koch brothers or sheldon adelson, a adelson. is this a turning point between the two democratic candidates? >> i'm not sure the super pac memo in and of itself was not intended to be broadcast publicly. but i think there's a sign going

on from clinton herself right now. last week she called herself a moderate. she'd been campaigning as a liberal. now she's calling herself a moderate, talking about how she wants to draw contrast with him in debates. i think she learned from the last campaign that going after a popular, insurgent democratic candidate in a really tough way is probably not the best route for her. but at the same time, i think she's hearing from a lot of donors that it's time for her to address bernie sanders as a threat to her winning the nomination. >> andrea, this was a point you mentioned as well, which was the newest washington post/abc poll which showed that a 20% drop in support for clinton among female democratic voters. you know this campaign very well. are you hearing the clinton campaign is hitting the panic butt button? >> not the panic button, but they're taking notice. it's not so much bernie sanders, because he did not rise in that poll.

it was joe biden and his support that went sharply up. and what they are looking at is what they consider a shadow campaign this week. that joe biden is going to the battleground states of california, michigan and ohio. and in ohio, he's going to be talking about sexual assault on college campuses, which is an issue that she carved out for herself starting yesterday in iowa. so you're going to see more and more of joe biden testing the waters as he makes the decision, trying to figure out whether the support would be there. and that's where the clinton campaign is looking over their shoulder. >> and jonathan, at the same time, you have a new editorial to the des moines register, equating donald trump with jerk at the bar, family reunion or sporting event who disrespects women. are women likely to defect to a republican in the general election, do you think? >> i think what we've seen in the last couple election cycles is a huge gender gap where

democrats have been very dominant and i don't expect that to change whether donald trump's the candidate or another republican. he's said some things that are offensive about women, it does not appear to be hurting his support level in the republican party, which is a little surprising, but not shocking. >> and the "wall street journal" said that sanders' programs will cost about $18 trillion. i want to play a sound bite of him talking about that. >> we are going to demand that the wealthiest people and the largest corporations in this country do start paying their fair share of taxes. when we have massive income and wealth inequality, when 58% of all new income is going to the top 1%, when you have major corporations in a given year paying zero in federal income taxes, yes, we need real tax reform to bring in substantially

more revenue. >> and that was an interview he was talking to you. is sanders saying, so what? >> i think what he was saying is he disputes the way they're calculating the expenditures. because they're calculating it based on largely health care and a single payer system, which he has long advocated. he's saying they're not counting the savings from having a single payer system and from having a healthier overall society. the emergency room care, all of the other calculations that the obama white house itself in advocating for obamacare calculated. so they are giving a gross figure, but not a net figure of what the savings would be if his programs were truly implemented. >> thank you both for that. and don't miss andrea mitchell reports weekdays at noon eastern right here on msnbc. coming up, one week until pope francis's historic visit to the united states. security officials are already

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just two hours from now, the senate will hold a second vote on the iran nuclear deal. senate republicans have scheduled a 6:00 p.m. vote on a motion to disprove of the deal. it's the same motion that failed last week. republican leaders have planned the revote in the hope that some democrats who support the deal would change their mind. tonight's motion is expected, though, to fail again. meanwhile, north korea has restarted all of its atomic bomb production plants. and yesterday it announced it's ready to launch satellites on rockets. while it's thought north korea has a small arsenal of atomic bombs and short and medium range missiles, it's yet to demonstrate it can place them on a missile. pope francis arrives in the united states one week from today and with security preparations under way, the fbi has arrested a teenager from outside philadelphia for allegedly planning an isis

inspired attack on the pontiff while he's here in the united states. keir simmons reports from the vatican. >> reporter: confirmation that a 15-year-old boy, arrested outside philadelphia last month, is accused of planning an isis-inspired attack on the pope. reports say the plan had been to target pope francis during his history-making u.s. tour. those reports quote a joint fbi, homeland security bulletin, saying the assault would include multiple attackers, firearms, and explosives. that bulletin says the minor had obtained explosive instructions and was spreading them through social media. in new york, officials are gearing up for an unprecedented security test. the large screens at many police headquarters showing high priority concerns during an exercise by homeland security. >> this event is going to be the largest security challenge that the department and the city have ever faced. >> the papal visit coincides

with the 70th anniversary of the united nations, which will bring 170 of the world's leaders to the city at the same time. >> we can say safely, we've never seen something like this before. and we welcome it, we look forward to it. >> this latest arrest illustrates how isis social media is reaching young people, even inspiring them to attack the pope while he's in the u.s. >> and as with the vatican, new york authorities say that they know of no credible threat against the pope. reports say that the plot by this young man was, it seems, aspirational in nature, and the vatican is saying that it still does expect that the president will meet the pope when he touches down in the u.s. for the first time. back to you. >> keir simmons in rome, thank you. that does it for me this hour. jonathan capehart picks up our live coverage next. stay with us. i'm jonathan capehart.

tonight another republican candidate is closing in on donald trump's lead. plus, a pro clinton super pac attacks bernie sanders and he fires back. and security concerns are growing ahead of the pope's u.s. visit. but first, ben carson is closing in on donald trump. polling from cbs news and "the new york times" shows the gap between donald trump and ben carson has thinned to 4% nationally. carson is within the margin of error. that means they're basically tied. trump's climb is overshadowed by carson's massive leap. last month, carson was polling 6% and trump isn't impressed by carson's buzz. >> here's the headline. carson surging. i say, what about me, where's my name? i'm at 40. where's my name? it's unbelievable. do you know where my name is? [ cheers and applause ] >> they don't know where my