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>> that was rachel very early this morning with her reaction to donald trump's immigration speech and rachel will be back here tomorrow night and i'll see you tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 and now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnel, a at 4:00, up next, "first look." break news overnight. hermine has downgraded to a tropical storm. after making landfall in florida, flooding streets, toppling trees, and leaving thousands of people without power this morning. donald trump's tough talk on immigration leaves some of his advisers heading for the exit. but at least one surrogate set social media on fire with his support. plus -- >> my biggest problem with donald trump, i'll tell you about it in a minute, is not his cockamamie policies. it's the way he treats people. >> the vice president joe biden hits the campaign trail for a hillary clinton and hammers donald trump's character during a rally in ohio.
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good morning, everyone. it's friday! september 2nd i'm betty nguyen alongside louis burgdorf. we want to begin with breaking news. florida hit with its first hurricane in more than a decade. hermine slammed into the florida coast early this morning as a category 1 hurricane. packing winds of up to 80 miles an hour. it's since been downgraded to a tropical storm. forecasters still warn the storm surge and flooding could be life threatening. so let's go right to nbc meteorologist bill karins with the latest on this as we continue to watch hermine as it's making its way across the land there in florida. again, being downgraded to a tropical storm. all right, bill is watching all of this as the rest of us, especially those in florida, how bad is it there, bill? >> good morning to you, betty. all night long the north florida coastline was the one that sustained the most damage with a
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lot of power outages around the tallahassee area. that's where they saw the highest winds. we haven't seen any reports on land of hurricane force wind. it was estimated it was a hurricane at landfall at 80-mile-per-hour winds about 1:30 in the morning. the storm has moved across northern florida, and is now in areas of southern georgia, the current time now downgraded to a tropical storm. it will continue to weaken. the wind effects from this storm will get less and less as we go throughout the morning. we still have this huge rain shield and now we're going to worry about the possibility of flash flooding, and the possibility of any isolated tornadoes as we go throughout the morning. right now 50 miles northeast of tallahassee, florida, in southern georgia and it's going to make a leeline towards charleston and wilmington later on tonight. one of the things we have to worry about is tornadoes. some systems typically produce more tornadoes. others don't produce as many. we don't know exactly the science of that. but there is still a tornado watch. this has not produced any known tornadoes. that's great. doesn't mean there won't be later on today, especially this
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afternoon if we get heating and breaks of sun in between the bands. as far as the tornado threat is up around the savannah, georgia, area. if ee get any more wind damage near valdosta to georgia. southern portions of north carolina, the entire southern half of the state of south carolina and then savannah to brunswick to jacksonville. again these are typically smaller type tornadoes. now the hurricane center just came out with the new watches, the new warnings, and the new path. let's break that down. still under a tropical storm watch from just about areas from virginia beach, norfolk area northward. the jersey shore still under tropical storm watch. still some questions about just how close the storm will be to the jersey shore and also maryland and delaware. still have tropical storm warnings from data beach area to cape hatteras. and the actual forecast track does take this as we go throughout the entire day today right through southern georgia, south carolina, north carolina, exits as we go throughout saturday afternoon. so that's the highest impacts of rain and a little bit of wind
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gusts on the coastline there of south carolina as we go throughout the show today i'll break down a little more how much rain we can expect and what the effects will be for the labor day holiday weekend in the mid-atlantic and northeast. >> that's a large swath of area being affected. don't go far because we're going to check back in with you in just a bit. florida residents are already surveying the damage. parts of cedar key were pounded by high winds. you can see downed trees. a number of homes in the low-lying city are covered in water. thousands were left without power. apalachicola is in the dark. right now a state of emergency remains in effect for 51 florida counties. of course we will continue to follow the latest with tropical storm hermine throughout the hour. let's turn to politics now. donald trump is wavering in his rhetoric on immigration once again after giving a stridently pro-deportation speech on wednesday in which he laid out a policy of no legalization for millions of undocumented within the united states, trump again
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said a softening could occur. and in another interview last night suggested his plans were uncertain. >> the line last week you're softening on immigration, then you come out with a very specific, very pro-enforcement plan last night. where's the softening? >> oh, there's softening. look we do it in a very humane way and we're going to see with the people that are in the country, obviously i want to get the gang members out, the drug peddlers out, the drug dealers out. we want to -- we got a lot of people in this country that you can't have. and those people will get out. and then we're going to make a decision at a later date once everything is finalized. i think you're going to see there's really quite a bit of softening. we're going to get rid of all of the bad players that are here. the gang members, the gang leaders, the drug dealers. after that take place, which will be a process, and it won't go that quickly but it's going to go as quickly as any human being can do it, after that take place we're going to sit back, we're going to assess the situation, we're going to see
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where we are. because we'll have people in the country that, you know, that have come in illegally. we're going to sit back, we're going to assess the situation, we're going to make a decision at that time. >> all right. so in case he left anyone confused donald trump tweeted yesterday morning simply quote mexico will pay for the wall with an exclamation point. but later yesterday president enrique pena nieto responded saying quote i repeat what i told him personally, mr. trump, mexico will never pay for a wall. trump, however, had no doubts. >> oh, it will happen at the right time it will happen. this is just the beginning of a negotiation. if i win, if i become president, mexico will pay for the wall. he, you know, rightfully said i know their position for a long time. they say they don't want to pay for the wall, and every negotiation starts that way. but mexico will pay for the wall. if you look at what's going on with mexico, we have a tremendous trade deficit with mexico. tremendous trade deficit.
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and, it's -- that's so much more. i mean the wall is peanuts compared to the kind of money you're talking about. no, mexico will pay for the wall and i think they'll end up actually being very happy to do so. >> now some hispanic leaders who have been advising trump say they feel betrayed following his most recent comments on immigration. surrogate steve cortez told msnbc said most of trump's hispanic advisory counsel urged him to soften his policy while corey lewandowski said trump's target audience wednesday was not latinos. >> i gave him advice on immigration as did other people on the council. he didn't take all of it. but i'm not the candidate. he is. >> if you look at the polling data, he has about an 18-point lead in the demographic of white males who are voting in this election. they have a high propensity of voting so he's got about on 18-point lead on hillary clinton in that particular demographic. this speech is clearly geared at those individuals right now to make sure that they're there. he locked them in for the election. >> meanwhile another trump
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surrogate, marco gutierrez, who is also the founder of the group latinos for trump, made an unconventional argument for the candidate's immigration plan last night. >> we need to understand that this is a different time and we're having problems here. >> what problems? what problems are you talking about? >> my culture is a very dominant culture. and it's imposing and it's causing problems. if you don't do something about it you're going to have taco trucks every corner. >> well, shortly after that exchange, the phrase taco trucks on every corr began trending on twitter. >> hillary clinton has spent the last month working on the donor circuit and the results are in yesterday her campaign reported raising a staggering $143 million in august. $62 million goes to the campaign while $81 million goes to other democrats. to put that into perspective here it's $53 million more than she raised in the month of july. now the joint fund began september with a total of $152
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million. in the bank. and they are spending some of it in twrad igsally republican areas expanding into georgia, arizona and even utah. and mike pence was campaigning yesterday the state that gave mitt romney his biggest margin of victory in 2012 and in arizona john mccain is taking on his well funded democratic opponents by seeming to suggest that clinton will win. >> my opponent, representative ann kirkpatrick is a good person but if hillary clinton is elected president, arizona will need a senator who will act as a check, not a rubber stamp. >> a new report says donald trump was forced to pay a penalty over questionable political contribution by the charity bearing his name. according to "the washington post," the irs hit trump with a $2500 fine this year for a tax law violation by the donald j. trump foundation. the paper says the organization gave $25,000 in 2013 to a group called justice for all which was
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supporting florida attorney general pam biondi's re-election campaign. now at that time, biondi was considering whether to investigate fraud allegations against trump university but later decided not to pursue the case. the development comes amid a new "usa today" suffolk university poll that shows trump and hillary clinton are nearly tied with voters saying they are untrustworthy. 61% to 59%. while on the campaign trail for clinton vice president joe biden spoke with msnbc's kasie hunt where he tried to defend the controversial practices by the clinton foundation that have damaged that trust. >> has the clinton foundation always been 100% ethical in your view? >> look, i think the clinton foundation, like all foundations, have found themselves in a position where things are changing, and i think she's going to change, adjust to the realities of -- of how complicated it's all become. >> and is she clearing herself up enough with that? should the foundation have stopped taking foreign donations now? >> well, i think you'll see them
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stop taking foreign donations. >> the trump campaign pounced on vice president biden's comments, releasing a statement that reads in part, the fact that even the vice president can't vouch for the clinton foundation's ethics speaks volumes about hillary clinton's terrible judgment. vice president joe biden didn't hold back when it came to going after donald trump while campaigning in ohio for hillary clinton. during his stop in warren yesterday, the vice president ripped trump for not understanding the middle class. >> i'm so sick and tired. i know i'm not supposed to get angry, but i'm so sick and tired of hearing people like trump and the chamber of commerce, the national chamber talking about we get paid too much. that we don't -- give me a break. give me a break. this is a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth, that now he's choking on because his foot's in his mouth along with the spoon. >> donald trump is set to visit a largely black church in
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detroit tomorrow as part of his continued effort to court minority voters and his campaign is reportedly looking to keep him on script during his conversation with the church's pastor. "the new york times" has obtained an eight page draft script showing trump's campaign has prepared answers for the republican nominee to give for a dozen questions by bishop wayne t. jackson. the "times" adds that the answers were written with the help of african-american republican advisers and it goes on to say that q&a session which won't be open to the public or media, will be edited with the help of trump's aides before it airs on jackson's impact network. jackson told msnbc's tamron hall yesterday that he did not invite trump to his church but rather the campaign reached out to him. a spokesperson for the clinton campaign criticized the visit saying in part, donald trump's latest gimmick to act as if he cares about the black community is downright shameful, insulting and cowardly. not surprisingly trump's ignorance on issues like the economy, criminal justice reform, the meaning of quality healthcare or systemic racism, has forced him to resort to
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scripted conversations, and staged engagements with our communities. and senator bernie sanders is set to hit the campaign trail for his former rival hillary clinton. sanders will spend his labor day in new hampshire where the clinton campaign says he will discuss the economy. the move marks the first time the senator has campaigned for clinton alone since he endorsed her back in july. meanwhile, the closely watched battle for kelly ayotte's senate seat remains in a virtual dead heat. new hampshire governor maggie hassan tops aat-44% to 42% within the margin of error there but less than half of likely voters say they have decided which candidate they will vote for so it's still a toss-up there betty. >> yeah well coming up 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick isn't backing down from his national anthem protest. in fact he found some support in san diego last night. plus a huge rocket explosion at cape canaveral. it leaves space-x engineers trying to figure out what went
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continuing to follow the very latest on tropical storm hermine let's bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, the storm is making landfall and causing a lot of havoc there in florida. >> yeah. i think once the sun comes up the tallahassee area, there will be a lot of trees down and that's where the power outages will take the long toast be restored. estimates over 100,000 in that region especially that's where the storm made landfall. i had a little more time to read the new discussion out of the hurricane center, get their thoughts on this. friction is taking its effect. when the storms were over the open water they were able to get the momentum going easier because there's no friction from trees or mountains or houses, whatever is in the way. once the storm gets over land friction becomes more of a component and the storms weaken. that's what's happening now. by 2:00 p.m. today they think the winds will go from 70 down to 50 miles per hour. when you get to only 50-mile-per-hour max we don't really see a lot of power
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outages after that point. that's good news for charleston, myrtle beach, wilmington, northern east carolina. not expecting a lot of power outages. by saturday at 2:00 a.m. only expecting winds at 45. then the storm exits eastern north carolina by saturday afternoon. that leaves us with two concerns. one is what happens to the storm this weekend? because notice it goes from 45-mile-per-hour wind, it kind of loops out here and look how long, this is sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday. this forecast linkers this storm off the mid-atlantic coast for about five days, and look at the cone of uncertainty it goes all the way back to eastern pennsylvania, central new england and back out here to the open atlantic. so there's still a lot of questions how close this will be here. no matter what will there be large waves, rip currents, and times gusty winds. how close the rain shield gets to areas of the mid-atlantic, i mean if it was a little closer to the coast, we could do with a three or four-day rain event in this region. right now it's going to be just
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offshore. the storm surge, we could get another one to three feet of storm surge right around 10:00 a.m. then when this storm linkers out here that water is going to pile up. notice the winds out of the east, areas of long island sound that's going to be great concern. ocean city maryland northwards to the delaware coastline. wherever the water piles up, it may do so for three or four days in a row. there are some concerns with this storm even after we're done with the southeast today. >> that pesky cone of uncertainty. >> that's right. >> this thing could linger till the middle of next week. it's like the never ending story. >> all right, thank you bill. spacex is trying to figure out what went wrong after an unmanned rocket exploded during a test at cape canaveral yesterday. it happened two days before a scheduled launch. nbc's tom costello has those details. >> it happened on cape canaveral, launch pad 40. a massive explosion, an unmanned spacex falcon-9 rocket launched in a giant fireball that the company says started in the upper stage oxygen tank.
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>> evacuating complex 41 but it's south of 41. >> wow. it's still going. >> the explosion so big witnesses could see and feel it miles away. even caught on weather radar. >> it's a rocket segment that blew up. it's heading out towards the beach. >> temporarily closing down the beach. >> reporter: amazingly, no one was injured. it happened during an engine pest fire op on saturday the rocket was supposed to launch an israeli communications satellite into orbit from which facebook planned to beam home internet access to africa. facebook's ceo mark zuckerberg saying he was deeply disappointed by the launch failure. >> three, two, one, liftoff. >> reporter: it's not the first disapointment for spacex. founded by billionaire elon musk it suffered a series of setbacks with the reusable rockets. but also tremendous success launching cargo resupply missions to the space station. the falcon 9 rocket is the same design that is supposed to one day carry humans to the station.
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former astronaut steve robinson is an nbc news news analyst. >> this is a very competive industry of course and it's also very unforgiving industry. you have to balance being hard charging and being extremely careful. >> that was tom costello reporting. still ahead, penn state makes plans to honor controversial former head coach joe paterno. plus the latest from the u.s. open. we're back in a moment. she spent summer binge-watching. soon, she'll be binge-studying. get back to great.
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welcome back. people now for sports colin kaepernick isn't backing down during last night's preseason game in san diego during salute to military night the san francisco 49ers quarterback once again chose to sit during the national anthem. this time he wasn't alone teammate eric reid joined kaepernick taking a knee next to him in the silent protest. >> i realize that men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put theirselves in harm's way for my freedom of speech and my freedoms in this country, and my freedom to take a seat or take a knee. so i have the utmost respect for them. the message is that we have a lot of issues in this country that we need to deal with. we have a lot of people that are oppressed. we have a lot of people that aren't treated equally. aren't given equal opportunities. you know police brutality is a huge thing that needs to be addressed. there are a lot of issues that need to be talked about, need to
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be brought to life, and we need to fix those things. >> kaepernick added that he plans to work with organizations addressing the issue and will donate the first $1 million he makes this year to other organizations helping communities. and what could be a preview of things to come this season, over in oakland seattle seahawks cornerback jeremy lane also chose to sit during the anthem. all right. penn state will formally honor former head coach joe paterno during a game on september the 17th. the date marks the 50th anniversary of paterno's first game as head coach back in 1966. now, exact details surrounding the event have yet to be released. but you may remember paterno was fired back in 2011 amid the jerry sandusky child abuse scandal although he maintained he knew nothing about the allegations and was never charged with any crime relating to the scandal, penn state also removed the statue of paterno from outside beaver stadium. he died in january 2012 from cancer. all right.
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and the williams sisters are a force to be reckoned with that is for sure. >> for sure. we'll see how far they get this year. >> okay. the very latest on tropical storm hermine. it hit florida as a hurricane but first for the sunshine state in more than a decade in the city of tallahassee more than 70,000 people are reportedly without power which may not be restored for days. we'll be right back. it's a very specific moment, the launch window. we have to be very precise. if we're not ready when the planets are perfectly aligned, that's it. we need really tight temperature controls. gineering, aerodynamics- a split second too long could mean scrapping it all and starting over. propulsion, structural analysis- maple bourbon caramel. that's what we're working on right now. from design through production, siemens technology helps manufacturers meet critical deadlines. i think this'll be our biggest flavor yet. when you only have one shot, you need a whole lot of ingenuity. my bladder leakage made me feel like i couldn't be the father that i wanted to be. now i use depend. i can move the way i really want. unlike the bargain brand, new depend fit-flex underwear
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good morning. it's friday, september 2nd. i'm louis burgdorf alongside
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betty nguyen. we want to get right to our breaking news this morning. >> florida hit with its first hurricane in more than a decade. hermine slammed into the coast as a category 1 hurricane packing winds up to 80 miles an hour. it has since been downgraded to a tropical storm. forecasters still warn the storm surge and flooding could be life threatening. let's go right to mbs neateologist bill karins with the latest on this. how bad is it out there? >> i think north florida is going to look pretty impressive. they were hit by 80-mile-an-hour hurricane. a low end category 1 storm. you expect downed trees. of course with a night falling landfall these are the pictures that we have for you. a lot of the blowing of the trees, a lot of the squalls that come through when the sun comes up we'll start giving you some of the damage pick urs i'm sure we'll have a lot of scenes of trees on homes, things like that. over 100,000 people without power at least and that number continues to grow as the storm and winds continue to crank in northern portions of florida and southern georgia. that's the power surges there and the sparking of the power lines in northern florida.
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so let's take you into the storm. again it did drop to a tropical storm we expect that this is one of those weird storms that the highest impacts were what we saw about four hours ago. then we're going to watch it weaken through south carolina and georgia, as long as we don't get any tornadoes it shouldn't be too life threatening. then the storm is going to reintensify off the mid-atlantic coast and could provide significant damage all the way through long island. 70-mile-an-hour winds racing to the northeast at 14 which is good. that's not sitting in any one location too long. as long as it continues to move that lessens the effects of the rain. the storms that linger like the one we had in louisiana about two, three weeks ago, those are the ones that produce epic flooding. the ones that are on the move we won't see huge widespread flooding. we'll get four to eight inches in a large area, but you won't get the 20 inch totals. we do have a tornado watch. we haven't had any reported yet. they're still going to be possible from jacksonville, brunswick up to safina.
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as storm as the storm surge went, the highest i saw was around cedar key. that's a record for the cedar key area. the high tide -- high tide is about 10:00 a.m. this morning around savannah and charleston. you should expect high water this morning right around 10:00 a.m. that will be about the peak of it for georgia and south carolina coast lines. then as the tide settles down and winds die off a little bit the storm surge won't be quite as bad. one to three feet some of the back bay areas could be higher, water rises maybe as high as four feet to five feet. here's the storm track. this is sunday. the storm is off the coast, becomes a hybrid system. like a mix of a tropical system and a nor'easter and it may sit here for three to four days. if we get that sustained wind coming from the east into areas say, long island sound, that water is going to pile up and every high tide cycle it's going to get a little bit worse starting on sunday, possibly all the way out till about tuesday or wednesday.
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so we may see major coastal flooding problems in areas of long island sound, new york harbor, all the way in to areas here from ocean pines northwards up towards wilmington, delaware area, those are some of the greatest concerns as we head through monday, tuesday, wednesday of next week. something to keep in mind. we may actually see something where the storm is far enough off the coast for a very little wind problems inland areas. very little problems with rain. but we still could deal with this horrible storm surge that could do a lot of damage into the upcoming week. >> seems like the storm just won't go away. it's lingering. >> we went and looked. we've been tracking this storm for the last 11 days, and it looks like it has at least four four or five left. >> all right, bill. we will check back in with you in just a bit. florida residents they're already surveying the damage parts of cedar key were pounded by high winds last night and you can see downed trees on top of cars, and homes. a number of roads in the low-lying city are covered in water. tens of thousands were left without power across the state.
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we're told the entire city of apalachicola is in the dark. right now a state of emergency remains in effect for 51 florida counties. of course we will continue to follow the latest with tropical storm hermine throughout the hour. >> let's turn to politics. donald trump is wavering on his rhetoric on immigration once again after giving a stridently pro-deportation speech on wednesday in which he laid out a policy of no legalization for the millions of undocumented within the united states, trump again said a softening could occur. and in another interview last night suggested his plans were uncertain. >> the line last week you are softening on immigration then you come out with a very specific, pro-enforcement plan last night, where's the softening? >> oh, there's softening. look we do it in a very humane way. and we're going to see with the people that are in the country, obviously i want to get the gang members out, the drug peddlers out, the drug dealers out. we want to -- we got a lot of people in this country that you can't have. and those people will get out.
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and then we're going to make a decision at a later date once everything is finalized. i think you're going to see there's really quite a bit of softening. we're going to get rid of all of the bad players that are here. the gang members, the gang leaders, the drug dealers. after that take place, which will be a process, and it won't go that quickly but it's going to go as quickly as any human being can do it, after that take place we're going to sit back, we're going to assess the situation, we're going to see where we are. because we'll have people in the country that, you know, that have come in illegally. we're going to sit back, we're going to assess the situation, we're going to make a decision at that time. >> some hispanic leaders say they feel detrayed following his decision. steve cortez said most of the advisory council urged the candidate to soften his immigration policy while his former campaign manager cory lewandowski said trump's target audience wednesday was not latinos. >> i gave him advice on
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immigration as did other people on the council. he didn't take all of it. you know what? i'm not the candidate. he is. >> if you look at the polling data, he's got about an 18-point lead in the demographic of white males, who are voting in this election. they have a high propensity of voting so he's got about an 18-point lead on hillary clinton in that particular demographic. this speech is clearly geared at those individuals right now to make sure that they're there. he's locked them in for the election. >> meanwhile another trump surrogate who is also the founder of the group latinos for trump made an unconventional argument for the candidate's immigration plan last night. >> we need to understand that this is -- this is a different time and we're having problems here. >> what problems? what problems are you talking about? >> my culture is a very dominant culture. and it's imposing, and it's causing problems. if you don't do something about it you're going to have taco trucks every corner. >> well, shortly after that exchange, the phrase taco trucks on every corner began trending on twitter. new national polling shows
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hillary clinton with a solid lead over donald trump. the "usa today" suffolk university poll has clinton ahead by seven points 48% to 41%. that lead holds in a four-way match-up, 42% to trump's 35%. gary johnson at 9%, and jill stein at 4%. "the new york times" reported last month that trump's internal polling warned him that too many voters described him as racist and in that new national poll 47% of likely voters say they do not think trump is a racist. more than four in ten, 44% say think they he is. >> and hillary clinton has spent the last month working the donor circuit and the results are in. yesterday her campaign reported raising a staggering $143 million in august. $62 million goes to the campaign while $81 million goes to other democrats. to put that into perspective, that's $53 million more than she raised in the month of july alone. the joint fund began in september with a total of $152 million in the bank. and they are spending some of it
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in traditionally republican areas. expanding into georgia, arizona, and even utah. where republican vice presidential nominee mike pence was campaigning yesterday. the state that gave mitt romney his biggest margin of victory in 2012. and arizona john mccain is taking on his well-funded democratic opponent by suggesting that clinton will win. >> my opponent, representative ann kirkpatrick, is a good person. but if hillary clinton is elected president, arizona will need a senator who will act as a check, not a rubber stamp. >> a new report says donald trump was forced to pay a penalty over a questionable political contribution by the charity bearing his name. according to "the washington post" the irs hit trump with a $2500 fine this year for a tax law violation by the donald j. trump foundation. the paper says the organization gave $25,000 in 2013 to a group called justice for all, which was supporting florida attorney
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general pam bondy's re-election campaign. at that time bondy was considering whether to investigate fraud allegations against trump university but later decided not to pursue the case. the development comes amid a new sau "today" suffolk university poll that shows trump and hillary clinton are nearly tied with voters saying they're untrustworthy. while on the campaign trail for clinton vice president joe biden spoke with msnbc's kasie hunt where he tried to defend the controversial practices by the clinton foundation that had damaged that trust. >> has the clinton foundation always been 100% ethical in your view? >> look i think the clinton foundation like all foundations have found themselves in a position where things are changing, and i think she's going to change, you know, adjust to the realities of of -- of how complicated it's all become. >> is she clearing herself up enough with that? should the foundation have stopped taking foreign donations now? >> well, i think you'll see them stop taking foreign donations. >> the trump campaign pounced on
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vice president biden's comments, releasing a statement that reads in part, the fact that even the vice president can't vouch for the clinton foundation's ethics speaks volumes about hillary clinton's terrible judgment. and vice president joe biden didn't hold back when it came to going after donald trump while campaigning in ohio for hillary clinton. during his stop in warren, ohio, yesterday the vice president ripped trump for not understanding the middle class. >> i'm so sick and tired. i know i'm not supposed to get angry, but i'm so sick and tired of hearing people like trump and the chamber of commerce, the national chamber talking about we get paid too much. that we don't -- give me a break. give me a break. this is a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth, that now he's choking on because his foot's in his mouth along with the spoon. >> let's turn to business now where the release of the august jobs report today is expected to be the final factor in whether the fed will raise interest
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rates in september. cnbc's hadley gamble joins us now live from london. all right, hadley, what do we expect from this report today? >> good morning, betty. so what we know right now is that if this number is over 200,000 in terms of the data released later today in this report that we could definitely see a rate hike by the end of the month. the fed last week in their meetings suggesting that that could be the case. all eyes right now on the fed and on whether or not this jobs report is going to hit over 200,000. another story we're watching, is walmart. apparently their shedding at least 7,000 jobs, and this is all because they're going to an automated system for bookkeeping and cash counting. now it's interesting of course that if you look at the total number of jobs 1.5 million in the u.s., this is just a very small percentage, less than 1%. but walmart is trying to do something for these folks, and they said that they could add jobs in othareas of the busines. >> hadley, thank you so much. dallas police chief david brown has announced his retirement.
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brown, a 33 year veteran on the force is best known for leading his city through the aftermath of the killings of five officers during a protest march in july. in a statement brown says the decision was difficult and that he became a cop during the crack cocaine epidemic in the early '80s because he quote wanted to be part of the solution. he also urged the public to remember the officers who were killed, adding their memory will remain with all of us forever. brown has not yet given a reason for stepping down although dallas mayor mike rawlings says brown had talked to city officers about leaving prior to july's shootings. >> in the wake of the tragic shootings of july 7th, when we lost four dallas police officers, and a dart officer the whole world learned what a special man leads our dallas police. >> now, under brown's tenure the department became a national model for its emphasis on community policing and officials say crime rates fell to historic
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lows. the city of chicago, though, has suffered its worst month for gun violence in decades with 90 homicides, august was the windy city's deadliest month in 20 years. the increase of fatalities in the month of august alone is almost 50% compared to the same time last year. now year to date there have been over 2300 shootings this year, and 472 shooting victims. behind new york, and los angeles, chicago is the third largest u.s. city and has experienced more homicides this year than both new york and l.a. combined. >> betty, still ahead we continue to follow the breaking news from florida. the first hurricane to hit the state in more than a decade has now been downgraded to a tropical storm. meteorologist bill karins will bring us the latest right after the break. (vo) a lifetime ofour dog's
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amends for a dark time in its history. it plans to apologize for the slave trade. it will give the 272 slaves it told to pay off debts a similar admissions edge it gives children of alumni. the school says the slaves were sent from maryland to louisiana and pledges to try and find and recruit the descendants. the university also plans to establish an institute to study slavery and will create a public memorial to school buildings that had been named after the priest who ark straighted the sale will now be renamed in honor of a former slave and a black educator from the slave era. >> all right, betty. let's get to a look at the stories we're not going to cover today. lawmakers in massachusetts are considering pushing the clock ahead one hour from eastern standard time to atlantic standard time zones. the reason because residents in boston and other areas complain that it gets too dark too early. i hate that. we're also trying to save time here so that's a story that didn't make the cut. here's one from massachusetts residents in foxborough say wild
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turkeys are terrorizing -- quite a story to tell. >> one of them actually flapped his wings, dropped off the ground and drop kicked me with both of his feet. >> we prefer our wild turkey here in a bottle betty. >> a drop kicking turkey. >> next up a new study finds that pizza makes employees more productive at work than money. >> yes it does. >> the research studies several different incentives giving praised increased productivity the most followed by pizza then money. not sure about you but i'd rather have the dough. >> not the pizza dough, the green stuff. >> a court has tossed out lindsay lohan's lawsuit against the makers of grand theft auto 5. they accuse the company of using her likeness in the hit video game. the court ruled the images are of an avatar not lohan herself. an interesting case, unfortunately we didn't have time for that. instead when we come back anion date on tropical storm hermine that just made land fall in florida as a category 1 hurricane.
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let's get back to the big story we're following this morning. florida hit with a category 1 hurricane that's since been downgraded to a tropical storm. bill karins is back. what's the latest on this? >> the power outages right now. the winds are still high enough that we're still knocking down trees in southern georgia and getting sparking of the power lines and transformers and we're still seeing limbs falling on houses and trees and things like that. the winds are going to come down as we go through the morning and the power outages will become more sporadic.
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still again tornado threat. so there's still life threatening weather going on right now. water rises will be going on all morning long along the georgia coastline and south carolina coast line as the center gets closer to you. it's going to be right near the peak of the high tide around 10:00 a.m. tornado threat throughout the day. as far as the new updates go. tropical storm watches from sandy hook, new jersey to just north of kill devil hills. these are tropical storm warnings. i do not expect a lot of huge gusts. one of the bigger -- so we had the landfall, which was obviously a lot of damage was done. we'll see those pictures as we go. during the day today, it's a threat of tornadoes. heavy rain event, localized flooding. but i do not expect a lot of damage in eastern north carolina and south carolina. yes some sporadic trees go down and stuff like that but there won't be widespread damage. i'm really getting more concerned what happens as this storm, it's weak exiting north carolina then re-energizes itself. it's almost going to be like the
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equivalent of a nor'easter sitting off the mid-atlantic coastline for four to five days. sunday to wednesday. i mean when you get a stalled out storm nothing good can happen of it. the winds remain consistent. the water piles up on the coast. every high tide cycle the beach erosion is going to get worse and worse. so there's major concerns for all the coastal areas from the norfolk, roanoke, rapids area famous for their flooding. you're very concerned there. all the back water bays and chesapeake back up through especially new york new york city could sit in a horrible spot with a storm to your south, east wind piling up water to the long island sound. we could have major flooding. i mean we could see water levels rise five feet higher than they normally should be. that's a possibility. how about the rainfall map? as of now, the storm is just off the coast. this is a rainfall map showing how much rain there is. when we get to the pink and orange, that's five to seven inches of rain. this bull's-eye here is a one to two feet of rain that is only 50 to about 100 miles off the coast. the worst thing that could happen in the next couple days is you start hearing the
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forecasters like myself saying that the storm is closer to the coast than expected. right now it's supposed -- this is the forecast path guys. i mean if we just inch this 50 miles to the west, we start to talk about a foot to a foot and a half of rain on the jersey shore maryland and delaware areas long island, too. so there's a lot of concerns we are not done with this storm. this one could actually cause more monetary damage in areas of the mid-atlantic than it does down in florida because of the potential for that flooding in the coastal flooding this upcoming weekend. >> you are painting a frightening picture. >> 50 miles doesn't sound like a very big margin. >> for a shift, no. i hope it shifts further out to sea and we're spared but i mean it's going to be close. >> with flooding, bill, comes standing water and with that comes mosquito and i think a lot of people are concerned about that risk. and new this morning, scientists are saying more than 2.6 billion people around the world are at risk of developing zika. that's over a third of the global population. that number largely depends on weather people living in these
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vulnerable areas and have already developed immunity. now the virus first identified in 1947 was never considered a major health threat until the recent major outbreak in brazil. to make matters worse, mosquitoes carrying the virus have now been detected in florida. mosquitoes trapped in a small area of miami beach are the first ever to test positive in the united states. and when we come back we'll get a check on the stories in the day ahead. uhhh, you're really getting the hang of this. anncr: want feedback that helps? verified reviews. another reason to join angie's list for free. this new ac guy is not that good. no he's not. anncr.: need a job done right? search top-rated providers on angie's list. join for free. does your makeup remover every kiss-proof,ff? cry-proof, stay-proof look? neutrogena® makeup remover does.
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before we toss over to "morning joe" first i want to wish betty nguyen a very happy belated birthday. it was yesterday. i hope you get a lot of celebrating in this weekend. >> you weren't supposed to tell people. i'm getting old. >> let's get a check on the day ahead. brock turner is scheduled to be released from prison today after serving half of his sentence for sexual assault. the 20-year-old former stanford university swimmer was sentenced in june to six months in prison for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. turner's case drew outrage over what many thought was too light a sentence. he was let out after three months of good behavior. turner will now face three years of probation and will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. he will also be acquired to
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attend drug and alcohol counseling. and donald trump is set to receive his second intelligence briefing today. the republican nominee will receive the information sometime this morning in new york city. trump got his first intelligence briefing last month. and that does it that does friday, i'm betty nguyen. "morning joe" live from washington starts right now. >> i know you had a meeting this week. >> i did. >> i had a meeting with great people, great hispanic leaders and there certainly can be a softening. i don't think it's a softening. >> but 11 million people are going to be deported. >> where is the softening? >> oh, there's softening. even to see there is really quite a bit of softening. it's just so confusing. softening. >> it goes. >> hardening. softening. >> softening. hardening. >> good morning, everyone. >> i'm saying. what is it? it's either one or the either.

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