this is going to sit just offshore. if you have it away from the coast your cloudy and occasional shower and a little breezy. if you're along the coast you can have huge waves and every high tide cycle, we could see that. this is what is going to get interesting. as long as the current forecast holds all of the heavy rain is pretty much at the coast or off the coast. this is about 100 miles off the shoreline. we don't want it to shift closer because we'll deal with a lot of fresh at water flooding. as of now with the current forecast storm surge today. now, here is where we go into sunday. the storm big. it is more intense than it is right now. we have moderate to major

coastal flooding. this is downtown. possibility of that too in maryland and delaware. we are not done with this storm yet tlch yet. >> i'm not listening to that. you'll have to change that around. >> i want this thing to blow on out too. >> me too. donald trump set to receive his second security briefing today. this morning he is raising more questions about where he stands on immigration making these comments hours after the prime time speech. >> we get a lot of people in this country that you can't have. we'll make a decision once everything is stabilized. i think you'll see quite a bit of softening. >> help me. there's a new report that says trump made changes to his speech

after he met with the mexican president. this is a portion of the show i like to call huh. what is this about? >> reporter: he was angered the mexican president came out and said they did in fact discuss the wall. there is a report out saying that at the last minute a changed his policy speech. when it comes to immigration your confusion is shared by many. is he going to wait and see how things go? if he waits and see how things go, how is that immigration policy any different than we are doing right now. >> so changing his position on a national policy that would effect the whole policy because he is mad about what mexico's president said to him. i want to talk more about that

security briefing. what are you hearing about it? >> reporter: it will be downtown at a secure location. we don't know much about what he is going to be talking about because it is a national security briefing we are told it will cover a range of questions he was not able to get to in the first briefing. hillary clinton also has the briefings on the table as well. it is so windy. we do know that general flin attened with him last time. >> this weekend donald is heading to detroit. we just got a disappointing jobs number report. this is a city that would make the argument we want change but this is the first real african american outreach and now we are hearing his interview is

completely scripted? >> reporter: yeah. it is the first real african american outreach. it is something they were hoping to highly orcestrate. he would be able to script word for word his answers. they were even going to be vetted by a number of black ministers to make sure they set the right tone. the campaign went back and said donald trump is now going to be speak wg this congregation for five to ten minutes. they are changing up their plans given this very damming report. >> and i hear that and i think it's crazy he is having a

scripted interview. have we ever seen a candidate do something like that. >> i have not seen them get the questions in advance, script the questions in advance and come off as it was something that was an unanticipated interview. i haven't seen that. >> it almost sounded like unscripted reality tv. >> all right katy tur, she is going to go inside. hillary clinton has been busy fundraising. what kind of money did she bring in? >> she had the largest fundraising hall to date, more than $140 million. 81 million for the democratic party. this is significant and it certainly gives her a

substantial war chest heading into the final two months of the campaign. particularly hitting him for his meeting with the mexican president and the fact that he failed to bring up the wall that he says is a signature piece of his immigration policy. take a look at this ad. so it is a tough new ad and it comes as secretary clinton still leads donald trump in the polls. she has a as a rule ner iblt. you it seeds into her lack of voters. take a look at this. it shows that her untrut worthy

numbers 59% and donald trump higher at 61%. they are almost tied. this is the one thing that continues to get a leg. >> we are ou of time. before we go, 140 million bucks but donald has dominated the news cycle. >> the optics is not been great. she has been working on -- so sh is trying to put a lo of information into short sound bites. she will be in the critical battleground state of ohio. top surrogates will be out on the campaign trail. president obama will be out there too.

we are on the trail this week but bernie sanders joins us on labor day. he will be campaigning. >> thanks. we'll go back to donald trump. sharp reaction is pouring in even before he visits an after ray can american church over the weekend. keith owens joins me now. it is a powerful statement to say donald trump is goirng to exploit when he sees hopelessness and dispair. couldn't one make the argument that they are looking for change and that's what he is claiming he wants to offer. >> not exactly. i think what the problem is that

when you want to use it -- you know, detroit is so much more than what we have gone through. i think donald trump is trying to play on the -- that this is all detroit is about, a poor black city with poor black problems. i think we are more man that. >> i think that's the real problem here. >> it may be ridiculous but he is coming. we are all crushing him for having it scripted out but he hasn't been there before. when we look at the pain in places like flint do we give him any credit for showing up? >> if he was trying to improve

detroit that woun one thing. if he would be answering questions at greater faith ministries then suddenly he wants to have the whole thing. he was just going to show up and answer questions and now he said he will talk to the congregat n congregation. he says this is why om he hasn't given any program idea sz, any policy ideas to see what we are planning to do. we also want to talk about things that going right in detroit, many things that are improving. >> you're right. he has not shown us any policy.

you do point out that detroit is the poorst big city in america. trump's voerts would be what do you have to lose? does he have a point here? >> not really. let me say it this way, that would be his strongest argument if it wasn't for the fact that it's not just -- there's much more to it than that. he is trying to tie this and saying democratic leadership hasn't done anything and they are totally responsibility. need to real hiez this goes back over 50 years ago.

it is a result of racism, of so many things, disinvestment, ignoresing the city's problems. i will not say they do not bear some responsibility. that's ru. i -- could have been so ke troit being the poster shield and aing that is simply wrong. >> thank you so much for joinging me. we just got a lid of the lester hold will moderate the first debate. there are two others and one v.p. debate. and the new jobs number showing unemployment has not

changed remain ago 4.8%. over the last few months job canes averaged more than 200,000. i doubt wem see a rate hike ahead of the election. walmart cutting 7,000 positions nationwide. brock turner released from prison. he served three months of his six month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. we are there live. what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, we just saw brock turner walk out of jail a free man. he looked very p gaunt. he was risked awhile he has been

in jail he has been reto so it's believed inside of that were people expressing concern an outreach. he was sentenced to about six months here. he was looking at the potential for 14 years. the judge, when he made his decision to sentence him to six months also came under a lot of fire internationally. that judge is facing a possible recall position. that's the very later for you. >> does he get to go back to school in. >> he had been banned from that

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>> we need to understand we are having problems here. >> what problems are you talking about? >> my culture is a very dominant culture. it's imposing and causing problems. if you don't do something about it you'll have taco trucks every corner! joining me political analyst and former rnc chairman michael steele and republican strateg t strategist, rick tyler. let's start with you. comments by marco gutierrez. he is try to ing to reach out t african american voters. are they helping or hurting him? >> they are part of distracting the message and then of course

you have the campaign itself which had i think a wonderful opportunity and moment in mexico with the president there and then stepped on that and created more confusion later on in the speech. the combination of these forces have really taken the immigration question off at this point. the argument that the are had to make goes back to the bush a administrati administration. rubio laid out the message. the rnc laid out an opportunity in its autopsy after 2012. not being able to align the nominee of the party and the party itself around the cores of those messages which still all talked about border enforcement as well as dealing with 11

million immigrants who are here right now has left us into this space. >> rick, the party that donald trump has made it clear he is aligned with is the party of trump. the party of trump likes to do one thing, win. when we talk about his immigration speech, a hard line immigration speech and last night he said we are going to see quote and he said quite a bit of softening. what is he trying to do here besides clearly firing up his core base who is never going to go any where but then just give a wink to the rest of the world? >> he is trying to do two things at once. on one hand he is try to go win over the white male voter. at the same time he is trying to prove to suburban white women other republicans, remember, 77% would like to see some sort of

path to those who are here illegally, that he is not extreme and that he's not a racist. and so he -- but the problem is he sends everybody a mixed message. the media doesn't know where he substantiates. it becomes very confusing. >> heeded to detroit. he will be visiting an afterly condition americ-- african amer church. could he actually make progress? >> i think it is a window of opportunity for an extended conversation. this is not going to translate into votes coming out of the black community. you're 65 days out and having

this overture, i do think it is important to have a presidential nominee sit down with my community and begin the dialogue. part of it is scripted. i'm not as offended as some people are. >> why not? >> because i've seen it done before. in certain situations dousz dousz where you're off scri-- i long overdue. sit something that could have been done a while ago and not just by donald trump but by the party as a whole. we are here now and seeing what

happens this weekend! what do y >> what do you think about michael's point? he has said and done offensive thing oef things over and over. this is a community a that needs help. they need a change. >> you know, that's right. i think, look, it's just too late. in order win any demographic. you have to have a relationship with them and donald trump doesn't have a relationship with the african american community or the latino community. it is really a waste of time. there is no scenario where donald trump wins because he won any significant number of african american vote ergs. >> it doesn't mean you don't

have the conversation. >> right. >> let's speak to the republicans. >> we need the republican party. he did a lot of work to track minorities. donald trump has been a real set back to this effort. >> if going to detroit is a waste of time let's talk abilou hillary. >> you have to much time to convince enough people to vote for you, these people are not going to vote for you. >> right. >> why would you waste time doing that? >> he has been dominating the news media all week long while hillary we haven't seen much but she did raise $140 million. how valuable is that when we talk ground game which he spent no time and very little money on? >> yeah, so what hillary is

doing is running a very safe campaign. she will spend it as parking light shl nominees do, raising a lot of money. she'll have that money at the end. and so i think she'll start to do press orchss. you agree in $141 million you're only up by 50. >> rt have a great labor day weekend. >> he is the founder ofs of latinl -- and we are taemg up to host the

commander in chief forum from the sea, land and air. that's wednesday, september 7th at 8:00 p.m. eastern. we'll talk weather again. hermine is making its way up the east coast. it is making land fall as a category is 1 hurricane. the storm is supposed to touch down later today. what are you seeing on the ground? >> reporter: behind me you can see the river that goes over the james island. the boats are all batoned down. this community preparing for a lot of water and rain. there are already some puddles but nothing dramatic.

they call it the low country for a re. the state reck cog theses even though it is a fast-moving storm it could dump enough rain to cause flash flooding. thankfully they say they have got no calls from any of accounting and thus far the electricity seems told holding. thank it. >> collin kaepernick did not stand during the national anthem for a second game in a row. we are live in santa clara. how do fans respond to this? >> reporter: good morning. the 49ers just now returning

after winning. fans were reacting in a mixed way. this particular game was a salute to the military. it did not change his knee. this is what he had to say after the game. >> i realize that men and women of the military put themselves in harm's way for my freedom of speech and my freedom to take a seat or take a knee. >> many veterans saying that i did not agree with that but they do support his right. after all, one marine veteran said that's what we has fought for in the mast to give him that right. kaepernick did stand for god

bless america. he is starting to take action on some of the activism. he will bring about what he calls police brutality. he was joined by another fellow 49er. this may end up having a larger ripple effect. seattle seahawks player also sitting down during the the national anthem last night. >> and we know he is make, but what is the action plan he is asking for? >> reporter: he keeps saying he wanted to see substantial gains.

he believes that there are certain police officers out there according to an instagram post that says they are not as equipped. >> black eyed peas asking where is the love. people are enraged. thank you for joining us. donald trump is heading to detroit this weekend. he is visiting an african american class and now mr. trump is changin changing course. those details are next. introducing drug-free aleve direct therapy. a tens device with high intensity power that uses technology once only available in doctors' offices. its wireless remote lets you control the intensity. and helps you get back to things like... this...

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you're not go but vote for me nonetheless. i did find at least one black voter in detroil who said he believes it -- detroit who said there is still time. >> you're a donald trump supporter. is there some way to grow that support? >> i think if he continue to have the dialogue in these areas like cleveland and chicago and rging willing to have conversatio conversations. there's a lot people that don't trust hillary clinton. >> a lot of people say give me a reason to vote for him. i'm not against voting for him. >> reporter: certainly this voter is some what of --

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the latest jobs numbers do not portray the accurate jobs situation. they say this gives us a picture of the country that is massively polarized headed into this election. how do you feel about the jobs number in terms of an actual

connection to the economy? >> i think we had a slight disappointment. we came in 30,000 shy of it. i don't think it does anything to change our picture of the economy and more importantly voters pictures of the economy. it is bake into the landscape that we have a sustained, decent, middling recovery that isn't delivering higher living standards to too many people. and so people don't feel great about the state of the economy. they don't feel horrible either. that's where it is. interestingly both candidates are not emphasizing the economy. it is how donald trump is unfit in her view to be president and he will be tough on immigration and can't be trusted. >> is it especially hard for hillary clinton?

she is phone shlgetting it fromt obama. he was touting the extraordinary economic recovery we have seen. anyone who says anything different is touting lies. hillary clinton needs to continue it on if she wants to maintain the support of the people who support barack obama. how does she do that with wage growth, what it is and all of these disenfranchised americans. >> the argument she is making is that the president deserves more credit than he has gotten for the economy. she is proposing to raise more taxes to fund spending on issues that she thinks is important, education, infrastructure, job training. she is coming out with a middle class tax cut. we have two months left. i would expect it to come some point this fall. because it is middling people

can paint whatever picture they want. donald trump can emphasize how weak it is and how stagnant it has been for quite a long time. that's true. hillary clinton says some of that too. she can focus more on the positive and look at what's happened to the unemployment rate and look at private sector job creation and try to argue that she is going to push it along a little more aggressively. >> the unemployment number is double for african americans than it is for kau cautiocaucas. does he have an argument to be made? does he have a point? certainly african americans are not doing as well in this economy as white americans are. that's been try for quite a long time. their unemployment rate is higher. that's a different question from whether or not they believe that

donald trump will make things better for them. it is also a different question about whether they feel insulted by the way donald trump is describing their communities. hillary clinton is getting around 90% of african american votes. he is going to try to make a dent in that, not clear whether he expects to get more african american support or reassure some white americans that he is a good hearted person but he will give it a shot tomorrow. >> if you look at corporate spending, with the threat of more regulations. we just lost 14,000 manufacturing jobs. >> that's part of the equation. corporate tax reform, something that would bring back some of the money that's parked

overseas, major corporations like apple have got billions and billions and billions of dollars that could be brought back. you prevent the distortions in the economy produced by companies leaving here. on the other hand we have a demand problem. it is likely the larger problem. and so different strategies, whether it's spending money on infrastructure which generates demand directly by the government is one strategy. it is one that donald trump and hillary clinton agree on. >> all right. thanks for morning. coming up, a record fund-raising month. with polls tightening, should hillary clinton be spending more time on campaigning and less fund-raising. over time, they ge. that's why more people stick with humana medicaredvantage.

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♪ hillary clinton campaign had its best fund-raising month yet, pulling in a whopping $143

million in august for her campaign as well as the national ad and state democratic parties. those private fund raisers have kept her off the trail and it has meant some bad optics for the candidate. joining me now, senior political editor, mark murray. mark, it is game on after labor day. hillary just raised a ton of money. what does she need to do with it? >> well, what she needs to do is spend it over the next two months. and i do think there was a strategy from the clinton campaign on how to handle the last two weeks in august. and do remember in past presidential cycles, late august and early september is the conventi convention season. this is the first campaign when the conventions both happen in july so now is time to hit the campaign trail or raise money. and what the clinton campaign decided to do, use the last two weeks of august to raise a tremendous amount of money so they don't have to hit the fund raising trail again or at least

all that much, where then you can devote the next two months, the last two months this campaign all to hitting battle ground states and prepping for those all-important debates. >> but did that cost her votes? the polling numbers are tightening. >> well, i'm not sure that it's actually cost her votes, stephanie. although you could argue that her numbers have slipped ever so slightly in some of the polls. but i think the calculation was, you know what, we're going to seed some of the public events, and the spotlights to donald trump over the next two weeks. and all to be able to raise as much money as possible. and so you know, the voting actually starts some of the early voting in late september. that's when it all counts. and i think that you have ended up seeing the clinton campaign saying we're going to raise as much money as possible so when it does count, we're on the campaign trail. >> we know certainly after labor day, this party is about to count in a serious way. mark murray, have a great weekend. >> i can't wait. thanks, stephanie. you too. thanks for joining me and sub vibe to all of our political teams at firstread.nbcnews do

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florida in 11 years. at this hour, hundreds of thousands are without power. most of those outages concentrated in florida and georgia, as well. states of emergency have been declared in parts of florida, georgia, and north carolina. the biggest threats for states in the path of hermine now, rain, wind and storm surge. we have a team of reporters from nbc and the weather channel fanned out covering this thing. let's start on the florida panhandle, and apalachicola where gabe gutierrez is surveying the aftermath. gabe, what are you seeing? >> reporter: hi, craig. good morning. yes, as you mentioned, hermine now a tropical storm slammed into florida's panhandle overnight, downing trees and almost 200,000 people across several states without power. as you mentioned, craig, parts of georgia and north carolina now also under a state of emergency. overnight, hurricane hermine slammed into florida's

panhandle, packing winds of up to 80 miles per hour. this morning, storm surge and the possibility of isolated tornadoes, even as hermine is downgraded to a tropical storm. >> this is life-threatening. >> yeah, we're going to lose a power line here. >> reporter: the system knocking out power to tens of thousands. >> welcome to florida.