storm now, but it's on traffic to bring hurricane-force winds and flooding this weekend. >> for the mid-atlantic, all the way to new york city area, long island, koegal connecticut, this is a significant event, maybe a major event for you for sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday, and it drifts off the mid-atlantic coast. it's almost equivalent of a nor'easter. good day everyone, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. hillary clinton letting her running mate make the case for her. holding only two public events in two weeks while taking donald trump to task online. >> who's going to pay for the wall? who? >> mexico!

>> we did discuss the wall. we didn't discuss payment of the wall. [ speaking foreign language ] >> joining me now is katy tur in new york kristen, first to you. she has not been very available. she gave her speech this week to the american legion and that was it. did some debate prep. probably more of that today and raised a whole lot of money. >> that was pretty much all we saw of her when she spoke to the american legion. we know what she was doing. she was fundraising. she brought in more than $140 million. her biggest monthly hall yet. the campaign is feeling they

have a good war chest, but you're right in terms of the optics she sort of like donald trump have the air waves in that regard, but it's a double edged tword. so some extent, he's been getting negative headlines. the campaign doesn't think this is a total misstep having said that after labor day and on labor day, she's going to be out, in the big battleground state of ohio, cleveland, and. bill clinton's going to be in detroit and her surrogates as well. bernie sanders in new hampshire. it's all hands on deck i think after labor day. >> she's got joe biden and tim kaine in pittsburgh. big labor day for the democrats, and we get an airplane. >> that's right! >> finally! >> this is the latest of any psych that will we know of finally getting the press corps and the candidate in one place, one plane, traveling with her. >> and what we hope is that that would mean more access to the candidate. now, you and i have been talking about this for a while, the fact that hillary clinton hasn't done a press conference, an official one for about 300 days now. one of her top officials say,

she is going to do a press conference soon. so we're hoping that's going to happen within the coming days, if not weeks. but the press plane does give us a little bit more chance to have access and ask her questions on a daily basis. obviously there's been a lot of headlines we haven't been able to ask her about. >> kristen, thank you very much. katy tur, donald trump getting his second intelligence briefing, and at the same time, we've got the debates coming up, and all of this controversy over e the immigration policy as he -- for the first time, the first time we know of at least heads to a minority community in detroit to a black church tomorrow and now there is a script already ahead of the game, right? >> yeah, there is a script, but now we're told -- or it's getting reported that the pastor is going to be conducting the interview has new questions for donald trump that he is saying that donald trump has not seen, but the new york times came out with a pretty damning report last night, the script that donald trump was going to use in a pre-taped interview with this

pastor that was going to play on and african american news network. the questions were given to donald trump in advance and the answers were vetted by a number of ministers. and they were -- the campaign was getting a bit of blowback from that by saying that donald trump doesn't know how to go to an african american community unless he is being scripted when he does so. and we, as an hour, not allowed to attend this church service that donald trump is going to be attending. we do know from what the campaign has told the new york times. there will now be an off the cuff remarks given by donald trump to the congregation and five to ten minutes. and he's supposed to be doing a neighborhood tour of some sort in detroit, but the details arounded that remain murky at this time. >> katy tur in new york, and kristen welker here, and it means baseball, barbecues, parades, and politics. and who better to talk about all of that than chuck todd? who popped up on the mlb network

on thursday rather to discuss the state of the game as well as the race. >> it's been different. how different has this been? >> well, it's an anomaly. my favorite black swan election. it'll have an impact on how heed ya's relationship with politicians. i think the two parties were in the middle of a fracture where both are fracturing. high level of distrust of all institutions whether you're a pollation, whether you run a sports league. i mean, you know, commissioners are unpopular with fans in the same way political parties will unpopular. >> chuck todd moderator of meet the press, mtp daily, and mld -- >> that was fun. >> it looked slightly familiar. new jersey, the old msnbc headquarters. that's right. that's where it started and i walked in, everything was familiar. there was a lot of familiarity

to it. went to the old commissary if you remember, you could go up the stairs to get there and all of that stuff. >> there was who was there in the old msnbc days as well. >> you can't go there. >> that was fun though. and the best show to do, brian kinney, he's data analytics. he is the big data guy on mlb. >> too much dodgers. >> we'll get nats in there too. a lot of praise for jason werth. we know how much he -- he's a hitter. always fun to watch him. >> now speaking of thinking man's hitters -- >> there's a transition for you. >> personal's analyst. we are going into labor day, and you've got one candidate hanging back, but raising a ton of dough for the party more than the campaign, actually. and the other candidate goes to an intelligence briefing today and is for the first time going tow an all-black audience for what has been, you know, described as his appeal to

african americans, but it's been anything but. after zig zags all over the place on immigration. how do you assess that? >> here's where we are. where we are is this, the dimming convention is gone, that is a fact. donald trump got a new campaign team. for the most part, they seem to at least have a plan that's put into place. they seem to be following some playbook, but trump is still trump, right? the immigration day. you know, you know, if his campaign team laid the ground work for him to soften walkback, whatever it was that they were desperately hoping he would do. that many latino leaders who kept an open mind thought he was going to do, then he slams the door, according to to the post because he saw the tweet by the mexican president. reminder that trump is trump. the most fascinating thing about the erosion here of her lead, she still had -- but it's her

number that's moving. it's moving down. his number doesn't budge. we're going to do more on this on meet the press on sunday, but his, it's like noise. moves a point or two dr. >> her unfavorables are up. >> the numbers are going elsewhere, they're not going to trump. to so it's like 50-42, 44-24. he's not moving. some is undecided. a couple goes to stein and johnson combined. you know, some polls have shown him up a point, but some have shown him down a point where her just down five or six. so she's the fluid one here. and you have to be worried about one thing if you're trump. if you're number doesn't move, if you can't, you know, then, you know, you're basically hoping against hope that she so falls or erodes that that vote goes elsewhere. you have to hope that gary johnson actually gets stronger, not weaker. >> but it's maybe it's more than hope, look whom they hired as their new deputy campaign

manager. he is a nightmare in clinton world. for 20 years, he has been personification -- >> look, with bannon and bossy here, i think trump is, he did -- you're going to fall into the rabbit hole of trying to just be so obsessed about clinton and so obsessed about going after them -- >> you don't put your own program -- >> you don't think about your own campaign. there's a lot of republicans who no longer in offense, a lot of republicans who went after the clintons over the years who obsessed over going after the clintons over the year, who basically ended up with egg on their face or they overreached or there's a lot of retired former republican officials who would quietly give trump advice and say those are rabbit holes, you get caught in them. after i feeling he now has -- if you have three people in the room. kellyanne conway, how do you win the election. steve bannon, i don't know if

that's it. bossy and bannon, go after clinton, but that distract you? and that's something if you're trump you should -- you've got to be concerned about. >> and i want to ask you something -- i want to ask you something just in the cultural arena which is what happened with the kneel down during the national anthem with kaepernick. i mean, i keep changing my own thagts about going going back to 1968 -- >> i'm a first amendment person. i'm not going tell anybody what their political view should be. you know, i think this is, this is a question up tow -- at this point, the only question is whether if he's in uniform, is it up to the san francisco 49ers, the nfl. this is between, in some ways this is between him and his employer. on the decision to make a political protest. you know, that's who he works -- first amendment is first amendment. i don't think any of us, who are we decide to say what he thinks or any of this stuff.

plenty of people a l say, there's a better way to do this. that's your opinion. this is his -- he's got a first amendment right, the question about doing it at the football game, that's a conversation between him and his employer. and remember, those are private organizations and they may have policies or they may want to put policies in place that may seem to some curtail your first amendment rights, but if you're representing another institution and they're paying you to do that, sometimes that is the price that comes with that. >> so many complex questions, and so much coming up. >> labor day sunday, we have mike pence, bernie sanders. >> that's quite a combo. great show. thank you. >> and tune into mtp daily every weekday at 5:00 and on labor day weekend, of course if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." you'll have an interview, mike pence and bernie sanders. be sure to watch. and coming up on wednesday, msnbc and nbc news along with iraq and afghanistan veterans of

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administration with a renewed dedication to the dream of an american. an administration that will give that dream new life. and make america great again. >> make america great again. where have you heard? that was ronald reagan with a theme that donald trump has adopted as his own 36 years later. now with the fall campaign about to kick off next week, what is the mood of the electorate? now is peter hard, connecting our nbc/wall street journal polls returning from meeting a focus group in wisconsin with revealing insights about how the voters view the nominees. and you would argue that actually hillary clinton in some ways is more like ronald reagan. >> she actually is the ronald reagan candidate. because in 1980, the american voters had decided i don't want jimmy carter with, we don't want four more years of jimmy carter. and the move was negative, everything that was there. the reverse is that they needed to know about ronald reagan.

and to say he was safe. in, you know, like 2016 is just the opposite. the american public does not want donald trump as president. they've made that decision already. all they're looking for is some reassurance about hillary clinton. i can live with her and i like her. and that's what we learned in the focus groups we did for the public policy center. >> well, and it was fascinating, lets me tell you that because i love -- the way you connect these focus groups and the answers you get, it's really the best touch toen for what people are thinking. this is when you ask people what is the scent, the smell of this campaign. let's watch. >> which scent or smell does the 2016 campaign remind you of? >> from chemistry class, sulfur. rotten eggs. >> garbage. >> i can't say on the air so i'll say dead fish. >> stinks. >> rotten eggs. >> skunk. >> skunk. >> skunk. >> garbage.

>> garbage. >> manure. >> that's to put it delicately. tell me about the group, how it was structured. you were in wisconsin. >> well, what we wanted to do was look at what we call swing voters. we had four trump voters, we had four clinton voters, four undecided voters and what they told is they had in the past voted both democrat you can and republican in the last four presidential election. so these are the people that are up for grabs, and what we've learned about them is something that you don't hear in the polls. and that is how much disgust they have with the election, but more importantly the sense of uncertainty about both candidates. >> and in fact you pick up on that with asking them to describe, let's go first to donald trump. what do they think of when you asked them about donald trump? >> a word or phrase to describe donald trump. >> okay, got to start again. real clean. >> erratic.

>> devil. >> unpredictable. >> scary. >> brilliant. >> pompous. >> loose cannon. >> won the nomination fair and square. >> bigot. >> those are pretty tough. and then just to quickly play the contrast, hillary clinton. >> experienced. >> distrustful. >> liar. >> political. >> liar. >> dishonest. >> distrustful. >> liar. >> ice queen. >> liar. >> liar. >> so, if i'm a campaign strategist, she is viewed by more people than not as a liar, he is viewed as reckless and erratic. that defines the problems that each campaign has right now. >> that's exactly right. and what it comes down to is hillary clinton has two advantages. people think he's competent and can do the job and she has the right temperment. the problem for donald trump, not the right temperament and

knowledge to do the job. hillary clinton becomes quote, the safer choice, but in the end, she has to be more likable and she has to be more transparent than she has been. this campaign has been a campaign of keep away. keep away from the candidate, keep away from the voters. they need to reach out at this stable. they've got 60 days to do it. and they need it not only to be able to win, but they need it to govern. and she needs to say, i understand your outrage and i am going to fight for that. right now, she's seen as part of the establishment, not part of the change factor. the great thing working for her at this stage of the game is president obama. his job rating is over 50%, people give him credit for the economy coming back. those two things are working for her. she needs to work for her own campaign. >> and if going back to the one of the things she said on a phone interview with anderson cooper where asked about the e-mails she said, you know,

every time i try to explain it, i try like i'm trying to excuse it. most recently with the kristen welker. so she said, i'm not going to try to explain it because i don't -- it isn't excusable. it was a mistake and i'm terribly sorry it happened, i'm paraphrasing. she's got to come up with an answer. it's been a year and a half. and she has to come up with an answer on e-mails. and on the private server. because that's one of the big things hanging over her head. >> sure it is hanging over her head, but the fact is, you can't just suddenly erase it and everybody's going to say it's fine. what they really need to know is what she's fighting for and what she's going to do as president. right now, it's mush. i don't think that the voters can tell what she's going to do. with donald trump, they know what he's going to do and they're afraid of what he is going to do. she needs to provide that reassurance. >> we've got three debates and forum next week and a lot of opportunities, but they're big ones, indeed. thank you so much. >> always.

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areas of the southeast coast, it's not doing a the love damage, it's a windy day and rainy day, maybe some dead tree limbs will fall down. that'll be the worst. no reports of tornados. so that takes us sfwhu what's going to happen this weekend. we do have a tropical storm watch that's been extended all the way to new york city right through long island, back down to the jerzy is shore, tropical storm warning south of that. this is not done yet. the forecast out, the 11:00 update from the hurricane center takes it through north carolina this evening. off the outer banks. and usually these storms head out to sea after this. this is going to get blocked. it's not doing that. it's going to sit here and linger. the thing that gets your attention, off the coast at 50 miles per hour, then it goes up to 75 mile per hour monday morning. that's hurricane-force storm just off the coast. it's going to be like a hybrid type system. part tropical storm also part nor'easter. you get the combination of those two. it's going to remind people -- i don't want to say sandy, it was a special storm and sandy was worse nanna what this was going to be. it's a similar hybrid system like that.

the vafl mostly predicted to be along the coast or off the coast. the important something does this shift to the west and bring the heavy torrential rains into the coastal areas? we do not want that the to happen, that would also bring the higher wrinds towards the coast too. no matter what happens, the storage surge will be a problem. not so much today down to the carolina, when it gets to the hurricane-force sunday and monday. those are going to pile the water up on the long island shore all the way to the new york harbor, we could see major coastal flooding with this, and in some cases, you know, we may talk about people, you know, water getting near homes and stuff like that. people will be taking their boats out of the water, andrea this upcoming weekend. this is going to be a major story. not to mention, andrea, ruining millions of people's plans and businesses making money this weekend. and that's probably not going to happen. >> well, bill, thank you very much for the bad news and thanks for going into overtime for us today. we really appreciate it. >> and gabe gutierrez is in the florida panhandle where the

hurricane made hurricane overnight. a lot of damage down there. >> reporter: hi there, andrea, well this is some of the damage we're seeing, it's really downed trees is the issue here in the florida panhandle. you mentioned more than 250,000 people were without power here in florida. more than 100,000 people without power right now in georgia. as the storm moves to the north and east. other news, governor rick scott has said that there is one fatality associated with hermine. and it was a man, a homeless man the governor says where a tree limb fell on the tent he was sleeping in and his body was found unfortunately. yeah, this storm went through the morning around 1:30 just to the east of us, in st. marks came on shore with winds of up to 80 miles an hour. yes, it has been weakening and it moves over georgia, but as bill mentioned, this is going to be a threat up and down the east coast. through the labor day weekend, back to you. >> thank you so much. gabe gutierrez, and the presidential debate moderators were announced today and lester

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were hopeless about you, but we've been hearing that. we need sop white savior to save us. we're capable of doing that ourselves. >> tramaine lee speaking with detroit residents ahead of the visit there tomorrow. trump's first that we know inform this campaign to an african american community. he'll be appearing at a black church. joining me now for our daily fix, chris ioalyssa, ruth marcu and senior political reporter, perry bacon. thanks to all of you. first to you, ruth, if i may, donald trump has been saying what the hell do you have to lose and all of the really tough things he's been saying to african americans presumably, but not really because he's been speaking in white, you know, white audiences. then he goes to detroit and the new york times tells us that there's a whole scripted q & a, now the campaign says he won't stick to that. what does he hope to accomplish tomorrow? >> well, whatever -- i have to

say, whatever he hoped to accomplish tomorrow, has been rather seriously undercut. by this very good new york times story. you know, it's pretty amazing, donald trump has gone for the last year, plus, winging it in front of essentially, almost entirely white audiences. this one with an african american audience, he couldn't talk to them. then when he does talk to them, it's in a very contained environment. and then it needs to be scripted. it's -- worst insulting and at best, not particularly per sidewaysive to which ever audience he's trying to reach. african american audience or the white audience worried about whether they're electing a racist. >> has he already succeeded in that we have the media, the mainstream media day after day saying, this is part of his appeal to the african americans as he appears in all white communities. up until now.

>> i don't think so. i mean particularly with the script. i would say i was reading the script just now before we came on, before was offensive in a lot of ways, your communities are terrible, your lives are terrible, i will fix them. it's more polite in saying those terms. so i understand why he has the script, it's not as bad. my question would be, why michigan and why in front of a black church. to be honest with you, mitt romney lost michigan by 11 points. he had 6% of the black vote in 2012. it's really hard to see donald trump doing better, particularly with his birther remarks with the president, i was curious like what the strategies of the trip is in the first place. >> is he checking a box saying well yes, i did go to a black audience? >> partly that, yes, andrea, but i think that this appeal and his rhetoric on the hispanic prayer to the speech wednesday night in this latest it ration is not really aimed at convincing a large number of african american voters or hispanic voters before

him. or even convincing a small number. i think he has reconciled with the fact that he's not going to get large numbers, if he hasn't, he should. i think it's really aimed at trying to reach out to white suburban, particularly women, who he will need in record numbers. he needs to win the white vote by a historic margin to make the math add up for him. it's as ruth points out, i think he is trying to convince those folks that he is not a racist because they may not like hillary clinton, they may hate hillary clinton, but they will not, that group of folks, white suburban particularly women are not going to vote for a candidate that they believe is a racist. so i think he's trying to erase that sort of mention from his name with all of this stuff. so it is box-checking for sure. >> and that said, then what was all this immigration tap dance of two weeks where changing, we're softening, not softening, we go down and act like a

diplomat and down to arizona and throw out the red meat. >> it's like dr. jekyll and mr. trump all over the board, that is because he's trying to achieve the goal which he's not the first candidate to try to do it of appealing to two audiences of once. he's appealing and reaffirming his appeal to the base audience and especially in a rally setting that is going to ramp itself up, you know, deport hillary, she should be deported, and he is trying to broaden his appeal in those two things can work at cross purposing with each other and i think that's what we've been sighing over the last week. >> and the reaction from even his own hispanic advisors has been pretty chilling. >> i mean, the comments they have made over the last couple days, potentially suggesting he hoodwinked them, he lied to them. the mexico trip certainly, it's hard to say that it worked in any way. the immediate yoovrge, considering the president of mexico immediately say, you misled the audience. i said i'm not paying if that are wall. i don't think the mexico trip worked a the all. i'll be curious tomorrow the

danger i think is, you remember romney went in 2012 and he was booed there. really strongly and i think in that sense, it was public and it sort of hurt him in some way, even though he was trying to make his appeal. the way it is set up for him tomorrow where it's kind of closed doors, not clear who can get in and he can avoid being booed and therefore present himself as trying to speak to a black audience while giving a message like chris said that is intended for white suburban voters. >> chris alyssa, the donald trump going into next week as hillary clinton recaps her own campaign on monday. >> i mean, the challenge for him going forward is in some cays the challenge for him since may 3rd that he has not taken advantage of. look, he had more than a month to reposition himself while hillary clinton was still fighting with benz for the nomination. yes, the numbers -- we knew shefrs going to win, but she still had five more weeks to run. he needs to find a message beyond throwing red meat to the

base. i think that message could well be, we can't trust her, we need a change, you know, if you're angry, i'm your vote. that is a message. that populism has appeal. unfortunately he is focussed much more on playing to win over ann koult enand sean hannity. they are already for donald trump. and all their listeners. he needs other folks who are not righting in his camp saying, and he struggles to reach them. >> chris alyssa, ruth, and perry. thank you all. and coming up on wednesday msnbc and nbc news along with iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, are hosting hillary clinton and donald trump back to back for a live televised prime time forum focussing exclusively on issues that the next president will have to confront. this wednesday, september 7th, at 8:00 eastern. and coming up, out of sight. why is hillary clinton only held two public events in the last two weeks? we'll ask clinton supporter minnesota senator joining me

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hillary clinton's campaign announcing it's biggest fundraising hall yet. raising $143 million in august for the campaign and the democratic party. this is a new record. while clinton has been behind closed doors with the wealthy donors, not talking to the press, donald trump has been dominating the air waves, but who is the best strategy? joining me now is the senator and strong hillary clinton supporter, great to see you. thanks for joining us. >> great to see you. >> we've all been asking when is she coming out? she'll are have a plane, we'll be traveling with her. and maybe we'll even get some questions to her. but does she have to come out and be more available, more responsive, especially as the polling and our own focus group that we played earlier shows that people still have real questions about her integrity and the trust issue. >> well, i think you know, andr andrea, that hillary clinton has been going strong on this

campaign for the last year and a half she's been everywhere in all these states, public events, town hall pms i'm not concerned about that. what i am concerned about is today, her major announcement, i'm very excited about what she's done on prescription drugs and the fact she's taking on this major issue, mylan, something we haven't heard much of anything from donald trump about. and she's out there with a proposal that works for people. she put out a mental health proposal, she's preparing for the debates. she has been raising money and said that true, you have to do that in politics. and finally, to be honest, these two weeks are in minnesota, people are at the fair, people are eating cheese curds, watching the butter carving contest. it's a time in politics where people kind of regroup and get ready for the fall. and so i don't see a problem with this. >> let me just give you the counternarrative. if she had done her mental health event in public with the q & a with other, you know, other opportunities.

p. she had talked about the ep pen today and come out and done that in public, i would bet she'd be on television, radio, all of the newspapers. because it's an online news release, it doesn't get as much play. obvious show what she's up against. the conspiracy theories, here is sam from the trump campaign speaking on radio today about hillary clinton's health. >> from what i've been able to explore, watching her get in in or out of vehicles or planes, she just seems a little wobbly and a little frail. >> so she's got to counterthat is correct as well. you know, we've been reporting that. her moredical records, but in s much greater detail than his. but, there's still a study these conspiracy theories. >> and we have to start with that. i saw that photo of a doctor coming out. i mean, that thing that doctor wrote, give me a break. hillary clinton has put out her

medical records, i have seen her personally, you've seen her personally, andrea, she is in shape. she is strong. she's just has a ton of energy. and i find this actually quite sexist when these guys are saying this. i think that that is not an issue at all and the american voters know that. and the fact that she's going to be out there again and she's been out here for the whole year. i find that just such a non-issue. what i do see is an issue a and what i hear is the fact that this ep pen drug went from $100 in 2009 to $600. they put some reductions in place, but this is epidemic across the country. the big drugs, the top ten drugs best-selling, four of them have gone up over 100%. insulin's gone up three times. drugs in canada are half as expensive of america and she put out and has been working on this all year. negotiation of prices under medicare part d, stopping with

pharma from negotiating these deals, the bill i have with chuck grassley with generics where they keep them off the market. this will make a difference to people. not donald trump running around tweeting things. what's going to matter is a change in policy that helped the american people. >> and senator, before i let you go, you're a former prosecutor, you were the attorney general, i want to ask you about a legal that's broken today, brock turner, released from jail after serving half of a six-month sentence after being convicted of sexual assault. the judge has been roundly criticized. this was a case in stanford, he's a student athlete. and what about the sentencing guidelines and a case like this which is really causing an uproar? >> exactly. and i have someone that always believed in strong sense for sexual predators. people that commit these kind of offenses. ooichbt seen what happened with this case today. these are the stories we've heard around the country. somehow those cases are treated

differently. when in fact these cases are horrendous, you could see a the love repeat offenders with this type of offender group. you see victims that put themselves out there and are willing to come forward and they deserve justice. >> senator, thank you on all subjects. thanks so much. good to see you again. >> see you soon. and still ahead, history revealed, tom brokaw telling us what you never knew about this iconic scene marking the end of world war ii 71 yeergz today. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. and you're talking to your doctor about your medication... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira helping me go further. humira works for many adults. it targets and helps to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. doctors have been prescribing humira for over 13 years. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculis.

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and now for something very special from nbc's tom brokaw. wars these days don't end with silenting ceremonies. 71 years ago today the deadliest war in human history did. now nbc news has uncovered can long, unseen footage from the national archives giving us an unprecedented look at japan's unconditional surrender in tokyo bay on september 2nd, 1945.

nbc's tom brokaw has the story produced by dateline producer andy franklin. >> reporter: world war ii in the pacific, four years of bloody hell, came to an end here. september 2, 1945. a solemn ceremony on the deck of the uss missouri in tokyo bay. a mighty warship and a peace to celebrate. the ship was packed with hundreds of sailors, marines, reporters, cameramen, and top military brass with legendary names, mccain. representatives of nine allied nations and supreme allied commander general douglas macarthur. just before 9:00 that morning, the japanese representatives approached the missouri. they boarded in silence. took their places. and the brief ceremony began.

>> it is my earnest hope and indeed the hope of all mankind that from this solemn occasion, a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past. >> reporter: mcarthur was about to become the ruler of japan and the japanese people defeated and afraid did not know what to expect until this moment. >> i announce that my firm purpose to proceed in the discharge of my responsibilities with justice intolerance -- >> reporter: justice intolerance. with those words, one japanese delegate later said the deck of the missouri was transformed into a an alter of peace. the japanese foreign minister signed the instrument of surrender, followed by the army chief of staff. general mcarthur signed by witnesses saw his hands tremble. the allied nation signed as

well. during witness to the end of the worst war in human history. world war ii finally was over. >> let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that god will preserve it always. these proceedings are closed. >> at that moment, as if on cue, the sun came out, and as the japanese departed, a stunning aerial display. more than 2 now, allied aircraft flew formation over the missouri. in washington, president harry truman marked the moment. >> the thoughts and hopes of all america indeed of all civilized world are centered on the battleship, missouri. >> it was no accident that the surrender took place aboard the missouri. it was named for truman's home

state. the previous year, when senator truman watched his daughter chrissen the missouri as it was launched into new york harbor. just weeks after the surrender, the ship was back in new york, welcomed by thousands, including president truman. he visited the spot where the war had ended. he sat at the surrender table to sign the guestbook. and described it as the happiest day of his life. today, with this plaque, now famous day. the missouri has anchored where world war ii began for the united states. mighty moe now stands proudly and at peace at pearl harbor. >> extraordinary. and only today the president is in hawaii after a historic visit to midway in the south pacific. the scene, of course, of one of the most decisive and horrific battles of the war.

he was there only last night. and now to an update on tropical storm hermine barrelling up the east coast threatening to became a hurricane-forced storm off the mid-atlantic coast this holiday weekend. first made land fall in florida overnight. as a hurricane, leaving destruction all over the gulf coast. hundreds of thousand was people are without power due to downed trees and power lines. one person has been killed. and the threat continues now up the east coast where states of emergency are in place in florida, georgia, and north carolina. so stay with msnbc for updates as we continue to track the storm all weekend and we will be right back. at your desk? now, with one talk from verizon... hi, pete. i'm glad you called. (announcer vo) all your phones can work together on one number. you can move calls between phones, so conversations can go where you go. take your time. i'm not going anywhere. (announcer vo) and when you're not available, one talk helps find the right person who is. hi, john. (announcer vo) so wherever work takes you, you can put your customers first. introducing one talk-- another way verizon connects your business better. learn how at onetalk.com.

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well. storm watches and warnings are popping up along the east coast at the start of this holiday weekend. at this the hour, right now, the storm has claimed at least one life after high winds brought down a large tree on to a homeless camp. blinding rain, dangerous flooding, major storm surges causing some major damage as well. and historic beach erosion too. hermine showing florida as a hurricane overnight. wiping out power to many and leaving behind a path of destruction. making it the first hurricane to hit florida in 11 years. wnbc meteorologist rafael miranda is with us now tracking this storm. and my understanding based on al roker this morning is that this is a storm system that's going to linger for a few days i, no? >> that's right, craig, unfortunately that is true. and the threat from hermine continues to grow this afternoon. not just for the southeast, but for the northeast as well. let's get to the latest winds are down now to 50 miles per