good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. more evacuations and a rising death toll in california. gusty winds continue to spread. wildfires already among the worst in the state's history. president trump renews attack on the press. exclusive reporting by nbc news that he once said he wanted to return the nuclear arsenal to height at cold car. trump interview, weighs in on strategy for north korea as the rogue nation minister quotes truck has lit the wick of war. good morning, everyone.

it's thursday. october 12. the situation in california is growing more urgent by the day. deadly wildfires rage across the northern part of the state. death toll has risen to 23. 8,000 firefighters have been deployed and fighting the flames by air and ground. dealing with hundreds of missing persons reports. search efforts complicated by destroyed cell towers. 3500 homes and businesses have burned to the ground and in some areas entire neighbors are completely gone. look at imagies on the screen. at least 115,000 acres have been torched so far. two and a half times the size of washington, d.c. >> despite the fact we've been covering this for a couple of days now. we'll rebuild somehow. we'll go on. we'll either do it here or somewhere else and we'll get more stuff. we'll never have the time to replace what we've lost.

it hurts. it's going to be difficult for a long time. it will take a long time to recover. >> let's go down to santa rosa. scott, we've been kcovering thi for the last couple of days. still the images are shocking. concerns many of the wildfires can form one big blaze. what more can you tell us about that. >> that is one of the many concerns they're dealing with. the immediate concern right now is the same wind pattern that basically laid waste to this neighborhood, coffee park and santa rosa were creating a flame thrower affect. that wind pattern is coming back. winds out of the north are picking up again. you can't tell from where i am. you get up in the hills where the fire is, that is becoming

increasingly an issue. it could merge fires into as you said larger fires. and it's sparked more evacuations. the town of 5,000 people over in nap pavally. nap paa. oftentimes when you think of hurricane, there are sheltners place. efforts to try to help the folks being moved out of the areas. fires moving so fast and kinds of sometimes jumps lines and going in different directions, where are people being evacuated to. or are they out on their own.

>> there are shelters. most of them have space. there is that going on. some 8,000 firefighters pouring into california. not just from other parts of the state, but across the country. a lot of resources being thrown at this. mother nature has a lot of resources of her own. clearly. >> incredible footage we just saw driving through the fire. president trump reacting angrily to a report. he wanted to return the u.s. arsenal to height during the cold war. proceeded the secretary of state calling him a moron. trump tweeted fake nbc news made up a story i wanted a tenfold increase in u.s. nuclear arsenal. pure fiction made up to demean mattis, present at the july 20 meeting. put out a statement saying recent reports the president called for increase in u.s. arsenal are false. this kind of erroneous roeportig

is irresponsible. nbc story only said that he wanted to. no changes resulted at all from the president's desire sitting with the prime minster in oval office. president commented as well. take a listen. >> no, i never discussed increasing it. i want it in perfect shape. that was just fake news by nbc which gives a lot of fake news lately. no, i never discussed. i think somebody said i want ten times the nuclear weapons we want right now. right now we have so many nuclear weapons. i want them in perfect condition. perfect shape. that's the only thing i've ever discussed. general mattis put out a statement saying that was fake news. that it was just mentioned that way when they said i want ten times what we have right now, totally unnecessary, believe me. i know what we have right now. >> you want no increase whatsoever. >> we won't need an increase.

i want modernization and total rehabilitation. it's got to be in tiptop shape. >> despite the president's claim that never discussed extending arsenal at the pentagon, he did so publically. the united states must greatly strengthen and expand nuclear capability. viewpoint reacted he clarified that tweet saying let it be an arms race to match them. outlast them all. >> his reaction to nbc news exclusive report, president trump also took square at press freedom writing on twitter, quote, with all the fake news coming out of nbc and the networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their license. bad for the country. many have pointed out the networks themselves don't hold federal licenses. they're individual television station. the oval office the president added this. >> it's frankly disgusting the

way the press is able to write whatever they want to write and people should look into it. >> no, the press should speak more honestly. i've seen tremendously dishonest press. it's not even a question about distortion. about ten times the nuclear capability. i know the capability we have. believe me. it is awesome. it is massive. when they make up stories like that, it's just made up. the generals will tell you that. then they have their sources that don't exist in my opinion they don't exist. they make up the sources. there are no sources. >> however the nbc report sou e sources three unidentified officials that were in the room when he made his comment. trump tweeted network news has become so partisan and distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged. the president said more in a

rally style interview with fox news held in harrisburg pennsylvania. >> if i was just watching television, you don't know whether or not. you're just watching a report. when you're the one being written about. you know if it's good or bad. they always try to make it negative. i call it fake media. so much fake news. >> do you agree with that. >> fake news? >> but at least one member of the president's party is taking exception to those comments. republican senator putting out this statement last night saying in part, mr. president, words spoken by the president of the united states matter. are you tonight recanting of the oath you took on january 20th to preserve, protect, and defend the first amendment. >> turning now to north korea, president trump yesterday was asked about strategy for resolving north korean crisis. here's his reply. >> china that has been very helpful. i think.

i think. who knows. they seem to be very helpful. i don't want to say anything. i'm just telling you i don't want to talk about it. i'm not saying i'm doing anything and i'm not saying i'm not, but we shouldn't be talking about it. >> calm before the storm. you're not going to talk about that either. >> no, i don't talk about that. >> earlier in the day sitting alongside canadian prime minster justin trudeau discussed his adviser. >> i think i have a little bit different attitude on north korea than other people might have. and i listen to everybody, but ultimately my attitude is the one that matters, isn't it. that's the way it works. that's the way the system is. i think i might have a somewhat different attitude and a different way than other people. i think perhaps i feel stronger and tougher on that subject than other people, but i listen to everybody. >> his comments coming after north korean foreign minister tells russian news agency that

trump u.n. speech was insane and lit the wick of war. all of our military servicemen and our entire people demand that the final score be settled only with a hail of fire, not words. >> that's serious. come can go out from both sides. joining us live from south korea. matt bradley. we have kind of heard this before. now for some months certainly through the trump administration month. let's talk a little bit about anything changing on the ground. do things stand currently in the same position or are you seeing in seoul or other parts of south korea across the region, changes that may lead you to believe we may be getting to a tipping point. well, thanks, it's interesting of course that donald trump and the leadership of north korea they have precious little to agree on. they manage to find some agreement here. both seem to believe that

negotiations over this are absolutely few lly fut rhetorat one another. asking about the situation on the ground. said in the same comments that you mentioned that the north koreans are now near the goal of reaches the same kind of power as the u.s. military. now, of course, that's ridiculous. nowhere near the kind of power. at the same kind, made a lot of recent strides. testing a thermo nuclear weapon. did that last month. test an i went continental ballistic missile. could reach the continuous united states. the thing they haven't been able to do is mary those two te technolo technologies.

>> that could be a game changer in the calculation of the united states and the allies in the region. >> with all this rhetoric, you can't help, but think, where do we go now. >> live in south korea, thank you, matt. several new developments overnight in the scandal around harvey winestein. >> embarrassed. i felt so taken advantage of that he -- i thought he was really going to help me. >> then 24. thought the movie mogul caw car

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not. one post familiar with the meeting. the president threw a fit and was really furious after top members of the team and defense secretary jim mattis argued while flawed, the iran nuclear deal offers stability and other benefits. >> three weeks since hurricane maria ravished puerto rico. death toll stands at 45. tens of thousands of islanders have left for the united states mainland. much of puerto rico is still without basic services like electricity, running water, not even a third of the island has cell towers that are actually working. tomorrow house speaker paul ryan lead a bipartisan delegation to puerto rico to tour the damage firsthand. house is expected to vote on disaster relief bill for the island later today. check on the weather with bill karins. california facing some of the worst wildfires in the state's history. wind still not letting up there.

>> gusty winds have kicked up overnight. continue to watch the air quality too. winds are out of the north. blowing all of the toxic air down towards san francisco and bay area. high population center. fire weather continues. red flag warnings from red into sacramento. also the mountains near santa barbara and outside of la too. gusty this evening. die off during the day today. and the winds, you know, california and the central valley. great for growing. lush, beautiful. also traps all the air. poor air quality. here's how the winds are shaping up now. icons showing where the flames are of the active fires currently. the one near santa rosa, the cubs fire is one of the bigger ones. killed 11 people. the ones in the rows of houses completely burnt. all of that air from the north

is blowing southward and that's why all the horrible conditions. one out of four flights was canceled or delayed in san francisco because of the poor air quality. flight restrictions. other blazes burning. winds are highest this evening. flare-up this morning. then die off during the day. red flag warnings will be dropped by 5:00 p.m. today. the reason of greatest concern is because of the explosive fire. a lot of old fires, hot embers. winds pick up. embers below. cross fire lines. highways and new blazes. that's the fear out there this evening for all the fire crews is new fire forming. >> unbelievable stuff. still some heart break in cleveland for indian fans. how the historic season came to a stunning end. plus president trump has advice for the nfl. tell you about that in sports, next. e, but we know a lot about drama. from scandalous romance, to ridiculous plot twists.

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welcome back. it's the bottom of the hour. let's start with the top stories. in northern california, the death toll from raging fires has risen to 23. 8,000 firefighters have been deployed and fighting the flames by air and on the ground. at this point, more than 3500

homes and businesses have burned to the ground: in some areas entire neighbors completely gone. live report from there in just a few moments. ben affleck said he was saddened and angry at the sexual harassment allegations now facing broken allegations of his own. yesterday the star apologized to actors hillary burton admitting he acted inappropriately. just hours after that makeup artist tweeted she would also like an apology, accusing ben affleck of inappropriately touching her at a golden globes party in 2014. barack obama return to the campaign trail for the first time since leaving office. stopping for ralph northam.

vice president mike pence joins republican candidate for an event that same day. back to top stories, deadly wildfires ravages california. let's go to santa rosa. scott cohen is standing by for us. you've been in the area for some time. home after home has been burned down within a couple of minutes. what are you seeing this morning. well, it's pretty amazing. you look around you. this is the coffee park neighborhood in santa rosa. the fire just came through almost like a flame thrower literally on sunday night. these homes and 80,000 people live here. the concern is the same wind pattern that fuelled that on sunday is kicking up again. they had a couple of days to make progress on the fire. the tub fire, main fire in sonoma county which was not contained when we talked

yesterday is now 10% contained. all of that progress could be undone as the winds kick up again. only a light breeze where i am now. when you get up in the hills where the fire is, that is just the worst possible situation. not just the winds kicking up. the winds have shifted. it was this offshore -- on shore wind i should say bringing in moisture from the pacific ocean from the west for the last day and a half. now it's a dry wind from the north. that's a problem. there have been new evacuations overnight, areas around here. some mandatory. some advisory. at least in theory. they're telling people you should get out now. things could get worse. this is what they're dealing with in what has become one of the most destructive and one of the most deadly sets of fires in california history. >> you mentioned still 600 people missing. that's a great cause of concern for officials and authorities there. scott cohen live for us in california. thank you very much. now to politics.

nbc news learned that president trump asked john kelly, to be the next secretary of homeland security. nielsen joined back in september. reports this could be a sign kelly is on the way out. report claims kelly is miserable and remaining out of a sense of duty and republicans think he wanted to give his long time aide a soft landing. reports republicans and trump advisers describing a white house in crisis. advisers struggle to contain a prosecute who seems to be unfocused. consumed. the words unstable and unraveling were also used. sherman also reports on a conversation several months ago former chief of staff steve bannon told trump to risk to his presidency wasn't impeachment, but the 25th amendment, the

provision by which a majority of the cabinet can vote to remove the president. when bannon mentioned the 25th amendment, trump said what's that. now according to one source, bannon told the president he thinks he has only a 30% chance of completing his terms. this as trump's long time friend tells "the washington post" he is stunned and shocked that the president's behavior saying quote, he's better than this. >> if you have an opportunity, you should read the article in the "washington post." new poll showing despite all this americans are feeling better about the economy, but not the president. university poll foinds inds 38% voters approve of the job president trump is doing. and 70% of those polls said the president should stop tweeting from personal county. that's a new high since they started asking the question back in april. comes to is the state of the u.s. economy. 61% say it is excellent or good shape. close to all time high.

also house speaker paul ryan decided not to take sides in the war of words between president trump and bob corker urging fellow republicans to come together. >> i think it's just talk it out among yourselves. my advice is for these two gentlemen to sit down and talk through the issues. best way the get things done. >> if only it were that easy. new poll shows many agree with corker. asked about the impact that trump's comments have had on the situation between the u.s. and north korea. 65% said worse. 8% said better. 25% said neither. included in those who say he has made relations worse are 38% of americans, 59 of independents and 89 democrats. latest in the civil war within the republican party mitch mcconnell is talking about getting rid of the long

tradition of having home -- speaking to the weekly standard. mcconnell said the republican majority will treat a blue slip as simply notification of how you're going to vote, not as an opportunity to blackball. the move comes as a joint letter from conservative groups called for mcconnell and top republicans to step aside, quote, you and your leadership team, senator john cornyn, roy blunt and john thune have made war. political c politico reporting that kushner tex texts bannon an approving message in which bannon said this. >> mcconnell and co-- what you w

with what he said today they talk about. i said i'm going after the republican establishment. coalition coming together to challenge every republican except ted cruz. tell politico kushner has not reached out to bannon since august. report sites multiple people dining with bannon at midtown steak house after interview. president spoke at a rally style yesterday to promote tax reform. >> this is the largest tax cut in the history of our country. it is incredible. it's going to put people to work. so right now showing we are the highest taxed nation in the world. and we're going to be now down in the lower in terms of taxes. >> but the president was once again in accurate in his description of the american tax code. something his press secretary

was questioned about and made a similar statement on tuesday. >> why does he keep saying this. it's not true overall. >> we are the highest taxed, corporate tax in the developed economy. that's a fact. >> that's not what the president said. >> that's what he's talking about. we're the highest corporate taxed country in the developed economies across the globe. >> that's accurate, but the president keeps repeating the claim we're the highest taxed nation. >> we are the highest taxed corporate nation. >> thata lot of other business to get to this morning. prime minster is trying to convince president trump to stay in napa. expected from the president today to start unraveling obamacare. cnbc joins us live. what more can you tell us about

the president's plan today. >> look, this really made headlines overnight. we had a reported by the "new york times" also the wall street journal that president trump is planning to sign an executive order in an effort to undermine and under cut obamacare. as part of that move, trump will reportedly instruct the agencies to allow greater sales of cheaper and less comprehensive health care plans and that would promote further competition. on the other hand critics saying this might be attracting more younger customers. this could be at the expense of older and sicker people. we'll see whether that actually goes through. now to round of negotiations has begun yesterday. we know president trump is not a big fan of this. in the past he called it a disaster and worst deal in history. reiterated yesterday he might drop out of the deal. also said he might just strike a deal with canada alone or with mexico independently.

we have more clarity on that. negotiations are continuing. yesterday we also got a minutes. they're still likely going to be another rate hike in the month of december. it also showed us actually the fmc is unsure about when inflation will come back. it's below the 2% inflation target. in the past they said this is down to temporary factors. i think the narrative is slowly, but surely losing steam. we saw the dollar drop on the back of those minutes. >> another rate hike on the way. live from london. thanks so much. after more than 100 years, you know longer have to be a boy to be a boy scott. organization announced yesterday after a unanimous vote, girls will be able to join cub scouts as early as next year.

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see the smoke going in the lower level winds going from the north to south. that's why yesterday the air quality was horrendous in san francisco bay area and san jose. all of this is smoke that's blowing down to the south. actually pinpoint. see where the new fire forms up here. watch there's no plume of smoke. there comes the fire. see the new plume of smoke. track the fire too with satellite imagery. air quality is horrendous right now throughout much of the central portion of the state. active fires burning. we just showed you. air burning to the south. winds up hire. red flag warning going on right now. right now in the valley 20. peaks and hills 30. not talking about the crazy santa ana winds. even so dry right now. remember last winter we had the record snow and record rains in california. that we had the big drought. then all this new growth. this summer was dry as could be

and hot as could be. all that died and that's the fuel for all the fire out there. can't win. go from the drought. you finally get the rain you wanted. that just created more underbrush for the fires to form rapidly. the other stories out there. pretty warm throughout the middle of the country. haven't been talking about how unusually warm october has been. it's going to continue. october has gotten the poster month for climate change. last four months in a row. october has been unusually warm. this year going to shatter all records. just continue. everywhere east of the mississippi, this weekend, is going to feel like summer again. >> thank you, bill. we have shocking developments when it comes to las vegas. it has been a week and a half since the mass shooting in las vegas. pressure mounting for authorities to explain what led up to massacre on monday. the clark county sheriff office provided timeline of the shooting. gunman shot a hotel guard six minutes before opening fire into a crowd. mgm resort international raised concerns yesterday that new

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welcome back, everyone, more developments into the investigation into russia's interfeerps into the 2016 election. yesterday, cheryl sandberg met with house leaders, and they provided investigators with 3400 ads believed to be linked to russia. this comes after a report from the daily beast reveemd congressional investigators are taking i should say a closer look to data firms from robert mercer for possible links t. company is in the process of turning over documents to the house intelligence committee. in an interview with fox news, president trump said they grew out of sparntship and have

gotten out of control. >> russia was an excuse used by the democrats when they lost the election. they said, why did you lose the election? they said, ah, it was russia. russia. it wasn't russia, it was a bad candidate. then they say, ah, and it was trump, that colluded with russia. i'm saying, i did? so look, here's the story, i think this was an excuse be i the democrats and people got carried away. >> all right. to the deadly quickly approaching, the deadline in the iran nuclear deal with all signs pointing to him fought recertifying the deal and punching the next steps over to congress. we get the next steps from ali. >> reporter: the iran supporters are bracing themselves for the strong possibility, that president trump isn't going to certify the deal. >> that doesn't mean it's dead

in the water it has to go over to congress. they have 60 days to decide if they can do the sanctions. dessertfying sit closer to killing it. people are preparing itself for. that iran says it has options if the u.s. pulls out of the deal t. powerful revolutionary regard. they've issued strong threats towards america in recent days and u.s. allies, in particular, europe, who support the deals are preparing measures they hope will keep the deal alive. like congress not imposeing sanctions, showing strong support for the deal and putting pressure on eastern at the behest of america to curb its missile program and renegotiate certain aspects of the deal t. reality is, if america pulls out of the deal and makes it problematic for the international community to do business with iran, when push comes to shove, nobody will do

business when it risks their relationship with america. they will not risk falling foul of u.s. sanctions. i can tell you that any effort by europe to get iran to renegotiate parts of the deal will be a fawn starter. for moderates, the hard-liners here, they've all made it very clear none of the deal is renegotiable nor is iran's missile program. >> lots to watch out there this weekend. thank you well, coming up next on "morning joe," from the foreign relations committee, senators chris coons and ben cardin doin join us on the nuclear deal this weekend. and a stunning reporting of turmoil inside the white house,ed a verys are reportedly describing the president as quote increasingly unfocused, unstable, and unraveling.

"morning joe" is on its way.

welcome back. everybody. >> let's start with kristen welker at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the president is denying an nbc report about the july 20th meeting at the pentagon that preceded secretary of state rex tillerson calling the president a moron. one key moment came when the president told his national security team he wanted to expand the u.s. nuclear arsenal to what amounted to ten times the current level. according to sources, the president was shown a chart of the history of the nuclear arsenal. the president is calling the report fake news, saying he never wanted to increase the nuclear arsenal and saying nbc and other networks should have their licenses pulled, all that as he is grappling with the nuclear crisis and is poised towards a new policy by the end of the week. >> also later this morning, president trump will sign an

executive order to unwind the affordable care act, paving the way for sweeping changes to sweeping legislations jason aldean previously cancelled three shows in california out of respect for the victims and their families. "morning joe" starts right now. good morning. it's thursday, october 12th. welcome to "morning joe." we have mike barnacle, senior political analyst for msnbc news mark halperin. washington anchor for world news america, catty kay. good to have you all on board, i got back late very night from baup. we were at the institute of politic itself, we had a great town hall event there with the institute of politics, it was really incredible to hear from the students. >> it really was incredible. we got great