breaking news in the mueller investigation. the president's chairman of his campaign has accepted a plea deal in exchange for cooperation. he has plead giuilty to one cout of obstruction of justice in an effort to tamper with justice, and joining me is ken dilanian and jeff bgeoff bennett at the house, and also, dan goldman, the district attorney for the southern district of new york, and msnbc legal analyst. and you have been at the courthouse, ken dilanian, and this is a guy, paul manafort, who suggested in no way would he cooperate with robert mueller, and what happened inside of the courtroo courtroom? >> that is right, chris. the big question of the day, and once we learned that paul manafort was going to plead g l

guilty to the two charges was it a straight guilty plea or cooperating, and we have learned that in the past hour, he has flipped. a as colleague pointed out on twitter, when you cooperate with the prosecutors you don't get an opportunity to decide what to talk about, but you have to tell everything that you know, and if you are lie, you can be be charged with perjury, and so they have a huge hammer over his head, and he has to tell them about his time as the trump campaign manager and he came with massive connections to the russian-backed figures and including a man that the mueller team says was tied to rusrussia and he was in constant contact with constantine kalymnik, and

so he is going to have to cooperate. >> and you said, i think that this is a bombshell, and what you said when i came on, and why? >> well, not so much that he is pleading giuilty to, and unrelated to the time on the campaign, but as ken pointed out, when you are cooperating you are agreeing to tell the prosecutors about anything about any crime, include ing ting the that you have committed and others have committed. there is an ongoing investigation relate nod the election, and paul manafort is at a minimum the subject of the separate investigation, and now what he has agreed to do is to give the prosecutor the all of the information that he has about his time on the campaign. he wast that june 16th trump tower meeting, and he was the principle responsible for the platform change presumably at the republican national convention, and paul manafort was in the room for the critical time in the summer of 2016, and he would know if there was any

conspiracy between anyone on trump's campaign and the russians. we know that the russians meddled and infiltrated the election, and that has been charged by robert mueller, but what we are waiting to see if any americans conspired to do it with them, and paul manafort if anyone would know, and paul manafort would know o. >> are you surprised on either side that the deal got made? >> i am surprised that he is cooperating at this point. remember, he has been in jail since june and that happens to change people's minds, right, when you are -- >> and draw the contrast, that this is the man who is living a lifestyle that 99.99% of the world cannot even begin to fathom. >> absolutely. >> and so all of the sudden, he is going from the riches to the rags of a jail cell can and t, will have a significant effect on someone. but i would have expected him to face reality prior to the trial. and the fact that he continued to spend the money to fight the charges all of the way up and through the trial which does

reduce the value of his cooperation, and let's be clear. if he had cooperated very early on, the value of that to the prosecutors would be much greater than it is now, because there are so many contradictory statements that he has to deal with, and he tampered with the witnesses, and he is not a good cooperating witness, but the information is gold. >> and if he is going to do it, i would have expected it long a ago. >> and i would testify to the fact that it is a great witness, and we have heard that it is coming very fast jeff ben nit, and we have heard from sarah sand ers that was a statement from robert giuliani, and what we have to say about this, and the. >> and the statements from sarah sanders and rudy joule ygiulian each other. this is sarah sanders, this had absolutely nothing to do with the president or his campaign,

and the reason that the president did nothing wrong, and i will point out that the statement from giuliani is just reissued and revised in the last ten minutes or so, and the statement that we got from giuliani is that and paul manafort is going to tell the truth, and that is omitted in the correction, and the white house is careful to make the point that, it was paul manafort's work with the campaign and it is known that paul manafort was a known quantity before he was hired by the president, and it no secret that he made the personal fortune doing the lobbying work, and the consulting work in shady figures all around the world, and it is the reason that he was unemployable in domestic politics, and you heard him say this he worked for ronald reagan and bob dole, and president trump is that the large part of the work he did for the philippines and other countries

in the world. and other point that they tend to make is that after a short time in the campaign and although we know that he was the campaign chairman in the crucial moment that it was not clear that paul manafort was chosewen the candidates and that trump had amassed had stayed with the campaign, and we know from the court document s ths that he wa allegedly committing crimes while he was the campaign chairman and laundering money and registering as a a foreign agent, chris. >> and going back to what the white house said and we could expect daniel goldman saying that it does not have anything to do with president trump and this is not going to happen while he was in the trump campaign and what does he say and what does manafort think? >> well, manafort is thinking of saving his own hide, and that is is why he ultimately cooperated.

only two ways to be able to get out from under sentence that he was facing in virginia. one is to cooperate and write a let toter to the judge seeking reduced sentence and the other is a pardon and it seems that he controlled the one that he could be in control of which is to cooperate. and giuliani and sarah sanders are absolutely correct that nothing he plead guilty to right now relates to donald trump, but, and this is a huge but, the elephant in the room is what does he know, what additional information does he have about donald trump and about the campaign. so, yes, we are in a waiting game and we have been in the waiting game for quite a while, and we know that robert mueller has been fastidiously investigating this for a few months now, and this is a huge break because of manafort's role to the extent that there were any crimes committed by any one in the trump campaign, and when you start to adding up, and paul manafort and rick gates and these were were all central

figures that were cooperating. >> and every time you have a cooperating witness, it is not somebody with a stellar reputation and the reason is that they did something that they should haven't have done, and the picture of paul manafort at that trial apart from the legality of it, and the lifestyle of moving a pool just a short little way of redoing the pool areas to get the right combination of the sun and shade and the ostrich jackets a and a quart over million landscaping the home in the hamptons and on and on and rick gates is sort of, i don't want to say the worst nightmare, but he is not a stellar example of why you have a cooperating witness. he was a a poor witness. how concerned are you about paul manafort and his ability, and his credibility and his ability to convince a jury? >> so one of the big, probably the biggest problem that the prosecutors ran into with rick

gates is that he had gotten additional breaks. he had some channels dismissed and they did not charge him for other criminal conduct that he committed and it looked very bad on the stand. i do think that the special counsel has learned the lesson a little bit from that and as you are looking from the information that paul manafort is pleading guilty to, he is not getting any breaks on the conduct for which he has been charged thus far, and we don't know what else is to come, and none of the charges or the conduct was dismissed and it is all included in here. and so it is not going to be be able to make the mistake that they did with rick gates. the biggest issue for rick gates is that he plead guilty of obstruction of justice for lying to the the government in 2016 and 2017, and about his foreign lobbying, and about his u.s. lobby i lobbying on behalf of foreign country, and he tampered with witnesses, and he tried to get them to change their story. those are two very problematic things for a cooperating witn s

witness, and he is going to be, and he is going to struggle on the krx with those twocross-exa >> and we are almost out of time, but talking about how far the mighty have fallen and basically paul manafort is giving up properties all over the place, right? >> yeah, a 10-bedroom mansion in the hamptons. i want to update you what has happened in the court, he has l alocuted, and what that means is did you agree to this and he said yes, he did. and so the question is if he is going to be coming out on bail. the judge has revoked the bail in related to the witness tampering charges and been in the jail cell sleeping, so it is possible to be granted bail as part of the plea agreement, and when have to wait and see.

>> ken, thank you so much, and we appreciate that. and jeff and daniel goldman as well. we will come back in a little bit, and talk about the possibility of a pardon, and what this means even more broadly for the case that is being put together by robert mueller, but up next, we will go back to ali velshi who is leading the coverage of hurricane florence in myrtle beach, south carolina. ali, how are you doing out there? >> it is windy and raining, and i am not getting close to the worst of of it. right now, it is above mariana atensio, and we will talk to her on the other side of the break, and al roker will be with us to make sense of where this storm is going, and how damaging it is going the b. i'm o to be. i'm in myrtle beach, south carolina, and our continuing coverage of hurricane florence continues after the break. there's little rest for a single dad,

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continuing coverage here in myrtle beach about 65 miles southwest of where the hurricane came in at 7:15 this morning, and in wilmington, north carolina, at wrightsville beach, and that is where it came on land. and unlike a normal hurricane, this thing has been skirting around and coming southwest, and going a little bit inland, and it is probably about 25 miles from me right now. and here's the thing.

we have probably passed high tide here, and this high tide is probably, about an eighth of a mile out than it was at the same time yesterday. this is why, you see the wind hitting me from this side. this hurricane is coming around like this. it is comes from over there like this way, and the way that the bottom of the hurricane is work working is that it is forcing the water here, and the high tide is coming in, and the water is working against it which may affect how this area is going to flood. i will talk to al roker about where this thing is going, and where the dangers are, and in fact, there is danger that the thing could go as far inland as columbia, south carolina, but right now, it is hanging around 40 miles to the northeast, which is where we will find mariana atensio in oak island, and what is the situation where you are? >> so, ali, i wanted to come out to the beach just to show you that it is high tide right now, and if you are looking at my feet, you can see thou water is

coming in? this is the farthest the water has reached at this point. i can see some tof the dunes cover ed ed by the water, becaut is high tide. and there is a shift as you were saying. the hurricane before, the winds were coming from the west, and now there is a shift in the wind, and it is coming from the southwest, and that is when, we are really going to start, and i am feeling it now, starting to get pounded by that sand, and the south facing beach is going to be seeing the worse ott of hurricane florence. i want to ask my producer, peteter, who is in the car to give you some context at how close the water is to these ocean-front properties here. many of the owners and the residents who we u talked to said that they were evacuating these home, and it was not safe to stay here, because as you can see, many of them are built on the stilts just from the prior experiences of the hurricanes like floyd, and like matthew, but many of those are wooden stilts, so it was not really

safe for many of the residents here to be left inside of those homes. i want, peter, can you drive farther down, because i want to show ali how the flooding is -- can you drive farther down. there are mailboxes that are already toppled, and power lines that have been toppled, and trees that have been toppled. i have been told though that the power is not out on this island yet, because of the power lines are also underground, but the flooding of many of the streets, ali, it reached up to my knees in some areas, and so, again, that is why many people left the island, because they did not want to get stuck here. back to you. alley. >> all right. mariana atencio in oak island, and as you described w we are on the same side of the storm, and the wind is coming from the west

to the east, and that is going the change a little bit later. and the wind on the other side of the storm starts blowing from the east at the time that we get our next high tide about 12 hours from now, then we will have a problem here in myrtle beach, south carolina and other areas like it. let's go to al rocher who can give us a a sense of what it is, and i don't know where the winds are, but we are starting to get the heavy sustained winds here, and it is feeling like it is above 60 miles per hour, but you tell me what is going on. >> and that is probably the case. and interesting development right now. we are, a are watching the system 25 miles west/southwest of wilmington, north carolina. and 80-mile-an-hour winds, and it has picked up the forward speed a little bit. it is now moving at 6, but it is moving to the the southwest. and if it is continuing to do that, it is coming out back out into the ocean which would mean that we might see a second

landfall. and for you, in myrtle beach, alley, that would mean that it comes down, and as it is coming down, you will get actually if it were to continue on that path, you in myrtle beach, you would be on the strong side, the northeast quadrant and your winds would be coming in from the east, and maybe northeast and that would be really rough for the storm surge. we have to -- you know, here, let me show you the path right now. this is the the path from the national hurricane center, and it is keeping it going straight. going west, and maybe a little west/southwest. then continues past columbia, south carolina, as a tropical storm, and then it makes kind of a bit of the right turn and continues up into the ohio river valley, and ends up wednesday in the northeast. but in the meantime, we are really concerned about it making the more west/southwesterly turn, and if it doesn't, it is

back out in the ocean, and may see a landfall somewhere along south carolina. and the wind gusts of wilmington, and 78 miles per hour, and ali, you are seeing the wind gusts of 67 miles per hour, and raleigh with 43 miles per hour, and look at that up into the northern part of north carolina. right along the coast, wilmington is near 100% power outages, and 70 to 90% as you are coming further down the coast toward charleston and we are seeing the good power outages there with the storm surge and the big story, and where 49% to 90% of the deaths occur. so this is past high tide, and another one tonight around midnight tonight, and the big zone is between cape fear and cape lookout for a 7 to 11 foot storm surge. the rainfall amounts that we are talking about again another 10 to 20 inches possible.

atlantic beach up right along the shoreline there, and north carolina is just outside of wilmington, and we are talking about so far 30 inches of rain, ali. so, again, depending upon this path, if it is not going to make a little bit of the turn, it is going to be coming out into the ocean, and now your area is going to be seeing a strong storm surge from the east or the northeast. >> al, really quickly, can we talk about the population here, because this is such an unpredictable storm. ov over to the last few days, we have talked about charlotte, and columbus, and raleigh, and even mentions of atlanta, and what are the cities in danger of getting at least remnants of the storm that could at least cause some serious flood iing? >> well, i want to come back again over here to the path map. here, you have a tropical storm past myrtle beach. and tropical storm past charleston. you have columbia and then a potent storm.

in fact, there are flash flood watches all along this area. and so we have to watch this a aear ya very closely, because this is still a potent storm. it is moving very slowly for a storm that is already on land. >> r all right. al. thanks very much. we will keep getting posted on this thing, and these winds have picked up in myrtle beach, and al said 65, but it may be gusting more. and gabe guterres is here at ocean boulevard, which i can see over there, and you a mile from me, and i can't see you right now, gabe, but al said that we are start ting to get the power outages in the area, and i know that they are coming into zsout carolina, and i can see that the power is still on, but what is happening where you are? >> well, hey, there, ali. we are a few miles up from you and we have moved from the previous location, and few miles up from ocean boulevard and this

is a tree down, and the fire department is here a few moments ago moving it from the road to clear to a traffic at this point. just as you have been seeing, ali, the wind gusts are picking up, and expecting the conditions to deteriorate over the next few hours. we have been seeing a a few cars on the road, and in terms of the power outages, we believe that the neighborhood has power. when we were at ocean boulevard at our hotel, we had power, but it is expected to, and we are expecting a lot more power outages over the next few hours, and the emergency vehicles are not far from here at the convention center, and they are still awaiting and a long way off from the brunt of this storm, and all of the rain and the storm surge that we are expecting throughout the day. as you can see, the winds are not too severe here in myrtle beach, beach, and you starting to see the minor damage, and the awnings blown off of the structures and the trees down on

the roads, and ali. ali, can you hear me? so we obviously are having some difficulties, but let's go to garrett headacaik who is in bern. >> chris, it is a while since i had anything positive to report from new bern, but watching this debris, all of this was pushed up from the storm surge and the high tide the around 11:00 last night. that means that the water had pushed down the street forcefully enough to move this here, and we are on the high tide here on the back side of the storm, and the water is a good 70 to 80 feet down the street. what that tells me is that new bern has gotten through the

worst of the storm, and we won't see the heavy rain or the heavy strong winds that they are seeing further down the coast, and we are dealing with what is likely to be the last high tide that the town is going to face while it is in the meat of the storm. and good news for new bern, and that is cold comfort for those trapped in their homes. the power is out across the city, and we have spent the morning going house the house to check on people who thought they could ride it out not realizing the level of water they would get here and combination of more than a foot of rain, and the storm surge of more than nine feet, and the surges they have had this summer, and the ground was wet, and nowhere for the water from the noose river here, and this is almost a secondary problem after the storm surge

that we have been experiencing here in the last 24 hours or so. >> and thank you, garrett haake. do we want to go back to ali vels velshi? we have you back. >> yes, the bands are coming through, and starting to affect us a little bit. thank you for that, chris. i want to go to amber parker, and she is the craven county emergency management person who is helping to coordinate some of the rescues that we have been showing you all morning, and amber, i think that there are more of those than expected and what is the situation right now? >> yes, we have currently had over 188 calls for rescue of 488 people, and the calls are continuing to come in. we have people who are reporting that they are trapped in attics and on the roofs and also in vehicles that are flooding.

>> all right. trying to see if we have amber. amber, do we have that connecti connection? >> yes, we are here. >> all right. amber, talk to me about the kind of situation that we are facing. we spoke the people in new bern stuck in their home, and then getting the national guard rescue rescues, and what kind of rescues are going to be undertaken right now, and how are they determined? people are call in, and dispatching? >> yes, we have people calling in themselves, and the individuals having family members contacting us, and they have been without power for a significant amount of time now, and the phone batteries are wearing out, and family members are calling and continuing to ca call, and we are trying to get to everyone as fast as we can and we have five swift water rescues here, and we are working with the louisiana cajun navy and the storm emergency management team just arrived

here. >> and there is also some national guard activity, and you are coordinating with the state of north carolina and the national guard? >> yes, the emergency managers are coordinating those efforts. >> are you in a position now at the back end of the storm to be able to continue offering these rescues for a while or do you have to stop a little bit later on? is this -- are we now into the rescue mode or are you going to have to go back in? we are in rescue mode, and there is not a plan to stop them unless the conditions change where it is not safe. we want our rescuers safe, and we will look at the weather, and the high water levels and the downed trees and downed powerline powerlines. so there are many factors that come into factor when determines the areases that we can and

cannot get to, and there are areas that we cannot reach. >> all right. we heard from the people who said that they have seen the debris in the street, and poles down, and people are stuck. are you advising them to waitt for the rescue or try to get out for themselves? >> yes, we are asking the people to shelter in place when it is safe if the water is coming into the home, they need to call us at the emergency management system, and let us know that the number there is 252-366-6608 and report that they are in need of assistance and get to the highest ground they can get to in the home without getting themselves trapped. we do not want people out in the water or drive in the water or stand in the water. the water is not clean water and it is full of debris, and danger with power lines. >> those are the concerns that people have to worry about. and am ber parker is the craven

county emergency management spokesperson. and we will continue to talk to you as we are up and down the coast. as you can see, the weather is coming into us at myrtle beach, and the situation is that the outer banks of the storms are slowly, slowly moving south along the road. and they are weathering the storm, and then it comes back in where we are, and we will continue the coverage of this and the major story of the day, and paul manafort and his plea deal. stay with us. you are watching msnbc. quick question. do you want the same tools and seamless experience across web and tablet? yes? great! then you're ready for power e*trade.

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from paul manafort's lawyers and one of the few developments in the last couple of minutes as paul manafort is making a deal with the mooueller investigatio he stood before the judge, and this happened minutes ago saying that he is guilty and agreeing and this is a key part to agree with special counsel robert mueller. and joining us is chuck rosenberg a former u.s. attorney and former senior fbi official, and ken d dilanian is there outside of the courtroom and we just got a look at what is involved in the plea deal, and what is involved? >> well, chris, paul manafort has agreed to cooperate fully and truthfully with the robert mueller investigation and so there is no sense of what all he is planning to cooperate with.

and others have pointed out that donald trump did not use e-mail, and while robert mueller has a lot of e-mail, he does not have a e-mail with donald trump, but he was in high level meetings with donald trump and other senior campaign official, and we can presume that he will be asked about that and including the famous june 16th, trump tower meeting, and manafort came to the campaign with russian connections already, and we know that while he was part of the trump campaign, he was offering to brief a russian oligarch on the private inner workings of the trump campaign, and also, the uner dealings with paul manafort and so there is a lot for him to talk about and does he have evidence of the senior officials cooperating, that is are remaining to be seen. >> and julia ansley, we have the question of the paul manafort would potentially walk out of

jail today and would the agreement include him being under some sort of house arrest or with his family, but he is staying in jail, and the question is as part of the deal, do we know for how long? >> well, at this point, we don't. we know that he is going back to the jail, the same jail that he is going to for some time, and the alexandria jail, and one of the reasons that he is here is because of the witness tampering, because he is trying to get to people, and look, because of that, you cannot are remain under house arrest, and we have to incarcerate you. and another thing, chris, this deal is a long time coming, and it is not until the last minute that sources told me that they knew whether or not he would cooperate. there were other deals that they tried to work on where maub he could plea and get a lesser sentence and not cooperate, and other deals burk it seems that he is getting some of the dog whisles from the president, and perhaps he thought that he could hold out for the pardon, but this is showing the strength of the mueller case is strong, and he is deciding to take this deal

instead, and even though he is going back the jail tonight, and we will see if there is a bond of pardon at a later date. >> and one thing that we know of the second trial, like the first one, there is a mountain of oevidence in the pretrial filings, and 2,127 exhibits alone. but, let's talk a little bit or more about the cooperation agreement, and manafort agrees to plea guilty to two counts with a maximum of ten years in jail, and six years of supervised are release, and up to $500,000 in fine, and we saw the list of properties that he is going to for fit, a home in the hamptons and a property in new york city on howard street, and property in brooklyn and a property on edgewood street in a alexandria, virginia, and all of the funds contained in four banking accounts, and as well as a life insurance policy, and give us the take on the deal now that we know some of the details. >> the government, chris, they have an enormous leverage and they exercised it.

this is a terrific deal for the government, and here is why. they are going to get mr. manafort's cooperation, and as ken and julia alluded to, he is going to have tole tell them everythi -- to tell them about anything that he knows about anyone who did anything wrong. and that is what they want, a whole bunch of convictions hanging over his head in virginia and two more now in d.c., but what they wanted and what they have gotten is cooperation. manafort had a calculation to ma make. he had two paths that sort of helped him. one would be a pardon of course, and that is the best, but he must presume or at least he must assume that he cannot rely on, that and so cooperation is a rational choice from his perspective, and if he has any hope short of the pardon of reducing the sentence, it is going to be based on telling truthfully and fully to the government everything that he knows. >> and let me follow up, because the wording is a maximum of ten years in jail, and six years of supervised release, and

depending upon where the case goes, and depending how much he cooperates and how valuable the evidence of what he gives is, what could he be lowe, what cou looking at here? >> well, a judge received a substantials a s assistance mot from the government based on the witness's cooperation could reduce the sentence to time served to, straight probation, and in theory, he could walk out of jail having cooperated. i don't think that is going to happen. but in the end, he is going to spend some significant amount of time in jail, but presumably, but if he tells the truth and cooperates fully, it is not the rest of his life, and he is going to have something at the end. >> and knowing about the president and how he feels about what he calls flippers a pardon may be off of the table. and thank you, julia and ken and

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all right. we are back here on myrtle beach in south carolina with our coverage of hurricane florence. and we are starting to get increased winds and certainly the rain here, but this is not the heart of the storm. i want to go up the coast to kerry sanders who is in carolina beach, north carolina, and carolina beach is a place surrounded by water. and kerry, what is the situation where you are? >> a alli, i am here in carolin beach, and the wind has shifted w. the shift in the wind which had been coming from the northwest and now coming from the southeast, and we are actually seeing drama play out here in the atlantic ocean. let me step out of the way and so that we can zoom in. we will get a visual of what this wind does can aand how sto

surge works. earlier, we had waves that were going that direction and sort of holding up, because the wind was blow i blowing the water out to sea. and now that the wind has shifted, you can see the drama of the waves as it is being pushed right up against the sand dunes here. we are awfully close to high tide, and the tide is now on the way out, but portions of carolina beach have already seen some flooding. it is unclear whether this natural barrier of the sand dune is going to hold or whether we are going to continue to to see the storm surge overtop the sand dunes, and make its way into where we are, and we are up for three stories which is the real good dramatic look at how this is playing out, because of the slow speed of the movement of hurricane florence and about five or six miles an hour, this is going to go on for hours. remember, the water is shallow here. when we go out about six miles,

it is only 120 feet deep, and further out, it is 5,000 feet deep. so when it hits the shelf known as the continental shelf, the water begins to pile up, and gets higher and higher and higher. as it is more shallow, shallow, shallow, and that is the water coming to shore with the storm surge. and the folks here, the city manager and the police are watching it closely. like i said, some of the areas of the street have already begun to show signs is of flooding. ali? >> you are getting the other side of the storm. i'm getting the wind from the west, and you are getting it from the southeast, because you are the at the other side of the storm, and now, let's bring in fred, the former administrate for for fee marma and the forme emergency management head for the storms in florida, and what have you seen that is going to be part of the storm, because it is not moving inland all that much, and it is moving down. al roker says it could go out to

sea and come back in for a second landfall and that is a bad situation. >> yes, that is what the forecast is concerned about, the over and over again, the national hurricane center has been talking about the life threatening storm surge and life threatening catastrophic flash flooding from the heavy rains. the slow movement is verifying the forecast and that is why it is so criticalle for people if you are safe on high ground, stay inside. if you need to move, it is late. again, that -- what we saw is being forecasted is now happening. >> yeah, it is too latet to move right now, and we have seen rescues under way in the northeastern part of north carolina, and thank you for keeping us up to date for what is going on. and you can see the wind is pushing me this way, and the waves, they are picking up, and the surf is picking up. but you have two issues here. the waves are coming in this way, and the wind is pushing that way, and that because we are at the bottom left of the

storm which turns like this. and now, that is why the wind is coming this way. you saw what happened to kerry sanders a at the top end of the storm. so the wind is coming in that way, and this high tide, myrtle beach start getting flooded. we have already seen some power outages here but we have seen lots in north carolina. more than 500,000 people at our last update. we just probably haven't been updated yet to know what that number is. so a lot of power outages in north carolinament so. some in south carolina. this is msnbc's special coverage of hurricane florence. we'll be right back. oh milk. am i willing to pay the price for loving you? you'll make my morning, but ruin my day. complicated relationship with milk? pour on the lactaid, 100% real milk, just without that annoying lactose. mmm, that's good.

msnbc special coverage of hurricane florence continues. i'm ali velshi in myrtle beach. the military preparedness for the hurricanes is a big deal. for those taking care of the bases and those coming out to help people willingingly, by the way. hans, what is the situation at camp lejeune? >> reporter: we are under a curfew here. you can see why. it's very dangerous. trees have been snapping, breaking all morning. you get the sense across this base a lot of roads could be impeded and that's one of the reasons why when they were

preparing for the aftermath and recovery, the cleanup, they stage a lot of assets close to the water. if and when the marines get the call to start rescuing people, helping people, they're close to the water with a lot of amphibious vehicles and two big navy ships offshore. they're close behind the hurricane. they want to stay out of harm's way and get there fast. you got 800 marines aboard the "uss kirasarg." they're ready to go with surgical teams, helicopters, heavy lift, medium lift. they have all kinds of assets. the only thing to be moving right now on this base are vehicles bringing fuel around. they need to keep the generators up and running so that you have communications so if and when you get the call coming in from someone up at a higher authority go ahead and start rescue operations they are prepared. they're ready and running on generator fuel here but they do have power and they're able to

contribute if called upon. ali? >> that is something you see right after these hurricanes. you start seeing these fuel trucks, civilian vehicles escorted by military vehicles to get help to the places they're needed. i want to go to fort bragg there. ready to help the local community as soon as this passes. general, what is the situation where you are? what are you seeing? >> so thanks, ali. right now we're starting to see the really strong effects of the storm. it's raining sporadically and gusty winds and starting to see the bands of high winds and hef ve rain start moving through. >> general, what is your level of preparedness there to get out there as soon as this thing is over because people need your help. >> right now we have been preparing for the last week. earnestly preparing particularly high water rescue vehicles and crews prepared to move as soon as the local thortds request

them. they'll use this and use the higher center vehicles to actually pull people out of the flood zone. in addition to that, we have water purification teams on stand by. movement control teams and as you know, a large number of helicopters, assets deployed as soon as we have the weather starts to clear. now, our high water teams will be prepared to move in a moment's notice once the state request and federal, you know, or local authorities request and they can move in all weather conditions if necessary. >> and we always see that happening and we'll be grateful for you doing that. talk to me about how that coordination works. where does that come from? is it initiated at the local level, state level or the federal government? >> both, in several different directions. immediate response authority. a state or local official calls and says we need help immediately. but also, working through the state emergency operations

centers. we have active duty forces embedded in those centers. and then the request can come that way. now, we also have not only the vehicles we staged here but from fort stewart, georgia, ft. campbell, kentucky, and fort drumm, new york. we have several hundred vehicles and well over 1,000 soldiers moving to fort bragg and fort jackson, south carolina, to also be prepared to assist as necessary. >> all right. so you're bringing troops in from outside of the affected zones. obviously fort drumm on the eastern side of lake ontario. and what is the situation for the folks that are based in fort bragg right now? we just talked to hans about camp lejeune with a curfew for those that don't need to be working. >> we are only key of central personnel. at a bare minimum, we have all the emergency services. we have all of our first

responders for the base. itself. most families are taking cover. they ride out the storm in their homes. like i said, we are really starting to see the affects of the storm here now with high winds and heavy rain and some localized flooding but we know that the worst of the storm is yet to come for fort bragg. >> the country and these states are counting on you. thank you in advance for the help that you and the members of the american military are going to be providing and the national guard providing that we know they will have to provide when this is over. thank you, sir. we appreciate that. i'm here in myrtle beach, south carolina. we, too, feeling the outer bands of this storm right now. we have winds now probably sustained in the high 60 miles per hour range and you can see just so you have an idea, affects somebody my size. we have winds of 80 miles per hour sustained in dumbarton,

north carolina. this is dangerous. make sure that -- anybody you know is doing what they can to stay safe. just so you know, you're tweeting us. we have doing what we have to do to stay safe, as well. i'll hand it over to craig melvin 150 miles north of me in wilmington, north carolina. our coverage continues. craig? >> ali velshi, get inside, my friend. we are following two big breaking news stories on this friday afternoon. we will start here in the tar heel state. we are getting continuing to be hit by what's been described as a storm of a lifetime. hurricane florence. continues although it's a lot better here in wilmington than a few hours ago. storm now shifting to myrtle beach. what you just saw there is what we experienced a few hours ago. that's one big story. the ot