tune in starting tomorrow. 6:00 a.m. for the latest. i'm richard luiy. goodnight from new york. rachel has the night off but she will be back next week. all eyes are on hurricane dorian beating a path towards florida. and gaining strength as it goes. the warm waters of the atlantic is crank canning up the storm. it is sustained winds of over 130 matter of principle rr. the latest models have dorian making landfall late monday or early tuesday morning. but where it hits and how much destruction it causes are open questions. for now the entire east coast of florida up to georgia are in the danger zone. joining us with the latest forecast is meteorologist bill karins.

what is the latest? so much is changing and so quickly. we knew this storm would become category 4 and who knows rb maybe category 5. i zoomed in close. these are one-minute images from a satellite. it's a three-hour loop. you can see it clears out the eye, very symmetrical. just incredible. but it's still three days away from land. not like last year. so as long as we still have this with wiggle room, i'm okay with it being this intense right now. and with 130 mile-per-hour winds. so let's get to the good stuff, the positive stuff. this is our latest updated umpurt model. all the sudden these squiggle

line saids that never make land fall. closer to the coast. the storm taking its turn further out to sea. so right now from charleston south of miami includes over to tallahassee but this trend is our friend. i don't care if we have a cat 5 off the coast and doesn't hit any land areas. in the bahamas, unfortunately all these lines are close to you. you're going toing get a direct hit. they're prepare interesting that. but we'd like the avoid that from here up to the coast. i mention bevard county because they've already issued the first mandatory evacuation starting sunday morning for the barrier islands, mobile homes, low lying

area. the places you'd expect to evacuate first. so we still have to prepare in case this is a category 4 as it moves on shore. we have a glimmer of hope we can avoid this multibillion dollar weather disaster if we can keep this off the coast. it does bring it right along the space coast, the melbourne area. but look how late this timing is now. we keep delaying this thing. and that's actually good. it further we delay it, the better chance it has to go off the coast. this is 2:00 a.m. wednesday now. saturday all clear prep day. weather going down hull at the end of monday. i mean we keep delaying this more and more and hopefully it can change. the only thing that's not the good news up through myrtle beach, the outer banks. this is the region now that

still could deal with a powerful storm and could be a category one or two and we have to watch you. this is wednesday. thursday into next week. so you get the idea here. we're going to are spect this thing. the unpredictability of the path. could go to a five or a three. we're going to have to wait and see where this own goes. you prepare for it as it's amming to you. and the andsquiggley lines,n you explain the color coding. >> that's the european model, by the way. the lines we watch with all those lines, we have a lot of different weather computers that come up with the forecasts and there are different permutations

and different agencies that do some ofthem. hurricane warf has the special model and do low resolution on a specific area. so a lot of these different lines have grades to show you had can are more accurate than others and the ones i look at the most, this yellow line that's a very popular one and that one still does bring it on shore. the american model right here that's right along the coast but doesn't make a land fall. the canadian model, they have a model too. japan has one. a lot of people have these models and they just have little different permutations with the physics of the mods and that's why they spit out tifrances. i try not to look spiffly at this. what we look for is the trend and it trend yesterday was south. people in miami were starting to get worried and heading through central florida and now that

trend is slower, stall it out and make that big bend and if it can bend out to sea, it would save so many people. >> my last is what does it depend on? is the warmth of the water? what could cause it to either hit or maybe veer off? >> if you pay attention to the summer time, you may have heard of a bermuda high. it sets up over it top of bermuda and can provide a heat wave on the east coast. there's a high pressure system. and that's steering the storm. bermuda's located where my hand is here. the flow around that is going like this. and so that's why the storm can't just hook and go up to the north. that high pressure in the "k" is what's stooring the storm. if that weakens, which it looks like it's going to. by tuesday and wednesday, it stops pushing the storm because that doesn't have the strength

to push it andutser it's going slow down. we still have two days to go. if it trends stronger, ulit's bk into florida. so that's the key is this area of high pressure. your government taxes are paying for an aircraft to fly in the atmosphere over the open atlanticing. they take measurements that go into all of our computers to give you the most accurate information. we can't measure every inch of the atmosphere. but when we get the information from the aircraft flying t goes into the model and your government taxes are doing that for you right now. >> bill karins and we learn something tonight as well. thank you for explaining all of that. our nbc meteorologist. in 2016 it was hurricane

hermoine. labor day 2012 hurricane earl. and 2004 they got a storm the size of texas, hurricane frances. 1985, helena and in 1935 hurricane david. happy labor day. but the worst laborer day hurricane to hit florida gave before they gave storms human names in 1935 when what became known as the great labor day hurricane was so powerful it derailed trains and wound up as the eighth deadliest murcane in continental u.s. history. at least seven hurricanes have hit florida over a labor day weekend and it looks like the state may have to add one more to the tally as we heard. dorian is on track to hit this

florida. and as we have been reporting just in the last hour it was upgraded to a category four, meaning sustained winds of over 130 miles per hour. dorian is expected to make land fall late monday or early tuesday. the latest models have it shifting slightly to the northeast as you just heard from bill karins. they predict quote life-threatening storm surges and devastating hurricane force winds. it means it's still not clear where and when folks will have to evacuate. in miami, where they're in the midst of what's called a king tide, low lying areas have already started to flood. and how about this? this is foot age of dorian from space. those glowing loigsz are pockets oof lightening inside the hurricane. buckle up. the mayor of west palm beach, florida.

i know it's very busy for you tonight. so thank you for taking a little bit of time for being with us here tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> we just heard bill karins talk about the unpredictability of of the storm. there's still a possibility according to all the lines he showed us that west palm beach and it palm beach area could be hit. this thing could hit 2:00 a.m. wednesday morning. what are you taking advantage of that extra time do to prepare the city? >> what we are continuing to do is preach from the pullpit of preparedness. year continuing to get the news out that they need prepare for this as a significant weather event . they need to stock up on esejss. water, food, medicine, gasoline. and if we have a can couple of extra days to do that, that's all the better.

we're preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. >> i lived through a few hurricanes living in florida for 14 years. it's pretty frightening, pretty scary. how are the stores handling it? when we went out to stock up, stores empty really quickly. water is gone, bread is gone. basics are gone. are stores going to have time to get fresh food and water in before tuesday? >> we are very optimistic that will be the case. the stores have already started emptying out. generally before the hurricane it's nice weather. so if we get a couple more days of nice weather that should enable the major stores to stock up. and what i don't want to happen is for residents to get can complacesant and say it's never going to happen. this is a major weather event.

residents, please take it seriously. >> and the other issue i can recall is gas line. people not being able to get gases for the car. because if there is a major evacuation, is it better to stock up on gas, extragasoline or do you worry about long lines and thick liep lines of cars and people trying to get on the road as the storm is am coming in? >> we don't know what those plans are yet. the county handles it because they're outside city limits. the gas lines have already started. people will have an opportunity, hopefully, to find a station and listen. gas supplies are getting low as well but i'm proud and happy to say our governor has authorized the gas trucks to be escorted by the florida highway patrol so they will be hustling in to the various stations as well restock.

>> one of the things i hear a lot of commentary on from folks who worry about the state of immigration in the country is that people who are undocumented are sometimes afraid to flee, afraid to evacuate. they're afraid to participate because of their immigration status. could you please advice, do people undocumented and their families have anything to fearer if they evacuate and would they be able to take advantage of what citizens are able to taked a vanltatage of? >> we're encouraging them to take advantage of shelters. if you're in an evacuation zone, absolutely not. we're not going to discriminate because someone is an immigrant. our highest proi ort is to save lives. and we don't care what ulcanner, unlt canne -- color, country of origin. i'm concerned every risdant is

safe and secure after this storm. >> the mayor of west palm beach, florida. >> one matter of personal privilege if i may. >> yes, sir. >> i apologize for being in an informal outfit, so, mom, i'm sorry. i should have been in a big suit and tie. she's a big fan of yours. >> tell her thank you and i hope you absolutely stay safe and you're right my god mom would get on me for not tress deing up on tv. we're going to be keeping an eye on hurricane dorian and into next week too. we with have a lot of plital news, a lot of stories ahead. donald trump cancelled his trip to poland saying he's doing so to monitor the storm and the president is also conveniently skipping a meeting with another world leader that's raising eyebrows.

rather than flying to europe, he took off for camp david where he will be on storm watch but not before talking about how prepared they were for puerto rico and how mar-a-lago will get molly whauped with the rest of the state. and we have news that this show has been following all week. trump administration suddenly telling immigrants they no longer have a medical deferment. they have 33 days to get out of the country. that story has continued to develop and we're going to get the latest from a member of congress who has been advocating for a constituent. and a surprise horse race of the week and why senate republican mitch mcconnell seem as little antsy about his majority. so please stay with us. this e six years ago... and this is me now! i got liberty mutual.

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so we continue to keep an eye on hurricane dorian which has just been upgraded as a category 4 hur in a. the house judiciary committee has cancelled its plans to can come back early to work on a package of gun control legislation, a plan they announced earlier in the month in the wake of mass shootings in el paso, texas and dayton, how hoy. they'll have have to squeeze ungun legislation when the full house returns september 9. the same people who have asked for documentation on an inquiry

on whether to impeach the president and the list has been getting longer and longer. consider for a moment the week donald trump has had this one past week. it started with his largely incoc incoc incoherent performance in japan. he said climate change hadn't happened yet and was going to be next. it had just happened and he wasn't there. then the white house press secretary explained the reason was because instead he was having bilateral meetings with the leaders of india and germany. this is the climate meeting and there's the leader of germany and india and there's trump's empty chair. he did not skip the climate meeting to meet with it them. they were in the meeting and he wasn't there. then this with worrying exchange.

>> yeah, sure, why not. might as well. i have second thoughts about everything. >> yeah, sure, i have second thoughts about everything. trump'sf top economic advisors had to go on tv almost immediately who said the president meant the opposite off what you heard. also there was this. >> china called last night our top trade people and said let's get back to the table. >> could you tell us a little bit more about the call you referred to. >> wrv i've got a few calls and very good calls. >> so this is where the deep voice narrator comes in and says in fact, there were no calls. aids privately conceded the phone calls trump described didn't happen the ahe said they did.

instead two officials said he was eagerer to project optimism and conflated comments with china's vice premier with direct communication with the chinese. if the president of the united states lied about phone calls to boost markets, that seems pretty bad but probably not as bad as having said calls take place only in his mind. pick your poison. and speaking of cleaning up weird pronouncements from the president. white house clarified melania trump has not met kim jong-un. so just trump volunteered the first lady has gotten to know kim jong-un and i think she would agree he is a man with tremendous potential. and a camera cut to melania in the audience who looked quizzically at the president. several hours later as the president and first lady flew back to white house, the press

secretary "while the first lady hasn't met kim jong-un, she feels like she's gotten to know him." ocan cay. and president trump wrapped up with a giant infomercial for one of his golf clubs and why it would be great for the next g7. >> in deral we have a series of magnificent buildings we call them bungalows and they each hold from 50 to 70 luxurious room skz incredible restaurants. it's such a natural. and many hundreds of acres so in terms of parking, in terms of all of the things that you need, the ballrooms are among the biggest in florida and the best. >> the biggest ballrooms in florida, how could you not host the next gathering of world

leaders there? there are things called bungalows. they'd be so comfortable there. if you thought that was an off-the cuff call, president trump shares the location of the next g7 summit hosted by the united states which would be unconstitutional if he were to force foreign leaders to put money directly in his pocket by making them stay at his own hotel. the rest of the week brought news that donald trump has ordered his subordinates to begin seizing private land and break the law if they have to do get his border wall built and news his administration is deporting sik children. we will have more on that later in the show. just today trump issued this strange tweet that appears to contain a satellite

image of a damaged iranian rocket launch site. no explanation from the white house but experts tell nbc news it is likely a classified image. quote league that he will president has the authority to declassify what he wants but that does not answer the question of why he did and whether it is wise. outside experts are dumb founded. asked by reporters this evening trump said you'll have to figure that one out yourself. okay. now i know every week is clown car full of crazy these days and it's easy for it all to start feeling like background noise, really unsettling background noise but if democrats have said that some of of the things trump has ton this past week like his move the hold the next g7 at his golf club and offer of pardons to break the law, that some of of those things ought to be part of their

investigation into impeachment. now 134 law makers, well over half of tdemocratic caucus. and from legal correspondent, "let's compair donald trump's week to the impeachment artal cans brought against nixon, clinton and johnson" if one were to considerer the articles oimpeachment against the three sitting presidents who have historically faced impeachment, not only has trump clearly surpassed all of them, he has in under a week. if they have to investigating all the president's potentially impeachable offenses before it can recommend impeachment, they keep recommending new impeachment offenses every week, how did this investigation ever end? great to have you with us tonight, sur. >> thanks for having me. >> so we're at 134 house

democrats now favor impeachment. that's over half of the caucus. does that now reach the thresh hold where leadership aagrees with those of you that want to proceed? does that mean house leadership is still on board? >> an increasing number of members of the caucus have come out in support of the judiciary proceedings. the chairman has made it clear that we're in the midst of a proceeding as to whether or not we will recommend to the full house, articles oof impeachment against the president. it requires to continue to bring witnesses before the committee to seek the production of documents that we'll be able to make recmommendations to the ful house. it feels like there are additional things that require examination.

and we'll look at those things but there will come can a point that we will have enough to make a determination as to whether or not artals oof impeachment should be filed. and preventing us from taking action. there will am a point where they will present evidence and the witness is referred from the documentsy with reviewed as to whether or not we recmiommend art article of impeachment towards the president. i would never presume to speak for the speaker. i think she's made it clear she believes the president must be held accountable and that we should continue the robust oversight of the committee and that's what the zjudiciary committee is doing. and whether we take up articles of impeachment on the floor. we need to continue to bring witnesses beor the committee.

litigate because he has directed not to produce documents and make sure we get the evidence we need to make informed evidence. >> we now have on the don pushing to use his private club as a hosting site for the g 7 which would put global leaders in florida at the height of hurricane season. which doesn't sound safe or wise. do you think that should be investigated as a potential artal of impeachment? >> this is one more way he's looking to enrich himself by using the office of the presidency. it's an abuse of his aufgs. seeking gain from being president of the united states. this is a president who sees this as a money making

enterprise as do members of his family. and to require foreign leaders to participate in this summit own lee by paying donald trump at his organization would be completely inaproep ret, likely illegal and certainly ea violation of the amulliants clause. we want to be sure when the president or any elected official is acting that they are in the best interss of the american people, not because there's rar financial gain they or their family is getting. it certainly violates the clause in the constitution. this is just one more example of the president using this office as a money-mocking enterprise. >> we didn't even get to the attorney general paying him. but we can to that another time. thank you so much for your time. really appreciate it. and a member ocongress fighting

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immigrants living here under an exception to receive medical care withed have that status taken away. all those immigrants with medical defersments were told to ditch their doctors, medicine, all the things keeping them alive and leave within 33 days or be deported. when this first made the news this week the administration said the deferment would not be ended, just handled by an entirely different part of the government, by ice. no one from the trumped aman stragz told ice it was their responsibility to keep the sick kids alive and we got more clarity on what ice intends to do with this mystifying policy. ice said quote ice does not exercise discretion on a categorical basis to exempt entire group of aliens from the immigration laws enacted by congress. in other words no, ice will not

be taking applications for medical defrls. that program is over full stop. today the slow trickle of outrage turned into a flood. with 127 members of congress have signed this letter to the trump administration demanding an explanation. next week on friday the house oversight committee will host hearings on this. they're calling on the acting director off ice and citizenship and immigration services that first sent them a letter after a week in which families have struggled for information or answers or hope, they have the prospect of seeing law makers put their questions directly to the trump administration. and a democrat from california. and he is on the house oversight committee which is over seeing those hearings next week. and izs bell is the young woman profiled on the show who will be deported and therefore lose

access to her life-saving medical treatments as a result of this new pallyish. thank you for your time. does congress have the power to stop the trump administration from removing these immigrants who need medical care in the united states? >> first we have a wequestion o where does the president get the authority to do this anyway? and the administration is not being helpful. we didn't find out about this myself until the constituent came in to show me a letter they got a week before. >> and isabel is your constituent. >> lots of media. trying to make people aware of of the injustice of her sit ways. she came by invitation of the federal government to be in a treatment for her rare disease and she came when she was 7.

she's now 24. her participation has helped not just herself but many others with her disease. she can't get the treatment if she's forced to go back to guatemala. the letter said they would be forced by september 14th. and trying to get information from these departments has been very frustrating to say the least. >> if someone dies as a result of this policy, what will congress do about it? >> well with, isabel's doctor, who is a very well nationally respected doctor at ucsf in the bay area has written a letter that said she will die. he said more diplomatically her life will be shortened because she won't be able to get the treatment she gets for one day every week. so this is intense treatment. it's really just a horrible situation. we have sent letters. senator harris has joined a letter from me. we've been a co author on the letterer.

we're put t we're introducing a bill and mostly get information from the white house to realize what they're doing. they're sentencing this young woman who has been here legally and invited by the federal government, they're sentencing her to death. >> and if one presumed that because their cruelty has been open. if you have agencies like ice that are purp traiting this cruelty on people, we just learned from your very committee, staffers were prohibited from performing oversight over facilities that department of homeland security is operating, holding migrants. there was a story that one detainee was -- allegeds a border patrol agent told a child that spilled soup, that the child would with not receive more food unless the child drank the spilled soup off the floor.

in another country we'd call for the u.n. to go un. should congress keep funding ice and dhs if this is the way they are behaving towards human beings and children? >> we tried in the supplemental bill, men ea of us. put more restrictions on the 4.6 billion because we were concerned about how they spend the money and we got in a battle. so we have to try hold them accountable. until a federal judge hold as secretary in contempt of a federal court and puts them in jail, nothing's going to happen. we have a socio path in the white house. >> thank you very much for being here. y wi we will with definitely keep an eye on what you all are doing and hope youepe us aprised. still ahead.

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current track has it hitting the bahamas, florida, georgia and the carolinas. while everything elgs was going on in the news, donald trump cancelled a trip he was supposed to leave for this weekend to poland. the president said he isn't going because of a hurricane bearing down on the east coast of florida. one of the consequences is not just that trump won't be in poland meeting with the president of poland. but he was also set to meet with the president of ukrain but that meeting is cancelled too. and that may be just the way it goes. hur in a shows up and you cancel your meeting. ukrain is the country that russia invaded in 2014 and from had can russia seized the part of ukrain that is crimea. the first time since world war

ii the borders of a country were changed by outside military force. and waging a low-grade war in ukrain ever since. united states took steps to punish russia. there were strict new sanctions against russian oil and gas industry that hurt the country's fragile economy. g8 decided to be the g7 instead. congress passed a military aid package for ukrain to help resist russian aggression. all othis happened under president obama. and we've seen the current president repeatedly and insistently argue russia should be let back in to the g7 even though the reason they were kicked out was ukrain is what russia is doing to ukrain hasn't changed at all and "politico" reported that trump blocked the

aid to ukrain that was passed by law into congress. the same aid that was supposed to help quote keep russia at bay and yet donald trump has been slow walking it all year and now if he keeps blocking the ukrain aid through the endf of next month, through the end of september, the money will disappear by the end of the year and who will love that? russia. i mean there really is a monster storm coming but it is all happening at once and has consequences which just happens to be good for vladimir putin who donald trump keeps please and appeasing for whatever reason. omizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. wow. thanks, zoltar. how can i ever repay you? maybe you could free zoltar?

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a weird thing happened last week when mitch mcconnell, who styles himself as the grim reaper of the congress, put out this op ed in which he, the senate majority leader, was suddenly defending the filibuster because quote america needs the senate to be the senate. i may seem odd a senate majority leader opposes increasing his own power. it's curious liberals are choosing this moment to attack the minority's powers. and of course our last memory of mitch mcconnell using the filibuster is from when he was minority leader and he used it against president obama more than anyone had used it since the 1960s when the utilizers were right-wing segregationist southern democrats and the target was civil rights

legislation. it seems it could be the republican party's lead attack dog in congress is starting to worry about maintaining the senate majority and might be preparing his team to operate from the minority again. we saw a thing that could make that a possibility more likely. there was already a senate seat up in georgia with first-term republican incumbent david purdue up for re-election in 2020. on wednesday all of a sudden boom, two seats are open in georgia. three-term republican senator johnny isakson announced he will retire because of health challenges. this means his seat will be up in a special election next november, meaning georgia will have two senate races on the ballot. with the combination of republicans seeming to retire all over the place and mitch mcconnell's uncharacteristic lack of overconfidence, it's looking like maybe democrats really do have a shot at flipping the senate in 2020. democrats have to defend their share of seats too. perhaps especially the ones they hold in alabama, thanks to their defeat of judge roy moore.

having both races up in the state of georgia, which gives democrats two bites of that apple or peach, a big deal. democrats only need to net four seats to flip the senate. georgia, trending blue, could be a game changer. joining us is political analyst and "hill" tv host jamal simon. jamal, thanks for being here tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> you know a few things about georgia. having works with a certain senator. how like is it that democrats can pick up one or two seats when both are up? >> i mean, everybody needs to sober up just a little bit. this is still georgia. but georgia is now a tipping point. you saw this, the stacey abrams race, where frankly i think she won that race. i think she won that race, but the current governor probably did a few things that kept him in the hunt longer than he should have been. it's going to be a tough race but democrats could win it.

having the second seat may help. one of the things that could happen is you could end up -- there are no african-americans running for david purdue's seat. but you may have a couple of african-americans who get into the johnny isakson seat. if that happens, then you have an african-american on the ballot in november of 2020 while the presidential race is going on, and you might have a surge in turnout that could bring one of those senators over the finish line. >> let's be clear that one of those african-americans will not be stacey abrams? >> she's made that very clear that she's not going to do it. there are other names out there. michael thurman who's been a long-time, statewide elected in the state. a few people out there. rafael warnock, pastor at ebenezer baptist church. there are a few people who might do it. >> let's talk big picture. say democrats could get one of the two. they need net four. say alabama is a tough race to win a second time, as trump is probably going to clear that state by 12 points or so.

besides georgia you've got north carolina, which democrats have managed to win statewide in the governor's race, arizona, the mcsally loss, texas, beto o'rourke came went three points, colorado which looks -- the republican looked doomed, maine where the republican looked doomed. how are democrats looking in terms of being able to get the net four, or a tied senate, and if they win the white house they get the vp to break the tie? >> if you think back, this is the senate election that has all those seats from 2014 when the republicans did so well when they were running while barack obama was president. all those republican senators are now up this year. and so what you really may have is something that people didn't expect, which is that the democrats may be able to take and win the senate. >> we shall see. it certainly is a motivator for a lot of democratic voters, because they have been talking senate. jamal simmons, thank you very much, we appreciate you joining us tonight. up next, the next event that

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there is one more race you should keep an eye on if you're looking for early hints at which way the political headwinds are blowing ahead of the next presidential election. north carolina is holding a do-over election for the congressional seat in the ninth district. it happens in less that two weeks. now here's what you need to know. donald trump won this district by nearly 12 points in 2016. when this seat was up for grabs last year, the unofficial result showed that the republican, a baptist preacher named mark harris, winning about i a thin margin of 905 votes. the reason we don't have official results from last year's race and the reason this do-over election is happening is because the state elections board threw out the results from last year after evidence emerged that a consultant tied to the republican's campaign allegedly committed extensive ballot fraud. the republican's consultant was arrested and charged with

multiple felonies. the republican candidate from last time, mark harris, decided not to run in the re-do. so this time you have the same democrat, a marine veteran named dan mccready, rubbing against a republican, dan bishop. the same democrat who barely lost last time, who almost flipped a congressional seat in a district trump won by bubble digits. democrats are hoping this time, hopefully without significant ballot fraud working against him, dan mccready might win. democrats are not the only ones who think that might happen. republicans up and into and including donald trump, are worried enough about this seat that a ton of them are swooping in to campaign for dan bishop. the swoopers include house minority leader kevin mccarthy, vice president mike pence, donald trump jr., and the president himself who's set to appear at a campaign rally the night before the election. the latest polling in the race shows the democrat is ahead by 4

points. that election is happening on september 10th. mark your calendars. and that does it for us. rachel will be back next week. catch me tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. for my show, "a.m. joy." "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" is up next. good evening, lawrence. boom, 10:00 exactly. >> perfect, thank you, joy. and you, i hope you can hang around and run over here to this studio, because a little bit later in this hour i would like to get your political analysis on what's happening in the presidential campaign. so unless you have to run out the door, could you run over here? >> i could be talked into that, because you know what i love, lawrence? political analysis. i love to do it. >> we need a few more minutes from you. >> sounds good, thank you. what should be a relaxing long holiday weekend is going to be a weekend of bracing for the worst in florida and the southeastern united states. msnbc will be tracking the hurricane dorian all weekend, and we will have