fourth round match against stan wawrinka last night due to the left shoulder injury. he was leading 2-0 when the match was stopped and the new york faithful expressed their displeasure when djokovic informed the umpire he was unable to continue. >> ladies and gentlemen -- >> that's it. >> the match is over. >> djokovic has had to retire. >> djokovic is retiring. >> game, set, match. >> and felt that there was something off with djokovic. he tried to hide it. the crowd throwing down some boos. not for sure -- >> that's too bad. >> one of the ultimate competitors. i mean, come on. >> quite a moment at the u.s. open. >> yeah. >> to say the least. so afterwards djokovic said the crowd could not be blamed. a lot of people didn't know what was happening.

all right. as the top -- it's the top of the hour on september 2nd, labor day, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett and susan del percio will be with us all hour. hurricane dorian is a category 5 storm and right now the bahamas is getting pounded as the storm heads to the united states. this is video from the abacos where dorian made two landfalls. we are getting reports of widespread damage across the islands from ripped off rooftops to overturned cars and who knows what else with maximum sustained winds of 185 miles an hour. the storm is tied as one of the strongest atlantic hurricanes ever recorded. the images there, devastating. early this morning the national hurricane center warned of the ongoing but life threatening situation in the bahamas and warned that the storm will move quote dangerously close to the united states. meanwhile, more than 1 million people on the coasts of florida,

georgia and south carolina under mandatory evacuation orders. >> and for the very latest let's bring in meteorologist janessa webb. you have been watching this storm since the weekend. how do things look right through? >> i wish i had better news for the bahamas here. it continues to get worse as this storm system has started to stall out right now it's out of the west at 1 miles per hour. throughout the weekend we saw about 8 miles per hour yesterday, it diminished to 5 miles per hour. this is slower than a walking pace here. it will completely stall out potentially here in the next few hours and then it's going to hover over fremont here and that's what's really going to cause the catastrophic storm surge and the major flooding in that area. so this was record setting throughout the weekend here with the sustained winds of 185 miles per hour but we saw gusts up to 220 miles per hour.

so we haven't seen a storm like this in years for the bahamas. with that rapid intensification phase that is starting to gradually die down now, this is just a historical storm system. i do want to start talking about some live data here. now that we're getting closer to the main land. and you see from our current radar, we do have the outer bands that are already starting to affect west palm beach here. this is almost going to be like a severe weather system with these outer bands. potentially effects of like an ef-3 tornado, when they start to feel the bands. it's not the eye of the storm system that i'm really concerned about. the potential landfall people continue to talk about, it's the storm surge. also, we have these quadrants in a hurricane here. it's the left side of this quadrant, that's what's going to

cause this storm surge here potentially in the next 24 to 36 hours. the right side, the great news here is the right side of this storm system which is known as the dirty side is really starting to let up. but let's focus right now on the bahamas. i want to show you where we saw the major flooding yesterday from marsh harbour. they're finally in the clear. they're seeing some isolated rain right now. but it's more towards freeport that is really getting the brunt of this system right now. so the storm surge, very high. also the gusty winds will continue to pick up. now, the latest update here came in at 6:00 a.m., so this is actually live data. we're looking at it together here. tuesday at 2:00 a.m., 150 miles per hour. now, geoff and yasmin, this is really too close for comfort for me here. this is about 50 to 60 miles and we're still talking about a cat 4. so we were just talking about the storm surge on the right

side of that quadrant. that's what's going to push the waves here on shore here. gusts to 165 miles per hour for your tuesday. it starts to let up a little bit. but still, very much a major hurricane. as we head into your wednesday around 2:00 a.m. gusts of 150 miles per hour. look at this. dorian continues to really want to stay in the water here. even for the north carolina outer banks we are going to watch for a potential landfall friday at 2:00 a.m. but now jersey is even in on the mix of this storm system but it should be well off shore. so i think that the takeaway from the national hurricane center in the latest update we really want to watch how close. we need to watch the turn of the system and we also need to really focus on the outer banks of the carolinas here for late week. >> all right, thanks for that. we'll check in with you later on this morning.

mandatory evacuation orders have been issued for parts of florida, georgia and south carolina. julia bagg, you were at a costco, people were stocking up on water and trying to stock up on gas. what's the scene right now in jacksonville? obviously the sun is up, but looks like people -- no one is on the streets. >> well, geoff, you know people who had been perhaps hoping to spend a holiday weekend at the beach here, those plans are canceled. in fact, the beaches here now in the jacksonville area are closed. emergency managers closing them even sooner than they had expected. they thought perhaps they'd keep them open until tonight. they decided to change that as of this morning. they're closed, we're under a state of emergency here in duval county. those evacuations set to begin at 8:00 this morning. i want to give you a look at a major route here off the beach. this is beach boulevard. once again, those evacuations just set to begin at 8:00 this

morning. and of course families with special needs able to get help from the county here to make that move. now, hotels just behind us, in fact, our hotel, geoff, closing, going to ask people to go ahead and leave starting at 8:00 as well. and this morning we still see people around but it's not like what you would usually see. usually on a holiday weekend people perhaps going to the beach or getting ready to go fishing. something of that nature. but not now. everything has changed and so where we are on beach boulevard emergency managers saying the bridges will stay open for now. until things turn bad which isn't expected to happen until perhaps tomorrow afternoon. but once they close, geoff, then it's not clear when they would open again and of course for safety reasons also another precaution being taken here, a curfew going in effect from

10:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. in the morning. even alcohol sales suspended at 10:00 tonight. >> julia bagg, thanks for that. all right. let's turn to the mass shooting in texas on saturday which left seven people dead and 22 others injured. authorities say the rampage began after the suspect was the subject of an afternoon traffic stop between midland and odessa. the gunman shot the trooper who initially stopped him. and continued west. opening fire at motorists and pedestrians as he drove by. the gunman at some point abandoned his vehicle. stole a u.s. postal service van and he was eventually killed in a shoot-out with police. three officers and a toddler are among the wounded. police say if gunman's motive is not clear. however, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the case telling nbc news that the shooter had recently been fired from his job. they added this incident did not seem to be an act of either domestic or international

terror. joining us now from odessa, texas, msnbc correspondent vaughn hillyard for us. talk about how the community is reacting after the tragic shooting. >> yeah, good morning. you know, the fact is that most of the names are actually not been identified by authorities at this time. you have seven deaths, 22 injured and across this community there's still a lot of question marks. so over the course of two hours, havoc was wreaked here from beginning off of that i-20 where that initial stop by those two deputies took place. to ultimately this movie theater/bowling alley complex where everything came to an end. you drive around town there's still 15 active crime scenes at play including this one here at this movie theater. we do know two of the names of those that were deceased at this time. that was rodolfo arco, 56-year-old father of three. a truck driver.

as well as mary granados. she was a letter carrier here. the u.s. postal service put out a statement last night saying their deepest regards to her family. but there's also a lot of questions as to where does this state go from here? this is the fourth mass shooting in just the last two years. al two years ago, 28 died at a sutherland springs churches and last year, two teachers outside of houston and then in el paso, the major shooting and governor abbott was here at a press conference yesterday afternoon when he said words are no longer good enough, the action must be taken and the status quo must be addressed. but the state legislature here in texas only meets every two years and they're set to reconvene in 2021. there's a lot of question marks not only here in this community but across texas as to what steps will actually be taken here to address shootings such as this.

we should note that this 36-year-old white male the shooter in this situation it is not clear how he obtained what authorities are saying an ar-style weapon at this time. >> the question being what happens on the state level and then also if things will happen on the federal level when congress is back in session. vaughn hillyard, thank you so much. still ahead, much more on hurricane dorian as the situation grows more dangerous by the hour. and why several of president trump's advisers and allies are calling the past few months a period of quote missed opportunity and self-sabotage. fd opportunity and self-sabotage. with the freestyle libre 14 day system just scan the sensor with your reader, iphone or android and manage your diabetes. with the freestyle libre 14 day system, a continuous glucose monitor, you can check your glucose levels any time, without fingersticks. ask your doctor to write a prescription for the freestyle libre 14 day system. you can do it without fingersticks. learn more at freestylelibre.us

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welcome back. we'll go straightaway now to nbc news correspondent morgan chesky who is in nassau in the bahamas. we have been hearing all morning about the 165 miles an hour winds, but where you are things are looking pretty good. so what's the deal, set the scene for us. >> yeah, geoff and yasmin. the good news is we had the outer bands of dorian make their way through here last night. keep in mind, those are tropical force winds less than 100 miles an hour but enough to bring plenty of damage here. we saw trees down, light property damage in and around nassau but the brunt was felt 90 miles to the north of us on abaco island. that's where dorian brought wind gusts of more than 220 miles an hour. and sustained winds of 175 miles an hour. that's the equivalent of an ef-3

tornado but sustained for hours on end and that what has caused the devastation in that area. our first images of what the storm left behind is simply stunning. a lot of people trapped inside homes surrounded by water, even turning to the phones to issue pleas for help as they post on social media for someone to please rescue them. we do know that rescue efforts were ongoing in a lull in the storm yesterday. that's only going to resume today because of the several thousand people impacted there are going to have a long road ahead. but the big concern right now is once dorian made its way over abaco island it churned to grand bahamas. that has a population of 50,000 people and a lot of them prepared ahead of time, but with a storm this powerful there's only so much you can do when it actually hits. you want to be in the strong building. away from any windows and we do know that a lot of people living in low-lying areas did go to shelters that were made available. that's good news considering how powerful the storm dorian is.

because it's so slow moving another concern at is it can dump feet of rain on top of the islands that can put them under water for weeks on end. that was a problem with the last major hurricane that hit grand bahama, putting portions of the runway under water. as it stands right now we'll see the full extent of the damage on abaco island an on grand bahama where dorian is wreaking so much damage there. >> morgan, this is yasmin vossoughian. thinking about the people that are on abaco and that are also on grand bahama island, people in freeport especially that are just getting pounded right now with that cat 5 hurricane and those really high winds, do we know if any of them were able to evacuate the island, if they were in fact able to get off the island and where they're being sheltered in place? i mean, from what i know of the islands it's a pretty flat-lying island. not many places to go when you have high winds like that. >> right. there is a little elevation here

in nassau, but on grand bahama and on abaco it is next to nothing. you're barely above sea level. that's why officials encourage a lot of those people in the low-lying areas to please get out. issuing dire warnings ahead of time. we do know that of the several thousand people that live on abaco in that area, only a few hundred took the government up on that offer to evacuate. we know the last boat left yesterday at 5:00 a.m. just a few hours ahead of dorian. and so plenty of people were impacted. those people went -- if they did evacuate they were taken to higher ground. they were put in those shelters that were opened up to weather out the brunt of this storm. >> nbc's morgan chesky, thanks for that report. coming up we'll take you live to florida and south carolina where residents there are bracing for a potential direct hit from hurricane dorian. stay with us. you should be mad at tech that's unnecessarily complicated.

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welcome back, everybody. so the president was supposed to be in poland this morning but canceled that trip in order to monitor the storm here. joining us now is white house correspondent kelly o'donnell for us. good morning to you. what are you hearing from the administration this morning? >> well, it has been one of those kind of situations where the president up ended his schedule and yet, there hasn't

been a lot that has been visible. the president did go to fema on sunday and advisers say he's been getting briefings on the hurricane as frequently as hourly. and larger scale briefings, twice a day, with a number of top officials including the president's national security council team that has included people most closely aligned with federal emergency management. his homeland security adviser and of course directly involved with fema. so the president has according to officials and according to our opportunity to see and hear from the president he's been engaged on this, but he's also said some things that were curious and frankly incorrect. talking about alabama being in the path of the storm when storm experts are saying that really alabama is not in the path of the storm. it may have some rain as a secondary or tertiary effect but

not as a part of this storm. so that was a bit confusing. the president also saying in an unusual sort of really hard to follow series of comments about not being familiar with category 5 and yet he had heard of the term, but it was almost a way of saying, category 5 is so big and so scary and this could be that. and yet, it was very hard to follow. so it does raise questions about the president's sort of knowledge of this circumstance and yet, the white house is saying he's very informed on this and has been engaged. as you pointed out, he has not attended a world war ii comment race. he sent vice president pence in his stead. florida is one of the states that has been preparing for this, as the president's second home, he owns property there. mar-a-lago is located there and of course it is vitally important to his re-election. but beyond just the politics of

it, of course for an american president whenever there is a threatening national disaster it's just good politics, good sense to remain in the united states. so the president did do that. he has nothing on his schedule today. of course it is labor day. that is not unusual. all of the facilities are here for him to be monitoring this. when we have a day, geoff knows this all too well. when there's nothing on the schedule that does not mean that there won't be something added or an opportunity to find out more about what the briefings include. so much of this when it comes to hurricane preparedness really begins at the state and local level. and federal officials come in after that. so the white house has been monitoring it. we'll keep you posted as we learn more, but the president has been visible at times curious and officials say very engaged. >> kelly o'donnell, thank you. i want to turn now to tracking hurricane dorian once again. nbc news correspondent jay gray, our reporter, joining us live

from hilton head, south carolina, i believe. jay, good talking to you there. are you in hilton head? is that where you are? >> yeah. >> so talk to us about the preparations that are taking place so far as they're awaiting the arrival of hurricane dorian? >> well, look, yasmin, this area wasn't even thought about as far as dorian was concerned late last week, i was in florida and that entire state was in the forecast cone. now it's a potential strike point. they ordered an evacuation on hilton head island where we are right now and that's for today. what we have seen is people gathering food, water, and the flooding could isolate some communities here. those that are evacuating packing up what they can and preparing it and getting out. and really officials here urging if you're going to do that, do it early. get on the road early because it's only one way in and out of

this island and some of the other areas that are under evacuation orders. you don't want to wait until the last minute to do that. traffic is going to be an issue. gasoline is going to be an issue. so you're starting to see people move. you're starting to see people happen as the storm kind of lingers over the bahamas right now. but eventually will target the southeastern seaboard here. >> jay gray, thank you. and joining us now is white house bureau chief at "the washington post" and political analyst for msnbc and nbc news our friend philip rucker. thanks for laboring with the rest of us on this labor day. you here to talk about the new piece called trump's lost summer -- let's start over. trump's lost summer. aides claim victory but others see incompetence and intolerance. here we are 400 days away from the election and the president's approval rating is stuck in the low 40s. national polls show him losing in head to heads against the top

democratic contenders and yet instead of doing things to solidify his political standing the president is doing things like picking fights with the four congresswomen and picking fights with the entire city of baltimore. so help us understand what's happening here. >> yeah. geoff, you could sort of look back at this summer and the high point. the pinnacle you could say was that july 4th salute to america which was also in a way a salute to donald trump himself and from there, you know, his aides will acknowledge privately it devo e devolved into self-sabotage. the attacks on the city of baltimore, the attacks on the four women of color, and in el paso where the shooters statement that was posted online allegedly before the massacre borrowed some of trump's own rhetoric. his visits to el paso and dayton, ohio, were ridiculed because of how he handled those situations. and so, you know, it's been a troubling summer for him and this was an opportunity when he could have really helped to set the table for the re-election campaign which is doing to kick

in to a higher gear starting this fall. he could have tried to broaden his appeal or lock down some key states or do things politically to help himself. and instead, he's opinion reeling by the controversies. >> there's nothing to suggest that his lost summer as you point it will lead to the winning fall. i mean, this is who donald trump is. he feels he's at his best when he's on the attack or the offensive. is there anything we'll see a marked change from him? >> that's a really good point because this is not all together new for donald trump but it's a period when historically presidents who are facing re-election try to get their political shop in order. try to get on to the good foundation going into their re-election campaigns. and in that sense if you look at that pattern, it has been a summer of missed opportunity. and self-sabotage by the president. >> susan, i have a question for you because we talked earlier about -- we're talking about the storm and when people look to the federal government, when

they look to the president they want to see two things -- competence and consistency and we haven't seen that at least as it relates to dorian in the last couple of days. >> that's really concerning. imagine if you lived in alabama and you heard the president of the united states saying that the hurricane is coming your way. people rely on government to get their information so they can make life-saving decisions. so this is yet another example of the president just not being prepared. and just to switch it to phil for a second, talking about the president not being prepared, phil, is this a matter of just having a white house full of sycophants or like you said when you're preparing for an upcoming election you usually get your political team in play and you go to your cabinet secretaries to figure out what's on their agenda, roll that out. but the fact that he has an acting cabinet how much of an effect is that having on the operation side as well as the political side? >> well, it certainly has some

effect on the political side at the white house because you're not seeing a very robust domestic agenda, for example. there's really not much of a legislative agenda at all right now. you know, you're seeing the administration sort of careen week to week from crisis to crisis and pursuing these issues that trump is interested in. they're obviously focused intensely on border security and the immigration issue. but you don't see that the broad array of domestic items that a president heading in to re-election would normally do. that being said, the president's re-election campaign actually happens to be fairly impressive operation relative to the chaos we have seen inside the white house and it's a much more corporate structure and they seem to be doing some of their political spade work to get ready for the actual tactics of the campaign. but it's the president himself who seems to be creating a lot of these problems. >> and phil, there's the white house's public defense of the

president's behavior over the summer and then there's the private defense or the private thinking of the president's behavior over the summer. talk about the public defense you're hearing from the white house, but then also the private reporting that you have gotten. >> yeah. so the public defense is that this has been a historically amazing summer full of achievements. the white house actually sent my colleague ashley parker and i a list of 26 different achievements between july and august that they are touting on the president's behalf. but when you talk to aides privately, they acknowledge that this has been a problematic summer. they acknowledge that the president has created these controversies, has divided the country in ways that are harmful to him politically potentially. and that there's -- there's been missed opportunities here. >> phil rucker, from "the washington post," thanks for your time this morning. >> thank you. all right. coming up, another update on the path of hurricane dorian from one of the places paying very close attention. we'll go live to florida's east

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welcome back, everybody. we're tracking hurricane dorian that's where we find nbc's craig melvin live from jupiter, florida, a city that very much could be in the path if this hurricane just track a couple miles west. craig, good to see you on the ground there safe and sound. talk to us about how that city, craig, is preparing this morning for the possibility that hurricane dorian could come up

that way. >> yeah. yasmin and geoff, good morning to both of you. we are in jupiter, florida, palm beach county. we're at the bar this is one of the businesses that's decided to shut down for the next couple of days probably. this is also one of those areas under an evacuation order. barrier islands here. mobile home residents have been told to get out. most of the counties in this area are under evacuation orders as is the case along the coast of georgia. the south carolina coast also evacuated by the governor there yesterday. 12:00 noon evacuation order there in the palmetto state. millions are being told to get out of harm's way. one of the things that continues to be concerning if not disconcerting about dorian, not just the size and the scope of the storm but the uncertainty. it is moving so slowly, crawling up the coast. at this point it's made it a bit difficult to determine precisely

where it's going to make landfall. so a lot of folks have been told to get out as a precaution. we have seen that in palm beach county and we have seen that in georgia and south carolina. folks concerned, worried, especially after what we saw in the bahamas yesterday. that storm decimating a large swath of the island. grand bahama now in the path of the storm as well. you're getting a look at some of the -- just the sheer utter destruction there. so the concern here, what we saw in the bahamas headed this way. but right now literally the calm before the storm. we saw some wind a short time ago. we saw an outer band of light rain as well, but right now pretty calm here in jupiter. >> craig, we talked to the mayor of palm beach county and one of

the biggest thing he is concerned about is the apathy. that people who lived through a lot of storms in the past might not take this one as seriously. as you have been on the ground there as you're doing reporting, have you encountered people who think they'll ride this out because they have been through worse in the past? >> that's a concern especially in this part of the country as you know, geoff. this is one of the areas it would seem as if every hurricane season at some point a large swath of florida is under a watch or a warning of some sort. so yes. the concern about these -- someone becoming desensitized to that, that concern is real, but so far we have seen the opposite. i mean, last time we flew into the airport, it would seem as if pretty much a ghost town there. we saw a number of folks boarding up the businesses. last night the hotel talked to some folks in the lobby who left their homes nearby to seek shelter. so it would seem as if -- granted it's early on. but it would seem as if people

are taking the calls to get out seriously and i think that's related to the cat 5. and, you know, we're always -- we're warning people not to get too caught up in the size or in the categorization of the storms. i mean, you remember sandy was a tropical storm, but it would seem as if seeing the size and scope of this thing over the last few days it really has forced people to take this one seriously and also seeing the damage that it's already caused as well. >> yeah. it seems like something has changed about this storm and as we have watched so many of the storms come and go, it seems like they're getting stronger, slower, higher winds. more damage being done and people are actually listening to the warnings and evacuating when they need to evacuate. craig melvin, we'll check in with throughout the day. thank you, my friend. the geography of risk, exploring the storms, rising

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the author of "god's of the upper air, how race and sex and gender were reinvented in the 20th century." charles, thanks so much for being on the show this morning. >> thank you. >> you know, i mean, yes, of course we're circling back to something we have seen before. but is that a cycle that you think is predictable and we should predict again? >> i don't know if it's predictable but it's the case that there are two strands in american history. that's the strand that is about the expansion of the circle of humanity to include more and more people, the idea of equality, the idea of freedom, applying to all human beings. then the other strand that's about exclusion. that's about defining what it means to be a real american in terms of people of northern european ancestry who claim northern european ancestry and those two things are braided in american history and we're going back to that particular way of seeing things that defined an earlier rea. >> this book is about the group

of anthropologists who redefined what gender and sexuality meant. who were they and how did they quit? >> that's right. margaret meade was among this group, herselfen started off as a graduate student in anthropology. they were convinced that you had to see american history and american society within the larger global context. there wasn't anything particularly special about the united states. they believed that we had our own obsessions and our own foibles and the way you needed to understand those was by comparing them to other societies they went around the world to understand race, gender, sexuality, that americans were obsessed by. >> what did they find that up ended all of the cat gories? >> in many societies there's not a concept of difference. race is not a universal dividing line in global society. and it's certainly not biological. not one of the things that's

tied to your innards, to your genes, but a product of history and circumstance. every society has its particular categories. and race in american history is just a particularly american one or in fact one that europeans exported around the world as they went abroad. >> is it not that race becomes a fact in the country because slavery is a part of the origins of the this country from the beginning and it was based on race and so forth and on -- and unlike other countries you didn't have such a defining racial characteristic to the development of the economy of those countries. >> that's right. i mean, enslavement, the economy that's associated with it arises for a set of historical circumstances having to do with european overseas colonialism, conquest of africa and so forth by european powers. the thing that is different is that those societies then invented an entire science that tried to naturalize the process that they had been engaged in.

economic system they had created. the system of oppression, they had created. that is different from what other societies did. you know, by the beginning of the 20th century any museum you went to, any university classroom told you that this system was natural. it was biological. it was god given. and that's the real difference between racism in the united states i think and other systems of difference around the world. >> katty? >> i think all of the views that they debunked there's no basis for a racial or gender superiority and yet that still insists. we haven't gotten over that. i want to -- well, what is it? what would they say today? is it fear that drives what we're seeing at the moment for example in terms of turning one group against another? >> well, i think they would say look at the systems not that are leftovers from the older era that we have gotten over but look at the systems, look at the

practices that are in place that perpetuate those things. look activelythings, from chanting crowds to how we organize a census with preset boxes, even genetics testing that will tell you on one hand, nobody is a pure anything but they are able to determine what your genetic ethnicity. those are ways we continue these divisions even when we understand there is no biological or natural basis for the categories that obsess us. >> you mention how roosevelt was a progressive when he ran. we can look back and see kind of what went wrong. take us forward and how our current era will be looked at

100 years from now. how does this sort itself out? is there any hope? >> i think there is hope. the group i deal with in this book, they had a moral principal at the core of their science. it was this. try continually to expand your people to whom you believe your ethics or moralities apply. expand the circle and people you believe should be treated as full human beings. >> i love the words empathize first, criticize later. >> charles king, thank you so much.

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of the eight deadly shootings occurred including the august 3 massacre at a walmart in el paso. the attack in west texas this weekend was the 38th mass killing in the united states this year. >> less than one day after that mass shooting in west texas, new gun laws in the state took effect that loosen restrictions on carrying firearms in public. the laws make it easier to have guns in schools, places of worship, foster homes where children live and apartments. the bill also allows residents to carry their guns during a disaster without a license. joining us now from texas, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. i should note i was here in texas on friday for msnbc previewing that gun legislation that was going into effect just

yesterday, september 1. those are all pieces of legislation that losened restrictions. you should note the legislatures we talked to and the governor said each of those pieces and now law were intended to protect texans across the state. southerland springs, two years ago where 28 were killed. this would allow people to carry firearms unless such churches prohibited weapons being carried. this has struck a larger conversation. odes odessa miss land, a population of about 280,000. you had about 10 miles, different 15 crime scenes in which gun shots rained on to

passer byes. it was this movie theater, bowling complex where it all came head. you had three officers shot. all in stable condition now. seven killed, 22 injured. beginning with the 17-month old. we know a 15-year-old high school student was among those of the deceased. where does this conversation go from here? texas governor abbott is in town and said the status quo was no longer good nuenough, that acti needs to be taken. in the meantime, the texas legislate your only meets every two years. they just met. governor abbott has given no indication that he'll call a special session. the state legislate your had

before this spring not only a bill that would skpangd assault weapons, background checks and red flag laws that would allow local law enforcement and family members to petition if they end themselves or the wider community. nothing was done with respect to those measures. >> i'm interested to know what the governor means when he says no more of the status quo when it was him who actually signed this new gun law into place. thank you so much. it's the top of the hour on this labor day. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett. turning now to hurricane dorian, a category 5 storm.

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