tv Chris Jansing Reports MSNBC September 27, 2024 11:00am-12:00pm PDT
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this is brand new video just to us. israel says it struck the central headquarters of hezbollah in southern lebanon. you can see in this video the blast was massive. and israeli official tells nbc news the target was hezbollah's powerful leader. it comes as israel has been systematically targeting high level commanders of the u.s. designated terror group, both within and abroad, which prime minister benjamin netanyahu says israel will continue to do in order to defend itself from groups looking to eliminate the state. nbc's matt bradley is live in beirut for us. also with us, aaron david miller, former arab-israeli negotiator, and senior fellow at the endowment for peace. give us the latest. >> reporter: we were here a couple of hours ago when our walls of our hotel shook. you can't see it now but it was just over my right shoulder here in southern beirut.
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this is a neighborhood that has endured repeated israeli bombardments all week long. and most of that, as you just mentioned in your introduction have been targeting top level commanders. they have also killed quite a few other people including civilians. this was the largest by far that we have heard in beirut, ever since we came last week, really, ever since i have been covering this since october 8th, the day after the october 7th attacks set off the latest round of firing. israelis said they were targeting the secretary general of hezbollah, it looks as though, according to israeli media, that it's not certain that he was killed, and in fact, it looks as though he might have survived, according to arab media. we're going to have to wait to hear more about that. regardless, this seems like a pivotal moment, a real paradigm shift in israel's now week-long escalation of conflict with hezbollah. what happens next, we don't really know, but this could all be preparing for what we have
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heard in just the past couple of days from top level israeli military generals that there is going to be a ground invasion or preparations being made for a ground invasion of lebanon or this could just be trying to push or trying to sort of decapitate hezbollah and trying to cow them into stopping attacks on northern israel. it's unclear, but we have heard that benjamin netanyahu, israel's prime minister, has cut short his trip to new york, to the united nations and is now headed back to israel tonight. it's rare that we see the prime minister traveling on shabbat, so that is kind of new, and that makes it look as though something big is either about to happen or the israelis are expecting a massive retaliation. >> i was going to ask you about the timing. given that it's very rare for him to travel on shabbat, i was wondering if the timing was linked to his speech at the u.n. where he said he was going to go after hezbollah, he was going to go after their leaders, they were going after anybody who was
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threatening the state of israel. now i'm wondering if we can say that the two were linked. npr is reporting that there was a pretty big funeral service and marching through the streets in that neighborhood for another hezbollah leader at the time of the strike. >> i have to tell you, it's unclear. i try to hesitate when i try to make connections between timings of things. it's all speculation, and we don't really know. the fact is this did happen really moments after benjamin netanyahu finished his very controversial and much anticipated speech to the u.n. general assembly where he said he was going to be doing exactly this. pursuing not just hezbollah and attacks around the country, but also that he was confronting iran, hezbollah's named benefactor. you know, the fact is all of this is happening in the midst of a real diplomatic scurry, an attempt by various countries here in the arab world, also in the west, as far as australia,
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the european union. it's led by france and the united states, trying to get lebanon, and israel to agree to some sort of deal that would bring some measure of peace to southern lebanon, and northern israel, and maybe halt what could be coming, an israeli ground invasion. hezbollah isn't involved in the negotiations because of course most of the countries don't have direct diplomatic ties with hezbollah because in the united states, for example, they consider hezbollah to be a terrorist organization. they do not speak to them, the idea being that lebanon would exceed the deal and then lebanon would do its best to reign in and abide by the terms. whether or not the diplomats get to something, whether or not they're able to ink this deal in time to prevent an israeli ground invasion that could kill scores more than we have already seen, an unprecedented week of fighting and death in southern lebanon. we are seeing, like, more than 700 people have now been killed, ever since the latest escalation broke off in earnest on monday.
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that's more than we have seen since the end, in a single day or a several-day long period. it's more than we have seen since the end of the civil war in lebanon in 1990. so all of this really does look as though it's pointing to major events going forward, what those are. your guess is as good as mine. >> yeah, i will say this, benjamin netanyahu tried to reframe the conversation today and reframe the blame at the u.n. he blamed hezbollah as he's blamed hamas for putting missiles in homes, rockets in garages, putting civilians at risk. he said the israelis have told civilians to leavement hezbollah -- leave. hezbollah is the one taking lives. and he talked about systematically going after senior military commanders who he says not only are shedding israeli blood but american and french blood, trying to call out allies here as well, and he's going to continue to go after their replacements. and the replacements and the replacements, until they meet their objectives.
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aaron david miller, i'm going to bring you in on this. matt is talking about how this moment feels different than others. what's your sense of things? >> i have been really reluctant and hesitant to make a judgment that we're really headed for what i think we all fear, which is a major escalation between israel and hezbollah, which not only involves an israeli ground up in southern lebanon, but hezbollah's use of its precision guided missiles of which they have around 400. they can launch 3,000 missiles a day. that sort of saturation against israel, even with israel's sophisticated air layer defense, iron dome, david sling and the arrow, you're talking hundreds if not more israeli deaths, the infrastructure grid, and you're talking about an israeli preemption and reaction in lebanon that would kill thousands of lebanese.
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southern beirut, which has as many as a million people. we haven't gotten the casualty reports yet, the lebanese ministry of health thing was reporting two dead and 78 wounded. that's clearly very preliminary. going after nasrallah who moves around a lot, rarely seen in public, the question i have tactically is whether or not netanyahu had given a standing order to israeli intelligence, and idf, should they identify his location to act and maybe just hours before the prime minister's speech, perhaps even during the speech, they identified where he was and then tried to strike. sparse hezbollah's reaction, it seems to me, which was on life support even before this happened, proposed by the u.s. and french is simply not going to work. hezbollah has a credibility, legitimacy problem, depending on
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the death count in the southern suburbs. you could be talking the largest single casualty strike. that means this is going to go on with the risks of escalation, higher, i think, than they have ever been. >> so they fired on tel aviv the other day, hezbollah did. the houthis fired again on tel aviv. i believe it was late last night. early this morning. israeli time. there has been calls by hezbollah to iran to get into this battle. we have a statement from iran's embassy in beirut, blaming the israelis, saying they're committing bloody massacre. they're targeting densely populated residential neighborhoods, issues false justifications. i mean, hezbollah is putting these missiles into neighborhoods. i don't think we should lose sight of that. how likely is it, i mean, iran has said it doesn't want to get involved. doesn't want a regional war. how likely is it that iran is
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going to become more directly involved? at what point will that country feel that their hands are tied or they will be forced to move. i guess that's the million dollar question? >> i mean, i think, look, hezbollah is an iranian proxy and asset. it's high trajectory weapons are preserved, however, not to liberate palestine or even fight israelis, it's a contingency in the event the u.s. and/or israel, engaged in direct attacks against iranian territory, particularly against iranian nuclear enrichment facilities. that's what those high trajectory weapons are there for. i think for teheran, still very risk averse, needs to make a calculation. how much trouble is hezbollah in? is it going to reserve its response against israel in the event the israelis escalate by launching a ground op into
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southern lebanon? or is it going to show support in response to the assassination, which the israelis have not claimed responsibility for, on july 31st in teheran. they vowed they were going to respond to that. so, again, the cusp of escalation, yes, but not quite at the point where i think we're moving towards something the middle east has never experienced before. which would be a multi-front war, not with ground forces but the use of uavs, ai, cyber, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, strikes against population centers, an israeli-iranian exchange, with the u.s., with at least one carrier strike brought into the east with tremendous fire power. we're moving closer, perhaps to that. again -- >> aaron -- >> diplomacy, maybe, but not now. >> i want to interrupt because
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we're looking at live images of search and rescue in beirut. we have just seen, it appears to be a father and at least two young children and another, i think a third as well, pulled from the rubble of at least one of the strikes. it appears it was multiple strikes. maybe it was a cascading effect from other ground level artillery or missiles. i'm not sure. but we're watching these images of families being taken away and giving medical treatment. these are exactly the images that i imagine that groups like hezbollah and hamas, and iran want the world to see, the destruction caused by israeli missiles. look what they're doing to families. look what they're doing -- look at the way they treat lebanese life, the way they treat palestinian life, et cetera. how does israel reckon with the need to go after hezbollah or
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hamas, and the fact that they are embedded in residential neighborhoods. they are embedded within civilian populations. >> well, you've watched 11 months now, of israel's efforts to prosecute a war. >> it's not going so well for israel's reputation? >> well, no, the israeli brand, whether or not it's permanently tarnished or undermined here or in the international community, that's clearly the headline, whether that's going to be the trend line is unclear to me. that is going to turn, i think, katy, on whether or not there's a leadership change in israel, which is critically important. you know, i would only point out the obvious, when the middle east trends toward the positive, when we're talking about deescalation and actually reaching agreements, it's because we have leaders that are willing and able to rise above perhaps their own ideologies, to do what's in the best interest
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of their respective people, king hussein, and rabin. apartheid ended in south africa in a way no one would have participated largely because of mandela, and i would say without putting benjamin netanyahu in the same category as hasan, and the supreme leader. if these are the four leaders that are essentially making the tactical and strategic decisions for this piece of the region, i mean, i think we're in serious trouble. and again, i would not trivialize israel's security needs, its requirements, legitimacy of responding against hezbollah. i mean, after all, this is not israel and the palestinians. this is israel and an organization in violation of its security resolution, that
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compelled them to the river, and israel has every right, it seems to me to protect its border and see the return of its citizens. the implications of carrying out that right. >> yeah. >> involving moral and ethical choices, and the deaths of innocents. that's where this becomes almost impossible to unwind but imperative is to make it stop. >> yeah. i think that's well put. aaron david miller, thank you very much. matt bradley, thank you as well. we hope you're safe out there. to our other top story. it may not be a hurricane anymore, but helene is still pretty dangerous. this is brand new drone video, you're going to see it in a moment, showing the widespread destruction in tampa. the storm made landfall in florida as a category 4 and now as a tropical depression, it's rushing inland bringing flooding and powerful winds to georgia, the carolinas, and tennessee.
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at this hour, the death toll is 25. most killed by falling trees. others by drowning. 4 million people are also without power from florida to kentucky. the rising water levels are now the biggest risk. flood emergencies and evacuations are happening throughout the southeast, including in north carolina, where lake lore dam is overflowing. in south pasadena florida, it is worse. and fire, that was this overnight. look at these houses on fire amid the flood waters. meanwhile, in atlanta, welfare checks looking for anyone who needs a ride out to safety. we've got our reporters in the major hot spots. let's begin in georgia where at least 11 people have died. nbc's priya sridhar is live in atlanta for us. >> reporter: that's right. here in atlanta, there was a
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flood emergency issued. that's extremely rare. sometimes we see flood watches and flood warnings, but a flood emergency is something that people in atlanta basically never see. that's because of what happened right behind me here. this is one of several neighborhoods here in atlanta that's basically completely submerged. if you take a look at the mailbox behind me in the o vehicle, you can see just how deep that water is. many residents were able to get out overnight, as they discovered their homes were flooded. others ended up getting stranded inside their homes today awaiting rescue teams to come and take them out. there were dozens of swift water rescues. fire crews going door to door, asking people to evacuate. this is still very much an ongoing problem right now. also, those heavy wind gusts that you mentioned, knocking down power, leaving about a million people here in georgia without power. governor kemp, of course,
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issuing a state of emergency here. every single county across the state, being touched by this tropical storm. and of course, all of this is also having impacted on the world's busiest airport here in atlanta. dozens of flight cancellations and delays, likely to have a ripple effect across the country. >> the coast guard released this footage of a man and dog being rescued after their sailboat became disabled off florida's sanibel island as a hurricane was nearing. they were placed in a basket, as you can see, and lifted safely into a helicopter. it's one of the many rescues we have seen out of florida. let's go to jesse kirsch in perry. it looks dry there, not good, but dry. >> reporter: i think this is just another reminder. we talk about hurricanes, the biggest concern is always the water compared to the wind. the wind is no joke either.
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we have damage inland. i'm going to have our producer come with me. the building, the windows are blown out. we're going to walk over. that is also something we're dealing with, power outages, and cell reception issues. there's shattered glass along the wall. a brick wall blown out. last year, blown out, replaced with siding, also blown out as well. one business in downtown perry, if we move over to the main road now, you'll see traffic moving. the walmart is open. had the lights on remarkable. that's good news. it's cool in there because it is sunny and hot out here. the damage aspect seems to be okay compared to what we could have been seeing. we took a direct hit from the eye wall. our team was out there briefly, and we were being moved by the winds ourselves, and made our way inside, and just looking at all the things that could have
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become projectiles, things remarkably look okay, all things considered in perry. >> jesse kirsch, thank you so much. to give a sense of how ferocious this storm was, look at this doorbell cam, it shows helene's storm surge sweeping past a driveway, moments before the camera was submerged by flood waters, and flooding remains a big concern across the southeast. nbc's bill karins is tracking helene for us. where is it going next? >> it's dissipating and heading into areas of kentucky. when we look back at this storm, so it's a category 4. you expect really ferocious winds in destruction with the wind, and historic storm surge. we got the storm surge but the wind pictures we have been seeing, especially perry, right through the eye, 40 minutes after landfall, you would think it would look worse. i'm happy that it's not a devastating scene there. the winds may have underperformed, but the storm surge and the rain, way overperformed.
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mount mitchell, 2 feet of rain. dillard, georgia, atlanta, by the way, their wettest two days ever records in the city's history. as far as the rainfall totals in other areas, columbia, south carolina, a good deal of rain. the mountains of tennessee have picked up considerable rain. as far as the wind gusts go, the highest recorded was in perry, where jesse was located. 99 miles per hour. if you had a 140 miles per hour storms, you would expect a couple of gusts higher than 100. this made landfall in a remote location. it's a tropical depression. it's really falling apart. everywhere that has had the historic flooding. the sun is out. not adding to the problems. the wind is dying down. gusts to 40 on the coast of south carolina. the wind damage portion of this storm is over. as far as the flooding, we have to wait for rivers to crest, especially in the mountains of north carolina. this is where we still have a flood emergency in a place, and then later tonight and tomorrow, we could get additional heavy
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rain in memphis, nashville, heading toward the ohio river, lexington, cincinnati, so this storm, there will never be another hurricane helene. the name will be retired. it's so widespread. that's what makes this storm different. it's not where the eye made landfall. >> it's a really big storm. bill karins, thank you very much. and in 90 seconds, new york city mayor, eric adams pleads not guilty to charges of corruption. with pressure building, will the state's governor, kathy hochul step in to remove him from power? don't go anywhere. power? don't go anywhere. so dave can be the... deliverer of dance. ok, dave! let's be more than our allergies. zeize the day with zyrtec. (♪♪) “the darkness of bipolar depression made me feel like life was moving on without me. then i found a chance to let in the lyte.” discover caplyta.
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and st. jude gives us that. [music playing] new york city mayor, eric adams turned himself in to federal authorities after prosecutored filed a public corruption indictment against him yesterday. in what prosecutors say was a decade long bribery scheme that he used to get himself into city hall. he pleaded not guilty and says he will not step down. joining us now from outside the courthouse is nbc's tom winter. also joining us, emma fits simmons, city hall bureau chief for the "new york times," and catherine christian, msnbc legal analyst. tom, what happened in court today? >> reporter: well, the headline and the quote, katy, from the mayor himself is i am not guilty, your honor.
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that's what he told the magistrate judge overseeing this portion of the case, and go on to the judge who will take this through trial. the next hearing will be on wednesday where we get a little bit more clarity as far as the timing here. we did hear from mayor eric adams, attorneys suggesting they hope this a speedy trial. they want to get things moving. they want to put their feet on the gas on this. they also say they're going to file a motion to dismiss. it's a little bit unusual, they haven't exchanged any discovery yet here. they seem to think they have a reason to attack this without seeing any of the government's evidence. they have a couple more things they said outside of court today. let's take a listen. >> there are no e-mails, text messages or any corroboration whatsoever that the mayor knew about anything having to do with these campaign donations. the entire body of evidence is
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one staffer. one staffer that says there was a conversation. what you have not learned is that that staffer has lied. and the government is in possession of that lie. >> reporter: so from the indictment we know there were a number of text message exchanges that were cited during this. the question here is whether or not and perhaps this is what the mayor's attorneys want to do is saying, well, the alleged activity here and the alleged legal conduct stopped with the staffer and, in fact, didn't continue in any suggestion of such is a high. of course we'll see how this all bears out. it perhaps does not explain the mayor's behavior about changing his cell phone's password after having two of his work-related and city related phones taken from him. then he changed his personal phone, once that was requested by subpoena, changed the password, had been told the fbi, he didn't remember the password. there's that conduct that's included in the indictment as well. i'm sure that will be addressed at some point by his defense.
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but the bottom line here is the mayor from new york city was in this federal courthouse behind me today, getting his fingerprints taken, getting booked into the system, he's released on his own signature, which means he promises to come back here for all sorts of court proceedings. the one thing he is limited in doing, he can talk to city hall staffers, he can talk to family members, and some of whom may be around this case. he can't talk to them about the specific conduct and that there's some other individuals that are unnamed in the indictment. but referenced those individuals, he can't speak to. that's kind of the parameters for this. there's no other restriction he's going to have. obviously detailed because of the threats that the mayor receives, so they know where he is, and they know where he says, the same place federal investigators searched yesterday. >> catherine, i'm going back into the indictment. there's a text message from an adams staffer asking a turkish airlines manager about a
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discounted flight telling him to make it look a little bit more real. the airline says i'm going to charge $50, the staffer says no. airline manager said that would work, wouldn't it. staffer says, no, $50, what? quote a proper price, when the airline manager asked how much should i change, the staffer said every step is being watched right now, a thousand dollars or so, let it be somewhat real. you heard a moment ago, the mayor's lawyer saying the indictment relies on the lies of one staffer. does the entire indictment rely on this one staffer? >> it doesn't. i know alex, i work with him in the d.a.'s office. he's an attack dog. in this indictment you have adams' staffer, employee, adams' fundraiser and allegedly, they either deleted messages after a
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search warrant was executed. they encouraged people to lie to federal officials, and in this case, this staffer is trying to basically conceal illegal conduct. the favorable treatment that mayor adams allegedly has received. so he's a good defense attorney. that's what you say. but clear when you read the indictment, there are multiple people, probably about a dozen who are in the indictment who are connected to the mayor as a staffer, a fundraiser, a businessman, an employee, his partner, his significant other. there are people mentioned all throughout this indictment. >> how quickly can this go to trial if the hearings all go as planned for the prosecution? >> within a year, possibly let me say, defense attorneys don't want to go to trial quickly. you want time to interview all of these people who are in the indictment into doing an investigation, but you'll always say, let's go to trial right away. >> you always say. all right. let's talk about the politics of
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this. emma, mayor adams says he's not going to step down. governor kathy hochul hasn't really said one thing either way. she has been pretty loyal to him in the past. what sort of pressure might force kathy hochul to remove him? >> she released a statement last night that was pretty interesting. she said that he should make the right decision for the people of new york city, and she could force him out, and he could also face pressure from behind the scenes. from hakeem jeffries and other democrats, several congress people have called on him to resign. and he's facing a lot of local pressure, but the mayor has been adamant he's not going to vine, and one reason he might want a speedy trial, he's facing reelection next year, and the primary is june. his team is hoping to get this out of the way and for the mayor to be exonerated before that primary, when he's trying to get a second term. >> why might hakeem jeffries want to pressure the governor to get him to remove mayor adams? >> al sharpton said yesterday
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that he was frustrated that the mayor had criticized the white house and said that perhaps this prosecution was in response to the mayor's criticism of the white house over the migrant crisis. we received 200,000 migrants until the new york city, and the mayor said that would destroy the city. when he was indicted he said he was being persecuted in part because of that. >> the criticism of the white house, is there a concern that this might affect some down ballot races? might affect the races that got republicans the majority back in 2022, the places in west chester, hudson valley, long island, that democrats want to take back? >> it's certainly not what hakeem jeffries and hochul want to be talking about right now, but the mayor has his political future on the line. he's the city's second black mayor. david den kins, the first black mayor served one term. the mayor has been adamant he's running for reelection, and staying put in office. if he resigns, the public
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advocate could take over, and the left leaning public advocate has been preparing, taking steps in case that happened. >> emma, tom winter, and catherine christian, thank you very much. breaking news out of tennessee where a local station reports that more than 50 people, patients and staff are stranded on the roof of a hospital because of helene. the water, by the way, is rising there. fema, the national guard and a helicopter are on their way, but speed is critical here because flood waters only have to go about 10 feet higher before they reach the roof. again, it's a hospital. still ahead, donald trump touts his good relationship with vladimir putin during a meeting with ukraine's volodymyr zelenskyy. what else he said. don't go anywhere. ere. ble and more practical, be able to perform here and here? make a statement of barely making a sound
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nbc's ken dilanian is following the story for us. so what did the ag say they did? >> katy, this indictment was long expected. he says that they were involved in a long standing hacking campaign against various former american officials and journalists that culminated when they stole material from the trump campaign, and offered it very recently to journalists and members of the biden/harris campaign. the attorney said the intelligence community concluded that none of the members replied to those e-mails, and look, these people are in iran, iranian revolutionary guard core hackers, outside the reach of u.s. justice, charged with wire fraud and support for terrorism. the idea here, the attorney general said, was to get the message out to the american people in as much detail as possible, and they're doing this in a variety of ways, this indictment, the one involving rt, regular intelligence briefings to journalists about
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foreign interference in the election, this is in contrast to what happened in 2016, when the russians hacked the democrats, released all of these e-mails, the media published them, and only much later did the government tell us what happened. now they're getting it out now. they want the public to be on notice that particularly iran, russia and china are interfering right now in american politics with hidden propaganda efforts, with hack and dump campaigns, and they want the media to be judicious in what we publish. they want the public to understand where they're getting their information, and the message to these adversaries is, you know, we're on top of this, we will find you and try to hold accountable. >> ken dilanian, thank you very much. in an apparent about face, former president trump met with ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy at trump tower, right here in new york. a surprising turn considering just yesterday trump accused zelenskyy of making, quote, little nasty aspersions against him. nbc's shaquille brewster is live in walker, michigan, where
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donald trump will be a little bit later this hour. he's holding a rally out there. so what's the latest on the ground from there, shaq? >> reporter: hi there, katy, we're still waiting for the former president to take the stage. it does look like he's running a little bit late. i don't know if you heard some of that applause. it was for rfk jr. who made somewhat of a surprise appearance here. if you get into the strategy a little bit, one of his top messages was to remind people that despite the fact that they will see his name on the ballot, he wants those votes to go for former president donald trump. of course you mentioned donald trump had that key meeting with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy earlier today at trump tower. that was something that was on again, off again. it was some back and forth beforehand, but trump posted later that it was a great meeting and later said that he would be the one to end the war and attacking vice president harris saying she would not be able to, and the devastation
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that you see there. you can expect the message here to be on the economy. you can also expect him to go after vice president harris, who is in arizona, who will be talking about immigration. that's something that we have been hearing a lot from him as well. i talked to some of his supporters about some language that we heard from the former president on the issue of immigration. listen to a little bit of that exchange. >> you heard the former president yesterday use some tough language against immigrants and said that they are infecting our country. when you hear that, what do you think? >> i agree, at least the illegal ones that are coming over here and committing crimes. they shouldn't be here. but she lets them be here. and she will continue if they vote her in. >> reporter: i mentioned that in this manufacturing plant in kent county, it's a battleground county in this battleground state, the expected topic will be the economy, will be manufacturing, and i'll tell you, vice president harris and
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the democratic party here are already firing back at what they expect to hear from the former president. vice president harris releasing a statement saying that donald trump is the biggest loser in terms of manufacturing. kind of repeating that language that we heard in that interview with stephanie ruhle, and the dnc putting up billboards, not just here in kent county but the detroit area where donald trump will be later today, talking about his manufacturing record, and reminding folks that plants did close, especially one in warren. you did see some plant closures during donald trump's presidency. >> there was the carrier closure, didn't close at first, a couple of years into his term, moved jobs to mexico. the fox trot plant that donald trump touted but never got up and running. shaquille brewster, thank you very much. hurricane helene broke storm surge records across tampa. we're going to show you the high water rescues happening at this moment.
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our correspondent marissa parra rode along with one of those teams. >> we are in a bumpy vehicle, it's called a shirp, and essentially if you look behind, what you can see are still very flooded streets. this vehicle allows them to both drive through the streets and even float on top of the water when the water is too high. whenh when your home gets bugs, the struggle-is-real. that's why you need zevo traps.
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take a look at this. a man kayaking inside his flooded tampa home. that's his home. that's hours before the nightmare storm surge reached its peak. matt hellor documented the rising waters on his tiktok page. he had the kayak handy in case things got a little too wet. with more on the damage in south florida, marissa parra, live in tampa. nobody wants flooding like that. this storm has killed quite a few people already. >> reporter: it is catastrophic, and we have been here for days. we were warned that this could happen, that it was imminent, and unfortunately those worst fears came true, and so i want to point a couple of things out. i want to tell you what i have seen so far, where we are right now, and why we're here. we were about a mile town the road, and that is where the shoreline is. the reason we're here is this is
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the only place we can get cell service. even out here, a mile down the road, katy, there was still 6 inches of flooding. that business over there, the white building, this business was flooded. there's workers on the top trying to repair it. i'll tribe for you what we saw a mile down the road. i don't know if those images have come in yet. those streets are flooded. st. petersburg fire and rescue is actively still tending to homes. we are talking about it is almost 3:00 in the afternoon. they first started seeing the flooding late last night. that water has not receded. in fact, we could not pass through several of those roads, and we saw several images. we saw smoke coming out of a house that had been burned. we have heard several fires. i have lost track of how many homes have caught on fire pause electric lines were not caught when the homes were flooded. i want to take you to video we saw earlier this morning, an hour away.
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hillsboro county sheriff's office allowed us to take a ride with them on an amphibious vehicle. it allows them to travel through the flooded roads, and they showed us how this vehicle works. they did about 20 rescues on the one vehicle alone. i'll explain more on the other side. i want to take you to what we heard from one of the rescuers this morning. >> young kids, we had pets, the elderly, our unit alone rescued 25 people last night, taking trips over the last ten hours. extra swats coming in. for people who worked overnight, they're trying to get relief to get rest, and a meal. >> such as yourself. >> get them back so we can make sure everything is good at home. >> reporter: one of the people they rescued was a 97-year-old woman in need of medical attention, and thanks to them, she was able to get the medical attention that she desperately needed. it is overwhelming how many stories just like this one we are hearing, and unfortunately
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far worse, the people who didn't make it out. we know at least five people dead just in this county alone, and we expect the number of deaths, around the state, because this is a multi-state storm to rise as we cover more of the danger. >> marissa parra, thank you very much. she thrilled audiences as a wand waving witch in harry potter and as a quick witted countess on "downton abbey" we will remember the great maggie smith and her seven decades in show business. cades in show business. fast and lasts a full 24 hours so dave can be the... deliverer of dance. ok, dave! let's be more than our allergies. zeize the day with zyrtec. t-mobile's 5g network connects a hundred thousand delta employees so they can make every customer feel like they've arrived
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dame maggie smith died today, a real life grand dame of stage and screen. the remarkable british actress who was a two-time oscar winner before she became famous all over again for her roles in harry potter and "downton abbey" was 89 years old. nbc's meagan fitzgerald takes a look back at her life and her career. >> when i call your name, you will come forth. i shall place the salting hat on your head. and you will be sorted into your houses. >> reporter: maggie smith, one of the world's most revered actors, a star on stage, screen and film, and a national treasure in the united kingdom. smith burst on to the screen in the 1950s, winning her first
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academy award for her dramatic role in the prime of ms. jean brody, in 1970. >> i am a teacher. i am a teacher first, last, always. >> her comedic role as an academy award loser. >> i need another drink, the last one wore off in the lift. >> won her another oscar. >> i just really can't believe it. >> we're ready for you now. follow me. >> smith was arguably most known for two roles later in her career. professor minerva at the magical school hogwarts in the harry potter movies. >> that was bloody brilliant. >> thank you for that assessment. >> and the countess of grantham in downton abbey. cantankerous, but loveable characters ad to smith's career.
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the reverend mother in the box office hit, "sister act,". >> people wish to kill you, anyone who's met you, i imagine. >> her depth of talent went far beyond the characters she played. smith, mother to two sons was gracious and humble around fame. >> i have led a perfectly normal life until "downton abbey," life was fine, nobody knew who the hell i was. >> with countless awards and recognition over more than six decades, but the most meaningful of all, damehood, an honor given to her by the late queen elizabeth. dame maggie smith, remembered by legions of fans. meagan fitzgerald, nbc news, london. >> i'm so happy she included, what is a weekend. greatest line in a tv show ever. that's going to do it for this hour.
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