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we return now to florida where 1.8 million people are still without power after hurricane milton tore through the center of the state this week killing at least 17 people. at one point the state had more than 3 million customers without power but electricity is creeping back as recovery efforts pick up. airports in orlando, palm beach and clearwater have reopened. sarasota remains closed because

of the loss of its entire roof over concourse be. some part of tampa were hit with so much rain it qualified as a one in 1000 year rainfall event. joining me is nbc news correspondent - about 30 minutes north of tampa. tell me about the recovery efforts. >> reporter: you just mentioned the rain. that rain is still causing a lot of issues because, much of it landed in the central part of the state and it is now flowing toward either the coast on the atlantic side or into the gulf of mexico. this is creating new flooding for a lot of the communities. in pasco they conducted about 150 rescues yesterday alone using some of the notes you can see. we are in a staging area where a lot of these crews are getting ready - some members of

rescue teams on these boats. this is different from some of the damage we have seen. we have different things happening. we have the damage over by the water communities that had some of the storm surge come in and essentially destroyed everything inside of their homes. that is the storm surge the water that came in from the gulf and damage in other places as a result of the tornadoes. you can see the path of their tornadoes and the destruction they cause. we are talking about the rooftops of houses blown off and destruction with the power lines and infrastructure. they are working as fast as they can't to make those repairs in the power back up. now we have issues with flooding. authorities say four of the rivers are at flood stages and we are talking about a county that has green areas going inland that receive a lot of

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hurricane helene battered multiple states in the southeast, on wednesday hurricane milton made landfall on the florida west coast fleming barrier islands as a category 3 storm. it had been a category 5 then it went down to 4 and back to a 5 landing as a 3. sustained winds at 120 miles per hour and it made land bringing storm surge as much as 10 feet. the storm whipped up unprecedented deadly tornadoes across the state. dropping record-breaking amounts of rain leaving fast devastation in its wake but milton was record-breaking for another reason. it underwent something called rapid intensification while it was in the gulf of mexico. in doing so it smashed the scientific definition of that process. the national weather service defines rapid into the petition as a wind speed increase of about 35 miles per hour in a single day. with milton, the wind speed increased by more than 90 miles

per hour in less than 24 hours. the storm exploded from a tropical storm to a 180 miles per hour category 5 hurricane in just over one day. milton and helene less than two weeks before it both formed frightening, destructive storms at breakneck speed. they both absorbed more than normal amounts of moisture causing were the normal amounts of rainfall and we know why this happened. the atlantic ocean, the gulf of mexico has been running a fever for years average ocean temperatures have reached record highs in the gulf of mexico is hot. not a scientific term is actually hot measuring around 88 degrees fahrenheit. that hot water is fuel to these storms. both milton and helene have exposed the fact we are in a new era of super destructive storms going from a tropical depression to a category 5 hurricane in a short amount of time defied almost every

forecast model. imagine if the intensification had happened closer to landfall. milton formed in about a day people, possibly prepare for a super storm on that timeline. it is really a matter of when not if but the worst case scenarios will play out. joining me is a contributing writer for the new yorker who has been warning about effects about climate change only longer than most people have known what climate change is. to see you. the reason i want to talk to you about this is you have talked about the fact that fear and - can be damaging and paralyzing when it comes to climate action. you also say it is necessary for people to take bold steps being hopeful about things. you have recently written about

the utility of understanding fear when it comes to situations like hurricane should we be worried, should we feel hopeful, what should we do? >> there is no way not to feel afraid. if you are sitting there on the west coast of florida were up in the appalachians watching the storms come pounding in. the point is to make that apprehension useful. that means paying attention to what we know. what we know are two things. one, climate change is making these storms much larger, as you say and two, we do not need to be poor and carbon into the atmosphere anymore around the world. the cheapest way to make energy is to use solar power and wind power. neither of which help drive up the temperature of the earth. that would be the logical way to deal with this. the logical lesson to take from

all of this is it is really time to get to work fast. that, unfortunately, is not the lesson we are mostly taking. you will recall in may, governor ron desantis of florida literally made it illegal to use the phrase climate change in state statutes. in the aftermath of these hurricanes instead of listening to scientists, people are phoning in death threats to meteorologists convinced by trump and others that somehow the government were george soros or someone is pointing hurricanes at them. that is not the kind of fear we need. we need the kind that actually goes to work on the biggest problems we have ever faced. >> i will say, you are invested in this. you are traveling to arizona and nevada with the great writer and poet rebecca - as part of your silver weight

initiative. you talk about getting older folks involved in this effort. particularly as it relates to this election. your first stop if you would like to change climate or affect the climate is to vote properly because policymakers have more influence in many cases than you do individually. >> for the next 20 days our greatest leverage is who we put in power for the next four years. those four years are likely to be decisive. the intergovernmental panel on climate change said we need to cut emissions in half by 2030. we have a head of steam with remarkable progress on renewables in the last 18 months as a result of the i.r.a. that either grinds to a halt on november 5th or it continues for the next four years. which gives us no guarantees but at least some chance of beginning to slow down this march toward destruction. >> the head of steam is interesting on the technological side we are making advances and they are

possible. they have to be in some cases moon shots but they are possible they do not get news coverage the way hurricane forms the way milton forms. from the hope perspective there are things going on. we actually can try to achieve some of these goals but we need to be there, not be debating whether or not climate change is a thing. >> there are astonishing numbers this year, ali. california, which has taken this more seriously than most places has put up enough solar panels it is producing more than 100% of its power from renewable energy each of the last 100 days. at night, when the sun goes down the biggest-batteries which were not there three years ago. as a result, california, this year so far has used about 30% less natural gas to produce electricity than it did last year. that is an extraordinary change change big enough to begin to take a bite.

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as you know if you are a regular viewer of the show, every single show for the past few months we have spent part of our time taking you inside project 2025. 922 page right-wing playbook for a new trump presidency. it is all online you can find it there. we went through the entire book.

now that we have given you a look at was potentially in- store it is important to look back at the previous trump administration to remind ourselves of what he already did. how he governed and how he would likely do it all again probably worse. as the great my angelo once said, when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. today we are starting with trump's interactions with vladimir putin. we were reminded of his unconventional relationship with putin this week after reporting and bob would work- bob woodward's new book - since russia invaded ukraine. trump and the kremlin denies this reporting but trump and his buddies in russia are not in lockstep on this other revelation. according to woodward in 2020 trump secretly sent covid testing equipment to putin for his personal use at a time when covid testing is hard to come by in america. donald trump has denied these claims with the kremlin confirms trump is lying he did

send covid testing devices to putin. trump's overarching relationship with the dictator and in the is - envy of his power is undeniable. it was evident from the first part of the trump presidency. trump and putin first met in july of 2017. for two hours trump and his secretary of state, his foreign minister and a pair of interpreters, after that meeting as first reported by the washington post trump took the interpreter's notes and instructed them not to brief anyone on the meeting. in 2019 the washington post reported there were no detailed records are classified once of trump and putin's first five in person meetings. unheard of. about a year after hamburg summit in helsinki. trump and putin emerged from yet another meeting in which

the former president would not allow notes. later at a press conference, donald trump, standing next to vladimir putin divide his own intelligence officials by taking the word of putin russia did not meddle in the 2016 election. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and others they say they think it is russia. i have president putin, he just said it is not russia. i will say this i do not see any reason why it would be. >> he spent several days after that trying to walk that back, unsuccessfully. when putin quote won re- election in 2018 trump was sent into a white house press briefing with the sage advice written in all caps on his notes, do not congratulate barbara putin on winning an election that was neither free nor fair. it doesn't matter trump congratulated him anyway. >> i had a call with president putin and congratulated him on

the victory, his electoral victory. >> this kind of difference is not just unbecoming of a president it actually means political leverage for an adversary. according to the new book, putin new receiving covid test jik from trump - a political liability it is a political liability for trump. from page 33 please don't tell anyone you sent these to me. i do not care trump replied fine, no, putin said i do not want you to tell me when because people will get mad at you not me. they don't care about me. putin had the sense of something trump did an american president should not be communicating with a global adversary arsenic and scarce covid test. in the meeting in hamburg in 2017 then secretary of state rex tillerson briefed his aides shortly after the meeting saying we have work to do to change the president mac s-

president's mind on ukraine. that is because - all the propaganda that he would later use to justify the russian invasion of ukraine and he watched trump by every single word. according to other reporting trump also entered that meeting armed with talking points to challenge only for the president not to use any of them. trump even asked putin what he thought about the united states sending weapons to ukraine and surprisingly putin said that would be a mistake and trump seemed to listen. in 2019 trump had what he called quote a perfect phone call with the ukrainian president barbara zelinski in which trump pressured him for dirt on his political rival joe biden. linked to that request for dirt was millions in military aid, congressionally approved military aid which trump temporarily withheld from ukraine an ally.

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- the author of the book, freezing order, a true story of russian money laundering, murder and surviving the wrath of vladimir putin. thank you for being with us. the consequences of all of the things donald trump has done in his last term, the consequences of this unusual relationship with vladimir putin will be felt the minute we know who the

next president of the united states is. this will not have to wait for january 6 it will not have to wait for the inauguration january 20th. you will feel the reverberations throughout europe and the free world if donald trump is re-elected because of this unusual on toward relationship between donald trump and vladimir putin. >> this is a terrifying moment for the entire world, really in the sense that, if donald trump becomes the next president, he will cut off military aid for ukraine. crane is totally dependent on u.s. military aid and that will basically be handing some type of military victory to russia and to putin. of course, that is not the end of the story. putin has designs on other parts of europe. he is looking at estonia, latvia and lithuania. who are nato numbers. if he gets involved with those countries in a military way then, we have a treaty

obligation to defend those countries. the question is what donald trump under that treaty obligation. he has made all sorts of noises in his previous presidency about not liking being part of nato. this is a very scary moment because we could be in a sort of world war iii type of situation if putin can run roughshod over europe because he no longer has to worry about american aid for ukraine. >> you have studied vladimir putin a lot. he is a guy who does not like you and in fact at that event in helsinki we were talking about your name actually came up. in fact, i want to play that. vladimir putin suggested been able to question you which is what he would like to do. you are a wanted man in russia in exchange for allowing robert mueller to go to russia as part of his collusion investigation. >> we would expect the americans would reciprocate and they would question officials

including the officers of law enforcement and intelligence services of the united states whom we believe, who have something to do with illegal actions on the territory of russia. for instance, we can bring up mr. browder in this particular case. business associates of mr. browder has earned over one and half billion dollars in russia. they never paid any taxes either in russia or the united states. yet, the money escaped the country, transfer to the united states. i think that is an incredible offer, thank you. >> you can say vladimir putin does not like you that is your business with p then donald trump comes in and says that is possibly something we can do that is wild for americans to understand this relationship extend to them you an american citizen, are actually endangered by a donald trump

presidency. >> to have the most powerful man in the free world offering to hand me over to a murderous dictator wants to kill me was absolutely terrifying. after the summit was over, they were not walking it back, he kept talking about it and talking about it. it required a vote of the senate 98-0 not to have me over for the entire thing was put to bed. just in putting aside world events in ukraine and all that kind of stuff. for my own personal interest is terrifying to think i could be at risk of being handed over again if trump becomes the next president of the united states. >> why is he so enthralled vladimir putin? is it just that he likes dictators and he likes the power that putin has over russian people? >> it is very hard to know what is inside of his mind, why he is so you know kowtowing to

this murderous dictator. trump has a pattern of behavior he seems to like these types of characters. he is very friendly with the dictator of saudi arabia, who murdered the washington post columnist jamal kashoggi. in his own words he is close to kim jong-un the dictator of north korea. putin, trump seems to like strong men he also seems to like these people who have a lot of money. after trump made sure that there were no sanctions against saudi arabia his son-in-law ends up with $2 billion in his private equity fund and his son- in-law does not have any experience running a private equity fund. it is hard to know exactly what is going through trump's mind but he does not have the same type of passion for the leaders

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