breaking news this morning. hurricane her mooern makes land fall. >> the storm hitting florida bringing damaging winds and dangerous flash floods. it's headed up the east coast as the holiday weekend gets underway. we will bring you the latest storm information. >> and donald trump is losing support from some key latino figures within his campaign. plus his wife filed a defamation lawsuit. another failure for spacex destroys a rocket and a $200 million satellite that facebook was planning to use. what went wrong at cape canaveral, and what does it mean for private space flight. >> most of us try to forget about our bad days. hear about a man forced to

relive his bad day over and over online. we'll explain why on this hopefully happy september 2nd. >> from abc news, this has "world news now." did not look happy in that photograph. >> he did not. when the google maps truck comes driving by. happy friday. >> we have breaking news this morning. hurricane hermine made land fall in the florida panhandle. you can see on the radar, the intensity is in the big bend. winds are expected to stay around 75 miles per hour and there are tornado watches and warnings in florida and georgia. >> floridians stocked up and gassed up. long lines at gas stations and negotiates. and while the no swims flags were up, it didn't stop some surfers from catching high waves. we have live coverage this morning. marci gonzalez

florida and justin povick is tracking the storm. we start with marci. good morning, marci. >> reporter: hi. good morning. this is an area that was bracing for some of the worst of the storm, but you can see things are pretty calm here. not much wind. the rain has been off and on, but that is not the case to the south and east of here. hurricane hermine hammering parts of florida's gulf coast. strong winds relentless rain and the biggest concern, the storm surge, expected to reach up to 12 feet in some places. >> the most important thing we are to put in our minds is this is life threatening. >> reporter: mandatory evacuations ordered in some coastal communities. >> please protect property and evacuate immediately. >> reporter: as even before land fall hermine's outer bands flooded streets and damaged

inside the house. >> reporter: shelters opened and a state of emergency in place for much of the soaked sun shine state. >> you know when you live in florida, this is what it is. if it gets bad, you leave. if you think you can ride it out, ride it out. >> reporter: some riding it out with sandbags in place, windows boarded. >> it's mother nature. >> reporter: and this message for the first hurricane to hit florida in more than a decade. and there are concerns this hurricane could spawn tornadoes in other parts of the state. meanwhile, tropical storm watches and warnings are in effect up to tall the way up to jersey shore. >> marci, we saw the residents have spunk. how long are they expecting to ride this thing out? >> reporter: they're hoping it will pass by later today. and they'll be able to clean up what's left behind. they're hoping they will be able to enjoy the holiday

here while other areas then brace for the impacts of the storm. >> and you're from florida. you've seen this before. how does the beginning of the storm compare to the many floridians are weathered in the past. >> reporter: you heard the woman in my piece say floridians know the drill. they know which areas are low lying and proned to flooding. and so they kind of know how to prep. people took it seriously enough. they were stocking up and putting down the sandbags. and they know overnight to keep an eye on that trek and pay close attention to the warnings. >> and some even had extra moments to pick up spray paint and write bring it hermine. >> they haven't lost their touch. in 10 years since the last hurricane. marci, thank you so much. and now that hermine has made land fall. where is it headed next? >> let's check in with justin povick. >> good moin

again, hermine continues to move inland. it's going to be slowly weakening here over the course of the next couple of hours. for now still a formidable hurricane. winds 80 miles per hour and lots of downed trees and power lines. movement takes it to the north, northeast at around 14 miles per hour. we are concerned about isolated tornadoes to the east of the trek. and toward st. marks. that's the center of circulation. but pounding winds and also pounding rains coming toward tallahassee as we speak. many power out saged there. the impacts felt far and wide. all the way up the east coast. we're be following this storm for many days to come. >> give us a sense of what kind of a mess this thing is going to make when it comes to travel up and down the east coast. this is not just florida, right? >> not at all. this is

we're talking about beach erosion and torrential rain. a lot of people wanting to head out of the shoreline for the holiday, but we're looking at dangerous conditions at the coast. on the other side of mountains in better coach. toward the 95, big time impacts. >> hoping everyone in the path drives safely or stays put. justin povick. thank you. >> and we'll have more on hermine later, but it's time to move onto politics. there are lingering questions about hillary clinton's private meetings as secretary of state. they could soon be answered. >> the state department says it will release the remaining 2700 pages of the detailed schedules. that's before election day. instead of in december as they previously announced. a clinton spokesman welcomes the decision. he said the public should see the full picture and not what he

and clinton's former rival, bernie sanders hits the campaign trail to stump for her and others. he says he'll push her economic plan, one he says will work for everyone, not just those at the top. clinton's campaign is getting a boost from donors. she took in $143 million in august. and donald trump is facing new fallout after his tough talk on immigration. several of his most prominent hispanic campaign advisors resigned. some business and religious leaders pulled the support saying they feel betrayed and u used. trump's wife has filed a lawsuit against a news website and a maryland blogger saying they published false statements suggesting she once worked as an escort before she met her husband. she denies the allegations, and her attorney is calling the statements 100% false and

reputation. the man at the center of a case for while a student at stanford is being released from jail today. brock turner was only sentenced to six months for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. the judge was criticized for what many viewed as a lenient sentence. he is moving off of criminal cases. turner only served after the sentence and must register as a sex offender. and a new admissions policy aimed at atoning for slavery. the president of the university plans to issue a formal apology and create an institution for the study of slavery. many of those descendants are applauding the school's actions. >> we're not talking reparation. we're talking about how this university can be an asset to the world in healing some pain and healing racism that

destroying our society. >> at least a dozen universities have formally recognized the ties to slavery. georgetown is the first to offer frenchable status. >> a third grade teacher returned to the classroom. she donated one of her kidneys to a first grader, one of her students. the pair was celebrated yesterday. >> she says she never hesitated when she learned she was a match for the girl. the transplant surgery happened in may. both of them are doing great. >> a neat story. teachers give so much of themselves already, and here to actually give part of herself to a student. >> and both families say they hope this will inspire other people to sign up for the donor registry. >> coming up, disaster on the launch pad

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about 75 miles per hour all night. >> there are tornado watches out not only for northern florida right now but also parts of georgia and south carolina. >> collin kaepernick stuck to his word refusing to stand for the national anthem last night. >> instead he dropped to one knee before the game. the gesture, a new move as part of his continued protest against racial injustice. he also had controversy when pictures showed him wearing socks with pigs in police caps. >> rolling stone stopped in a bid to get a a $25 million defamation suit thrown out. they've being sued about a story about rape that turned out to be false. the fraternity says it was defamed by the article. and a new york appeals cou

loh lohan saying they used a likeness to her. and back to square one for spacex. an explosion on the launch pad. >> it destroyed a $200 million satellite on board facebook was planning to use. >> reporter: it's a test that goes terribly wrong. this space-exrocket erupting on the pad like a bomb going off. it wasn't just one explosion. several followed. the force of the blast felt by residents miles away from cape canaver canaveral. >> it was like a small earthquake. >> reporter: spacex was planning to test the rocket. it was filling it with fuel, nlkding the tank in the upper stage when something fails. it's clear the explosion starts there. so big it was picked up on radar along with the rocket, the cargo seen falling in flamesas

too. inside, a communications satellite that facebook hoped to use. the first big venture into space. and mark zuckerberg said i'm deeply disappointed the launch failure destroyed our satellite which would have provided internet service across the continent. it's the second major setback for spacex and the ceo. one of his falcon nines blew up on takeoff last year. this is just a setback? >> it's just a setback. we can figure out in this case what happened, and we'll make sure it doesn't happen again. >> reporter: spacex will not fly again until a cause is determined and it is fixed. that could complicate the calendar. the private company was scheduled to take supplies to the international space station in november. a lot of damage there, but the bright spot, no injuries

i hope they're insured, and i did research. it turns out a lot of these companies do have insurance on the payload in there, $200 million. because one in 20 of these space launches blow up. >> there's so much going on. there's so much that's vulnerable to this kind of a thing. space-ex is calling this an anoma anomaly. elon musk is saying it was a fast moving fire. >> semantics. >> looked like an explosion. facebook, the downside, of course, aside from the obvious damage is that that satellite that facebook had on board was meant to bring internet service to poor countries, poor communities. they say those plans will be delayed a little bit because of that. >> who knew they were getting into the space business, facebook. thousands of floridians bracing for a night of brutal weather. >> hurricane hermine is taking aim at the florida panhandle. we'll get a rept

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>> looking at satellite of hurricane hermine making land fall over the florida panhandle. strong winds and heavy rain are expected overnight, and there are some fears of life threatening storm surges in the coastal areas. >> i spoke with theed a m administrator of taylor county. he describes the conditions. >> we're seeing a lot of wind related issues. we're having more and

issues with power lines coming down, causing sparks. we just heard on the radio that we had a call for a structure fire. probably was sparked by a falling power line. our beaches are completely under water. we have parks along the coastline that are under water. we have roads leading into neighborhoods that were closed off because of water across the road. we're experiencing quite a bit of rain on the inland portion of our county. we're still looking at maybe 12 inches of rain in some areas. >> what's the bigger concern for you? is it the wind? is it the flooding? >> the biggest concern that we have is with the coastal flooding. most of our coastal residents have heeded the evacuation order. we're anticipating quite a bit of damage. getting the roads open and helping people re

we're worried about tornadoes, and we're in that upper right hand quadrant where we can see a lot of tornadoes. we have been withstanding quite a few tornado warnings coming across from the national weather service. we haven't had confirmation of any tornado touchdowns as of yet. >> reporter: did you get the impression people took it seriously enough? >> we've seen a lot of great cooperation with residents. i think part of that is that we've focussed on educating the public early and often and getting the right information out and to the great extent, we've seen a lot of people taking this seriously. >> our thanks to dustin. we hope he's staying safe. he said he's praising people for listening to first responders here, getting in place and so far they don't seem to be having issues with people not obeying the warning. >> it's easy. people are tempted to say we'll be fine.

but as we heard this morning, lots of people taking the warnings seriously and good thing they are. we'll be right back.

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breaking news this morning on "world news now," hurricane hermine is hitting florida. the storm made land fall bringing heavy winds and rain. we'll head live to the gulf coast as the storm heads inland. >> in the race for the white house, donald trump speaking out again on his immigration policy attempting to clarify mixed signals on his issue. this as the fbi sends a warning to both candidates. we'll tell you why as we bring the latest from the campaign trail. and collin kaepernick gets a shower of boos. >> he kept protesting during the national anthem, taking a knee this time as well as getting help from a teammate. and a playboy career appearing in more covers than any other magazines in the