as the wind increase, the rain increases as well, woo el give you updates throughout the mornings, better you than me, my friend. thank you. appreciate it. we'll see you guys both again in just a bit. of course, thousands remain without power in north carolina right now. according to state officials. joining me on the phone is greg thomas, communications officer for the north carolina department of public safety. greg, with a welcome to you on this very busy night for all of you. what's the story with power? how many are out? and i guess the big question is how long will it take to get power restored? >> thanks. currently we've got a little more than 100,000 power outages reported at the last update that i received. hard to speculate on how quickly those numbers can be reduced. obviously, you need to have safe conditions for those crews to get out there. but hopefully they can be taken care of quickly tomorrow. perhaps starting in the southeastern portions of the state where the weather has cleared up already. >> you know, greg, we talked about my colleagues about how a lot of people prep

i think that was a very awkward leap, woo el have the'll have tr on.a position where the news is a surprise, every day, you can't plan in advance of what you're going to be talking about and if you think you have the luxury of doing slow political analysis, you analyze every element of everything, wake up and you'll find out that everybody is talking about something else. we'll be here for the drauratio. but this convention is taking place in cleveland, starting tomorrow, in an environment that was utterly, utterly unpredicted. people thought that the political consequences of donald trump's nomination would be so shaking to the republican party that either this would be an open convention or there would be chaos on the convention floor or there would be expected violence in the streets from people violent opposed. doesn't feel like that political story is happening at all. and what we're covering aside from the planned convention is stuff that has shutly nothi lab nothing to do with politics. >> at the height of our turkey coverage, someone said the a

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one party said we'lle woo el do more of it, and the other one said talk to is later.-- what are african-americans -- what are you getting in return. i can talk to you about 45 minutes what donald trump did to help african-americans very specifically. sadly, rufus, with you don't have 45 machines. i'm not saying things aren't discussed. i'm saying the specific black gop members are saying things you do not hear at the cookout. maybe we go to different cookouts. rufus makes some valid points. i'm certainly not here a mouthpiece for the democrats, but we're talkening specifically about the republican party. elie, what do you think about his claim that donald trump did a lot to help the african-american community. i can tick off some things he did that was very harmful. >> there's lots of things he did to hurt the community, and i'm sure he did helped a couple brothers here and there. i make a hard distinction between black conservatives, of which are many, one was elected as mayor of new york city, and the token shucking and jiving for their white handlers. the way you c

. >> ashley woo, sharif el-mekki, dank you as well.llowing. the confirmation of the shooting down of a flying objects over lake huron, i believe, in michigan. representative elissa slotkin got the work of the department of defense, that something was flying over lake huron. and then we confirmed here at nbc news as julius reported to us that an object has been shot down. julie, i want to come back to you on capitol hill. we are learning more with this developing. what more are you learning? >> look, we still have a lot of questions about this object. this is just really developing in the last couple of minutes. it comes, remember, as they were exploring potentially another object that they got a head on over man overnight. one that senator jon tester, democrat montana, just today said they were still investigating. it's not clear whether this was the same object that perhaps moved across the michigan lakes, or if this is another object. this would mean it's the fourth line that the u.s. has shot a down since about a week ago when they

woo jaramillo? >> frank jaramillo, aka el cubano. we an odd person ecologist before committing a murder.was in on it. how to found find? out >> step, one says chris, nelson go back to nick harvey. lean on him. >> you have to talk to this guy before he gets rained. because once he is arranged, you are screwed. he's gonna get an attorney, his attorneys gonna tell him to shut. up >> just what's birdsall and his partner were thinking. so they confronted nick again, now two days after linda's murder. >> you need to be fully truthful with my partner and i right, now because it's only gonna you know benefit you to tell the truth. this is getting uglier and uglier. >> we went out it won last. time he reiterated it almost exactly what he said before. >> which was that he killed lynn edge schockner because the burglar he tried to carry out went bad. the cops still didn't buy. it >> you need to take nick into responsibility now. take care of nick, now please. and tell -- be truthful with us. because we are not gonna stop nick. >> and that's when the story started to change. >> i might as well break

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. >> to swing a local race re-ele campaign is facing the enthusiasm gap. 2008 found like change america, woo it feels like, okay, now we need to plod along to re-election. but if, in fact there, say group here that can be motivated with that kind of enthusiasm, either pro re-election or anti election of romney, then that seems to me like it could be even more powerful than the individual vote itself. >> one thing that could be very strong for the democrats. the roundabout way, republicans are motivating latino voters. they have mobilized like never before. and the architect of sb 1070, russell pearce, who was recalled in a special election. lost his office. first time that ever happened. and arizona history. and partly because latino voters mobilized and said we have had enough. he has wakened the latino vote in that state, which has been very reliablyçç >>> right now, i want to spruce y introducdçç markets in the area. if this program is able to change the eating habits of even one student, then i will feel completely thrilled. >> to check out more nora's student farm project, check out

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competition and the frt and woo were able to put texas in play and frankly for the next nominee, 38 electoral votes in play. >> that's very kennedy esc. o'rourke sited his six years in the elaso scity counsel. >> it made me a far bter representative than i would have bun otherwise. there was a healthy fear knowing i would face those who put me in this position of public trust, that i would be reminded. so i maw not have served forever in the house but i've served unother ways. >> and former arkansas governor and republican presidential candidate said republicans should take o'rourke seriously, referencing barack obama's victory in 2008. >> here's a warning to republicans. don't take this guy lightly. i believe people will do that at their own peril. so for republicans who say dont were a about this, i'd say democrats have a it history of picking a guy who doesn't have a shot. >> so this is fascinating to me. obviously there are parallels and shortcomings in the comparison of obama to o'rourke. they have the youthful optimism and reaching across the aisle through rationality can actually get andfect change. there is a huge threat of democratic suky whi democratic psyche. th

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