let's bring in nicole mitchell for more. >> good morning. a rough couple of days from the mid-atlantic through the northeast. this was part of the moisture that initially inundated the south and part of the front that moved through the midwest. all of it funneled together making for a wet mess in many places this morning. widespread reports of 1, 2, 3 inches and some higher reports of 5 inches in a couple of places around massachusetts. a lot of region through the northeast is under flood watches and a couple flood warnings out there as well. this will last us for a few days because the front doesn't go anywhere fast. the northeast is more of the heavy rain today and lingers along the coastline and looks like it will reinvigorate for the mid-atlantic on friday. chances across the region for multiple days. this goes out the next three days. you see closer to the coastline is where we get the most. that widespread three to five inches but a couple spots 6 inches and 8 inches and a few spots get more than that. then the more interior you get, t

let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchell. was this kind of rainfall unusual for this time of year? >> absolutely, because summers are dry seasons, so september is one of our drier months on average for downtown los angeles, for example about an inch of rain, yesterday we got 2.4, the old record, it's really easy to make a report this time of year was three hundredths of an inch. it was literally coming down in buckets, so to speak. people were able to collect it in that and people do collect rain like this to try and use it for water in other areas, like plants and cooking and cleaning, sometimes because there is so little water, they are trying to conserve every way they can when the rain comes down. the system was part of the remnants of a tropical entity. the next system is part of a different weather system, not as likely to get to southern california, but still, there's a little moisture in the area, there's a chance there will be a sprinkle, probably not the rain like yesterday. heavy rains don't always help us as much

nicole mitchell is here with more on that. we need the rain on the fires, but not getting it there. >> that's not where we got it. we had a tropical entity that brat heavy rains to places like arizona. still dry, not at dry as california. you can see some of that mainly. this continues to move interior, so new mexico we could see chances for flash flooding, but most moisture is moving northward and that's going to intersect with a front that we already have in the midwest. this area is going to become more moist over the next couple of days, really the central portion of the country, the interaction of that tropical moisture and front we already have there. the other place we are getting more moisture is into the southeast, a little bit up the east coast, as well, but there's a low level system that's kind of moving onshore the next couple of days, so that will be our focal point. one is the midwest. watch the southeast, this is over the next couple of details, you can see a lot more activity that we'll be dealing with could b

storms soaking the u.s., nicole mitchell will explain what is in store for the states in the storm'sh. >>> there are two major storm systems in the atlantic, as the east coast is being soaked by heavy rain and flooding. these pictures from the northern part of the state, creekings and sewers overflowing in virginia. in some areas, roads and streets are under 5 to 7 feet of water. let's bring in nicole mitchell. >> it is the potential over a number of days, the front will stay in place giving us cumulative rain. we had the heavy rain that moved through the south, places like virginia came together with a cold front and then all of that moisture has been squeezing its way now through the northeast. but it is not going to be over in the near future, already a number of flood watchings and warnings, even though the current radar looks like it is clearing out, the front staying in place will give us some possibilities. but then you can see a resurgence along that boundary for the next few days from the mid-atlantic north ward, and especially the mid-atlantic, it looks like chances for hea

let's get the answer to that from our meteorologist, nicole mitchell. >> part of the problem here is with the long term drought, the vegetation is so dry. even the bit of moisture we had yesterday does help, because just the humidity in the air gives that vegetation moisture, gives them something to work with. this is the radar. the responding areas through the southwest, including dramatic flooding, we'll have more on that in a minute. for california, mitt and miss, places like sacramento that did measure rain, trace amounts, not enough to measure that. the humidity was the biggest thing we saw. you can see clouds off in the background from the pacific. that will move in. that's our next system. i'll talk about that in a second. it's helpful that last week and over the weekend, temperatures have been cooler. those will starting to up by the weekend. here's that next weather system. yesterday it was closer to alaska, now juts out off the coastline. this for northern california and the rest of the northern parts of the pacific northwest, that portion of the coastline, this is going to

u.s. >>> let's bring in nicole mitchell.lood warnings are in effect? >> the first one is what i would call a tropical entity that never actually developed into a storm but brought us the rain anyway. we have a tropical storm. i will mention the storm first. prettiedes to pick up that area. joachin, winds of 40 miles per hour. this will track us away to the north and parallel the coastline so we have some time to watch this at least in the next several days. not any immediate impact expected. this, hoe, i mentioned the area different quite develop but had a lot of tropical moisture with it. that's what we have been dealing with in the south. you can see that tap has kind of turned off. in the meantime, the moisture that came on is migrating this way northward but before everything was said and done it left a lot of rain in places like destin. there was a six-hour period in destin yesterday where just over almost 10 inches of rain just in that six-hour period and then there was more rain through the rest of the day. images lik

meteorologist nicole mitchell is here. just how bad will it be? >> certainly for portions of chile, the tsunami portion of this was very bad in addition to the earthquake itself. energy, the wave energy takes time to move across the ocean, so for california, it would be within the next hour that a lot of that wave energy would hit and for hawaii, a couple hours later. what we're going to look at is mostly lower levels, both for hawaii and for california. a lot of this within the next hour, but anywhere from an inch or two up to possibly a foot. that's a far contrast from chile. one report was a 16-foot, almost wave with that tsunami coming in, so definitely better for california not expecting a lot, but still something to monitor if you're next to the coastline. otherwise for california, we've had the weather recently and the rain especially that's helped possibly create floods but with the drought situation, the fires, better conditions in terms of no rain and flooding, but the drier conditions and then the heat for the next couple days, this is

nicole mitchell joins us now to tell us about that. >> it's too much or too little or different parts of california. speaking to some of the temperatures and fire situation, temperatures have been on the rise again, a lot of hundreds in the valleys, that dries things out, does not help with the situation. you can see the butte fire, temperatures remain dry for most of the week. we do have certain parts of california that can get the rain. last week, we had tropical moisture, this is the tropical depression. even though it wasn't as strong as a tropical storm or hurricane, the moisture came with it, moving up toward the united states. you remember flash flooding from last week. we could have similar setups in similar areas this week because of a different system. you can see some of the rain, there is more rain farther to the south, our u.s. radars don't get that far into mexico, but seeing that push into arizona, which is kind offed nexus of where we could see the most rain with it. that's definitely for southern california, the flood risk there especially goes in some of the burn are

back to you. >> a beautiful day clearly, nicole mitchell in washington, d.c. at 78 degrees.'s head back out there. we have a couple of live pictures to show you. this is where pope francis spent the night and woke up for his first morning in the united states. this is his first day here, his first full day. in about five minutes, he will be at the white house. we are expecting him to come out any moment now and we will show him when that happens. this is what is happening at the white house. this is the south lawn and you can see that there were color guard there. there is an elaborate ceremony planned for pope francis when he arrives. president obama, first laid michelle obama will be there to greet him. the color guard will open the doors to his car. this is a live look at the white house, 15,000 people expected on the south lawn to greet the pope. a lot of those people had to scramble for tickets earlier today. our reporter interviewed a click who was there and described the emotional moment she expects when she sees pope francis. here is the schedule that we're looking a

. >>> let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchell. nicole how much did we get to get into this rain? >> it wouldn't take just one good season to get out. through the state averaged one to two feet of rain, you can't get that all at once. we have although had a little disturbance move through, it's given us an ar an on-shore flow. bringing humidity a couple of drops to the ground. there is another system behind this. we are still in places where humidity in the morning tends to be high. humidity had been down in the single digits, so a little more moisture in the atmosphere helps as do cooler temperatures. valleys were having temperatures in the 100s now the 80s helps. coming into wednesday ahead of this there could be winds that cause problems with the fires. but when this comes in this is our best next chance for a decent rain through the west because we have fires elsewhere. speaking of the fires it's not just the broad weather scale. they can actually create their own weather. let's go back to the science to create the base for this

let's bring in nicole mitchell for our environmental impact. how bad is it, nicole? >> this is deadly from whales to the sea turtles we love and a new study on birds is showing how this problem has been increasing for us. taking a look at different sea birds, back in 1960, plastic was found in the stomachs of less than 5%. by 1980, 80%, now 90% and it's estimated by 2050, basically all of them will have ingested it. every 11 years, we basically double how much plastic we make, so it's estimated we'll make as much plastics as all plastics since ever invented. that's a huge problem, resulted in a two thirds decrease in sea bird populations since the 1950's. everything found inside of them when they actually examine these corpses, plastic bags, bottle caps, synthetic fiber from clothing, little bits of plastic broken down that can contain toxic chemicals. they soak up things from the water, like d.d.t. and p.c.p.'s. what causes the death of the birds is the sharp edge of the plastic. they ingest so much, it doesn't make room for food inside them and that leads to the pr

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let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchell for for.d morning. >> couple areas, a lot of the country looking good for the first full day of small. this is rain, isolated storms we've had. this will start to dry out somewhat. it's the system into the southeast that is going to become more robust and bring us more rain. the midwest sets the chance for our best spotty flash flooding, warnings and watches are up, but mostly not doing too badly. >> this one is where more of the rain is going to be and it will drift northward over the next couple of days, but not until after the events with the pope. this is needed rain. we have a lot of dry conditions. places like south carolina, over 90% in dry conditions. this is also keeping the temperatures a little cooler here. look at atlanta at 77 with some of that moisture, at least in the area versus memphis at 90. of course our warm spot across the country is still into the southwest where it's drying everything out once again. i mentioned that forecast for all the different events going on. washin

let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchell. good morning. >> good morning.alifornia fared really well from any tsunami concerns. hilo, hawaii got a couple of feet, but the u.s. didn't fare badly at all in terms of that. this is an active radar, and there is not a thing on it, not a thing expected to be on it now for the next several days at least if not longer. we've got high pressure in place, so stagnant air moving back into the area is allows things to heat up, already into the upper 80s in fresno and valley areas and continuing to warm from there. we're also going to see and this is why we're starting to see all the areas that you have highlighted, that's kind of a special weather statement for going into the weekend. we could see those red flags, fire danger warnings and watches go back up, because we're expecting not just hot by dry, less humidity and winds to kick up in the area. that will add to the fire concerns. we still have active fire areas, only 35% contained. that's one of the ones causing so much devastation. you can see by this weekend, temp

let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchell. is rain a possibility? >> we had just a little bit, a couple drops made it to the ground. the pattern changed, that's the better news, more of an onshore flow now is bringing in moisture and higher humidity, plus it's dropped the temperatures. the humidity and the overnight when temperatures are cooler are always higher, anything from 51 in fresno to 77% in sacramento. sacramento, during that heat over the last week, humidity is only 10% to 20%, now it will be 30% to 40%. that helps, because things are tinder dry. even more moisture in the atmosphere and temperatures have gone down. those hundreds in the valleys, now more 80's, even 90's, but that's a huge improvement. the big thing we are watching is a system set to come on wednesday, bringing some actual moisture to the area, and northward, because we have fires ranging all through the west, so this will be a help. >> nicole, when it comes to the humid in the air, it does help, obviously, but actual rain, i mean, what kind of difference would that make at

. >>> let's turn to nicole mitchell. are we talking about rain? >> there is actually rain on the ground, today account not always in areas we need it. parts of southern california, most of our fire situation is a little north of that. more moisture because of that on-shore flow, we had a little disturbance shifting through, so the humidity is a lot higher. the heat of the afternoon is when we have our lowest humidities. but instead of single-teen humidity figures, it will be higher. temperatures in the valley region for example that were in the 100s last week may only be in the 80s today, even though that is not cool, it is cooler. it helps the firefighters' comfort and doesn't dry out completely. as this moves in ahead, that could be some wind, a problem with spreading fires but that will give us a pretty decent chance, in the west. fires themselves can create their own weather environments. in fact there is a whole branch of meteorology, one of the things that does that is the incredible heat. these fires can be 1,000° or more. low pressure at t

. >> nicole mitchell thank you. >>> it's a marshall art that some say have been around for thousandsyears, we'll see how that's being changed. >> i've been asked to keep my voice down cause we are so close >>> welcome to back. we have just learned that baltimore has reached a multi-million dollar settlement with the family of freddie gray. gray is the black man who died from a spinal injury suffered while in police custody. the deal would have to be approved by the board that overseas the city's spending. we'll update you on details as we confirm them. >>> mixed marshall arts one of the world's most popular sports, but a lesser known version is trying to wrestle its way into the main stream. >> reporter: it was once considered the martial arts of hooligans. but myanmar's traditional self-defense form has cleaned up its act. no longer considered the preserve of village folk, it is being embraced in towns and cities too. this is a former fighter, and the founder of a boxing club that not only trains processionals but also offers classes to enthusiasts. there's more rawness. head butts

let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchell now. how warm will it be trying to fight the flames? >> parts of california over 100 degrees today, including possibly nearby those fires. right now, we have 40 large fire incidents, a couple more in the northwest where it is extremely try. one reason we have the red flag concerns today into wyoming. we have warmer conditions, very dry, humid at 10% and windy, gusts to 30. we don't have as much winds in california. what we have instead is a high pressure loss that gives us sinking air that warms the air and because there's not a lot of wind flow, that makes it very stagnant. we have a number of heat advisories up especially towards the coastlines, valleys could go over 100 degrees easily. sack are sacramento 104 today, d to be dangerous. across the rest of the country, the one other portion of the country that is seeing the heat, we're book ended is the east coast. a lot of temperatures are still going to be in the 90's, such as washington and new york for today. just one more day of that. we are going to get some relief shanks to this.

. >> nicole mitchell thank you. >>> bernie sanders again ahead of hillary clinton.ew poll giving his campaign the edge in iaea. ♪ >>> welcome back. it is 10:48 eastern, taking a look at today's top stories. new york could soon have the highest minimum wage in the country. the governor will propose a $15 minimum wage for all workers. >>> the new york police department is investigating why james blake was detained outside of a manhattan hotel wednesday. he says five white officers handcuffed him and through him to the floor. blake was only released when a retired officer passing by identified him. >>> and no classes again today for 53,000 school children in seattle. thousands of teachers remain on strike. the teachers haven't had a raise in six years. the schools are offering a 9% raise. >>> prosecutors in washington state are defending their decision today to not charge three police officers for killing a farm worker. they say officers used legal force when they shot and killed the man. >> reporter: 17 shots is not the way to take somebody and then consider that just

let's bring in nicole mitchell. >> the drought has sucked the moisture out of vegetation. that's one of the problems that we're dealing with in this area. finally over the week a bit of a disturbance with an onshore flow, that brings in the ocean moisture and humidity. some of the humidity levels have been down in the single detectives and teens. now 20%-330% humidity is what we're expecting, and you'll see isolated showers. this is not enough to put anything out but help to control things a little bit. what we're watch something this next system off the coast of alaska right now. as it moves across the next couple of days, that's the system that we're really watching for in terms of moisture. that does not get here until wednesday, but the combination of the humidity that is already going up, and the temperatures that also went down as that last system went through that's making a big difference. the temperatures today significantly lower. we had temperatures easily above 100 dress over the last couple of days. so that's going to make a difference. the humidities are goin

let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchell. what is behind this strong storm? those pictures are extraordinary. >> this is an excellent example of you don't even need a hurricane or typhoon, if the storm has a lot of moisture in it, this is just a tropical storm, and you just saw the video there, but as it moved over the country was able to ring out moisture, lending to flooding. about a million people impacted at one time and even possibly fukushima and that radioactive area, some con testimony nation that could cause problems once again. this was a hurricane way back when. it is now a tropical storm. this looks like it will move to the north. let's get back to the united states and see if we could have flooding concerns on our own, not of that scale. this tropical storm in the eastern pacific, you can see the moisture shield making its way into southern california, arizona, there is spotty showers especially if they are in burn areas could cause isolated flash flooding and those two fronts moving across the country, one to the east and south, the other to the

let's get more about that from meteorologist nicole mitchell.here's the question, will it help bring some rain to the drought stricken west? >> it definitely brings those chances way up. here's a look at the west coast. we focus a lot on california but really it's the entire west coast dealing with that brought, oregon, idaho also getting critical in terms of water reserves. here's the forecast for the rest of the fall. it brings us wetter than normal in southern california. really, it's the winter months and we're technically still in summer that is the rainy season for a lot of the west coast. we'll see what happens then. the concern is maybe if that moisture pattern stays to the south, it won't bring it to the entire region. the other concern is so many areas of dry and the heat today not helping with that, a lot of the valley areas in the hundreds once again, that the ground is so heat-based, it doesn't absorb that water as well. if you get the extra moisture, then you can get into a flooding situation. speaking of the temperatures, they fin

let's bring in nicole mitchell. nicole, how much damage could this do? >> it's going over the northern tear of the island now, one of the more populated areas. it includes the city of taipei. there was a similar storm, this would be our version of like a category four. there was a storm that hit in august as a category three that did at least 30 lives lost, millions without power. we haven't seen reports out of this, but serious damage is expect. also remember the super moon that all of us were watching last night? here that could raise the tide, enhancing the storm flooding and flooding is the number one loss of life with these systems, so that could cause us damage. winds right now to 140 miles per hour, that's what we would categorized as a category four storm. here this was just under making a super typhoon and continue to go weaken as it heads toward china after this. we also have some tropical moisture funneling into the united states. not an organized system, but this one is definitely going to cause some flooding over the next few days. i'll have

. >> or a cactus or a japanese zen garden would all work and nicole mitchell thank you.periencing another green summer and talking about potential toxic algae in the water and shut down water for half a million residents and john reports the problem is blamed on agricultural runoff. >> each summer a growing under water forest of toxic algae suffocates lake eerie. former farmer ed says he is doing everything he can to stop it. to prevent run out from feeding the blooms he plants tall grass along st. mary's river and corn that doesn't disturb the soil and after he harvests he plans with rye grass. >> doesn't erode like bare ground is. >> to keep it from washing out the soil. >> reporter: when city of toledo declared the water unsafe for drinking they put much of the blame on farmers like him and say two thirds of pollutants feeding the algae came from farms. >> i guess it upset me personally because i'm trying to do all i can i guess to keep the soil pa partibles out of the rir and urbanization, industry, there are other people who dump things into the river. >> i'm going

let's bring in nicole mitchell to tell us more. >> we have a system we've been talking about most ofhe week coming onshore. it never developed into a tropical storm, but bringing moisture to the coast and one of the bands did possibly produce a tornado. they'll go in and look at that today and some of the damage that was associated includes sitings, roofs, trees. i haven't seen reports of injuries yet, but there's isolated chance for that. it wasn't like there was widespread, severe weather. our system that we were watching in the midwest has lost a lot of its moisture. there is some improvements there. this will be what we watch the next couple of days before that mainly kind of starts to dissipate a little bit, two more wet days, that onshore mainly, so it's not a system kind of moving across the country like we normally see. in the meantime, more parts of the mid atlantic moves, and spreads farther to the south. in the meantime with all of that, that helps keep temperatures cool in that particular area. we'll see 68 in atlanta, 76 in washington, d.c. still a lot of the rest of the

change and now several new apps from nasa show what is happening and what you can do to help and nicole mitchellns us with the environmental impact and the apps are free. >> no pop up ads or anything of that nature and it's gold there and from human activity to climate change and natural disasters can really reshape our earth so let's look at the different apps that are out there that you can enjoy and the first is images of change and they show different before and after pictures and talking about alaska so i picked some alaska and this is before on one of the glaciers and used satellite and ground to capture these and this is after of the same region and very eye opening and you can also do them side by side and do direct comparison as well and get a context even on the world map and that is the first one, images of change and the next one is earth now, it's free dazzling and puts the earth in the palm of your hands and displays real time satellite data of some vital signs and here are some different things you can see on there and images from around the world but as we go into some of the ima

let's bring in nicole mitchell for the environmental impact and what exactly did the radar doo. >> justd in january and kind of got going for real in may full time and only lasted with us for two months but what it did is it was called the soil moisture active passive because there was an active radar and what you are seeing there and a passive part of it that reads emissions from earth and it has links between energy and water and carbon cycles and predict natural hazards like floods and droughts and cost a million and supposed to stay in for three years and will live it in orbit because the passive part still works but won't give the fine level of detail like the other part and soil moisture is important because it helps us understand the reflection of the sun and the energy coming into the earth. here are some i'm analyzes we have gotten back from it, this is an example and it's able to measure the spring thaw and from april before it was in full mode but whether the soil is frozen or thawed goes to solar energy being reflected and what is going on is the passive reader doesn't read

. >> andrea mitchell in washington, thank you. >> msnbc contributor nicolle wallace served as white house communications director for president george w. bush. nicole, nice to see you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> hi. >> let's go back to the republican side and start with donald trump. >> right. >> kind of a pivotal moment in his campaign right now, trying to show a softer side with the profile in "people" magazine. >> right. >> you've been around a lot of candidates and campaigns. how hard is it to turn momentum around once it begins to slip? >> well, i would argue that he's still got a commanding lead in all of the polls, and while he may not be gaining strength, he was gaining strength at an unsustainable rate, but he is still soundly at top of the polls, and, you know, this is still donald trump's landscape and the rest of the campaigns are having to exist in it. i talked to the other campaigns. we're at end of a fund-raising cycle and other campaigns would be report totals significantly less than if donald trump weren't in the sglas why is that? he's not taking the money? >>

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