michelle, first to you, and looking at the storm track, and what are we preparing to, and then to marianna. >> hi there, andrea. yes, we are looking at a category 4 storm, and right on the borderline of the cat 3 and 4 and it did weaken, and it is go ing through the eyewall replacement, but it is going to change. as the next couple of hours, it is go ing to strengthen again, and encountering nothing to slow it down. so we expect it to remain on the path. this is what it is looking like right now, and just a huge storm, and the eyewall is a t textbook hurricane. and you open up the book, and this is exactly what you would see and not good news for the southeast coast of the u.s. we are looking at winds at 130 miles per hour, and we will see the winds strengthen as we head through the next couple off hours, and later on wednesday, 150 miles per hour, and this is what we are expecting. we do have a little bit of a change. we expected a late thursday and early friday landfall and now we are expecting friday morning, and so it is slowing down a little bit, and that is not good news along the co

thirty eight she was declared mentally ill and forcibly sterilized in one nine hundred forty five marianna was murdered. twenty years later gearhart rishta used this photo is the basis for one of his paintings portraiture didn't know at the time his answers forced sterilization was performed at the clinic run by his former father in law in dresden. one side parliamentary a couple of elements from again heart of richter's life were the starting point for me you could almost call it an inspiration point but then i wrote the story relatively freely because i always find that through composition and through fiction you get closer to the truth than with pure facts. the. court and early get married but their relationship to ellie's father who tries to hide his nazi past remains strained. and is that immature to make him fit and even. into the cat out of it and i don't believe most of the best as at. least i not have. their best at. a young couple fleet east germany for the west court resumes his art studies into sort off the. bat alpha get us to magazine assess that their equals is at it what it

and joining me is al roker from "today show" is joining us about the path, and gabe gutierrez, and marianna atencio in oak island, and also, gadi schwartz in morehead, north carolina, and first to you, g a, di. >> yes, good afternoon, andrea. i don't know if you can see me, but this is behind me, the outer bands and this is not the worst of the hurricane, and you see that the dock is starting to take the brunt of the water levels rising, and with are seeing part s of ts of the dock starting to break off. and again, this is just the beginning of what could be 24 to 48 hours. the wind gusts right now, they are not catastrophic, but they are g are going to be increasing throughout the day and the night, and right now, we are in an island called radio eisland , and that is beaufort, north carolina, and up the way from morehead, city, and this is an area that has seen some catastrophic hurricanes in the past. in the 1950s they saw one called hurricane hazel with a storm surge that took out many houses in the area. that storm surge was about six feet and almost seven feet. the storm surge from th

marianna showed a road washes away.ere's standing water, you never know what's underneath it. one of our crew sent a picture of a manhole floating. somewhere there's a manhole not kfrd up. >> there are some damages to roadways. there are neighborhoods where debris and propane tanks and we saw pictures of a vacuum cleaner and a baby stroller that just liter the streets where the river swelled and florence just came with those powerful winds a and spread everything out and watches it away. the debris, we have two relatively large restricted areas that people cannot get to. if you live there and you're a homeowner we'll certainly let you in, but two pretty big serious cleanups where the most severe dabbling is. it's going take time to get things out of the roadway. we have boats watched up in houses. >> we are looking at a picture of one now. remarkable. >> that's a huge danger to be around. don't need cars and people on roadways when we are cleaning up boats from roadways. >> remarkable, the images that have been playing

marianna is about 40 miles up.u look at the map, north carolina, south carolina jets out like this before it gets to north carolina. she is at the point where it jets out. matt bradley is half the distance from me in cherry grove, about 20 miles up the coast. how is it looking for you, matt? >> thanks, ali. i was telling you moments ago about the dangers of the gusting wind. i have decided to deliberately and foolishly get into the open more and show you this. this was projected to be 60-80-mile-an-hour winds with gusts up to 100 miles an hour. you might see me get pushed around here. we are right by the north carolina border. so far, this is mostly a wind storm right now. there's quite a bit of rain, but the next street we are waiting for is the surge. that's when we see the waves from the coast, which is right over my left shoulder here. it's going to rise up as the high tide comes in. we are expecting 1-2 feet of surge. there's a reason why all the home that is are built along here, almost all of them have been

the pension reform is something that makes people in russia really angry as for today's protests marianna saying of ali an opposition politician who is in prison now you cited cold for these protests and at the end of the day much fewer people was on the streets this sunday than in his previous protests this was partly because not only wasn't there but also because young people are not so excited to protest against pension reforms and young people are actually the glee intel of not following nevertheless there were protests in all of russia with violent clashes with the police hundreds of russians have been arrested in nineteen cities a big bunch of them detained in st petersburg where the police arrested up to five hundred people though many people disapprove of that planned pension reform there is no real then joe danger to the president going to putin and his policies his rating has fallen but dramatically he also talked to people on television the other day and presented himself as a good president who has improved his somewhat well yuri along with all these widespread protests across

warning that a lack of funding is threatening other heritage sites in brazil from rio de janeiro marianna sanchez reports. leaders shell was left standing in the fire that destroyed brazil's national museum earlier this month left most of the country's national treasures in ashes. you know school officials are now working to rescue what survived you can joined by brazilian and german specialists experienced in the story in pieces damaged in fires and wars and. she is. the expectation of the work of risk uing in digging i think we're talking about months or even. years of that process in addition to that what's related to claiming conservation documentation stabilization it could take years. maybe a decade experts say to recover just one part among the losses egyptian mummies frescoes from pompei and brazilian remains nearly twenty million cultural and scientific pieces. the fire has focused attention on one of the major problems facing brazil's heritage lack of funds this is that along the wharf a harbor for nearly one million slaves arrived from africa in the nineteenth century it is als

. >> and the carolinas, and marianna atencio, where are you, and is there an evacuation order where youre? >> ali, this is wrightsville beach, and there is a voluntary evacuation where we are right now, and i want you to take a look at behind me on the beach here. they have actually started to move the cranes to remove the lifeguard stands from the beach, because this area tomorrow morning will be a mandatory evacuation order. if indeed, as michelle was explaining that european model turns out to be the path of the storm, this area which is about 10 miles outside of wilmington, it will get a direct hit. it will be in the direct path of the storm, and so this is where you will see the storm surge and those wind gusts, and again, this a area here, wrightsville beach stands to see some the worst weather in the next 72 hours. >> and wrightsville beach is next to wilmington where i will be seeing you later on this evening, and the mayor of washington, d.c., has declared a state of emergency, and why washington? because of the u.s. model that you talked about or either way washington is going

philippine president rodriguez utility of being involved in the drug trade has been shot dead man marianna blanco of the town of rondo was killed by unidentified gunmen inside the town hall in the popular tourism area of several provinces new report says more than forty million americans are struggling to pay for enough food month to month while that is a small improvement on recent years it still means many people are forced to rely on handouts kristen salumi reports martina santos volunteers at this food pantry in manhattan where once a week she makes lunch for all the staff. this is that correct or what i made last night in my house. this time in addition to bread pudding it's beef chicken or pork with vegetables and beans but like many other volunteers here martina also relies on the pantry herself to help feed her family of four she's what's known as food insecurity which means she struggles to pay for all the food her family needs. is important to me because they have them it's important for at the table when i'm running now i come in every young i've got me i've got beings and i got

. >> marianna, as long ai've known her, i've never seener likethis. >> reporter: d.c. police arrested and charged silver. her uncle says she wasn't in her right state of mind and allegedly suffered from a mental i illneszo >> she's screnic. she's not taking her medicine. anybody that's schizophrenic, is they aretressed out, they will go into a sub-personal tip. >> reporter: after the damage is do, she tosses the jack in her the bus tries to stop her from driving away. the video shows her push him. you can hear people trying to of the bus driver o stopping silver. he jumpsd on the hoo of the car. sheeds off and he falls on the ground. >> it was surreal. the adrenaline rush. >> reporter: juan blanco was on the bus and captured the video on his cell phone. >> my first thought was that, she can't come inside because she waser just hitting hing that she would find and she wanted somebody to actually, like, open t door. >> reporter: silver had a court date expected this week. meanwhile, her uncle says he hopes she gets help. >> and i pray that everybody wi understand, she's

there's a big anniversary for the global financial war it is it's not one to celebrate necessarily marianna because this weekend marks the tenth anniversary of the bankruptcy of u.s. investment bank lehman brothers an event of course that sent shock waves around the world and it also sent everyone from sanish property owners to american investors running for cover the most immediate impact was felt by lehman brothers employees twenty five thousand of them found themselves out of work overnight the bank was a giant the fourth biggest investment bank in the world sport's not too big to fail lehman become so deeply involved in mortgage origination that it had effectively become a real estate hedge fund disguised as an investment bank and washington was willing to save the bank remember this remains the largest bankruptcy filing in u.s. history and that right up to today. my colleague last hired to sneak in to talk with us a little bit about that event because you spent several years of course in new york as our wall street correspondent and you have firsthand experience of what it was like tha

marianna teacher from damascus was a supporter of the regime and a member of president assad's ruling ballots party. but her youngest son a hunk a dentistry graduate joined the protests. of second time so. something . kind of the i welcomed me as a any. kind of cheers from haven't been seen anyway. although mario opposed the demonstrations at first she was won over by her sons and threw zeros on. the news just last sunday. you don't want him i was sure what he said any faster how he can and no hustlers and what they got into here will cause all to get it. because of the money side of me and child abuse in the country. yeah i mean you know that the only image anyhow to three feet. insistent into hip hop out. from the very outset president assad's forces responded by shooting protesters killing scores of people. but the regime's violent repression just brought more protesters out onto the streets. ah. ha ha just looked like it was losing control it issued an order to arrest people on an unprecedented scale. comes. war crimes investigators have pieced together what happened behind the sc

thirty one hundred of them are arriving in peru as they flee a severe economic crisis in venezuela marianna sanchez went to meet a peruvian businessman who set up a shelter in the capital lima to help the migrants. on the floor or bunk beds alongside each other more than one hundred seventy minutes williams sharing three bedrooms two bathrooms and every single space there is left in this makeshift shelter on the outskirts of lima. says he feels lucky to be here when i. feel blessed because a lot of people have to sleep on the street i don't have any food and what these people here are doing is great to. walk when it's all free says clinical reigne a peruvian businessman who says he spent nearly thirty thousand dollars to rent and set up this shelter. or use the money to buy the stove mattresses everything i was about to buy a car but decided to invest it here because in exchange you get happiness. in a few months giving us is nearly two thousand venus williams who learned of the shelter through social media have come and gone the only way to make it work with so many is with discipline he s

support for the opposition candidate for landover dad has risen sharply and he's now in second place marianna sanchez reports from rio de janeiro. like in any food to match all time favorite brazilian sport. says the game in the country's presidential elections is surrounded by uncertainty. there's always a question mark with politics in brazil and i think that more than ever we need to change the country's future. but the latest opinion poll puts the former army captain and congressman j.d. not go ahead with twenty eight percent of the vote that's why he's convalescing after being stabbed the nearly killed he says election fraud main concern now although he offered no proof that the elections next month will be wreaked a great group. the big concern isn't losing the vote it's the possibility of fraud there's a real chance of it happening in the runoff and maybe even in the first round. the opinion poll suggests he'll likely face that number that trails behind with nineteen percent of the vote a long way short of the forty percent share held by his mentor. before he was banned from running fr

although unemployment rates of fall in the cuts in social programs have affected many brazilians marianna sanchez reports from guyana in central brazil. they're back in business but barely one of the largest construction steel providers in the city of gori anya is beginning to supply the national market again just over a year ago. he had to file for bankruptcy of g.m. bankruptcy was the only option to survive it was really sad i thought the fee that we have managed to recover part of our loss but we still have to work hard to pay two million dollars in debts and perhaps he says hire back the seventy workers he had to lay off. in this highly industrialized region in the heart of brazil nearly three hundred fifty thousand people have lost their jobs as a result of the economic crisis thirty million more brazilians are unemployed. although the country statistic agency says the unemployment rate has been consistently falling now it's more than twelve percent it warns it's because millions of brazilians gave up looking for jobs and joined the informal market to survive professor dyson is one o

feel safe but some say the anti immigrant attitude is easier to deal with than conditions back home marianna sanchez reports from lima peru. thirty eight year old the bush man keeps an eye on municipal police will selling a traditional rice string from venezuela he still doesn't have a street vendor permit trying to make a living far away from home is hard he says but worse is here in slurs against ghana swain's a signal for more than the especially to people like me a street vendor people tell me move get out of here go back to your country. an armed assault mainly perpetrated by even a fearless and coddled security cameras sparked a wave of untied ministry and feeling in. this honest compatriots are paying the price think of the negative people have to understand we are not all the same the great majority is here to work and send money to our families to get them out of the inferno that venezuela has become in business many to do stop textile employee and say the number of in a swill is working here a school where they peruvians save in a sweet lunch are taking their jobs and the baby thou

demanding jobs and better public services and it follows the deaths of at least six people on choose day marianna hong taz more. protest has returned to the streets of busta angry and under tud by the deaths of six demonstrators the day before this is the response from security forces firing tear gas to disperse the crowds but. this is some of the worst on race seen since demonstrations began in july protesters accuse the police of using live ammunition police say protesters have been firing weapons the city of pasto lies in the southern region that produces most of iraq's oil wealth the protesters say they see little of it they said the system is riddled with corruption there was little book and infrastructure the air has all but collapsed. the people of basra have no services no water no electricity how long will the situation remain. iraqi prime minister he has ordered an investigation into the dates of the protest as he's already suspended the electricity minister part of his government if it to punish those believed to be behind the problems the protesters say that needs to translate into re

have been falling but many people lack faith in the government because of cuts to social programs marianna sanchez reports from. in central brazil . they're back in business.

that's where we find msnbc marianna. what's the scene like there?reporter: i wanted to move from the ocean over here to the northern part of the island so you can see some of that tree damage that gabe was referencing in myrtle beach. you can see some of the fallen trees in this neighborhood. this is an island filled with oak trees. when i spoke to the mayor this morning, she told me that streets like this and those trees falling on homes, on cars and on people as the storm passes. people think it's safe to go out and about. that is up with of the the major concerns during this hurricane. i also want to show you the intercoastal waterway over here to my right. you can see just the current that the water is moving and how it could potentially rise and move inland over here where the houses are and where the roads are as well. i'm going to ask my producer to start backing up a little bit because as we show you just how vulnerable all of these barrier islands here, we're seeing more tree damage over here to the left. it's what many residents here are g

blasey ford, bring in "the wall street journal" columnist deputy editor dan henninger columnist mariannasel at hearing thursday kim let's start with you were you there when a what conclusions the end of the day did you reach. >> look when you starting request dr. ford she was very sympathetic figure up there, but the problem at the end of the day was that she was unable to marshall any new evidence, that this had actually happened, so you are left with her inability to say again where it happened, when it happened, and the three or four witnesses she said were there all continuing to receive that that was wasn't the case you add in cav very strong denial yet again under oath that any of this happened i think what you saw was a lot of the republicans including the holdouts believe that important thing here was that they did not have a preponderance of the evidence and that you could not ruin this man's life based on unsubstantiated allegations. >> you watched christine ford i belief she is sincere believing what she says happened to her something like that happened to her again as kim sug

blasey ford, bring in "the wall street journal" columnist deputy editor dan henninger columnist mariannady kim strassel at hearing thursday kim let's start with you were you there when a what conclusions the end of the day did you reach. >> look when you starting request dr. ford she was very sympathetic figure up there, but the problem at the end of the day was that she was unable to marshall any new evidence, that this had actually happened, so you are left with her inability to say again where it happened, when it happened, and the three or four witnesses she said were there all continuing to receive that that was wasn't the case you add in cav very strong denial yet again under oath that any of this happened i think what you saw was a lot of the republicans including the holdouts believe that important thing here was that they did not have a preponderance of the evidence and that you could not ruin this man's life based on unsubstantiated allegations. >> you watched christine ford i belief she is sincere believing what she says happened to her something like that happened to her agai

okay, marianna atencio, you tak care of yourself, that doesn't look like a safe place to be. thanks so much. >>> nbc correspondent tammy leitner is in conway, south carolina. yep, the waters are rising there for you. you were by a house in the last half hour and i can definitely see it's rizin a little more. >> reporter: yeah, alex, no doubt, the water is rising quickly here. we're about 20 miles inland, and the fear is that the water is going to keep rising here. i'm guessing that these people have evacuated, because we have not seen any sign of them. still mandatory evacuation for this county. the power is on here in this area, but 160,000 people in south carolina without power. we just learned that the first death in south carolina has been reported, attributed to this storm. and if we can pan around here, i want to give you guys a shot down here of this road that is closed because it is completely washed away. and alex, as we've discussed, the big concern, all of that water in north carolina has to go somewhere. the fear is that it's going to come down here. the rivers ar

marianna atenso is on oak island, about 40 miles to the south of where i am now.e outer bands are being felt here. what are you seeing there on oak island? >> we're seeing the weather starting to turn lightly, craig. we're starting to see these waves get bigger. the water's starting to come closer on shore. and that wind is starting to be felt more and more. that weather that we saw gadi experiencing, those outer bands, those are going to be pounding this island. the largest beach in north carolina, in a couple of hours. and this is particularly vulnerable because it has the cape view river to the east. it has the ocean to the south. and the waterway to north. just to give you an idea of what the kind of storm surge and the flooding that we're talking about can do to this area, i want to turn around this way and show you what hurricane matthew did in 2016. the water went up these dunes, all the way to the parking lot behind these houses. when you're talking about a storm like florence that is going to sit and dump rain for possibly days, you can begin to imagine t

with me and she's got more on that story so federico what exactly can be seen in this video well marianna's a scene that in many other countries would very likely be considered completely ordinary but not in saudi arabia that video shows a man who is filming himself while having something to eat with a woman later local media identified him as a hotel worker from egypt who was living in saudi arabia while the woman is said to be. colleague nothing too crazy happens in that video really you can see them and they're eating taxiing they're waving towards the end she appears here you can see that to be feeding him a piece of food that's it really however at this could have be consequences for that man and actually saudi prosecutors said he might be facing up to five years in jail you are right but what exactly is he being charged with. i mean that video went viral and so it also came to the attention of authorities they arrested the man for what they called several violations of for example they said that taking a job reserved for saudis but also it's against the saudi laws as a single man to

with racial slurs but some of them say that's still easier to deal with than conditions back home marianna sanchez reports from peru's capital lima. thirty eight year old the bush man keeps an eye on municipal police well selling a traditional rice string from venezuela he still doesn't have a street vendor permit trying to make a living far away from home it's hard he says but worse is here in slurs against and swings. especially to people like me a street vendor people tell me move get out of here go back to your country. an armed assault mainly perpetrated by even assailants and caught on security cameras sparked a wave of anti been astroland feeling in. this honest compatriots are paying the price. people have to understand we are not all the same the great majority is here to work and send money to our families to get them out of the inferno that venezuela has become a. business many top textile employee and say the number of in a swill is working here a school with a peruvians save in a sweet lunch are taking their jobs and. some businessmen here have laid off peruvians because they

white house has been in contact with governor's offices and local authorities in guam, northern marianna, puerto rico, u.s. virgin islands, hawaii, florida, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, virginia, west virginia, delaware, pennsylvania, new jersey, new york just since saturday morning. lines of communications are open and federal government is stands ready to assess. these tropical storm and hurricanes are dangerous. heed the to provide the best on ground information. lastly we extend our deepest condolences to the family of secret service agent colin johnson. agent johnson served his country honorably first as a marine then in the secret service. many of you know him, he was larger than life literally. a great friend, father, husband and member of the united states secret service. the men and women in the secret service are among the most honorable and dedicated public servants you find anywhere in the world. colin was among the very best of them. although he was assigned to chief of staff john kelly he was always there to help anyone who needed it. our hearts are broken. agen

>> i would just say and second what marianna said, but emphasizing the fact the euro was the mother ofld not have been sweden come but they have a lot of adjustments. it is very hard to do within the system. it is not just a fiscal deficit. four hours.d go for we want to get back to the theme of the gilded age, what we have seen politically with president trump as well? is there a persistency to this age?d can there be a persistency to the politics and culture donald trump represents? >> i hope not. in terms of the economy, what we are seeing is possibly sustainable. larry summers said we are in secular stagnation. i argued that after eight financial crisis, you have slow growth, eight to 10 years to recover. ise of what you are seeing half of the financial crisis, and there is catch up. knock on wood, it could go on well for a while. tom: in your index, there is no donald trump. why not? mention it. he is very unique. i bet you did not know that. he is the first u.s. president institutions in the u.s. which have been key for u.s. competitiveness. literally the first month in office, h