let's get to meteorologist bill karins for the latest. it's been downgraded to a category 3, but we're talking about a matter of a couple of miles an hour here. >> mostly just for the history books, it doesn't look like we'll get a category 4 at landfill but looks like we'll have landfill of a strong category 3 major hurricane. again just for the history book, doesn't really matter, this is perry, florida, where our crews are located. the northern eye wall, the strongest winds are now approaching this area, and this is where some of the first extreme wind damage will be occurring so we'll keep an eye on it. the trees blowing like this, that's like 40, 50-mile-per-hour gusts. they're not in the eye quite yet. updates every hour and moving at 18 miles per hour so moving onshore pretty quickly. you can see the center. it was a little narrow little pin eye, that's where the strongest winds were. notice how it's fallen apart a little bit. it looks like we're going -- an eye replacement cycle is taking place and that tiny eye is dissipating and

bill karins, thank you very much.ulio, let's walk over here to get an idea of just how quickly this water changes, and you know, for folks that are watching, this area is -- you know, there aren't a lot of towns, but just due south, yankee town due north, these are small communities dealing with this very much what we're seeing here. >> what troubles me the most is the number of latinos that live around this area, 57% of the community is latino populated and there's so limited information in spanish, limited resources so i just hope that many of these families just evacuated and didn't stay and don't lose -- >> absolutely. 5 to 7% latino in all these communities, and there's one thing you mentioned i think that's important. it's very difficult for some of these communities to have access to later fema funds and access to all of the help that's being given. i think that's important that we mention that. it's important that everybody receives help. >> and important to also underscore it doesn't matter the immigration st

everybody needs to really be on their guard and they need to go ahead and prepare right now. >> bill karinsit headed next in. >> once we get done with georgia coastal areas of carolinas, pretty gusty winds and they're dealing with some bands that could potentially at least have isolated tornadoes. highest wind totals, how about sarasota, 70 mile per hour wind gust. horseshoe beach, we haven't seen a lot of pictures out there, north of tampa, not only high winds but incredible storm surge. horseshoe beach, landfall spot, cedar key, those areas had that 8-foot storm surge, clearwater beach had a gust of 65. tallahassee on backside of this storm, 54 miles per hour. it was going po be a close call for the tallahassee area, thankfully the storm for you took that right turn at the end. the storm itself is located in southern portions of georgia. we'll wait and see if they keep it as a hurricane. gust on the coastline down near jacksonville right around 66 mile per hour winds. they may leave it there or bring it down to a tropicastorm. the intensity isn't going to change much now through tomorrow.

for the latest on the track, let's go to bill karins. bill, what is happening? >> chris, this will be a very dangerous storm, just as strong as some of the most powerful ones we have seen in the last couple of years. what looks to be different about this one is that it is not going to head inland over beaches or heavily populated areas, it will be over the big bend area of florida. mostly swamp land with inland cities that will have to deal more with the wind problems than the storm surge. but for areas like cedar key, a little barrier that sticks out, our thoughts and prayers are with them, 700 people call that home and that looks to pay the brunt of the storm surge and the wind. the latest from the hurricane center, category 1, it is trying to work its way to a category 2, over very warm water and it is pretty much heading up to where my hand is right here, almost going to go due northwards from here. and that's the current motion at about 14 miles per hour. this will give us landfall tomorrow morning, roughly around about 8 to 10:00 a.m. or so. now, as far as

nbc news meteorologist bill karins is here with me. i almost gave you angina calling it california instead of florida. >> we're finished with california. california is finished with that, too. wouldn't it be nice to go through hurricane season and leave florida alone? how many anywhere in the u.s. this appears to be another major hurricane heading for landfall. life-threatening storm surge, water issues with inland flooding. it's a matter of who is going to get it. the evacuations have already begun in areas north of tampa. the storm is trying to exit the caribbean and head into the gulf of mexico. the water temperatures are like a hot tub. that's the energy for these storms. that's why the hurricane center thinks this thing could rapidly intensify all the way to landfall. that's not what we want to happen. that's at ian did, what matthew did. it's heading for us no matter what. earlier the better, the longer it's over the warm water, the stronger it will get. it's safely off the coast for the keys, ft. myers. i know you're not going t

. >>> let's get right over to bill karins. now, bill, what can we expect as far as the track and timing of this >> yeah, we're really focusing on sunday evening, and we have tropical moisture from a major hurricane heading into 10,000-foot peaks in desert areas of the southwest. that's a recipe for disaster that's why they're saying, this could be catastrophic for some areas. now, the storm itself is at its peak intensity and will weaken after this and move from what has been really warm water, almost like 90-degree water, and then heading over water that's going to be in the 80s and eventually the 70s, and that's when it gets cool enough for the storm to significantly weaken again, sunday evening, this storm will be flying, moving at like 30 miles per hour when it goes through southern california, this will be in and out in a hurry, but it's going to leave its mark especially in the mountain outside of san diego near palm springs. that's where i'm afraid a foot of rain, communities cut off, landslides, mudslides all possible.

i want to bring in nbc news meteorologist bill karins. bill, good morning. how severe is this hurricane? >> we're going to talk about flooding in areas that have never seen it before. we're talking about the low deserts of southern california, with the chance of getting up to half a foot of rain, which never happened in those areas previously. will this be over populated areas or completely rural will be the depending factor on how much damage we're done and cleaning up from after this weekend. here is the latest from the hurricane center. got this new update in, still a category 4, moving to the northwest at about ten miles per hour. it is the path has remained unchanged. it has been very consistent and we will be watching a weakening storm, as we go through the weekend. how strong it gets when it makes it to southern california is more for the history books. there is a ton of rain heading for the southwest and that will cause about 95% of the damage from the storm. maybe the other 5% will be wind problems. maybe mostly in the mountainous areas of southern

first let's bring in meteorologist bill karins. bill, when is this storm expected to make landfall? >> we think the biggest impacts in southern portions of california in the northern baja, tijuana area, that will be happening as we go through sunday afternoon, evening, and then into the overnight hours into monday. the storm itself is powerful, it is big, it just looks like a buzzsaw on the satellite imagery here. you can see the well cleared out eye on the storm. this is about as strong as this storm is going to get. hilary will be moving northwards interest a less favorable environment including over colder water in the days ahead. that's why the storm is going to weaken. it will be highly unexpected if it made it to california as a hurricane. most likely as a tropical storm or a transitioning into an extra tropical storm. that's going to be as we go through sunday evening. so we may still have a hurricane brushing essential portions of the baja. through tijuana and san diego, it's going to be tropical storm conditions, but the heavy rain is going to be by far the biggest issue. s

we're going to bring in bill karins. okay, bill, looks like it could be a one-two punch. lots of wind, water. we know that the wind speeds have picked up. you heard marisa talking about potential tornadic activity. what can we expect the next 24 hours? >> all these storms are different. this is going to be a powerful hurricane. maybe a category 4 by the time it makes landfall. it's going to be an extremely unpopulated area. there's a couple thousand people there. the damage effects will be a lot less than say ian, but for the people that live there, this is as scary as it gets. this is our visible satellite picture map. tampa's up to the north. this is the fort myers areas and this is naples. the storm is roughly parallel to the coast. the florida peninsula. if we did a like coming straight off of naples, you'd go out to the center of the storm. it's going to pass about 150 miles off the coast of tampa. tropical storm force winds, isolated power outages and the potential for tornados. we had one around marco island. the nasty band of thunderstorms has pushed through the f

we begin with bill karins, less than 24 hours away from expected landfall what's the latest track of this storm? >> reporter: we're waiting to see how strong this hurricane gets before it makes landfall. all these images visible satellite come in every one minute, this is the center of the storm, this line shows you where it's been, bubbling storms all around it, it's about roughly 125 miles off the coast the storm's starting to be a problem, tornadoes were reported earlier around the nap ls area, and fort myers, heading up toward sarasota, the beginning of those outer bands. still well off the coast and with it the strongest winds. isolated tornado could be the biggest risk. 90 mile per hour winds, on the verge of becoming a category 2 hurricane, that should happen at either 5:00 or 8:00 this evening. it will continue to intensify overnight and bringing itself onshore early tomorrow morning. this big bend area, we're targeting in between tallahassee and gainesville for where it's going to get the strongest winds, we got how much rain people are going to get, how strong the winds are

they went for a big drought actually before this where they didn't have many hurricanes. >> bill karins, thank you so much for that. >>> it's time for today's money minute. a warning from the food and drug administration over baby formula. >> new feature is coming to a popular social media app. morgan brennan joins us now. >>> a new report from lending club shows that as of july 61% of adults are still paying for living paycheck to paycheck, this number is up from last year's 59%. but some relief is likely on the way after both june and july numbers showed the pace of increases is slowly. the fda issued warnings to three infant formulamakers. the agency is asking the companies to create processes to better catch bacterial contamination. >>> and elon musk said audio and video calls are coming to the social media platform x, formerly known as twitter. an effective global adreads book, meaning no phone number will be needed the new feature will work on ios, android, mac and pc. no other dell tails were released about when this released. >> i could be onboard with it, you both have to follo

nbc news meteorologist bill karins is here. bill, is the heat subsiding at all?he days ahead look like? >> slowly from july to august, july is the hottest month of the year in our country and august gets cooler. i think in all the headlines, the el paso, 100 degree streak, areas around austin had 105 degree streak. phoenix streak, i think the water temperature that hit over 100 degrees in the keys was really the one that most people were, like, whoa, that's weird. strange. like unusual. i just looked. by the way, the warmest water temperature i could find at this hour is 93 degrees in the keys. it has dropped and is about 90 degrees over clearwater beach. phoenix, the streak is over. i'm upset they ended it because they really were 108 yesterday. 108 today and then we start a new streak, so we could have, like, added on to it. we look back at the record the most, we'll see the big streak and then two days that were close and then we'll go right back into it. at least five days in a row starting a new streak as we head toward the middle end of this week. we're alr

. >>> joining me now is meteorologist bill karins following the storm's track. ing to be a powerful storm. likely maybe a category 4. this is not going to be an ian, like some of the worst storms, because it's going to hit an area of florida that's the least populated of anywhere in the sunshine state. if you can get 10 to 15 feet of water where hardly anyone lives, we have less destruction when we had ian hit downtown with four to five -- as a category 4 or 5. with that said, we have thousands of people that are at severe risk of property damage and their lives. hopefully, they are out of there. we don't have hundreds of thousands or millions of people in the heart of what is going to be the core of the storm. let me go through this and explain it to you. the storm is intensifying. the track has not really changed since yesterday. taking it up towards the big bend. it's 100 miles off the coast of the tampa area. i don't think the core winds of the hurricane strength will be in st. pete or tampa. they don't have to worry about too much wind damage. the concern on

it could be a developing, you know, troublesome life threatening weather event. >> bill karins, thanky much. >>> let's turn to hawaii where overnight the death toll from the horrific wildfires rose to 115. 850 people are still missing. president biden toured the disaster area on tuesday assuring the people of maui his administration would be there to help rebuild. >> for as long as it takes we will be with you, the whole country will be with you. you know, we will be respectful of the sacred grounds and the traditions and rebuild the way maui want it rebuilt and not the way others want it rebuilt. >> dana griffin, what is the latest on the recovery effort there? >> reporter: josÉ, good morning to you. there's about 15% of the burn zone yet to be searched, mainly because there's multi-level structures there that we are told by fema are structurally unsound. they will have to take each layer off, layer by layer to finish the search. all of the single story homes have been searched. there's also a search for contaminants going on at the moment. they will be going through to collect some

bill karins, thank you. shane reichert is the public information officer for riverside county's emergency management department. thank you for scombroining us. i think the place most people would know are palm springs, temecula. we have incredible video from your county. this is from thousand homes which we see it, a truck flooded more than halfway up the doors. how bad did it get in riverside county? >> when they're talking about the 12 inches of rain, that drains into the coachella valley where palm springs and thousand palms is. you're seeing runoff from the mountain communities. we've seen rainfall in heavy quantities in those areas. it could have been much worse. what we're expecting could have been much worse. we're fortunate so far. haven't heard any fatalities. it was a lot of rain in a short amount of time. >> how much cleanup are you looking at? do you have what you need to get it done. are you looking to get some reinto forcements in from elsewhere? >> with the daylight hours, we start our process

i want to bring in nbc news meteorologist bill karins. i just want to go over if i can, bill, 49 of the 67 counties are under threat right now according to the governor and i know we just got a new advisory. take us through that. >> yeah, the only areas that don't have concerns are the miami area towards west palm beach, maybe the melbourne river areas. everyone else has at least a chance of thunderstorms and isolated tornados. the naples area is under a tornado warning. there's been at least one reported already. so tropical systems produce a lot of tornados. others don't produce hardly any. it's kind of random. this one already is starting to show signs of producing tornados. so we have to keep that in mind for the rest of today and tonight as we head up the coast. here's the eye. you can see the thunderstorms through the eye. it's about 100 miles off the coast and heading due northwards. it's about parallel to fort myers. the storm surge is coming up. the fort myers areas to naples. this is going to be about as high as it gets in about

. >>> meteorologist bill karins will track those for us in a moment. first, we'll go to nbc news' dana griffin outside a shelter in maui. you've been speaking with beam who fled lahaina, still have family left behind. what are the biggest needs they have in that community right now? >> reporter: right now the biggest need is housing. you know, there's about 1,100 evacuees that are in shelters like the one behind me, and the pastor i spoke with says there's only about 30 to 40 inside right now because they're starting to move them into hotel rooms. but the issue is those hotel rooms are only going to be available for 30 days. there's going to be another challenge of figuring out more permanent housing until lahaina can be rebuilt which could take years if not decades. we've also spoken to people who are very frustrated because -- we've seen friend foods being dropped off at the shelters. the greatest need is lahaina and beyond. they're not allowing anyone in unless you can prove that you live there. i spoke with one woman over the weekend. here is what

joining us now, nbc's guad venegas and nbc meteorologist bill karins who is following the track of thistorm. guad, what conditions are you seeing this morning? >> jose, we have some light rain here in san diego, now the storm has passed the region or at least the big part of the storm we had rain all throughout yesterday and we saw those images you just played from mexico. that's where the hurricane made landfall or that is the tropical storm once it arrived, it made landfall in mexico, and depending on the areas where it was going through, of course, the results are different. usually the mountain areas will get the rain and that rain will run off through the flat areas and we saw what can happen once it makes its way and those flash floods happen in mexico. the tropical storm came into the san diego area, there were power outages. the power company had warned the customers here that those were a possibility. thousands were affected yesterday. we had some downed trees in the area here in san diego, but most of the rain and the heavy winds were in the mountainous area on the east side o

thank you so much, bill karins and guad venegas.ant to bring in grace gardner, the mayor of palm springs. the city tweeted the 911 lines were down overnight. what's the latest? are you concerned people won't be able to reach first responders? >> thankfully our 911 lines are back up. it's a temporary fix. across the coachella valley the system is still down. if you live in a different city, you should check to see what the non-emergency number is, and that will be your 911 number. in the city of palm springs you can now dial 911 and get the operator. >> we've seen some of the immanuels of the raging rivers in roadways. palm springs i know announced a number of road closures. do you have any idea on the scope of the damage at this point? >> at this time our roads teams are just going out to really assessment the sun is just coming up here. we do have all of our entries into palm springs other than one are closed. it is a really big impact right now. it's not just palm springs. it's the entire coachella valley. interstate i-10 is close

lester >> erin mclaughlin starting us off, thank you >>> let's bring in bill karins now, who is tracking this you're keeping an eye on some developments in the atlantic? >> yeah, lester, good evening. now that we're done with harold, we're going to move onto franklin quickly this is going to be a big problem for haiti and the dominican republic in the next 24 to 48 hours it's not a powerful storm. it doesn't have a lot of strong winds, but it's a slow-moving storm that's going to move over really tall mountains, and that's a recipe for disaster we could see up to 15 inches of rain in isolated cases, so, that's the story tomorrow everyone wants to know, though, what happens after franklin leaves the dominican republic well, it kind of lingers here in between bermuda and the bahamas off the east coast hurricane center has it becoming a category 1 hurricane by the time we get to sunday. our long-term computer models make it an even stronger storm, but safely off the east coast early next week, but close enough, we have to keep an eye on this one. >> we'll be watching bill, thanks very much.

how bad was the flash flooding. >> bill karins, thank you for that.hearing from officials there in l.a.? >> reporter: yeah, chris, thank you. i grew up in southern california. i'm from san diego. this is completely unprecedented. never seen anything like this. in fact, it's the first time ever, as you mentioned, that a tropical storm watch has been issued for southern california. so i think a lot of folks here are just sort of waking up and getting the news and realizing, oh, a storm is coming. as you can see right now, it's warm, it's sunny. it's typical southern california, los angeles weather right now. people likely on vacation going to the beach, having a lot of outdoor plans this weekend. in fact, we did reach out to the san diego padres since san diego is supposed to be one of the areas most impacted by this heavy rain. right now they're still expected to play at petco park but they will let ticket goers know if that plans to change. other areas are already closing and cancels events. joshua tree, the famous national park in the coachella valle

. >>> let's bring in bill karins tracking the storm and more trouble in the tropics. >> now that we're just about done with harold, we're going to focus on franklin. rainfall, we could see up to 15 inches of rain in 8,000 to 10,000-foot mountains. that's what they could deal with all morning long. where does it go after that? it lingers and is favorable to become a hurricane again in about five days, and everyone wants to know where does it go after that? a lot of models bring it north, but safely off the east coast. we'll have to wait and see. we have five to seven days to watch it. everybody on the east coast, pay attention. >>> also breaking, the first co-defendant surrendering today in the georgia election conspiracy case involving former president trump. it all comes on the eve of the first republican primary debate. garrett haake is covering it for us this evening. >> reporter: tonight, the first of donald trump's 18 co-defendants in the sweeping election interference case in georgia beginning to surrender for processing at rice fulton county's infamous rice street jail. attorney

. >>> let's get right over to bill karins. bil, when can we expect the track and timeing? >> we're focusing on sunday evening, and we have tropical moisture from a major hurricane heading into 10,000-foot peaks in desert areas of the southwest. that's a recipe for disaster. that's why they're saying, this could be catastrophic for some areas. now, the storm itself at its peak intensity and will weaken after this and move from what has been warm water, almost like 90-degree water and then heading over water that's going to be in the 80s and eventually the 70s and that's when it gets cool enough for it to weaken. again, sunday evening, this storm will be flying, moving at like 30 miles per hour when it goes through southern california, in and out in a hurry but will leave its mark outside of san diego near palm springs. that's where i'm afraid a foot of rain, landslide, mudslides all possible. >> we'll be watching through the weekend. >>> ten days after the maui disaster, the top emergency official has resigned after criticism of his decision not to sound emergency alarms as

some parts of the state reporting nearly 3 inches of rain yesterday, let's bring in meteorologist bill karinsod to see you, but terrible circumstances, give us the latest. >> good morning, this storm did exactly what we were afraid of. the wind wasn't a huge ordeal. it's been all about the rain the mudslides, the landslides, the burn scar areas, hundreds if not thousands of scenes like this, roads washed out, communities that are cut off, mostly in the mountains to the north of l.a. and to the east of l.a., san diego for that matter, too, it's going to be a mess, pictures were taken before sunset and the rain got worse after that. the storm itself did cross over california's tropical storm, only the fourth time in recorded history that's ever happened, that's why this was mind-blowing big deal. so the storm is racing northward, we're all done with it in southern california, just a little bit of rainfall left, by the way, some of the highest rainfall totals 11 inches the mountains here. san diego, 2 inches. l.a. 2.5 inches. typically never rains in los angeles in summer. usually in the winter.

let's begin this hour with nbc meteorologist bill karins and marissa parra. bill, time out the next 24 to 48 hours. >> reporter: we'll see a tropical storm going into a hurricane and major hurricane in 40 hours of time, developing rapidly and we're trying to get the word out in western florida to get out of the way, especially people who are in rvs or mobile homes or low-level areas with houses with one level in them because that's the issue. by the time we get towards landfall, 120, 125, getting very serious, the storm will likely undergo rapid intensification during the day tuesday. notice tampa is on the south side on this, tallahassee is on the west. our computer models are in line of those two. the big bend area of florida, this is a very swathy low-lying area, probably the least populated area of all of florida, a major hurricane with doing the lease amount of damage that's where you would it want to likely hit. any slight shift will make a huge difference especially with storm surge the west coast of florida is shallow the waters's going to pile up, 7 t

meteorologist bill karins is here with me. bill? >> that's hard. >> that's rough. that's rough.king at the board right now, it's not great and if you're someone who doesn't have a lot of money, whether it's to pay your energy bill or to get a new air conditioner, this is life and death stuff. >> yes. there's two parts. it's the elderly that aren't going to repair it in time and then the children left in cars. a lot of preventable deaths already this summer and as you're mentioning it's continuing to add up. today is the day, little rock want nose talk about them. they're 114 in the shade right now. that's brutal heat index. dallas not far behind. new orleans at about 108. the heat is in the same spot that it was. the humid hot stuff. the plain old hot is in the desert southwest. phoenix area, tucson under the extreme heat warning and anywhere in the pink where we had the extreme heat warning around little rock and dallas. dallas yesterday another i think four days in a row they've been 105 plus and today they probably will come close to it. few record highs del rio, dallas, rosw

bill karins is tracking it all, when and where is it expected to hit. >> this weekend, there's growing overall, everyone agrees this is the next significant weather event to hit our country, maybe a billion-dollar weather disaster, rapid intensification, it's over warm water, feasting on that, the only thing i don't like this is large storm, too, not just a small storm, heading north wards, it should peak in intensity on saturday. heading towards southern california, again the timing of that looks to be about saturday, sunday night into monday morning, these lines, our different computer models as far east as toward the arizona/california border but we have a tight clustering now right over the top of los angeles and san diego, that would be as far as damage go. >> bill, thank you for this early warning. >>> new twist in the legal battle over the abortion pill mifepristone. >> limits some access to the pill. but the pill is still available right now. the justice department said it does plan to appeal this decision. joining us now is chloe atkins as well michelle goodwin. chloe, let's s

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let's begin with meteorologist bill karins. >> the storm is rainmaker but it's bringing tropical rain to areas that don't typically get it. we picked up foot in the mountains east of l.a. and east of san diego, a lot of debris, a lot of mud to clean up, rocks and bridges that are clocked. we haven't seen neighborhoods that have been ruined. but every hour that goes by that we don't have those reports is great news. we can deal with cleanup. heavy rain is heading through the northern rockies. areas of oregon, we don't have many flash flood warnings. now they're all expired. one near las vegas and one just east of boise in some of the higher terrain, we could see isolated problems but not a lot. in areas of western montana. we're not done, there are other areas of concern, we'll have a tropical storm making landfall tomorrow morning in texas, across the atlantic, there's emily, franklin, developing over the gulf over the next 12 hours. hurricane center forecast, bring it on shore tomorrow morning with another tropical storm. doesn't look powerful but something else to watch. >> we're in

joining me now, antonia hylton and bill karins.g, fires. but this is unique. this is a weather event that they do not normally see. >> reporter: it has been 84 years since last time we saw a storm like this make landfall. this is expected to be historic. there's regions of the country where people could do hurricane prep in their sleep. that's not the case for many of the residents here. officials are urging them to take this serious. when we look back at 1939, the destruction we saw then -- these areas, most are more popular now. people need to get out there to get supplies, food, batteries, tarps. officials are setting up areas where you can pick up sandbags for free. people who live by the ocean, the concern is that there's going to be rough surf, beach erosion, flooding in many parts. to put this in perspective, some communities will see two to three years' worth of rain in two to three days. the airlines are getting ahead of this. they are issuing travel waivers, getting rid of change fees and tell people to move trips they ha

. >> joining me now is meteorologist bill karins. thank you very much for being with us.pical storm hilary just blanketing southern california, but then you also have these wildfires. how do these two stories meet in the middle? what's fueling both of these things? >> the pacific northwest has been unusually warm, especially the last month, and dry, kind of like the neighbors to the north and canada. we have all heard about the canada fires. the rest of the west actually has been kind of, you know, inactive. it's one of the quieter fire seasons we have had up until all the pictures we just showed you, and now we have the rainfall and moisture that's happened with hilary coming in, it's going to delay the onset of the fall fire season in many areas of the west, which a lot of people won't complain about. we did get huge amounts of rain. all the rivers have come back, landslides and mud slides, we showed you those pictures. those have ended and ceased. we haven't had stories of towns that had mud and debris flowing into them. we have bridges that are washed out, roads that

. >> bill karins, jacob ward, thank you both. >>> breaking news in washington state a second person has now been found dead near the raging wildfires there. three major fires have been burning in the eastern part of the state since friday. thousands have been forced to flee their homes. firefighters say more than 265 buildings have been destroyed. but today there's finally some encouraging news for crews battling those flames. jesse kirsch has the latest. >> reporter: here outside spokane, washington, what you're seeing and hearing right now is good news. this is rainfall which has been going on for hours in spokane area. is going to help firefighters as they continue battling the wildfires in this region, you can see some of the aftermath behind me, not just aftermath because there's still smoke emanating from the ground, so make no mistake, even with this rainfall, firefighters are still working an active wildfire. but what this does it's going to help them we're told, allow them to be more aggressive, go on offense if you will against the wildfire, we're looking at around 25% contain

nbc's priscilla thompson joins us from panama city, beach, and nbc meteorologist bill karins is with priscilla, what's the latest there? >> reporter: jose, the message from the governor at this point is that now is the time to act. he is urging people who are being urged to evacuate that they should do so and really emphasizing that evacuation doesn't necessarily mean going hundreds of miles. it could mean going 10 to 50 miles just to get out of that really danger zone, that is going to be impacted, and already the governor has declared a state of emergency in some 33 counties here. he has mobilized 5,500 national guardsmen with 2,400 high water vehicles and also 12 aircraft to help with rescue and search and rescue efforts that may be needed as this storm begins to make impacts. and already across western florida we have seen businesses beginning to board up, folks beginning to fill those sandbags in order to protect their homes. there are also shelters that are opening, schools that are going to be shutting down in anticipation of this, and the governor really warning about how bad

joining us now is nbc meteorologist bill karins. cently. this may not be category 5 like we had with mike oral we were close to at landfall last year. but this easily could be a category 4 landfall 12 to 13 hours from now. the difference with this storm and a lot of the other ones is this one is not making landfall into a big huge metropolitan area like ian or even like mexico beach like we had there in the panhandle. there is heading up into the big bend area of florida. this is swamp area, wildlife recreation area. there is not a lot of cities and not a lot of towns. we're talking about some areas it's scary for you, perry, cedar key, about 700 people call that home. and that's out in the water. so those are the areas and the towns if we hear about devastating problems, that would be the most likely spots. it's the hurricane center. this is where the current location. notice, it's almost due if you head from the center of the storm to fort myers. out in the gulf, it's almost due west. in about two to three hours, the storm is going

. >> griff: peter also pressed karine jean-pierre who is fronting the bill for hunter wants secret serviceail in malibu. she referred peter to the secret service. brian, ainsley, steve? >> brian: when are we going to find out what is in the 5400 emails? >> griff: we don't know what is in the content of any of those files and we reached out to nara to get our own records. right now it's with that southeastern legal foundation. they have yet to publicly put those records out there. so we don't know right now. and we have inquired. >> brian: we know if it's between hunter and his dad it's about the weather that's all they talk about. i can't wait to see what else is there. >> ainsley: in 5400 emails. >> steve: thank you very much, griff. according to the people who have seen him so far the interaction with joe biden with the various pseudonyms. >> all right. >> ainsley: thank you, griff. >> brian: leave his mic all morning, please. >> steve: so far the people have seen the email between joe biden and pseudonym and others it's just the schedule. here's the important thing to remember about thi

bill: chad pergram. more to come on that. >> dana: jonathan turley is fox news contributor. interesting because we knew earlier in the campaign in 2020 he told peter doocy i never talked business with my son. karine jean-pierre three weeks ago changed the language and said joe biden has never been in business with his son. then yesterday or two days ago with gillian turner our fox news reporter asked and i've said it a million times never in business with his son. we go back to joe biden who finally took one question from peter doocy. he said it was a lousy one. joe biden says i never talked business with my son. and it might feel like that's splitting hairs but it's a distinction that has an important difference, jonathan. my opinion. looking for yours. >> it does. this shows why the president prefers the weather channel. what doocy was asking was going to the heart of the matter. it shows utter contempt for the american people for the white house to say we've been saying this constantly and then changing what they've been saying. the president said repeatedly through the campaign and during his presidency that he had no knowledge of his son's foreign dealings, that he didn't speak to any of his