harvey has already unleashed more rain than any other single storm recorded in the continental united states. irma has already forced the entire state of florida into a state of emergency. i'd like to repeat two quotes i shared yesterday that are even more relevant now, given the further approach of irma. this is the president's budget director. given the need for additional spending as a result of disaster response and initial recovery from hurricane harvey, the administration continues to urge the congress to act expeditiously to ensure that the debt ceiling does not affect these critical response and recovery efforts. that's the budget director. that's because, as the treasury secretary explained, if congress appropriates the money but i don't have the ability to borrow more money and pay for it we're not going to be ail to get that money -- able to get that money to the states when they need it. the need for certainty now is incredibly important. i've been having conversations with the democratic leader on my view of the way forward on these issues, and this morning he and i along

the top in the continental united states and top oil and producer in the united states, we can have those things right, and you are coming in and dredging out a canal, as was done decades ago '50s and '60s, it was irresponsible and contributed to coastal loss. we put more aggressive management techniques in place o require greater restoration by those companies or any company that wanted to do ctivities in the coastal area and we've already seen the benefit of those change necessary management. army corps ntioned viewers ers, remind their role and your take. really good are people within the corps of engineers, but as an rganization, it is fatally flawed, way too expensive, we have projects in louisiana, they protection and they are responsible for hurricane protection, flood managing rivers and ajor rivers and streams and water ways. they are responsible for restoring the coast as they are other coastal areas. just to give an example, we have a project southwest of new corps of engineer has been studying for 20 years, million and are not on the ground yesterday. e have a billion dollars

this is not poised to make landfall in the continental united states until the weekend. lots of can happen between now and then, but here's what we stand right now. wind speeds are 185. they're moving to the west- northwest. and see the various model solutions for irma. if you look, he will see, case you earlier with us tonight, the models were more of -- aggressive here. it's honestly your drawing a through line, so you are seeing now more divergence in the models. they're starting to get a little bit diffuse. that is a good thing, because this is not a bad solution. what is a bad solution is if it reaches the yellow line. right to southern florida there. as it stands right now, we're watching the storm, it's a strong category 5. these are the different model solutions. a lot will change, but there will be impacts in the continental united states, whether it is tons of rain or stuns -- tons of storm surge. there will be impacts, it just is a matter of how big. we will update you on irma next time that i see you. >>> on ktvu.com, we have posted more on irma. just look fo

you don't typically have all the resources you need so they have to come from the continental uniteder. both territories basically without power and will be so for a very long time. granted i was the fema or yesterday. this is a president trump treated yesterday. we are with you and the people of puerto rico stay safe. #pr strong. the most powerful hurricane to hit in over 80 years. the eye at this time to move near turks and caicos tonight. she walks on land to regain strength in the warm water. cheryl: she may actually go to the edge of turks and caicos. already have by irma. now i've got to turn their attention to mexico. desperate search and rescue operations underway as crews worked frantically looking for any survivors. the video shows rescuers trying to trap a little girl from the rubble of her school. this comes after the magnitude seven-point to earthquake rocked central mexico tuesday afternoon. hundreds of buildings destroyed in 240 people have been killed across the region. the destruction by the mexico city, densely populated. the mayor said 150 people died just in the c

north korea could be racing towards its ultimate goal a nuclear war head capable of hitting the continental unitedtates. brian todd is standing by with more. >> reporter: we have new information just how likely he is to having that capability. we are hearing of one test that the dictator has not conducted that would alarm officials. this comes as the white house tries to lay down markers to try to prevent kim from making those moves. north korea's aggressive young leader has been on notice again by president trump. if kim jong-un fires the first lethal shot against south korea or japan. >> we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. >> reporter: tonight analysts are concerned that statement might strengthen kim's resolve. others say the president has put down markers to kim about the risks he's taking. >> will he launch more missiles, yes, but he was going to anyway. he is not going to settle for any type of negotiation before he can demonstrate the ability to strike the continental united states without warning. >> reporter: tonight there are new warnings about how close he is. exp

korea's continued provocations, a nuclear test, ballistic missile test threats against the continental unitedtates of america and allies in the region is unacceptable. the president sent me to the region early this year to say that this 25-year era of strategic patience is over. we'll be meeting today with president moan, with prime minister abe. we will be talking about continue to marshall the diplomatic power of the region and wider world to achieve a peaceable outcome. but the world is in agreement. we cannot permit a rogue regime in pyongyang to possess ballistic missiles and use nuclear weapons. that represents a threat to the united states, to our allies and other nations in the region and we're going to continue to bring that pressure. i know president trump is going to continue to speak plainly and forcefully about our -- steve: pressure has got to come from china. behind the scenes, how big is the pressure on them right now? >> well, you know, we are grateful that. steve: how grateful? >> china and russia have supported resolutions in the u.n. security council. i address the securit

threat to sink japan, when they made the threat against guam and the threat to destroy the continental unitedtes, at some point, when a missile was launched and we're unsure of the exact trajectory, there has to be a reaction. that may be a shootdown or a retaliatory strike on nuclear facilities. none of this is the place we want to go to, but this goes beyond a country that has developed a nuclear capacity, but a country that's shown the verbal desire and reckless actions that puts us in a dangerous situation. >> h.r. mcmaster insisted there is a u.s. military option for dealing with north korea. i guess the serious question is, is there a real military option that wouldn't necessarily guarantee the deaths of thousands or tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of south korean civilians and american military personnel within a matter of a few hours or days on the korean peninsula? >> i think that would be a decision unfortunately for the crazy guy in north korea, determining if he wants to survive say if there's a retaliatory strike against a nuclear capacity. he would make a decision tha

there would be no option. >> north korea is very close to hit any target it wants in the continental unitedmal nuclear weapon. it's unacceptable for the united states and our innocent population to have to with that threat. when this present crisis ends, if north korea still has nuclear weapons capabilities, we have lost. susan rice, she recently said we tried for 25 years to stop north korea. i guess we failed. we have to learn to live with it as we learn to live with nuclear weapons with the soviet union. we don't. we did not. it's a fast file analogy. >> sean: bill clinton announces the nuclear deal when we -- oh, a good deal for the american people. all right, good deal. he has a nuclear weapons. that we promise we wouldn't connect -- they wouldn't have. i'm listening to the israeli prime minister. dying of radical islam married to weapons of mass destruction. that to me is a squared b squared c squared formula. radical islamists, nuclear weapons, modern-day holocaust. >> it only gets worse after that. whenever capability north korea has, iran can have to mark. i hope this meeting today

a growing threat to the continental united states. irma has strengthened a category four hurricane.icane center said the chances of irma affecting parts of florida are increasing, and governor rick scott has declared a state of emergency. we're going to have the latest on the storm's path coming up in just a couple of minutes. let's go to our top story. north korea claiming that it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb on sunday. it is pyongyang's sixth nuclear test. the first during the trump administration, and it appears to be their most powerful to date. north korean state media says that the bomb is meant to be fitted atop an intercontinental ballistic missile. south korea has responded by conducting live fire ballistic missile drills simulating an attack on the north's main nuclear test site. the south korean military official tells nbc news they will soon install four additional thad anti-missile systems. president trump initially responded to the news by a series of tweets going after north korea while continuing to blame china and now, strangely, south korea, saying, "north k

moving to the continental united states, the president, as you all know, moved very quickly to put forward presidential disaster declaration. it's very important specifically in florida right now. the counties under individual assistance declarations, there's quite a few. i want to read those off. broward, palm beach, clay, duval, flagler, putnam, st. johns, hillsboro, lee, manatee, miami-dade, monroe, piniella, sarasota. these counties right now if you are a citizen in those counties you can go to disasterassistance.gov to begin registering for assistance if you received damages and are having hardship. in some cases, you know, the first line of defense is file your insurance when you are allowed to get back home, file your insurance, not only your personal insurance but also through the nfip program, the national flood insurance program if you are a policyholder, once you return home, please call your private insurer to activate that policy if you've had damage and we can begin to process -- begin the process to have money flowing to help you in that regard. the other thing here is, you

. >> the greatest rainfall event, ever, in the continental united states. >> the rainfall amounts really staggering. >> tens of thousands still in shelter. >> we're here. we're safe. >> and the dramatic rescue. >> we feel like hagod had hand it. >> what's next? beaumont remains under water while houston begins to dry out. i'll talkth

as irma bears down on the continental united states we are seeing more and more scenes like this. look at the rows of the cars right now. in florida, they say listen, the tolls don't worry. you can get out of here. b out there in florida. meteorologist josh knight is tracking that side of the story. everyone is doing the right thing getting out of the path of the storm but they are doing it at the same time. josh: exactly. that is what makes the evacuations early so important. this is a a graph here. here is florida. this shows the millions of people along the coast that could be affected by a storm like irma. so people need to get the early start. on top of it, a lot of people have never gone through that. more than 4 million people moved to florida in the areas in the last 16 years. they have never been through this and that leaves a lot of people needing to gas up and stock up. that is leaving the highways jammed as well. they are having trouble stocking up on water and food. seeing the damage that irma has done in the islands. many people are boarding up to protect what they c

to a category 3, dominican republic will get brush, but the current models keep it off the continental united states. >>> thank you for joining us tonight, coming up next, modern family, and we will say congratulations again to the new grandpa. there is is grandpa. -- is grandpa. he is adorable. good night. s a -- i'm in. okay, well, alex has a cello lesson at 11:00, and junior congress at noon? doesn't she also have no boys at forever? don't you have an eating disorder you need to attend to? yeah, anyway, uh, we could see the 4:00 or the 6:20. oh, actually, that's no good. i'm meeting my friend denise for a drink. denise? do i know denise? yeah, you know, my old girlfriend. haley: oh, my god. gross. i can't even picture you with a woman. thank you. you had a girlfriend before mom? try two. trust me. i had plenty of fun in my time. and then i met your mom. and thank you. so, uh, i guess she travels around selling makeup for a cosmetics company. she's in town for a week. you mean she's like a door-to-door salesman? if you were doing it, they'd call it a dork-to-dork salesman. phil: ohh! my boy

florida is not the only one that needs to be watching it in the continental united states. if it stays on the east side of florida, it's going tow implications for ja, south carolina and north carolina. we're monitoring the entire southeastern united states right now. >> are you on resources both financial and physical, to be honest. money you can find but sometimes my guess is with all the physical response that has to be done in texas, how short of staff are you? >> so we're not short of staff right now. we have rolled -- we've been able to roll all search and rescue teams out of texas. we're repositioning them in the southeast. and we also have search and rescue ready to go for the islands. the bottom line is we've already pushed forward on power teams. we're using other staff from other regions and other states coming in to be able to support irma. as far as the funding goes, i've been laser focused on the life safety mission, but it's my understanding that the white house and homeland security are working with the congress to get going on the supplemental so we should b

. >> the greatest rainfall event ever in the continental united states. >> the rainfall amounts really are staggering. >> tens of thousands still in shelter. >> i am very thankful that we are here safe. >> and the dramatic rescue. >> we were, like, so happy. god had answered our prayer. >> what's next? beaumont remains under water while houston begins to dry out. i'll talk to the mayor of houston, sylvester turner. >>> also, after a brutal august, a now weakened president trump faces a challenging september. >> i am fully committed to working with congress, and i don't want to be disappointed by congress, do you understand? >> can he get a budget passed, raise the debt limit, keep the government open and get his border wall funded? i'll talk to roy blount of missouri. joining me for insight and analysis, nbc news white house correspondent kristin welker, usa today's washington bureau chief susan page and eddie glaude of princeton university. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press". >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history celebrating its 70th yea

hispaniola and then into the weekend hour, weekend time frame it will get upward maybe toward continental unitedtates but off the coast line of north carolina around sunday. here's our seven day forecast, 84 today, 87 tomorrow, 83 for first day of fall friday and stays warm, muggy all the way through our weekend. >> all right, matt, thanks very much. you have been busy, doing a great job, thanks very much. >>> looking outside good morning, happy wednesday. we have construction here in bucks county 95 south between 332 and route one, left lane still compromised see cones in the roadway just here. you cannot use far left lane. condensed to the right lane. are you slowing down? maybe a couple brake lights. not so much right now but you will after you get cleared out of the way pushing more toward 6:00 o'clock hour. construction schuylkill eastbound, that right lane is compromised you can see our buddy, our crews right now you can see cones in the roadway here. i would say these areas right now they are actually looking good in terms of the congestion, mostly getting used to these construction proje

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they're all in agreement on that, but also it's going to make this turn, and that's huge for the continental united states. looks like it wants to go down to a category 3 when it's off the baum. but the great thing is it will -- bahamas, but the great thing is it looked like it will jeer to the northeast, unlike -- veer to the northeast, unlike hurricane irma. this whole area, boy, in this wassing a month from now, this would be a significant producer for us. we are looking at a chance for some snow flurries as far south as mount shasta over the next couple of days. even in lake tahoe, they might see a few snow flurries up high. for once it's dry around here. temperatures in the low 60s. overnight lows will be in the 50s. low 50s, a little sprinkle activity to the north tomorrow morning, and then that's it pep when i say north, way north, like up around santa rosa and hims burg. it would be light a-- hills burg. it would be light around here, in the form of mostly drizzle. these high temperatures about where they were today, not much different. and then the five-day forecast, you can see it setting

. >> the greatest rainfall event, ever, in the continental united states. >> the rainfall amounts reallystill in shelter. >> we're here. we're safe. >> and the dramatic rescue. >> we feel like hagod had hand it.

and it is the biggest city in the continental united states in terms of size, in terms of size. there is our friend sham champion who has just been amazing throughout the entire storm. where are you, sam? >> reporter: hey, ali. ali, stephanie, i'm in south beach. but let's work on jacksonville a little bit. i work in jacksonville before moving to new york. so the areas you're talking about in deval county, it's the largest city because jacksonville and duval county are the same. jacksonville is duval county. that area along the river floods a lot. those communities are constantly ready to move. and so jacksonville, this river that flows through that area, it floods in a lot of these neighborhoods. so they are going to, with all the rain that has been in north florida now, they are going to open up those bridges and allow the people to evacuate. all morning long, we have been seeing on twitter, people taking pictures along the banks there and talking about the river rising very quickly. and in some communities, they are caught on two sides by water so giving them a chance to get

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that he can put on the tip of an intercontinental ballistic missile and really threaten the continental united states or much of the region. that's the really threatening thing that we're looking forward to here. it's terrifying next step. peter? >> matt bradley, thank you very much. hallie jackson, we thank you as well. >>> this morning president trump appeared in the rose guardsen. this is a little more of what he said about today's attack taking place in london. this happened just moments after prime minister may rebuked the president for some of his tweets. take a listen. >> it's a terrible thing. just keeps going and going. and we have to be very smart and we have to be very, very tough. which perhaps we're not nearly tough enough. that is just an absolutely terrible thing. as a matter of fact, i'm going to call the prime minister right now. >> you heard him say he's going to quality prime minister right now. no readout if they have spoken yet. join by chris hill, nbc news and ambassador under three presidents, michael allen is managing director of beacon global strategies. served as staf

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the hurricane sent flood waters over the southrenmost point of the continental united states, markedd-famous buoy in key west. a few blocks later, another landmark, sloppy joe's on the main tourist street in key west that. bar was made famous by ernest hemingway, his home and the famous six-towed cats were spared by the category 4 storm. cbs and other major television networks will simulcast a telethon for victims of hurricane harvey and irma. it will be a benefit for hurricane relief tomorrow evening at 8 chorng -- 8:00, 7:00 central. that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for anthony mason in new yor c1 >>> this boardwalk is literally covered with sand. >> it feels like it could have been way worse. we're thankful for that. >> we have downed power lines and we have debris all over the state. >>> right now, irma is a tropical storm moving into southern georgia. 6million people are without power in florida and nearly every major city in that state was impacted by the storm. sewers are working and water is tht with no electricity.

over the southernmost point of the continental united states, marked by the word-famous buoy in key wests later, another landmark, sloppy joe's on the main tourist street in key west. that bar was made famous by ernest hemingway, his home and the famous six-toed cats were spared by the category 4 storm. cbs and other major television networks will simulcast a telethon for victims of hurricane harvey and irma. gayle king and norah o'donnell will host, it will be a benefit for hurricane relief tomorrow evening at 8:00, 7:00 central. that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for anthony mason in new york, i'm jeff glor in clearwater, florida. thanks for watching. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs high def doppler lit up... with heavy cells and lightning strikes. good evening, i'm allen mart >>> kpix5 news begins with thunderstorms rolling through the bay area. hi-def doppler is lit up with heavy cells and lightning strikes. good evening. i'm allen martin. >> i'm veronica de la cruz. let's show you the light show happening right now around parts of the bay area. check this out. our cr

. >>> north korea could combine to strike the continental united states soon according to the military. >> whether it's three months or six months or 18 months it is soon. we ought to conduct ourselves as though it is just a matter of time and matter of short time before north korea has that capabili capability. >> stressing how far he is willing to go to prevent that from happening. >> we are totally prepared for the second option, not a preferred option. if we take that option it will be devastating. i can tell you that, devastating, for north korea. it is called the military option. >> north korea says those kinds of flets and the president's repeated insults of their leader amount to an american declaration of war. the administration insists it hasn't done that but it is upping the anti. the family of american student two was detained in north carolina -- north korea and later died. he was sentenced to hard labor. his parents say when they finally handed their son back last spring he was on death's door.ñcdxd hisñr parents say when they fir saw him he had a feeding tube and he was

worrying about a nuclear attack certainly within the continental united states with that said. if if kim jong loon uses a nuclear weapon it will spell the end of his regime and the purpose of the nuclear weapons is to preserve his regime so there is a certain balance there which is it's a weapon he wants to have but it's a weapon that he can never use what other ways can or thorium potentially attack the point we look at their large submarine fleet and we do know that north korea can shoot missiles from submarines they're not shy about this they also have a rather. top notch commando force and their commandos their special operations forces are pretty famous they have been picked up doing operations throughout that region south korea japan imagine a worst case scenario what are we looking at it's not the same thing as what we saw in the cold war it's not you know huge nuclear weapons with air burst and multiple mega tons of energy being you know put down in a city you're talking a much smaller weapon really the effects after a mile dissipate so if you were down there and the bo

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