hallie? >> rehema, stay safe. we will be thinking of you and checking back in later on in the day. >>> i want to head now to the gulf coast of florida where we find kristen dahlgren. the gulf coast also bracing for flooding now from the storm surge, right? >> right, hallie. yeah. the storm surge here based on the latest models could be devastating. so, for days people here along florida's west coast have been told, pay attention to this storm. don't just look at that black line in the center of that cone of uncertainty. this storm could move east. it could move west. and, you know, as it's coming up regardless, this is a huge storm. and it is going to affect this area. so, you can see people now pulling their boats out of the water. take a look behind me. you can see the sanabel causeway. people being encouraged to get out and get out now. a mandatory evacuation for these low-lying areas along the coast. officials now deciding whether or not they need to increase the range they have mandatory evacuation. here in f

and just finally, hallie.aker's reaction to the democratic proposal that we saw out just a few minutes ago with the debt ceiling on this harvey aid. very strong and fast condemination essentially saying this is a nonstarter and this will create all kinds of problems. we'll see if the democrats move off of what they've said. but, obviously, you know, extending the debt ceiling for a year solves a big political problem for republicans and for democrats, you know, there is some political value in forcing republicans to take that vote more than once. but, again, a tricky situation, hallie. >> very quickly, kasie. were you surprised to hear that paul ryan said he made the right call from ending daca. earlier paul ryan wanted daca to stay in place. >> he is taking essentially the same position a as lindsey graham. the way this was done was not constitutional, but we don't want these kids kicked out of the country. from that perspective, no, i'm not surprised. >> kasie hunt on capitol hill doing heavy lifting. thank

we're still several days from this, hallie.gain, authorities are saying people need to pay attention and they cannot wait until the last minute here. there's a run on gas and supplies that we've been seeing. again, gas buddy.com reports more than a third of gas stations are already out of fuel in the miami-ft. lauderdale area. hallie, back to you. >> a real challenge. gabe gutierrez, thank you. i want to talk about it with josh levy, mayor of hollywood, florida. you can see it on your map there. let me start there. gabe is talking about gas stations out of gas. people are being told to get out. they can't fuel their car with gas and will be waiting in line to leave on a highway. where are they supposed to go? what are you telling them to do? >> the advice from county officials is to shelter in place. people can make their own decisions considering themselves and their family as to choosing to evacuate to a different locality. but county officials are mindful of the risks also with people traveling to unknown destinations. >> ri

early the next day, tuesday, captain hally formed a regional missing person task force.so what's on your white board? what's on your agenda? >> william slemp. >> reporter: the former boyfriend. >> yeah, we went down -- >> other ex-boyfriends, ex-husbands. >> family. >> there had been a neighbor that lived across the street from rachael that had some suspicious behaviors. he'd ask rachael out on a date and she'd turned him down. and then he left town very abruptly. >> i mean that's certainly suspect. is he involved? >> we're checking hospitals, travel information. we checked every bus ticket that was sold that weekend. >> reporter: an early lead may have come when rachael talked to sheriff's captain dan hally the week before. she told him that day she was terrified of the slemp guy messing with her, but the captain had a different stalking suspect in mind after rachael told him she was divorcing charles. so an early stop for investigators was charles' shop. so who's the guy you met? >> easy going, you know, he was very cordial. he's being cooperative. >> i didn't have any

hallie jackson takes over. hallie is like, what are you talking about? >> i love it, and i have news out of that, too. because president trump actually stopped and spoke about north korea in this sort of photo opportunity in the rose garden. we are waiting for this part of the tape to play, excuse me, not north korea, the london terror attack, what he described as the uk terror attack. british police called it a terror incident. let's listen. >> i'm going to call the prime minister right now. there are numerous things happening, including north korea. so i'm going to see frank inside, too. we have to be tougher and we have to be smarter. thank you. >> so with the noise of the lawn mower in the background, you heard president trump talk about two of the big headlines this morning, the terror incident in london, as well as referencing north korea. he said he would be speaking with the prime minister theresa may momentarily. we'll be watching for more on that. this is, obviously, capturing the white house's attention today. we want to get over to london now

hallie, are you there? i feel like you were just on a source call, hallie. >> reporter: yeah. >> good. is there anything to report from that call? >> reporter: no, let's say there are a lot of people ready for this meeting to happen. a bipartisan group of lawmakers coming here to talk about tax reform, that's going to be the top topic along with some other presidential priorities. and it's interesting because this is something we have seen now develop over the last week or so the president talking a lot more about trying to come to terms with some kind of a deal with democrats. he's having the people he's dubbed chuck and nancy, as you know, chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, over for dinner later on tonight. we know some others who will be in the room include for example, mick mulvaney, budget director, as well as wilbur ross. the question will be as mick mulvaney said, do democrats really want to come to a deal with the president and what is that deal going to look like? basically getting down to brass tacks

hallie jackson takes over from washington. >> i'm hallie jackson here in washington. you thought today would be a slow holiday monday. let me introduce you to something called life in 2017. an escalating threat that started building well before now over in north korea. right now at this second, the u.n. security council is scheduled to begin an emergency meeting on what north korea claims, we emphasize claims, was a hydrogen bomb test. its sixth nuclear test and pyongyang most yet. president trump, as you just heard, was just getting off the phone with south korea's president. this happened just in the last 10, 15 minutes or so. we expect to hear more about how that discussion went. some time in the next hour. >>> we also expect more on doca, too. less than a day away. that's when we're going to get and dreamers are not happy to hear it, at least not according to our reporting. news out now on what could happen to the young people brought here illegally by their parents, including some who live in texas and louisiana helping out with harvey relief as we get a check on

of course, that is just a coincidence because seat assignments were done at random, halli desk hallie. >> kristen, thank you. we are watching the brazilian president open up the general assembly giving his speech in front of the marble tiles of the president a couple years ago. with us now is joel reuben, former secretary of state under president obama. and national security and foreign policy reporter with the associated press, josh leaderman. thank you for being here on a pretty big morning. joel, let me start with you because in the words of "the new york times" as we saw from the president on someday one, he came, he saw, he gripped and grinned. he was mr. nice guy on monday. let's talk tuesday, mr. tough talk now as we take a look at him getting seated. this is yesterday here. what do you think we're going to hear from him on day two? >> hallie, it's great to be with you. we are going to hear the president speak to you about north korea, but we also need to hear him say america's vision for its role in the world. this is a critical speech. it's a real opportunity for him to speak

hallie. >> absolutely right. migel almaguer live in texas, thank you. >>> chuck todd, political director and moderator of "meet the press." good morning. >> good morning. >> we have the administration looking at all this stuff not just harvey, not just congress coming back, looking at debt ceiling, budget showdown, tax reform, now this threat from north korea escalating again. every administration has a lot to deal with. is this one spread too thin? >> look, i don't think no. i hope not. put it that way. and the administration certainly is not supposed to be designed to be spread too thin, but politically the question is, is this president capable of being spread too thin. i think all presidents have that. i think the administration can handle this, can the president's focus do that. look, this is going to be a month that would be tough for any president but he put he's got lowest approval ratings of any first term president in the modern era and enters a month, spent the month of august picking fights with repub

>> we have a great concern, hallie.son why is over the last several days our models are starting to converge. when that happens, our confidence increases. so, while it's not a guarantee, our confidence for a florida impact is definitely going up. and when we see signs like this from our satellites showing such a healthy and impressive storm and nothing in the charts to basically disrupt this storm, we have some great concern. so, let's walk over to the boards here and show you where the imminent concerns are right now. that is areas of antigua and then you move up to the british virgin islands and u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico. all under hurricane warnings. hurricane conditions by later tonight and through the day tomorrow. time is running out to prepare for these conditions. including storm surge, deadly storm surge possible. hurricane-force wind gusts and also a lot of rainfall. after we get through puerto rico, then it's on to the other islands such as hispaniola and the other islands. less than a half hour on

. >> kristen welker and hallie jackson. >> jimmy: i love hallie. >> they're great. >> jimmy: i love hallieyou go like, "and hallie, how's everything in washington?" she goes -- [ laughter ] thank you, savannah. everything here, blah, blah, blah. and they go -- watch. every time you cut to hallie jackson. >> really? >> jimmy: oh, yeah. yeah. matt will say, "and then we have hallie jackson at the white -- hallie, what's going on? what's the situation there? she goes -- [ laughter ] >> oh my god, quest is like -- ♪ >> jimmy: everything is very scary here at the white house. thank you for asking, matt. [ light laughter ] why is everyone else's ear piece working but hallie's isn't working? that's the best. i love her. i love kristen welker, too. >> she is -- both she and kristen -- we call kristen "welknado." kristen welker, because she's amazing. >> jimmy: she does everything. >> when i was at the white house, i would get, like, you're so tired because you're working so many crazy, crazy hours and sometimes i would get asked a question, speaking of isp in your ear and i would not know the answ

>> reporter: good morning, hallie. that is really saying something, there's no sign the war of words is calming. the region is tense as ever. clearly the perspective of a hydrogen bomb test over the pacific carries massive risk for japan and south korea especially. any test weapon would fly over their territory. and if you're in an aircraft or ship in the region of an explosion, you are in mortal danger. so their leaders are worried. japan this morning carrying out military drills for the u.s. aircraft carrier ronald reagan off its coast of china. china is trying to calm the frayed nerves appealing to the u.s. and to all sides to stop irritating each other and to meet halfway. now, i don't think whatever halfway means, that is going to happen as we have mentioned president trump tweeting this morning that kim jong-un is obviously a madman that will be tested like never before. and overnight, kim jong-un becoming the first north korean leader ever to address an international audience calling president trump a dodder tha

i'm hallie jackson here in new york all week long. the president is set to deliver a lengthier remark tomorrow during what is kind of his keynote speech. his first address. but that was a little bit of an appetizer, you could say, with u.n. ambassador nikki haley there. no surprise from the president demanding more u.n. reform, criticizing some of the management of the u.n. with the united states still not committing to fully fund essentially its commitment to the united nations, at least not so far. there are four big things you got to know about this week. they talk about how to move forward on north korea. there's also the iraq nuclear deal sure to come up with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. you have climate change big. president trump meeting the french president with new push-back this morning from the white house about reports the president does not plan to pull out of the paris accord. and we know we're going to hear about the con city fusional crisis in event lay za. we have a team covering every angle starting wit

>> that's right, hallie.rse even though my district the florida keys and south florida were hit quite hard by irma, we're very focused on puerto rico. we know the situation there is in no way comparable to anything happening here on the mainland. it is far worse. and for me it's personal. puerto rico welcomed my wife's family when -- >> and congressman, i've got to interrupt you because steve scalise is walking on the floor as expected. we want to listen in to this standing ovation now as he's using it looks like a walker to be able to get in after the congressional baseball shooting back in june. let's listen. [ applause ] >> the chair wishes to mark the return to the chamber of our dear friend and colleague from louisiana, mr. steve scalise. [ cheers and applause ] >> our prayers have be answered. his bravery and his family's strength have been such an inspiration to this house and to the people it serves. america is grateful for this moment. the chair now proudly asks for what purpose does the gentleman fr

>> reporter: hallie, substantial pressure.was the maddest i have seen mark warner about anything. he essentially accused twitter of copying facebook's homework. he said they didn't do the forensics. he said the presentation was not ready to go. and he sort of tried to publicly shame them into doing more work. that 201 accounts is just not nearly enough. and mark warner wanted to make that feeling very public. i think also what yesterday did is it increases the likelihood that we're going to see some of the big more recognizable names from the tech companies like mark zuckerberg of facebook in the hot seat themselves. because lawmakers like warner want the people to be held accountable for what is going on on their platform. warner talked a little bit about facebook specifically in that same news conference. >> he has obviously built an extraordinary iconic company, but i think the iconic company, the company more than half of americans look to for every day is based upon a level of trust. and i think they need to be extremely

and there is a lot of work to do, hallie. we have seen crews coming back into the neighborhood this morning. folks coming back to their homes to tear out their houses and start throwing out their furniture and start the process of rebuilding. they will continue. the help they're expecting or should expect from the administration could come in the form of ask from congress that we're expecting to see in the coming days from the trump administration somewhere around 5.5 to $6 billion worth of money. that is sort of the initial pot of money expected to be needed here just to get the recovery effort started. when you talk to folks around town here, especially the mayor, you're hearing that one of the most urgent needs they might have here in houston is just finding places to put people. housing is a critical issue. here's the mayor of houston sylvester turner on "morning joe" this morning. >> most of the city is now dry. and, so, we're turning to recovery and if housing, housing and housing, especially for individuals whose homes

we have our white house reporter, nbc news chief white house correspondent, hallie jackson. tell us what we expect to hear on this day from nikki haley and h.r. mcmaster. >> reporter: plenty for them to talk about. they're set to take the podium in about 15 minutes as you reported earlier. let me run through what i think is the big headlines. number one, north korea and the recent missile test, the one overnight from pyongyang. what the administration is going to do now. i can almost guarantee there will be a question on whether or not this administration will put tougher sanctions on chinese banks. as always, the administration very rarely talks about that until those go into effect. now, if we see maybe treasury secretary mnuchin walk out, that will be our signal, the expectation is not that that will happen, however. the other big story, of course, is why you have matt bradley on the show, the terror incident in london. this will likely come up with general mcmaster. given the president's tweet this morning, peter, about scotland yard perhaps having had a sign that this m

so hallie, people are doing what they can to survive.the state of things right now on the ground. >> tammy, there are places in puerto rico where people still haven't seen a lot of emergency officials because it is just so hard to get to. is there any progress in some of the more remote areas of the island yet? >> reporter: very, very slowly. i can tell you, we went to one area yesterday where rescuers had just gotten to that area. and there were 11 towns, about 2,000 families, that nobody had heard from. because the main road had collapsed. so they were going to try to fly in rescue crews to get there. so there are a lot of towns that nobody has even heard of just at this point. >> tammy leitner on the ground in san juan. tammy, i know it has been a long stretch for you and for the crews there, please stay safe and thank you for bringing us this critical reporter. >>> up next, we want to talk about new details on president trump's son-in-law using private e-mail to talk to white house colleagues. but on the inside, i feel like chronic,

hallie, thank you.or more, i want to bring in hans nichols, who's been tracking developments at the pentagon for us today. hans, was this at all expected by the pentagon? >> kate, pentagon officials haven't been wondering if north korea would conduct a nuclear test, but rather, when. now that they're coming to grips with the magnitude of this test, defense secretary mattis updated the president on his military options. and even though mattis couched his warning, he used the words total annihilation when naming north korea. for a secretary of defense that has emphasized diplomacy, that's a rhetorical escalation. >> and what are you hearing about a response from south korea, and what about what the u.s. can do to defend against a missile that could be fired by north korea? >> well, south korea military, according to local reports, has already said it's conducted live-fire training exercises, including ballistic missiles and f-15 fighter jets, simulating an attack on north korea's nuclear test site. in ter

>> reporter: we don't, hallie.anticipate the president's going to give us more details when he has lunch we the leaders of japan and south korea. and of course the key questions are these sanctions, the continuation of the last round of sanctions that were slapped on north korea and how much bite are they actually going to a have. of course the message from president trump that you can anticipate from that luncheon that japan and south korea need to do more to choke out north korea economically, diplomatically. i think he's going to take a very tough tone with those leaders and the other big question we'll be looking for is how are they going to respond to that message but to the president's u.n. speech earlier this week when he effectively said he's prepared to totally destroy north korea if it doesn't denuclearize? when he referred to kim jong-un as rocket man, who is that type of very heated were very fiery rhetoric playing with key allies in the region? is it making them more or less willing to work with presid

hallie? >> kasie hunt on capitol hill. thank you. joining me on sit is political analyst and former rnc chairman, michael steele, along with national political reporter for politico, eliana johnson and jeff mason, all friends of the show. all of you were warned that if governor scott shows up in jacksonville, we may have to interrupt. but michael, you heard kasie lay out the moving pieces here over the last few weeks. i was told by a senior administration official earlier this morning that the meeting between the lawmakers is meant to encourage lawmakers to get this done quickly. i don't know many lawmakers who love to get encourage like that from the white house, particularly after mnuchin did on friday, it's like getting booed out of the room. >> when the president shuts you down mid-sentence, you don't have a lot of credibility when you leave the room. but this is the strategy for the white house to engage democrats to grab the attention of republicans to say to them, look, you really think i'm going to be beholdened to what you p

hallie, let me finish with you here. if you talk to white house officials, they say they need this win. the president has to show that he can get something done. he's going to be selling this in indiana today. we saw him sort of lay the groundwork, trying to work with democrats in terms of getting that spending bill passed. to what extent is the white house saying, hey, we need democrats in order to get this tax reform bill passed? >> reporter: not much, or at least not right now, kristen, is the honest assessment here. you look, and kacie knows this well, the way the senate is trying to get through tax reform via reconciliation, which means it only needs 51 votes. that is not necessarily a recipe for bipartisanship. i think there are certain parts of this tax plan, this framework, so to speak, for now that democrats are going to be very angry about. you've already heard reports that some democrats wanted to go to the gop retreat today and were told no. that may be a political stunt, but i do think while the president cu

hallie jackson in front of the trump tower. you don't get the impression traffic is as bad as it is, but it is. 120 world leaders and top diplomats is of utmost concern for the new york police department and getting help from other agencies like the fbi, secret service and home land security. stephanie gosk is just outside the united nations a few blocks from here. stephanie, every year one of the biggest concerns are protests. how are police handling all of this? >> reporter: it adds and extra layer of complication. you know here in new york city, since president trump became president, we've had a lot of protests. another one later on today in a couple of hours. rise and resist planning an anti-white supremacy march that begins at 5:00 at grand central, marching up to trump tower, adding mother layer of complication. already on to what is a remarkable security situation here and remarkable not just for the scale of this operation, also because, as you said, this happens every single year, and security in new york city is comp

hallie, i know we got this statement from the white house last hour. any idea why we did not hear from president trump on this and, instead, attorney general jeff sessions? >> at this point, the white house is not commenting publicly on that. i think one could surmise that this is the president, if you look just sort of based on our analysis of this giving him a little space between the white house and this decision by having jeff sessions come out and make this announcement and putting his own announcement out in a paper statement instead of in person. part of an e-mail list press blast. it explicitly says from the president that he does not want to punish people who are brought here by their parents, but that he wants to respect what he calls, again and again, the legislative process. so, in effect, punting it over to congress and making it clear that is what he is doing. reiterating he wants to treat dreamers with heart and compassion, which is what he has said. concerns with the legality on how this was implemented in the first place. this starts u

i think as hallie was highlighting earlier in the segment. this would have huge ramifications for the relationship with the south and play right into pyongyang's hand. we need to be in lockstep with our allies in seoul. we need to be in lockstep with our allies in tokyo. they are critical to ensuring we can bring coordinated pressure. we do need -- >> skeptics would argue we have been doing that for years and nothing has changed. >> you know, i think that we have not gotten to the point of the kind of pressure that north korea needs to see in order to change their strategic calculus. kim jong-un has continued to be able to get the kind of money he seeks, supplies for his nuclear and missile programs. we know that some of that is coming through china. i hope that gordon is right, that looking at the banks that are helping to facilitate money laundering is something this administration is doing. we need to ratchet up pressure in a serious way. we have never been able to make china feel the pain it needs to feel in order to be able to shift pyon

hallie jackson was in there. and hallie made -- let's bring her in. she's in that room right now. >> i don't owe that it was 19. i'm just guessing, but it was certainly asked more than once. >> you brought up a name i hadn't heard before, somebody you said is a rescue worker, emergency worker in texas. just tell me what you said there. >> yeah, you're going to meet him tonight on "nbc nightly news," ali, if i can direct our viewers to the broadcast later on this evening. he's a guy, a paramedic. he works in texas. he is a dreamer and he's been working ever since the flood hit and obviously before that as a paramedic, but particularly since the storm hit a week ago now in his area. as you might imagine, when we spoke with him, he's stressed to say the least. he feels concerned about his own future. you've got between texas and louisiana an estimated 144,000 daca recipients living in the two states affected by harvey that don't know what's going to happen with them next. so that is what i think you heard a lot of the folks in this room driving at with s

hallie, let's start with you. first of all, what did the president say a few moments ago on the south lawn? >> reporter: forget me if i have a glow going on because i just ran back from where marine one is taking off. the president stopping for several minutes to speak with reporters. frankly, craig, making several headlines. let me tick through some of them and let me start, first of all, with health care. the president says he will negotiate with democrats over the next several months on doing something on health care. this is what the president wanted to talk with reporters about. he came out, i asked him a question on roy moore and the alabama race. he said, yes, we'll be backing roy moore but then he pifted quickly to talking health care. he said he will probably sign an executive order next week, he thinks, that would allow people to buy health care across state lines. it is not clear yet what the mechanism for this will be. the president says that is still getting worked out right now, but that is some unil

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hallie jackson, nbc news, the white house. >>> would you pay $1,000 for a new iphone? well, that's how much the widely anticipated iphone x is rumored to cost. tomorrow apple is special event at the steve jobs theater in apple park. in the new cupertino campus. the tech company is expected into the deuce the iphone x and it other new products. the iphone x will feature an edge to edge screen, facial recognition, and wireless charging. according to various leaks. i like that wireless charging. i think doug would take two of those. >> you think? he likes his tech gear but -- >> that's right. >> you're a droid guy, aren't you? >> well, yeah, i am a droid guy. let me just say my wife was thinking of switching over to the apple. if she's watching i can just say $1,000. no. >> not going to happen. >> sorry, sweetheart. hey, guys, you know one thing you may need later on the next couple days, maybe the umbrella. we're not going to see a lot of rain from the remnants of irma but it is going to change our weather over the next few days and it's already doing so right now. we've

call it farewell fridays around here, lester. >> hallie jackson at the white house tonight, thank you. >>> the united states today ordered a drastic reduction of its diplomatic staff in cuba after a series of strange attacks against americans working at the embassy there. at the same time all americans were warned against traveling to cuba. our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell has the latest. >> reporter: tonight the state department ordering most of the american staff at the u.s. embassy in cuba home, and secretary of state rex tillerson advising u.s. citizens to avoid travel to cuba. a major blow to the new u.s./cuba relationship. >> some very bad things happened in cuba. very bad things. >> reporter: the rare move in response to mysterious attacks against 21 u.s. diplomats. tillerson tonight describing their injuries. hearing loss, dizziness, headache, fatigue, cognitive issues and difficulty sleeping. earlier this week cuba's foreign minister rushing to washington, telling tillerson cuba was not behind it. the fbi and cia in havana now investigating what experts

hallie jackson, nbc news, the white house. >>> bob dole has been hospitalized.he former republican presidential candidate was admitted to walter reed medical center last week for low blood pressure. a spokeswoman says his condition is being corrected with medication. in a tweet, the 94-year-old dole thanked people for their prayers and said he hopes to be home sipping a cosmo in a few days. >>> still ahead tonight, what happens when the emergency is with 911 itself? we're going to take you to a big city where desperate calls for help have gone unanswered. >>> also, the driver hailed as a hero after a school bus erupts in flames. >>> we're back now with a critical problem plaguing a major american city. in cincinnati a series of 911 outages have left callers to fend for themselves. so why is it happening? nbc news national investigative correspondent jeff rossen is getting answers in tonight's "rossen reports." >> reporter: in cincinnati a public safety crisis. callers unable to get through to 911. >> i was driving home, and i saw a car smash up against a pole. >

as our hallie jackson explains, nearly a million d.r.e.a.m.ers are anxiously awaiting what might be next. >> reporter: the day before harvey hit the coast, paramedic jesus contreras headed to work and hasn't stopped helping his neighbors since. he's a texan, after all. just look at the tattoo. he's also undocumented. a so-called d.r.e.a.m.er brought here by his mom when he was 6. >> we're literally on the ground helping people get back up. and we're getting our, you know, our butts handed to us by people, you know, upstairs in the white house and the president. >> reporter: president trump will decide by tuesday what will happen to d.r.e.a.m.ers like contreras. more than 780,000 of them, all protected by daca, an obama-era program that lets them work and go do school here for now. >> should d.r.e.a.m.ers be worried? >> we love the d.r.e.a.m.ers. we love everybody. >> reporter: but nine states are threatening to sue if the program is not cancelled by tuesday. multiple government officials tell nbc news, president trump's leaning toward ending the program but white house sources say some i

hallie jackson, nbc news, the white house. >>> as the emergency operations continue here in florida, from new york to washington, to a field in western pennsylvania, it was a somber day of remembrance. hard to believe it's been 16 years since 9/11. families once again gathering to mourn and make sure we never forget. here's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: 16 years later, the names are read. >> ralph gerhardt. >> robert gerlich. >> reporter: family and friends gather in shanksville, pennsylvania. the military brass pay tribute outside the pentagon. >> we're gathered here today. >> reporter: today a new yorker reflected for the first time as president. >> the living, breathing soul of america wept with grief for every life taken on that day. >> reporter: even while coping with the hurricane's destruction, first responders stopped for a moment of silence. in puerto rico and miami. across the country, the artifacts of the twin towers shared with cities large and small today have special meaning. from grapevine, texas, to healdsburg, california, freeport, maine, to the tiny town of rockville

we get details from our chief white house correspondent hallie jackson. >> reporter: hours after the explosion in london an eruption of tweets online from president trump blaming a loser terrorist for the subway attack, adding these are sick and demented people who were in the sights of scotland yard, that reference to the london law enforcement agency raising questions. >> does he know something we don't? >> i never think it's helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ien going speculation. >> reporter: the prime minister polite by pointed. >> did the president share information that he wasn't supposed to and if not, why was he speculative. >> i think what the president was communicating is -- is that obviously all of our law enforcement efforts are focused on this terrorist threat from -- for years. he means generally that this kind of activity is what we're trying to prevent. >> reporter: it all came up in theresa which the u.s. promised close collaboration with the uk. >> our absolute commitment to eradicating the terrorists from our planet. >> reporter: that fight against t

chief white house correspondent hallie jackson now with the story. >> reporter: tonight the president's original travel ban long in legal limbo is catching a break from the supreme court. the justices set to hear arguments in two weeks are instead postponing that, a sign the court thinks the legal battle over the old ban is moot because of the new version just unveiled. >> the tougher, the better. >> reporter: the president's new tougher ban puts indefinite restrictions on visitors and immigrants from eight nations including five muslim countries on the original list. the latest version removes sudan and adds chad, venezuela and north korea. with critics arguing it still seems like religious profiling to them. >> it reeks of the first two travel bans where they were targeting muslims in first two and even with the addition of north korea and venezuela, at its core, it's still a muslim ban. >> reporter: the new travel ban just one of the headlines out of the white house today including this one. jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, using private e-mail as a government employee. his

we get more from nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson. >> reporter: tinted windows blocked the view of donald trump jr. inside this car after he avoided cameras at the capital. for five hours today behind closed doors the president's son meeting with senate investigators looking into russia's interference with the 2016 election. according to a statement obtained by nbc news, trump jr. said he took a june 2016 meeting with a russian lawyer and others because he thought he'd get dirt on hillary clinton. quote, to the extent they had information concerning the fitness, character or qualifications of a presidential candidate, i believed i should at least hear them out. opposition research is not unusual, but getting it from foreign entities is. >> his appearance today raised as many questions as it answered. >> reporter: in a statement late today trump jr. said he answered every question until both sides had exhausted their lines of questioning. i trust this interview fully satisfied their inquiry. it's more d.c. drama after a day packed with it. republicans reeling fro

he likes me, anyway. >> reporter: hallie jackson, nbc news, the white house. >>> i'm peter alexander. the president tonight claiming progress on the premier promise of his campaign. >> i think we're moving very rapidly on the wall. we're renovating large sections of walls. it will be brand new by the time we finish. >> reporter: but eight months into his presidency there is no formal plan for building the kind of wall the president's been touting for two years. >> we're going to build a wall. build a wall. build a wall. build a wall. >> reporter: nbc news has learned the study president trump ordered in january on how to fully secure the border yet to be finalized. the president's transition team did little to advance the project, according to a top transition official, and border patrol authorities concede prototypes for proposed wall are months behind schedule. not much has changed since april. >> i don't know what it will be made of. i don't know how high it will be. i don't know if it's going to have solar panels. >> if the president had all the money he needed to build the wall r

hallie jackson, nbc news, the white house. >>> back in the spotlight tonight, hillary clinton. her new memoir "what happened," an account of her unsuccessful 2016 presidential campaign is hitting shelves. and while clinton does take some responsibility for her loss, in the book she also points blame at a number of other parties, chief among them former fbi director james comey. nbc's andrea mitchell with more on that. >> reporter: hillary clinton acknowledging her own flaws. >> people will say, well, hey, you know, there's all this noise around her all the time. and some of it is of my own doing. >> reporter: but in her first live tv interview since election day, blaming her loss squarely on former fbi director james comey, with savannah guthrie and matt lauer. >> did you make enough mistakes yourself to lose the election without any of the other things you talk about? >> well, i will say no, matt. i don't think that will surprise you. >> reporter: in her new book she writes about a lack of passion, failing to connect with angry voters, running a status quo campaign against a r

hallie jackson has more for us from the white house.allie, good morning. >> reporter: hey there, frances. good morning to you. this morning president trump will be keeping up his push for some of his biggest presidential priorities this fall, specifically tax reform, for example. he held that bipartisan dinner with lawmakers here at the white house last night, and today we know that he is again going to be meeting with a group of lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to talk about what he wants to get done in congress this fall. interestingly, he's also meeting with a notable republican, senator tim scott, who was critical of the president's remarks after charlottesville, questioning what senator scott described then as the president's moral authority to lead. the two of them will be sitting down one-on-one, and we'll be watching for any news from that from here at the white house. for now, frances, back to you in new york. >> thank you very much. >>> let's go to bill karins for a check of the forecast. >> people curious about jose. st