. >> reporter: this is jacob soboroff in california. rushed to make a stop before his first class at cal state fuller ton. like the students on campus here, pablo is a d.r.e.a.m.er. brought to the u.s. illegally when he was 5. and at the center, he heard from the attorney general what he feared most. >> daca is being rescinded. >> reporter: how do you process the idea of leaving here and having to one day go there? maybe within six months from now? >> it's just heart breaking, you know, i could be deported any time. you know, any time within six months or after six months. it's unknown. i'm usually not afraid of unknown, but this unknown is shocking. >> reporter: shocking in part because pablo like so many others must now juggle the possibility of deportation with his other daily responsibilities. and today that's his biology lab. you have to go here to your biology classroom, 363 at cal state fuller ton. how do you process your daily life with this? >> have to remain strong for my siblings. >> reporter: he wasn't born here but his five

we heard from jacob soboroff. you've seen this before. this is the storm surge map again looking specifically at tampa bay. and this is a scenario that the government there has run through. in 2010, they did a mock storm calmed phoenix with winds up it 150 miles per hour and they found that there would be mastiff flooding all in here.lmt 150 miles per hour and they found that there would be mastiff flooding all in here.ed 150 miles per hour and they found that there would be mastiff flooding all in here. so if you were in these area, should you have already evacuated. a lot of people are trying to get out now. and when you look at some of the points on this map, you can see where the dankser lger lies. for example the hospital, air force base, tampa bay international armtirport is rig here. this area shore acres has seen an explosion in real estate, a lot of new people coming in and keep in mind, this is an area where there are over 60 retirement homes. so we'll keep a close eye on tampa bay as we move forward. and as you heard the govern

. >>> all right, so nbc's jacob soboroff is over on the west coast of florida in cape coral just outsidert myers and jacob was able to catch up with the fire department on cape coral. jacob, what are they best prepared for right now? >> reporter: so, thomas, the whole idea here in cape coral is that cape coral essentially is at sea level throughout this -- almost the entire community. this is brandon morris, a lieutenant with the cape coral fire department and we're riding along in a fire engine right now where they are making -- you can hear the sirens going off. listen to this real quick. they are making announcements to tell people this is a mandatory evacuation zone, advising people to take shelter elsewhere. so lieutenant morris, if you can describe to us a little bit about what you guys are doing, where we're at right now and why you are doing this now. >> well, like you said, we're letting everybody know this is a mandatory evacuation zone. not everyone's aware of that. many people shuttered up their houses and they think they're safe. last night, zone a was declared a mandatory e

jacob soboroff is on his balcony. i've been watching you pick off various features of what you see behind you. >> if i could kind of step out of the way, dana, if you could push in, first of all, there's some palm trees about 50 yards from us, every single frond has been ripped off the top. the reason you're not seeing me get blown around as much as gabe and kerry are, there's a giant concrete structure directly in front of me here. like i said, 50 yards out that way, the wind is blowing absolutely ferociously. i don't know if you got a good shot of the palm trees, but they are basically completely horizontal. they move out up like this. we're looking at palm trees tipped directly to the left. it's a hard thing to fathom seeing. you realize that you have seen them before swaying in the breeze. i'm from l.a., we've seen that a lot. out here, these are tipped over, basically leaning just like this and this has been the unrelenting portion that kerry and gabe have been talking about. these winds are coming and they have

jacob soboroff, thank you. some cities on the west coast jacob just mentioned there, including tampa, they haven't taken a direct hit from a hurricane like this in nearly a century. nbc's joe fryer is in tampa. joe, to piggy back on what we heard from jacob, there was this sentiment this storm was really going to attack miami and those eastern cities far more than the palm beaches and anna maria's and tampa bays. we see that's not the case, the opposite appears to be true. the folks in tampa, douglas the sense they were ready for this? >> they are definitely caught off-guard by it that they have seen headlines it's the eastern part that's supposed to be hit by this. we talked to one family, they live in saint pete. they were planning to host evacuees from jacksonville. they are evacuating and going to those relatives in jacksonville. that gives you an idea of how much things have changed in a short period of time. i'm standing here in tampa is an area people say usually floods after a normal afternoon thundersto

jacob soboroff, thank you and thanks to everybody who is out there reporting on this storm for us. kerry sanders joining me now from naples on florida's west coast. and not much change in that 5:00 update. it does not look good for the west coast. >> reporter: it does not. and there is a little bit of a cry six that isis that is still. the governor is pleading people to please evacuate because of the storm surge that will come. a storm surge that initially was 6 feet, then went to 10 feet, then 12 feet, now they are talking about 15 feet. the gulf of mexico is different than the atlantic. you can walk, walk, walk, walk out here. it's a very slow decline here. and so when that wall of water comes up, it pushes up and after it comes in, it takes a very long time to go back out as opposed to on the atlantic where the shelf drops like that. so the crisis is everybody listen, here in collier county as we go up one county in lee county, as we go further north up into charlotte county where 13 years ago hurricane charlie came in, they have so many people who have gone to the shelters now

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jacob soboroff talked with some of them who are anxiously awaiting president trump's decision on end ne being faced with the prospect of being ripped away from your everyday life and sent to a country that is supposedly your home but you basically don't know at all. that is exactly what faces tens of thousands of people here in southern california, hundreds of thousands of people across the country, just like a couple of folks i met the other day. take look at this. this is cal state fullerton. the southern california california university says it's home to over 40,000 students and so many around 900 are undocumented, the school created what it calls a dreamer resource center just for them. nice to meet you. >> i'm daniella. >> first-year physics student and dreamer daniella cauldron's parents brought her from mexico when she was 2. do you have younger siblings? >> yes. >> if shipg happened -- >> if something happened they would probably stay here, maybe with the family relative. >> how do you deal with this? you seem so cool about this. >> it's tough. it really is. yesterday i did no

thank you, jacob soboroff. we'll be monitoring this storm throughout our entire hour. we have some breaking news to bring you in the russia investigation. just in the last half hour, "the washington post" breaking this story that special counsel mueller has expressed interest in in speaking to sean spicer and hope hicks. ashley parker, thank you so much for jumping in front of a camera. i thought we'd be and the clock hurricane coverage but this is a significant development that i understand that special counsel mueller has contacted the white house to express interest in interviewing six aides. tell us about -- it seems to be around two separate events. if you could break that down for us and tell us what you know at this hour. >> sure. that's exactly right. mueller's team has contacted the white house asking for documents as well and also to interview the six aides but as of now, no interviews are currently scheduled. and the two issues based on the documents requested and the aides who are being asked to come before mueller are two. the first one is the white house'

msnbc's jacob soboroff joins us now from naples. jacob, i was also watching you all weekend getting blown around out there. talk to me about how naples looks this morning. >> you know what, katy, naples looks a lot better, thank goodness, than people expected, because of the storm surge we heard kerry talking about last night. what you see here is what you see throughout naples. returned from naples from a bit of a day trip to everglades city at the bottom of 29 where it meets with the tamiami trail. everglades city is very low lying, about 500 people live down there and many evacuated before the storm. once you pass through everglades city basically decimated as well. i got to go down there after driving our vehicle, quite frankly, because pretty high profile, through quite a bit of water. once you get into there it's about knee, sometimes hip high once you get in there. most of the homes are destroyed, the motels, the school, restaurants, liquor store, the national park service has a big facility that looks completely decimated. li

we have nbc's jacob soboroff in ft. meyers roughly 154 miles from my location here if you shoot across the trail and you arrive in southwest florida down by naples and then you go north a bit to ft. meyers. jacob, i used to work in ft. meyers back in the late '90s so i was checking in with friends, a friend of mine just had surgery. he son came over from miami beach to stay with them. they don't know if they're going to evacuate or not because they're confused about this and now we see these long lines at different shelters and we're getting this new tracking information about the eye wall. what are you seeing about extra precautions that are in place as they expect to be directly in harm's way with irma? >> reporter: that's the bottom line, thomas. this is where irma is coming. as far as the latest information that we have and as we know it, you know it well, this is san carlos bay. that's santa belle island out that way and this is one of the areas that's going to be most directly -- come take a look at this, dana. wh

jacob soboroff in everglade city. >>> turning now to politics and the president's response. president trump met over the weekend with members of his cabinet as hurricane irma pounded florida. here's what he had to say about the rescue effort yesterday when he returned to the south lawn of the white house. >> a group that really deserves tremendous credit is the united states coast guard. what they've done, they have gone right into that, and you never know. when you go in there, you don't know if you're going to come out. they are really -- if you talk about branding. no brand has improved more than the united states coast guard. >> no brand has improved more. didn'the coast guard had a branding problem. but never far from this president's mind, something about branding and it was just a curious thing to say. i watched it in realtime as it happened. our colleague kristen welker was there. i wonder if you have any reaction from the president or from the white house about singling out the coast guard and their branding situation. >> we never got to ask that question during tod

jacob soboroff is standing by in miami beach. he is actually on the beach that is projected to be hardest hit. and for those of us who are familiar with south beach at 1:30 on a friday afternoon, this is a sight i probably have never seen. >> reporter: yeah, craig, you just saying that actually gave me the chills. to be out here in 80-plus-degree temperature, to think about being on one of the most famous beaches in the country, if not the world, actually, and see not a soul, it's chilling. i heard you and chris hayes talking about the fact that miami-dade county, much of it, is below sea level. when you talk about sea level, this is it. we're starting to first feel the first kind of signs of clemeinct weather. i'm not a meteorologist. the wind is obviously picking up and you're seeing white caps here out in the atlantic ocean. when you look around, there is maybe tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of dollars of potential damage to be done here on miami beach. very nice condominiums, hotels, apartments, as well as attr

we see gabe gutierrez, jacob soboroff. gabe, looking at you right now. what do you got? >> hey there, brian. we're here in downtown naples. this is it, isn't it? we are being slammed right now. we're trying to stay close to our hotel. my cameraman is under a canopy right now, surrounded by a concrete wall. i'm just a few feet away from him, trying not to get into the street, but as you can see, this is very heavy winds. no power here, obviously. we're about getting ready to get the worst of it, and it's just incredible thing to see the power of this storm as it comes onshore, just making landfall, as you said, on marco island a short way from here. we expect to possibly see that eyewall within the next few minutes, as well, but it is blinding right behind me. thankfully, i'm being covered to my left a little bit by a tree, so the wind isn't hitting me directly, and still you can see behind me just this torrential rain, this pounding wind. we're not too far from the beach again, brian. saying, obviously, we're seeing the water pile up here from the rain. obviously, this i

. >> jacob soboroff, thank you and stay safe. >> thanks, ari. >> coming up, we'll tell you about a group of people who wouldn't evacuate. >>> we're back to our live coverage, tracking this massive storm, florida in the crosshairs. now we go to maya rodriguez, who is in miami. what can you tell us? >> i can tell you just within the last hours since we last spoke, conditions have calmed down considerably. it is still breezy out here but none of those gusts we've seen earlier. that was a bit differenthan what we saw earlier today. there was a lot of rain, a lot of wind. you've been hearing about some of the flooding. our nbc affiliate in miami mentioned there was about a foot of award on biscayne boulevard, on one of the main east/west roads. whether that is part of the storm surge, that's absolutely possible. we have not been down there to see that for ourselves. but that is something our affiliate here in miami was reporting. earlier we're out near key biscayne, we were talking to people who were miami residents who went out there to see the storm coming in, they wanted to take selfies an

. >> we have jacob soboroff is standing by. he is in naples, florida. jacob, what do you have?he place we were sheltering, we came outside to see what was going on. already, this is not storm surge. this is rain from the wind, regular old flood, and this is a sight for sore eyes here, as a matter of fact. some of the first responders are also sheltering at the location where we are, as well. i want to bring you over here to show you this, because this is really important. if, in fact, the water does get any higher, we want to make sure that these fire trucks, and this is north collier county fire rescue, you want to make sure these fire trucks are actually able to get out and rescue the folks in this community. we've heard just the latest news from collier county that 71,000 homes in this area are without power. we can feel it right now. we're an hour away from the eyewall getting here, but these gusts are starting to get stronger and stronger. again, the hope for this vehicle right here is it's able to get out of here and the reason it is here is because the same reason we're

. >> we were just talking to jacob soboroff who was further in land than where you are. you got the gulf of mexico, and those building behind you. >> reporter: all i know i am a couple blocks here in naples, i keep on looking back to see the storm surge here. it is not like we throw a switch and it happens. when it happens, it happens quickly. it is the build up of all that water with the wind and so -- >> right, it is not a tsunami. it is not a tsunami, it will not come in as a title wave. those water levels are rising rapidly, we see a rise up of what appears to be a corner of my eyes of the chart. it looks to be five or six feet right now. we'll keep an eye on that. we want to go to chris hayes who's in naples as well. what's the wind situation around what you are looking like. >> it picked up quite a bit as the eye moved through. it is shifted and it is worth saying to people that are watching these shots at home and watching folks out and wondering whether it is safe out there. where you are with respect to where the winds are matters a lot. even if you are in real

an hour before we had jacob soboroff a few miles west.u get further west to the water, you get stronger winds. we're only dealing with essentially tropical storm gusts. what you see behind me is six hours from that 9 miles per hour storm moving its way slowly up the water. this is still the furthest outer band. there's a lot of security personnel around that don't want people generally going outside, even now. we are sort of sheltered off from the wind. i have a wall on the northern side that's blocking that north south wind coming as the churn comes around. you can tell it is starting to really pick up. >> evidence of how much it is picking up. let's stay on this shot. on the left, chris hayes in naples, on the right is kerry sanders in naples. kerry's location is facing directly into one of these localized bands. bill karins, see what is possible within the same town. >> that's going to rotate through. the eye where kerry is is still 30 miles away. kerry is squarely now in hurricane sustained winds. those winds are gusting up to 90, may

we saw jacob soboroff talk to college students who were d.r.e.a.m.ers yesterday saying i'm ready to fightow what my future holds. and the program doesn't know what the program is? what? >> this doesn't shock me. this is the difference between the ideologues in the white house and the president who spends most of his time on twitter and doesn't actually read. he took the box and dumped it out and said i'll figure out the instructions is. >> that makes kids cry. >> exactly it does, but he's a big child when it comes to this sort of thing. i want to keep out the mexicans. oh, wait, they're already here. i want to keep out the muslims, oh, wait, they're already here. this is the disorganization of this presidency in general. here's the thing, when you spend all of your time on these big symbolic sheriff arpaio we're going to keep out the brown people stuff, you don't get your real job done. that's why congress has to do tax reform to the debt ceiling and the aca reform and they don't have any time because they have no leadership from the president. >> the president continues to want to kick,

jacob soboroff is in everglade city on west coast just below names. they took a real hit. >> andrea, it's incredible devastation to see down here. a town normally about 500 people. most of them evacuated ahead of irma coming in. and many of them are trying to return today. but the road into town is only passable by high profile vehicles. you've got the collier county sheriff's department at the intersection of highway 29 and tamiami trail. they're not letting all of the residents through. there's also other islands beyond everglade city that residents are trying to get to. bridges are washed out. i just rode along with the sheriff's department through town. some people are trying to pass through town on air boats, believe it or not. the sheriff tells me they don't know the of casualties, thank goodness, as of right now. that's what they're out there to survey at the moment driving around looking for anyone who may have stayed through the storm and might be injured. i talked to a family on their porch who had a water line at the bottom of their home ab

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jacob soboroff just back from there and he joins me now on the phone. jacob, what did it look like? know if you can see the pictures we are sending you -- >> we're looking at them right now. >> reporter: yeah, it was just utter devastation. you know, up to my knees, waist in certain places, in water. and if you can take a look at some of the footage we sent you earlier of just the boats upside down. the bottom line is, this is a community that's normally about 500 people. most of them evacuated during the storm. and i went back in there this morning before many of them had had a chance to get in. thank goodness, according to the local sheriff, there were no casualties. most of the people had left. but they're returning now to just utter devastation of their community. this is a place that was hit by wilma. some of the residents i talked to when i was on the ground there talked to when i was on the ground there said this was just far worse than wilma and they were shocked basically to see what they returned home to. and, you know, there's a lot to talk about how the storm surge wasn'

i want to go to jacob soboroff, standing by there in miami beach. - he has been with the miami fire and rescue looking for those who might be stranded. jacob, what have you got? >> reporter: hey, so we're back with the lieutenant here and we are on -- do tell me, where are we on our way to? >> right now, so what we'll do we left the one stop 535 collins, we circled around the easternly road that we have as ocean drive. >> what you call an odc -- ocean drive. >> we looked to see what was going on. to see how the preparations are coming. so we did our odc which is the ocean drive cruise and now we're coming across to -- there's another pickup site where evacuees can be waiting for a bus to come get them. we'll check to see if there's people waiting. >> have you seen anything like this? how long have you been doing this? >> i'm about the ohit my tenth year and we have had some close calls with some other storms where we have mobilized. the eoc activated but we have ended up being lucky and getting missed so this is first time where it's been like this.

i want to go to jacob soboroff who's in naples right now, what's it look like to you right now? >> reporter: it is literally hitting us from the backside, about four miles behind me is the gulf of mexico, the border gulf coast, the storm surge is co coming right up to us, for much of today, we did not feel the full effect from the winds. we were hunkered down between two concrete walls. it is hitting us directly from behind us today. picking them up right off this roof and throwing they will all over the place. we had to get down, actually taking cover, hey, it is important for everybody out there to know. the winds is picking up strong and picking up quickly. it is going to push the storm surge in. kerry going out there and taking a look at palm trees, look at the debris down in your front yard and chris hayes was with you a little while ago, now, it is not the time to go out there. you have got to wait out the storm, over night and let it get dark and let the sun come out tomorrow. you are going to survey your damage. again, you are feeling how strong, taking up close and pick

so while we can, let's get msnbc jacob soboroff to talk to us. jacob?> reporter: brian, obviously the palm trees are a beautiful thing when it is not a hurricane, but we've got palm fronds and trees down in naples florida. as we have been talking about, not even at the beginning of that stuff. the evidence in front of me and behind me about the power of storms, two, three, four trees about that size already down. you hear from time to time the big pop of electrical transformers blowing. the longer we stay out here, stronger the gusts are getting. a lot of residential neighborhoods are lined with palm trees and lush trees like this. this is one street. what we are on is one street. every street in naples, florida is going to look like this, you won't be able to pass these roads. haven't started to talk about storm surge. this is damage from the wind. when the storm surge starts coming through, just looking up to make sure we have no flying palm fronds. when the storm surge comes through, not only will there be trees with debris passing the roads, they wi

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and jacob soboroff is there with that story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah.es last night but the flooding is much worse now. as we walk this way, the road highway 29 is the only way into and out of everglades city. you see a high profile vehicle making its way in now. but lower profile vehicles are having a harder time. we've seen people go in on an airboat. there's about 500 residents here. what we've been told by the residents is the devastation in that direction is much worse than they all faced in hurricane wilma. and that was a complete loss for the community down that way. guys, back to you. >> all right, jacob. wow. images are incredible there. thank you. >>> let's head 100 miles north of florida's gulf coast to st. petersburg. that's where jacob rascon is. hello, jacob. >> reporter: hello. we've been touring the damage this morning and incredibly it's minimal, but we do see things like this. a giant tree toppled onto the road. crews will be out all morning. the cleanup will still be massive. overnight hurricane irma pounded tampa bay with sheets of ra