we welcome jim jacob, who is the president and chief executive officer of an organization called new jersey shares. good to see you, jim. good to see you, steve. for those of you who do not know what new jersey shares is, share. new jersey shares is a statewide, nonprofit organization that helps people who don't qualify for federal or state assistance to pay their energy, telephone and water bills. so we are the safety net for folks who don't qualify for any other kind of assistance. throughout this segment, you're going to see the new jersey shares web site up, go to it right now. but i want people to know that you have partners, right, you have a lot of partners in the utility world, the water world, water world...and folks who provide water... explain who those partners are and why they matter so much. well absolutely. in our energy program, which is a program that we've been running since our inception in 1998, we partner with every electric and natural gas utility, so it's public service electric and gas, new jersey natural gas, elizabethtown gas, rockland electric, jersey centra

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thanks so much, jim miklaszewski, thank you, colonel jack jacobs. we appreciate both of you and your reporting today. >>> now to the other top story. the arrival of the second american of liberia with ebola. missionary nancy writebol arrived a short timing a and going to emery university hospital and still is i should say still going to be taken off that plane, that specially equipped plane, chartered. we don't if she'll be brought off on a stretcher at this point. whether she is able to walk off. a same unit where american dr. kent brantly has been received treatment since arriving over the weekend. kate snow joins me now and dr. shandran is a doctor at albert einstein college of medicine and joins me from new york and one or two other points here. first of all, that we have a suspected patient in jetta and flown and would be the first known case of ebola outside the african continent and british airways today suspended temporarily to the end of august the commercial flights into both sierra leone and liberia. kate, first to you. the preparations n

let's bring in chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski and colonel jack jacobs.l us what you know. >> reporter: well, the general and more than a dozen other american soldiers had gone to that defense university for a meeting with afghan officials. there were

jacob rascon starting us off from hilo tonight. we also want to bring in weather channel's jim cantore. he is also on the eastern edge of that big island. jim, a lot of people in the lower 48 may not realize just how rare an event this is in hawaii, where i see the weather is already degrading where you are. >> reporter: yeah. it's only going to get worse. we've never had a hurricane landfall here on the big island. never in any history books. only a tropical storm. but either way, whether this comes in as a 75 mile an hour hurricane or a 70 mile an hour tropical storm, the impacts will be exactly the same, flooding, power outages, and massive waves. let's talk about this. first of all, you can see both of the storms, iselle and julio, on satellite. both of these are on very similar paths. iselle obviously at its closest point you can see on the radar not just here on the big island but all the way out to kauai. we are already getting disruptions with showers. some of the higher elevations have gusted over to 50 miles per hour on top of the volcanos here. it will go over volcan

thank you so much, jack jacobs, thank you nbc's richard engel in the field. today jim foley's parents appeared here on msnbc describing how passionate their late son was about how he felt for people in need. >> jim wanted to be there because he -- he really embraced the suffering of the syrian people. we need to embrace one another's suffering so that this can be the world with some love and some compassion. >> well, you can contact with that family. nbcnews.com writer cassandra detailed the back and forth between the family we just met there. the global post, which jim worked for and isis militants during jim foley's time as hostage. she joins us now. give us a sense of how this back and forth worked from the time he was captured. >> there really was no back and forth for a very long time after he was captured. he was taken on thanksgiving day in 2012 and there was no contact whatever with whoever was holding james foley until a year later. and that came in the form of an anonymous untraceable e-mail sent to his family and the ceo of global post, the organization he w

jim miklaszewski, appreciate it. joining me on the phone from kabul is "new york times" reporter matthew rosenberg. joining me here in the studio is nbc analyst journal jack jacobs. matthew, do we know at this point whether or not this truly was an afghan soldier or someone who had stole an uniform? >> we have no reason to believe he was anything but an afghan soldier. this is not the first time this has happened. it's happened dozens of times. the widespread belief among afghan officials and coalition officials and american officials is that in almost the propond rans of cases, these are afghans who have grown disgruntled, alienated, and frustrated at the foreign presence in their country and have turned their guns on their foreign counterparts. some of them have reached out to the taliban before doing so and said, sure, you know, you can come join us after you do it, those who escape. but in very rare cases has it been a taliban plant or a guy who wandered in. it's hard to imagine some random guy put on a uniform and wandered into the military academy with a loaded weapon and was able to do this. >> the only event that's taken place in the last few weeks that

jim foley. we are going to consider what's necessary to deal with the threat. we are not going to be restricted by borders. >> here is a holistic question for you, colonel jacobs. nobody asked you the big picture question. i will. would we be better off if we had that clown gadhafi, assad, his son, saddam hussein? wouldn't we be better if we left it as it was? >> the short answer is absolutely yes. the most surprised guy in the world when we showed up in iraq to topple saddam hussein was saddam hoo sane. he's saying, i'm on your side, trying to get rid of the guys in iran and you're coming to get rid of me. it doesn't make sense. it's easy to be sanctimonious and say everybody needs a republican form of democracy. we see what happens when we try to force it on people who don't want it. it turns out that the enemy of our enemy is our friend and vice versa. it was a very bad thing. the original sin was going into iraq. this has not helped. it may be the arab spring and all the nonsense since that time would have happened anyway. but unlikely to have happened as quickly as it did or when it did if we hadn't bothered to topple saddam hussein and been on what a lot

jacob -- i know this person. in the future, your contact lintel say "it is jim, stupid."see him every year at the national book festival. here is the complete biography, even if he speaks chinese to you. let's say afterwards you are shooting the bull at a contact cocktail party, very important people. you do not know who they are. in the future, you will know exactly who to suck up to at any cocktail party. so these contact lenses will change everything, and to our the first people to buy internet contact lenses? college students taking final examinations. they will blink and see all of the answers to the final exam right there in their contact lens. who is the next person to buy internet contact lenses? president barack obama so he does not have to have these damn teleprompters in front of him giving him his speech. who is the third person? vice president joe biden so that he is always on message, as they say. [laughter] so you can see that the potential of this technology is like living in "the matrix." when you walk into a room, you will see i do navigation of all the