>>> good day to you from the msnbc newsroom, i'm ari melber. new details on hurricane danny, the first of the atlantic season. and probably not the last. also, a stormy stretch on wall street right now. stocks are in free fall and a nobel prize winning economist is warning there's more aftershocks ahead. >>> but first, the big politics event under the friday night lights. donald trump will kick off what's expected to be the largest, largest campaign rally of this whole election cycle. it's at a 43,000-seat football stadium in alabama, home to friday night football and the college senior boll. 42,000 supporters or at leasted parties say they're showing up. if they do, the crowd size, well, it would top barack obama's largest in the 2008 election cycle. he went on to draw crowds far larger, up to 100,000 in the general election. is the same in trump's futures. the numbers are in his favor and trump is a man known often to defy the odds. look at the current lead compared to past early front-runners in 2011. gingrich and perry had the early surges

. >>> i'm richard lui in the msnbc newsroom. chaka fattah was indicted last month.could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted. >>> rosie o'donnell saying her 17-year-old daughter chelsea was last seen a week ago and has been reported missing. authorities do not believe she is in immediate danger. >>> and american airlines saying it will begin offering nonstop charter flights to cuba in december and flights from miami as well. now back to "hardball." ♪ >>> welcome back to "hardball." vice president joe biden has been thinking about jumping into the 2016 presidential race for the nomination, but today nbc news' kristen welker report that multiple people around the white house say it's unlikely that biden will run. a democratic strategist familiar with the thinking inside the white house says while the vice president is reaching out to allies and supporters, he does not seem to be putting together the ground game or taking the concrete steps that one would take to launch an actual bid for the white house. last night cnn reported there are concerns inside the white

and here you are watching some video that we're just getting into the msnbc newsroom of this massiveh that may right now actually be a situation or chase with the suspect. there is talk of a north i-81 as being the epicenter of what could be the search right now for the gunman. we're also told wdbj, the station where alison parker and adam ward worked in the morning during their broadcast, they're the ones that confirmed the deaths of their two employees, said that adam ward's fiancee, who is a producer at that station, was actually a producer on the morning broadcast and was in the control room when this incident occurred and witnessed what happened. and alison parker, who was a reporter there, had a relationship with the anchor, chris hearst, who had some touching words about her. she just apparently turned 24 years old just very recently. anthony rowan is with us. anthony, right now it does seem as though they are closing in or possibly closing in on the gunman. we have more information coming out from the governor's office. he has been on a local radio station. do we have that? >

. >>> good day to you from the msnbc newsroom, i'm ari melber.c season. and probably not the last. also, a stormy stretch on wall street right now. stocks are in free fall and a nobel prize winning economist is warning there's more aftershocks ahead. >>> but first, the big politics event under the friday night lights. donald trump will kick off what's expected to be the largest, largest campaign rally of this whole election cycle. it's at a 43,000-seat football stadium in alabama, home to friday night football and the college senior boll. 42,000 supporters or at leasted parties say they're showing up. if they do, the crowd size, well, it would top barack obama's largest in the 2008 election cycle. he went on to draw crowds far larger, up to 100,000 in the general

i'm ari melber reporting from the msnbc newsroom. the former face of subway is facing a judge. a firenado. more images coming up. >>> first, the big story in politics happening right now. an old-fashioned gop duel. the location, southern new hampshire. the opponents, two men who believe they are the gop front-runners, donald trump and jeb bush. they're soon going to kick off events just ten miles from each other. trump announced the event pretty last minute. and well aware that he would be near bush. he told reporters, because bush draws so poorly, i figured it would be a good time to draw a crowd. trump still leads bush in national polls. registered voters, look at this, they view trump favorably and he says he counter punches and never picks fights he singled out bush more by name saying he has the wrong approach on women's health, wrong foreign policy in iraq and says bush is just too low energy for the white house. we have more on that this hour. but with tonight's events hours away we begin in new hampshire where nbc news political embed ali vitali is reporting. donald tru

msnbc. a bit of breaking news just came in to our political newsroom.esident joe biden is having an official meeting today with the afl-cio's richard trumpka, the large uniyuunion hn the united states. influential politically especially on the democratic side. the fact that biden is meeting with them is leading some to speculate that perhaps he's taking a very, very serious look at 2016 and tried to amass a coalition. if you were able to get organized labor behind him out of the gate, that would be quite significant. but we can report to you today that joe biden, the vice president of the united states, is meeting with the afl-cio's richard trumka. we will have more on this when we come back here on "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. american express for travel and entertainment worldwide. just show them this - the american express card. don't leave home without it! and someday, i may even use it on the moon. it's a marvelous thing! oh! haha! so you can replace plane tickets, traveler's cheques, a lost card. really? that worked? american express' timel