al roker is following it all for us. al, where is the storm hitting right now? >> reporter: lester, the latest, dorian is 105-mile-per-hour winds, moving northeast at 10-miles-per-hour. between now and 2:00 a.m. we're loong four to seven storm surge and up to a foot of rain. we continue on through tomorrow morning and wilmington will see strong wind gusts, storm surge of 4-7 feet and 8-12 inches of rain, and the system continues to move to the northeast by late friday on to saturday look for strong winds on long island, cape cod of 55-miles-per-hour or more, heavy rain and flooding. we expect rain fall amounts anywhere of 7-10 inches of rain although some spots could see upwards of 15 inches. from georgia to maryland upwards of 5 million people could se still have another 72 hours to go. >> al roker on it for us. and north carolina is getting pounded by the storm with the governor urging people to get to shelters before it is too late. katie beck is on the outer banks this evening. >> reporter: coastal north carolina bracing for impact, flood waters already dang

. >> joining me now is nbc's al roker. al, florida starting to see the impacts on the storm's outer bands, right? dorian's still on track to make that northern turn or is it florida takes a direct hit? >> well, we can't rule anything out at this point. s that the joint, jo ling. we're starting to see a turn. this is a 2:00 reading from the national hurricane center. winds still at 155 miles per hour. a very strong category 4 storm. still crawing at 1 miles per hour. now, we have movement, north-northwest. is it had been westerly but now we're seeing a turn. you can also see the feeder bands coming in from north of melbourne to west palm beach. we have hurricane warnings south of fort pierce, north of west palm beach and north of melbourne. and hurricane watches all the way up to the georgia border and we've even got tropical storm watches in parts of interior florida. so, we're watching this very closely. here's the track right now, it stays offshore. there are noel steering currents, but we're going to show you why we thi

thank you so much, al roker. joining mae now hurricane hunter pilot colonel shawn cross who actually flew through the hurricane on saturday. take me through exactly, lieutenant, what you saw when flying through the eye of the storm here. >> hi. thanks for having us on, first off. let me just say real quick before i answer that question al roker did a phenomenal job of explaining the storm surge. and that is the main threat of these hurricanes as they approach landfall. everyone really needs to pay attention to what he said. that is vital information that he just gave out. as we flew into dorian on saturday night it was a very powerful category 4 storm. we had an incredible stadium effect of the eye as you've seen. there are pictures on the internet right now that have gone viral. we did experience severe turbulence on the way in. we had a good ride and did four penetrations of dorian which is really typical for any mission we fly when tracking a storm. as far as the eye ride itself when we're going through, what

in texas millions under alert potential life-threatening flash floods houston in the danger zone al roker has the new track >>> also breaking, the new headline in the devastating attack on the world's oil supply u.s. intelligence indicating cruise missiles that hit saudi arabia were fired from iran. the growing questions tonight. how will president trump respond? >>> the new death linked to vaping, seven now across the country. tonight the battle to kick the habit especially tough for teens. experts say it's harder than quitting smoking >>> growing fallout for antonio brown. the new report of shady business deals, the ex-trainer accusing him of rape, meeting with the nfl in a marathon session. and tonight what patriots owner robert kraft reportedly said about his decision to hire the controversial star >>> the american swimmer who made history crossing the english channel four times, over 130 miles, without stopping. >> you don't have to give up and let it define your entire life >> the health battle she overcame >>> and the tributes pouring in tonight for a legendary journalist >> this i

our team in place in the storm zone and al roker with some new tracks >>> new crews in the mass shooting in texas. police revealing what happened just before the random firing e began, and new video of the moments of terror as it unfolded. >>> a scare in midair after an instructor passes out at the began, and new video of the moments of terror as it unfolded >>> a scare in midair after an instructor passes out at the controls, his student pilot radios the tower >> this is my first lesson >> how he landed the plane single handedly.l comeback, a major league star bringing players and fans from both teams to their feet. >> announcer: this is >>> and the emotional comeback, a major league star bringing players and fans from both teams to their feet. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, i'm kate snow in for lester tonight. adventur they were experienced divers who signed up for an adventurous holiday weekend trip off the coast of santa cruz island near los angeles. board the diving boat when it caught fire in in the darkness early 39 people were on boar

al roker joins us now. al, where is it headed >> lester, right now dorian is 330 miles south/southwest of nantucket. 90-miles-per-hour winds as a category 1 but it's rocketing now, moving northeast at 24-miles-per-hour. it will hit canada then on its way to create snow for greenland. it still has some affects along the coast. we're talking tropical storm winds for coastal new england and beaches are closed up and down the east coast. we've got rip currents, new york city's beaches closed. we will finally say good-bye to dorian in the next 12 hours. lester >> all right al roker, thank you. >>> we are of course keeping close watch on the bahamas tonight where desperation is growing. relief workers arelingo get ai to the devastated country, and hundreds if not more are trying to find a way off one of the hardest hit islands. nbc's morgan chesky is there. >> reporter: tonight the bahamas facing a new threat with conditions deteriorating and thousands unaccounted for, frustration is boiling over >> suffer anymor

>> i'm here for al roker and al roker, all due respect? >> thank you?we know is in the hospital. he had his successful hip replacement surgery yesterday, and he is live, of course, to tell us about it because you just can't miss a day of work, can you? >> well, ian

kristen dahlgren, thanks let's bring in al roker for the latest on the path of the storm. al, where is it headed and when >> it is headed up the east coast we are looking at it strengthening, a very strong category 2 with 110-miles-per-hour moving north/northwest at 8-miles-per-hour. here's the track of the storm. makes its way across charleston thursday afternoon, may make landfall in wilmington but makes its way by friday afternoon, it moves away and off into the atlantic. impact, charleston, tomorrow morning, 50 to 90-miles-per-hour winds, four to seven feet of storm surge, 8 to 15 inch of rain wilmington up to 95-mile-per-hour winds upwards of 15 inches of rain. norfolk friday 30 to 65-miles-per-hour winds. and two to four inches with winds that extend out 195 miles, not just the coast has to worry but folks inland as well. lester >> all right al roker, thank you. >>> let's turn now to the deadly boat fire in california where tonight investigators have recovered all but one of the 34 victims as they work to understand why all the passengers became trapped. miguel almag

we will get a report from al roker in a minute. but it may have been these images of the devastation in the bahamas to inspire donald trump earlier today to send the u.s. coast guard to provide humanitarian relief to residents there. seven people have been reported dead in the bahamas but that doege toll is expected too rise as aide workers can finally begin the long road to recovery from what the bahamas' prime minister is calling one of the greatest national crises in the country's history. but let us first bring in the news from the white house. "the washington post" just reporting a few minutes ago that on wednesday it appears the white house attempted to retroactively correct a tweet that the president issued over the weekend in which he warned erroneously that alabama would be impacted by hurricane dorian. in a white house video released wednesday, trump displayed a modified national hurricane center cone of uncertainty forecast dated from 11:00 a.m. on august 29th, indicating that alabama would in fact be impacted. the graph

dorian bracing for impact new concerns tonight in florida and along the southeast and gulf coasts al roker is here with the track. >>> also tonight, the breaking headline of the deadly boat disaster the ntsb just revealing all crew members were asleep when the flames erupted the coast guard working to lift the ship from the water. tonight, the new warning about charging phones on boats >>> the fertility clinic accused of a shocking mix-up a father stunned to discover he's not his child's biological dad. >> it shuts you down your whole everything, your life this is not my daughter. whose is it? >> the parents suing the clinic.

roker is not gone just yet. he's got a check of the forecast for us. >>> you bet. thanks for getting your first national weather from us we have this one tropical storm, a 90% chance of formation. not going to worry about that for about a week we have hurricane humberto we're talking about and this invest is going to be very very tricky first we look at what's going on with humberto, category 1. probably start to get to a category 3 as it moves away, threatening bermuda. for us, we're looking at rip tides from miami all the way up to nantucket, rough surf, dangerous waves. now, this system in the gulf, it doesn't even need to become a tropical system. it's going to cause a lot of misery this is the live radar from corpus christi to galveston, we're looking at rain. this will meander into the eastern part of texas, a slow drift, heavy rain, thunderstorms, one right after the other, increasing flash flooding threat into thursday, as this continues to push up more soaking rain on saturated land we are talking about generally anywhere from 3 to 8 inches of rain with ho

>> oh. >> angry uncle al. >> football roker is my favorite roker. >> i love that. >> there's somethinge loch ness monster, thousands have claimed to see this loch ness monster over the years and this morning we may be a little closer to some actual answers. nbc's kelly cobiella joins us. >> reporter: dna scientist released the results of this year long dna analysis of the loch to figure out what creatures really do lurk beneath that mysterious deep water. >> get down to it. >> reporter: he says they've cracked the loch ness code, for almost a century loch ness has been the setting for one of the world's greatest mysteries thousands of people claim to have seen -- >> a hump come out of the water. >> a torpedo going through the water. >> reporter: and filmed an unknown creature in loch ness. last year we followed the professor and his team as they began their investigation to discover just what does live there. >> the water contains an abundance of life. >> reporter: they extracted samples of water from all over the loch, collecting dna, all living creatures in the loch will leave a trac

al roker, of course, back with us today. for more about the dangers of this hurricane for the carolinas in the next few hours and days ahead. as you saw overnight, the strengthening of the storm and now it's heading right towards the carolina barrier islands on the coast. >> that's right. it has weakened a little bit. that does not lessen the danger. even though it's a category 2 storm, we are looking at a widespread swath about 190 miles from the center. we've got tropical force winds. and we're in a tornado watch for parts of south carolina and north carolina as well. all the way to cape hatteras. almost to raleigh and back to myrtle beach. we'll be watching that closely. winds at tropical force strength from cape hatteras, wilmington, myrtle beach and charleston as well. charleston we saw a 69 mile per hour wind gust a little bit earlier. here's the latest. it is a category 2 storm now. 45 miles east southeast of charleston, south carolina. 115 mile per hour winds moving north northwest -- i'm sorry category 3 storm. movi

let's get right to al roker now with the very latest al, who's in the danger zone here >> right now, lester, everyone from texas right on into louisiana has to worry about this it's 30 miles west of galveston. 40-mile-per-hour winds, moving north at 7 the flash flood watches extend into louisiana we're looking at imelda slowly pushing inward tonight with rain and thunderstorms. rainfall rates up to 1 to 3 inches per hour, and that could be life-threatening flash flooding rainfall amounts generally from 6 to 12 inches of rain, but 18 inches are possible, lester, so this flash flooding is going to be our biggest concern lester >> all right al, thanks very much we'll have more from you shortly ahead in our series "climate in crisis." >>> right now let's turn to that attack on those oil facilities in saudi arabia and mounting evidence tonight that iran was responsible for the strikes that sent shockwaves to the global oil market andrea mitchell tonight with the new developmentsents. >> reporter: tonight, u.s. intelligence indicates the >> reporter: tonight, u.s. intelligence indicates th

joining me now me, al roker in our weather center. nbc's morgan chesky and gabe gutierrez on the florida coast. al, tell us about the storm and its extraordinary path and its speed, or should i say its slow march. >> it's crawling. it's picking up forward speed. right now, category 2 storm, but we tell people don't pay attention to the category. while it's important, you can get a lot of damage with storms that are not a 4 or a 5. this is a category 2. 105 miles east of ft. pierce, florida, with 110 mile per hour winds. and now its forward speed moving northwest at two miles per hour west palm beach all the way up past charleston. we've got hurricane watches all the way to cape hatteras. inland we've got tropical storm watches as well. that speaks to the size, the growing size of the storm. even though it's in a sense weakening down to a category 2, it actually -- its wind fields are growing. in fact, here's the official path from the national hurricane center. by thursday morning, it is a category 2 storm just outside of charleston.

but we'll have al roker coming up. chris, are you back again?. >> thanks. >>> it's tuesday september 3rd. hurricane dorian is picking up speed. it's moving towards the united states where it's going to get dangerously close to the coast later today. that's according to the latest national hurricane service advisory. the bahamas will see hurricane conditions through the night after the storm was parked over that island for hours. even once it starts moving, there's still a tail to this thing. dorian is being blamed for at least five deaths there. i want to show you how devastating dorian has been. this is imagery of grand bahama island before the storm. marked with the red locater. take a look at the bottom. this is an image of the same area. everything outlined in yellow was land. it's now completely under water. when you hear the airport is under water, it doesn't mean it's flooded. it's actually under water. the latest statistics on the red cross show that more than

joining us now nbc's al roker. al, thank you for that.ople who you worked with who are measuring and monitoring this, do they think it can be avoided? or are they willing to see how bad it's really going to be? >> well, i think their takeaway from this right now, their standpoint is, we're going to measure, we're going to monitor. and then it's up to others to figure out what to do. but, you know, after we got there after we got back home, the hollands gave us a call to tell us that they found, their discovery, most recently, was there's a pool, deep pool of tropical water in front of the biggest glacier, the helmand glacier that goes way deep, much deeper than they thought. and their preliminary findings is that the ice melt may actually be going on twice as fast as originally thought. >> wow. >> which was already accelerated but it in fact could be twice as bad. >> when you look at 18% of people polled that say it's not a serious problem, these guys are o.m.g., what do you do to show this is o.m.g.? >> he goes to greenland. >> and that'

long lines trying to get out al roker with the new track. >>> also breaking, the grim discovery, 20 bodies recovered from the boat that sank in flames 14 others presumed dead. five members of the same family. tonight new images from inside the ship how the victims were trapped in those final frantic moments. >>> the major change at walmart. new limits on gun and ammo sales, asking customers not to openly carry the pointed reaction tonight from the nra >>> also tonight, on edge as students go back to school >> they also provide a place for a student to hide behind in hopes that help gets here. >> inside the $48 million school designed to stop active shooters >>> and olympic superstar simone biles breaking her silence on her brother's you triple murder arrest >> translator: this is "nightly news" with lester holt >> good evening, everyone. hurricane dorian is finally on the move tonight after pummelling the bahamas like few places have ever endured the latest images painting a grim picture of surging ocean waters where dry land once existed. and destruction virtually everywhere tonight doria

dorian bracing for impact new concerns tonight in florida and along the southeast and gulf coasts al roker is here with the track. >>> also tonight, the breaking headline of the deadly boat disaster the ntsb just revealing all crew members were asleep when the flames erupted the coast guard working to lift the ship from the water. tonight, the new warning about charging phones on boats >>> the fertility clinic accused of a shocking mix-up a father stunned to discover he's not his child's biological dad. >> it shuts you down your whole everything, your life this is not my daughter. whose is it? >> the parents suing the clinic. >>> nbc news investigates the staggering number of prescription drugs imported to the u.s. from china why officials warn it is a major health and national security threat >>> the felon on the run found posing as a surgical assistant accused of stealing identities and money from hospital patients how was he allowed inside the operating room >>> and growing outrage. millions vanishing from personal bank accounts across the country. the mystery about where all the money

roker. >> you look like fred astaire. how are you feeling? >> i'm feeling pretty good, thinking about getting a top keep with your brand. >> here's what it's going to be. see how fast tommy hat. >> go tommy, go, faster tommy, faster, no, you forgot the camera, tommy. oh, it's like i never left anyway, montana, they've got a state of emergency, some places picking up 4 feet of snow, and luckily the worst is just about over, but boy the cold air has socked into the pacific northwest and the rockies. that big upper level low, keeping colder than average temperatures records for 2/3 of the country we're talking about air temperatures when you factor that in and the humidity, we're talking about it feeling like a 100 degrees in memphis, 102 in tallahassee, 90 in dodge city, tomorrow, temperatures near triple digits with the heat indexes topping out by wednesday, getting into the northeast, we're talking new york city, feeling like 90 may set a record, atlantic city, d.c., back to pittsburgh, where it will feel like 87 degrees but it's short lived

al roker standing by once again for us. before we get to the advisory, you've been talking about the tornadoes for the past few hours. looks like we've seen a few of those touchdown. >> we have and there are more tornado warnings. this is something we talked about yesterday that we were concerned about. it normally happens when you have a vigorous hurricane just offshore. this whole area for myrtle beach up to fayetteville, consistencyton, cape hatteras is under a tornado watch. but just outside wilmington we have a tornado warning and south of kingston we have a tornado warning as well. charleston, we saw a 55-mile-per-hour wind in the is going to be starting to continue to ramp up. right now this is the latest from the national hurricane center. 50 miles east/southeast of charleston, south carolina. 110-mile-per-hour winds. moving north/northeast at 8 miles per hour. now here's what we look at. here's wherewe we we were talki about the tornadoes. national severe prediction center issuing an enhanced risk for severe weathe

we have reports from all of those locations, and we begin in green lpd where al roker traveled to seehe effects of climate change first-hand. >> reporter: greenland, a massive island at the top of the world and one of the most remote locations on earth. this breathtaking landscape is ground zero for climate change, where the arctic is warming twice as fast as anywhere else on the planet. i traveled there to see the devastating effects first-hand. this is the -- grazier or what's left of it. the glacier guide has witnessed its retreat over the past several years. what does this glacier use to look like? >> the glacier height was the height of the mountp right there, so this to me is a very big volume of water that today is in the ocean and it's not on land anymore. >> sounds very hollow almost where we're walking. >> yeah, but it's full for at least 100 meters below us of ice. >> as we continued on, i got to witness climate change in realtime. that's a chunk of the glacier breaking off. >> yeah, it's very important here standing on ice to realize that we are on the first step of a domi

>> al roker, thank you. al, from your reporting today, this storm could have much larger inland impacts than what we'd seen yesterday. this model is shifting potentially. thank you so much. >> you bet. >> it's going to be a tough night along that coast. >>> we're learning more about the dire situation in the bahamas after hurricane dorian dumped 40 inches of rain, 185 mile per hour winds at the max over that country for 40 continuous hours. at least seven people have been killed so far as far as we know. the red cross is estimating more than 13,000 homes were damaged or destroyed. 62,000 people on the abaco islands and grand bahamas do not have access to fresh drinking water. i'm joined by the founder and ceo of bahamas evac services, an air ambulance company assisting in rescue operations in the bahamas. tell us how extensive is the damage and what are you learning about possible casualties? >> yes. we have definitely -- obviously there's a tremendous amount of damage and we're currently assessing. the prio

al roker. what can we expect? >> we got a look right now not only do we have to worry about heavy rain and storm surge and winds, but also, morgan, we see in these kinds of situations, tornados firing up sometimes. let's take a look. we got right now the risk of severe weather from meritle beach. now, let's get to the actual activity. we are actually seeing tropical force winds in savannah, jacksonville, and still down in melbourne even though the eye of the storm is almost parallel with jacksonville. 105-mile-per-hour winds and it's moving north, northwest at 9 miles per hour. hurricane warnings are still up from melbourne. we've got tropical storm warning inland from -- north of melbourne through jacksonville, up all the way to the north carolina/virginia border and we've got tropical storm watches into eastern parts of virginia and also the peninsula. here's the track from the national hurricane center. by thursday morning, it passes by charleston. and then out into the ocean. what we're looking at, the europea

al roker, thank you so much. ali velshi, let's head back to you in charleston, south carolina. >> reporter: yeah, we're -- power outages are a good point here. we just heard reports of some wires down in charleston. some fires and sparks as a result of that. no major fire going on. i am over on charleston harbor right now. kathy park is on the other side of the town from where i am. kathy, what is the situation where you are? >> reporter: ali, i am here in downtown charleston. as you mentioned, this area is already very prone to flooding even when there is rain in the forecast but when you have the storm surge, constant rainfall, as well as high tide, this is what you're looking at. this is flash flooding here on president's street and we're still seeing these intense wind gusts as well as the heavy downpours. fortunately we're not seeing too many folks driving through here. however, we have seen a car or two getting stuck as they tried to drive through about a foot of water where we are standing right now. i wan

. >> lord thomas roker was my an esther slave -- ancestor slave owner. >> it's getting hit very hard. >> yes, as you can see now tropical force winds extending out 150 miles. the next update will be at 5:00. the forward speed, it's just sitting and spinning. right now winds at 145 miles per hour. so down another 10 from the last hour or another five i should say, moving west-northwest at 1 miles per hour. hurricane warnings extending wa. in fact even theme parts have all shut down, because, of course, they're really concerned about this. the path as we've been seeing and showing continues to just hug the coast until we get that steering mechanism going. it's going to continue to just meander up along the coast. we see maybe landfall along the north carolina coast as a category two possibly, possibly cape hatteras, a model suggesting it might go in here. >> this is where we saw it last year. >> yes. and pushed out and in boston almost within the cone of uncertainty. ali, as you know, these tropical storms continue to cause storm surge and that will be the problem. here you look, you ca

roker for a check of the weather. >> thank you for getting your first national weather from us we have active tropics right now. one system out coming off the coast of africa, 80% chance of formation. we have humberto, and this system in the gulf a category one storm, may strengthen, 760 miles west of bermuda, moving northeast at 5 it's probably going to cause some rough surf and strong rip tides from key largo all the way on up into new england it moves away, maybe affecting our friends in bermuda a little bit later but this next system we're worried about is here in the gulf we're watching this start to develop, chance of formation, 10% the next five days this is the area, the zone of development we expect. and once that starts developing, whether it's a tropical system or not, it's going to bring a ton of rain from corpus christi all the way to houston and points to the north. rainfall amounts could equal upward of 8 inches of rain the only silver lining to this, they need the rain there, so this might help just a little bit, bust a little bit of a drought going on there now we're g

we spoked with al roker and researchers from new york university on a mission to take a closer look atnd's melting coast line. i asked them why all this matters to us. >> a lot of these places are not prepped for ocean level rise. especially in the bay area, you've got a lot of old infrastructure. any appreciable ocean level rise is going to be felt in your infrastructure. >> reporter: as we continue our series climate in crisis tomorrow we'll show you the rising sea levels and how that may impact specific cities around the bay area. >> you can see more about al roker's trip to greenland on "the today show." >>> don't forget to set your dvrs to see various series. we'll take a look at factory farming and how it can help. >>> kelly clarkson begins week two of her new talk show. she'll welcome another name in pop music. >> it's christina aguilera. both agree no matter how big they get in music, their kids will bring them back to earth. >> my daughter shushes me. i'll be like let's sing and then she goes shush. >> she does the hand to me too. >> i'm like people pay for this. >> they don't

roker, you have a little weather for us. >> let's see what else is going on into the weekend.ecord highs through florida now that dorian has moved away, oppressive heat through the lower southwest. look for strong storms working their way through the western plains sunshine along the west coast. we'll get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. >>> good friday morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. a live look in san francisco, some low clouds rolling by and wale get some clearing today, but it's going to be cool and breezy there in the city, reaching up to 67 degrees. 85 will be the high in napa, while oakland reaches 73 degrees. we have some upper 70s expected in san jose, and some upper 80s in antioch, as we go into the weekend, we'll be cooling off with some upper 70s tomorrow. >> that's your latest weather, guys. >>> al, just ahead, we'll turn our attention back to dorian we'll have a live update from the hard-hit outer banks plus, we'll talk about the storm's impact on the weekend for a lot of people in the south all the way up to maine. >>> then an nbc n

roker, you have a crowd moment >> i do.w is it going? >> pretty good nice day. >> you've got a perfect day, and it says you have been a fan since your first day of kindergarten. >> first day of kindergarten, since day one, every morning. >> how old are you >> i'm 20. >> 8,629 days. wow, it seems a lot longer, it's awfully nice that you came down. would you like to come inside? >> oh, yeah yeah. >> who's here with you >> i'm by myself >> not anymore you're not by yourself anymore there you go thank you so much, dakota. i love that. >> did you realize you had been around that long >> maybe people have reminded me, but it's awfully nice. >> guys, just ahead, all parents know it can be a struggle to get your kids to eat better. imagine the struggle in schools to make healthy homemade lunches, we're going to meet one chef who believes he has the answer. >>> in addition, you've got a big interview coming up in a few minutes. >> former secretary of state condoleezza rice, along with her co-author, zelikow, a book about democracy,

we have frorts all those locations and we begin in greenland where al roker traveled to see the effects devastating effects firsthand. this is what's left of the glacier. this glacier guide has witnessed its retreat over the past several years. >> what did this glacier used to looking. >> the glacier height was at the height of the mountain right there. so this to me is a very big volume of water that today is in the ocean and is not on land anymore. >> sounds very hollow almost where we're walking. >> yeah, but it's full for at least 100 meters below us of ice. >> as we continued on, i got to witness climate change in real time. >> that's a chunk of the glacier breaking off. >> it's very important here standing on ice to realize that we are on the first step of a domino effect that then later we call climate change. >> new york university professor david holland is studying the warming ocean's impact on the glaciers. in 2018 professor holland and his wife capture ago spectacular event, a four-mile wide--mile deep and a mile-long chunk of ice breaking away from the hell heim glacier, du

as nbc's al roker said, where will this end? where will this end? trump has even politicized the weather report, so where will this end? this daily attempt to deny reality, to destroy trust in media, all while manipulating the levers of government to make a lie retroactively true. that's what's going on here. the alabama mess was not a small story, some trivial distraction. no, the letters on screen should say, the president misled the public about a hurricane for a week. much of the news coverage actually helped trump. a lot of the coverage minimized how serious this episode was. i see this happening all the time. the words we use, the framing we choose treats the absurd and the aberrant like it's reasonable, like it's normal. take the term sharpiegate. it's a funny term, i admit. but it indicate that trump getting the facts wrong in an emergency is just a joke. and his campaign agrees. you saw they're selling official branded markers now. but this was not a joke to the folks in alabama who saw trump's tweet that said, alabama will much likely be h

i want to get right to nbc's al roker for the latest on dorian's track as it moves toward the u.s. coast. >> interesting you bring that up, ali, about the time. so dorian has stayed over the entire island chain for 51 hours. >> 51 hours. >> 41 of that was over grand bahama. >> wow. so lower winds by the time it got to grand bahama, but a lot of hours. and people remember this. it's not just -- you know, your home may be able to withstand some of these winds for a typical amount of time. this is atypical. >> most tornadoes are moving 10 to 15 miles an hour. this one, 0 to 1. it's barely moved from where we were 24 hours ago. let's take it -- in fact, take a look here. you can see that again, we've put the wind speeds here. these are gusts. we're starting to see tropical force wind gusts now from west palm beach to miami. look at that. almost 30 mile-per-hour wind gusts. so that's pretty active. hecenter. 105 miles east of ft. pierce. 110 mile-per-hour winds. moving at 5 miles per hour. during your broadcast with stephanie, it was about 3. we have seen a doubling of that speed. but i

joining me now, katie beck in north carolina and today show co-host al roker. katie, first to you, obviously a lot of wind, a lot of rain where you are now. >> reporter: absolutely. yeah, after dorian made landfall in cape hatteras, we saw these conditions start to intensify. as you stand here it knocks the breath out of you. these gusts, they're powerful. we're noticing the disappearing beach behind us. even this morning there was maybe 100 yards of beach now that has shrunk to 15 feet and the water is encroaching upon us as i speak. storm surge is something that officials here continue to be concerned about in these low lying areas. they say it will flood. this is a time that if you stayed in the outer banks to get to higher ground, the highest floor in your house the sheriff says. another concern they have are stranded folks an island. the road is washed out and authorities are trying to figure out the best way to get help to those folks. widespread power outages at this point and expected to be more flooding later. a curfew was set at 8:00 last night that w

for more real news, we're happy to be joined by my friend, al roker. >> hi, nicolle. we're finally starting to see some movement and resolution. there are tropical winds along the coast as it gets closer. let's look at the latest from the national hurricane certainty. 105 miles north of fort pierce and 110 miles an hour winds. the watches continue from west palm beach for hurricane warnings to the east of charleston and watches for cape hatteras and they have tropical storm warnings as things start to finally die down. here's the path of the system. it's a quick mover now. will pick up more speed. daytona beach by tomorrow morning and then by eve, jacksonville. and maybe making landfall by wilmington and a couple models, cape hatteras as well, and then it rockets into the atlantic although parts of new england may have to worry about it. the potential for storm surge is pretty good from vero beach to jacksonville and stronger along the carolina coastline. georgia coastline. charleston, high tides tomorrow around noon where we could see the problem. we're also talking

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if it develops, umberto could impact the same area gabe gutierrez, nbc news >>> let us bring in al roker now for the very latest track of this storm al, what are you seeing? >> this potential tropical cyclone would become umberto right now 30 miles per hour winds. it is moving northeast at 8. 80% chance of formation. here's what we look for. assuming it continues this track from the national hurricane center, landfall in florida saturday sometime in the afternoon. look at the european track it keeps it off the florida coast, but it rapidly strengthens. the american model tracks it 500-mile difference. significant differences in tracks and intensity what we do know, we are looking for heavy rain with lots of wind, anywhere from three to five inches of rain from charleston down to fort pierce more rain, tropical storm warnings for the bahamas >>> all right, al. thank you. in southern california authorities started to raise the dive boat that caught fire killing 34 people. safety investigators released a preliminary report revealing all six crew members were asleep when the fire broke out.

let's start, let's start with that new guidance, my friend in today show colleague, al roker standing by. al, what are you seeing? what's the new guidance telling us about where this storm is moving? >> it's interesting, craig. here we go. this just in at 11:00 from the national hurricane center. it is now a category two storm. make no mistake, let's not pay attention to the categories, okay, because question still get a lot of damage out of this. it's 105 miles east of fort pierce, florida. right now winds are at 110 miles per hour northwest at 2 miles per hour. let's not -- let's not go to the next graphic just yet because i want to point this out, craig. we are looking at even though it's weakening, it's starting to expand out. and, in fact, catherine, who's running our computer, can you put the satellite back up on this? because i want to get to that. i want to make a point on this because even though it is -- once it starts to weaken, it starts to spread out. so right now hurricane-force winds extend out 65 miles, 75 miles, i should say, from the center of the storm. tropical-for

dorian bracing for impact new concerns tonight in florida and along the southeast and gulf coasts al rokerh the track. >>> also tonight, the breaking headline of the deadly boat disaster the ntsb just revealing all crew members were asleep when the flames erupted the coast guard working to lift the ship from the water. tonight, the new warning about charging phones on boats >>> the fertility clinic accused of a shocking mix-up a father stunned to discover he's not his child's biological dad. >> it shuts you down your whole everything, your life this is not my daughter. whose is it? >> the parentsng

. >> kristen dahlgren, thank you and now for where dorian could be headed next, let's bring in al roker alwhester, dorian is picking up stheast of cape canaverales per florida. the track of the storm parallels the coast. by thursday morning off of savannah, charleston and then it makes its way past cape hatteras, possibly making landfall sometime friday and continuing on. here's what we're looking at as far as the impacts are concerned. we're talking tropical force winds that stretch out 175 miles from the center, so we'll be feeling those effects along the coast. that will cause storm surge. anywhere from 2 to 4 feet in central florida. coastal jacksonville to savannah, about 3 to 5 feet. 4 to 7 feet all the way to cape lookout, and rain is going to be possibly heavy, upwards of 15 inches of rain in some spots, lester, but from jacksonville to cape hatteras, generally 5 to 7 inches the florida coast, the georgia coast and the carolinas all still have to be on a high alert. >> all right, al, thank you. >>> in california tonight, the search for answers intensifies after that devastating

roker, thank you as always, th sir. thank you. thank you very much. during al's forecast there. i want to bring in the mayor now, the mayor of new smyrna beach. this is russq owen. that looked like it may have been a piece of a wall or roof >> yeah, i don't know exactly what that is. that may be debris,fáu seen earlier somebody posted a social media a menu from the bahamas that had washed up here locally and they grabbed. that may be debris that's caught up and come this far or maybe some construction debris here locally. >> i know we chatted yesterday last evening one of your chief concerns was thew3 storm surge, coastal flooding. is that still one of thee1 primy >> yeah. i got to tell you everything we're seeing right nowñr looksf really, really good. it looks likexd we've been very ñ sustained, no flooding that i've i seen. i'm sure there will be some scattered but none that i've seen so far. think we've been very, very >> power >> power >> you spotty outages but, again, our crews were already mobilize and the highest the highest was about 500 in m

let's get into the new details of this storm beginning with al roker. we've been watching your updates throughout the morning on "today." but what have you seen from dorian both as the day has progressed and as we're getting more information? >> the interesting thing is that this really not much. it pretty much has been almost stationery in the last five, six hours really. the one big change is the drop in the wind speed. it is now down to 155 miles per hour. but that forward movement, i mean, i can walk faster than this. basically we're looking at hurricane warnings now from just north of west palm beach to north of melbourne. plus hurricane watches up to jacksonville. we have tropical storm watches also. and of course hurricane warnings over the northern islands of the bahamas. here 130-mile-per-hour winds by late tomorrow night. it is justakes a turn, but it just hugs the coast. the greatest shot at some landfall will be sometime on friday as it cuts across cape hatteras. we may see another landfall there. but in the meantime, it stays offshore. and

roker, what are we seeing? >> here's the deal. there you can see this is the path where we finally saw landfall in america in cape hatteras. interestingly enough, it's the fourth landfall. it ran -- it made three land falls in the bahamas, of course creating massive destruction. and now there it goes. this is the latest from the national hurricane center. still a category one storm. it's 50 miles northeast of cape hatteras. the winds are still 90 miles per hour, but here's the big change. finally getting picked up by that trough northeast. it's moving northeast at 17 miles per hour. so this things is now finally starting to book. look at this. we have tropical storm watches all the way up into new finland. we've got hurricane watches for parts of new england. and we're -- i should say tropical storm storm warnings for parts of new england. and then we still have the tropical storm watches and warnings as you come down the south from ocean city to norfolk tropical storm warning and hurricane warnings down to the south around cape h

. >> joining us now is nbc's own al roker. welcome. tell us where is this thing headed at this point? >> it is starting to make its way up the coast. ali, when we talked yesterday it was pretty much stationary and now it's finally made a move. over 24 hours it moved about 12 miles and as you can see to mariana's point we are now seeing tropical force winds coming from melbourne, fort pierce, west palm beach and even close to it down in miami as this system progresses. so let's take a look at the latest location. category 2 storm. 110 miles east of fort pierce, florida. that is important because the tropical force winds extend out 175 miles from the center of that storm. it is moving northwest at 3 m les per hour and so west palm beach all the way to just east of charleston. we have tropical storm warnings inland. and that speaks to the idea that extending away from the coast line and further inland. so we'll be watching that very closely all the way to cape hatteras we have hurricane watches up. those will probably be upgraded as we ge

. >>> in the bahamas the tonight, where it's headed tonight al roker with the impacts in the northeasths linked to ecigarettes rising, the urgent new warning from the cdc, stop vaping now