i'm todd piro. here's what we're monitoring.tracking a strong and deadly storm slowly moving across the east coast. it first hit florida on friday. this is drone video of flooded downtown area. flooding is a big concern for millions in the line of the storm's path. check out this other drone footage in alligator point in florida. an area hard hit by the hurricane. the onrushing surf washing out a stretch of road along the peninsula. gabe gutierrez is in ocean city, maryland, where there's been a bit more sunshine today. gabe, weather took a different turn where you are. what's it like right now? >> reporter: as you can see some beautiful sunshine this morning. this was a place believed to be heavily impacted by the storm. there's still of course the concern for dangerous rip currents up and down the east coast. the beach patrol today is here making sure people are staying out of the water. however, this is a very popular tourist destination. especially on labor day weekend. on a typical busy summer holiday weekend, this boardwal

. >>> good morning, i'm todd piro at msnbc world headquarters. here's what's happening -- 52 days left in the battle for the white house. all side hitting with new attacks. donald trump alarming some with this -- >> she goes around with armed bodyguards like you have never seen before. i think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons, they should disarm. [ applause ] >> that came after he tried to lay the birther issue to rest. the big question -- will the past few days blunt his apparent momentum? >>> the next 53 days will shape the next 50 years. the future of our children and grandchildren hangs in the balance. >> hillary clinton, meanwhile, fighting back on the the campaign trail after a week that saw some tough new polls. new details ahead on the "the place for politics." >>> a massive fuel spill in the south having a ripple effect on gas prices up and down parts of the east coast. we begin with politics. >>> the clinton campaign blasting donald trump for comments he made at a rally in miami last night. >> now you know she's very much aga

. >>> hi, everyone, i'm todd piro with breaking news on an explosion in new york city, 29 people are injured after a device cloeded near a trash bin in the city's chelsea neighborhood. none of the injuries appears to be life-threatening. the mayor says at this point there's no evidence linking the blast to terrorism. police later discovered what appeared to be a pressure cooker nearby. it has been taken to a remote location for investigation. we will keep you apprised of the latest. now, back to date line. >>> nikki leili was dead and her husband was telling police that this seemingly happy mom had a dark side. he claimed she was violent and mentally unstable, especially on the night she disappeared. investigators didn't know it yet but they were about to get a better view of the home into the home than they could have ever imagined. here's dennis murphy with the house on sydney's could he have. >> within minutes of finding nikki's body, police raced to the leili home about a mile away. what they observed right away was astounding. the home security system that matt leili had casuall

. >>> i'm todd piro with the top stories. pope francis has proclaimed mother teresa a saint.e did so within the hour at a mass at the vatican. >>> cyclone hermine is making its way up the coast. and flood watches are in force by connecticut. now back to "dateline extra." >>> welcome back to "dateline extra." i'm tamron hall. alex fazzino said he found his wife emily submerged in a bathtub and that she must have overdosed but the medical examiner's findings showed otherwise. how did emily die? there was much speculation within the family. and police had to confront alex with an odd question. here again is josh mankiewicz with more of "the quiet one." >> rumors were flying around the town of boone, iowa, after emily's death. family and friends thought alex fazzino had killed his wife. >> they just kept saying over and over, he murdered her. he murdered her. >> the whispering started almost immediately. >> yeah. within a -- within a day. >> you're a murderer? >> that's what they were saying. >> reporter: and not just a murderer. emily's sister, ammie, told investigators alex was

i'm todd piro. it's 9:00 a.m. in the east. 6:00 a.m. in the west.ening. >>> stalled off the coast. the once hurricane hermine remains a serious threat in the mid-atlantic and the northeast. the latest forecast in a moment. >> we're one nation and when anyone hurts, we all hurt together. that's so true. >> making his pitch. donald trump's african-american outreach. new reaction on whether his message will change any minds. >>> face-off on the tarmac. new details after a chinese official confronts a member of the u.s. delegation as president obama arrives for the g-20 summit. what was this all about?

. >>> good morning, i'm todd piro at msnbc world headquarters.- 52 days left in the battle for the white house. all side hitting with new attacks. donald trump alarming some with this -- >> she goes around with armed bodyguards like you have never seen before. i think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons, they should disarm. [ applause ] >> that came after he tried to lay the birther issue to rest. the big question -- will the past few days blunt his apparent momentum? >>> the next 53