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Watching at fubo tv. Com, a cnn special event, the Vice President ial debate. Tuesday at nine everyone, welcome cnn this morning it is saturday, september 28. Im Amara Walker alongside Danny Freeman and jim sciutto. We begin this morning with major breaking developments in the middle East Cnn Breaking News the concerns continue to grow about the possibility of a widening war. Now that hezbollah has confirmed its leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in israeli airstrikes In Beirut. Nasrallah, who led the iranbacked Militant Group for more than three decades was killed in a targeted strike on hezbollahs headquarters and Lebanons Capital know there are concerns about the possibility of a retaliatory Response Hezbollah launching rockets into northern israel before acknowledging nasrallahs death. Meanwhile, iran Supreme Leader says its forces are standing with hezbollah and the chief of Israels Army warns that israel knows how to reach anyone who threatens its citizens. All right, lets go back to jim sciutto, whos been standing by live in tel aviv. Jim well, just a short time ago, hezbollah confirmed that its leader Hassan Nasrallah, is dead killed in an israeli airstrike. It is a significant development in this ongoing conflict between Israel And Hezbollah. And of course, the concern now is of a wider war in the Region Cnn senior international correspondent, Ben Wedeman is In Beirut then i understand you interviewed nasrallah in the past. Can you describe just how central he was to hezbollah as an Organization Today . Following his leadership of the group for more than 30 years only leader hey followers and hezbollah knew many of them who grew up with him. He, i interviewed him back in 1997 in the middle of when hezbollah was totally focused on trying to drive israeli forces out of south lebanon. And i can tell you hes, he was very intelligent, wellspoken man who clearly had the managerial abilities to run not just a Guerrilla War against israel, but also to expand the organization beyond merely a guerrilla force. Into a political force as well. One that many lebanese have found it very hard to reckon with if forced a political force that oftentimes through its weight around. But he was somebody who even the israelis had grudging respect for it as a formidable foe, who really put israels abilities to the test, not only during that protracted Guerrilla War in south lebanon, but for instance in 2006 when the israelis thought they would be able to easily defeat or even destroy hezbollah during that war. But in fact they were essentially fought to a standstill. By hezbollah. Now, just to give you a feeling that weve been hearing occasional heavy machine gunfire, hear from our position In Beirut clearly hezbollah followers very angry at this news and the worry is that this could become a somewhat unstable security situation. Given that many of the people who lived in South Beirut where hezbollah has a strong presence, have now left that area and are dispersed throughout the city. We understand that many of those who left South Beirut and are camped out on the roadways in parks and whatnot. Many of them are deeply distressed to hear this news. As i said, hes a leader whos been around since 1992 to a very strong presence, certainly in the shia community, but also in lebanon broadly, somebody who this as the saying goes, he was a terrorist to some, but a Freedom Fighter to many others. Jim and presided over the organization as it grew its Arsenal Norm Asli with iranian help, Ben Wedeman In Beirut. Thanks so much. Cnn international diplomatic editor Nic Robertson is here with me in tel aviv. I wonder you and i have discussed this for some time that this strike on nasrallah did not develop over hours or days . Weeks, or months, but over many, many years that he was a target of israel for years. And that i imagine what was behind this attack took years so developing, development of intelligence and other means to carry this out successfully. Undoubtedly, but ultimately it took the sign off from the prime Minister Benjamin Yahoo and his office released a photograph of him signing off on this strike yesterday, and the idf and the Air Force would have known exactly what they were doing precisely where he was precisely how many meters below ground precisely which bombs to use precisely how long the fuses should be he set for how deep those explosive should go, that Big Red Plume we saw coming up, that was all the result of what the idf would say was 20 years of planning that developing the Intelligence Source knowing which wifi systems to tap into which Cctv Cameras in which corner stores, unwittingly became eyes and potential ears for the idf in this multifaceted system, which has only grown, one can say wings because of the ability and the omni presence. Now of drones that now just changed not only the landscape of a battlefield but the landscape of the preparation for that battle. So all of this information, the idf would have had can we presume that there was a Human Element to this . Intelligence as well, given not just the strike on nasrallah, but other Hezbollah Leaders, as well as this enormous attack on pagers that targeted thousands of hezbollah fighters. But does that signal that hezbollah is infiltrated . And it part of its reaction now is trying to figure out where are those holes are hezbollah has always been a very secure but he conscious, very aware of not only the internal enemies with Inside Lebanon as ben was mentioning there, but the external enemies that they declared, like israel and they would have recognized since roe was incredibly sophisticated and would have tried to penetrate them with intelligence operatives and organizations like the mossad, a very skilled at doing putting that witness. They havent said they were responsible, but witness the pagers. And how long that Wasnt Planning that they went into the pockets of 5,000 hezbollah commanders and then essentially exploded. So Patient Business where you try to find people who have a grievance with the organization or have so a. Financial reason or a Honey Trap or whatever the multitude of different ways it is to coopt somebody at times, beginning theyre not even realizing that. I mean, look, israel has just prosecuted a man here in israel for essentially being in the pocket of the irradiance and possible sibley unwittingly to a degree is some of the accounts of some of the developments that weve heard over recent weeks that theyre theyre always vulnerabilities and one could imagine that israel exposed and took advantage of those in the case of hezbollah, Nic Robertson thanks so much there are so many repercussions yes i do want to go now to ian bremmer. He is with the international Eurasia Group political Risk And Research firm ian bremmer, the country crn, has been for some time about an expansion of this war that started In Gaza following the October 7 Terror Attacks by hamas you now i what can only be described as an expanding conflict on the northern border here perhaps war already but are we already in that greater multifront conflict that many had feared. Sure, we are jim but the question is whether israeli intelligence, technology and military asymmetries means that the impact of that war at least in the near term it is a lot less than many of us would have feared. Ive been talking to a lot of the Middle East leaders in New York over the last several days. And of course, theres a lot of outrage, but theres also a lot of sense that hezbollah is a Paper Tiger. And those views well only get stronger over the last several hours given what israel has been able to inflict damage, theyve been able to inflict on hezbollah. So i mean, youre going to have an enormous number of palestinians and others that, that will be radicalized on the back of them. All of these acts. But what can they concretely do . What would it mean if Hezbollah Today decides to declare All Out War On Israel what would the implications of that actually be in terms of the fighting both for israel itself and more broadly. And the answer may be less severe then people have thought. So, i think this is a really big deal clearly in terms of the degrading of hezbollahs capabilities. And of course, the country that is, has to be thinking the most seriously about this strategically is iran a country whose least i had repeated that they do not want to fall into the israeli trap of hitting israel and getting itself drawn into a war with israel and the united states. The Risks Attendant to that have to feel a lot greater if you are tehran today let me ask you if hezbollah has proven to be a Paper Tiger has below is one of irans biggest points of influence against israel up a Proxy Force capable. It was thought to striking israel with great effect as part of the projection of irans own power. So if hezbollah is weaker than a imagine, is iran weaker than then imagine as relates to israel . Thats the right question i mean the iranian Vice President , who i spoke with a few days ago was talking about how iran had proven that the Iron Dome was not invulnerable because they were able to penetrate it when they hit back in april, that certainly not my view. Thats not the israeli view or the american view. I think the broader view is that iran is weaker and more vulnerable. I think that says two things. There are two questions that should be on everyones mind. The first is to what Extent Israel would consider itself expanding this war to iran in order to neutralize not only their military, but also their nascent nuclear threat. Does israel have that kind of intelligence capabilities thats an open question. The second is, if youre a ron the desire to get a nuclear deterrent yourself becomes far more important. In this after these attacks, i mean, you remember the united states has been talking for many years about a complete verifiable, Irreversible Denuclearization of North Korea. Well, they werent able to accomplish that in fact, North Korea strength even got former President Trump to go and talk and negotiate with kim jong un. Well, i mean, iran would be in a radically different Position Today if they had no nokes i mean, whos saying would have been in very different position if he had nukes as opposed to just people thought he was its getting nukes, right . He probably wouldnt be lying dead. So i do think that there are a lot of big questions that are in the backs of leaders Minds Today that are a little different, a little sharper than they were a week ago. Jim to your point, i mean, i think the comparison to North Korea is not undo and the thinking had been that North Korea calculated its only means of survival was a nuclear weapon out gun as it were by South Korea and the u. S is iran more likely to make that same conclusion. And then the question becomes, if so how does israel respond . Does it immediately attack those facilities i think iran is more likely to conclude that they need a nuclear deterrent quickly. But theyre also more likely i plead to conclude, given how risky that would be that they should try to reach out and engage with the united states and the old gang is back together. I mean, you know, the president , who was a surprise when reformist in the iranian context but his Vice President has Foreign Minister has chief negotiators. These are the people that put together the jcpoa, the old iranian nuclear deal with the united states and the international community they have clearly said over the past several days that they want to read engage, and they have clearly said that they hope that Thats Something that can be done quickly. Should they be trusted absolutely not should they be quietly engaged with in this environment shore, there were a lot weaker. I think thats going to be interesting. So i think both of those things are likely happening at the same time the question as to the results of the u. S election, because one might presume quite different approaches to the region from Harris And Trump in bremmer. Thanks so much as always good to see jim and we will continue our breaking News Coverage on the death of Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah now confirmed by the group will be back right after a short break tim Walz And Jd events in their first and only facetoface debate. 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Jeremy, i understand weve just been hearing from Idf Spokesperson Admiral Daniel Hagari with the latest what was the news hagari, the first time that we have actually heard him directly please say the news that Hassan Nasrallah was killed in this israeli strike yesterday, yesterday when he came out, he had only said that it was a strike on hezbollah central headquarters, but now can firming that it was indeed to target and successfully kill Hassan Nasrallah. His announcement came moments after hezbollah itself acknowledged for the first time that nasrallah was indeed killed in this Strike Hagari also defended the legitimacy of this target. As we are learning of this Mounting Death Toll In Beirut from this strike as multiple residential buildings were flattened in a strike targeting this underground compounds that the israeli military said was beneath those buildings he said that he believes hagari said that he believes this was a legitimate target under international law and accused hezbollah of using the civilians in the area as human shields. We have heard this language of course before from the israeli military, not only in this case in lebanon, but also multiple times before In Gaza the he also talked about what is going to come next in terms of the possibility of retaliatory attacks on israel that the Home Front Command and guidelines are being changed for central israel, limiting gatherings to less than 1,000 people in central israel, telling people to take necessary precautions. But clearly at this point, were not seeing any kind of major, major changes in the guidance to civilians here in israel . Israel and part of that stems from the fact that as ive been speaking with israeli officials over the last few hours, its become very clear that they believed that hezbollah is currently in disarray. Not only because of the death of Hassan Nasrallah, but also because israel has killed many of most i should say, the overwhelming majority of hezbollahs senior commanders over the course of the last a week and a half, they believe hezbollah is in disarray and critically that theyre operational capabilities have also been significantly disabled as the israeli military on monday, for example, carried out strikes on more than 1,600 targets. They believe that those targets successfully took out many of the Rocket Launchers and Weapons Depots that it could have been used to fire thousands of rockets per day against israel of the kind of massive retaliatory scenario that israel has been anticipating. But that happen has not come to pass. And so now israeli officials believe that it is these attacks over the course of the last ten days that have not only put hezbollah detonated hezbollah as Command And Control structure, but also degraded its operational ability to actually carry out these attacks even if it chose to do so Jeremy Diamond thanks so much. The Israel Defense forces say that 140 hezbollah targets have been struck by israeli forces since friday tonight, that includes the strike on the Hezbollah Leader, Hassan Nasrallah the idf says, in addition, it targeted Weapons Storage facilities please Production Sites and other infrastructure imbedded underneath a residential buildings In Beirut. Joining me now is major doron spielman. He is the spokesman for the major. Thanks so much for joining us. Thank you for having me, jim first, i wonder if you can describe does israel have a view as to who will replace nasrallah but as the leader of hezbollah i think right now, israels dealing with the fact that the most vicious Terrorist Regime in the world, and as diabolical leader for which has been the head of that regime much longer than liters of most country Put In, trained under his volos philosophy, directed all of his villa, all of their architecture committed that organization to the structure and of israel is now out of the picture im sure that there will be those that are vying for the post however, one thing i can tell you, no one is going to reach that post without the approval of iran. We know that iran is really calling the shots on and im sure whoevers going up to that post is going to look around and realize everyone around them has been eliminated. The entire first and second layer stuff. And thats what theyre walking into. The position as long as theyre threatening israel and not allowing israel civilians to go back to their homes, which is really what this is all about than as israel said, Everybody And Anything is open hezbollah has long been viewed as one of irans tools, weapons against israel. In addition to other proxies in the region if hezbollah is severely depleted as it appears, it is certainly at the senior levels is iran therefore, less threatening to israel . Is it is it weaker than it was, say, a month ago i think wed be very cautious before saying that he run has been weakened. Again, rockets when off just a few minutes ago, just over my home On My Way here, there was a rocket that was intercepted and i had to do with my children who were very scared. Were not going to wage that iran, which is the largest supporter of terrorism in the entire world, is weakened. What they do know is that theyve been hiding for years behind the proxies, being able to destroy and attack israel, terrorize israeli civilians without paying a price. What they see now is their proxy, hezbollah, which has forced people out of their home and tortured their own people. And it all their weaponry behind the hind lebanese civilians is now thank you a very serious price seen at a story out a short time ago, describing how among us officials there are fears now of a wider conflict in the Middle East, which as you know, that it has been seeking to avoid. And that was part of the motivation behind Ceasefire Talks as relates to let Lebanon Hezbollah and israel earlier Ceasefire Talks has relayed to gaza. Did israel carry out this attack over us Objections Israel carried out this attack because as weve said from the Beginning Hezbollah is what stands in the way of israeli civilians moving north. And peace in the entire northern part of the Country Israel clearly felt that, that nasrallah is a major target. Hes calling all the shots as a second command, we worked very closely with the united states to our greatest ally, but israel at the end of the day has independence to you, try to fulfill its military objectives in order to protect its own people the truth is though that us officials have been frustrated by their relationships. Certainly the White House with Benjamin Netanyahu and the perception is that the u. S has invested diplomatic and other capital and backed israel certainly militarily since October 7 and prior flux over seventh. But that netanyahu is returning the favor as it were, for instance, in terms of getting a Ceasefire And Hostage Release Deal across the Finish Line In Gaza. Is that a fair criticism . But i can tell you, jim, that the last year has been the greatest challenge in this are history, where we are threatened by seven different fronts. The houthis in yemen, hezbollah in the north hamas and gaza. And thats just the name a few, this is the hour that israel will look back and the world will look back and say, who stands by israel in this hour and the u. S im not a politician, im here on behalf of the army has been the greatest friend and has supported israel and understands our objectives regarding ceasefire for an entire year, hezbollah has been Firing Rockets overnight, thousand rockets, missiles, and killer drones and no one talked about a ceasefire. Now that israels actually taking the assertion to try to protect its civilians were calling for a ceasefire as weve said, and as the israeli army says that were open for anything thats long as israeli civilians can go back home and his below withdrawals beyond the litani what we know is that right now, his bowl, every one of those rockets and missiles inside one of their own homes there civilian homes. Youve seen the pictures. They dont care about lebanese civilians. They dont care about israeli civilians in the world said were demanding is will that a ceasefire should be the demanding that his villa pull up if hezbollah does not withdraw to the litani river, is israel prepared to send in Ground Forces . We have made preparations and weve said very clearly that Hopefully Options are on the table. Are Ground Forces have been training over the last few days, the last few weeks. Its not something we want to do. We dont want to send our sons and daughters. I dont want to send my children until lebanon to fight hezbollah, whos been hiding beneath the ground and its probably waiting for them so last thing i want to do, however, i just came from the north its a Ghost Town with rockets and missiles as falling everywhere. We just had no choice. I mean, its what are we not going to bring our civilians back home. Its its a terrible choice. I spent a lot of time up north since those areas have been evacuated, spoken to north northern residents who said for some time they want the country to, and they use the phrase finish the job. In the north, i do want to ask you, because we discussed this when we spoke earlier this morning, has this israel made any estimate or made any progress on estimates as to the number of civilian casualties in this strike because the munitions used were quite enormous. Weve all seen the pictures of the devastation following. And there were, there were six, i believe, apartment blocks above that above that bunker. Its a very big concern at something that the idf and every single one our strikes me go to enormous pains to try to limit civilian casualties in this place unfortunately thats rollo was not located in his home in a secure law occasion. He was located in the Command And Control center with all of this upper Level Staff underneath the civilian complex, its a very, very difficult decision to do something like this. And as the Day Stay unfolds, of course, will report back. But what i can tell you is we know this is the challenge that hamas and hezbollah Put In front of us they protect all of their assets with civilians hoping that one on day there are civilians will die so they can turn to the world and say, look at the aggressor and hopefully the world knows we know that this is not the case. We want peace with our out for old people and what the lebanese people will no war with the lebanese people only with his vote. Before we go, does israel have any indication that iranian commanders were present . At, that site, the site of the attack, and that iranian commanders were killed as well i dont have that information right now, but what i can tell you is in numerous of the other strikes that took the Word Iran thank commanders that were there. They work Hand In hand with as well on a daytoday basis, major doron spielman, thanks so much for joining us and giving those updates. Thank you, jim still to come thousands of people hello. Now, fleeing lebanon as israeli airstrikes continue across large parts of the country, were going to take a look at the humanitarian impact of the conflict right after a short great took culture over the edge. People are watching and then our World Change he had an explosive Reverberation Tv on the Edge Tomorrow at nine on cnn what are you talk about . The news sports a little family, gaza, maybe now, you dont do that, right heres another topic for you. 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For days now, weve been seeing these long queues of cars attempting to move out of Southern Lebanon. Now In Beirut, many families are living in yeah, given the series of strikes that we saw yesterday and overnight targeting areas as you mentioned, that are densely populated, crammed with residential buildings, tall apartment buildings. Of course was filled with civilians, families, children, and what weve seen overnight and what our teams on the ground have been seeing is that many have taken to the streets with whatever belongings they could grab with them thank kits and pillows with their children. Essentially sleeping on the street in Western Parts of beirut near the coastline in an attempt to find whatever Safety And Security they can find to afraid to be indoors in buildings that could be struck by israeli airstrikes. Now of course, we have seen this enormous Bombing Campaign as youve mentioned earlier in the show, we have seen a huge huge weapons being used, huge bombs being used. And what is a very densely populated area for anyone whos been to the southern suburbs of the here, it is absolutely cramps. You can imagine the consequences. For the civilian Population Weve heard from Lebanons Health Minister telling cnn that they estimate around half A Million people have now been internally displaced. And a reminder, of course, of what weve been seeing for a year now, is this crossfire on lebanons Southern Border between Israel And Hezbollah that has already had already led to the a number of civilians fleeing parts of Southern Lebanon the 100,000 forced to flee their homes. There. Now as you can imagine, that number has only increased significantly given the strikes that we have been seeing. What is also a huge point of concern at these Evacuation Orders that were hearing now from the israeli Military Hearing from people on the ground telling us that they are receiving these Evacuation Orders. But there isnt enough time to get to safety before the bomb strike. So of course there is rampant fear on the potential for Escalation And Weve been hearing from lebanese officials calling on the international community to intervene to prevent this from spiraling Out Of Control and of course there was no warning for the strike on us roller for civilians that might have been present there. Nada bashir, thanks so much. Our breaking News Coverage continues right after a short break. Look at the news of the week. And asked questions like, what does a Comedy Show doing on cnn thats too much i want donald now, can you slice that my Got News for you tonight at nine on cnn. I had no idea. 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Clearly, hezbollah militants unhappy with the news that has Sun Nasrallah has been killed, and theyre shooting in the air and what goes up must come down regarding the possible successor for Hassan Nasrallah it looks as if the entire Military Leadership going down several levels in the hierarchy i have been killed by israel over the last ten days or so. So were looking at the political echelon of the organization the deputy of Hassan Nasrallah was Naim Qassem who is it cleric, somebody i just saw the other day he was giving a eulogy for a necessitated Hezbollah Military Commander, ibrahim aqil hes considered to be a hard liner and not lacking. Im sort of lacking some of the the charisma and the managerial skills of my Hassan Nasrallah, another possible candidate is Hashem Safiya dean. He is related through his wife to hasan nasrallah, another prominent member, but at this point given the body blows that hezbollah has received going back to july 30, if the when Fuad Shukr was killed in the southern suburbs of beirut in an israeli Drone Strike what were seeing is that the organization is clearly reeling at the moment and perhaps their priority at the moment is surviving those who are still alive, surviving to carry on to fight another day. A rather than rush off to decide whos going to run the place and then announce that to the public. Danny, what an extraordinary Position Hezbollah as fighting itself in right now then as we have seen, israel is capable of pulling off some very highly sophisticated attacks as we saw with the pager and so walkietalkie attacks, Thats Something that only a few nations it could do in terms of this attack, killing Hassan Nasrallah. Do we know what kind of Intelligence Idf used we dont, we can only surmise at this point, but clearly, they had somehow been able to infiltrate some of the Communications Networks of hezbollah. All of these targeted strikes weve seen going back to last week clearly indicate that somebody was providing precise locations for precise individuals, allowing that building where he was in or this person or that person might have been in and killing them. So theres that angle, but theres also the Human Element and in fact, several months ago, i met with a Senior Advisor to nasrallah who told me that one of their worries was that the many syrians who work in southern beirut, menial Tasks Doorman working in shops, are probably a, theyre weak point that these are people who might be passing information to the israelis, perhaps for money and also keep in mind that many syrians are deeply bitter at the Role Hezbollah played during the syrian civil war. And when his bullet deployed thousands of its fighters to syria and many. Therefore, for instance, were saying that there are celebrations in rebelheld areas because of syria. When the news of Hassan Nasrallahs death came out. And theres another thing the same his senior Hezbollah Official told me that during that syrian war, many hey, of the hezbollah fighters who normally would follow precise instructions on how they use their Cell Phones for instance, they got a little sloppy while they were for in syria. They were communicating with their families back in lebanon. They were sending pictures. Basically, the israelis, they believe were able to start part two identify individuals by using the data that they could collect from those phone calls, connecting these people and therefore, theres a verdict friday, if possible, holes through which israel could have gotten to allow them to be able to not just kill Hassan Nasrallah, but so many other senior Hezbollah Military Commander theres amara been less listening just before you go, can you give us a sense of what you believe Nasrallahs Legacy in the region will be . As we continue on in this conflict his son, his Standing Or Reputation in the region has gone through an interesting evolution while he was leading in the 1990s, the Guerilla War against israel in south lebanon. He was seen as a hero so one of the few arab leaders who actually did something effective against israeli occupation of error blends in the 2006 war, he was celebrated across plus the arab world. And because of hezbollah is ability to essentially fight the israelis to a standstill. But then afterwards, he celebrated the killing the execution, any iraq of Saddam Hussein. And that was seen as sectarianism as a Shia Leader was taking joy in the fact that Saddam Hussein is Sunni Leader was being, was killed. So a reputation that has taking a few knocks and certainly in this war many have seen him as somebody who hasnt done quite enough to help the people In Gaza as the israeli war, there goes on. All right. Ben wedeman, we really appreciate your reporting there live from beirut as he follow this Breaking News and extraordinary moment as has paula has confirmed that their leader, one of the founders of hezbollah, has been killed in an israeli airstrike, well be right back still going to one Class President would be slogan wow, working on Campaign Posters have yep, boat from madison because shes so cool and has the best snacks that are alice. 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And this posttropical cyclone, but theres still widespread damage in the southeast and dangerous conditions as Cleanup Efforts get underway, there are at least 49 deaths and crews are working to restore power to more than 3 Million people at this Hour Cnn Correspondent Isabel Rosales is joining us now from asheville, north carolina. Youve been showing us the damage. What are you seeing right now amara . Danny, good morning to yeah. People are starting to dig out. Ive seen an increase of cars just driving through this really a thick mud that has been left behind from all of this River Flooding also uncovering really strange things from furniture to a door right here. And then right in front of you, this huge, powerful, i mean, thats a big metal heavy powerful. So that right there shows you the powers of this flooding from the Swannanoa But River that crested at 27 feet, that is a new record. 27 feet. Usually that reverse two to four feet high, deep. I also want to show you something right here do you see this dark Mark Right here . That right there shows you the Water Light of how high the water got yesterday at is tallest point that is to of me right here. This building, by the way, this is a milk distribution warehouse. I spoke with the owner, patrick. He says this caused an absolute mess. This water ruined all of his Milk Problem products, his heavy equipment hes going to have to start again completely over. He doesnt even know where to begin with this recovery process. He doesnt have flood insurance. He told me a lot of other Small Business owners here and the historic Biltmore Village are in the same boat. This is going to be a long process to solve recovery for them to get this together. I believe we have some Drone Footage as well to show from the sky what this aftermath looks like. Its not just cleaning up this mud, its also reestablishing back to normalcy there is no power here in the city of asheville, and theres no eta as to when that will come back. Also know Carrier Sell Service is working. So weve seen people struggling to get in touch with Loved Ones outside of asheville and to tell them that they are okay. There were over 130 swift water rescues that happened overnight and officials are saying, hey, were not out of this yet. This is still dangerous conditions out and about especially with debris. The two major rivers here are still at a major flood stage. Theyre telling people to avoid the roads as they begin this cleanup process. Danny Amara Isabel rosales, just incredible images out there hoping for a quick cleanup. Thank you. All right. Well, thank you for being with us on this very busy morning of Breaking News. Well see you back here tomorrow. Smerconish will start after a quick break Safe Space you have a show. 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