Beirut, lebanon. Weve been watching this picture for several Hours Today as the israeli military warns people to evacuate southern Lebanon Signaling a possible broadening of its operation there. Were live in the Middle East all morning long here. First, however, there is this. Mark the calendars, america, 33 days to go. The candidates are back on the trail now and three major stories threatening to upend the race for the White House as we Say Hello to october and all the surprises that could come with it. Hello, im bill hemmer, welcome to our coverage in New York city. Dana im Dana Perino and this is americas newsroom. A lot of news. When we get back on monday it will be under 30 days. I did the math. Very good Math Skills this morning. Kamala harris has issues at home or abroad. Is Vice President is backing Dock Workers in the standoff despite fears it could reignite inflation. Bill israel vowing to retaliate against iran because of an historic missile. The White House is asking them to have restraint. Dana devastation from helene is coming into focus and it is not good. Dhs warning fema doesnt have enough money to get through Hurricane Season. Bill not sitting well with critics of the biden administration in light of the money spent housing illegal immigrants in the country. Well talk with a congressman out of florida doing what he can to help improve matters. But before we get there Chad Pergram reports from capitol hill. Mark meredith reports from the White House. Lets start with you on the North Lawn today, mark meredith. Good morning. It may hook calm behind me. A fall morning. The White House is dealing with multiple crises and the timing is notable. You have some states already casting november ballots. Today the president will be heading down to georgia and florida to tour the damage left over from Hurricane Helene. Administration says it is worried about the potential for another storm and suggests the government would not have the money to cover it. Speaking of money, the u. S. Economy also on the line as east Coast Dock workers and longshoremen remain on Strike And Bile there are estimates it could cost the u. S. Economy billions with a b each day, the president still appears uninterested in using his Executive Power to stop the strike. The last thing we need on top of that is a manmade disaster. Whats going on at the ports. Were getting pushback already and hearing from the Folks Region ali having trouble getting products in because of the Port Strike. The strike is occurring on the president s watch perhaps its Vice President harris could pay the biggest price politically. New york times striking workers, missiles over israel and helene. Fears of an allout war with iran could derail the democrats plan. Even as republicans accuse harris and the president of emboldening iran to act. We expect President Trump to talk about this quite a bit on the Campaign Trail having an event in mitch goon. Vice president harris is back on the trail looking at Storm Damage Yesterday will be in wisconsin and michigan later tonight. Bill nice to see you at the White House. Dana helene devastating the southeast. More than 190 are confirmed dead and communities are completely wiped off the map. Now Homeland Security Secretary mayorkas is issuing a warning saying fema does not have the funds to make it through Hurricane Season. This despite mayorkass dhs having 640 Million designated money to help communities support illegal migrants. Chad pergram is live from capitol hill. This is a debate that comes up now and again but at this point i would imagine it will have some real resonance. Absolutely, dana. A Fema Fund which addresses immediate needs. Fema has enough money to help with Relief Efforts after Hurricane Helene for now. Homeland Security Secretary says that will change. Were meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We do not have the funds, fema does not have the funds to make it through the season. The Hurricane Season runs through november 30th. Congress made sure fema had more than 20 Billion in last Weeks Emergency Spending bill ahead of the storm. But last Year Congress awarded dhs 640 Million to help communities provide Shelter And Aid to people in the country illegally. Thats why there are questions about money for illegal immigration and hurricane relief. So you heard they have taken the Fema Emergency Food and Shelter Program and over time siphoned off hundreds of millions of dollars into basically making it an illegal Immigrant Resettlement program. Some may question money going toward illegal immigration when people in the south are struggling to survive following helene. Republicans still criticize the Bidenharris Administration for how it handled the border. The Immigration Policy is basically nonexistent. They put out the welcome mat. The catastrophe has been to this country with Fentanyl Poisoning being the leading cause of death from 18 to 49. The trafficking. There are needs for the government to respond to older natural disasters. Expect congress to Green Light ExtraDisaster Aid in a Spending Bill due around christmas. Some lawmakers want to increase aid for illegal immigrants to 3 Billion with a b dollars. Dana Chad Pergram on the hill. Bill Say Hello to cory mills, republican out of florida. I was looking at your helps may. Youve helped out in haiti, israel, afghanistan and third hurricane. Where are you today, what are you going to be doing knowing the government is too big and too slow to help . They are too big and too slow. Thank you for covering this. Were so quick to forget things like the incidents in maui or hurricanes here in florida or the recent hurricane with Hurricane Helene. But well focus and prioritize illegal Crime Gnat my grants and border 9,000 miles away. America needs to get its priorities straight. Right now what were trying to do is continue to bring supplies. As of yesterday on day three weve distributed 13,000 pounds of various supplies. Everything from Star Link systems to different locations completely remote and cut off and isolated to get our missing persons numbers down. A lot of people are saying i havent heard from my Family Members since the last text i received that its getting bad. It allows us to cut down the number of welfare checks were doing and Search And Rescue missions. Were distributing generators, Food Supplies and medications. People are running short on insulin, oxygen bottles, key essentials. We have were loading with different materials thanks to great charities like Mercury One and universal air we utilize the helicopters but doing evacuations. Just the other day there was an 83yearold man. His birthday. He was suffering from signs of hypertension or Cardiac Arrest and this is a guy who has been having Cancer Treatments and he had to be immediately medevaced where we picked him up in North Carolina all the way to johnson city. Were hitting three or four cities a day. Yesterday we hit pensacola. The Fire Chief said they had four fatalities, two of which floated down the river and they couldnt get to. They will be recovering bodies throughout the end of the year unfortunately. This is a horrific incident. Towns are devastated and my question is again where is the federal government and the rest of our elected officials who need to be here to respond when americans are in trouble . Dana listen to Kamala Harris yesterday saying theyve been paying attention since the beginning. The president and i have been paying close attention from the beginning to what we need to do to make sure the federal resources hit the ground as quickly as possible. And that includes what was necessary to make sure that we provided direct federal assistance and that work has been happening. Dana you are there. You have seen the Scope And Scale of the damage. And Yesterday President biden said the military would go in calling up the military to go and help. Landfall was friday. Presidents comments were wednesday. What do you make of that . Well again you are talking six days outside a 96 Hour Window where you need to start thinking the first 96 about rescues, getting in and helping people within that first couple days to be able to get them out of troubled areas. Now you are transitioning into what will be recover reese. The other thing is yesterday for president Bidens Dog and pony show to come and see photos. He put a 30 mile tfr, restriction in the air zone. He stopped from 12 00 until 1600 he stopped Air Traffic and helicopters picking up individuals and it was not only irresponse. Make sure you arent trying to hinder in any way further for organizations trying to do what is right. I found the entire response so far to be not just lacking but irresponsible and inept. Bill i think Kamala Harris spoke for eight minutes. I think she took one question about fatalities in georgia. She was in augusta. And then walked off to deliver meals. That was just an observation from her visit yesterday. Monday took no questions, tuesday no questions, yesterday one question. I know you are moving around. Where are you now and what will you do today . Today what were doing is well be supplying generators. One of the things that people have to keep in mind in the higher elevation areas, where were talking 5,000 feet elevation, in the coming weeks they will start seeing colder weather and we arent thinking about the fact this isnt a days long problem or a weeks long problem. It is a months long problem. Some isnt just rebuilding but trying to demolish areas and rebuild them from the bottom up. They will go through winters. It will be cold and getting Space Heaters and generators and Star Link systems. I went into an area called pen is a cola, North Carolina about 4,000 to 5,000 feet above sea level. What were looking there is a noticeable Temperature Change between that. You think three weeks ahead, were moving into november. You start to get the cooler temperatures. Now we have another risk. Well be transporting all those things in today. Glen beck is coming to try to survey further so Mercury One can do their support. Im not leaving the ground until we can get enough organizations and things going to keep moving. As an elected official it is our responsibility to put americans first whether in florida or anywhere in The Union. It is important for us to prioritize americans to Restore Hope and let them know they are not forgotten. Bill they are lucky to have you. You are doing this on your own and quite commendable. We have the red Cross Promotion up there. Dana Country Singer Scotty mccreery watched his hometown in North Carolina get destroyed and helping Pick Up The Pieces to Restore Garner and other towns to their glory. Bill look forward to talking to him next hour. Smoke is rising over beirut, lebanon. Israel taking the fight to hezbollah while weighing its response to tehran, iran and when does that happen . Well have the latest as it moves by the hour coming up. Plus this. There is no question that there were repeated bombshells in this submission. Dana a judge releasing why our next guest says it was strategically timed. Bill it is only day three of this Dock Workers strike. Both sides at a stand still. Reminder, they havent talked since june and the clock is running. It doesnt take long for this to really have an impact. Our Supply Chains are all interconnected. 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What is your would you support an attack on irans nuclear sites by israel . President biden the answer is no, and i think there are things well be discussing with the israelis what they are going to do. But all seven of us agree that they have a right to respond but they should respond in proportion. Bill there is a statement by the president talking about limits for israel. President Biden Weighing in as israel considers what it does next. We can see the smoke rising over beirut and lebanon. Some reports suggesting that the idf was going after the Intelligence Unit of hezbollah. Well see whether or not thats the case. Nate foye live in Tel Aviv, israel. Good morning. So breaking just within the past ten minutes as you alluded to the idf is confirming an israeli Air Strike hit Hezbollahs Intelligence Headquarters in beirut. Well see what comes of that. Israel continues facing threats from several iranian proxies including the houthi rebels in yemen who launched a Drone Attack in central israel overnight. It was stopped by the Idf And Progress in gaza nearing the oneyear anniversary. Israel says in the past three months theyve killed 450 hamas terrorists. One of them was considered hamas leader sinwars right hand man. He was a key political figure for hamas. Israel says he was killed in an Air Strike months ago. In lebanon, israel is complimenting its Ground Offensive with Air Strikes. This one hit the center of beirut. Lebanons Health Ministry said nine people were killed in this strike. Overnight israel says it took out 200 hezbollah positions and killed 15 terrorists in this Air Strike in southern lebanon. Israeli forces are making progress on the ground nearby but it is now coming at a heavy price. Take a look. These eight israeli soldiers were killed yesterday in an ambush with hezbollah terrorists. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said quote, May God avenge their deaths. Just to give you an idea of the size of irans ballistic missiles. Look at this. It was found in southern israel. One of roughly 200 that are fired at israel on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. Now as the fighting continues in lebanon, were learning devastating new numbers from Lebanons Health ministry. Since October 8th when hezbollah began firing on israel, were learning 1,974 people have died in that span as a result of Air Strikes. Israels top leaders met in Tel Aviv at military headquarters trying to decide how they are going to respond to irans massive ballistic Missile Attack on tuesday. Bill. Bill into another day we ride. Nate foye live in Tel Aviv. Dana over a month before the election and a judge unsealing jack smith East Filing in his Election Case against President Trump. Smith begins the argument saying the defendant asserts he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 president ial election because he claims it entailed official conduct. Not so, although the defendant was the incumbent president during the charged conspiracy his scheme was a fundamentally private one. Former assistant u. S. Attorney Andy Mccarthy wrote about this in National Review. We get him here to help explain to people. Why did this come out now . Do you think there was some funny business behind it . I dont think its more funny than the whole strategic scheduling of the procedures going back to when it was indicted and the effort, dana, to have a trial in march. The point of this was to try to get this information, which has been hashed out again and again before the american people. None of this is new. But the idea was to get the evidence out in as spectacular a way as possible. By smith and hopefully get trump convicted in the runup to the election in hopes of influencing the outcome of the election. And now we have the release of this Booklength Size Recitation of Smiths Case under circumstances where there is no possibility of having this trial before november. And there was no reason to have it brought out in public now. In fact, in most cases a judge would be concerned for Example Poisoning or prejudiceing against the defendant a jury pool. In most cases a judge would be very concerned that evidence not be broadcast in public without the usual Due Process cautions that Go On In A Trial that the defendant be presumed innocent, the fact that allegations are not evidence of anything. The point of releasing this now can only be to affect the election. It doesnt have there is no legal need for it. Dana there is some hope from some people that would be the case. Watch here. It is a bombshell. It comes 34 days ahead of the next president ial election. There are many dozens of bombshells here. I think this is absolutely going to be used in the Court Of Public Opinion to once again try to frame the former president as a martyr or victim of the justice system. He is now off the chain as the kids say and talking about people coming in and slicing your neck. We have a lot of October Surprises and only into day three or four of october and there are a ton out there. Dana over the last few years weve covered many of the trials and filings against President Trump that hasnt affected the election up to now. Maybe it has for some people. President trumps popularity, he is more popular now than he was before. It hasnt hurt him so far. I want to read to you what he said on truth. For 06 days prior to an election the department of injustice is supposed to be absolutely nothing that would taint or interfere with a case. They disobeyed their own rule. I did nothing wrong, they did. The case is a scam like all of the others including the Documents Case which was dismissed. Does he have a point there about how close it is to the election . He has a point about the onesidedness. There really is no 60 Day Rule. It is an unwritten rule of Common Sense you dont do anything that you dont have to do publicly for purposes of being perceived trying to put your thumb on the scale of the election. There is no hard and fast rule about that. I think he does have a point that the rules have been slanted against him and for example all deference was given to President Biden and Hunter Biden to keep the Hunter Biden stuff under wraps in the runup to the 2020 election. That was done by the trump justice department. So smith has said there is no 60 Day Rule that applies to trump because everybody already knows about these allegations and i think to your point, dana, the commentary were hearing about their being bombshells in this thing is true. Some of the stuff outlined is appalling. The thing is the country already has decided what it thinks about January 6th. That doesnt go down to Trumps Benefit but what it means is the country has moved on from four years to other things. The fact is they have to weigh what they think about what January 6th says about President Trumps suitability to be in office versus all of the dysfunction that theyve had to live through for the last four years and then you have to decide and weigh all that and vote. Dana thank you. I recommend his piece to everybody on National Review right now. Thank you. Bill 26 past now. Lets move to this. There is a new report now from the Dhs Inspector general revealing the rising Terror Threat posed by the migrant crisis. Why migrants are being allowed into the country and set free without i. D. Why would that happen . Why fema does not have enough money for emergencies after the agency spent hundreds of millions of dollars on migrant shelters. 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Duh, right . Brandon judd is here. There is more to it than that. Let me get your reaction on what the i. G. Found here first. Its extremely frustrating to every Border Patrol Agent and anybody that wants Border Security. This is a Policy Decision. You will constantly hear Vice President harris say that we need Immigration Legislation. She will talk about that border bill. And while we do need Immigration Legislation down the road for Border Security, we have to look at what is going on right now . What are the policies that she can change right now in the immediate time . This is a Policy Decision that has allowed us to put people throughout the entire united states. These people are being given an nta using that to fly where a united states citizens wouldnt be able to do that. We need proper i ventfication. I personally have interviewed these individuals and know they are lying to me about their name. Because we cant properly vet these individuals, we have to go with what they are giving us. Thats why we saw the death of a man in florida at the hands of somebody who claimed to be a minor but was an adult. This is a very dangerous situation and the i. G. Got it absolutely correct. Bill that Cell Phone App came up during the debate the other night with Jd Vance and included in this also. Another thing from dhs. Over the next year, we expect some individuals with terrorism ties and some criminal actors will continue their efforts to exploit migration flows and the complex Border Security environment to enter the united states. If you know that, why not stop it . Or make an effort to change it . What have you been doing . And it could be stopped, bill. I met with Secretary Mayorkas multiple times early in 2021 and gave him the policies that he could implement to stop this. They rejected those policies. They were surge Immigration Judges at the border now. Have Immigration Hearings right then and remove them because they dont have legitimate claims. Those that do we can adjudicate that. We gave them all the Policy Decisions they needed that would help this situation. They completely rejected it and you have to look at all the rhetoric coming from Vice President harris now and know it is absolutely disingenuous. She could do what is necessary. Again, we do need for the longterm, we do need Border Security legislation. Immigration legislation to modernize our policies but right now there are so many things they can do. They know they can do them but they reject everything out of hand. Bill let me read this for you. The pushback from about this from dhs. The department cited it continues to remove Record Numbers of noncitizens it cant detain all individuals subject to detention including those inadd missible noncitizens without i. D. Documents due to several reasons including a lack of resources, bed space, etc. The numbers are too darn high. The numbers havent been stopped for four years. So thats absolutely false. If they went with the first last in first out idea, then we would be able to detain these people. Once you start removing them, they stop coming. While the numbers are so high right now they are high because were releasing them. Once you detain them and remove them they stop coming. And then we can have a manageable level of people. It is all about what you do on the front end. If you do it right on the front end, you dont have to deal with all of these numbers. Thats what they are refusing to do. We could get this under Control Tomorrow if we had the proper policy. They are not willing to give it to us. Bill 33 days matters from now. It does. Bill thank you for coming on. Thank you. Thank you, bill. Appreciate it. Dana former first Lady Melania Trump sat down with Sean HannityLast Night discussing the polarizing political environment and urging americans to start listening to one another. I think we need to listen to each other. We need to respect our freedom of speech. Because i think that we could have Innovation And Success in this country. We are canceling people that they dont agree on certain issues. Dana when i saw that Last Night i was thinking about how last week when Benjamin Netanyahu was at the United Nations here are all these ambassadors and diplomats. The whole point is to listen and they all walked out on the speech. Bill dozens. Dana what does that teach young people . Bill good interview there. Thanks to sean for doing that. More coming up on hannity tonight. V. P. Harris and trump in a dead heat in the state of michigan. Trump holds a rally there today to try to crack the blue wall. Day three of the Port Strike and No One is budging. Negotiations at a stand still. 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Ive never seen prices higher in the 40, 41 years in Business And Theyll only get higher. I feel bad for the customers, prices are high. The margin is so slim, they think you are price gouging. In actuality, youre not. Bill get ready. Business owners say the Port Strike is hitting american consumers. Today is day three. 36 major ports are shut down. Negotiations at a stand still from east of houston to brooke taylor. You are watching the story there in texas. These workers are at it again and prepared to stay out here for as long as it takes. They cant speak to us on camera. They can stand and chant and hold up the signs. Well show you one of them here. Automation hurts family. It stands for job protection. Experts say this is costing our economy up to 4. 5 billion a day. 36 major u. S. Ports stretching from maine to texas, like you mentioned, currently shut down. Because of this, many of the cargo ships that usually deliver goods to East Coast and Gulf Coast ports that come in are stuck off shore. More than 300 trade groups have joined together urging President Biden to intervene. He has made it clear he is not going to do that. As a recap The Union workers are asking for two major things. Higher wages, and a ban on automation that would take jobs away from them. Workers want an increase of 5 an hour in pay for each of the six years of the next contract. That equals a 77 increase. Usmx representing the sports increased its offer to more than 50 over the sixyear contract. The union rejected that offer. Workers say foreignowned Shipping Companies have made record profits and they want a piece of the pie for their hard work. We are way behind the curve with inflation. Thats why were an strike today. Demanding their fair share. The Union President says he has been receiving Death Threats because of his salary posted online and address. He is not letting any of these threats get in the way of negotiations. The question at this hour, bill, is will either Side Budge and again, as you heard from these workers prepared to stay out here for as long as it takes. Bill could be a while. Thanks, brooke. Nice to see you east of houston. Dana bring in brian ganz, ceo of a Small Business that could be impacted by the strike. Tell me what your business does. We make nonlethal weapons. They look like a gun and operate like a gun but dont kill. Dana it is selfdefense type of weaponry . It is for selfdefense and we supply Law Enforcement and civilians. Dana what kind of dependency do you have on stuff getting into and out of ports . Well, weve tried very hard to get most of the components sourced in the united states but there are some components that we bring in. There is one specific component that is affected coming from italy. These are cases for our guns and we go through about 20,000 a month. We now have 20,000 on the water to us and we think these will get caught up in the strike. Weve reached out to our Supplier And Weve said look, we need to do the next shipment by Air Freight. It adds 90,000 to our cost and that is each and every month. Unfortunately i cant even wait until my cases are stuck in the port because even the Air Freight space is starting to book up. This Air Freight used to cost 2, now up to 4 1 2 dollars. Dana President Biden was asked about getting involved. It is within his authority to do so. Here is what he said. Do you have a view on the workers fight for restrictions on Technology Or Automation for the Dock Workers . President biden they need to sit down and talk. Remember, we negotiated similar strike on the West Coast before. They worked it out. It is time they wont even talk. Lets get that done. Dana the two sides havent met since june. What would you like them to do for your own business but i read you talked about with our producers you are concerned about everybody in america. Look, were getting hit from all sides. As you can see behind me, im in the factory. Today we gave a 10 across the Board Salary Increase to all of our employees just to stay competitive. Were being hit with this at the same time were looking at 90,000 a month for the cases in from italy. If the government doesnt do anything, businesses like ours and all u. S. Businesses, will be facing significant increase in costs, which at some point we will have to pass on to the consumer. Dana how hard is it to make those cases in america . I know that people say well, we just have to bite the bullet and wait and try to get it done here. It seems like a very tall order to try to get that done in time in order to save a business like yours. Well, you know, back in 2020, 2021 during the pandemic, we were significantly more reliant on off Shore Manufacturing and we have done a big effort to bring stuff on shore but you cant do it all overnight and b, there are some industries here where we dont have the capacity any longer and you have to bring things in from overseas. You know, we have a product with 114 parts. We cant sell it with 113. So even if we have one part coming in from overseas, if we cant get that part, it shuts down the factory. Dana one of the things that has happened as the story has developed is we have had a chance to talk to many businesses like yours. We might not have ever heard about and impressive The American Entrepreneurial Spirit and private sector out there. Thanks for coming on the show. Hope it gets better soon. Thank you very much. Dana thanks. Ive tried to do the best i can. I have not been perfect and im a knucklehead at times. Bill Tim Walz is trying to clean up the comments. 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One mother trying to feed her family faced with this at a nearly empty grocery store. Listen here. Get some chicken. 17 for a whole chicken. Bill if you didnt hear it there she said 17 for a chicken, what the hell. That mom shares her story. A georgia restaurant, sarah. You are in augusta, georgia, richmond county. Hundreds of miles from where the storm made landfill. Were located in augusta, georgia. We continue to have some issues. It is better than it was yesterday. Price gouging is a big deal right now. We have out of State Companies coming in and charging 30,000 to cut down two trees. Weve also got 24 packs of chicken like you saw in the video at our local kroger which i thought was horrendous. Beyond that we have a lack of resources regardless of what the president ial Candidate And President are saying right now. We do not have any fema resources that have been all indicateed. In fact, 60 of the people who applied have already been denied. I currently have a business and applied for an Sba Emergency Loan and i have not yet to be approved so my people arent getting paid right now. Im not making any money. We have some pretty big issues. A lot of our power has been restored but still areas that havent been addressed. My biggest concern is i think we got skipped over as far as Relief Efforts. So thats why weve seen delays. This is the worst weve been hit in 30 years. The lack of ability for people who are low income to get to their resources is a huge issue. We have people on oxygen that dont drive that are disabled that cant get to these pickups. So i think the biggest thing right now is we need to get a congressional bill for Emergency Response approved for grants similar to ppp. We need to just get it going so that way our local residents can be put to work and benefit from that funding as well and get people taken care of. Bill you make a lot of great points and you give good voice to the issues down there. You have a husband and two kids. Yes. Bill not just your neighbors and community but you directly need the help. Yeah, we own a Towing Company and we work with all major insurance companies. We are picking up a large load of recovered vehicles that were hit by trees. Currently we have at least 500 vehicles that need to be picked up this week. He has been out 18 hours a day picking up those vehicles. So i put together a Peanut Butter Sandwich for him today and out working recovering those vehicles right now. As far as our children goes, they are patient. Were both Army Veterans and used to going through it and traveling and adapting. So they are both doing very well and were proud of them. Bill you said a lot in the few minutes we had here. In the 30 seconds left, what do you think the rest of us dont get about your experience and those of thousands and thousands of others . When you have children and you cant provide any food for them to eat, or even a hot meal without driving three hours and risking losing gas or having gas, that is the worst Parents Nightmare unable to feed your children. As a parent and as an adult and Army Veteran i can handle a lot. But when you cant feed your children or keep them safe, its just the parents worst nightmare. Bill they are all that matters to you, too. Thank you, well stay in touch with you and augusta s