Oing to Get Out of it together. Thats what i usually did for me. Im bill, were on the California Coast and this is cnn thanks so much for joining us. Im Jessica Dean in washington alongside my colleague Jim Sciutto in tel aviv. We have Breaking News in The Middle East and also here in the u. S. That were monitoring and thats where we start in the Southeastern United States where the Death Toll from the devastating storm, Helene May is rising this afternoon. Officials now saying at least 64 people were killed across five states. And there are fears that number will likely grow scores of people remain unaccounted for, especially in parts of western North Carolina the damage there is simply catastrophic. Roads and bridges washed out destroyed entire towns remain underwater right now. And more than 2 Million people are still without power. Helene made landfall as a category four hurricane on thursday, but today, Rescue And Recovery efforts still remain a challenge many people are cut off b
Developments here, One By one, these states came forward throughout the week to say that they got envelopes that were mailed to them that contained some substance that they thought was concerning some places had to be evacuated the fbi so far has said that it seems to be relatively innocuous, but its got people rattled and worried. This is what were talking about when we say over and over that election, workers are facing threats like never before thankfully, no one got hurt and the fbi is looking into it to try to figure out who was responsible but officials from both parties have said that this is just making it harder for them to do their jobs, right . Marshall cohen. Thank you so much. The next hour of Cnn Newsroom starts right now. All right. Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me on Fredricka Whitfield and were following major new developments in the race for the White House moments ago, former President Donald Trump rejected another debate with Vice President Ka
By fears about a worsening us economy and all eyes will now turn towards Apples Headquarters in california in the next few hours of the most valuable company in the world will be launching its latest generation of ai ready iphones and optimism about the profits to be made from Artificial Intelligence have been driving us markets to record highs this year. Apple hopes its Ai Offering will persuade people around the world to upgrade their phones as Tech Analyst Paul Armstrong told us earlier. Its the big News Everyone is interested in. They have teased it in the last update they did. Apple intelligence is essentially the new Ai System that will be baked into every iphone. It draws on use personal contents, things like the photos on their E Mail and its obviously not without its Privacy Issues but apple is very good at that and its very good at saying how it protects consumers. So again this ai play could actually be very good. The worry is that a lot of people are saying publicly and Beh
Correspondent camila were now joins us live now from San Bernardino County camila, tell us what youre seeing and how theyre able to battle this blaze hey, fred. So right now the priority is protecting the homes in this area were near the running springs mountain community. Its an area that is already under an evacuation order, so people had been told to leave. So the proof that you see here behind me, what theyre doing is structure detection. Theyre waiting to see where this fire is going to come from. And what i was told as you see those holes is behind the trucks. Well, those are the holes is that they wrap around the homes. So right now what theyre saying they have not lost any homes and they want that to continue to be the case because the problem with this fire is that there are many factors working against the firefighters. Theres about six 100 personnel on the Ground And Theyve asked for more people, but the Weather Conditions are really not helping this area. Weve had tripledig
Weve reached the end of another week of high profile and historic legal troubles for former president , donald trump. He now faces 91 charges across four indictments. The latest in georgia, where he has yet to turn himself in. Law enforcement there is planning for trump to surrender no earlier than thursday of next week. Thats according to three sources familiar with the plan, they stress, nothings official just yet. Trump and the 18 codefendants in fani williss case have exactly one week to voluntary surrender in Fulton County. Earlier today, Georgia Republican governor, brian kemp, spoke a lot about what he thought the georgia case might go to trial. In my opinion, this trial, despite what theyre thinking for anybody else, it is not going to happen before the election. That comment poses trumps team is trying to push back the federal election in two nearly three years from. Now today, we also learned that Kenneth Chesebro, the trump ally who allegedly thought up the Fake Electors sch