Welcome to inside politics. Im Dana Bash in washington. We have a lot of Breaking News this hour we begin with major news out of the middle East Israel says it has struck hezbollahs Central Headquarters in the lebanese capital of beirut. Cnns Jomana Karadsheh is now here with us from beirut. Jomana, what are you seeing and hearing . Well, dana, a short while ago, we were here on the roof and we heard massive blast that shook our hotel as well as the rest of beirut. And then we could see the thick plume of smoke rising from the direction of beiruts Southern Suburbs that is an area one of the most densely populated areas of the country where you have hezbollah presence, where their leadership has been known to have been based in the past where we have seen multiple Israeli Strikes in recent days. But this certainly was the largest blast that anyone here has witnessed since the start of this escalation, according to lebanese colleagues, they say that this is the biggest Israeli Strike tha
We want to extends a special welcome to our Fox News viewers. Im meteorologist are arti from our studios here in new York City and weve been covering helene over the last several hours over the last several days. This has been an extremely well forecast storm, before it even formed down in the western caribbean. It looked like something like this was going to happen, so again, we still have technically a Hurricane Storm and Hurricane Center will probably see it downgraded slowly throughout the night, but one unique thing about helene, this particular storm is that it was very large, right . So large storms take a longer time to lose their strength as they move inland so you look up here to the north. Not only do we have a long Wind Damage to get, were going to see some hikely catastrophic rain, and i want to bring Ian Oliver. He started out in st. Petersburg beach and hes now made the trek over to tampa, so kind of on the other side of town, and ian, whether you started on the of other
Life threatening Flash Flooding and historic Storm Surge. It left towns across the Gulf Coast completely underwater as floodwaters submerge cars, crashed over highways and seeped into homes. At least six people have lost their lives. Take a look at this, rescue crews in pinellas county, encountering homes engulfed in flames as they try to save people trapped by rising waters. Right now, helene has weakened to a tropical storm, as it heads north, putting 42 Million people under flood alerts. Millions across the south are still without power. And here is the moment when the eyewall hit perry, florida. Jesse kirsch was reporting live on the air. Reporter i can tell you that we have had intermittent moments of really powerful gusts. Were getting some right now, again. This is some of the i want to point out, i dont know if you can see it off in the distance, but there are cars out here, i can tell you, 45mileperhour winds, not to be on the roads anymore. Anyone out here, presumably, not a
Make a deal between President Putin and President Zelenskyy quite quickly. What does that look like . What does that i dont want to tell you what that looks like. Okay, thats one way of answering the question. I dont want to tell you what thats like. Donald trump remaining coy when asked what a deal between Russia And Ukraine would look like. Were going to show you more of what the former president had to say ahead of a Meeting Today with the Ukrainian President , who appeared alongside Vice President Kamala Harris Yesterday at the White House. Wasnt that kind of like nixons Secret Plan . Secret plan to end the vietnam war, yes. Oh, there are a lot of polls. Every morning, theres new polls. I didnt see them today. The Bloomberg Polls. Key, new polls from the key Swing States that crossed overnight. [ laughter ] we will show you how, once again, the New York times Siena Poll is a dramatic outlier. That is what happens when you have voodoo, witchcraft. Welcome to Morning Joe. It is frida
Extremely dangerous four. It s more than 400 miles across, pushing a storm surge that officials are calling unsurvivable is now hitting florida s gulf coast as much as 20 feet of water what are forecast along the shore south of tallahassee, which itself is expected to take a direct blow. Some coastal areas already flooding. Take a look live pictures right now from gulfport in tampa on the right interstate to 70 prison biden this evening, urge anyone in the storm s path that take it extremely seriously. A lot of water there is certainly there graham gulfport, especially emergency managers and florida s taylor county are telling people choosing to stay and there are people choosing to stay to write her name and date of birth on a leg to help identify their bodies. Storm warnings are now in effect as far north as charlotte, north carolina. We ve got cnn correspondents all along the places now harm s way in chad myers in the cnn weather center, let s start with cnn meteorologist derek van