This destruction is vast and what these people are living through right now is brutal. Im Sandra Smith in New York and this is America Reports and it was a short time ago that Hurricane Helene marked the grim milestone as the number of deaths we now know has surpassed 200. Emergencies crews are still on the ground and they are still searching for people who may be stuck in their homes. John be mild those in Florida And Georgia still reeling from power outages. They stress they are not getting enough help. It is like nothing weve ever seen before. We had michael which is terrible. This hurricane is a bomb blast. This is the worst we have been hit in 30 years good 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, that is a worse nightmare. Unable to feed your children. John live on the ground in hardhit nashville carolina. Hows it looking there . It is raw and rough. You are pete seen people come in
A general election. The backdrop a flat lining Economy Millions struggling with the cost of living and polling indicating the Conservative Party is lagging far behind the opposition. Not to mention Financial Markets on edge for anything that might worsen the uks finances. The memory of Prime Minister liz truss s disastrous Tax Cutting Budget no doubt not far from mr hunts mind. So lets remind ourselves what he came up with. The rate of National Insurance paid by employees and the self employed, will be cut again by 2 pence in the pound. That comes on top of an earlier 2p cut mr hunt announced in the autumn. In april, full Child Benefits will be paid to households, where the highest earning parent is getting up to £60,000. The current limit is £50,000. And the non dom tax break for wealthy uk residents whose permanent home is overseas, is to be scrapped raising £2. 7 billion a year for the government. That announcement is highly controversial as it was a key pillar of labour policy.
edition of alex witt reports. also you tomorrow at one pm eastern. yasmin of us again continues the coverage. giving you a quick look at the stormy scene of the pier on juneau beach, florida. yasmin is next. florida. yasmin is next hey everybody, good to see, yasmin vossoughian. we are live on capitol hill this afternoon where there was actual work going on. senate negotiators trying to hammer out a deal on the border and ukraine aid right now. the fallout from the stunning verdict, rudy giuliani ordered to pay 150 million to two georgia poll workers. he defamed with lies. the flame that giuliani lit with those lies and passed to so many others to keep that flame blazing changed every aspect of our lives. money will never solve all of my problems. i can never move back into the house that i called home. i will always have to be careful about where i go and who i choose to share my name with. i miss my home, i miss my neighbors, and i miss my name. reporter: but rudy has
is he right? have you all gotten lost on how you talk about the agenda that you re trying to convince the american people is going to help them? yeah, he is right. and the fact is that we need to sit down and talk to people like you re at their kitchen table. and tell them what it s going to mean in their lives. it s not like we ve been sitting around. we have been achieving these difficult hard objectives. these are important pieces of legislation requiring almost unanimous support among the democratic party. and we ve achieved that. first on the rescue plan which saved our economy millions of small businesses. then on the infrastructure bill which will create millions of jobs. you can get with a high school education. ask the building trades what that means. people get that. and we re right on the cusp of passing the most important investments in our families. you ll have cheaper child care. so you ll be able to afford prescription drugs like insulin. you can keep an elder parent