Resource tonight and angry president biden responds to donald trump accusing him of lying about the government s response to hurricane helene. Politics colliding with a natural disaster. As officials are still searching for survivors tonight. Meanwhile, israel has just launched a ground offensive into lebanon where airstrikes are lighting up the skies from beirut to damascus, or sit in teams are live in the middle east and as trump is calling for the police to get violent and calling his opponent. And i m quoting him now, mentally disabled holds a big name republican will join me as he is endorsing vice president harris. I m kaitlan collins, and this is the source tonight one of the deadliest storms and are nascent nation s history is colliding with the closest election in modern history. But we cannot let that a clubs what is happening tonight inside these states, inside north carolina and georgia is a hundreds of people who are still missing or unaccounted for this evening. The death
We start this hour with some breaking news. The death toll from hurricane helene has now risen to 89. 30 of those deaths were in north carolina which has seen a record 30inches of rainfall. Nearly 2 million people are without power. And joining general honore. Good to have you on the show. Let me get your assessment from someone like you who knows the damage you re seeing right now. What do you make of the damage we re seeing across the south. Well i think you clarified the point. This was amongst the storm that attacked florida. Made its way through georgia and into north carolina and tennessee. And even parts of virginia. It s a massive storm. I dropped enormous amount of water. Not measured in inches but by a foot in some places 2foot of water dropped. It overdropped the terrain. And when you do that it s going go into the valleys. A lot of commune tips had not experienced that. And what we have seen, with condolences to everyone who lost their lives the impact of the flash flooding
This is gps, the Global Public Square welcome to all of you in the united states and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you, live from new York Today on the program, i bring you interviews with irans new president , Masoud Pezeshkian and with the former british Prime Minister Tony Blair will skip the take this week. Theres simply too much breaking news. Will get straight to it. The crisis in the middle east, it is in uncharted territory. On friday, israel killed a long hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah in a massive strike in the southern suburb forbes of beirut. The attack is part of a recent major escalation of israeli Air Strikes against the iranian Proxy Group in lebanon. More than 1,000 people have been killed since the uptick last week, and Hundreds Of Thousands of lebanese have been displaced the attack on nasrallah was a triumph for israeli intelligence, but it also raises many questions joining me now from Tel Aviv as ronen bergman, Staff Writer for the New York tim
Pete muntean at reagan israel airport. This is cnn gps, the global public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you live from new York Today on the program, i bring you interviews with irans new president , Masoud Pezeshkian, and with the former british Prime Minister Tony Blair well skip the take this week. Theres simply too much breaking news. Well get straight to it. The crisis in the middle east, it is in uncharted territory. On Friday Israel killed a long hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah in a massive strike in the southern suburbs of beirut the attack is part of a recent major escalation israeli airstrikes against the iranian Proxy Group in lebanon. More than 1,000 people have been killed since the uptick last week and hundreds of thousands of lebanese have been displaced the attack on nasrallah was a triumph for israeli intelligence but it also raises many questions. Joining me now from Tel Aviv as ronen bergman, St
Blair institute for global change working with over a0 countries, the former prime minister is still searching for answers to the great challenges of our time. Labour s back in power after 14 years. Very, very few people know what it feels like to actually be the prime minister of a new government, to be a country s leader. What does. . . What did it feel like as you walked through that door and into power in 1997? well, for me, the feelings were less those of elation. I mean, everyone around me was. . . . . Was, you know, celebrating, but i was very conscious of the fact, first of all, i d never been a minister, let alone a prime minister, and secondly, there is an awesome sense of responsibility. So you realise you re going to be taking decisions, you know you re on the start of a journey, you know the journey is going to be really difficult, you know there s going to be a whole lot of events and circumstances you can t predict. And you re acutely conscious of the fact that there is