Welcome, everyone. Thanks for joining me. Im Omar Jimenez in for fredricka whitfield. We start this hour with breaking News Hurricane Milton is now a category one hurricane threatening floridas West Coast with devastating Storm Surge, flooding, and damaging winds. Its forecast to intensify into at least a category three storm before making landfall in just a few days the team covering this dangerous storm, Cnn Correspondent Rafael Romo And Cnn meteorologist Elisa Raffa are here. I want to start with you, rafael, though what are we learning as far as preparations and other things go . Hey omar, this is a very serious situation in addition to the clearing of State Of Emergency and 51 counties, florida governor Ron Desantis has ordered Management Sites to remain open 24 7, so that many areas covered by debris after Hurricane Helene can be cleared before the arrival of milton, which became a hurricane this afternoon more than 800 guardsmen are currently deployed for debris removal, but the
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
Of them is going to lead the country just a good reminder and a pretty stunning, pretty stunning clips there. Alright, panel. Thank you very much. And thanks to All Of You for joining us. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere cnn new central starts right now breaking overnight the mayor of new York City, Eric Adams, indicted and facing at least one federal Criminal Charge following a corruption investigation, the mayor says hes innocent, but hell now need to surrender to federal custody in a matter of days right now, florida is feeling the outer bands of helene is topicals, is tropical Storm Force winds since hit the coast there, a category one hurricane continuing to strengthen as it inches closer and with it, the potential for an unsurvivable Storm Surge where i am in tallahassee, the capital, florida bracing for the most powerful storm this city has ever seen it wont stop here millions of people over five states we are tracking it all on John Berman in tallahassee. Sara is out today. Kate
Money reserve is one of the most dependable gold distributors in america morning. You are live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington today, Vice President Kamala Harris heads To Atlanta after a Blockbuster Livestream Event with Oprah Winfrey Last Night, harris is object to the focus on reproductive rights. Its a topic that was brought up Last Night during an extremely emotional moment with the family of a georgia mother, propublica reported she died from a treatable infection because of delays to her medical care tied to the states restrictive Abortion Law Ambra story highlights the fact that among everything that is wrong with these bands and what has happened in terms of the overturning of Way Roe v. Wade, its a Health Care Crisis its a Health Care Crisis that affects the patient and the profession me while at an event focused on antisemitism, former President Donald Trump made an alarming pitch to jewish voters this way im not going to call this as a prediction, but in my
Little bit happening on the left too straight from the source tonight, donald trump declares know more debates as vice president harris is trying to goad him into a rematch. What is pete buttigieg make of it all? i ll ask my lead source live in just a moment. Plus all the former president s friends, one of them is a 911 truther, apparently who just accompanied him to none other than the 911 memorial once he graham says this person is toxic and her words are disturbing. And a major announcement is brewing tonight. About that iranian backed effort to hack the trump campaign i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source debate rematch is off. Apparently, donald trump rejecting vice president harris is challenges. He returned to the campaign trail today for the first time since his first face off with harris as everyone saw two nights ago, we had a monumental victory over comrade kamala harris she immediately called for a second debate, which means that she was it s like a prize fighter that