Thanks for joining me. Im Jim Acosta in for fredricka whitfield. We are heading into the Home Stretch in the race to the White House the president ial election is now just about one month away, and both campaigns are pushing hard for those still undecided voters and critical that Battleground States. And with voting states, polls of course, showed this race is still very much Neck And Neck, both Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump, are campaigning as some big News Stories are reshaping the race as we speak in the War And Lebanon to the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Helene and a surprising jobs report, but its still unclear how all of this will affect the rest of this Race Today though, the former president is returning to the scene of his first Assassination Attempt in battleground, pennsylvania, trump is set to hold a rally later today. In butler and the western part of that state, he narrowly survived an attempt on his life on July 13 at that location whe
it will severely impact millions of people and put the barrier island communities completely under water. joining me this hour, the acting director of the national hurricane center to update the track of the storm. i will talk to mayors up and down the coast as ian comes onshore. let s go to our meteorologist with the latest on the hurricane s path. what are you seeing from the latest updates? with each update, the conditions continue to grow dire. right now, we are seeing lots of rain and strong winds moving into ft. myers. if you look at the latest trajectory, we have this making landfall as a mjor hurricane, a strong category 4, 155 miles per hour winds. once you are in 157, you are in cat 5. they are seeing strong winds move into areas. streets are under water. i want to note that it s not until the center of the eye makes landfall that we call it a landfall. we are anticipating within the next three to four hours this will make landfall just outside of ft. myers and so
Conflicts between religious congregations singing hosanna to the high heavens and restless neighbours trying to descend to the depths of sleep are not new.
spokesperson. welcome to you. fema, what should be happening right now on fema s behalf for help to the communities that are hit by this storm, because let s say preparation time that has long sense passed. that s right, alex. right now fema is supporting the response effort so there s teams that have been deployed to four states and d.c. 50 urban search and rescue teams deployed to the area that support the states and local first responders and the help also extends to other parts of the federal government so there s 4,000 national guard members deployed. the u.s. coast guard is available too to support those efforts as conditions allow. i ll say though the one thing that surprises me is there s not yet been a major disaster declaration from president trump. there has been an emergency declaration which supports these initial emergency response efforts but on thursday, the