Morning rising. Shy. Welcome to cnn this morning, it is saturday, october im amara walker. Guesses back with a new skip in his step, a new song. It is hard looking, relaxed, and refresh you know, victor. Hello. This is, you know, how it is when you have some time off, you come back, you feel like you can do anything. I get you youre radiating happiness, dry braiding with theyre do so if im a little extra today is because im back from two weeks off, but we must do. Thank you very much. It is a good morning and good to be back heres what were working on for you this morning. Both President Ial Candidates are on the ground in Battleground States this weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris will be in North Carolina, former President Trump returns to pennsylvania the side of the July Assassination attempt on his life and The Middle East is on edge. This morning as the region awaits a possible retaliation from iran strike on israel, the rising concerns, as israels is days away from marking th
Fredricka whitfield. We begin on the president ial campaign trail. Now, just about a month away from the election and both campaigns meeting with voters in key Battleground States during this final critical stretch of the race, voting already underway across several states and poll show Vice President Kamala Harris and former Presint Donald Trump locked in a dead heat their campaigns now navigating several big News Stories that could shape the outcome of this election from the war. In the Middle East to the devastating aftermath of helene the surprising jobs report more on all of that coming up. But but today the former president is returning to the scene of his first Assassination Attempt in battleground, pennsylvania, trump is set to hold a rally in just a few hours from now in butler. Thats in the western part of the state. He narrowly survived and attempt on his life, as you recall, on july 13, at that location, the exact one as a matter of fact, when a gunman opened fire and a bul
First time in nine years. Campaigners in weber welcomed the move, while others are cautious. An inquest has been opened into the deaths of four people who died when a Luxury Yacht sank off the coast of sicily. Hello, im geeta guru murthy, welcome to Bbc News now. Irans supreme leader has defended his Countrys Missile Attack on israel earlier this week as totally legitimate. Leading Friday Prayers in tehran for the first time in five years, Ayatollah Khamenei said it was the minimum Punishment Israel deserved. Overnight there were more israeli Air Strikes on lebanon including one near a Border Crossing which israel says targeted a tunnel used by hezbollah. Our diplomatic correspondent Caroline Hawley has the latest. This was designed as a show of strength from a regime deeply humiliated by a series of devastating blows to its allies. Hezbollah and Hamas Supporters gathered first to commemorate the hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah, killed in an israeli Air Strike a week ago today. Free
Donald trump has just wrapped up an event in Adventist Georgia with Governor Brian Kemp. That State Hardhit by The Fallout from Hurricane Helene and recovery now that is expected to cost upwards of 35 Billion. And its already left more than 220 americans dead. We are also following up if you can look at the corner of your screen on the dow today, Big Run Up because jobs were aplenty in the latest period. Were going to be exploring how the big Jobs Issue not only helps people of the corner had a lot of people thinking that the economy has achieved a soft landing, and this is leading to made a big campaign issue. Perhaps bigger than me know. It could cut a couple of different ways. Some people are arguing didnt feel it dont see it hexo doesnt matter if we keep showing but this Jobs Report that showed 254,000 americans found jobs was close to double what we thought would appeal, would appear today. And that is a big reason why youre getting all of this attention to the economy on this day
Organising aid In Beirut. Meanwhile, the Lebanese Army says, that two of its soldiers have been killed, by israel in separate incidents in Southern Lebanon. Lets speak to our correspondent nick beake, whos in northern israel. In Terms Of what you are seeing just bring me right up to date. We have seen more israeli tanks being taken towards the border with lebanon, that is the reflection of the way the israelis are intensifying this operation against hezbollah. I say operation, it is a mission now and they insist it is made up now and they insist it is made up of lots of separate targeted operations. Some teams going in and then in some cases retreating. But certainly it seems to be gathering pace. In Terms Of a snapshot of where we are, i think in Terms Of what we heard in the skies above us so far today that has been considerably less than yesterday. But of course that is just a snapshot of one particular location. The Israeli Army is saying its carried out a lot of strikes in the pas