Welcome to hannity. Tonight recovery efforts continue in parts of north carolina, south carolina, georgia tennessee virginia and florida. We have communities all across appellation. They are completely devastated. The situation tonight is dire, and according to reports on the ground the biden administration have been making it worse and they have been totally tonedeaf for over a week. This has been the worst federal hurricane response in the history of our country. Connect elon musk s been extremely generous and helpful to people in terms of restoring communications, he said fema is not really failing to adequately help people in trouble but they are actively blocking citizens who do try to help. He detailed a claim from a spacex engineer on the ground who s accusing fema of blocking shipments of iran s emergency starlink terminals which donald trump asked him to send and he generously sent. This is soulless. It is unconscionable. It is unforgivable. But in a statement fema frankly out
Right here, its apocalyptic. I mean looking at that and were going to hear, i know you had on your show people on the ground there my show also going to talk to some of the residents who are climbing out of this with kids, trying to juggle that with schools being closed, figuring out a place to live, where to get water, food. It is an ongoing crisis for these people, and were going to continue to shine a spotlight jim, thanks so much. Ill take it from here you bet. And good morning, everyone. You are live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Pamela Brown in washington, and we begin this hour with exclusive new video Into Cnn that will give you more perspective on the scope and the scale of the catastrophe in the southeast and what people are dealing with right now in this very moment. You are looking at the wounds of asheville, North Carolina one of the cities that Helene Hit the hardest. Take a look here. This is the river arts district, just more than a week ago. It was a vibrant, beautiful area
top of the hour on cnn newsroom. just moments ago, federal charges were filed against the man accused of beating paul pelosi with a hammer inside his home. the federal charges reflect that pelosi was targeted for being the husband of house speaker nancy pelosi. federal prosecutors reveal more details on what happened to the 82-year-old. the justice department said that the attacker hit paul pelosi had in the head with a ham eastern plot the plotted out what he would do nancy pelosi if she lied to him. let s get the latest from whitney wild. the justice department is saying that this began around 2:30 in the morning friday when this man, the suspect, 42-year-old david depape with the pelosi home and entered through the back of the home. based on this affidavit, sounds like there was broke that he was able to breakthrough a door and somehow, you know, utilize that to get inside the home. then depape went to the bedroom on at floor where pelosi, paul pelosi, the husband of