11,779. Thank you very much. Jeff zeleny. And thanks to all of you as always, ac36ts now tonight on 360 mile after mile destruction, heartbreak, and you have live reports and where helene hit the hardest and people from near and far who are answering the call for help. North carolina s governor joins us. So does chef jose andres also both presidential candidates address the disaster which won the former president playing politics with the relief effort by claiming the biden administration is playing politics with the relief effort. Plus israel ramps up airstrikes on lebanon and launches. Would they call a limited ground operation? good evening. Thanks for joining us. What began with exploding pagers and walkietalkies than the israeli air force killing hezbollah s leadership is now entering a new phase. Cnn s jeremy diamond is on the ground in northern israel right now. What are you learning tonight? is that israel begins this ground operation for months now, we have wondered whether or
Apocalyptic weekend for all of us here in asheville, North Carolina. There is almost no gas, there is almost no Cell Service, there is limited power, there is limited food. Bill one person speaking on behalf of so many. Dire situation western part of North Carolina. Catastrophic Storm Damage making it near impossible for crews to deliver the Food And Water to those who desperately need it. A big Story Day three, working on day four. Good morning. Im bill hemmer, good morning to you. Dana im Dana Perino and this is americas newsroom. The storm is gigantic and nearly 100 people are now confirmed dead from Hurricane Helene. 36 are in North Carolina. The Storm Fact out roads and bridges leaving entire counties underwater. Officials describing the damage as biblical. Bill the crews are working to restore power. They have a long way to go. 2 Million people across the southeast. Also trying to bring back Cell Service and internet leaving families In The Dark and whether or not their Loved One
From former President Donald Trump as he gets to survey the damage in georgia caused by Hurricane Helene before speaking next Hour And Faldo stuff. The White House is said to hold a press briefing. Not as expected a short time from now and we will likely get plenty of questions on the Administrations Response and reaction to it. John we are getting worried that florida governor Ron Desantis will be holding a News Conference as well. We will be monitoring all of these events and bring them to you. Our coverage kicks off at the latest on the ground. Get out of the way. This is the main road. The bridge. There is a building right there between those two. Gone. All of this stuff, completely broken and flooded through. The storm had impacts far beyond our borders. Its Impacting Floridians and a tennessee mountains. We dont have internet service. No nothing. Thats the biggest problem. Communication. I saw a dumpster in the parking lot. Many more will remain without Electricity And Water and
What they are voting for but still he is talking about his challenger, dave mccormick, as being against the very issues he voted for. Take a listen to that. When it comes down to the decision of voter has to make, they will make a different decision based upon the president ial race, in the president ial race or a series of considerations and they will make a decision in my race. Specific to the choice of who the next senator will be. When they come down to that choice, whether it is on basic rights, like womens rights, voting rights, workers rights, there is no common ground between me and dave mccormick. No one picked up reporter alex, we are here in pennsylvania, we will head to the debate at the end of this week between mccormick and casey, the first showdown of three we expect later in the month of october. When you talk about the money spent in this campaign, 2 Million just on ads, voters in pennsylvania are used to seeing political ads on their screen and when they are driving d
Thanks for joining us and giving us a glimpse of what it is like on the ground. That is our show for this evening. Breaking News Coverage of hurricane helenes expected landfall in Florida Tonight continues right now on the last word with lawrence odonnell. At evening. We are going to get to Under Wiseman another news but we are going to begin with the hurricane. As you just heard, there are 600,000 people already without power. We are going to go straight to nbc News Meteorologist Bill karins at this hour. He has the latest on what the track of the storm is. Bill, what do you see coming . We are into the impact zone. We are now watching that northern Eye Move onshore and it is almost the equivalent of a tornado that is 40 miles right now moving into florida, and it will knock down just about everything in its path. You can see where the storm is. You can see clearly where The Eye is. It has intensified all afternoon and all evening long. It is a solid category four, almost the higher e