Resource tonight and angry president biden responds to donald trump accusing him of lying about the government s response to hurricane helene. Politics colliding with a natural disaster. As officials are still searching for survivors tonight. Meanwhile, israel has just launched a ground offensive into lebanon where airstrikes are lighting up the skies from beirut to damascus, or sit in teams are live in the middle east and as trump is calling for the police to get violent and calling his opponent. And i m quoting him now, mentally disabled holds a big name republican will join me as he is endorsing vice president harris. I m kaitlan collins, and this is the source tonight one of the deadliest storms and are nascent nation s history is colliding with the closest election in modern history. But we cannot let that a clubs what is happening tonight inside these states, inside north carolina and georgia is a hundreds of people who are still missing or unaccounted for this evening. The death
Walz campaign will talk about the debate tomorrow. Rachel, i knew that aljd vance weird. I knew that even before tim walz told me that jd vance is weird. But until i watched your jd program tonight, to say i didn t know the half of it i did know the tip of the iceberg , it turns out in the tip of the iceberg is a lot and rich an amazing and stranger than most politicians. But what you reported on tonight is just stunning. It left you at a certain part i noticed speechless and like the commercial came just in time because what else is there to ca say about this madness? i mean, there is a very traditional political science 101 way to look at jd vance which is like, less than two years as a senator and never held public office before that other than his time in public he service and all he has done his work for this guy peter and there is a political science way to look at it and then also your like dive in and look at the stuff he said on tape and who he says he gets his political ideas
Struggling with helenes catastrophic aftermath, much of the areas famed Scenic Lands its gate completely unrecognizable. Look at these visuals. It just tells you everything you need to know about the devastation and the damage from helene in Buncombe County where asheville is at least 35 stormrelated deaths are reported with more than 600 people unaccounted for officials warn the Death Toll could go much higher. And these exclusive pictures just in to cnn showed the extent of the destruction should in asheville. What you are looking at is the main road there and biltmore village, its near the famous biltmore estate. Its a five Lane Road usually pull up cars. Now, as you see a is covered in mud and debris. People walking down the Middle Of The Road looking for supplies helene tore through the historic village, the floodwaters rising too level and pushing trailers into buildings power, and water are out and much of the city just basic necessities. People need to survive they dont theyre
Now and see how much you can save im Elizabeth Wagmeister in Los Angeles in this is cnn ever want to thank so much for joining us. Im Jessica Dean dean in washington alongside my colleague, jim sciutto, who is in Tel Aviv. And we begin in The Middle East where fears of a wider war are growing. Israel and hezbollah, again trading fire across the lebanon border today. And theres this, israel also attacking targets in houthi controlled parts of yemen the idf saying it attacked our station and a seaport. We learned just moments ago, president biden will be speaking with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. Lets send it over now to jim, who is in Tel Aviv and jim, i know youve been monitoring so during all of these developments, what are your takeaways its a multifront war, right at each of those fronts is growing. Israel and hezbollah. They continue to fire at each other today. Of course, the most extensive attacks or by israeli forces on targets inside lebanon. And now you have isra
Cnn breaking news good evening. I m abby phillip in new york. Our special coverage continues tonight of hurricane helene, a monster category four storm that is now moments away from making landfall in florida. At this moment, it was too late now for folks along the coast too evacuate. Officials warned that the winds and the storm surge will be be catastrophic in some areas, the word that they are using is unsurvivable helene could be the strongest storm on record for the big bend region. And we are already starting to see a major surge in these cities. So we have our anchors and our correspondents. They re fanned out as the storm is now hitting and we have chad myers as well with the latest forecast in the cnn weather center. Let s go first to john berman. He s out in tallahassee in the socalled dead on a hit zone, john, what s happening where you are right now? yeah the winds have really started to pick up abby over the last half an hour. The rain really coming down here, you can see