Location near you see llf bk. Com you are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We do begin the hour with Breaking News as yet another powerful Hurricane Barrels towards florida. There it is. Milton is now now a category four, and its getting stronger quickly. Its aiming directly at the Tampa Bay Area and could become a category five storm at some point, officials are warning of lifethreatening Storm Surge and damaging winds to communities still picking up the pieces from helene, florida governor Ron Desantis gave this warning just moments ago. We need as much of this debris picked up as possible. This creates a Safety Hazard and it also will increase the damage that milton could do with flying debris cnns derek Van Dam joins us now, derek the governor said it right there. You got to have another Path Powerful Hurricane Come in and slam the coast and lift up this Debris And Flight in 100 different directions. That that does sound like a scary situation for the resident
Whats going on. It is how i keep informed and have a great week. Thank you, too. Speed to see you soon. Fox news alert, came under fire for a response of leaving victims in hard area Cut Off from the world then for themselves and this is amidst catastrophic disaster. Welcome to a Brandnew Hour of Americas Newsroom and Bill Hemmer is off to dave and julian, think you. Gillian im Gillian Turner and blaming inadequate response to disaster of leadership at the white house. This is across the southeast and republicans raising the questions about the Bidenharris Administration to handle largescale emergencies like this one. As Hurricane Milton taking aim at florida as we just heard from governor Ron Desantis just two weeks after helene. Cofounder Tim Kennedy on the ground in North Carolina. He is coordinating private Rescue And Relief operations there. Here is what he says about the governments response. It was absolutely broken. Fema and the land in mn on the ground doing the best they can
Takes over. Harris a somber memorial at the Music Festival in israel where one year ago today, hamas Terrorist Era Glided In and proceeded to slaughter hundreds of innocent israeli citizens. I can, October 7th. It has been one year. I am Harris Faulkner and you are into the 29. The savages who killed israelis and kidnapped 251. Committed countless acts of horrific violence including the rape and of the young women and so much more. Today is one more day in israels ongoing war to eradicate the Hamas Network responsible for those unimaginable atrocities last October 7th. I think on this year anniversary, what we should try to remember is they were true barbarism in the world. They were as true evil in the world went The Good Guys are against the bad guys, america should try as much as we can to support The Good Guys. It has been a year of intense fighting with no end in sight. Israel is battling enemies on multiple fronts and launching a new offense to crash hamas once and for all. From
Freed. Listen here. I woke up today with chills because I Cant imagine that we are still in the crisis. One year under torture and under duress, deprived of food, water, sanitation, daylight for a year now and hamas tunnels paired my message is that we will not stop. We will not stop until he is home. You spoke about evil. We are dealing with Pure Evil. Bringing out the hostages is urgent and we have been pleading with them for a year. These monsters are holding our boy. And another 100 hostages. There can be a good deal. It is a deal with the devil but it is a deal that needs to be cut. John we will bring you an allstar lineup including Morgan Ortagus who met with israeli officials including the Prime Minister earlier today. Sandra meanwhile, another top story at this hour appeared folks in the southeast still reeling from helenes destruction. And now another major hurricane is on the way to some of those same hardhit areas and in just the last few moments the national Hurricane Cente
President Kamala Harris and second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will commemorate the victims and hostages of that devastating attack. Well bring those remarks live as soon as they get under way. We begin with the 2024 president Ial Demain now roiled by a deadly disaster in a republican nominee who is defined by his neverending penchant for lying. Heres what Vice President harris said to describe Donald Trump in a podcast last night. This guy is full of lies. I mean, i just have to be very candid with you. You know, in my career, from the time i got out of Law School through most of my career as a prosecutor, i understood that the words that i spoke and what i did with those words would be the difference between whether somebody was charged with a crime or went to prison, maybe prison for life. When i was attorney general, i was the top Law Enforcement Officer of the biggest state in the country, and i was acutely aware that the words i spoke could be the difference between whether a corporati