Clearing. The way Breaking News good evening youre in the cnn newsroom. Im Kaitlan Collins in New York, and we start with Breaking News this hour as the Death Toll from Hurricane Helene is now ill climbed to at least 93 people. As officials are warning us that number is only expected to grow. The North Carolina Governor, i just spoke with them in the last hour. He says over but thousand people have filed reports that Loved Ones. Theyre unable to reach them as of this bowman is several areas of his state are still in Search And Rescue Mode President biden has been briefed by fema. He is planning to visit Storm Stormravaged Areas later this week, were told and what hell see is nothing short of devastating sides of mountains have collapsed, sliding down into towns overwhelming communities with mud and debris. Entire roads have crumble of meeting that survivors have no words they out and rescue crews no way in. Cnns Rafael Romo is live for us in asheville, North Carolina, in rockville. Obv
Just part of her new warning about project 2025 and a trump second term immigration crackdown. Imagine what that would look like and what that would be. Harris using her platform to urge people to imagine and reckon with this Plan Trump immigration policy, as trump publicly vowed harsher and more violent crackdowns next year in we wins. Im going to play you the full statement here and some other big things that harris has been saying. But before i play that, lets be clear, the factual context and reporting matters. Harris is citing Donald Trumps past policies including how they sometimes illegally and often harshly targeted immigrants and their families and sometimes their children. And so, again, before i play harris for you, with regard to that history, Big Picture top line, i could tell you, Fact Check and true. And many americans may want to forget what it was like back then. But its important to confront that recent history and know and see these facts as the context for Harriss W
supreme court and the gop continuing to infringe on lgbtq rights in this country. there is the hamas attacks on october 7th and israel s indiscriminate retaliation, which have, quote, loyalty s inhumanity to a test. and we have seen a republican primary field that is providing moments of absurdity. and let s face it, a lot of levity. let s get started. we begin tonight with a rare warning about our democracy. it is in dire straits, and that is not according to just one or two, but rather, 13 presidential libraries dating back to herbert hoover, all of which on thursday released a joint statement calling for every commitment to the country s bedrock principles, including the rule of law, and respecting a diversity of beliefs. i can t say this enough. this is an unprecedented move, never before had the presidential libraries engaged so directly in political affairs. while their joint message stopped short of calling out individuals by name, the subject of the warning wa
rewarded him with one of the most prestigious committee assignments in this congress. don t tell me this is about consistency. republicans remove congresswoman ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee. another example of house republicans putting the show ahead of any policy agenda. also tonight, president biden talks policing reform with the congressional black caucus. but there s still almost zero chance of getting enough republican support for anything meaningful. plus, the next presidential campaign is upon us, and nikki haley wants in and other republicans are clearly interested in challenging trump, but don t necessarily want to subject themselves to his school yard bullying just yet. and jordan klepper joins me. he spoke to trump s maga supporters at his recent campaign stop in south carolina. and i m just shaking my head. good evening, everyone. i m michael steele, in tonight for joy reid, and we begin with a very dysfunctional congress and its slow and
reality, a phrase you may have heard this is what democracy looks like. that can be an appeal, an argument, or a kind of protest, and lament to how democracy is going, which is how many view what is going on tonight, as we keep track of some of the first hearing of this new republican congress and some of the floor speeches defining the new agenda. alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. in western colorado, we call that a fun weekend. bottom line, socialism bad, capitalism good. sounds like you re prepared to go over the cliff if you have to. over the cliff. shut it down. drag queen story time, where men dress up as women and read confusing books to children. first i thought you said dry clean. confusing indeed. now, in all fairness, selected rhetoric or a few sound bites need tot define an entire party. take other eras in history, a few sound bites and that would not be the whole story. but the spats we re seeing, the often bizarre and downright hateful speeches tha