Record 30inches of rainfall. More than 32,000 people are still without power at this hour. Retired u. S. Army lieutenant general Russell Honore is joining us. Let me get your assessment as someone who knows what an operation like this looks like. The damage youre sering right now. What do you make of the damage were seeing across the south . Well i think you clarified that it was a storm that attacked florida, and made its way through georgia, tennessee to new mexico. It dropped an awful lot of water. Not measured in inches but foot. It overmatched the terrain and when you drop water in those mountains, ayman as we all know it started going to the valleys. The community had not seen or experienced that and overtime, development happened in the deeper part of those valleys. And what we have seen is and with condolences to all those who have lost their lives that Flash Flooding that has occurred. The good news, theres a lot of people working to get to them. Lets talk about the operations
If a republican did what she did, that republican would be impeached and removed from office, and rightfully so, for high crimes and misdemeanors. Donald trump once again using extreme and offensive rhetoric to describe Vice President Kamala Harriss mental state. Well play more of trumps remarks and what top lawmakers from his own party are now saying about his new insults. Plus, well go over what to expect as governor tim Walz And Senator Jd Vance prepare for their Highstakes Debate Tomorrow night. And also ahead, well take a look at the damage caused by Tropical Storm he lean after catastrophic flooding and massive Power Outages devastating the southeast, leaving at least 89 people did. Good Morning And Welcome to Way Too Early on this monday, september 30th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your Day And Week with us. And we have a lot to get to this morning. Well begin with politics. And with just about five weeks to go until the november election, former president Donald Tru
We start this hour with some breaking news. The death toll from hurricane helene has now risen to 89. 30 of those deaths were in north carolina which has seen a record 30inches of rainfall. Nearly 2 million people are without power. And joining general honore. Good to have you on the show. Let me get your assessment from someone like you who knows the damage you re seeing right now. What do you make of the damage we re seeing across the south. Well i think you clarified the point. This was amongst the storm that attacked florida. Made its way through georgia and into north carolina and tennessee. And even parts of virginia. It s a massive storm. I dropped enormous amount of water. Not measured in inches but by a foot in some places 2foot of water dropped. It overdropped the terrain. And when you do that it s going go into the valleys. A lot of commune tips had not experienced that. And what we have seen, with condolences to everyone who lost their lives the impact of the flash flooding
Weve saw this summer. Vice president harris became the democratic partys standard bearer. Not to mention, if trump wins, hell be the oldest person to ever win the presidency. The only democrat to debate j. D. Vance former ohio congressman Tim Ryan says Tim Walz needs to hold vances feet to the fire because vance is quote able to semiarticulate some kind of Beck Chill underpainings of Donald Trumps rants. Yes. As for walz hes getting help from Transportation Secretary Pete buttigieg whos substantialing in for vance during debate prep. Joining us now, Massachusetts Governor maura healey. Welcome. Prior to while we were in the break, this morning, i said to michael, i said you know, jd. Senator vance is he will say the craziest, most ridiculous untrue things but hell say with a straight face and i use the example of pigs flying and him ardently defending pigs flying and michael decided to throw it into his script. Whether you know Governor Walz very well. Obviously he is the former head o