Did for me. Im Alayna Treene traveling with the Trump Campaign and this is cnn thanks for joining me on Jim Acosta in for fredricka whitfield. We are heading into the Home Stretch in the race for the White House, the election theres now just a month away in both candidates are out in full force hitting the Campaign Trail. For those last minute undecided voters in critical Battleground States with voting already underway in several states polls look at this, showing the race is still neck and neck. Both Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump, are campaigning at some very big and important news stories, or having the potential to shape, shape this race in reshape at time. And again, war in the Middle East, the devastating aftermath of helene and a surprisingly strong jobs report that just came out yesterday any minute. Now, Vice President harris will depart Washington And Flight in North Carolina to survey the aftermath. Of helene and that important state. She is set
Theyre saying it could Go To 9 . That would be worse than two years ago, except it would be selfinflicted, really key line from the authors here. They say that we find ironically that the spot fight his make the foreigners pay rhetoric. This package of policies does more damage to the u. S. Economy than to any other in the world which kate, i just think brings us to one of the ironies here, right . The economy is the number one issue. Voters say they trust trump over harris on the economy. And yet these experts, when they dig into the policies, they he say that he wouldnt just fail to fix inflation. He would actually make things worse brutal, brutal analysis for sure. Thank you so much. Matt were going to head over to florida right now where the governor of florida is holding an update on Hurricane Helene as its making its way to the Gulf Coast and major general John Haas from the Florida National Guard as you know, as of 8 00 a. M. Hurricane helene is now a category two hurricane. It
climb in portions of western is florida. we could see 10-15 feet in the areas getting towards ft. myers or naples. these are the areas where water is incredibly high. as this storm continues to move to the north tampa is experiencing that, five to ten feet of water. that is passing through that area. here s our hour-by-hour forecast, you can pay attention to the time stamp up in the corner, think midnight to 1:00 a.m., that s when this really heavy part of the storm will move by, suddenly on the southern edge of the storm overnight getting into early, early tomorrow morning, that s when you see the winds coming in from the gulf of mexico, it s going to start to pile this water up and at that point, we re going to be seeing storm surge flooding begin to move into that area and going head north and north from there, bill, a very long night for folks in tampa and for you as well. bill: adam, the temperature feels like it s dropped 20 degrees in three hours. that happens when these storms
to earlier today, and officials will take time to assess the actual damage here to naples. this afternoon week saw sustained winds for more than 30 minutes at 130 miles per hour, just walk around the small area that we could get to. it was clear there was significant damage to the area. a lot of trees down, not just branches but large trees, some of them snapped in half, others uprooted. damage to roofs as well, too. a lot of tiles down, but not complete destruction, not obliteration of buildings. not windows smashed everywhere. so serious damage but not clear how far it goes. power is out too for 170,000 people in this county for three million people across florida. it is a very dark main street in naples behind me. real question concerns the flooding. there were at least 12 inches of rain in the naples area, there were real concerns about back end of this storm, there could be a storm surge of 10-15 feet, that would be enough to
out the storm. last minute, last night they said it wasn t worth the risk and they all pulled out. just about everybody that we know has pulled out of naples itself, and they ve moved a little further east or out. that s the feedback we ve been getting from people. sandra: how about power? no power. we were fortunate enough to have power up until about three hours ago or so, and then it was flickering in and out and we lost all power and we ve been without it since, so that s our next issue that we have to deal with. sandra: i ve found over the past couple of hours, people write in saying there s a lot of people who don t live in the area full-time like you do, they live up north in the summertime, and then they end up checking in with those that are there full-time. are you getting that sort of are you involved with that sort of correspondence? people worry about their homes if they re not there? absolutely. we have friends all over that