And shes reinventing downtown to make our City Vibrant again. Shes building 82,000 new homes ing First Time homebuyers, just like us. And londons Hiring Hundreds of police officers, and arresting drug dealers. San francisco has been through difficult times, but our hard work is paying off. Working together, were building a better future for the city we all love. Ad paid for by reelect mayor London Breed 2024. Financial disclosures are available at sfethics. Org. Isabel rosales in asheville North Carolina. And this is cnn hi, and thank so much for joining me. Im Jessica Dean in washington alongside my colleague Jim Sciutto in tel aviv. We have Breaking News in the Middle East. Were Gonna Go To Jim in just a moment. Were also following Breaking News here in the u. S. And will begin in the southeast hes were the Death Toll from helene has just taken a dramatic jump from 64 to 89 confirmed dead. 30 of those deaths coming in Buncombe County, North Carolina where asheville is located, were t
Did on five federal charges facing intense pressure from democrats to step aside new Yorks Governor could decide his fate plus huge explosions, Rock Beirut as israels Prime Minister has, says, he has every right to fight hezbollah and israeli official telling cnn, Hezbollahs Leader was the target, were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News central right now, helene is battering the southeast with potentially catastrophic rainfall flash, flood, emergency his stretching from tennessee to North Carolina and virginia damaging winds, tornadoes, mudslides. They are also a threat in some areas. We do have some new video of the destruction that helene left behind after making landfall as a category four hurricane in floridas big Bend Region last night authorities saying that at least 23 people have died across four states and millions are without power and take a look at a dramatic rescue. An amazing one here the Coast Guard says a man and
The victims of vile abuse. And antisemitism racism, and so forth. Unfortunately, history tells us when theres a rise in tensions in the middle east, theres a rise in anti semitism. Those of us that Arent Jewish and hes provide allyship to our jewish friends, colleagues, and neighbors say no to and he sums view can be a supporter of israel existing, but be critical of the policies of netanyahu. You can be supportive of your jewish friends and colleagues, neighbors. But be critical of the policies of the idf. I think what we dont want to see is jewish friends, colleagues, and Neighbors House been scared to go about their business and its really important we understand. Yes, of course. Im critical of some of the policies of netanyahu what the idf are doing. Its heartbreaking their hostages still being kept in gaza. But actually, the idea of Cant Carry on if criminally killing people in gaza, there is no excuse. Fan simonson mayor, its great to have you. Thanks for coming in. Your time. Pl
Saying yeah, we have a category three hurricane on our hands right now, what 125 mile per hour winds my point that out because it category four hurricane starts at 130 mile per hour winds, so were really talking about a difference of five to ten miles per hour here, right . So right now, its a very Highend Category three teetering on that category four, which is why the national Hurricane Center is saying, hey, look, its still sitting over very warm from Ocean Waters right now. It has all the ingredients it needs to strengthen. So theres really not much to stop it from gaming that five miles per hour that it needs to just get to that category and become a category four either way, whether its this Highend Category three, or it makes that fivemile per Hour Difference to a category four. We are still talking about the Sam Catastrophic on survivable impacts when it comes to the Storm Surge and heavy Rain And Everything else. Weve been talking about, the radar. You can see again still with
Already begun in Southwest Florida. The impacts were not that significant, where the storm has already passed, fdot crews have already driven and cleared more than 2000 miles of roadway in Southwest Florida so weve already started working once the initial initial response is through our cut and tell us crews were transition to Debris Removal. And undergoing are two sentences, leadership, we will stand ready just like with the Dahlia And Debbie to support fiscally constrained counties with the Debris Removal operation please leave dr. Please do not drive on them water over a road can be very dangerous, especially around culverts and bridges. Every storm season, we see people tried to navigate through water. You have no idea whats Going On underneath the water, please do not drive through but were going to stay in touch with our airports and Seaports Sea ports are closed, Water Side right now airports are going to reopen just as soon as practically feasible and thank again, governor. Tha