John we are tracking President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris Movement as they visit some of the communities hardest hit by Hurricane Helene. President biden will take an aerial tour in western North Carolina. He just touched down. And in moments we do expect Vice President harris to land in georgia, where she will survey damage there. A couple days after former President Trump did. Im John Roberts in washington. Good happy with us today. Gillian things for having me. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Towns in North Carolina completely unrecognizable. Especially the western part of the state. Asheville Mayor R faced of their resources. The pictures you can see right there on your screen proved that is the case. Emergency crews are working to reach the isolated communities that have been devastated by catastrophic flooding. Residents there are heartbroken, desperately pleading for help. There has been landslides. Our valley got wiped out. They had to rescue people, the Nati
Wealthy, at that level, so concerned about that. Rachel maskell is with me now. She is a Labour Mp. Why did you abstain and why did you not back the measure . I abstain and why did you not back the measure . Abstain and why did you not back the measure . I could not Su Ort back the measure . I could not support a back the measure . I could not support a measure back the measure . I could not support a measure which i cannot have this on my conscience. I have to look my constituents in the eye as i have constituents in the eye as i have over constituents in the eye as i have over the last few weeks, and they have over the last few weeks, and they have been pleading with and they have been pleading with me and they have been pleading with me to do something to protect with me to do something to protect them, and i will continue to do this, that is why continue to do this, that is why i continue to do this, that is why i have abstain, to maintain the whip why i have abstain, to maintain t
Overnight, back into Northern Ireland and Southern Scotland the rain will track north. Now to the north of that band of rain it could be quite chilly for a while in northern this programme continues on bbc one. Published by michael gove tomorrow help stamp out extremist ideologies, as it claims . Since october 7th, anti semitic and anti muslim hate cases have soared. The government says its new more precise defintiion of extremism will tackle the ever evolving threat of such behaviour in our country. Will it . Well ask the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of britain and the Policy Director of a think tank called the Counter Extremism Group which works closely with mps. Also tonight, The Labour Leader drills down on the tory party being bankrolled, as he put it, by a businessman who reportedly said diane abbott made him want to hate All Black Women and that she should be shot. Meanwhile, there are growing calls for labour to restore the whip to ms abbott. Well speak to labour mp
causing serious destruction. ukrainian government is now imposing energy restrictions, rolling blackouts across the country, after repeated strikes on critical energy infrastructure. in the meantime president biden responding to putin s declaration of martial law in these ukrainian territories saying it reveals his dwindling options in the war. i think vladimir putin finds himself in an incredibly difficult position. and what it reflects to me is it seems his only tool available to him is to brutalize individual citizens in ukraine. cnn got rare access to ukraine s military on the battlefield frontlines. matthew chance is live in moscow first, but i want to go to fred 34r50i9 plight ken who is in kramatorsk. tell us what you saw. reporter: and we ve been hearing so much about the long distance strikes that the russians have been carrying out on critical infrastructure and of course that school that they hit overnight there in zaporizhzhia. but there are still a lot of
accuser also apparently has receipts. we ll have the latest on that development. plus, president biden and key members of his cabinet hit the road to play defense on the economy with election day now just 12 days away. we ll have more on their message and the new polling that shows things may be swinging back in democrats favor. it s tight, though. and donald trump is set to hit the road ahead of election day, including a stop in florida. one key republican hasn t been invited to that event. the governor, we ll have reaction from allies of ron desantis who are not happy. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, october 27th. joe is off, but along with willie and me, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. and willie, as we get closer to election day, things are getting a lot tighter and it seems like democrats might be working to diversify their mess