But first right now, the lead with Jake Tapper starts right now welcome to the lead. Im Jake Tapper and we are following two major breaking stories. I am right now inside the Spin Room at Cbs Studio goes in new York Hours away from tonights first and only 2024, Vice President ial debate. But the Worlds Attention might be elsewhere at roughly 12 30 p. M. Eastern youre in time. Iran launched a major attack on Israel Firing nearly 200 ballistic missiles according to us officials, cnns Jim Sciutto and his crew were live on an air in israel at the time as Air Raid sirens sounded and missiles began to rain down overhead okay, guys, we got to get off the roof. These are coming down right next to us here. Hes do jim, please do theyre coming down one just about. We got to go Inside Sciutto and his team are thankfully safe. We are waiting for reports as to the damage done by the iranian souls, the Israel Defense forces reports that most of irans missiles its were intercepted by Israels Air defen
Special event, the Vice President ial debate tuesday at nine story. Im Anderson Cooper. There are five weeks left until the election and the race remains extremely tight, especially in the critical Swing States, winning some of these states could come down to one key demographic, the Latino Vote. Latinos are the second largest and fastestgrowing group of voters in the United States. The majority of them have historically voted for democrats thats but a growing number of latinos have become republicans. And many now support former president Donald Trump. Cnn political contributor, Ana Navarro is a republican whos now supporting Vice President harris in this race. Recently spoke at the Democratic National Convention shes been one of trumps harshest and most outspoken critics in the next hour, she travels across us to see for herself while trump appeals to Latino Voters, in which issues matter the most to them in this election much maam we keep hearing about the Latino Vote. This mythical
Welcome to the whole story. Im Anderson Cooper. There are five weeks left until the election and the race remains extremely tight, especially in the critical Swing States winning some of these states could come down to one key demographic, the Latino Vote. Latinos are the second largest and fastestgrowing group of voters in the United States. The majority of them have historically voted for democrats, but a growing number of latinos have become republicans. And many now support former President Donald Trump cnn political contributor, and navarro is a republican whos now supporting Vice President harris in this race. And recently spoke at the democratic national convention. Shes been one of trumps harshest and most outspoken what can critics, and in the next hour, she travels across the us to see for herself while trump appeals to Latino Voters, in which issues matter the most to them in this election much chatter we keep hearing about the Latino Vote, this mythical Latino Vote . Rico m
Them morning. You were live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We are following Breaking News this Morning Disaster in Western North Carolina as one North Carolina official put it the devastation is quote biblical large swaths are completely cut off in that area. Official say, all roads there are considered closed. These are exclusive pictures coming into cnn showing the destruction in asheville. What you are looking at is the main Road And Biltmore village near the famous biltmore estate. Its a five lane road, usually full of cars now, its covered in debris and mud. People walking down the Middle Of The Road looking for supplies that as a comment in sight these days, helene tore through the historic village, the floodwaters. You can see right here rising to Roof Level and pushing trailers and to buildings, Power And Water are out in much of the city. This is a transform where you can see it right there just lying in the Middle Of The Road leaking fluid. Its been there f
Wide tornado has hit. Those are some of the descriptions used to talk about this heartbreaking toll of Hurricane Helene across the southeastern united states. Today, we learned the storm has killed at least 128 people. That number has increased since an hour ago when i reported on this hundreds of others have been reported missing. Towns, reduced to debris. We begin our coverage this hour with cnns Rafael Romo. Hes in Western North Carolina with a closeup look at this horrific destruction here for sara tim co, this freshly brewed coffee is a luxury made possible by the love of her father. I asked my daughter, are you okay. Youve just texted her and she sent me back these horrifying pictures. I mean, it looked like armageddon. Thats when theyve Tim Cook decided to travel hundreds of miles to come to the rescue of his daughter and her family, bringing food, water, gas, and supplies, buildings down, houses, washed away im like, oh, my god, my dollars in the middle of this and shes 7. 5 mo