Clearing. The way Breaking News good evening youre in the cnn newsroom. Im Kaitlan Collins in New York, and we start with Breaking News this hour as the Death Toll from Hurricane Helene is now ill climbed to at least 93 people. As officials are warning us that number is only expected to grow. The North Carolina Governor, i just spoke with them in the last hour. He says over but thousand people have filed reports that Loved Ones. Theyre unable to reach them as of this bowman is several areas of his state are still in Search And Rescue Mode President biden has been briefed by fema. He is planning to visit Storm Stormravaged Areas later this week, were told and what hell see is nothing short of devastating sides of mountains have collapsed, sliding down into towns overwhelming communities with mud and debris. Entire roads have crumble of meeting that survivors have no words they out and rescue crews no way in. Cnns Rafael Romo is live for us in asheville, North Carolina, in rockville. Obv
Reidout with joy reid. Tonight on the reidout trump and his running mate, they talk about, ooh, yeah, i do believe in the exception to save the mother s life. Okay, all right, let s break that down, shall we? so we re saying that we re going to create public policy that says that a doctor, a health care provider, will only kick in to give the care that somebody needs if they re about to die? a powerful speech on reproductive rights in georgia today from vice president kamala harris, following reports of the horrifying consequences of that state s abortion ban. Also tonight, the maga majority on the georgia election board orders the handcounting of the 5 million or so ballots that will be cast in november s election. Setting the stage for chaos, which they know trump might need to steal a victory in that state. Plus, there republicans north carolina problem. Mark robinson, who allegedly professed to be a black nazi, and who women in the shower, is their candidate for governor. And now
gershkovich. more on that spray head. but first. the border crisis still a major problem as large amounts of migrants pour across as of the border. including a group of over 1000, many from venezuela for they cross the border illegally just days ago before turning themselves over to border ag agents. hello and welcome to fox news like i am molly line in for arthel neville. so far hypo and eric shawn hello everyone thank you for joining us for it will take a live look now at the southern border this comes as homeland security secretary mayorkas faces more criticism from republicans. he refuses to call the migrant surge of the southern border a crisis. the chief of the border patrol ortiz testified before congress that some areas of the border are in a crisis situation. do you agree? i think we face a very serious challenge in certain parts of the border. do you view what s happening right now the border is a crisis? i view it as a significant challenge. significant c
rachel: good morning, everybody. we go straight to a fox weather alert. florida is still reeling from the devastation caused by hurricane ian. we watched everything just go flying by. we lost so much at this point so we appreciate everybody. we are very much concerned about the storm. i should have left. i shouldn t have stayed. most of the time, we are all kind of doing our own thing just listening to the winds, which were horrible for hours. reporter: the storm soaking the mid atlantic making way up north and the death toll in florida and the carolinas unfortunately continues to climb. alexandria hoff is live in fort meyers beach this morning with more. good morning, alex. reporter: good morning. we re on san carlos island part of fort meyers beach and this is a challenging rescue and sadly a recovery operation has had to become and look at mangled pieces of metal and boats on top of hopes and look at residences and think, my goodness, i hope they were among
as a huge surprise given the well-established history inside trump world of pressuring potential witnesses in key investigations. washington post lays it out like this, quote. evidence across multiple state, federal and congressional investigations points to a similar pattern. trump and his close allies privately shower potential witnesses with flattery and attention extending vague assurances that staying loyal to trump would be better than crossing him. meanwhile, trump publicly blasts those who offer testimony against him in bluntly personal terms offering a clear example to others of the consequences of stepping out of line. the new york times offers another view of this type of carrot and stick witness pressure campaign reporting this, quote, former president trump s political organization and his allies have paid for or promised to finance the legal fees of more than a dozen witnesses called in the congressional investigation into the january 6th attack, raising legal