Thanks for joining me. Im Jim Acosta in for fredricka whitfield. We are heading into the Home Stretch in the race to the White House the president ial election is now just about one month away, and both campaigns are pushing hard for those still undecided voters and critical that Battleground States. And with voting states, polls of course, showed this race is still very much Neck And Neck, both Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump, are campaigning as some big News Stories are reshaping the race as we speak in the War And Lebanon to the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Helene and a surprising jobs report, but its still unclear how all of this will affect the rest of this Race Today though, the former president is returning to the scene of his first Assassination Attempt in battleground, pennsylvania, trump is set to hold a rally later today. In butler and the western part of that state, he narrowly survived an attempt on his life on July 13 at that location whe
Businessman Stan Pate is continuing his efforts of giving back to those in need, gifting the City of Selma with $100,000 to be used for tornado relief aid.
The University of Alabama athletic community came together Monday afternoon to collect items for victims of recent storms that affected West and Central Alabama
in 1989 hurricane hugo slammed into south carolina as a category 4. 50 people died. in 1999, the category 2 hurricane floyd made landfall in cape fear, north carolina, and it is most remembered for its record rainfall. flooding caused dozens of deaths. floyd is also remembered for images like this, hundreds and thousands of hogs drowning in floodwaters. all of these storms made direct hits on the carolinas just like florence, and about a quarter of the costliest storms in the u.s. struck the carolinas. accuweather is now estimating florence will cause $30 billion to $60 billion in damage and economic impact. i want to bring in hans nichols in jacksonville, north carolina with the latest on the government s storm relief efforts going on there. reporter: yeah. good afternoon, frances. we are here at the emergency operation center and what they re doing is coordinating the response. one thing they re really monitoring is the flood levels. you have the new river, earlier it breached the
country. and now she s able to get to work representing our nation as our nation s top diplomat. in just a few minutes the president will be departing the white house to visit the department of homeland security. he will attend the swearing in of secretary kelly, but then be briefed by fema on the storm relief efforts in the southeast and conduct other related business with specific to keeping our nation safe. secretary kelly has dedicated his life to protecting our country, enlisting in the marine corps in 1970, commanding at every level from platoon commander through the corp. level and combat and command. he has a sincere commitment to fighting the threat of terrorism inside of our country and ending the dangerous flow of illegal imgrabi immigrants through our borders. the president is looking forward to working with secretary kelly to implement his plans to restore our borders and protect our country. for everyone keeping score at home, this brings us up to four total confirmations