Want to miss. But, first,. No water, barely have food. Everybody expiring in the fridge. Being without power is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is not having drinkable water. Right now everything is just devastating. It s eye opening. I talked to one of my close childhood friends yesterday. And her house is completely destroyed. And we are just thankful we can get here to get diapers and formula and a hot meal because right now those are very important to us because the stores don t have them. Laura: at least 230 people have lost their lives across six states from hurricane helene. There are 1. 8 million total power outages. Buncombe county, north carolina alone where asheville is makes up 31% of the total deaths. And there are at least 200 people still unaccounted for. Families as you heard are continuing to struggle to get basic necessities. That means that private citizens in the absence of federal government relief, they have to provide relief. And this is all despite
Morning today, President Biden is heading to Florida And Georgia to see Helenes Devastation firsthand that visit comes as the Homeland Security Secretary gives this dire warning we are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We do not have the funds. Fema does not have the funds to make it through the season your that right. Were also getting this exclusive new video of asheville, North Carolina Power lines and equipment still scattered everywhere, houses crushed by trees as Power Poles dangerously lay across lines Coming Up. Ill speak with people in charge of a Food Bank and an Animal Shelter are still helping their communities even as they recover. Good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington new evidence from special counsel, Jack Smiths office, the unsealed brief weighing in and add more than 165 pages provides perhaps the clip heroes picture. Yet of smiths 2020 Election Case against former
good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. we begin this very busy hour with breaking news from the supreme court. in a major 8-1 decision, the court upheld a statute that bars people subjected to domestic violence restraining orders from having guns. joining us now, nbc news washington correspondent yamiche alcindor. good morning. break this down for us, if you would. reporter: this is a supreme court saying there are limits to the second amendment and in this case if you are somebody who is found in violation of domestic violence laws, and restraining order, you can temporarily have your firearms and access to firearms be taken away from you. i think it is interesting here because as you said, it is an 8-1 opinion. we talk about the supreme court being a 6-3 conservative majority. here in this case, you had liberals and conservatives on the same side, with chief justice john roberts writing the majority opinion here. the one dissenter is ju
it was. and you know, samantha, as the storm approaches, the mainland united states, presumably over this weekend, the trump administration, get this, is diverting $271 million in disaster relief funding, approved by congress, to step up immigration enforcement along the border. is that going to hurt the ability of fema, for example, to do the job? well, most likely it will. and while president trump views the federal budget as his campaign fund, he s used his power, or frankly abused it, to finance his pet projects, by reappropriating funds towards things he thinks will sound good on the campaign trail. remember he declared a national emergency on the southern border so that he could reappropriate funds from the department of defense. congress said that that was illegal. but that was able to move forward. and now, yet again, the executive branch is stepping in, and moving funds from disaster relief, disasters have not gone down, nor have the need to responds to them, toward
something that he believes is a political priority, which is the border wall. the issue is that he is putting american lives at risk. his political campaign is trumping the lives of at least three million puerto ricans that could be at risk, from this hurricane, as well as folks in florida, and unless fema stepped in, which we don t think they did, and said that these funds weren t necessary anymore, the president is making himself the appropriator in chief, and maybe setting up yet another battle with congress. is he allowed to reprogram this money, just with a signature? i mean the key word here is appropriations. there are three branches of government. and congress is the one that has the power of purse. to actually appropriate funds like they need to. and as always said, they did not want to appropriate and ear mark funds for fema-related beds, and i.c.e. related beds, they did not want to do so and now to circumvent the authority, at the beginning of the hurricane season, in a