Resource tonight and angry president biden responds to donald trump accusing him of lying about the government s response to hurricane helene. Politics colliding with a natural disaster. As officials are still searching for survivors tonight. Meanwhile, israel has just launched a ground offensive into lebanon where airstrikes are lighting up the skies from beirut to damascus, or sit in teams are live in the middle east and as trump is calling for the police to get violent and calling his opponent. And i m quoting him now, mentally disabled holds a big name republican will join me as he is endorsing vice president harris. I m kaitlan collins, and this is the source tonight one of the deadliest storms and are nascent nation s history is colliding with the closest election in modern history. But we cannot let that a clubs what is happening tonight inside these states, inside north carolina and georgia is a hundreds of people who are still missing or unaccounted for this evening. The death
Tallahassee within the next few hours. Now, right now, helene is an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. So, for more than 545,000 households in florida, they are reportedly without power and thousands have been ordered to evacuate from their homes. As you can see from these satellite images, helene is huge and is expected to affect nearly the entire state of florida with damaging winds and heavy rain. So, what may bring the most danger are the storm surges. Earlier today, residents experienced flooding in places like pine island, which is just outside of fort myers. But, flooding will likely get much worse across the state as the night continues. A storm surge warning is in place for almost the entirety of florida s west coast. This video is a simulation of what could happen if the storm surge rises to approximately 10 feet. But, in some parts of florida, officials look worn that a hurricane helene could cause storm surges of up
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with president biden playing salesman in chief. the white house has been briefing house and senate democrats on the tentative deal to raise the nation s debt ceiling. a source says that a midafternoon phone call between president biden and house spe speaker kevin mccarthy has not happened yet. the call was to finalize the remaining details. experts say a default would be disastrous for the u.s. and global economies and that threat is still looming ominously at this hour. on capitol hill, lawmakers sound like they re unhappy with this deal. so passage is not guaranteed yet. this is unfolding as a june 5th deadline is drawing closer. we re following all of these latest developments. priscilla alvarez is at the white house for us. what are you learning about this phone call? is it going to happen? there s ever expectation that it is going to happen, jim. as you mentioned, president biden had said it wa
michigan. we do know that object was shot down by an f-16. norad s commander says they aren t calling that object a balloon because they re not able to say right now how that object was able to stay in the air. the uncertainty is escalating the war of words between the united states and china. china claims the united states has been flying balloons over chinese airspace without permission. that s an argument admiral john kirby flatly denied earlier. not true. not doing it. that s absolutely not true. we or not flying balloons over china. also this week, over a week since the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria, rescue crews are amazingly still finding survivors in the rubble this morning, but the devastation is immense, spanning the area nearly the size of texas, and the number of people confirmed dead is now more than 35,000. in moments i ll be talking with former arizona senator jeff flake, now the ambassador to turkey about how the u.s. is helping people there.
photographs of her dead husband and daughter after a fatal helicopter crash. and the scottish city returning cultural artefacts looted from india during british rule in the 19th century. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start in the us, where a former british member of the islamic state group has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in virginia. 34 year old el shafee elsheikh was among a group of british is members who carried out a brutal reign of terror in syria. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal reports from virginia. and then they would ask me to. el shafee elsheikh claimed he was a simple is fighter who wanted to help. but it wasn t true. he was part of the islamic state group which terrorised large swathes of iraq and syria between 2014 and 2017. beatings, electrocutions and mock executions were carried out by the jihadists on western hostages, who called their torturers the beatles due to their english accents. elsheikh