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
Multiple staffers have just quit the campaign from Mark Robinson. Hes the embattled republican candidate for governor in north karolina. The campaign telling Cnn Tonight for of its top operatives have stepped down from their roles. Those exits coming just days after a Bombshell Scene you didnt report uncovered racist, Sexually Graphic, and lewd comments made by robinson on a Porn Website years ago robinson writing in a Statement Tonight quote, is appreciate the efforts of these Team Members who have made the difficult choice to step away from the campaign. And i wish them well in their future endeavors. I look forward to announcing new staff roles in the coming days cnn, kfile, senior editor Andrew Kaczynski, who broke this story, joins us now with more details. Andrew, what are you hearing tonight well, thats right. Cnn has learned that four top operatives to lieutenant governor Mark Robinsons campaign have all resign in the wake of our story including the Campaign Manager, deputy Cam
Unanswered questions at this tense time. Natasha bertrand, thank you very much for that a new hour of cnn, new central starts right now ill, community shattered and grieving after a deadly School Shooting, two students and two teachers killed in a Georgia School. The New Details were Learning Thing about the 14yearold Suspect and we will talk with both the teacher and a student from apalachee High School about those terrifying moments that student was sitting right next the alleged gunman before the shooting started. Im Sara Sider with john berman, Kate Bolduan is out today. This is cnn new central all right any moment now, the 14yearold Suspect in a georgia School Shooting could make his first Court Appearance where he is hes expected to face Murder Charges as an adult this morning. Questions about how he got an ar 15 a little more than a year ago, Law Enforcement visited the house his house concerned about postings on Social Media connected to the suspect, the parents said he did not
To try to prepare and potentially record high temperatures and humidity expected to smother the midwest this week the heat so dangerous. Some schools are being forced to close just days into the new year. Im sara sider with john berman, kate bolduan is out. Cnns new central starts right now this morning. Cnn is reporting on the debate about donald trump. But Kamala Harris boils down to one simple question why, why did donald trump just tell voters once again that he may not . Show up to a debate. He already agreed to listen to trumps latest if he shouldnt say this, because if theres a debate it would be nice to surprise her with that one so is he skipping or is he bluffing because the new reporting from cnns Alayna Treene this morning as Donald Trumps team recognizes, they do need to have a debate with harris, Alayna Treene joins us. Now with the very latest you are talking to the folks around him saying, yeah we know we need to have this debate so what is happening with him sort of co
reply, is that the number is published by hamas are not only inflated they include the number of terrorists combatant death, every one civilian death, and every civilian deaths, by the way, is a tragedy is one civilian deaths, too many but compared to any other modern conflict, including the united states involvement in iraq, afghanistan, and syria, where the ratio was a for civilians to every combatant debt or nine civilians, 30 combatant. that that is a record that s not been matched by any other army in history including the united states military. so we re going to have an issue with the vitamin striation about those numbers but at base, i think the goals of the war remained unchanged, destroying hamas, assuring that over seventh can happen again i think we should point out that the white house has assessed that those numbers historically have been fairly accurate coming from the palestinian ministry of health. nevertheless about us ambassador michael oren, we have to l