Record 30inches of rainfall. More than 32,000 people are still without power at this hour. Retired u. S. Army lieutenant general Russell Honore is joining us. Let me get your assessment as someone who knows what an operation like this looks like. The damage youre sering right now. What do you make of the damage were seeing across the south . Well i think you clarified that it was a storm that attacked florida, and made its way through georgia, tennessee to new mexico. It dropped an awful lot of water. Not measured in inches but foot. It overmatched the terrain and when you drop water in those mountains, ayman as we all know it started going to the valleys. The community had not seen or experienced that and overtime, development happened in the deeper part of those valleys. And what we have seen is and with condolences to all those who have lost their lives that Flash Flooding that has occurred. The good news, theres a lot of people working to get to them. Lets talk about the operations
We start this hour with some breaking news. The death toll from hurricane helene has now risen to 89. 30 of those deaths were in north carolina which has seen a record 30inches of rainfall. Nearly 2 million people are without power. And joining general honore. Good to have you on the show. Let me get your assessment from someone like you who knows the damage you re seeing right now. What do you make of the damage we re seeing across the south. Well i think you clarified the point. This was amongst the storm that attacked florida. Made its way through georgia and into north carolina and tennessee. And even parts of virginia. It s a massive storm. I dropped enormous amount of water. Not measured in inches but by a foot in some places 2foot of water dropped. It overdropped the terrain. And when you do that it s going go into the valleys. A lot of commune tips had not experienced that. And what we have seen, with condolences to everyone who lost their lives the impact of the flash flooding
justice department says it s trying to protect in its investigation of documents taken from donald trump s home at mar-a-lago. in a way, these are the most expansive comments yet from the justice department and they come in a court filing opposing the release of the affidavit that lays out the case for searching mar-a-lago. now, senators on both members of the intelligence committee and media companies including cnn are pushing to see that information. new reporting this morning from the wall street journal revealed attorney general merrick garland deliberated for weeks before approving the warrant for the mar-a-lago search. senior doj officials met frequently at that time. he now faces a more consequential decision of whether or not to pursue that. katelyn polantz joins us from washington with the very latest. katelyn. brianna, the justice department filing saying they don t want the release of what backs up it and hints to the seriousness of the information. and those
the next and possibly final hearing set for primetime thursday evening. president biden is on air force one after wrapping up his first trip to the middle east as commander-in-chief. the exchange with biden and mohammed bin salman al saud was direct, frank, and open and included president biden raising the issues of human rights and the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. promised the u.s. will remain an active and engaged partner in the middle east. the united states is gonna remain an active and engaged partner in the middle east. as the world grows more competitive, the challenges we face more complex, it is only becoming clear to me that how closely the world and america s interests are, with the successes in the middle east. we will not walked away. and leave a vacuum to be filled by china, russia, or iran. milwaukee will likely be the host for the 2024 republican national convention. it now heads to a final reproof of all process, after the gop recommended t
sensitive information about witnesses, plural, john, that could compromise this investigation and others. again, i was just surprised to see this much information in one court filing, lee, yesterday, what do you make that there are witnesses for other investigations as well? it s clearly the tip. things that make president trump crazy. the question how many people may be talking to the doj, how many investigations may be going on beyond what we already know about. i will say with respect to the doj posture, it makes sense not to be played with the politicization to start creeping in. we desire that, look, there s a case to be made that maybe the head of the senate intelligence committee should see it, given the seriousness and severity of this but this is clearly something that could compromise ann iongoing investigation. and you can t let that be determined by potential news