and i'm not sure it and done it in service of advancing some of these really hateful, really disgusting, really awful accounts. >> he spent a lot of money buy it. all right. thank you. panel for joining me this morning and thank you for joining us. i'm on a raja cnn news central starts like now the final countdown exactly one week tool, presidents sure be like no other right here on cnn. >> and we have our first glimpse of how the candidates are preparing fires. and now floods millions are now under flood threats as the first tropical storm of the year makes landfall and batters southern texas also a historic decision, louisiana now require three all public school classrooms to display the ten commandments opponents, wout challenge this new law have all those stories and more for kate bolduan out today, i'm sarah side and with john berman, this is cnn news central this morning game on. >> but of course it is no gain. it is the earliest general election debate the presidential campaign history. and maybe the most decisive right here on cnn. and now just one week away. and for the first time, we're getting some of the nitty-gritty details how the candidates are preparing president biden will travel to camp david tonight where we are told he and his team are going to pour over briefing biters, trump insider say he has been working with his vice presidential possibilities, testing out responses and messaging on policy a brand new poll from fox news shows president biden with a two-point lead that is well within the margin of error, but this is a shift toward biden's since the last fox poll in may seen as or signs is steve contorno are with us now, arlette, first to you and on how the biden campaign is getting ready for this huge moment. >> well, john president biden will depart, rehoboth beach, delaware a bit later tonight to head to camp david. and it is there that he will hunker down with his top aides to really drill in on his debate preparations. one of the key goals for biden heading into this debate is trying to paint trump as division and chaotic as the he prepares for his first in-person showdown with his opponent, since there are two debates in 2020. now, it's expected that this, these preps and camp david will really start with some informal discussions going over some areas that could come up, uh, topics that could come up in the debate, questions that could come up, and then transition into more fulsome 90 minutes mock debates, aides have already started putting together binders a width possible topic areas, waitas, ways to answer those questions and biden according to sources who've been involved in preparations, is really known to ask a lot of questions, drill in on that and offer feedback. it's expected that he will do the same heading into this debate. now the president will be joined by former white house chief of staff, ron klain, who is leading these debate preparations. bruce read, the president's deputy chief of staff, who really focuses a lot on policy, has been tasked with going through the material wilson hour's of what trump has said out on the campaign trail. it's also possible that the president's personal attorney, bob bauer, could potentially play trump in these mock debates as he did back in 2020. now there already have been some preparation sessions that have gotten underway and sources say that in those cells i shouldn't president biden has really been focused on trying to find ways to hold trump accountable on the debate stage. one campaign official said that biden has been a lot punchier in his attacks against trump out on the campaign trail and they anticipates that are hoping that that will also be the case on the debate stage, but for the biden campaign came so much of this is really trying to highlight the stakes of this election for so long, biden's advisers have said that voters are simply tuned out. so this could essentially serve as a starting point for that. and they firmly believe that once voters are reminded of what trump has, did an office during those four years, and the warnings about what could come in another second term that that will really sink in with a lot of voters. one thing biden will really try to focus on is trying to raise some of the things that haven't registered with voters so far that trump has said. so all of this will be a key focuses firth, president biden, as he hunker down, at camp david preparing for this one-on-one debate, just one week from today. >> all right. let's go to steve contorno, who has what trump has been up to as he tries to prepare for the debate. you heard all the things that president biden is doing. what's up with donald trump? >> well, sarah donald trump has suggested in the past at rallies, best prepare him for these debates and he is holding a rally on saturday in philadelphia, one of several visits he has made to that part of the state. this year in the past, though he has held mock debate sessions with people like rudy giuliani and chris christie. he's not doing that this time. i'm around as far as we have heard, but he has held somewhat informal policy sessions bringing in some of his potential vp picks like senator jd vance of ohio, senator marco rubio, and meeting with some other advisors as well, like susie wiles, his campaign manager, chris lacivita kellyanne conway, stephen miller, some of these advisors who have been talking to the president through some of the policy issues they expect to come up the economy border crime, abortion, as well as these wars in gaza and ukraine. >> and they have been preparing president, former president trump for how he might respond to some of these attacks about his criminal now criminal history and as well as what happened on june january 6, there has also been a fair amount of expectation setting from trump and his allies heading into this debate, listen to what he said on tuesday in racine, wisconsin is anybody going to watch the debate these going to be so pumped up, he's going to be pumped up. >> you know, all that stuff that was missing about a month ago from the white house? >> i'll probably be negotiating with three people, but that's okay. >> i've done that before. >> i'll be debating three people instead of one, instead of 1.5 of a person? >> trump has been so much time projecting biden as older and feeble at that now it's interesting to see him and his allies suggests that they expect president biden is show up and perform and interesting that he also thinks it's going to be a disadvantage to him sort of setting an expectation that it's gonna be him against the media and and biden as well. so clearly, already sort of laying the groundwork for some excuses if things do not go well on next thursday. >> well, it's happening in seven days, so we will see just how it goes for both candidates. arlette saenz and steve contorno. thank you so much. and jake tapper and dana bash moderate the cnn present central the debate next thursday live from atlanta starts at 9:00 p.m. eastern, and it will be streaming on max as well that's my house, but i saw the flames. they were just like boiling and the wind started going so when i looked at it, everything in me tells me my house is gone terrible pictures there from new mexico first ravaged by wildfires and now there are life threatening mudslides and flooding. homes gone live shattered. we will talk to one of the representatives from the area and corridor. only pirates do this a major escalation in the south china sea, the brutal assault china is being accused of using belated weapons also an urgent manhunt is on in arkansas. this man stacy lee drake, wanted in connection with multiple homicides and carjacking we'll be right back hey, mom, how many should i decorate it? 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and will this get worse and i it will get worse for parts of mexico as far as texas, we can still see some of that storm surge rolling, especially as we kept high tide this morning. >> here's a look at alberto right now is still a tropical storm i've 50 mile per hour winds. we are very close to landfall this morning. >> but as you saw rosa standing in the water, this is the perfect example of impacts far outside of landfall, impacts far outside the cone, we still have a tornado watch an effect this morning from corpus christi down towards brownsville, texas because some of these bands have a little bit it's been to them. >> and that's where you can get some breaking. we've tornadoes to get onshore as well. some flood watches continue though we are expecting about an inch more rain of parts of texas. you can see though the coastal warnings continue as we again are still look at some of the storm surge, rainfall totals since yesterday, we're looking at widespread two to four inches a lot of the yellow but look at some of the oranges were we're seeing four to six inch totals. >> in fact, for rock port, texas, we've got more than five inches of rain, which is an entire month's worth. >> and then some of rain. here's another image of some of that storm surge, the ocean water that just pushes inland with some of that onshore flow, some of that could continue today as we still some of those onshore winds two to four feet of the storm surge as possible around galveston, some 123 feet around corpus christi will continue with some of this heavy rain in parts of mexico, some of the shower is actually stretch up into a new mexico where we have those wildfire concerns sarah flooding and welfare concerns. we're gonna be talking about those in just a bit. thank you so much. elisa rafah, their from the weather center, also, a newly signed law in louisiana is mandating the ten commandments must be posted in every public classrooms. kindergarten to college. civil liberties groups, as you might imagine, are promising a battle in court, plus the trial is underway for a russian american ballerina accused of treason in russia details of her case historically the soviet union killed traders i started to run to kgb cause had come behind us. >> i didn't know what to do. >> secrets and spies. a nuclear game sunday at ten on cnn, not flossing then add the wo of listerine to your routine new science shows listerine is five times more effective than floss at reducing flat above the gum line for a cleaner, healthier mouth this story, feel the world if you have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's disease, put it in check with rent folk a once-daily pill symptoms tried to take control. i got rapid relief and reduced fatigue with brin vote. when flares kept trying to slow me down, i got lasting steroid free remission with print book share. and when my dr. saad damage run vote helped visibly reduce damage of the intestinal lining, check for both uc and crohn's rapid symptom relief, lasting steroid free remission, and visibly reduced let's damage. check check and check. >> we're invoking lower your ability to fight infections including tb, serious infections, and blood clots, some fatal cancers including lymphoma in skin, heart attack, stroke, and gi tears occurred. people 50 and older with a heart disease risk factor, an increased risk of death, serious allergic reactions can occur tell you dr. if you are or may become pregnant, what uc and crohn's and check and keep them there with ringbone. ask your gastroenterologist about rin voc and learn how abbvie can help you save. >> can the riva support your brain health? 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