Apocalyptic weekend for all of us here in asheville, North Carolina. There is almost no gas, there is almost no Cell Service, there is limited power, there is limited food. Bill one person speaking on behalf of so many. Dire situation western part of North Carolina. Catastrophic Storm Damage making it near impossible for crews to deliver the Food And Water to those who desperately need it. A big Story Day three, working on day four. Good morning. Im bill hemmer, good morning to you. Dana im Dana Perino and this is americas newsroom. The storm is gigantic and nearly 100 people are now confirmed dead from Hurricane Helene. 36 are in North Carolina. The Storm Fact out roads and bridges leaving entire counties underwater. Officials describing the damage as biblical. Bill the crews are working to restore power. They have a long way to go. 2 Million people across the southeast. Also trying to bring back Cell Service and internet leaving families In The Dark and whether or not their Loved Ones are safe. Dana President Biden is about to give an update on the federal response scheduled for 10 30 a. M. Eastern and bring it to you live as it happens. Bill well have a string of governors speaking as well. The former president , Donald Trump, will visit Today And Hand out supplies in the hardhit city of georgia along the states southern border with florida speaking from there this afternoon. Lets begin coverage. Steve harrigan has been on the story and live in asheville to bring us live what he is seeing there today. Steve, hello. Bill, a lot of people thought this storm was over a couple of days ago. I think they were caught by surprise with the level of devastation here far from the storm in North Carolina. When you get down near the River District where i am there is devastation. You have people who i was talking to this morning coming down to look at their House Or Job and the buildings are simply gone. One thing were going to have to be careful with is the number of dead. It will change dramatically over the next few days. Right now over 100. 30 of those killed right here. More than 600 people still unaccounted for is how high that Death Toll could go. The stress is coming from the lack of Cell Phone Service. People cant get out and tell people theyre safe. They Cant Move around. Loved Ones Cant communicate with one another. Thats the real Stress And Something fema officials are saying theyre trying to fix as quickly as possible. First i would say our hearts go out to those impacted by this disaster. Were working hard to support those communities and survivors and their recovery and will be with them for the long haul. I think it is very difficult in these days after a storm when you cant get in touch with a loved one. We understand its difficult. We would suggest that if you look to your state and local officials where to go to be able to find out how to get access to them and call the Red Cross at 18007332767 one of the real challenges In The Dark is trying to get around. Weve been driving around all Morning And Giant trees blocking roads. You back up and you run into another tree. You realize how cut off people are and how hard it will be to get any significant aid to these people. We talked to volunteers this morning and they say people here need the basics, not only Food And Water but hygiene. People need to clean themselves. They dont have the means to do that in this muck. Back to you. Bill where you are it was a Wind Event and significant water event. Youve covered some storms. How does this compare or what do you see the challenge to be next there . I think when you walk up to It Destruction like this can be from a hurricane, tornado, earthquake. I think the flood is worse than anything because it is so thorough. It ruins everything. I think the worst part of it is its sneaky. You dont hear it coming or know its coming. It sneaks up on you before it kills you. Dana what do you think it will look like where youre standing now . What could it look like in 24 hours . Is the water going down . The water is going down slowly. We hope for good weather over the next day or two. Even after it goes down, there is just things are gone. Things that used to be here. Major buildings, major studios, theyre gone. Bill all of that has to be taken away eventually. Steve, there were reports over the weekend that numerous dams had been threatened. But the latest we have this morning is that no dams broke. Thats kind of a Silver Lining a little little bit for many there. Certainly. Like you guys said at the top, we have to be careful with the numbers. Right now over 100 dead. 600 missing. Hopefully as Phone Communication comes back in well see the 6 Hundred scary number continue to come down. Dana what do you hear about that Cell Phone Service capability . We know there is its difficult. You talked about all the trees that are down. Is there a possibility that satellites or Star Link can help . Were using a Star Link right now. Weve seen a number of them in the area but also seeing help from around the country really just pour in. Weve seen Electric Power trucks from New Jersey just lining the highway. There is help on the way here in a hurry and you see it wherever you turn. Bill they need it. Well check in with you throughout the morning. Steve harrigan. Asheville, North Carolina. Fox corporation made a donation to the Red Cross as Hurricane Relief efforts and go to Red Cross. Org fox forward or scan the Qr Code on the screen. They could use the help. Six minutes past the hour. Another big story. Dana as we look live as smoke filling the sky over beirut. Eight other leaders. Terror group eliminated in just over a week. There could be more to come. Nate foye is reporting live in Tel Aviv. Standoff between israel and iran. Israels prime Minister Netanyahu spoke directly to the iranian people. He blamed the regime for their suffering and he spoke about peace coming soon to the middle east. Listen here. Irans tyrants dont care about your future, but you do. When iran is finally free and that moment will come a lot sooner than people think, everything will be different. You heard him there. Everything will be different soon, dana. Meanwhile Israels Galant said the next part of Israels Plan may include them going into Southern Lebanon. Hezbollah said it is ready for it. Israeli Air Strike continues taking out terrorists from several organization. The head of hamas in lebanon in a separate strike. They sent a clear message to iran yesterday striking yemen after the houthi rebels fired two missiles at Tel Aviv last week. The strike in yemen was the same distance from israel as tehran Irans Parliament met over the weekend chanting death to israel. Iran is helping hezbollah select new leadership after nasrallah and two other terrorists in a strike on friday in beirut. Also there are reports that israel is sending special units into Southern Lebanon to gather intelligence ahead of a possible ground invasion. The two big questions now are will israel actually do it, when will it happen . The other question is what will irans response be . Well send it back to you, dana. Dana thank you, nate, appreciate it. Bill extraordinary weekend, israel wiped out the entire leadership of hezbollah. Nasrallah has been in charge for 32 years. Jack keane is with us now, good morning to you. What is your best guess, general . What comes next and what are you watching for . First of all, right before our eyes we can see there is a strategic shift that has taken place. On October 7th, because of that surprise devastating Attack T1200 killed, 250 hostages, the people in israel lost confidence in that your security forces, military as a result of it because they thought they would always be protected. What has happened here with israel destroying close to the five brigades that have been in gaza still more work to be done there. I dont want to minimize there are still challenges there. Now as you point out taking out the entire Leadership Structure of hezbollah. I mean, an Intelligence Penetration that is quite unprecedented. There is a shift thats taken place. Certainly people of israel are returning confidence in their security forces. But more than that, the adversaries in the region are seeing israels complete capability, their Intelligence Service and Technology Dominance that they have over an adversary and also the Air Power Dominance that they have. I have believed for some time now eight weeks since there was a high Ranking Person killed in iran. The political chieftain of hamas. Iran has done nothing about it yet promised to do something. Here we are. I think theyre back on their heels as a result of what israel is doing. Thats why im talking about deterrence. The hands off policy from the biden administration dealing with iran is dead wrong and hopefully they will back israel to the fullest here and give them some assistance. I truly believe iran probably has to do something to save face here, bill and dana. But i dont believe they want to go to war. They know they cant handle it with israel and they know the united states would be on the side of israel in that fight and they risk losing their entire regime as a result of it. Dana the israelis have reminded the west what it is like to feel when you are on offense against radical islamic Terrorism Andy Lie lake says this in a free press. There are now strategic opportunities to go after irans nuclear program. If Harris End Biden were wise they would shelf their embrace israels escalation. The west way to end a regional war is win it. With hezbollah, their arm in lebanon decapitated at this point until they can rebuild if they can do that, what about irans how close are they to a nuclear weapOn And could that be pushed back . A couple of things. Certainly hezbollahs dramatic loss of leadership with set this organization back. But they have Tens Of Thousands of fighters and Tens Of Thousands of rockets and missiles. So that is still a formidable force. Israel does not want to conduct a ground campaign. What they want is hezbollah to remove their forces so they can put their people back into their homes in northern israel. In other words, voluntarily do that. Thats what the stepped up Campaign And Aggressiveness that weve seen for two weeks has been all about. To get inside their head to pull that your forces back. If they dont do that, then they will go in there. Prime Minister Netanyahu has promised us that. Where the biden administration is, i think. They just want it to stop. Thats simply where they are. And i think thats quite appalling because they should be on Israels Side to crush hezbollah, to crush hamas, to crush the houthis, and do that with our assistance as much as possible, to set iran back for years to come and remove them as the dominant aggressive force in the region. Israel will likely seize an opportunity here in the future, not too far away, to deal with irans nuclear enterprise. They have had some success through Covert Espionage operations, setting it back a year ago. Theyll likely do that again. Dont expect the united states to be involved in anything like that in the near future. I go back to my premise. They just want the war to stop. They will take the status quo. As unfortunate as that is and how adverse that would be for the israelis. Bill general, two things. Kushner was active on Social Media over the weekend involved in the abraham accords. He agrees. Iran is fully exposed. The reason why the nuclear facilities havent been destroyed is because hezbollah has been a loaded gun pointed at israel. The right move for america will be to tell israel to finish the job. It is long overdue. A year ago yesterday, Jake Sullivan said this about the middle east. The middle East Region is quieter today than it has been in two decades. The amount of time that i have to spend on Crisis And Conflict in the middle East Today compared to any of my predecessors going back to 9 11 is significantly reduced. That was on October 7th and On And on. Quick response on that. Well, when he said that, iranianbacked proxies in irrelevant rack and in syria had already attacked the United States Forces 125 times prior to October 7th, 175 times since that time. Thats how appalling and misrepresentation of the facts are and had been to the american people. They have had this dead wrong. This Handsoff Approach for iran is getting us nowhere. Theyre not going to do much of anything. They could easily take the houthis off the board by taking out Irans Spy Ship helping them target. Taking down the navy helping them transport missiles and rockets. Were doing nothing. The houthis have locked down the Suez Canal backed by iran for months. They have fired at u. S. Navy warships using missiles. What are we doing . Nothing. Its appalling we arent stepping up here. Bill well lean on you throughout the week. Jack keane, thanks for coming on. Good talking to you. How dangerous is this for americans . You have that and then you have Hundreds Of Thousands that have been in prison for the worst crimes and you have the Gang Members, all of the Gang Members from all countries all over the world. This kamala doesnt know what she is doing. Bill new disturbing data on the border crisis. 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