They have been accused of hiding and not being transparent about the attempted assassination of a formEr President and political opponent. I completely understand why they re leased it. Calculation they decided it was better to release than not but it did spark controversy. Bill well be with you later today when the appearance is underway in florida. Thank you, kerri. Communities have taken a beatdown and they will need to rebuild. People want the dignity to buy the dipers in the sizes they want, the formula they want. The Pet Food they want. Dana humanitarian need in North Carolina. In moments we expect to hear from florida governor Ron Desantis as Emergency Crews Work to clear debris, restore power, get food, water, and fuel to folks, diapers to folks trapped by Flash Flooding and washed out roadways. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. Good morning again. Bill im bill hemmer. The images are stunning. Five or six states cover such a wide area. 100 people confirmed dead. Hundreds missing. Millions without power. As the floodwaters begin to recede there is still a threat of potential landslides. Western North Carolina left reeling along with Eastern Tennessee. The governor of North CarolinaRoy Cooper called it an unprecedented tragedy that requires an unprecedented response. Well hear from President Biden later this hour on Disaster Relief efforts. Meanwhile the Er President , donald trump, putting boots on the Ground Today in southern georgia, the town of valdosta, while the v. P. Kamala harris heads to washington to get a briefing from fema late this afternoon. From valdosta, lets begin this hour with Alexandria Hoff. FormEr President trump will be arriving here later this afternoon. He plans to get a briefing on the devastation and deliver remarks and help distribute some supplies. The need for help here is abundantly clear. You have to look around and drive around a Little Bit and stunning. 30,000 people are still without power here. Georgia power estimates Services Wont be restored until saturday at the earliest including other parts of the state as well. Georgia alone the overall Death Toll has reached at least 15. That includes children. Eerie, pennsylvania Last Night formEr President trump sent love and prayers to the families of those who lost their lives. All of those who are displaced and suffering in the wake of the Hurricanes Destruction and the south especially in florida, georgia, alabama, tennessee and in particular western North Carolina took a tremendous hit, it has been absolutely devastated and god be with you all. Trump also hit at Vice President harris attending fundraisers out west and President Biden for his location. And Joe Biden in delaware sleeping now in one of his many estates. One of his many estates. This morning Vice PresidentHarris Is Travel back to washington canceled planned campaign stops and heading to the Fema Headquarters where she will receive a briefing. She said this in Las VegasLast Night. I received an operational briefing from fema director, more than 3300 federal personnel have been mobilized. Were deploying food, water and generators and working to restore water and power. According to the White House, both Vice President harris and President Biden plan to come down to affected areas to tour and to visit. They say they want to do so at a time when it wont disrupt response efforts. Meanwhile formEr President trump after being here in georgia will head to North Carolina later this week, bill. Bill thanks, Alexandria Hoff watching that in val does take, florida. Dana kayleigh mcenany, former white House Press Secretary and ari fleischer, both former white House Press secretaries. Great to have you both with us. A lot of people who are reeling from this storm, they dont care about politics right now. They need answers, they need competence. But they are in battleground states. So how do you see this playing out . Trump will be in georgia, she is coming back and the president is going to speak at 10 30. Devastating when you see 100,000 in asheville who might not have Drinking Water for weeks according to a public release from the city. It is jarring. A lot of my friends and neighbors in florida were sending images from the weekend and shocking. People who lost their livelihood President Trump is very good when it comes to engaging with people and disaster leaf. A storm that hit louisiana hours before the republican national convention, the final night when trump was going to give his speech. He wanted to send a message and to be a commanderinchief and said i thought about delaying my convention speech. He ended up not doing that. Two days later he was in the area giving Disaster Relief. I think this is another effort to show he can lead on these issues. Bill picking up on that. Georgia today and what alexandria is reporting he will go to North Carolina this week. He terms in Empathy And Caring he arranged for the briefing in georgia to be informed about everything that happened. Kamala harris has waited four days after landfall for her to announce she is returning. George bush waited two days after katrina and hammered with how long he took. She has taken twice as long. Katrina in so many ways in 2005 was the first break in the dam where the press started to pound republicans and bush, to get rid of neutral journalism and expose their bias. They wont do that to harris. That same trend continues. Theyll protect her, not criticize her the way they criticized bush. Thats the facts about what is happening here even though she took twice as long. Dana years later in 2010 Oprah Winfrey apologized for her criticism at that time. Setting that aside the fact that harris was in nevada. A quote this weekend was interesting because of the nature of it being such a battleground. A 24yearold Worker at a local Amusement Park said he is skeptical of both candidates. I have had Friends Flip on a dime. They could change their Votes Tomorrow based on the gas price. When you have a small group of undecided voters to go either way they keep going back to especially nevada. Only four votes there, three or four. Bill six. Its a razor close election. That could be determined by a few thousand voters. We have never seen polls this close. Pollsters havent seen this. I was looking at Pennsylvania Real Clear Politics and scan down the polls, tie, tie, tie. Deadlock. Voters can change their mind. These groups matter. When i see cnn their aggregate shows kamala may be the worse Performing Voters for Union Voters in a trump is good with these groups. Bill there is a drift on hispanic americans, too, in addition to that. Go ahead, what do you think . Also africanamerican and jewish americans. Some of the key swing groups. Hispanics and blacks swung toward trump. He did better in 20 than in 16 even though he loss. He did worse with college educated and suburban voters. That was the difference between winning and losing. The trends are still in place. Trump will do better in 2024 with blacks, hispanics and american jews, he will do worse with college educated suburban women. So close in the only seven states that matter. The seven battleground states. If you thought major League Baseball had a complicated way of determining who wins a wild card, wait until the president ial election ends in a tie. Dana Tomorrow Night is the debate between vance and walz, the Vice President ial candidates. Walz has been hidden away from the national media. Content to deploy walz as a cartoon than a character. Juice him up on Diet Mountain due and send him on the stage. The campaign is trapped him in the protective Bubble Wrap placed around Harris And Biden before her. Not playing to win but playing not to lose. A comment from both of you about what you expect Tomorrow Night. Such a visual description. The Bubble Wrap in Biden And Walz and harris. He sat with you when biden stepped aside and he is good in that format. They have kept him away from the format. Cnn said walz is nervous about his debate and aides know there is some risk he hasnt been out in interviews and might come off as rusty. They say their hands are tied because they cant draw a contrast with Kamala Harris, who doesnt prefer the interview format. Interesting to see how that muscle not being exercised plays out tomorrow. Bill years ago on sunday, cbs used to do a pregame show with the two categories listed. The intangibles. What are the intangibles for tuesday night. It will be the visible image that they present. If walz is the same goofy guy with the Hand Gestures and giving the finger to people he will look weird and everybody say this guy is a Vice President . I think Jd Vance by the fact that he goes regularly on sunday shows he is ready to take fast balls down the plate and hit them. He is practiced. Walz is not. Dana great to have you both. Wow. Stick around. Bill i have to be a press secretary. I dont fit in here. Thank you. I want to take you to florida right now. The governor Ron Desantis getting ready to speak. Well find out what he says. Look at this. This is up and down the West Coast of florida. And man, it goes into georgia and South Carolina and tennessee and North Carolina. This is some storm from helene. Well bring you there momentarily. In the meantime roll this. Mike pompeo on the middle east. Watch. The united states of america says good riddance to nasrallah and the leadership of hamas, we know this is driven by the iranian regime and we the united states are prepared to allow and encourage and provide assistance so that israel can finish the job. Bill israel is keeping up the Pressure Wiping out Hezbollahs Chain of command, wiping out its leader who has led to group for decades. Now said to be gearing up to launch Ground Operations in southern lebanon. Well see whether or not that happens. Is the Bidenharris Team learning any lessons how to fight terror . Dana President Biden set to speak minutes from now about Hurricane Helene amid widespread Destruction And Suffering across the southeast. If youre a veteran wife, homeowner, and the family bookkeeper, youre the first to know when high Rate Debt is stressing your budget. But your Familys Service has earned you a big advantage. The Va Home loan benefit. With the lower Rate Newday 100 Va Cash out loan, you can pay off high Rate Credit cards and car loans. Thats real money you can use to take care of your family and home. Dana welcome back as our coverage of Hurricane Helene and the after math continues were monitoring a Press Conference by governor Ron Desantis directly west of gainesville in florida. Lots of damage in florida as well as we continue also to look at the devastation up and down all the way up to North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. Well continue to monitor this for news. He is as usual a competent governor gettings things up and running as soon as possible. Bill he comes prepared what weve done and what we need to do. Desantis continues Thatment Look for more Press Conferences throughout the morning and into the day today. A Big Story. 45,000 u. S. Port workers set to go on strike at midnight tonight. No new talks are scheduled between the Labor Unions representing them and the u. S. Maritime alliance employer group. Work stoppage said to be a massive blow to the u. S. Economy. 36 different ports. It will take place at ports in the state of maine to texas rattling u. S. Supply chains and driving prices higher. J. P. Morgan says the strike could cost the u. S. 5 Billion a day. Well be on that as well. Dana here is Ron Desantis here. This is going to be a massive effort. The state is collaborating with County Emergency Management partners to open recovery shelters with the impacted area to be connected to resources and teams to assist with finding solutions to any barriers that may exist. Were also working now with the department of Emergency Management working to provide Travel Trailers for people to live on their property. Some homes are totally gone, which is a very tragic thing. Other homes had major flooding. Maybe they have to muck and gut the interior. You dont want to have to travel an Hour And Sleep and then come back to work on your homes. They have put Travel Trailer on your property and you are able to do that and can work and have people come in and supervise that. It is much better. People like that better. Weve mobilized hundreds of trailers around the state and willing to get hundreds more if needed. If you need a Travel Trailer brought to your property go through Hope Florida. The Hope Line is now 24 seven and the number is 833get hope. You can request a Travel Trailer and Hope Florida will work to get that done. We have Hope Buses now available for Inperson Service for communities impacted by the storm. On saturday almost immediately after the storm we had Hope Buses deployed to Taylor And Madison counties and Pasco And Manatee over the weekend. Now we have five Hope Buses, bridge, Church In Madison 9 00 a. M. To 12. Alton church of God Family Life center in mayo, 12 to five. James p. Gills Family Ymca of West Pasco and trinity ten to two. If you do go you can call the Hope Line, too. You dont have to go to the bus. If you go to the bus they can link you with resources that are available not just government resources and not even primarily government resources. We are wi