We will take a listen to when Kamala Harris speaks to this room of elected officials. This has been an unprecedented disaster for our state. What you are seeing, thanks to you, the Biden Harris Administration, state and local officials, volunteers, private organizations, this has been a massive unprecedented response. We are deeply grateful for the federal resources that we have. Fema has been on the ground with us since the very beginning of this. We look forward to briefing and giving you details about the significant progress that is happening and all that we have to do. Unfortunate, we have 68 people who have lost their lives. People are still working hard in Search And Rescue to save people and to surge resources into western North Carolina. Thank you for being here. A thank you, governor. I thank you all, everyone here. I have talked with many of you with and hours and days of helene hitting this beautiful state. I thank you all for the work you been doing around the clock. Administrator, you and i have talked many, many times. And your team on the ground is just doing extra merry work. The work that is happening that is so positively impacting so many people is really an example of the best we can do when we bring resources together at the federal, state and local Level And Tap into the kind of collegiality that produces results. This is the work that you have been doing. For the folks who are local, i also know what this means for each of you as a leader, to be a leader at a time your own homes, your families, your friends and people you know and your community has been directly hit. For the folks that work in your various divisions and offices, i know they have been showing up at a moment of need for others. Even when their own families and their own homes have been directly impacted. I think that these moments of crisis bring out some of the best of who we can be and who we are. I have been seeing and hearing the stories from here in North Carolina about strangers who are helping each other out. Giving People Assistance in every way that they need, including shelter, Food And Friendship. And also fellowship. I thank everyone for all the work that they have been doing. Those who are in the room and those who are out there right now working around the clock. I am also here because i wanted to make an announcement that yesterday we added Mecklenburg County to the major Disaster Declaration. That means that we are going to be getting substantial resources into help folks. In particular, to help them be able to apply for federal Assistance Worker a range of things that will be including home repair, in terms of what folks need in generators or compensation for generators they have had to buy. The kind of Shelter Theyve had to seek including hotels and the federal assistance for these issues is, i know, extremely important. A lot of folks do not say for these kinds of emergencies. When they hit, it takes a real drain on their resources and ability to take care of themselves and their family. I thank everybody here but im looking forward to our briefing. I will say that, also, we are looking forward to working with our congressional partners. Congresswoman, you have been a Great Leader to work with your colleagues as you always do, so we can get congress to also issue the resources that fema will need to be an active and resourced a federal partner with all of you on the ground at the state and local level. With that, let us start our briefing. Thank you, madam Vice President. At this time, i dismiss the press. Thank you for joining us today. As we have just seen right now, that is Vice PresidentKamala Harris. She is in North Carolina. She is being debriefed by local and state officials as to the Disaster Recovery efforts that have been taking place in that really hardhit state of North Carolina. The Debrief Starting with Governor Roy Cooper thanking her for being there. She just announced new news which includes Mecklenburg County being added to the major Disaster Declaration, explaining that means that federal assistance will not be made available for those who have been hardest hit and Mecklenburg County and other locations in North Carolina. They can apply for federal assistance. Not only is Kamala Harris getting the information she needs to relay it to other federal officials but she also talked about the fact that there is collaborative efforts between the federal, state and local officials to be able to tackle what has happened there. We do actually have Antonia Hylton. She is in one of the hardest Hit Areas of North Carolina but antonia is located in asheville. I know most of you have been following you been seeing and hearing out of their. We just heard the beginning of the briefing that Kamala Harris is getting. I want to know from you. What are folks think on the ground where you are about how those Cleanup And Recovery efforts are going . Reporter i can tell you a lot of people will be trying to watch what the Vice President says today closely. It will be challenging because so many still do not have access to the internet, Cell Service is spotty. People do not have Running Water. Which has just put pressure on every part of their lives. It means they cannot cook Food Or Cleaner clothing. It also means that they cannot clean out all of the buildings and businesses and parts of their lies that have experienced this intense devastation. Theyre being told, in many cases, that it may be weeks before Running Water is back on. It has caused some communication issues where some residents are getting connected to support and to care and your resources. Let fear about lack of connectivity means that they are hearing iss theories and they are starting to believe the federal government is not coming to their aid. Some people i spoke with today believe that fema is capping the amount of money theyre going to share with them. Which is not true. Fema is on the ground trying to help people apply for all kinds of assistance. They have Conspiracy Theories about the Biden Harris Administration trying to divert funds to migrants. That is not true. Those are completely different programs and budgets. It has caused him pain. Take a listen to some of the conversations i have had today. It is devastating. Marshall is gone. Whole communities just washed away. National response is not near what i think it has been. The power is a major thing. I do what they can do to get more power in here. A lot of people do not have power. The major issue is getting here. We are pretty much isolated. Service has been very, very poor. It may need more people out. There is going to be people at this place for people to come talk to. I still do not have any internet at home. I have learned that some peoples is coming back but i do not have anything. Reporter so many people in this community are just looking to feel like they have Support And Love from other people in the country. I had a Conversation Yesterday with an artist a little ways down the road where i am right now, who was walking into a gallery trying to save his Lifes Work and recover what he could and that what he was going to do now you know source of income. The message that he shared with me is do not forget about us when the story starts to fade. It ends. Please come back and check on us. I think that is what is most important now that we are more than a week out from when Hurricane Helene made and paul. People are still in such desperate need. I want to follow up with you. You are there in asheville. It is one of the hardest Hit Areas of North Carolina. We know that fema is there. We know that we have a federal boots on the Ground Right now that are working collaboratively with state and local officials to get help to those people. It is tragic what has happened to them. Share with us so our viewers have a better understanding the nightmare of even trying to access these people to get them the help they are seeking right now . Reporter nightmare is a good word for it. First, i will share some facts because theyre so much disinformation and misinformation. Right now, just in this county alone, there are three different locations that fema has a full set up to help people who cannot make Phone Calls or do over the internet get their applications done. Announced that justin this county alone, 14,000 applications have been approved. 12 Million have already been approved. That is just the beginning and just this county. You can extrapolate from there about how much is happening in other corners of the country affected by all of this. At the same time, because of some of the geographical realities of what it means to try to travel through mountains in a very remote and rural areas. Take helicopters over very thick Trees Force and brush and try to spot people who may need Search And Rescue. Try to see homes that have been cut off because of roads and bridges and land in support those people. I got to see up close. I got to go on a black Hawk Helicopter with the national guard and see them try to make these decisions and do recon of the lay of the land. How do we help people . I think two things can be true at once. Fema is here. There is a lot of aid. They are trying to get it to people and it feels like it is going really slowly. People do have a right to be heard about that. They are struggling to find food. Our crew has had to help people get water to inform them about places where they can go to the families. That tells you about the kind of anger people feel when people cannot communicate, that just creates the perfect opening for, you know, things that are not so true or grounded in reality to sometimes take hold. You have to have a lot of empathy because people are trying their best in very difficult circumstances. I have to tell you, antonia, i know it is not easy to be there. I am grateful that you are there and then you guys stay safe and you are there actively helping people get the right information so that they can hopefully turn the corner. Thank you for joining us. I appreciate you so much. We will turn out to the make sure we are following. Donald trump will speak in butler, pennsylvania, at the site of the first Assassination Attempt against him that was 85 days ago. The former president said he is heading back there to fulfill an obligation. Trump was on stage speaking with a Gunman Shot at him alleging grazing his ear. Jacob trailer is on the ground for us in butler, pennsylvania. Jake, it is good to see you. What are you hearing from the Trump Campaign about why Donald Trump decided to return to butler, pennsylvania . Reporter it is back to butler for former president Donald Trump and this is the exact same venue, exact same location, where the attempted assassination took place back in july. In terms of what is on the ground, the way the security looks a little different. There are Shipping Containers mining the vicinity of the venue. Let us prevent a line of sight from anyone outside the venue. Looking around at some of the elevated surfaces that are throughout the Event Space there are a lot more Security Snipers all across america how it is looking different than it did a few months ago. In terms of what we expected to hear from the former President But Campaign says that today will be focused on corey, who tragically lost his life. Is supposed to be a celebration of his life and speaking with Community Members that were here months ago, that is what they anticipate as well particularly after the heavy assassination were supposed to see a more somber and unifying Donald Trump that lasted for a few days but it seemed to shift back to more of a divisive message towards the end of the rnc, which took place a week after the attempted assassination. That is where the focus is purdue we have a divisive Donald Trump two or do we have a unifying message from the former president as he makes his return to butler . Jake, i wanted to Followup And Aspirate we know that j. D. Vance is supposed to be there. There is a reports that Elon Musk is also supposed to be attending this Rally Today. Have you seen any insight into how that is going to be teed up today . Reporter that is something we are working to learn more on. We do not expect to hear from Elon Musk. When i was driving in, there was some random billboard that said in a mask we trust. There is always just speaking with a lot of the rally goers, a lot of trump supporters and strong republicans are excited by the idea of musk being a part of the Trump Administration if he is re elected. Over the past few weeks he has referred to musk as his kos cutter. Saying that he wants to cut a lot of government spending. In terms of today, we might get a glimpse of Elon Musk backstage but we do not dispute him taking the stage at any point. Jake trailer, please do not go far. We will check back in with you a little later. We will fact check trumps light of the biden administration is refusing to send critical aid to, quote, republican areas after Hurricane Helene and how that messaging is landing with those that are desperate for help in North Carolina. We are also still watching the rally in butler. When you come back we will have more information on that as well. 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Billy just wrote a Piece Entitled Carolinians need help. Trump is feeding them lies. I want to thank you for joining me. I thought it was important for us to have because you point out in your piece that trumps lies began immediately on monday when he started claiming that President Biden was sleeping and that Government Officials were, quote, going out of their way not to help people in republican areas in North Carolina. Your piece is great because you fact check the lies but i want our viewers to hear the truth about what is happening on the ground. Reporter thank you so much, katie. I am happy to be here. I think this is one of those things were in journalism they try to tell you not to write emotional or feel emotional but those of us who are natives of North Carolina, who have been covering the state for years. It is almost impossible to separate how we feel about this big beautiful state from what has happened in the last few days. We really only got about 100 hours of sins After The Storm and people were getting a sense of how bad it was up in western North Carolina before we started seeing all of this weird distortion and all these Flat Out lies about what was happening out there. We have the federal government. We have been out there helping the state government, Governor Roy Cooper. Folks have been working around the clock to clear the roads to reach people in these areas that are really remote. Because of the damage to the roads, they are hard to reach. There was incredible amount of work that was going on. We were seeing, at trumps rally in georgia, lies about what was happening. We are still seeing those lies. Especially over on x, were Elon Musk is amplifying lies about what is happening in North Carolina. Just minutes ago, i saw him doing it. For those of us who have covered the state and more broken heart about it, it is sad. The other thing that you note in your piece, it is not just Donald Trump you got the gubernatorial candidate with Mark Robinson, who is also taking the time to spread the lies about the Disaster Relief efforts. You share in your piece that he has been doing that alongside other republican leaders some who voted against trying to get aid on prior occasions in terms of Disaster Relief. Talk about the fact how does not just Donald Trump who is doing this. Reporter Mark Robinson is a republican who is running for governor here. He has made a lot of news because a lot of scandals. Most recently the story on cnn about alleged post on a pornography website. There has been a lot of scandals about mr. Robinson since his campaign began. We started seeing, After The Storm, that Mark Robinson started showing up at places at Supply Drives and claiming credit for both Supply Drives. And also amplifying a whole lot of misinformation. Telling lies about where Governor Cooper was and what he was doing and the aid that was out there. Not only that, as you mentioned just moments ago, we have folks in congress who are rightfully calling for aid to help this state. At the same time you look at the Voting Record that they denied it to other people. That is not me North Carolina does not need eight. It is meaningful. It shows a level of hypocrisy that i think people are going to spot. Billy, because you are a native and you know the area so well, i just had a little bit ago Antonia Hylton and she is there in asheville. We have seen the video coming out when people have had access to the internet to share them for the rest of us to see. It is heartbreaking. If you actually have not lived through something like this and survived it, it is so hard to describe to people the extent of the loss. It is not just the loss of life. It is also the loss of home, the place where you felt safe. You have a secure place to live. Antonia mentioned people are feeling frustrated and helpless because they do not feel like they are able to be heard and they are worried about being forgotten. Tell our viewers how remote some of these areas are and the kind of infrastructure that has just literally been swept away because of Hurricane Helene. Reporter is important to point out that western North Carolina is not accustomed to getting sledgehammer by hurricanes like this. North carolina has been hit by a lot of hurricanes but it is eastern North Carolina that is usually the Focal Point of those, which is along the coast, of course. It is unusual see a storm to go this far inland but it was also a perfect Storm Type of situation. There has been a lot of rain in the area. The rivers were already swollen. You have this typography that was rolling with these valleys that are going tolead to this terrible flooding. Areas are very remote. They are on Mountain Roads. Tiny little Mountain Roads that can be difficult to reach. You know, you have this worst Case Scenario Situation with the flooding and the mudslides and the kind of things that make it really, really hard to reach people i have a tremendous amount of empathy for people who are sitting there and saying, Witness Help going to get here . I also feel sadness for anyone who logs on and see Donald Trump saying the cavalry is not coming. That is a Flat Out lie. That must make them feel a terrible sense of desperation. The four the folks in North Carolina are republicans and democrats alike, who are not Donald Trump. They are out there working really hard to help their neighbors. There are videos of republican leaders, sheriffs saying, please stop showing this misinformation. They are there working really hard. It has nothing to do with partisanship when youre trying to help your neighbor. What this is about is that Donald Trump is trying to get a boost in a state that is a huge battleground state. The kind of damage it is causing is to the Relief Effort. I understand folks who are working in the Relief Effort that this is making things harder. It is making things harder for fema. People are saying i cannot trust fema. Is fema going to help me because Donald Trump is telling me they are not. It is heartbreaking and sad but it will be all long process to get help to this people. As Roy Cooper said the other day, no matter where you are in the state or who you are, we are going to get to you. Billy ball, i know it has not been easy. Thank you for taking the time to join us and for the peace for what msnbc digital. I will never enter go and read it so they can see the truth about what is happening. Thanks for being here. Reporter thank you so much. Were also keeping a close eye on butler, pennsylvania. You see right on your screen, Vice President ial nominee j. D. Vance for the republican party. 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It is interesting and notable that when ever the attempted assassination took place in july, j. D. Vance was not trumps vp pick. He had met with Donald Trump earlier that day. It had not been expected as his vp. His remarks have just kicked off. I want to read you a quote he just had seconds ago. Donald trump took a bullet for democracy, what have you done . Record seeing the democrats in this phrase. It is notable that what j. D. Vance is doing is what former president Donald Trump is going to have to do, which is thread the needle of mourning the loss of a Community Member of this town in butler. Also attempting to turn and looking forward to the November Election but that is what we are seeing from Senator Vance and looking forward to the November Election but that is what we are seeing from Senator Vance right now and that is what we will and dismayed to hear from the former president in a couple of hours. Jake, i have to ask you. What have you heard pulmonary delete from the Chum Campaign in terms of a kinder or gentler messaging that is was to becoming . People lost their lives. This was not, you know, a typical Campaign Event or a rally location. You just read to our viewers that j. D. Vance said that trump took a bullet for democracy. What have you done . That does not sound like a Kind Alert and gentler approach. Reporter this is similar to what we saw after the first attempted assassination. All we were hearing is what you will now see is a unifying Donald Trump you will now see is a toned down more somber Donald Trump. Some of this divisiveness that he is known for will go to the wayside and we will see a new version of a unifying campaign. That lasted just a few days. By the time he took the stage at the mashup and she was back to his same jobs. Going after President Biden and going after random different democrats. That is exactly what were looking for today to see how exactly is Donald Trump going to thread the needle of celebrating the life of someone who has lost looking at the future or will he lean back into some of the divisive language we have, of course, seen from him time and time again . Jake trailer thank you for being here live from butler, pennsylvania. We appreciate it. Joining me now, we have democratic pollster and political analyst for Nana Mondi and also joining us Lucy Caldwell, political strategist and former Campaign Manager for Joe Walshs 2020 president ial run. I thank both of you for being here with me today. Lucy, i want to start with you. Donald trump expected to take the stage. You just heard the conversation i had with Jake Traylor. J. D. Vance, i mean, if he is setting the tone for what this rally is supposed to be like. You expect Donald Trump to take up the mantle and continue with that pretty aggressive tone . Unfortunately i do not think we will see anything different from Donald Trump. I think we will see something even worse as we learned this week after j. D. Vance took the debate stage, j. D. Vance is supposed to present the kinder and gentler version of the Chum Campaign agenda. What you are hearing now and we heard, that is the kinder gentler version of this campaign. It is really unfortunate but whether it is the disinformation that Donald Trump and his allies are promoting amidst Disaster Relief efforts in North Carolina or it is what we are seeing on stage at pennsylvania. It is so out of step with normal decency and what we would want to hear and what we want to see what americans come together. Whether it is a disaster or the tragedy of an attempted assassination on Donald Trump i will tell you something i think is telling. James sweet lynn, the medical doctor who provided aid to cortical territory in the moments after the horrible day in butler earlier this summer, he said in the lead up to this rally, that he hoped that trump and his fellow republicans attending the rally would take the temperature down it shows how a step even trumps own supporters are saying this has gone too far. To lucys point, we know Donald Trump does not stick to the strategy and does not stick to the plan that he has with his campaign advisers. Do you think that trump will be able to keep things focused as he does this Rally Today and as he tries to honor the memory of Corey Comperatore and maybe acknowledge what happened 85 days ago . Absolutely not. What a ghastly spectacle to now here j. D. Vance use that bizarre, almost threatening kind of line. He certainly did not use that when he was trying to present a different kind of front in the Vice President ial debate earlier this week. Certainly that would have landed very poorly. Remember, this is a campaign of grievance at the Trump Vance Campaign is about. It is a campaign of us versus them. It is online with what we have seen from Donald Trump for eight years now. There is no other side. There is no somberness. There is no maturity. There is no acknowledgment about a different course. First and foremost, thank goodness of a happened to former President Trump in that attempt that happened at butler. Again, he has had countless opportunities in this campaign and over the years to change course to show Reflection And Growth and show some unity with the american people. Instead, he has quadrupled down on the hates, on the violence and the incitement. I think these comments just touch on that so unfortunately. I would not expect anything better when trump, himself, takes the stage, katie. Lucy it is remarkable if you were to Split Screen is in Kamala Harris as a Vice President of the united states meeting with officials in North Carolina to be debriefed on the Disaster Recovery efforts taking place after the stakeout pummeled by Hurricane Helene. And then what i think you and a lot of people are regionally anticipating will happen with Donald Trump shortly. Which is a rally which he continues to promote lies about the federal response from the biden administration. There is a lack of maturity that we probably are going to see from Donald Trump and that we are already seeing from j. D. Vance. Look no further than the signs are being projected on the screen behind j. D. Vance. Fight, fight, fight and never surrender. What does never surrender me . What does that mean in the context of an election given the context of the thing that is supposed to be our Building Block of our democracy . Wire using language that we would use in battle or wartime to describe something that is supposed to be a peaceful process to mark it is really something to see the juxtaposition of a figure like j. D. Vance, a former trump critic, now being there on stage as the feature who is being highlighted by those signs of aggressive violent language in the context of our elections. It shows how unique the threat of trump is. All these republicans, people like j. D. Vance and others want us to think that they moderate Donald Trump. They have a moderating effect on the Trump Campaign and the trump agenda. In fact, it is the opposite. The trump agenda, Donald Trump himself, He Radicalize is everyone he touches, everything he touches. We are singing on stage with j. D. Vance. It is something that we should pay attention to. Watch emma closely. Not just with listen to what people say but watch what they do. Our campaign, Jake Traylor who is live in butler, pennsylvania at the campaign rally, he is echoing some of the reporting we have heard which is Elon Musk will make an appearance at this rally backstage, not on the stage. We know that Elon Musk has been pumping a lot of Money And Effort into a Pro TrumpSuper Pack in order to get him elected. What would it mean to have Elon Musk at this particular location, Butler Pennsylvania where 85 days ago there was an attempted assassination on Donald Trumps life . I dont think it means much for Elon Musk to be there. What his presence at this rally does do is have an endorsement of trump what he is doing on his major social Media Platform of twitter or x, formally known as twitter, is to double down on what the Trump Campaign is doing but that is disinformation and propaganda. What we are seeing coming out of the Trump Campaign are constant lies. The reason is that they cannot seemingly acknowledge or are willing to acknowledge the truth. The truth of the matter is, the american economy right now is the strongest in the world. They will not do anything to acknowledge such a thing. You talked earlier about the situation in western North Carolina. I have family that lives there now. My family was somewhat displaced by the storm itself. Yet they are painting a completely Divorce Picture from reality of what is actually happening. The supposed truth approach, if you will. By the way, is also the Approach Affected Tatars and strongmen, especially people like vladimir Putin Use because the truth is the enemy. It is what we see coming out of the Trump Campaign and out of Donald Trump and j. D. Vance specifically on a daily and hourly basis. Elon Musks Presence there is to continue the line of thought. That is the type of stuff we have seen from musk himself since he took over x and it has been consistent with his discourse. This Disinformation Propaganda to create an entirely different alternative Reality Bubble than what the rest of us in the realitybased world are experiencing. To your point we have not seen efforts by Elon Musk on the X Platform to curate, eliminate any of the disinformation that is being spread about the Disaster Efforts and Recovery Efforts that have been happening. I want to thank Lucy Caldwell for joining us. I did not realize that your family displays. Hopefully everything is going to be okay for them there. Thank you for joining us. For we are falling Kamala Harris. She is in North Carolina right now for the Death Toll from Hurricane Helene has surpassed 220 people with hundreds more still unaccounted for. Over half 1 Million customers remain without power across North Carolina, South Carolina and georgia. According to fema more than 45 Million of direct assistance is already in the hands of survivors. Joining us now from erwin, tennessee, with the latest on Relief Efforts in that area is guad vanegas. You are in Neighboring Tennessee and also hardhit by Hurricane Helene. We are now looking about a week After The Storm. What are you hearing from residents on the ground there . We are in tennessee but the area is the same region between this part of tennessee and North Carolina. All of this area was affected. Anyone that was near a body of water probably had the flooding and a lot of property was destroyed. Anyone that was near a river. This area has a river that over flooded and destroyed a lot of the properties here. There is a hospital down there that was evacuated. There was a Camp Ground Right in front of me but i spoke to the owner who had his home nearby. He said everything was destroyed. It has been over a week and we are still seeing the cleanup process. They are using heavy machinery and they also have Search Teams that are observing these machines as they continue with the cleanup process. Unfortunately, there are still people that are missing. Yesterday County Officials here reported two more bodies that were found but they are still working to identify them. That cleanup has to happen in a very specific way. When it comes to the power we have seen the crews working down this road. A lot of these Utility Poles that you can see were already restored. They have the wires and they are making their way down the road. This is the area right next to erwin. This is right next to the city where resources are easier to bring tara. You still have a lot of the committees in the mountains where we are told that many people are still cut off. There is a Helicopter Flight over us right now. Officials tell me they still need helicopters to get to a lot of these communities. Meanwhile the residents are working to help each other out in any way that they can. Earlier i spoke with abraham, who lost his home but says he is now focusing on helping people that are in those remote communities. Let us hear from abraham. All the electricity is gone. All the power poles, the things that got washed down and it is the road that is washed out. The Concrete Pads the houses were sitting are washed out. I think we have enough Food And Water for now. What we need is we need generators. We need Extension Cords but we need solar charges. We need all that stuff that is going to bring life to a little bit of normalcy. Reporter i would also like to add when i spoke to County Officials for anyone that might be thinking they want to donate something, they want to make sure people know that the best place to send donations in this area is the bristol speedway. Inasmuch easier for the logistics to send everything there and have them distribute these things to these communities. A lot of focus is placed on the mountain communities where a lot of people are still cut off. Guad vanegas, thank you for joining us from tennessee and for sharing with us what you are seeing and what you are hearing. It is important for our viewers to understand how displaced so many people are in that region. I really appreciate it. Thank you. Coming up, trumps not so good legal week including Jack SmithBombshell Filing on Trump Selection Interference case. You are watching msnbc reports. But with a generac home standby generator, your life goes on uninterrupted. Because when your generac detects a power outage, it automatically powers up, giving your family the Security And Peace of mind they deserve. We dont have to worry about whether we lose power or not. If the Utility Company does not come through, our generac does. After the hurricane happened, we just want to be prepared for anything. 8 out of 10 Home Generators are generac, with thousands of satisfied customers. 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She also announced that Mecklenburg County has been added to the major Disaster Declarations. Those counties that are located in the states that have been impacted by Hurricane Helene that have major Disaster Declaration status, they can actually apply for federal assistance. They can obtain substantial resources. She mentioned including resources for home repair, generators, compensation for shelter and things theyve had to obtain in order to pick themselves up and survive what happened with Hurricane Helene. Vice President Harris speaking about how she is working with and that the officials in North Carolina are working with congressional partners to get issued resources that fema will need. We will take a lesson right now and see what we can hear. We are not picking up any sound from what is going on right now. As i said, this is Kamala Harris meeting with members of the military as well as other officials in the state of North Carolina to tour and get more information about some of the hardest Hit Areas that have been of acted by Hurricane Helene. She is there to tour the Hurricane Damage and to be able to see firsthand and assess what has happened as a result of Hurricane Helene. The other information that we have also been covering this hour has been the rally by Donald Trump in a butler, pennsylvania. Regarding Donald Trump this week, we did see updates in two cases that are related to false claims of Election Fraud in the 2020 election. On thursday tina peters, the former County Clerk in mesa, colorado was sentenced to nine years in prison after being found guilty in her role of orchestrating a Security Breach of the Election Data in 2020. It came just one day after Judge Tonya Tanya chutkan revealed a lengthy motion for special Counsel Jack smith the case that Donald Trump is not immune from criminal prosecution in his federal election interference case. Joining me now is joyce vance, former u. S. Attorney in alabama and legal Analyst And Cohost of the hashtag sistersinlaw podcast. You and i, offline, talk all things legal all the time. We will be colleagues i guess but as soon i saw this filing, we scoured it in detail. I wanted to get your thoughts about what i have been calling this filing, this motion. I like is a superseding indictment. It is like a speaking indictment. It is a really deep dive into the evidence that jackson has against Donald Trump and that Judge Chutkan will consider when she weighs whether or not certain comments that should conduct gives him immunity. It really does. Jack smiths brief tells them the story and the evidence he will present in a depth we have not seen before. That is what the Supreme Court ordered Judge Chutkan to oversee. This detailed briefing. She is fully complying with the Supreme Court order, something interesting is that trump, instead of being eager to respond and tell his side of the story wants to delay his response of the public will not see that until after the election. That, is the most interesting development this week. In terms of that, Donald Trump has been allowed to file up to 180 pages in response to Jack Smiths Filing and that will not be due until november 7th. For those of you that have been following along, Donald Trump asked for more time. Just chutkan set i will give it until november 7th. Right now, we are going to take a break from you because we do have the Vice PresidentKamala Harris and she is speaking in North Carolina. We will take her comments right now. This is the best of what we can do to bring federal, state and local resources together in a way that is coordinated with one purpose and one purpose only. Which is bringing relief, Support And Help to the people who are most in need and desperate for help and desperate to be seen and heard. I just spoke with members of the national guard to thank them. They, like so many on the ground doing this work, whether it be through fema, the Governors Office or state offices, many of them who are doing this work have been directly hit themselves. We were talking about people who are leaders and who are from the communities that have been hardest hit. I think we all have to recognize and thank them for the nobility of their work and their calling, which is to leave their homes, to leave their families who may need the kind of resources that they can provide but they have taken an oath. They have taken on a job that says to them they must go and help those who are in need an Arm Strangers to them. I came here to find out what is going on to find out what more we can do in terms of federal aid, such as what we announced today and the federal support we are giving to Mecklenburg County in terms of Disaster Relief. The work that we are doing which is 100 Million to assist with the rebuilding of interstate 40. And also just to thank the folks on the ground for what they are doing every day. I want to thank the governor, administrator, general, everyone who is here tasha colonel, for all of you for everyone in this region and our nation. You are doing extraordinary work and we are forever grateful to you all. Thank you. What we have just been hearing is Kamala Harris on the ground in North Carolina. Just a moment ago she was getting a briefing from not only the North Carolina governor, Roy Cooper, but other local officials. We just heard from her. She has been meeting with members of the national guard to thank them and speak of out what the Disaster Recovery efforts have been like in North Carolina, which is one of the hardest Hit Areas from Hurricane Helene. As we just heard Vice President harris explained part of the reason why she is there is also to be able to visit some of the areas that have been impacted by Hurricane Helene. She wanted to reassure the people that have been surviving this national disaster, this incredible, you know, hurricane that happen. There is certain areas that have been receiving Disaster Declaration status so they are able to get federal assistance. She wanted to reassure people they are going to get aid as attorney have received aid from the federal government. We will bring in, right now, Antonia Hylton. Antonia is located in asheville, North Carolina. She will join us live to share with us some of what she has been witnessing and what she has been hearing on the ground. As i mentioned we heard from Vice President harris. She will be making some visits and to to are some of the area. She talked about how Mecklenburg County has now received major Disaster Declaration status and that is going to help people there to apply for federal assistance. Reporter that is right. Im sure that is very welcome news. One of the things we will see is over these next several days , perhaps additional strategies or revelations about what various communities are dealing with. One of the things we know just in the asheville area is that there are all of these remote towns, very small communities that have mobile park homes. They are deeply affected. Some homes simply washed away. I mean that literally, like off their foundations and into bodies of water. It is taking a while for federal workers and all of the Emergency Responders to do reconnaissance work. They do that on the ground. They go into neighborhoods by foot, especan take them into a certain part of the state. They also do that by air. The national guard has been doing multiple flights every single day. They get different missions in the morning. They are told to check out certain counties in certain areas where they are concerned that there could still be missing people. It is believed there are dozens of people still missing and that the Death Toll is going to continue to rise. Right now it is around 223. Everyone expects that number to keep creeping up. They are going to the skies to get this aerial view when possible to see who they can spot may know that people might be leaving sos signals for them and setting fires as a signal to land their helicopters and Drop Aid to them. They are doing that in many cases but this is going to be a weeks if not months long process. Antonio, you mentioned that people say do not forget about us. Do not forget about us once. The news moves on and clearly they need us to remember. Antonia Hylton Thanks for joining us again. That will do for me this hour. I am Katie Phang but we were going out to Politics Nation with the reverend al sharpton. Good evening and welcome