People killed by helene. And that number is expected to rise. The lead starts right now from Florida To Virginia and points inbetween. Tragedy worsening in the United States by the hour as rescuers reach areas hard hit Fire Hurricane just to see the destruction of our town, of our community that we love so much it is, it is heartbreaking were standing by for an update from authorities in Western North Carolina, which seems to be among the areas hardest hit. Plus Donald Trumps Weekend Dystopian Vision in a speech, even when he called, quote, dark, the republican nominee takes Campaign Rhetoric to a new and horrifying place. His unprecedented comments this weekend on his democratic opponent on migrants and on what he wants to do to stop Retail Theft and one day before the Vice President ial debate, cnn is learning one of the candidates is nervous and worried about how Tomorrow Night might go down the lead. Im Jake Tapper, apocalyptic scene its in the Southern Appalachians right now ameri
Theyre saying it could Go To 9 . That would be worse than two years ago, except it would be selfinflicted, really key line from the authors here. They say that we find ironically that the spot fight his make the foreigners pay rhetoric. This package of policies does more damage to the u. S. Economy than to any other in the world which kate, i just think brings us to one of the ironies here, right . The economy is the number one issue. Voters say they trust trump over harris on the economy. And yet these experts, when they dig into the policies, they he say that he wouldnt just fail to fix inflation. He would actually make things worse brutal, brutal analysis for sure. Thank you so much. Matt were going to head over to florida right now where the governor of florida is holding an update on Hurricane Helene as its making its way to the Gulf Coast and major general John Haas from the Florida National Guard as you know, as of 8 00 a. M. Hurricane helene is now a category two hurricane. It
Tonight, a cnn exclusive, the family of Amber Thurman speaking out about her death inside of a georgia hospital, democrats blamed on the States Abortion Ban and now propelling her story. The front of the president ial race. All the while Donald Trump, that republicans say women wont even have to worry about abortion. That was response to that tonight on Laura Coates live Nikki Haley asked him tonight. Are you trying to lose the election . Im talking about abortion the issue has become Donald Trumps Achilles Heel and new polling suggests tonight that its costing him some votes as he and republicans up and down the ballot struggled to land on a message to defend the fallout from the end of Roe Versus wade case in point, the Gop Senate Candidate in ohio said this at a Town Hall last week and newly uncovered audio in like abortion country, remember i want i will vote for anybody else okay. A little crazy by the way. Especially for women are like past 50 of the War Zone Morenos campaign cla
From the campaign. And i wish them well in their future endeavors. I look forward to announcing new staff roles in the coming days cnn, kfile senior editor andrew kaczynski, who broke this story is joining us now with more details. Andrew, what more are you learning? yeah, that s right. What we are learning that the top campaign staff to lieutenant governor mark robinson, are resigning from his campaign in mass, including the campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, senior adviser, and top consultant to his campaign finance director, deputy finance director, and his direction tour of operations this is a stunning development after our bombshell story that we posted last thursday, his staff are leaving the campaign now, it s unclear where this is going to leave. Robinson were just a month away almost from the election and now he essentially has almost no we ll senior campaign staff now we did speak to robinson ahead of our story on thursday where he denied all the allegations in them.
And welcome to all of our viewers watching here in the u. S. And Around The World. Im Jim Sciutto in washington, cnn, Breaking News continues this hour. The fbi is investigating an apparent Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump two months after the former president was shot got in the ear at a rally in pennsylvania, trump is safe, was not harmed in Sundays Incident at his Golf Club in West Palm Beach, florida . A 58yearold man identified as ryan Wesley Ralph has been detained. Hes pictured there you had weighed in on politics, on Social Media in the past. And at times had criticized Donald Trump, the Palm Beach County Sheriff says the Secret Service fired shots at a man who had a rifle in the bushes along the perimeter of the trump international Golf Club. A source says that trump had been playing golf at the time moving between the fifth and six holes the secret Service Agent that was all the course did a fantastic job, what they do is they have an agent that jumps one whole ahead of