Im Dana Perino along with judge jeanine pirro, jesse watters, and greg gutfeld. Its 5 00 in new york city. This is the five. President biden and Vice President harris facing criticism further delayed response to Hurricane Helene over 120 people are confirmed dead and over 600 remained missing after the Category Form Storm led category across the southeast. More than 2 Million remain without power for several days and thousands are cut off from communication after towns were completely wiped out by the wrath of the storm. President biden pressed by a reporter of why he spent his time not in washington, d. C. The hurricane, why werent you and Vice President harris commanding this this weekend . President biden i was on the phone for at least two Hours Yesterday in the day before as well. Telephone. All my security people. Kamala harris changing her schedule after Fishing Backlash for attending fundraisers. The vp will be receiving a briefing at Fema Headquarters in washington any moment
Record 30inches of rainfall. More than 32,000 people are still without power at this hour. Retired u. S. Army lieutenant general Russell Honore is joining us. Let me get your assessment as someone who knows what an operation like this looks like. The damage youre sering right now. What do you make of the damage were seeing across the south . Well i think you clarified that it was a storm that attacked florida, and made its way through georgia, tennessee to new mexico. It dropped an awful lot of water. Not measured in inches but foot. It overmatched the terrain and when you drop water in those mountains, ayman as we all know it started going to the valleys. The community had not seen or experienced that and overtime, development happened in the deeper part of those valleys. And what we have seen is and with condolences to all those who have lost their lives that Flash Flooding that has occurred. The good news, theres a lot of people working to get to them. Lets talk about the operations
A. M. Pacific. Im Ana Cabrera reporting from new york. We begin with Breaking News. The president set to speak from the White House this hour, about the devastation in the aftermath of helene. The destruction is really unbelievable, stretching all across the southeast. The Death Toll currently standing at 99. The number is set to climb, still, with Search And Rescue efforts continuing this morning. A third of the deaths in north carolina, where the historic city of asheville saw the worst of it. At this hour, authorities are still searching for the missing. And the community is just struggling to cope without water. Without food, power, Gasoline Or Cell service in so many of those areas. Joining us now, nbcs George Solis is in asheville and Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is standing by. George, the aerial images from that shot is really breathtaking. What is the situation this morning . Rare, good morning, ana, the situation is really heartbreaking. Some areas have become passable after the water
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Ohio senator j. D. Vance will square off in the Vice President ial debate. Possibly the last debate of this campaign cycle. Governor walz fired up democrats when he started calling republicans weird. While Senator Vance has led maga even further down Conspiracy Rabbit holes. Attacking women for having pets and falsely claiming haitian migrants are eating their pets. Well break down everything you need to know for tuesday night. Plus well hear from two democrats locked in two of the tightest Senate Races in the country. Senator Bob Casey of pennsylvania, and Congressman Collin alred of texas are standing by. And we have new numbers from nbc News And Telemundo taking the pulse of latino voters with 37 days until the election. All that and more ahead on politics nation. Lets start the show with senator Bob Casey. Democrat of pennsylvania. Currently running for reelection. Senator, lets start with the debates, the Vice President ial debate on tuesday and your own debate against David Mccor