11,779. Thank you very much. Jeff zeleny. And thanks to all of you as always, ac36ts now tonight on 360 mile after mile destruction, heartbreak, and you have live reports and where helene hit the hardest and people from near and far who are answering the call for help. North carolina s governor joins us. So does chef jose andres also both presidential candidates address the disaster which won the former president playing politics with the relief effort by claiming the biden administration is playing politics with the relief effort. Plus israel ramps up airstrikes on lebanon and launches. Would they call a limited ground operation? good evening. Thanks for joining us. What began with exploding pagers and walkietalkies than the israeli air force killing hezbollah s leadership is now entering a new phase. Cnn s jeremy diamond is on the ground in northern israel right now. What are you learning tonight? is that israel begins this ground operation for months now, we have wondered whether or
To go in just hours. Thanks for joining us. Ac360 starts now tonight on 360, it started with the former president, but now the ugliness is coming from inside the house. How one congressman amplified hateful campaign against haitian immigrants would top republicans are saying in his defense and what the chair of the congressional black caucus plans to do about it, keeping them honest also tonight, the two candidates, they re dueling economic messages and the former president s claims about the two attempts on his life and iran plus the very latest on hurricane helene now forecast to reach category four heading for the florida panhandle. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin tonight, keeping them honest with politics specifically the brand of it, which runs on falsehoods in fear, and frankly racism. The latest example, louisiana republican congressman clay higgins, this guy, now it doesn t have much of a record of accomplishment in the house, but today, he s certainly got noticed
Of you for being with us. Ac360 begins now breaking news and a possible campaign, stop at the southern border for vice president harris is new polling gives him a boost in arizona and two other battleground states. Also tonight she says, yes, to a second debate, the former president says, no political power couple paul james carville and mary matalin join us for their take on the campaign plus the latest from israel and lebanon after the deadliest israeli airstrikes on hezbollah targets in a generation good evening. Thanks for joining us, the former president is holding the second of two events today in western pennsylvania, his trip through the commonwealth shadowed by a mobile billboard for the democratic national committee many reading, there s no debate. Donald trump s a chicken. The message alluding to his decision to opt out of a second debate with vice president harris, the faceoff would err on october 23 on cnn again, she s already said yes and invited him to do the same joinin
minutes but first the fox news update. u.s. officials warning the war in israel giving rise to terrorism in the homeland. the white house says it s impossible to know exactly who is in the u.s. the israeli ground war continues to expand in gaza now approaching gaza city where the death toll on both sides is rising. and while many are still calling for a ceasefire. we now have a hamas official on the record and on video saying they won t stop until they rid the world of israel. and a group of hundreds of wounded palestinians and foreign nationals, including five americans, were allowed to een evacuate gaza for egypt. all five of the americans are aid workers, at least 400 more americans living in gaza have asked the state department to help them evacuate. let s get to correspondent alex hogan live for us in tel aviv with the latest. alex. hi trace, we re learning more about these 400 americans who have asked the u.s. government to help them leave gaza, the white house and th