Cnn breaking news good evening. I m abby phillip in new york. Our special coverage continues tonight of hurricane helene, a monster category four storm that is now moments away from making landfall in florida. At this moment, it was too late now for folks along the coast too evacuate. Officials warned that the winds and the storm surge will be be catastrophic in some areas, the word that they are using is unsurvivable helene could be the strongest storm on record for the big bend region. And we are already starting to see a major surge in these cities. So we have our anchors and our correspondents. They re fanned out as the storm is now hitting and we have chad myers as well with the latest forecast in the cnn weather center. Let s go first to john berman. He s out in tallahassee in the socalled dead on a hit zone, john, what s happening where you are right now? yeah the winds have really started to pick up abby over the last half an hour. The rain really coming down here, you can see
Battleground blitz, Donald Trump and his running Mate Targeting with the seven Swing States that could hold the key to winning the White House as new polls show, the republican ticket is doing well in the Sun Belt states and a day of reckoning in lebanon as nearly 300 people are reportedly killed in israeli airstrikes the idf plays a Highrisk Game with its new strategy for confronting hezbollah and new details from the investigation into the Titan Submersible disaster, the Companys Cofounder explains why they needed to build their own subs while defending a controversial decision over how they did it. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central of Battleground States underway today is Election Day is just over six weeks away. Next hour, former President Trump will hold the first of two Campaign Events in the critical cool state of pennsylvania. He is running mate j. D. Vance, campaigning in the Swing State of North Carolina,
Coventry direct redefining Insurance Eva Mckend On The Road with the Harriswalz Camp Cnn trump tries to shore up North Carolina. We win this state. I think its going to be over fast after cnn reveals lewd and disturbing posts by Mark Robinson, Who Trump back for governor. Could that put North Carolina in Harrisons Column Robinsons Opponent democratic Attorney General Josh Stein gives his first major interview since this story broke ahead and the play for women, Vice President Kamala Harris leans into her case that they just dont trust women and trump responds, you will no longer be thinking about abortion, but are there new Warning Signs for harris with men, michigan democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer is next, plus boiling Point Israel pummels terrorist Group Hezbollah in lebanon already reeling from the exploding Pager Attack could Tension Spiral into a wider war, key trump ally, republican Senator Tom Cotton is ahead hello, im Jake Tapper in washington where the state of our union
Edition of Morning Joe. We hope you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend. Were on tape this morning bringing you some of our best discussion from the past two months, and we start today with our conversation the morning after Kamala Harris accepted her Partys Nomination for president on the Last Night of the dnc in chicago. Willie, you obviously are in chicago. Describe the scene if you will, because it is awfully hard you know, debates, ive heard one journalist after another say never try to judge how a debate turned out, president ial debate, when you are in the room. It is quite the opposite at a convention. You could walk into a convention, you can be watching it from you know, you had the Bob Uker seats which are usually the best seats to stand in, take it all in and say, okay, what is the state of this party. What is your answer to that . Youre right. John and i sat in section 315 Last Night eating those blackhawks and bulls nachos. Yummy. A pretzel with no salt. We really had the
Cnn Breaking News costa and washington, we are following Breaking News up on capitol hill at any minute. House lawmakers are expected to vote on a bill that could effectively ban the social media platform tiktok. Here in the us, quarters of a potential ban claim china based Parent Company bytedance, could somehow use tiktok to Spy On Americans who use the app if signed into law, the measure would give the company less than six months to sell to a nonchinese owner. If bytedance fails to do so, tiktok could be all but shut down here in the us, users of the platform, which is wildly popular for among younger americans, are trying to stop that from happening i know im not the only one that relies on this app every single day to provide for their family i know im not the only one that relies on this app to get by. Its taken me six years to get to this point literally not even a month ago. I quit my job to do Tiktok Social Media fulltime and there are 80 years of generation z that are now el