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dangerous phase to go through the large debris piles. >> no running water or electricity in panama city, folks are getting desperate. >> this hit to hard and so fast the different aspect of human nature is going to come out. >> instincts say that there is no question saudi government did this. >> i've never been more disturbed than ever right now. >> there are other things we can do that are very powerful and very strong and we will do them. >> announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. good morning to you. listen. it is a tough morning for the people on the florida pan shipping and handling that were hardest hit by hurricane mike. >> in mexico beach, the homes and buildings left partially standing have been searched and

no victims found but hundreds of people are still unaccounted for and martin savidge explains how the next phase of the search will happen. >> reporter: they have to go through the large debris piles and there are many of them throughout this devastated town. and they will carefully and methodically have to search and investigate every single one. authorities are looking off a list of about 300 names, names of people they know were in this community just prior to the storm coming ashore. now after the storm, what they are doing is trying to match up those names with the people that are still here. they actually have a map with almost 300 dots on it and they are carefully checking the list off. the problem is some cases you go to a home and no one is there in other cases, you go and there is no home there. in other cases, they have been able to cross people off a list because people saw the mass of the storm or have been able to self-report but still a disturbing number.

they won't say how many are unaccounted for. >> thank you to mart savidge reporting there. in the next hour, fema administrator and president trump will tour the vicinities. >> president trump is expected to tour the same areas tomorrow. scott mcclain is live in panama city. an urgent need for food and water where you are and also been reports of looting and there may be some connection there. maybe not. >> reporter: yeah. it's hard to know exactly what the motivation is here, victor. i can tell you that officials had initially told people, look. be ready to fend for yourself for the first 72 hours after this storm. that window has now closed and so a lot of people are now relying on the state to get food and to get water as well. there are several points now set up around town where people can go and pick those things up. thankfully. as you said, people have really taken advantage of this situation, despite the fact that

there is a curfew from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., authorities say that looting is a problem and it's not surprising perhaps because a lot of the town looks like this. this is a strip mall. this was an office over there, then a bakery and print shop and many people's homes look like this as well so it's easy for loots to go in and take what they like. so much so that firefighters, they are actually concerned about their own security. they have been going out on calls with police officers with them on the off chance that they do encounter looters and there is a potential for danger there. the firefighters have also been going door-to-door the last couple of days trying to establish whether people are there. they expect that they will find people who are still trapped in their homes even three days later. they also expect that there will be fatalities. one firefighter would not be surprised if double digits in this area along.

240,000 people across the state of florida without power. for the school system it's honestly the least of their worries because a lot of the schools, in fact, the majority of the schools in this district are badly damaged. some of them look like this. so students are not going to be getting in there any time soon. the school board is going to have to figure out how to educate those kids going forward in the schools that are still standing. they will make a decision on that tomorrow. victor and christi? >> scott mclean, thank you so much. hurricane michael was still a strong category three when it hit southwest georgia. >> look at this. the damage there now is widespread from the farming communities, it's catastrophic. it will take a long time to recover there. in all, the storm did an estimated $1 billion in damage to crops. >> cotton crops are a total

loss. groves suffered 625 million dollar loss. vegetable kr crops are a total loss and $2 million in chickens lost. i know you've been to the georgia farming communities. help us understand what they are seeing and how these people are there right now. >> well, good morning. the day right after the storm as the sun came up, we realized that our agricultural area was in deep trouble. the cotton had been so beautiful and ready to pick this coming week. it has been decimated. the cotton is on the ground, the bowls. it's just white underneath that. that is a total loss. the pecan, they will try to

salvage what they can but the trees are gone. 30% to 50% of our orchards have been destroyed. with the poultry industry, i had white oak pastures, i went there and they lost most of their flocks out there which is organic chickens that they have raised on the farms there on the ground. they just blew away. so we are facing one of the most awful situations and i expect it to go over $1 billion. >> how long will it take to recover here? because these crops you say the pecans are on the ground but the trees are gone. it takes quite a long time to get a tree to mature to the point where you can get a crop of pecans from it. how long do you think it will take for georgia agriculture to

come back? >> this is going to be a long road forward. this is not our first rodeo with bad storms. one county was hit with two tornadoes last year. and that became -- we thought, oh, my. we are not going to be able to sustain ourselves and move forward. well, here is another hit on us because those two tornadoes tore up those areas, not only there, but through my whole district. so we have not even recovered from the tornadoes yet. and here, we are facing this stra catastrophe. it will be a long road for us. >> i cannot imagine the wait for these people who are dealing with this. real quickly, what federal aid do you expect? >> one thing about the response,

it's coming in. we are finally -- the national guard has come in. our fema folks. they are on the ground. right now, we are worried about two things -- we want to get meals and water to individuals and electricity. and they are working feverishly to do that. we have groups from all over neighboring states that have come to our rescue and we are deeply indebted to all of them. our people were standing on the road cheering alabama power when they came through and also to dawson. they were absolutely delighted to see them. we are beginning to see a little bit of electricity restored. they are working day and night, but the devastation is unreal. we still need hot meals, we still need -- >> these people need the same

thing we are seeing along the gulf coast as well. thank you so much. >> a couple of weeks ago there in randolph county, i was there. look good people rely on that agriculture. not just the direct farmers but the indirect industries as well so hopefully they get the help they need. this morning, president trump is back in washington and plans to call the saudi king he says very soon over the missing "the washington post" journalist. >> i didn't want to call until we had enough information. now i want to call. so probably over the next 24 hours. >> jamal khashoggi disappeared more than a week ago and halftime seen entering the saudi consulate. the last we have seen of him. turkey says he was killed there and saudi arabia denies the charges. >> sarah westwood is live at the white house. what else are we hearing from the frpresident?

>> the president is not saying he believes that saudi were involved in the disappearance of khashoggi but is prepared a arm sales to saudi arabia worth billions of dollars and he says he plans to punish saudi arabia if it turns out its leaders were behind what is the murder of khashoggi but he is not punishing what the punishments would like. he told reporters in the oval office yesterday he has, quote, a big list of possible consequences to impose against saudi arabia should he need to. he said that the u.s. has been in constant contact with turkish official as this investigation unfolds and the u.s. is involved in the investigation. despite mounting pressure from a group of bipartisan lawmakers on capitol hill the president is keeping his options open but scrapping the arms deal. take a listen. >> i think we would be punishing ourselves if we do that. there are other things we can do that a powerful and strong and we will do that. as of this moment, nobody knows what happened.

we are looking into it very seriously. turkey is looking into it at a very high level, at the highest level and so is saudi arabia. they are going to get back and they have been getting back and i know mike has been dealing with them. john has been dealing with them. but in terms of the order of $110 billion. think of that. $110 billion all they will do it give it to other countries and i think that would be very foolish for our country. >> reporter: with a little more than three weeks left before the mid terms, the president is maintaining a packed political schedule. he held a campaign rally in kentucky last my but heading into this week, the president is likely to face calls to lay out what the administration knows about the disappearance of khashoggi and what the president plans to do about it because, so far, trump has focused only on what he has no plans to do. >> sarah westwood, we will continue to watch it. thank you so much. current white house counsel don mcgahn is on his way possibly in a matter of weeks. there is word now that the

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16 minutes past the hour sources tell cnn the president is expected to name veteran washington lawyer pat cipollone. cipollone previously advise theed the president and his legal team on the counsel probe. julian zeleny is back bus and shan wu. i understand elbow messaging skills are a value to the president. how so? >> i think so. i think this president and his administration value messaging skills and cipollone has had some experience in that area and particularly with defamation issues. when he worked for attorney

general barr one of the portfolio areas he had was communications in special projects. i think that type of ability is going to be very appealing to president trump and probably also very appealing to jay sekulow and rudy giuliani who have emerged as, in part, last man standing but also very much the orchestrators and strategists behind the special counsel defense at this point. i think the fact that they also have worked with him have been advised by him and they like him a lot, i think that is a very important part of how he is going to play a good role on the team in their view. >> good point. now here is the thing, errol. if democrats take midterms what might that mean for cipollone, for the president, for the mueller probe? >> what it certainly means is that there is going to be an entirely new look and in some ways a fresh look and in some ways a fresh look what is going on in the white house by the democrats if they should control

the gavel and have the ability to issues subpoenas and demand documents, and really do what the republican-led house never really did, which was to kind of look at what is going on and so ask for the documents that would be logical to piece together what, if anything, went on during the campaign in 2016 regarding russia. we are going to have a demand for documents that is going to be like a blizzard and you can anticipate that the white house counsel's office, which is severely understaffed. normally they have about 25 lawyers there now. they are going to have to really, really come up with a lot of either come up with a documents or come up with reasons not to provide the documents, which is an equally difficult task. so it's going to be a blizzard of paper work to sending on that office and think that is a big part of what the new white house counsel has to deal with. >> errol, you bought up something i want to ask shan about next. the fact you got half of the attorneys in the president's legal team that you normally

would have and with what could be coming with this influx, how confident are you that the team can handle that? >> not at all confident. i completely agree with errol, particularly, if there is a change in the majority at the elections, they are going to face enormous onslaught and not an enviable position to be in for the new white house counsel and they really do need to staff up. i mean, the questions or the reasons behind this attrition, there is different thoeorys. >> we know that the president is working on written answers to questions from the mueller probe, from his team. and i'm wondering, errol, is there a time line for the president to submit these or the president's team to submit these answers? completely unclear at this point. all of the information we get about this, keep in mind, is coming from one side and that is

from the white house. the mueller team has been circumspect and tight as a drum when it comes to leaking out so we don't know what they are looking for and when they plan to ask for it, when they need to get it. the more interesting game that goes along with this, christi, whether or not the questions are going to be directed toward the substance of possible russian collusion or the obstruction after the fact and that will tell the whole story. if it's leaning in the direction of obstruction come is a live active kind of legal danger for this president, i think it's going to take a long time to get answers to those questions because it's not in his interest to answer quickly. >> the other question is regardless of what the questions are, depending on the answers that the president gives, shan, what does that tell you about whether this is a situation that would prompt then a follow-up conversation that would have to

be had? i think there is that theoretical responsibility but they will slow roll the responses if there is legal questions. trump's legal team has been working on this strategy a while, really since john dowd proposed the legal questions that possibly linked them out. with the legal questions, the president has the advantage that really it can be carefully vetted and scripted for him. so they will be very careful in what they actually say and they will try and say as little as possible. of course, it can be a springboard for further questioning but i think this is a very slow laborious process. if this is true that mueller is willing to give written questions i think it reflects his aversion to wanting to force a subpoena and force a supreme court or constitutional fight. >> shan wu and errol louis, great to have you both bus today. thank you. >> thank you. senators ma s marco rubio

bernie sanders and stacey abrams will be on "state of the union" this morning at 9:00 a.m. only on cnn. saudi stock market is saying they did not have a role in the disappearance of a "the washington post" journalist. gau th we will talk about that next. and "saturday night live" was having fun last night with kanye west's visit with the president this week. i don't like this whole thing. i think we can do better. change is hard. try to keep an open mind. come on, dad. this is for me, son?

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saudi arabia is facing a severe backlash after these accusations of having some involvement in the disappearance of "the washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi. we are getting in a new statement from the saudi government and i'm going to read it to you. the kingdom affirms total rejection to attempts to undermine it whether by imposing economic sanctions using political pressure or repeating false accusations. >> we know the saudi stock market is down. several countries and companies say they are although longer planning to attend the investment conference in riyadh later this month. john, is joining us live from

abu dauhabi. >> riyadh is holding tough line and this is the most alarming element and this is what is driving the stock market lower, by the way. this is not about growth in saudi arabia with oil above $80 a barrel the international monetary fund revised the growth for 2019 we grow 3% but not phenomenal but clearly solid' not where investors would be running out of a stock market. i always stock market are a lead indicator or gauge of the future six to nine months down the road. i think a question mark about the leadership style of the crown principles who is only 33 and his father the king in his 80s. we saw a sharp fall of 7% at the open in saudi arabia in terms of the stock market. a loss now better than 4%. very importantly since the disappearance of jamal

khashoggi, we have seen a correction of 10%. this is also important to note that saudi arabia is working to open up its economy and its stock market to international investors and it got cleared by the msci emerging markets index in june. this was a great achievement by saudi arabia and a sign of the reforms. and that just months later, we have this political shock and maybe a backtracking for saudi arabia in terms of investment. i would suggest that investors get very concerned, both of you, when you see a hard line coming from riyadh on denial but holding a tough line in terms of collaboration with turkey. we know that turkey and saudi arabia are at odds with qatar and iran and not representing the situation but see this playing out in the stock market which is a dangerous side with investors having confidence in the stock market going forward. >> john, thank you. >> thanks. still to come, an explosion at an air base in belgium leaves

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alice, one finding stood out for me that i think is really important here. both sides are talking about. and it's the kavanaugh effect. 33% of responded to the registered voters saying the debate over kavanaugh made them more likely to vote for democrats and 27% for republicans and 39% say it makes no difference at all. the president last night was out talking about how kavanaugh was treated. he has talked about this has really fueled republicans. either there was no kavanaugh bounce or it's bounced away. it's done. >> i think what it did, it solidified votes for a a lot of people because i can tell you from republicans that i'm speaking with and campaigns what this did is it galvanized republicans. first and foremost because the president was able to get a second scalia like justice on the court and that was wind in their sail. what many saw a tremendous overreach on the part of democrats regard to attacking

kavanaugh he in what they see is a smear campaign, they say it went too far and it was the tactics that the democrats went to were too far and it ourned off a lot of people and, in turn, galvanized republicans. that being said on the other side i think democrats are finally recognizing the significance of these justices that the president has been able to put on the supreme court. which he campaigned on and many republicans campaigned on but, if nothing else, this galvanized them to vote and put more republicans or democrats in office so they can, in turn, appoint nominees to the supreme court that reflect their views. >> 39% the largest group says it makes no difference. rachelle, to you. this says the kavanaugh fight has, you know, we saw the protest, has really energized people on the left. 33%. does that do what you expect it will do for democrats in

november? >> absolutely. i think that people are on fire, especially women. let's think about this. you have more women and more african-americans running for office right now and while kavanaugh was confirmed, more than 50% of the country disapprove of his confirmation and more than 58% of women disapprove of his confirmation. i think we saw kavanagh will be a partisan judge. he clearly has some political views that he was not afraid to share when he spoke at the confirmation hearing defending himself against the sexual assault allegations. i think what people have seen and the numbers show that democrats are on fire for this and women are as well. >> alice, let's listen to something that really didn't get a lot of attention this week because of hurricane michael. this is outing arizona senator jeff flake talking about his own party, the president and potential primary challenge heading into 2020. >> i do hope that somebody does

run in the primary against the president. i think the republicans need to be reminded what conservatism means and what it means to be decent and we haven't had that politics lately. >> what it means to be decent. the president has been raising money for his election more than a year now. is that plausible, that there can be a serious challenge for this president from your perspective? >> not a serious one, victor. i'll be the first one to say i don't like the tone and tenor this president takes and the way he goes about in a lot of the derogatory comments he makes on people, but it's his policies that i supported and what he is following through on. the supreme court nominee was a number one issue for me and a lot of republicans and what he is doing for taxes and jobs and our military and deregulation. there are going to be a lot of republicans, while as

frustrating as some of the tactics may be, at the end of the day, as republicans we need to stay united through 2020 and really recognize the fact that our policies that we all stand for are being carried through on and promises are being made and we need to stand behind those and then look at someone else stepping up to the plate come 2024. i don't see a credible candidate taking him on. he is raising a lot of money and the gop base is certainly in his camp. >> this "the washington post" poll shows for the first time he is in net positive territory on his handling of the economy, 49/46. rachelle, you talking about applausibility. a former new york michael bloomberg is in new hampshire this weekend. we saw the tweet he changed his registration to a democrat. he was a democrat until he was a republican until he was unaffiliated. now he is a democrat again. we have seen the party move to the left over the last several years. the runner-up for the nomination last time around was actually

democratic socialist. what is the applausibility that this former democrat, former republican, former unaffiliated and now republican and now a democrat will get the nomination for your party? >> you know what? i really can't keep up with that, victor. i think that it is going to be a very contentious race, obviously, in 2020. speaking on the economy really quickly. donald trump his approval rating did go up but not negate the fact his job approval number is historically low for a president that has such a strong economy right now. so you have to think about this during the recession, obama, his approval rating hovered at or above 50%, even though people were losing their homes and you were having 800,000 jobs lost a month. i think it's important whatever candidate comes out against donald trump that they need to focus on what this president is not doing. you know, i was the press secretary for the democratic

policy and communications comit a committee and we were tasked with addressing an academic message that will not work for the democrats right now. they need to focus on what ♪ doing such as increasing wages and ensuring that americans with preexisting health conditions are able to have affordable care and ensure also that you're not taxed more just because you are not rich. that that is something this president has done. i think an interesting race in 2020 and we need to gear up for it and it's not slowing down any time soon. >> the president obama's approval rating spent a specific amount of time in the 40 range as well. >> 49%, if i'm not mistaken. >> he got to the 40s as well. thank you. >> the moment a fire broke out at belgium air base 60 miles south of brussels during a routine maintenance check on an

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we have this just in. saudi arabia promising to retaliate against any sanctions over the missing "the washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi. turkey has claimed saudi arabia was involved in his disappearance, remember. >> cnn diplomatic editor nic robertson is live in istanbul. this is a message if you hit me, i will hit you back. >> reporter: certainly that is how it's reading at the moment. we have been expecting a statement from saudi officials. there was conjecture whether they might somehow jamai-- the kingdom affirms, this is saudi arabia statement through their state press agency. spa. they are saying the kingdom affirms if any actions are taken

against the kim dokingdom it wi to greater actions and a direct reaction to president trump saying things are as bad as he thinks they are after he got to the bottom of it, then there will be strong actions. this is the tif language we have seen from saudi arabia in the past when it feels it is being criticized and how we saw them dealing with canada recently when canadian officials criticized saudi arabia for its human rights recent track record. this does seem to be, rather than talking about the death of jamal khashoggi, this does seem to be a strong pushback from saudi officials and this would not be released if it wasn't coming with the sanction of the crown prince and the king. what the message goes on to say, further, is in essence that saudi arabia is very important globally for the global economy, that they are very important on fighting counterterrorism and very important as the lead muslim nation, the home of mecca

medina. this is a very, very strong and should not be underestimated pushback towards president trump and any others who might sanction saudi arabia right now. >> we will see what that conversation will be when the president responds at any time today. nic, thanks so much. we'll talk about that and all the buzz about neil armstrong's biopic film "first man" with an astronaut who has thoughts. with our b3 complex, beautiful skin doesn't have to cost a fortune. olay. introducing ore-ida potato pay. where ore-ida golden crinkles are your crispy currency to pay for bites of this... ...with this. when kids won't eat dinner, potato pay them to.

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so, what are we bettering by creating a space force? i don't understand. i also don't agree that china and russia are ahead of us in this kind of area. he says that the u.s. is premiere in our missiles and weapons systems and that's true and that's all being run, as far as i know, very well by the air force. i don't see another reason to create another branch of the armed services. >> there's not another need, okay. first man, biopic of neil armstrong is coming out. you haven't seen it yet but these are the kind of movies that get people excited about space, about travel, about nasa. are they accurate? >> so movies like "first man" i understand it is pretty accurate. "apollo 13" they took great pains to come to nasa and film scenes on the zero g airplane to

make them as real as possible. everything i've heard about "first man" they tried to make it accurate. rather than the technical details, it focuses on the personal stories. i believe there was a real effort here to make it accurate. >> i mentioned at the beginning of this about this russian investigation going on right now, this nasa astronaut and russian cosmonaut about a rocket that failed after takeoff. is it possible they'll try that again? >> absolutely. i have confidence they'll recertify the rocket to fly again. soyuz rockets have been flying since the 1960s, steadily upgraded with modern avionics and things like that. every time you fly, you take a risk of a mishap. fortunately, this worked out,

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