two candidates do you think is more likely to do bad things? convicted felon? again, still higher have a black woman as president for the first time in history? >> yeah, but my vote is still on trump. the fact that she's a woman and she's black net could help kids who are like her or are different feel a lot more accepted. >> i just feel like a boys would probably be better as president but she's pretty wow. wow, wow. parents, your children are listening as if we didn't already know, right? i mean, they listened to us. they imitate us and the impact of our politics on them. like, let's not forget, i mean, there fourth-graders and these are the words that they're using about the people that one

of them is going to lead the country just a good reminder and a pretty stunning, pretty stunning clips there. alright, panel. thank you very much. and thanks to all of you for joining us. i'm kasie hunt. don't go anywhere cnn new central starts right now breaking overnight the mayor of new york city, eric adams, indicted and facing at least one federal criminal charge following a corruption investigation, the mayor says he's innocent, but he'll now need to surrender to federal custody in a matter of days right now, florida is feeling the outer bands of helene is topicals, is tropical storm force winds since hit the coast there, a category one hurricane continuing to strengthen as it inches closer and with it, the potential for an unsurvivable storm surge where i am in tallahassee, the capital, florida bracing for

the most powerful storm this city has ever seen it won't stop here millions of people over five states we are tracking it all on john berman in tallahassee. >> sara is out today. kate bolduan with jessica dean in new york. this is cnn new central >> john berman in florida this morning, which is bracing for hurricane helene, which is heading straight for this part of state, the panhandle and it's a category one hurricane strengthening overnight, expecting to make landfall as a category three or stronger. >> and the big bend area of florida, the good news, not a populated area, the bad news. once it makes landfall, it will cross paths with millions and millions of people, 85 million people in its path from

florida, georgia, the carolinas, all the way up to the virginia, to virginia. they have all declared states of emergency along the florida coast, though it is not that populated, they could see storm surge of nearly 20 feet. the weather service calls that unsurvivable storm surge add to that wind speeds they could reach 130 miles per hour. again, tallahassee has never had hurricane force winds sustained winds. we could see winds here north of 100 miles per hour and the damage after it hits here, it will spread all the way up the coast cnn is tracking this storm. carlos suarez and gulfport, florida, which is feeling it harder than i am right now. first, though, because cnn meteorologist allison chinchar in the weather center to get a sense of where it is now, where it said it, what it did overnight that's right. so where it is now, it is currently in the gulf of mexico churning in those incredibly warm waters that's going to be fuel for the storm to continue to strengthen as we

go through the day today, right now, it has sustained winds of 90 miles per hour. >> it's forward movement is 12 miles to the out or 12 miles per hour. north northeast at about bove miles per hour. if we can push this forward, will kind of show you where we're going to see that track. it's going to continue to make its way off to the north and east and as it does so, it's going to strengthen as it makes its way towards the big bend region of florida. you're already starting to see some of those outer bands begin to creep into florida and a lot of that moisture flow spreading into states like georgia georgia, and the carolinas. now, one thing to note is when it goes through the gulf of mexico, we expect further strengthening. this will get to a major hurricane at some point today before making landfall tonight near the big bend region, when it makes landfall, it's expected to be moving and say about 25 miles per hour or even faster that's very important. born because that means as it moves inland, it can do so very quickly and not weaken that fast. so we expect hurricane strength, storm to make it all

the way into macon, georgia, a town that is more than 100 miles away from the coastline. other cities like atlanta, greenville, spartanburg, and asheville also likely to see impacts from this, even though they they are hundreds of miles away from the coast, those winds will continue to spread. cities like macon, atlanta, columbia, you're looking at some of those wind gusts that could be 60 to 80 miles per hour before that system. finally takes off. now another component of this, yes, we are certainly talking about the storm surge pretty much up and down the entire western peninsula of florida. you are looking being at some type of storm surge, but the peak for that is really going to be a been around the big bend region where we could see as much as 15 to 20 feet yeah the weather service called that unsurvivable 20 feet of storm surge is just one of the many threats coming from hurricane helene allison. >> thank you very much. we'll get back to you. i want to go to carlos suarez in gulfport because alissa's as allison said, some of the outer bands are already hitting florida and some of the surge already pushing in carlos, what are

you? see >> that's exactly right, john. good morning. so we are in gulfport, florida. that is in pinellas county. we're already we're starting to see some flooding associated with the storm. now a good part of this is the fact that we're in high tide at this hour. but some of that rain that has moved in his clearly started to make a bit of a mess out here. this area in pinellas county is known to flood. we have been here the last two years covering two other hurricanes. and this is a prime location for some of the flooding to take place we are in a mandatory evacuation zone at that order went out yesterday folks that live in this part of pinellas county county were told to get to higher ground over in hillsborough county in the tampa area, a mandatory evacuation is underway for some parts of the city. along the base side. and then if you if you head further north, of course, those parts of florida have already been proposed praying for all of what's to come here in perry, florida,

which is about three-and-a-half hours north of where we are all preparations got underway there yesterday with folks getting their homes and their businesses boarded up and getting ready for yet another impact of a hurricane of the folks in perry, florida are still recovering from hurricane idalia, which made landfall last year and flooded hundreds of homes. there. and then up in tallahassee and leon county area, that part of florida panhandle, their status emergency officials really are telling folks across the state of florida to please take this storm serious as you guys have been discussing, the sheer size of this is just so great that it really doesn't matter where you live in florida, you are going to see some sort of impact associated with this storm. if you live not just in florida, but as you mentioned, up in georgia as well, here now is governor desantis yesterday kind of striking that same tone the impacts are going to be far beyond the eye of the storm. >> you're looking at winds

that are stretching 200 plus miles away from the eye of the storm. so that entire gulf coast of florida even places like charlotte and sarasota, of course, the tampa bay area, and then up along the nature coast in the big bend expect to see a surge if the storm continues on the path that it is on and to the west of us, about 100 miles west of where we are. >> we're still expecting anywhere between five to eight feet of a storm surge. so you can imagine everything here behind me is only going to get a little bit more worse. john yeah, five to eight feet where carlos is in gulfport is a real problem. same thing with tampa up here close to me, 20 miles south in the big bend. they could see 20 feet of storm surge. what meteorologists call unsurvivable carlos, we'll get back to you in a bit. allison chinchar in the weather center will get more updates from her. in the meantime, and let's go

back to kate and jessica in new york. >> absolute. we're gonna get back to john covering it all in florida also watching this breaking overnight source is telling cnn, new york city's mayor eric adams has been indicted on at least that's one federal criminal charge. why adams is refusing to step aside in the face of all of this and ukraine's president zelenskyy making the rounds in washington today on capitol hill this morning and we have details on the new pledge that president biden and vp harris will be making to ukraine later this morning. and kamala harris is set to make her first trip to the southern border since becoming the democratic nominee to 30 years. >> i've been saying publicly what people say and i have enough money. >> i could just shut up can't car saturday, october 5th on cnn thursday night football on trial. >> it's actually funny

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about? what's going to happen today? >> well, certainly defiant. mayor adams and there you can hear me. he has no intention on quitting, resigning in these up for this fight. and certainly the people close to him and his attorneys are all indicating they're going to fight the, problem is at this point, we don't know what these charges are. we don't know how serious they are. we don't know how many counts we don't know the severity of the potential liability here. the criminal liability that he's facing, and so all of that in mind it's very easy for him to say he has no intention on resigning because we just don't know what this is about yet. >> earlier today, there has been activity at gracie mansion you were the mayor. is that and then we at some point today expect the indictment to be unsealed the us attorney's office here will unseal this indictment that is when we will learn what this is all about. and just to remind viewers, kate, when all of this started,

it was about a year ago when the fbi first raided a campaign staffer, his chief finance, so campaign staff for about a year ago in brooklyn, the fbi raided her home. they did a search warrant there, and then days later, it's just unprecedented move by the fbi. they had a search warrant, they stopped the mayor. he was leaving an event in here in manhattan and they stopped him and they took his phones. and from there the investigation when and it's been fairly quiet now yesterday, word of the indictment got out, and now we wait to hear what the indictment is about and hopefully sometime this morning perhaps around 9:00 a.m. when court opens the indictment will be unsealed, and we will learn more information about exactly what the mayor is facing. we're live outside city hall well, this is where the americans, every day during the week to work. so we hope we will see him here at some point this morning, i guess no intention

on hiding it seems so hopefully we'll hear from him again later this morning. but for now, the biggest thing, obviously, kate, is that we are waiting on the u.s attorney's office and for the court to one seal this indictment absolutely. >> i mean, and you've been covering it mean, it's a month long investigation that has had top top officials in his in his city administration have gotten wrapped up into this investigation. people have resigned because of everything that's been that's been happening. and now and now we have this. let's see what happens today. shimon. it's great to see you thank you so much, much more to come on that jessica well, take a look live pictures of naples, florida. >> we are tracking hurricane helene as it strengthens in the gulf coast. we're now just hours away from landfall in florida going to be our turn. >> i think we got to be more ready this time than we've ever been before. for may take us a little bit of time to put everything back together but we're resilient. >> we'll come right back what

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to sustain some of the damage in steen hatchie, florida. memorable. great to see you. i was standing exactly where you were a little more than a year ago. this is an area that has seen storms the last year. and it's been really tough been a very tough and good morning to you, john. >> as you mentioned, this is one of the strongest hurricane to hit. >> the us in over a year. residents here as you mentioned, they are pretty used to being under the severe weather conditions, but men any of them are not taking any chances and a local sheriff here is urging those people to please get out while they still can adding that if he was not the sheriff of his area, he too, would be evacuating now, a few can see a little bit now, we can see because the sun has come, started to come up, but the area that we're in the concerns here continue to be that flooding, it was raining earlier this morning. it has tapered off a little bit, but we do expect that to continue as helene inches closer and

closer to us as you can see off the riverbanks, there are properties here. there are people's homes that are here just feet away from the river thank they are boats that are docked. all of those are expected to sustain severe, even potentially catastrophic damage. and we know that people had been preparing for that for days and it's not just here in this region. we know that this is happening across the state of florida just yesterday, right outside of tampa but we were at a sandbag distribution center and people were there early morning loading up on those sandbags. not only to protect their own homes, but also those of their neighbors volunteering and helping distribute those to their elderly neighbors. and also those with mobility issues. now as we mentioned in areas like these low-lying areas, we do know there are mandatory evacuations in place businesses have been closed a for ever

since actually, last night we saw many of those are closed. the curfews are now being enforced. people are bracing for the worst, but definitely hoping for for the best yeah, i was standing at a waterfront bar not far from where you are and they had water lines on the walls that went up past my chest to show where that storm surge could come up to you as we said, if it hits that 15 to 20 feet, it could just be un-survivable. >> mirabilis has always our thanks to you you and your crew stay safe over the next several hours. appreciate your work there jessica morning, president biden announcing a brand new surge of security assistance for ukraine. >> president zelenskyy set to meet with leaders on capitol hill just a few hours from now. so let's he also expected to make an urgent in-person plea to president biden and vice president harris at the white house today. and we have no reporting this morning. he wants to share what he's calling his victory plan with the president before the

november election. donald trump weighing in on russia's war in ukraine yesterday three, that has been obliterated not possible to be rebuilt. it will take hundreds of years to rebuild. it is not enough money to rebuild it if the whole world got together and while zelenskyy said he'd hoped to meet with trump this week, right now, there are no official plans for that to happen. cnn white house correspondent arlette saens joining us now from the white house, arlette, what more are you learning about this new surge in assistance? >> well, jessica, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is set to make a fresh appeal to president joe biden to really give more assistance to his country as they continue their war against ukraine, the request and meeting is going to come as the future of american support for ukraine could be up on the in the air depending on the outcome of the upcoming election. now, later this afternoon, zelenskyy and president biden will sit down

in the oval office where zelenskyy is expected to present a victory plan to president biden. now, it's not clear exactly what that will entail. that hasn't been laid out by zelenskyy just yet but sources who have been briefed on the matter say that it's lenski is expected not just to request more aid for ukraine, but also trying to seek some long-term security guarantees to try to ensure that american support came continue despite or regardless of what happens in november's election as both donald trump and vice president kamala harris are facing off in a very close race. he is also has been pushing for the u.s. to grant the approval an authorization of the use of western made long weapons deeper into russia. that is something that's so far president biden has not granted, though he has shown some openness to the possibility now, heading into this meeting, the white house and president biden announced some new security assistance for ukraine that includes

president biden saying that he's authorized 5.5 billion in presidential drawdown authority. that's money that's already allocated by congress, but that biden needed to formally approve and authorized by i september 30 or else it would have expired. there is also another $2.4 billion coming from the defense department. security initiative for ukraine. they're also rolling out some new long-range weapons that they will be providing to the country patriot missiles, as well as president biden has insisted he wants to continue to ensure that you crane has the ability to defend themselves and wage this war against russia all alright, arlette saenz at the white house. >> thank you so much for that reporting well, bracing for hurricane helene, take a look at live pictures of key west right now storm gaining strength in the gulf of mexico is expected to make landfall as a major category three hurricane or higher. >> the latest on the storm's track and a live report from the big bend the florida that's next

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feet of storm surge in some areas as i said, tallahassee, this could be the most powerful storm ever to hit the capital city. this is what the mayor said overnight we will have countless down trees we will have structural damage we will have loss of power yes, if our community remains central in helene's path as forecasted, we will see unprecedented damage like nothing we have ever experienced before as a community forecast to hit here, this city has never endured a storm like that. >> let's get right to allison chinchar for the very latest allison, what are you seeing? >> there could be many other communities that are facing the same thing, john, we take a look right now, the storm well over the gulf of mexico, sustained winds of 90 miles per hour. we anticipate this storm will continue to strengthen as we go through the day today. and it makes its way towards the big bend region we've talked about storm surge. we've talked about the gusty winds, but a few other impacts from this storm. we have not had

enough time to mention and that is tornadoes waterspouts, a lot of these areas in florida, but also portions of georgia and the carolinas looking at that threat as we go through the day today, another concern too, is the flooding and that's not just the area near where the landfall will be, but also spread pretty far and wide inland for a lot of these communities. so you're talking millions of people, including areas of atlanta, nashville, colombia, all looking at the potential for flooding, not just today, but through the day on friday all, right. >> allison chinchar again for us in the weather center will be getting these updates all morning long. in the meantime, with us now is the fema acting associate administrator for response and recovery. keith jury. thank you so much for being with us. i am sure you have been busy. tell me what you were watching most closely as this storm moves closer to landfall having me. >> yeah, it's obviously a very significant storm. we're talking about, as you mentioned, a major hurricane

making impact there in florida and not just in florida, but we have multiple states that are in play for impacts into georgia, south carolina, north carolina, alabama. so a really wide area that we all need to be thinking about famous been working on this storm since monday. we've had our teams embedded with the state uoc in florida since monday, working directly with them, we've deployed incident management teams to florida and to the other impacted states, including search and rescue teams and power restoration and teams. so a lot of preparedness work that's been going on between ourselves and our state partners to make sure that we're ready. but our real focus today is making sure we get the word out to everybody in the storm's path to please don't underestimate the storm take it seriously, and particularly if you're in those storm surge areas and you have those evacuation orders, please keep the warning because if your local officials and do evacuated they're really three things that this storm is going to do. number one is the storm

surge, which in some areas on the coast could be unsurvivable. and if you've been told to get out, you just need to get out. the second thing is just the rain, the sheer amounts of rain we could get ten inches here in tallahassee, so you could see some inland flooding and then the wind and where the wind is going to go here in tallahassee, we have all these trees and then into george all these big, beautiful trees, the power situation could be a real problem. what are the preparations there? >> yeah a power outage is obviously a concern after any hurricane. the state of florida has been doing a great job of moving in resources to be able to help with those power outages. some of that is primary line workers that are going to be able to get out in the field as soon as the weather clears and start restoring power. we've also brought it crews with the army corps of engineers to do power restoration to critical facilities to make sure if any of those facilities are without power for a period of time that they can get generators and other ways to make sure they're able to operate. but we should expect that in a number of these states, there are going

to be power outages. it is going to take some time to get the power back on and folks to prepare for that yeah. >> i had the opportunity to drive from jacksonville to tallahassee last night at about 1:00 a.m. in all along the highway, we saw power crews staged. what happens is people get in place first most they're prepared to try to do the repairs for after the storm hits, it's actually a welcome sight if you're a resident in these parts, what's the biggest challenge for you at this moment? >> well the scope of the storm, the number of states that are going to be impacted, and making sure that we're able to respond across that entire range. we've done a great job of preparing with our partners. they are emergency management professionals that are trained to do this. and so we are well positioned for that. again, the most important thing today is just making i'm sure that people stay safe, not just in evacuating offender storm surge area, or taking the appropriate steps if you're going to have wind or rain impacts. but also

reminding everybody that many of the risks that pose from hurricanes come after landfall. and so in those hours tomorrow after the storm has passed, we need everyone to really be thoughtful about making sure they watch out for downed power lines don't walk through, drive through floodwaters. use your power is out, don't use candles. he's flashlights. and if you have a generator, make sure you use that safely and stay away from stay away from your home right now, these needs two days. it's all about safety. it's all about keeping people safe. there'll be time to work focused on repairs and restoration at a later point. but we want to make sure everybody the withstands a storm at best as i can keithroy rate is certainly great advice. >> again, the rain is picking up here in tallahassee. this is going to be a very challenging couple of days. keita reid. thank you so much for being with us. and as i said, kate tallahassee has been in the path of some storms, but yelena have ever hit here as a hurricane, the winds could be north of 100 miles per hour, even as it passes over this capital city, kate.

>> yeah, the forecast is quite wild. you're right there in it and it's going to be developing all throughout the morning. we're gonna get back to john and just a little bit, you're also tracking this right now. the economy is the top issue for voters and has been throughout this entire election cycle. and that cuts across party lines in an interview with msnbc's stephanie ruhle yesterday, vice president kamala harris pitch her economic plan, trying to make the case that despite trump leading on this issue in the polls, voters should not believe him you don't just throw around the idea of just tariffs across the board and that's part of the problem with donald trump. i frankly, i'm and i say this in all sincerity he's just not very serious about how he thinks about some of these issues. and one must be serious. and have a plan, any real plan that's not just about some talking point ending in an exclamation at a political rally joining us right now is senior national

spokesperson for the harris-walz campaign. ian sams. and thanks for jumping on. really appreciate it with what we heard. we've heard more detail from the vice president yesterday in the interview with stephanie, why is donald trump in your view, still besting harris with voters by 11 points, double-digits on the economy yeah, thanks for having me and good morning. i think when it comes to the economy, voters have to hear these two candidates visions. i think we have 40 some odd days left in this election. and what you're seeing from vice president harris is taking her case directly to the american people in a major speech. in pittsburgh yesterday, where she outlined her middle-class economic vision and what a stark contrast that is with donald trump, who grew up in gilded manhattan never had to work very much for anything in his life. and so i think with the two candidates, we have to spend the next 40 days talking about the choice and their priorities as president, i think that when people here, vice president harris talked about her vision of building an opportunity economy that lowers costs for people, whether it's

groceries or housing, building entrepreneurship in this country expanding the financial resources available to small businesses in this country. so they can start and higher and grow because they're the engine of job growth in our economy. and building on manufacturing here her talk yesterday, announced some new plans to ensure that companies are investing in building the jobs of the futures in places like pittsburgh and clean energy, in high-tech manufacturing. these are the things that she's talking about. president trump isn't president trump is talking about increasing costs on the american people by 4,000 bucks per middle-class family with these terrorists that you heard vice president harris decrying last night. he is not serious on these things. he is saying whatever he thinks he needs to say to try to get elected. but you know what, i think people are starting to get onto his game. you've seen in the last month in the polling on this very issue of the economy vice president harris, narrowing his lead, i think that by the time this election is over, she could have a lead on the economy because people are hearing that she's putting the middle-class first instead of just those at the very top.

>> some of the policies, economic policies that the vp has been laying out this week. we can put up just some of them. i was going through them this morning promising those earning less than $4,000 per year, that their taxes are not going to go up restoring the child tax credit, expanding it even further for people with newborns, expanding the earned income tax credit increasing tax deductions for startups $25,000 down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers and talking about raising taxes on the wealthy and raising the capital gains tax to 28%. she's laying out those details and you she and you are saying that donald trump's economic policies are unserious. but can she seriously say that she can pull any of that off when you do not know who's going to be in control of congress well, we have 40 days until the election. i it's, it's kind of a bummer to be so cynical that this soon we're trying to win the election, were trying to win down-ballot races, were trying to take back the house, were trying to keep the senate.

if we have democrats in charge of the house and senate, you see just this week, democrats in the congress introducing legislation on these very priorities. if we can win this election, you bet that democrats, vice president harris, democrats in the senate and the house are going to put in place these sorts of common sense middle-class, economic proposals that help people that lower their costs, that make their lives better. and we have to win this selection to do so, i don't think here we are 40 days out. we should be pessimistic about what could happen in the composition of congress. we need to be working hard to win this election. vice president harris is doing that campaigning in pennsylvania yesterday. she'll be campaigning in arizona tomorrow in nevada. this weekend, taking our message directly to the american people. frankly, in swing states where there are major, major senate races happening, house races happening to try to win down ballot so that we can pass this commonsense middle-class agenda and not go backwards with another four years of donald trump and republicans who are

in control of congress threatening chaos threatening to take us backwards, threatening to repeal legislation station that has created thousands of clean energy jobs already in this country that's not where we want to go, and that's not what the vice president wants to do. she wants to help the entire ticket wins so that we can pass some of these ideas on those two issues just laid out on the economy and on immigration, on border security, those are definitely numbers that the campaign and the vice president needed the turnaround. in the next 40 days. i know you guys are working exactly to do that. and thank you very much for your time. jessica new this morning, melania trump's saying it's a miracle. >> her husband is alive and our first sit-down interviews since the assassination attempts on former president trump's life, the former first lady opened up the terrifying moments that changed her family if you really think about it to july 13, was a miracle he like that much and he could, you he could not be with us cnn's kristen

holmes is in washington with more from melania trump's interview, kristen, we haven't heard from her publicly like this in a very long time. >> what else did she have to say? >> jessica, we've almost never heard from her very publicly like this, particularly this campaign cycle. she's never on the trail with donald trump's. she doesn't make any public appearances. and here she is sitting down for this interview because she is promoting her new book. now there were a couple of notable moments i want to point out. one of them being she went into detail about learning about both of the assassination attempts on her husband, saying she learned about it from the news, particularly talking about what happened in butler, pennsylvania, saying she really didn't know what had happened if he was dead or alive, that she just hit the ground there and he was waiting for more information essentially, like all of us were at that time. the other interesting part is that she raised these kind of conspiracy you're a seat theories that we have heard on the right about that day in butler this idea that there might be more to the story, something that she had said in a promotional videos, something we have heard donald trump

allude two, but then of course, her here doubling down on that notion, she also said that she believed he survived because something or someone was watching ching over him. now, what are the other moment she talked about that again, i thought was notable was talking about this search of mar-a-lago in august of 2022. and as you'll remember, the fbi executed a search warrant. they were looking for classified documents that they believe donald trump had obviously, we know how that worked out. he did have those documents here here's what she said about that >> yes. invasion of privacy and the way it was done was i was really surprised some person i don't even know who or how many people they, you know, they went to my stuff now of course, as we know, the department of justice had tried to negotiate with trump and his legal team to get those documents before they executed the search warrant. but still interesting to hear her

perspective there. the other part of this is that so much of it was political. she was talking about donald trump's campaign, talking about the fact that she thought he should be president again, talking about his advantage ministrations record on the economy, things we don't generally hear from her when asked why she decided to speak out now, why she wrote this book, she said essentially that she wanted to tell the truth, that there was a lot of misinformation and falsehoods out there about her jessica. >> all right. kristen holmes with the latest for us. thank you so much for that reporting. we also have breaking news, hurricane helene now category two, storm is gaining strength and is expected to make landfall in florida later this evening, we're going to get another update from the weather center right at the top of the hour. at new college calls for a 21 day ceasefire after hundreds were killed by israeli airstrikes in lebanon. what prime minister benjamin netanyahu is saying about this proposal today highest rated oprah winfrey show of all time. >> we're still talking about it she opened the door to have

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calls for de-escalation after israel's military said it is preparing for a possible ground incursion into lebanon the u.s. and its allies now calling for a 21 day ceasefire between both countries. cnn chief national security correspondent alex marquardt is here with more details. outs what sense are you getting that this is, this is a possibility, a 21 day cease. >> well, it's not looking very promising. you've got the fighting there continues as we speak. we have netanyahu, who is on his way to new york who said that reports of an imminent ceasefire are correct, incorrect and that he he has instructed the idf to continue fighting with full force. so that's not good news for the white house. let's be clear about what this is. this is a proposal for a 21 day pause to allow for diplomatic negotiations to finally get to a solution to end the conflict that has been simmering alongside the war in gaza but here between israel and hezbollah, this has been such a dire situation the past few days. the potential for escalation has been so big and

for this war to expand, the potential has been so explosive that the u.s and its allies, including france, have been working feverish lee to try to get to a place where a proposal could get put on the table. this happened late last night, the white house scrambled a briefing call at 9:30 p.m. they were sounding rather optimistic. they were saying things like, this is a breakthrough when the government of israel and lebanon accept this. so white house officials are definitely can be waking up to some disappointment when they hear what netanyahu has to say. he has not given his official response, we believe to this proposal, but he is urging the idf to continue fighting against hezbollah. it is certainly the israeli belief that hezbollah might be more inclined to come to the table if there is that military pressure. in the meantime, we have not heard of a response from hezbollah itself. >> and interesting, just reminding everyone that the un general assembly is happening right now, as you mentioned,

the prime minister benjamin netanyahu on his way here to the u.s. so more to come on. this definitely. >> all right. alex marquardt, thanks so much. kate and fresh off his speech to world leaders at the un general assembly. >> we're going to see ukrainian president zelenskyy in washington today. he's meeting with lawmakers on capitol hill this morning. and then you will also be meeting with president biden and also meeting with vice president harris to make what is being described as a personal plea for more immediate help in ukraine's war against russia and yesterday in new york, before world leaders, zelenskyy offered a stark warning of course, what is happening in ukraine because of russia's war. >> it's something many are imagining having to themselves and yes the smoke from fires in war torn cities can reach other countries. >> and if god forbid, russia causes and nuclear disaster at one guano flower nuclear power plants, radiation will not

respect state borders joining us right now is the mayor of london city and khan also in town for un general assembly meetings. >> baer, thank you so much for coming as a pleasure. what we heard from president zelenskyy will hear more from today is what happens in ukraine does not stay in ukraine and that is a warning that we have heard over and over again in the years long war. what does the warning that you hear from ukraine? what does it mean for london? what does it mean for the uk? >> who all we know is putin is determined to spread the russian influence ukraine over the last couple of years. who's next? and what we've seen over the last week yes he's a coalition of countries, the uk, the usa france, but more importantly, nato coming together to support president zelenskyy, ukraine and the ukrainian people. and there was a nervousness, friendlies, beacon this could be the last un general assembly where we have a president of the usa supporting the allies, supporting nato, supporting ukraine in a parallel universe.

you haven't got a president who's working on the international scene. and putin could have made many more advances and is suspect president zelenskyy is hoping him been here, puts pressure on other international players, but he's hoping i'm sure that the next president in 40 days time plus is also supportive of ukraine in the ukrainian people. >> and what you're pointing to is former president donald trump for sure, we heard donald trump yesterday say what deal can we make when it comes to ukraine? it's demolished. the people are dead, the countries in ram rubble is what he said zelenskyy in an interview from this weekend, he very publicly criticized donald trump's running mate, j.d. vance, calling him too radical and also criticizing donald trump and republican lawmakers here criticized and responded pretty sharply to zelenskyy saying, stay out of our election. it was election interference and i've seen this week very clearly you are not holding back weighing in as well.

you've come out to endorse and say you want people to vote for vice president kamala harris in this election. why are you getting involved? >> well, look, it really is an issue for the american people who they choose to be their president and vice president, but put them respectfully to my american friends. is what happens in your home, your community, your town, your city, your state doesn't. just affect you. it affects the globe. why because you are the only superpower there is why because you set the tone, the tenor the rhythm, the beat, or what appears across the globe. the president, the usa can send ripples of hope or ripples offer fair, they can be players that influences nato policy. un policy, eu policy policies around climate change, policies around bringing countries and people together standing up to bullies a new for you and donald trump, right? >> i actually saw a headline this week that said, why is it being khan trying to restart his fight with donald trump or you already i'm really no, i'm here for a number reasons

to bang the drum for london, to encourage american businesses to invest in london, americans to come totally in london, americans just study in london, but also straight question, which is who do you hope winds in 40 days time and i'll give a straight answer the prerequisite though is asking all americans to get registered make sure you vote and don't allow, say respectfully, history to repeat itself. >> me ask you. there were just hearing updates on netanyahu speaking tomorrow since october 7, united states has seen a huge spike in anti-semitic incidents. it's a huge problem in cities across this country and i was just looking, london has been struggling with this as well. the cst, according to cst, the anti-semitic incidents nearly doubled in the first half of this year compared to last year across the uk. and this war is now threatening to expand in the middle east. what more can you do well, firstly, we mustn't conflate what's happening in the middle east and what israel is doing with hatred, jewish people, jewish people should not have hatred set against them it's not be