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helene. dozens of communities cut off from freshwater and much needed supplies are dwindling by them minute rescue teams now racing to get to those stranded residents. >> plus a final day of prayer for what could be the last debate before election day new boarding on how senator j.d. vance and governor tim walz are preparing specifically the last-minute jitters. walz says he is feeling as the trump team tries to set expectations high for their rival and israel carrying out new raids in lebanon as we learn new details about the possibility of a ground offensive how hezbollah is responding after the assassination of their leader we're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central across pasta southeast are grappling with incomprehensible storm devastation after helene

left a 500 mile wide path of destruction from florida to virginia one of the hardest hit areas though, is western north carolina. >> and some of the scenes there, frankly, they're hard to process this used to be a lake in the chimney rock area. this right here now it's just unrecognizable to littered with debris. and this is what it looks like in asheville where helene washed out roadways left residents cut off for much needed supplies there and millions are without power and cell service because the service there is crippled i saw this. i broke out in tears undescribable. i don't know. it just was covered in litter and trees and mud and it's stinky and it was all the way up the street appear it just looks like the bottom of a river it was crazy. >> the water came all the way up to the top of our driveway and usually, you might see a little bit of flooding down at the bottom of the street, but it came up i mean, another 15

feet more than that at least 115 people have died. that is across six states. officials are fearing though that that number is going to go up because there are many more people who are still missing at this point president biden spoke a short time ago about his administration's response effort we're not leaving until the job is done. all smart, you know, i'm committed to traveling in the impacted areas as soon as possible well, i've been told that disruptive. i did it right now. we will not do that at the risk of diverting or delaying any response assets needed to deal with this crisis for more on what's happening on the ground in north carolina, we're joined now by moss brennan. >> he is an editor for north carolina's watauga democrat newspaper and also an emt for the watauga county rescue squad and for the deep gop volunteer fire department, moss. thanks for taking the time to join us on the phone. can you just tell

us what kind of damage that you're seeing there in your community it's i mean, it's hard to describe as many people have said, there are places that just look like bombs have been dropped complete destruction and you know, it's all over, it's widespread, which is the real issue. we have small communities, big communities that are just destroyed roy and some of these small communities really it's going to take years for them to recover if they ever do and moss we're seeing the pictures. >> it is really i mean, it's horrible. what we're looking at here. you're a journalist, you're also a first responder. i know that you've done some swift water rescues. tell us about that of on friday, i prioritized life safety and was working with target rescue squad to help out with some of their swift-water efforts. >> while also keep in my reporter hat on in trying to

get information out to the public friday especially, in saturday, there was barely any signal was it was really hard for us to get any information out. >> but as that got better, we were able to do that m1 kind of a recovery phase where we're trying to find people that are missing. >> crews have been working 24/7. the western part of our county is a lot of people are isolated over there ash and avery counties are devastated as well and it's just we're in the recovery phase now and it's just going to be hoping we can find people and hoping we find them alive and are people able to communicate now with emergency services? >> has cell phone connectivity been restored? >> in some places? it has it is still very limited in areas no western part of the county especially there's really no service in avery county, which is our neighboring county. they really have no service. ash county. again, one of our neighboring counties they are

getting limited service back its still not a lot of people can communicate with emergency services, are each other which is why people are not able to contact loved ones at the moment. >> yes. which is why we don't even have necessarily a full scope of what's going on in those areas, moss and talk to us a little bit. about the biggest challenge right now and what people in the area need mean, the biggest challenge in just getting through these people and kind of figuring out where they are and how to access them we have chainsaw crews up in the area have been told by our watauga county emergency management we have volunteers up here. >> we have been having volunteers calm and kind of start freelancing any of that can be dangerous. so i would just urge everyone to go and check in with one of the local services that are up here. there's many places that are taking donations, taking supplies and we have been reporting on that on our

website with a democrat.com and you know people will need help. >> the one thing that i've been told from many people just don't come to western north carolina at the moment roads are bad the more people there are that are here, the harder it is going to be for emergency services. >> to get to people that they need moss brennan. thank you so much and thank you so much for what you're doing as a journalist and as a first responder, we really appreciate you joining us and telling us what's happening there on the ground. >> if ma'am, thank you for having me boris the storm may have passed, but the flood threat remains for some areas hit by hurricane helene let's go now, live with the cnn weather center and meteorologist chad myers. >> chad, what's in the forecast for today? well, no more rain for the people here that already have all the damage. but this water has to go somewhere, eventually has to get into the atlantic ocean. so

there are rivers that are going to rise downhill from here in parts of western northern north carolina here. but what place in the world can take this type of rainfall and not get absolute devastation station. and i would say that's probably maybe the top of kuae because there's just nobody up there and it's top of a volcano. when you talk about how much rainfall came down over those days, and it was very heavy at times, it happened before for the hurricane and then it happened during the hurricane. and now it's finally ending for the most part, but 20 to 30 inches of rainfall in these higher elevations. that's just really hard to put your mind around because all of that water had to run downhill, had to wash away homes i know you see those pictures and it looks like sticks and twigs, but there are bits of homes in there. there's pits, people's livelihoods and their, this is a truly devastating event here from asheville okay. toward black mountain, places that if you're from the south, you go there because they are so

beautiful. well, this is going take a long time to be beautiful again, i'm afraid for many people say yes, we will have some rainfall across parts of virginia today, but likely only about one to two inches. so this is not a big event, but what you may have missed over the weekend. now, we have three isaac kurt, can joyce, it's like, wow, you guys really ramp things up in a hurry and now we have one that could protect initially here be in the gulf of mexico, same place that the last one was likely not growing as much as the last one is the computer models are not making big circles here. that's what we'd be looking for right now. those tight eyes just don't see it yet. not impossible. the water is still very warm. but if this thing does, finally develop it will be leslie will see chad myers live from the weather center. thank you so much, chad. so in the next hour, former president donald trump will make remarks as he visits hurricane ravaged valdosta, georgia. he landed there in the last hour to see that damage firsthand and get a briefing. georgia, of course, a key battleground state in the

presidential election. >> yeah, trump's visit is coming after he criticized vice president harris for holding campaign events over the weekend instead of helping impacted communities. we do note that the former president also continued on with his regularly scheduled campaign rallies. we have cnn's kristen holmes with us now. kristen, what is trump's goal with this trip today? >> well, look, they had been telling me that they were going to try to travel every single day from now until the election, or as many days as they could with a lot of these stops in battle well, grounds, states and there was a plan to go to georgia today before the storm hit, before the devastation that we're talking about, a rally. they were talking about a messaging event obviously, everything changed it's that storm took place now, what donald trump is going to say, you're going to hear what he already has been saying. he's hitting kamala harris, sitting joe biden saying, why aren't they on the ground trying to seize this as an opera? for tunity to show himself as the former president who is caring for these people on the ground. but i mean, obviously it's a lot different than having a sitting president or a sitting vice it's president on the ground. there's nothing he can really

do in terms of promising aid are promising distribution. there's nothing he can really even glean from this to take it to other states, or to try to help with the disaster response. so it's really a show here of him reaching out. now the other thing that's kind of interesting is he's now trying to blame the administration for only helping certain areas of north carolina in particular, essentially saying that they're not helping republicans and his supporters. this is what he posted on truth, social he said i was also going to stop in north carolina, which has really been hit hard. i have a lot of supplies ready for them, but access and communication has now restricted and we want to management is able to focus on helping the people most effective and not being concerned with me. i'll be there shortly, but i don't like the reports that i'm getting about the federal government and the democrats, governor of the state, going out of their way not to help people in republican era as maga, we have no indication that that is true. we have not heard any of these reports and just to be

clear, we one of the things that we heard from president joe biden today and we know this to be true, is that it's very difficult and it does take a lot of resources for a sitting president or even a sitting vice president. to travel to these areas, particularly a place like north carolina, where they need all of those emergency resources. and it's been a point of contention in past presidencies as well. do you go right away? when do you go? you do not want to be responsible for taking away resources that could potentially help people who are suffering or even with this recovery. but also they want you on the ground and you risk being hit politically for not being there are mean we just spoke to someone from watauga county who said they are having a hard time getting in touch with people there and in the neighboring counties. and the piece of advice he said was don't come here. and so that's certainly something to heed. kristen holmes. thank you so much, really appreciate it still ahead, president biden, urging israel to stop special forces it's raids in lebanon as the u.s. believes that israel could imminently launch

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reporting isaac, you've been speaking with players behind the scenes of his debate prep and whenever i see stories like this, i wonder, is this expectation setting by the campaign, how much of this is legit? you just told me before the commercial break. this is actual nerves. he's actually nervous. >> there. >> it's fair for you to feel like there's expectation setting going on, but there is genuine nervousness going on here. >> walz is pretty committed to the idea that he does not want donald trump back in the white house. he does not want to let kamala harris down and make her think that she screwed up her choice. but it's also so about going up against j.d. vance, j.d. vance, who is better at debates than walz has been. their past performance. he went to yale law school walz has been in congress. it was in congress for 12 years, has been governor for six years. that's a long time, but he has never been great at the debating part of it. and in fact, he was at a fundraiser in new york last week and one of the people there asked him have debate

prep going and he said someone in the room told me that he he said you know, as teachers, we are trained to answer the questions and we train our students to answer the questions. that's not what this is. so he's gotten his head. how do you get a question? in answered in under two minutes? what is your face look like when you're not on camera? how do you respond? all of these things a lot to do and look, you and i, we've never been in a nationally televised debate. it's a big crime crazy thing, and especially in this case, because it does not look like there will be any other debates for him or for harris and trump. this could be the last marquee event of this campaign that'd be something or pitch isaac a debate between you and i on you know, we really go at it. we mostly agree on every day isaac dovere. >> thank you so much. again so brianna, you know, what can help shake off some pre debate jitters. a good laugh. yeah, no doubt. >> i know it's how we manage to calm nerves around here, right? well, here's saturday night live kicking off their

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hanukkah. >> viewers coming in california, please close your ears i have a come back new york and california we love my rallies except when someone does he bing bong, bing, bing, bing, right mean, you know, that happened because of the rhetoric of the radical left. >> they say that me blaming the democrats for inciting violence is the pot calling the kettle black? >> but frankly, i didn't know the cattle was black until very recently. >> i thought the cattle was india decided to turn black they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats they taking your pets, are they doing free gauff's they doing freak offs with the dogs and they taking the geese swatch, it's very sad it's very sad that doing it diddy

glass at them. >> that's fine. >> people forget i'm president we may i guess why by the way. >> i think pretty good job. thank you. joe biden. thank you for putting country first and for handing over the reins. >> i didn't want guess what? by the way good, right? quite funny, because it's so close to the truth and slightly uncomfortable at times, it that's right. >> the mannerisms are very good by all of these comedians though they really do nail these politicians, especially the trump impression. it's so spot on it's eerie. it is. so while tim walz is preparing,

maybe with some jitters for his big primetime debate. vice president harris is trying to appeal to black male voters in turning to nontraditional media to do that, all the smoke, a sports and pop culture podcast just aired its interview with the vp host matt barnes and stephen jackson discussed a wide range of issues, including the repeated attacks on harris for not having biological children i love those children. >> they are my children and we talk about we have a modern family, especially as i'm now running for president. >> and these kind of conversations are becoming more prevalent, like, what does it mean to be a step here? and i grew up with the family. that is my family by blood. and the family that is my family by love. >> and sometimes that's thicker and that's exactly right cnn national. politics correspondent eva mckend is here with us even how important was this interview. >> so brianna, i think that the campaign achieved what they wanted to in this platform. the

entire idea of going on a basketball podcast is to introduce herself two people that may not be tuning into politics that closely so she talked about being a stepmom, how important that was to her modeling good healthy relationships for her children being being a long time warriors fan, she did get into policy a bit talking about the economy in her vision for small businesses. and then she also reiterated a long-held position on marijuana policy. >> let's listen strongly people should not be going to jail for smoking weed and we know historically what that has meant and who has gone to jail second, i just think we have have to understand that we need to legalize it and stop criminalizing this behavior and so and i've actually, this is not a new position for me. >> i have felt for a long time we need to legalize it. so that's where i am on an 11 she

said we not canvas pay attention. fellows unconventional. a bit of a softer conversation rather than an interview. but think about all the people that they are reaching through this path platform that podcast has more than 1 million followers on youtube and probably more tuning into this specific podcast, i would think so. she said also that when she was growing up, her mom was very clear that she was raising two black girls to be too proud. black women who is she targeting with this message? so this was particularly interesting to me because we don't hear her talk a lot about race on the campaign trail, but she was asked and she gave a really fulsome response that basically this is nonsense questioning her racial identity. >> she doesn't really think too much about it and that if people really want to have this conversation, they're going to have to grapple with the things like the one drop rule and the complicated legacy we have in this country when it concerns mixed race people. and so she

wasn't shying away from this conversation. she went on to a evoke the legacy of shirley chisholm when she was later asked about the five people she most wanted to be around her dinner table, dead or alive in the host and her had a brief moment where they talked about the significance of her legacy. so i feel like she fell a lot more comfortable talking about race in that space, but this was also to set the record straight here and to be clear that her racial identity is not up for debate. yeah. >> i mean, and speaking to it, you heard on that snl cold open where that was an allusion to trump talking about her racial identity in here she is talking about it in this interview, eva, thank you so much, really appreciate it. and still ahead, the pentagon says it has put an unspecified number of troops on prepare to deploy orders. this as israeli special forces carry out strikes and raids inside lebanon, fears now growing of

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border. sources also say that israel, israeli defense forces have already carried out small raids into lebanese territory trying to prep for this larger incursion. president biden voicing his opposition earlier today israel may now launching a limited operation into lebanon. are you aware of that? are you comfortable with their plan? >> i'm more aware than you might know, and i'm comfortable with them stopping we should have a ceasefire. now the ground incursion would be israel's latest advance against hezbollah, which began intensifying its cross-border attacks on israel on october 8, and supportive hamas after days of bombardment on lebanon, israel executed a rare strike today inside the capital city of beirut. >> the strikes follow the killing of hezbollah's top leader, hassan nasrallah on friday, joining us now is hagar chemali, who served as the director for syria and lebanon on the national security council. she was also a

spokesperson for the u.s. mission to the united nations hagar. thank you so much for being with us. sources are indicating that these smaller raids are part of preparation for a ground incursion by the idf. what do you think that look like? >> sure. well, i wouldn't be surprised at the ground invasion goes through because this israeli government has been saying that they're going to pursue this. now for the last couple of weeks. and the way it would look to be honest, it's hard to see. it's hard to know for sure how far into lebanon they're going to go. it's clear that they view his hezbollah a significantly weekend and they are but. even, for me, i worked in counterterrorism. i hezbollah was in my portfolio. we have all been in the us government. we had all been preparing for the showdown between hezbollah and israel since 2006 and expecting that when that would happen, it would be significant and enormous. but over the last 11 months, israel has really diminished as well as military capabilities. and certainly it's millet, its leadership and its organizational and communication capabilities that said their goal is to create

this buffer zone in the south. a buffer zone that the un has supposedly been supposed to be maintaining. and the lebanese armed forces as well. but clearly they failed at that mission and so their goal is to create this buffer zone on to ensure that the north remains safe. but that said it's just it's still hard to see their end endgame, their exit strategy, and how far into lebanon they would go given that they know hezbollah is this weekend and what would a potential response from iran look like? >> what do you think the threshold might be for prompting one which is such? she a big fear of the u.s a big fear of the united states. but, but i really don't believe iran is going to get directly involved. and the reason for that is that the iranian regime is quite weak the regime seems to want some kind of ceasefire because it helps them as well with their own domestic i issues. they'd much rather have their proxies handle this hezbollah, hamas, the houthis, and let them take this and handle it for them and bother israel as much as possible. clearly that strategy is not really working though.

but that said, especially now and especially with the new president. and as they i, what happens here with the election? and whether or not that means that negotiations on the nuclear deal could start again, they're going to be very wary in entering into anything that could precipitate a response from the united states and the u.s. promise to defend israel definitely serves as a very strong deterrent in preventing iran from getting directly involved. >> when it comes to israel's ability to defend multiple fronts, i wonder what you think their capacity is because after october 7, we talked about israel potentially fighting a multi-front war. defending against the houthis in yemen. obviously, hamas in gaza and hezbollah in lebanon. now that it appears that they're ready to move into lebanon, what are they able to do? >> right? you know, it's fascinating and you pointed it out yourself. is that this war has taken shape in a way that was pretty much unexpected because at the beginning, after october 7, many of us said that

israel wouldn't be able to pursue a multi-front war. and i still don't think that that would have been possible back then, but it's clear that they view there operations in gaza as as winding down or certainly moving to a lower-intensity phase of the war that they feel that they significantly dismantled hamas's military capabilities, which i would agree with the u.s administration has said that as well and their view and they are turning their attention toward lebanon at this moment. again and for the longest time they had lived in this for tat world with hezbollah, where they were exchanging this fire and both, neither seemed to want a full-scale war. now, israel has pursued had pursued this escalation because they want to return their citizens to the north and they feel very concerned that the land in the north is empty, that that undermines the integrity. there territory and could risk has bullet pursuing a ground invasion just as hamas did on october 7 but that said they're also seems to be a different calculation that has shaped, changed along this war, which is that israel is pursuing this

the way you

>> i'm in favor of what the us deems that it not just in the us national security interests, but in interest of israel's long-term security, they have to keep trying even if it's becoming increasingly more difficult at some point, they

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least 119 because there's many more remain unaccounted for at least 47 of those killed were in north carolina, where governor roy cooper tells cnn, helene wiped entire towns off the map we are expecting to hear from the governor in about two hours or so. for now, neighbors are pulling together to help each other out joining us now is tyller koch. she's a resident of asheville, north carolina and he coincidentally was out of town close to south carolina when the storm hit and tyler, i understand you're on the way back up to asheville noun and you're bringing supplies with you you own a pizza restaurant ron, up their pies, a pizza in asheville and charlotte as well tell us about where you are now and what you're expecting to find when you get to asheville refrigerates to total mess. >> people been swept away,

business have been ruined, lives have been lost it's absolutely insane to be honest, myself and all my friends are whitewater conquers and we've never seen water like this before in our lives. it's absolutely demolishing we were honestly me and my girlfriend were looking for new locations for fisa over on the coastline. and luckily, we've been able to get a bunch of supplies. we've got our whole van full of water, gas, and all the essentials that we're going to bring back to people and help as much as we can as we know currently, there's no help or relief from the government or fema right now it's four days does that we're still waiting that, but luckily, myself and a lot of other business owners and that are available and able to do so are giving out free food, giving out water making sure people can survive and feed their kids are kids you mentioned some of what you had heard from neighbors in the area what did they tell you about? >> preparations before the storm? do do you think folks anticipated that it was going to be as intense as it was because the storm got very strong very quickly so i don't

think anyone's ever anticipated this type of watershed or this type of problems it doesn't seem like enough people were alerted about it. >> it wasn't wasn't communicated properly. and there's a lot of people trying to survive right now. and it's really a shame have you been in touch with your employees at the shop? how are they doing? what kind of challenges are they facing yes. >> so that's a huge sounds were coming personal employees to go after when we get up, there, we're bringing them supplies of propane food to feed their kids and we got to cut some people out with chain saws. so that's what i'm going to be doing this afternoon. and just kind of getting communication with as many people as possible right now, there's no cell phone service, so i'm getting hits mrs. from a lot of people were getting in there. we're going to help them out thanks to tyler for that conversation. >> communities across helene's 500 mile path of destruction are in need of basic necessities as you just heard there. and you can lend them a

hand for ways you can help go to cnn.com/impact brianna now, to some of the other headlines that we're watching this hour, air monitoring sensors show that a chlorine plume is drifting into metro atlanta and causing unhealthy levels of air pollution in some neighborhoods, there. >> this is happening after a fire at a chemical plant released chlorine into the air. this fire broke out on the roof of the bile biolab plant and conyers georgia yesterday morning, the fire is now out, but official say the air quality obviously still a concern, were seeing that is a developing problem. 90,000 people near atlanta remain under a shelter in place order, officials are warning people in the area to stay indoors with their windows shut and not talk run for air conditioning. we're going to have a live report on this next hour. also, the spacex dragon capsule that will bring two astronauts stuck in space back to earth, has docked with its crew at the international space station. sonny williams and butch wilmore have been stranded at

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except for when the judge asked him if he understood the charges against him and two, that he said, yes, your honor but he did plead not guilty through his attorneys and then his attorneys also asked just for a trial by jury as well. but in terms of the charges against him, he's now facing five charges. one of those is attempted assassination of former president donald trump. he's also been charged with possessing a firearm in furtherance instead of a crime of violence and assaulting a federal officer, those charges, brianna, are on top of the two federal gun charges. he was already facing. those include possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession of a weapon with an obliterated serial number nine now in terms of the evidence against him, prosecutors say they have a letter that was handwritten by ryan ruth. they say that letter reads in part, dear world, this was an assassination attempt on donald trump, but i am so sorry, i failed you. they also say they found six cell phones. brianna in his car. one of those they say included a google search about how to get to mexico from palm beach

county where this incident occurred. they also say the cell phones pinged cell phone towers in this area of mar-a-lago and the golf course where the incident occurred between august 18 and september 15, putting him in this area for several weeks and brianna, they also say they have fingerprint they believe belongs to him on a piece of tape that was used to tape the scope on the rifle to the rifle itself, brianna all right. >> randi kaye. thank you for the very latest from west palm beach, florida for us. >> the nba has announced some sad news. basketball legend and hall of famer dikembe mutombo died earlier today of brain cancer. the seven foot two and center a towering presence both on and off the court he was an eight-time all-star and won the nba's defensive player of the year four times. mutombo was perhaps best known for his shot blocking and that famed playful finger wag after denying opponents at the hoop. he was also known for his vast humanitarian work and

philanthropy including establishing a foundation to improve education and quality of life in his native democratic republic of congo, he was a legend on and off the court. and had a laugh that will not be soon forgotten. >> brianna certainly will not be forgotten now, let's go now to valdosta, georgia, where former president trump has just begun speaking. this is an area hard hit by helene. let's listen thank you, ashley j. >> starr tree, cook county judge respected so respected. doug heye. thank cook county sheriff. ashley tie. we know paige dukes, we know richard hardy, city manager. dusty thank you where was her its? yes. thank you. scott james, bill slaughter, but he duke patrick and katie watson, the owners of the soviet, just spoke and i. said i would have bought some furniture. have you had some in there, but i always look for furniture and they

have beautiful stuff, but they're going to be rebuilt in a very, very short periods. so i want to thank everybody and we came down with truckloads of things and we're going to have that done by by by franklin's incredible organization. they've done such a good job. we've done this before, but we have a lot of truckloads of different items from oil to water to all sorts of equipment that's going to help them but we're here today standing complete solidarity with the people of georgia and with all of those suffering in the terrible aftermath hurricane helene, hurricane helene turned out to be a big one like just about the biggest that anyone seen. i spoke with all of the relief people, all of the people that do this for a living and do this at least to help and they said they've never seen one this bad well, dassa has been ravaged. the town is very, very badly hurting and many thousands are without power. they're running

low on food and fuel. we brought a lot of it down with us that's going to be distributed now or soon throughout georgia as well as north carolina, south carolina, florida, virginia, alabama, and tennessee that's a big one. and the devastation wrought by this storm is credible so extensive, nobody thought this would be happening, especially now, so late in the season for the hurricane's homes, hospitals, highways, and cars have been plunged underwater entire neighborhoods have been turned into lakes nobody's seen anything like it. and to every family that's been displaced here in georgia and north carolina whose which is really been hit were going there also and they don't have communications that don't have anything right now. there were trying to and just spoke to elon. i'm getting him. i when we want to get star link hooked up because they have no communication whatsoever. and ilan elon will always come through and we know that and so

we're working on that, getting them hooked up. they asked me whether or not that would be possible. we're going to try and get the starlink in there as soon as possible because they have no communication and throughout the region, our hearts are with you and we are going to be with you as long as you need it. it's called an hour of need here in our prayers. and we pray to god and throughout this long weeks, a along weeks that lay ahead, you're going to have a lot of work, but the end result is going to be good. we just wish so many people weren't so badly hurt. and in many cases, sadly, no longer with us we love you. we love everyone everyone. i mean, to be honest, we love everyone. and we'll be back and we'll be back again soon will continue to help up until you're bigger. i say bigger, better, stronger than ever before, but again, you can't ever discount the fact that people are lost. a lot of people have been lost in this

terrible this terrible storm, this terrible hurricane it's a storm that's also taking the lives of i guess they have a count of 91, but that count changes on an hourly basis and it goes only in one direction, unfortunately up, but at least 91 people already and to the families and loved ones of those who have perished. we mourn alongside of you and we grieve every single life so tragically lost i'd like to now ask for a moment of silence and prayer it'd b word for those who have died. thank you