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

like in need none of. that matters when, i talk about politics now we have to all get together and get this. we need a lot of help to have to have a lot of help down here. we look out for one another. we pull together, we pitch in, we persevere, and we pull it through. that is really the american spirit that's what made america originally great. >> and that's why today i've come to us that with large semi-trucks, many of them filled with relief aid and a tanker truck filled up with gasoline. >> we have a couple of the big tanker trucks filled up with gasoline which they can't get. now and will be working to distributed throughout the day. and i want to thank again, franklin graham and everyone had samaritan's purse. you people are fantastic by the way, just fans and people appreciate you very much for

the incredible partnering and work that they've done. not only here, but all, all the time, they're always seemed to be the first ones at areas that need help a short time ago, i received a briefing on the situation here in valdosta from fema and the national guard, as well as a number of state and local officials. quite a few of them. it's amazing the way it's just all been pulled together. really amazing. i want to thank mayor scott james valdosta who's worse, got thank you. really great job i want to thank lieutenant governor burt jones and agricultural commissioner tyler harper, representatives. as i said before, austin scott and mike collins and all of the others present. i also want to thank governor brian kemp was working around the clock to get

this problem solved. he he's working hard around round-the-clock we also have a salute to the incredible first responders law enforcement heroes, and they are here as doctors, nurses firefighters, coast guard, national guard who had been serving with such extraordinary grace. and the work is incredible. nobody thought that see something like this you are the best you are truly the best of america and you're appreciated by america. sometimes you don't feel that way, but you very much appreciated by america and i know each and every view is is giving to this community of everything you have. you're doing things that you wouldn't normally even think about doing the people on the ground are doing the best they can in every challenging circumstances we do need some help from the federal government. they have to get together ideally with the governor that governor needs to he's been trying to get them and i'm sure they're going to come through but he's

been calling the president, hasn't been able to get him. but they'll come through. i'm sure and georgia, north carolina need the help probably worst of all. but north carolina has really been had they have really been hit? nope, they say nobody seen anything like that at all. >> every part in listening to former president donald trump in valdosta, georgia giving remarks after hurricane helene swept through the southeast, killing up words of 119 people. the former president there actually holding a moment of silence for those killed, saying to the communities affected, we love you, we love everyone. there's a lot of work ahead. he actually gave a message of unity during this speech, something that it's rare for former president trump at least during this campaign cycle, he said that the election and politics don't matter at a time like this. that's part of the american spirit. he described getting a briefing from fema and the national guard he also talked

about the community needing help from the federal government, saying that that will likely come soon. and notably plea he talked about having a conversation with elon musk, the tesla founder and ceo, about getting starlink to help get wifi to communities that are currently experiencing difficulties with communications. >> yeah, that's right. let's go to cnn's kristen holmes with us now and kristin, it's interesting because former president trump is talking in about how politics don't matter. but clearly they do when you have a swing state that is so important being affected by such a big storm, we know that fema has already deployed some satellites for starlink connectivity to the region. and you hear trump trying to create the sense of the biden administration hasn't really done much to help out. he's made some baseless claims about that. we know the president has approved an emergency declaration days ago in georgia. tell us what

you're seeing here and what the trump campaign is saying. >> yeah, we'll look, this is a red state and donald trump is being treated as a principle here. he is being treated not just as a former president, but it almost as though he is a sitting president as boris you just noted getting a briefing from fema, getting a briefing from the national guard that is not something that is typically just offered to a candidate. they are treating him as though he is a former president who is there to help. and one thing that i had noticed earlier during our 10pm conversation was the donald trump did not have that much to offer in terms of resources since he is not a sitting president, but i will note that he and the campaign say that they have arrived in that area with trucks full of supplies that they plan on giving out. so there is something there for them to offer. he also said that he had a tanker truck full of gasoline, which obviously if you've ever covered one of these storms, you understand that one of the first things that hardest things to come by is gasoline. so he said that he was going to be giving that out. he is clearly taking this

seriously as a politician is on the ground trying to show that he is there in support of the people on the ground in georgia. of course this comes as while he is again offering a message of unity, he has spent the last several days slamming kamala harris, his rival for not being on the ground, for not helping with this storm. and i do want to zero point out what you said was very interesting about the starlink fema yes. has been doing that, but donald trump taking it to another level, saying he's going to personally have a conversation with elon musk, which does matter given what we know about their relationship trying to insert himself there to say that he has the efforts the is the resources to actually help people on the ground. >> it's interesting you see that disparity and the comments he made before today's event, and the comments he's making now, kristen holmes. thanks so much. want to get you a look on the ground from this area as people across the southeast face a long road to recovery and the catastrophic aftermath of helene, the storm ravaged communities from florida to

virginia with some of the hardest hit area for years as we've been saying in western north carolina let's go now to cnn correspondent mirror bill gonzalez, who is live there asheville. >> so hard hit mirror bell. we've seen some of the pictures coming out of there. tell us what you're seeing yeah, boris. >> hey, boris and brianna, the death toll here is just continuing to rise. we know that across the south east, that number has just been going up at more than a third of those are right here in north carolina and the devastation is just being felt on so many levels. the loss of huge human life, of course, being the first one in looking around, you can see that also the community itself is severely damaged. the streets are filled with mud and heavy sludge, making them pretty much impassable for so many cars, making it dangerous for people to be outside in these conditions, we also know that this community is three out of the for highways leading up to this communities are also impassable. so as you can imagine, the devastation is

clear here joining me right here is will queue at and you are part of this community. you've been with us all morning long talking about this devastation. can you just tell me your reaction to seeing this first thing in the morning it was horror horrible honestly, i mean we've never seen anything like this before and i just came here. >> i got here around 8:30 this morning just to see if i still had a job and place to work and many other people are probably doing the same and it's just, it's been terrible for a little bit of context. >> will you work here at a local business distributing dairy? is that correct and talk to me about what it looks like inside the facility right now? >> yeah. >> it's pretty much ruined. it's lifted up off the ground a little bit, but it's still got about three or four feet of water so yeah. we're just going to try to find somewhere else to set up shop and and try to get back in business we know that this community you don't personally know anybody who has

been severely injured or who is unaccounted for. >> but we know so many of your neighbors are. can you speak to what concerns you and others have at this moment? >> yeah. i mean, it's it's horrible seeing all this and there is other places that are definitely worse than this. so we're kind of lucky in a sense, and we have people and neighbors who had been out here all morning, helped clean up and. have been handing out water and snacks so it's just been it's been nice seeing everybody out here and helping each other you we know right now there's no internet, very spotty cell phone service. it sounds like a headache, but it's more than that for the people who live here, talk to me about what it's like, not having those essential services available to you all. >> yeah, we just got cell phone service back last night at around 11:00. so we were at a cellphone service prefer about two days but i mean, we were you can't get gas right now

and if you can't go anywhere, you can't call anybody, even for the people stranded you know, it's a very essential thing that we need to have are stored as soon as possible. that way we can find people who are lost and get them to their families, or people who may be stuck. and, in a house somewhere in a flood, they can't get out. they don't have food and water. i mean, it's it's definitely one of the first things that we should get back going for sure. >> we know that right now in this county alone, there's been reports of hundreds of people unaccounted for because they're not able to reach their loved ones. you talked to your neighbors are what are their concerns right now with trying to reach people will it's just, you want to make sure your loved ones are okay and if you can't get a hold of them and after especially after all this happened it's it's hard. >> you worry. it's the uncertainty. i think of it that causes the worry and then you just want to make sure

everybody's safe. >> we are definitely hoping for that. thank you so much for sharing that with us and we know that at this moment will and other people are helping neighbors out, helping with that cleanup and are helping assess the damage and anyone who may be stranded. >> alright. mary gonzalez, thank you so much obviously, they're facing a lot there turning back to the politics of all of this, this disaster and the southeast hitting with, of course a national election just 36 days away. so let's bring in our panel to talk about it. we have republican strategist shermichael singleton, democratic strategist meghan hays and cnn senior political analyst, gloria borger you guys, i wonder what you think about this visit of trump's, all of this is happening, it's affecting key states in this race for the white house states that also need a lot of help. we're hearing from people who need so much help. what do you make of what you're seeing with worries that he's in valdosta, georgia, that's a southern part of the state. that's trump country effectively. yes, it will pull resources away from him being by him being

there. but you talked about as kristen holmes stated, bringing resources, having fuel they're talking with elon musk to make sure that people have internet connectivity. and so while he's not the sitting president, what he's showcasing is that during moments such as this i am capable and ready to beat her to lead through these types of disasters that matters. and what we know will be a critical battlegrounds. they were kamala harris has somewhat moved the margins in places like atlanta those a large african african-american population, marietta, georgia is another place at her campaign has focused heavily on to make this race competitive in georgia. so i think it's smart strategically speaking for the former president to be there and then he said, well, where's vice president harris? you can debate whether or not she should be there or not. but to point out that contrast, i think matters i mean, the amount of resources that poll today's visit is insurmountable to these communities and it's really not a good use of resources on the ground. the local fire at the police, all the people that have to support these visits. i know when i was at the white house, we always waited until we were invited to come.

there's a lot you can do from afar. he could have done a press conference from florida. he could've done a press conference from new york we're talking about the resources, so i do have a little bit of a problem with pulling the resources away from folks who need, but also the federal government is on the ground. they have 50,000 people with fire putting up power lines and pulling resources from different states to get those power lines back up. they have 3,300 federal people on the ground with fema, making sure people are getting food. so i do think the federal government responses then there's always been spd with the president on these types of disaster situations, but it is political and i understand why he wants to be there for a photo-op. i just the amount of resources you pull it's really not appropriate to be on the ground right now, also posted today on social media that he was hearing that the federal government wasn't giving funding to parts of the state that were maga and there's no evidence about that. he has made this political, even though he didn't do that behind the microphone, he has made this political on social media already. >> he did insinuate, to your point? yes. >> shortly before we came back to studio, that he had spoken

to governor brian kemp of georgia. >> right. and that governor can but had some difficulty getting in touch with president biden, but a quick fact check there the white house has pointed out that biden had a conversation not only with governor kemp, but also with governor roy cooper of north carolina, as well as officials across tennessee in florida, the entire affected area promised all the resources the federal government can provide. >> and i think the declaration have been signed, that emergency declaration days ago. so it's all very false. his can't trump's comments or false. >> i get that point. i get your points about the federal government response being quick. i think that's the expectation. i was deputy chief of staff at hud. you have disaster relief committee developed block grants. hud usually has to step in to provide housing. i get it. but i think politically speaking, i think those optics really, really mattered for trump if you're looking at a state like georgia, where you're seeing your competitors somewhat increase her margins. you want to be able to indicate to your supporters there that i am with you so that they turn out and vote and the one thing that was notable here is he is

definitely saying on his remarks in his ruling from a paper and he did not going on here, which is notable because it soon as he stops reading, he goes off methods. >> so he was definitely trying to be on message for this neutral point message i'm not sure it's what you make of that because as we pointed out before he gets there, he's criticizing the vice president for not being there. >> and yet, when he's behind the podium and he's reading the remarks, he talks about there being the americans spirit and unity and that sort of thing. and then as soon as, then as soon as the remarks and he looks up and he says, well, i'm hearing that biden hasn't called kim, even though that that's false. >> what do you make any boar's trump is going to be trump. i don't think there's anything that campaign can ever really do about that. but as many of the moments you can sort of cure rate with him being on message that absolutely matters. i mean, we don't nationally they're still around ten, 11% of the american people were sort of sort of undecided. so can a trump on message convince some of those voters and a traumatic moments such as this or on critical issues that yeah, i don't like a whole lot

about the guy, but he seems to be pretty strong on this. one particular issue that really really matters to me. i'll give him my vote. that's a calculation that the campaign has to make. >> meghan makes a good point about the pulling away of resources, but gloria, i think that trump has seen an opportunity is seizing an opportunity and it may very well work here. >> well, remember when he went to east palestine and showed up at the train wreck same thing he did that and he was complaining that joe biden had not gone there yet so this isn't his first rodeo doing this. he understands the media. he understands his audience and, you know, he was he was clearly reading his remarks. there there was no adelaide but being here today, like we're normally used to at his rallies and it was clear that he understands the difference between a rally and what he was doing today. and this was this was not a rally, you know, we had franklin graham behind them. they were they were

giving out necessities to people and that was that was important. and of course we all know that the president will be there when he's invited and i'm sure kamala harris will be there, too. i mean, there's, you know, there's no denying that they'll both show up. >> she didn't leave las vegas, take on back to exactly tend to be more active in this knock to spend her campaigning the other thing, but to your eyes, it's point here. people remember the visual here and people are going remember he is on the ground and an election is going to be won on the margin, where the resources are important and it's not appropriate. people are going to remember that he went down there due to that point, there are situations in which the politicization of a natural disaster like this can backfire. i remember being there in puerto rico after hurricane maria in 2017. and donald trump tossing paper towels at folks, it didn't really resonate well with a lot of folks that i spoke to on the ground there. and yet you pointed out as we were watching trump-speak, megan that for barak obama after superstorm sandy landing in new jersey being hugged by then governor

chris christie, right before a month before the election. that was a huge boost for him. so this has the potential to go either way for these candidates doesn't yeah, absolutely. >> i think that these moments matter, right? these optics matter on when people are in a crisis situation, there they will remain remember what they are seeing on tv and what the front page of the paper says tomorrow. obviously this is going to fold out over the next couple of days. i'm sure the vice president and president will also make their appropriate visits who said wednesday or third, i think that's what biden discussed with roy cooper at least that's the early indication we have. so we'll have to see how it all plays out this week. but, you know, people do remember these optics and remember who's on the ground helping them and the fema money and all these different resources. it does take awhile, so it's like the federal government has stepped in and they are doing everything that they can. but i don't i don't it will have to see. yeah. we'll have to see how the optics here play out when obama traveled with sandy remembered hurt chris christie. >> take time because chris christie gave him a hug. >> and that wasn't well received by republicans. and that and that hug was played over and over and over again.

and so we'll see, well, cooper's not running for reelection, obviously, but you know, hill they'll come biden with open arms. but that can also have a negative effect for even to this day, republicans dislike christie because of that. i don't think brian kemp is going to be hugging president by hey, you're a governor yes your party and he's endorsed him. and if you're a governor, you are working for your state. and when you are up to here in water and you were looking around at that much devastation you were doing what you need to to get the resources i mean, just this fascinated by hug between brian kemp and donald trump much for the very interesting conversation. >> shermichael meghan and gloria, we appreciate it and still to come thousands of people in georgia are being told to shelter in place to keep their windows up, not to run their air conditioners because of this industrial plant fire they caused a

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20 because that orange plume kept growing and growing and people became concerned that chlorine in the air, lots of people reporting they can feel it, they can smell it asking people to shut the air off right now, especially with this heat, it's something so many people are concerned about because they feel like they need that to keep cool inside the home 19,000 people were asked to evacuate yesterday 90,000 also asked to shelter in place. now the real concern is over the next few days as the winds below this chemical smell, all across the sea are there going to be concerns especially for people who have maybe asthma or breathing conditions, that's a real concern for a lot of people. take a listen to officials, talk about this fire and how they're trying to get it under control. >> when this plane starts out, it could become very, very dangerous, toxic. so until we get those reading getting on epa and apd, we don't know exactly what the plane consist of. so we want to keep everyone safe and away from it as much as we can now it's important to note that elana fire is doing air quality tests and say, so far, nothing has been found harmful in the air

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started today at frame bridge bridge.com i'm pete muntean at reagan national airport. this is cnn israel's war on hezbollah is intensifying today, president biden said that israel should stop its raids in lebanon israel defense forces have begun small operations into lebanese territory to prepare for a ground incursion against hezbollah. >> according to several sources, the incursion into lebanon will be more limited than what was initially planned according to us officials he was president biden's response and israel may be now launching a limited operation into lebanon. >> are you aware of that? are you comfortable with their plans where than you might know and i'm comfortable with them stopping we should have a ceasefire. now also today, israel fired into beirut. >> this follows a strike on friday that killed hezbollah's top leader, hassan nasrallah. he's one of at least three

senior commanders in the terror group that have been killed with us. now cnn's alex marquardt, cnn has ben wedeman in beirut, and alex, you've been learning about this looming ground incursion into lebanon. the state department just announcing that israel has informed the us about a number of operations. what's the latest number of operations of being shared, assured by the israelis that they will be relatively limited in nature focused on hezbollah infrastructure right across the border inside southern lebanon that they argue that the israelis argue are threatening those northern israeli communities. so this incursion we are told by the administration could come at any moment now do you believe it's eminent this could happen in a matter of hours. this could easily happen today. and this really comes against the biden administration's wishes. you heard the president there saying that he would be comfortable with them stopping these rates. so that really highlights the fact that the biden ministration is either unable or unwilling to prevent

israel from carrying out this this incursion into his, into lebanon, which could of course threatened the broader region and really lead to significant escalation. i've been told that this we saw that we've seen the rage earlier today. they are there going to be expanding into a broader but limited campaign. and this comes a us official told me after a weekend discussions in which essentially the u.s. managed to talk israel back and encourage them to do something that's more limited in scope. so what we should expect to see according to the white house is really troops going across the border taking out this hezbollah infrastructure and then coming back across us the border into israel. the u.s. has really been seeking assurances that this would not look like the 2006 war between israel and hezbollah, which was much bigger that lasted for more than 30 days, but american officials are quite clear eyed about this, afraid that it could it could broaden out both

in terms of scale and time. and that's something they say that they continue to talk to the israelis about. >> ben, where you are, what has been the reaction on the ground to this potential ground incursion? >> well, one of fear actually many people are afraid that despite what these israelis are telling the americans that this could be the beginning of a much broader invasion to go back in history a little bit back in 1982, then israeli defense minister ariel sharon told the israeli cabinet which told the americans that israel would launch a limited incursion into lebanon. they ended up of besieging western beirut. so people here, remember what has happened in the past the fear is that the kind of destruction and massive display displacement with over 1 million people being having to flee from their homes this is a result of the bombing, could really just be the beginning the fear is that if

the israelis make a sizable incursion really pushed into the south, that you could have even more people heading elsewhere. similar to what we saw in 2000 six. this country is bankrupt, it's simply is not capable of handling those kinds of numbers. now, as far as how is his butler going to react? act we don't know at this point, we did hear naim qassim whose the way senior deputy to the late hassan nasrallah saying that hezbollah has not collapsed. that despite the pain and the sacrifices he said that they would continue to confront the israelis in support of the palestinian people people end. the people of lebanon. and what we've seen in the past is that the forte of hezbollah is guerrilla warfare in those very same mount tens of southern lebanon

where they fought the israelis until may of 2000 dry essentially driving them out of the country. and then again in 2006. so if the israelis go beyond anything more than a limited incursion, it could become much more dangerous indeed ben, did we get it do we get a sense of who may replace nasrallah qassem made the point that they would appoint somebody as soon as possible. in his words, there's sort of two names that are coming up, either naim qassem because he was so close to hassan nasrallah or somebody by the name of sufi hashem safieddine we'll also a senior member of the organization, very close to us that as well, somebody who has military experience as opposed to naim qassim who's just essentially

a cleric, but they said he said that they would find somebody eventually clearly, it's not the sort of job that too many people might be eager to take given the fact that almost the entire military leadership of his butler has been eliminated brianna and alex. >> these details about israel entering lebanon, they come after the biden administration and called for a ceasefire last week that israel quickly rejected and you're getting more details about how that translates. sorry, yeah, this really wasn't an embarrassing episode for the biden restriction because they spent days hammering out this ceasefire deal that they announced on wednesday. >> they said this will be a 21 day ceasefire between israel and hezbollah. so they could start diplomatic conversations to get to a more permanent peace and then very quickly we heard netanyahu coming out and saying that the idf will continue fighting with its, with its full mike. what we're being told now from the u.s side is that israel had worked

with the israelis on this tech. israel had worked with the americans on this text. they had, they had agreed to it. they had in fact, greenlit its announcement on wednesday and then overnight, the u.s. says they change their mind because they saw this opportunity to go after nasrallah. and so they essentially reneged on this ceasefire and continue with the military operation. that's not the case. according to the israelis, they say that this was an honest misunderstanding that they had no intention of implementing this imminent ceasefire. so still quite a bit of disagreement there is still quite a bit of embarrassment, but american officials insist they are still very much focused on getting to a ceasefire. so you can get to some quiet on that border really interesting, alex. >> thank you so much or thanks to ben wedeman as well in lebanon, we appreciate the report. still ahead. the death toll has risen to at least 119 after hurricane helene and communities across the southeast are reeling, but we're keeping an eye on even more activity in the gulf of mexico and the atlantic. we'll have details on that next

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involves gun the second amendment has been very hard up there, but this case involves actually the authority of the federal atf to regulate what a firearm said are crowd of weapons kits, ghost guns. whether they have to be have background checks and other requirements for anyone who would sell them or buy them. and then finally, a really important death penalty case that's been kicking around the courts for more than two decades, boris, it involves a man by the name of richard glossip, who says that he's, he's saying he's innocent, but he's also saying, look, the state of oklahoma has admitted that aired in the prosecution of this case. and indeed oklahoma is up here with richard glossip saying that his conviction and death sentence should be reversed, and we'll have to see what the supreme court does with that one. all of those are already on the calendar and scheduled. and then in upcoming weeks, i'll add more. >> we look forward to seeing what they add and please come back and break it down for us. and also, john, you can

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