interrupted, but smaller businesses who really rely on these ship lines to bring goods in, they could really be the ones struggling thank first at the end of the day, they could be hit. >> i remember i covered this once in california were the longshoremen there in long beach and in other areas were on strike and it did have somewhat of an impact. i do want to ask you about whether this will also hurt other jobs because obviously you just talked about how long it would take for them to get things back rolling, which means there's got to be a lot of people who rely on the longshoremen getting the goods here to then take it where the ripple effect, the ripple effect of jobs. the first thing you're going to see impacted his truckers, truckers who go to the ports to pick up all of these goods and products, move containers, they're going to be impacted and then ultimately the businesses can't get what they need to sell to every day, americans. and that's when you start to see inflation. you start to see prices going up just because there's not enough available. and according to one estimate, we could see

about 100,000 jobs impacted as a ripple effect because of this strike and that may show up in the october jobs report, don't forget on the west coast, we have a strike at boeing going on right now. and so you have those jobs taken offline in addition to this port strike and all but impacts of the ripple effects, you could see not such a healthy job number in october that is the last jobs report that we'll see before the election. people are going to be watching that very, very closely as these strikes drag on i think it'll be part of the political fodder as well. thank you so much, vanessa. appreciate it. a new hour of cnn, new central starts right now long-feared wider war in the middle east has arrived, is real promises to make iran pay efforts precedented missile attack what does that look like now? >> and what role will the united states play you could call it a throwback debate of sorts.

>> a throwback because civilians he actually returned to the debate stage for the first time in a long time. >> how the vp's faced off and why they stayed so focused on the top of the ticket rather than the person feet away? >> from them hundreds of thousands still without power, food, and clean water, still hard to come by in the carolinas. now president biden is heading to see firsthand the devastation left left by hurricane helene, the mayor of one of the hardest hit areas in north carolina is our guest. i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn news central minister says iran made a big mistake and will pay for raining rockets down on israel. >> the u.s promising its support the iran is now threatening countries who helped israel, but also is saying at the same time, it does not want a wider war. all of this in direct response to alonzo largest missile attack ever against israel this morning new images of the

damage in israel after us officials say nearly 200 missiles rained down, breaking overnight, israel launching new airstrikes on beirut. israeli forces se ongoing strikes against iranian backed hezbollah targets are continuing. cnn's erin burnett is live for us in tel aviv there are so many questions erin this morning, but there is one thing clear. israel is going to respond to the attack by iran yeah they are. >> and it's going to happen and it's going to be meaningful and significant. you have an unprecedented missile attack on israel and it appears that the response will also be unprecedented on its own. but senior biden administration officials say that they don't believe yet that israel has made it formal determinations. sara, on how to respond, were told they are in close communication with their counterparts here in israel. we don't have any details yet though on whether president biden and prime minister sure. benjamin netanyahu here in

israel have had further conversations. but we are learning as you were going through and kate was going through what's going on here as the war has continued overnight, that the idf is deployed a new division of troops on the southern border with lebanon, southern border, northern the border of israel. and strikes on beirut. this morning, our lead saenz of standing by at the white house. first though here in tel aviv, jeremy diamond jeremy, you know, you've been up with those troops. you were there when there was a strike at the hotel you out, i mean, this is a palpable ongoing wars. they would say a hot war going on right now what are you hearing in terms of what israel is truly considering? we know they haven't decided, but the things that are on the table these are a whole new level. >> no doubt about it. >> and i think that's strikes on iranian nuclear facilities or certainly on the table as well as strikes on iranian oil facilities as well and those would be taking things much further. keep in mind when iran last attack at israel back in april 1 of all, that attack,

was, there was a lot more for warning there that iran gave if only just by the fact that those drones took 12 hours to arrive in israel and so there was a lot of time to prepare the air defenses this time it was just ballistic missiles which it gave just a few minutes for israel to prepare its defenses. and they're also appear to have been a lot more hits the israeli military this morning actually acknowledging that multiple air bases were indeed struck, right in this attack. and there's no question that israel will respond, will respond significantly. i'm told that security consultations are underway today between these really prime minister, these really defense minister and other members of the israeli security establishment, but no formal decision yet made on exactly how they'll respond. >> one other thing, jeremy and i want to get them are let's responses from the white house, but we have heard now from multiple former officials in israel, but also just the talk and the conversation. that one thing on the table would also be striking iranian leadership as they have done right? they did the striking in tehran on militia leadership. but on the actual around i mean government

and an individual that israel had provided the intelligence to the united states when they hit qassem soleimani, the former head of the irgc. and so we know that they have the capabilities to do so, taking those actions this would certainly be another step, right? israel has shown that they are capable of it, that they have the intelligence to do it, whether or not they actually move forward with that, i think is another question for now. >> right? and we should say at least if things we changed in the past few moments there, but we still understand that iran has extended its closure of airspace for another 24 hours. obviously, uncertainty there on what the strike might be anticipation that it could be obviously imminent, but we just don't know time and place of their choosing. losing is what israel says. are lead and you haven't iran, we've seen the images. people immediately started lining up for gasoline in terms of showing where the iranian people think that perhaps the strike might be that they wouldn't be able to get gas because energy facilities it's could be hit very much a dynamic situation. what are you hearing from the biden administration will air and us officials have yet to

telegraph exactly what steps they believe israel could take against iran. and a senior us official has told cnn that they did not believe that israel has made that final decision about up to move forward. but officials here at the white house and across the administration are in constant contact with their counterparts in israel as they are assessing the next steps for this response. now, even as the president has said that the u.s. is supportive, that they're working trying to address what the appropriate response will be. there's many questions it's about what us involvement in a response would look like. but us officials have quite literally stressed that iran will be facing repercussions for their attack against israel just yesterday. take a listen to the national security advisor significant escalation by iran. we have made clear that there will be consequences, severe consequences for this attack, and we will work with israel to make that the case now, president biden says that he does plan on speaking to

israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu at some points, though, officials have not detailed exactly when that call might take place, but yesterday, biden told reporters that in his eventual call with netanyahu, that his message will really be shaped on what the u.s. >> concludes should be. the next steps for israel, and that is really one of the key challenges at, for the administration at this moment, there are major questions over how much influence the u.s. will have over israel's ultimate decision about how to respond to iran. you'll remember back in april when iran hadn't lost launch that barrage of missiles and drones against israel that was thwarted with the help of the u.s. the president biden at the time had told netanyahu to take a when israel really had a much more limited response in that moment, we will see whether that is the same kind of approach that the administration will take this time around as one of their key focuses is really trying to prevent this from escalating even further

>> arlette, thank you so much. jeremy diamond here with me in tel aviv. thanks as well. and let's go now to our chief international anchor, christiane amanpour christiane, of course, covering this through your entire career. here we are in this moment i'm curious because giannis, to your read, given the fact that iran did not give any warning here and given where the u.s. is in its political cycle, how much influence does president biden have over israel's response? and prime minister netanyahu, who of course, has been sort of riding a wave after the killing of nasrallah that is a very good question, of course, a huge focus now is going to be on clearly israel plans to respond as its declared. >> but the big question is, what will the united states do? israel and iran are the strongest military forces in that region? but israel is much stronger than and iran and along with the united states, not just providing weapons, but

acting in concert with israel, it is even stronger still. and i think a lot of the targeting will depend on whether the united states helps. because at some of the targets, according to military analysts, for instance, the nuclear targets and others may be slightly out of range. anyway, we'll see what the target is say, but i think this is the big question. does the united states get involved in another war in the region that it is? tried to stay out of and tried not to have for decades. and i think you know, it is declared and it is here that the escalation is here. this is the wider war. out. and how is it going to proceed? it's taken a year since october 7, president biden has tried and failed to rein in some of the matters that he's asked israel to rein in. the israeli prime minister has shown that he is acting with his own interests, his own national security, his own political interests, his own conferences with his own people and not particularly in the

latest days telling sometimes the united states what's going on. you've also heard israel say that this is a huge mistake that iran has made benjamin netanyahu said it. so did enough taliban the previous prime minister, and he added, this is a once in a 50 year, once in a generation opportunity to hit the regime and end this war once and for all. so that's the thinking. apparently that's going on inside israel i'll be talking to the former prime minister, ehud barak later on. finally now, what he thinks is a response, many are saying it can't be proportional because what happened demands a very you know, as general wesley clark said on our air, escalation dominance. but again, the key question is, and then what you know, the underlying issues. there's no plan, no political plan, no resolution, no settlement to all of this

moment of unprecedent. let's just play one scenario out here. obviously you have striking energy facilities nuclear facilities, and you talked about some of those, but when you also talked about taking out ahead of the regime and that there is a push and you hear that from the former prime minister bennett and others, right? sort of a more of a unity within some in the israeli government than we have seen seen in recent months. and when you start hearing things like taking out iranian leadership and regime change that is a totally different thing that is, that is something that we have never heard before, not openly, not in circles like this. if something like that worked to happen in your mind, christiane, how do you answer the question then mean the wider war is here and it's either a ballistic missile war, it's an air war, it's highly unlikely at this point that israel or the united states was sending and the ground-truth, it would be, you know strategic elements a sea-based airbase et cetera so that he's here, but you know

what erin, this is not the first time. >> this has been something that certainly the israeli government since at least the last 25 years since the american invasion of iraq for instance. they were very keen to have the united states agree to regime change. next, in iran at that time president george w bush basically stood back and said no so this is something that's really been now on the table for a long time. it's something that benjamin netanyahu has floated many, many times to the united states, to the world, to the united nations it is not nothing and to hit a nation's oil refineries, for instance, he could cause huge consequences again, whether or not they could properly disable a new piece yeah situation remains to be seen, but this is definitely something this israeli government has wanted to do. and by the way, they probably find quite a lot of allies in the arab states

around which also wants to defang iran if you like. but again, the question is to what end, what is the end goal and what is the political solution? afterwards right? right. and of course set well, 23, 23 years after regime change in iraq, i think a fair question in for anyone to ask. you think about that, if that was next on the table, that was more than 20 years ago, christiane. thank you so much for taking the time and joining us this morning. john. >> alright, thanks so much, erin. >> this morning were 34 days from election day, and there are zero debates, definitive ones, at least left on the calendar. >> we've gotten new reporting on what voters thought of the debate overnight inserting a lot of commonality in a lot of approaches where am i appreciate it that it sounded quite harvest howard cordial with better exchanging of ideas

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remain steady during the whole performance and i was very impressed with him being very sincere and authentic you know, he's humanized himself and lack she looked like a regular guy joining us now is pollster and communications strategist frank luntz. those were people that you had polled were talking to. and i found the last comment really interesting because as he humanized himself indicating how badly he has looked in front of some people with some of the comments he's made. what did you make of how vance did and then we will get to walz start. and i apologize to your listeners, but his voice, but this is what happens when you do a focus group. it doesn't end until an hour after the debate. are participants have a lot to say. number one, they loved both candidates in, fact, if they could, it would have reversed the tickets and both vance and walks on top. and the other two on the bottom. number two that gave them faith in

democracy that people could sit down disagree and do so civilly. but in terms of vance, they were shot that the dance they've seen up to this point was not the jd vance of last night measured thoughtful emotional, willing to agree with his opponents. now, divisive the language that they use to describe him tells me that he has been misused on the campaign so far, that he would be far better communicating donald trump's agenda and vision and purpose than they attack dog kind of strategy that they've been using up to now, i have to tell you, only twice in my career, have i had such an overwhelming movement towards one candidate. that's how significant yesterday was, not that they were critical about governor walz but they were so shocked at how emotive

senator vance was, right. >> and because he was coming from this place of being very unpopular when it comes to his personality and the things that he's said. so that's an interesting twist what about walz? what did you hear from the panel on how walz did and what they thought of his of his comments and his policies he got better as the debate went on his first 30 minutes that he was stumbling, that he struggled, as i am speaking to you right now. >> and they felt that he wasn't really as engaged and it was much more defensive his best moment of the night was in challenging senator vance on what happened in the events of january 6. and most specifically whether or not trump won or lost the 2020 election that said he did not connect as well because he was much less specific and they were particularly critical that it wasn't an answering the questions the moderators were posing and in a vice

presidential debate, they expect more than the candidates and to try to talk to questions what the polling is out, and they're basically even 49 to 51%. so a lot of people having a lot of opinions, but it is very interesting to note that people felt good about what they saw because it was civil for once something we haven't really seen over the past. i don't know, eight or so years frank luntz. thank you so much. appreciate your analysis. there president biden is heading to north carolina today to see for himself the scale and scope of it. >> devastation left behind by hurricane helene. mayor from one of the hardest hit will be joining us with an update and the white house warning thousands americans that are in lebanon that the time to get out is now after iran launches that unprecedented missile, missile attack on israel. and israel vows to respond me, i promise pizza everyday.

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saturday, syscall, cnn is taking a break from breaking news to air. >> have i got news for you? >> breaking news. i'm getting a sandwich. >> we need to talk about what constitutes breaking news. >> provide got news for you you saturday at nine on cnn and streaming next day on max erin burnett live in tel aviv on this wednesday. >> the situation in the middle east intensifying by the minute here. after iran's unprecedented attack on israel. and this morning there is a renewed focus on helping americans get out of this region. so here's what we know as of right now, 6,000 americans they've reached out to american officials about potentially leaving lebanon to the north of here, the state department says it's coordinating with major airlines to provide additional flights with sea it's for american citizens joining me now is congressman raja krishnamoorthi. he is the democrat from illinois. and of course a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, let me just start there. you know, there haven't yet been formal evacuation orders, but but where are we

right now in terms of what you understand us ability is to get the many thousands of americans can citizens out if that's what is needed know, in other situations involving similar scenarios, we have engaged in chartering flights we have actually had assets go and pick up personnel and so i think that all options we'd be on the table in this situation. >> obviously, the situation is very fraught as you know congressman, just to understand you know, what you know about the situation, right. we know that there was warning was not given yesterday last time in the spring when iran struck israel with missiles and obviously many fewer missiles than yesterday, but they're had, there was it's known it had been telegraphed. this was different so what's the level

of intelligence right now? as you see it israel is going to respond, obviously, we stand with israel in in this particular hour where they are contemplating their response i think that nobody wants an all-out war with iran. >> and so their choice of targets is going to matter and i think that they are going to be coordinating with americans. and in discussions with the biden ministration about the path forward but our ironclad commitment remains too help israel. but at the same time, nobody neither here nor in israel would want an all-out war with iran that point, of course, nobody wants that, but but often if you look at history, people don't want horrific wars that happened. you kind of get there

without realizing it. and then eventually we look back and you said the shot heard round the world with archduke ferdinand. but of course, in the moment it was, it was a culmination of many things. >> in this moment. what does supporting israel to you mean congressman? i just put out there the three options that but if they target energy bomb energy around iran and they bomb nuclear facilities or they go out and take out iranian leadership and engage in regime change. would you support all of those things? >> well, i think that someone like myself and others would be very concerned about you know, each of those particular potentially triggering an escalation that would go out of control. so there are different types of responses. the one that they made in back in the spring with regard to a radar installation outside a nuclear facility, was one thing but targeting oil refineries, nuclear facilities, or even military installations would be

another. i think that the united states would be involved in terms of logistics because at the end of the day, any kind of response could trigger another response from the iranians and therefore, we would we have to be coordinating with them to defend israel in that instance as well. so that's why it's going to be very important to have close discussions and make sure that this thing does not get to a point where we can't control the outcome. and then the oil whole region would be embroiled in in conflict believe that right now the u.s can control the outcome and i guess what i'm asking you just to be very direct here. >> the first one is do you think prime minister netanyahu is actually going to listen to what president biden has to say if he says, here's a red line, this is where we are not comfortable with you going think there'll be close consultations, aaron, i think that remember at the end of the

day, the israel first israel and the u.s. >> share intelligence. and secondly the u.s. helps to provide munitions. so to the extent that munitions are extended, they'll have to be you know, kind of made up again. they'll have to be re provisioned and so the u.s. is going to be in close consultations with the israelis about what they plan to do. i don't think this is a situation where were going to say, look, if you do x, we're going to do y and we're going to prevent you from doing this our relationship is one of friendship and also we can't be in a situation where we would expect israelis not to respond given this attack by iranians brazenly last night all >> well, congressman, i appreciate your time. i'm glad to speak with you thank you, erin murphy there joining us, john back to you alright. >> thanks so much. aaron. >> new and contentious comments by donald trump calling the brain injuries of more than 100

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saying this morning, this quote, major portions of the power grid. were simply wiped away today, president biden is set to travel to the carolinas to see the devastation firsthand. he's gonna be getting an aerial tour to see the scope and scale of the damage in buncombe county in western north carolina. and one of the communities in that county hit so hard by the storm is weaverville, north carolina, the mayor of weaverville, patrick fitzsimmons, is back with us and we're going and as i said in the break, we're going to pray that the wi-fi gods, as hard as it is to get any communication out. it work in our favor, mayor, it is wonderful to see you. when we spoke on monday, you had mentioned that your area was essentially cut off, that people just could not access the area. what's the update from there? >> i'm afraid to communications remain really challenging. in fact, i'm speaking to you from the front of a grocery store, which is the only wi-fi spot. and in our town. so therefore, there's a lot of people here trying to do their work, trying to contact our families and reduce the bandwidth. so communication is

still remain a big challenge for us what in terms of do you still feel cut off? do you think that that's still the case today? are can people get in can people get out? >> yes things are slowly improving. for example, the interstates now at least in three directions are open, so relief supplies can get in and people who have the opportunity to self-evacuating can get out yesterday we were very pleased that we're able to tap into the water supply of the town. nick shows which wasn't near as bad damaged. and so we have water coming out of faucets is one. this is a huge way to reduce anxiety in our community, if you have water, you feel a lot safer. we also are able to set up a water distribution points and setting up feeding sites today oh, things are improving but they're still pretty rough. >> absolutely. >> because i know when we spoke, they've getting clean water was the biggest concern because the one water treatment plan, if that's the right terminology that you had in the

town was flooded and basically just ruined mirror when you hear that duke energy's now saying that major portions of the power grid it was just wiped away. >> what do you think that is going to mean for you all think it can means were that we're gonna be about power for an extended period of time and hearing weaverville there are a couple of rhodes who had been had electricity come back on. >> but in most neighborhoods, the whole infrastructure has been destroyed polls have been knocked over, lines were all down. so they're gonna have to rebuild the whole system. this is not going to be a quick fix the president is going to be coming to town if she's going to be taken in aerial tour to see some of the damage i wanted to ask you in your county in buncombe county the last estimate that we heard was that there were 600 people still missing. >> to your knowledge, is that this still is that still the number of people estimated to be missing?

>> yes. from yesterday's report? that is correct. >> and we have now 57 confirmed deaths in our county. >> and unfortunate, we know that that is going to go higher wow, luckily, i am pleased that we have no deaths and weaverville, but all around us, it was really it was it's really tragic seeing you and seeing just, you the parking lot behind you. >> how are i mean, how are you doing? how are your loved ones doing? how is the community doing? there's this level of shock that happens after something so horrendous that really people, i think may not still be able to wrap their minds around. i can't wrap my mind around just seeing the images still. how are doing? >> i'm doing okay. and you don't it's really been an opportunity for neighbors to another neighbor's never i've had more sidewalk conversations in the past five days and has in the past five years, i think. but just neighbors together help and clear roads, cut down trees last night, my soul, my neighbors were all brought what the different

words foods we had and we had a potluck on my front porch. it was a little strange mixture of foods, but hey, it was great. it was great fellowship food nonetheless, real quick, if president biden is flying over weaverville at any point, what do you hope he sees? what do you what is your message to him one, thanks for federal assistance. >> it was slow getting in, but that's because all of our roads were cut off. but it's really arriving now. and so thanks for doing the right thing and help out the people of western north carolina mayor it is really good to see your face. >> we'll stay in very close touch and helping any way we can get the message out for weaverville. never when you're trying to help. thank you. >> sara. >> all right. ahead. jd vance said in the debate, republicans have to came back the trust of the american people on the issue of abortion donald trump is trying to once again make clear what his stance is. trump's stated plainly on his social media site that he would veto a federal abortion ban if

it were to be passed by congress. he dodged answering a question about that while debating kamala harris. however, cnn's steve contorno is joining us now. steve held this resonate with his supporters? he did face criticism from those who are very conservative and believed that abortion should be banned. >> that's right, sara, in the fact that we are a month out from the election and he still feels the need to clarify his stance on abortion shows you just how much his campaign is concerned about his current standing among women. as you said, just a month ago at his debate, he wouldn't answer this very question. but yesterday on truth, social, he wrote quote, everyone knows i would not support a federal abortion ban under any circumstances and would veto it because it is up toto the states to decide based on the will of their voters. now, that is his position today, i should point out, he has been on every side of this issue over his time in the public eye and even since the fall of roe v. wade, a couple well years ago, in fact, he has

criticized states for going too far to protect abortion rights and sara, he has criticized them for not going far enough. and of course, he has the ability to weigh in himself and he his choosing in florida to support or not support a measure that would expand abortion access does in florida and leaving the six-week ban there in place yeah. >> there are a lot of questions still which is why he's having to clarify and why jd vance had to make those comments last night during in the steve contorno. thank you so much. live there from new york for us, john right with us now, christine quinn, president and ceo of when an executive committee chair of the new york state democratic committee and scott jennings, cnn senior political commentator and former special assistant to president george w bush. >> no one got much sleep last night. so i appreciate you both being with us. let me just start with what steve just cover right there with donald trump's comments on abortion, saying he would veto a national ban jeff zeleny was on before saying that he thought one of the things that jd vance might have been trying to do was to

improve his position with female voters, which actually had been quite bad you mean, how do you think he did on that front combined with this statement now from donald trump put abortion. >> well, i'm still waiting for the real jd vance to get on the stage and participate in the debate. because what we saw last night was a very sanitized jd vance and someone who on critical issues like abortion, like the transfer of power like all of that, didn't really tell the truth and stepped away for many others abortion the number of positions that vance and trump are taking or and have taken on abortion. it's head spinning. and when someone is inconsistent on a critical values issue like that you know, you can't believe them and you know, they're just pivoting to try to am i agree with you get women in do you think it sounds like maybe you

think he was successful in it if he muddy the waters? >> i don't think so. i think the american women know are too smart. they know what his position really is, and notwithstanding, he tried to change it. i don't think he fooled anyone just to make sure i understand correctly if a candidate for president or vice president changes a position on a critical issue or a critical values matter, even one position. >> this calls into question for you. their fitness to serve because let me introduce you to kamala harris, who has changed every single position she took when she ran for president and 2020, although 2019, i want to be fair to 2020, which she didn't make it look. >> jack mean that but when you wanted me just let me add something when you won't admit you're changing. kamala harris has admitted she's changed her position and there's nothing wrong with getting more info and changing a position. i think it's actually a strength but vance is trying to pretend as his trump that he always had

a position against a national portion ban, and that is not true. change converts are often your best supporters, but that's not what's happening on abortion. >> i thought jd vance had a stellar moment. i thought he talked about it with compassion and i thought he and trump to has laid out a very moderate position and it's a position that's not dissimilar to what the party has had going back to ronald reagan, they are for some limits, reasonable limits. they are for rape, incest, and life of the mother. exceptions. they are supporters of ivf. the democrats have totally allied about what they want to do on ivf and other issues. the issue here is, is that democrats through walls last night could not articulate a single limit that they would be four and walz also did not tell the truth about his record on this as governor of minnesota, i thought vance had a great moment on that and i don't know how many women voters are going to rally. i mean, vp debates typically don't move polling needles as much as presidential debates. but i thought jd did a terrific job.

i wonder how much donald trump likes or dislikes people like you pointed out how great jd vance did i am said it's a serious question because i don't know. it's going to take it in a here's why he should love it. >> because since he picked vance, he has been pilloried by the political media for making a terrible choice. while harris has been allowed in for making some suppose it inspired choice and jd vance, drug walls around the stage last night, it must have made the head coach trump feel good that he was vindicated invalidated on his choice. >> we'll see a quick answer on that first. >> that is not what happened in the debate. i will say i think vance did well, but there was no knocked down. honestly, on either side. and let's just sum up the abortion issue we believe women, we believe doctors that's what governor walz said. and that's where the democratic party stands. and it's very different the exceptions you mentioned are not but what the states are

doing, the states are doing with republican leadership, full know rape, no incest, and women because of that are dying in emergency room or talk quickly about the issue of communication because donald trump was asked, i think it was my alayna treene yesterday before this debate about his policy toward iran and responding to iranian attacks, there was a missile attack on a us base by iran he was president. listen to this exchange do you believe that you should have been tougher on iran after they had launched ballistic missiles in 2020 on us forces in iraq, leaving more than 100 us soldiers injured so first of all, injured, what is injured mean injured man's you mean because they had a headache because the bombs never hit the fork. >> so just so you understand, there was nobody ever tougher and iraq he meant iran, i think. but what did you think of that response? christine? >> it seems like a classic response from someone who never went into battle to say they

have a headache after they had been bombed, seen the height of insensitivity, but it's yet again donald trump trying to get away from actually answering yes or no on a substantive issue ron, answer last night in the middle east answer was the first question. >> tim walz did a horrific job on it last night. clearly out of his depth on it, and i'm not going to take any criticism on trump from a party and from a vice president that sent 13 soldiers to die in afghanistan and has never given them the time of day. >> it's got christine. thank you both very much. appreciate you both being here. >> jimmy carter is now the first us president to celebrate his 100th birthday. >> but he is joining one growing club sanjay gupta. >> it takes deep dive into why are living longer be okay fine

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services, risk less do more campaign reminding you to get this season's flu bu when accinm slash dr. gupta on-call or scan the qr code to ask your question this week president jimmy carter turned 100-years-old yesterday, becoming the first american president to reach triple digits. it's a milestone. many of us hoped to reach. and cnn chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta is on call to tell us how we can make that happen. although, i mean, not everybody wants to live to 100. i don't know if i do, but i'm just saying let's look at the numbers. how common is it for people to reach 100 years of age? >> yeah. this is really interesting. i love this topic, sara, you know, over the past few years, life expectancy overall in the united states has trended down just a little bit. but at the same time, the number of centenarians has continued to increase. so it's

gone up sort of incrementally over the last 50 years or so what. is interesting is if you project the next 30 years, you're going to see a quadrupling in the number of centenarians in the united states. all those conversations we're having about longevity, that's what the impact is going to be, is what you're seeing on the screen there over the next few decades oh, across the world. if you look at the countries where the most centenarians live, the united states actually fares pretty well. japan is the top of the list. there, but then an than the united states and china, india, thailand's so united states does. okay? overall, in the united states, hawaii is the state where he had the highest percentage overall of centenarians numbers are sort of trending in the right direction for people living over the age of 100 alright, so from a scientific standpoint, how do we define aging? it's not just the numbers, right yeah. >> i mean how planets revolve around the sun, right? number of years. that's how we typically think about it. but

the way scientists think about it gives you some insight into how they're actually extending lifespan what is aging from a scientific perspective, it's changes in your metabolism. it's when cells don't replicate as quickly or as effectively as they used to stem cells are exhausted, meaning they're not replenishing old cells and you're immunity starts to decline and the reason it's important to look at it this way again, from a scientific perspective. each one of those hallmarks of aging as they're called, is a potential area or intervention where you could actually extend lifespan by focusing on those things. >> i can tell you right now, i'm going to use this excuse it. my stem cells are exhausted. i am not coming to work today i will give you something good. doctor, group is this all happening gradually or are you seeing something else yeah. >> this i think is the most fascinating part of it. all. we think about aging sort of linearly every day, your age, a little bit. and that's true.

but what we have found recently, fascinating studies is that there's probably a few different bursts of molecular changes that actually accelerate aging. and when did they occur around 44-years-old. and again, around 60-years-old your body composition starts to change your immunity starts to change. many of the things that i was just referencing in the last question. those things start to change primarily at those ages. so those are ages where you should really start to pay attention to aging more than you normally do. you mentioned jimmy carter as well? you know, i have to say 100-years-old. so centenarian, right? it's an incredible feat. i had a chance to interview him a few years ago, and one of the things that you notice about him when you're interviewing him is the fact that he can just his muscle mass was so good. he got and out of that chair so easily at the end of that interview, he was in his mid 90s then sara he's amazing because it takes me a lot longer. you have a chair now, i have passed that 44 year mark. dr. sanjay gupta. thank you so much.