not widely accepted because i think also in israel they understand, while they think there should be a disproportionate response to new attack on them that every time you hit a civilian area, you are creating insurgence that you will have to deal with in future generations. i think what we're seeing right now is they're trying to mow the grass that's the counter-terrorist term, take out as many capabilities that hezbollah has, that hamas has and has many of the trained fighters the ones in his blood that had a lot of experience. they got it in syria. a lot of those people are being taken off the board. it doesn't mean that they won't have to fight again in future yeah, there's just a lot of fear that this is going to turn into a huge regional conflagration if already, if you will, a regional war. when you see what is happening in the region, kimberly dozier and colonel cedric leighton. thank you both so much. appreciate your time this morning. who book a new

hour of cnn, new central starts right now campaign trail, his big plans for a 27 day blitz for kamala harris from texas to maine, tens of thousands of port workers are back on the job this morning. >> and i didn't deal. that seems to have averted a massive mess for the u.s. economy at a father going above and beyond his 12 hour trip? but it should have taken only two hours through hurricane helene's aftermath to make sure he was there to walk his daughter down the aisle. what he went through to get there. that's super dad is our guest he baldwin with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn new central milestone we're exactly one month and one day until the

election. it is crucial moment to assess what is happening and what the status of the race is exactly one month and one day away. the harris campaign is marking the one month and one day mark with an announcement, former president barack obama hitting the campaign trail for us in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, he will visit multiple states over the next month in one day deck. i couldn't even land the plane at my own joke cnn senior political analyst mark preston is with us now. mark, you covered a lot of campaigns every campaign, this is such an important day exactly one month and one day away. talk to us about barack obama. what he can do for the harris campaign on the trail well, i'll tell you what, john, you know, nowadays, how much endorsements really matter what in this case it does matter brock obama, certainly the most popular democrat right now in the democratic party, someone seen as a leader, someone who has

been very careful not to overexpose themselves out there speaking about every issue out there in a line following the democratic leaders, not only in congress, but certainly in the white house, to lead their own way. but now he is coming out as you noted, he will be in pittsburgh next week. it will be the beginning of this what his advisers describing as a blitz, it could be two battleground states in these final closing weeks, what's interesting though, john and is that his wing person, michelle obama, we haven't heard anything about what her plans are. i will say this do not expect to see her in pittsburgh. good chance. they may not even be together on the campaign trail because they are both so popular that we could see some michelle obama announcement in the coming days about her role will be in the kamala harris campaign. >> i think you can count on michelle obama getting out there at some point and somewhere where the harris campaign thinks is most important, maybe even more important than where they're sending barack obama on the

subject of pennsylvania mark donald trump, going back to butler, which of course is the site where there was the assassination attempt and bringing elon musk of all people musk? has elon musk just inviting himself a lot? i often do this with the folks whose around donald trump's around himself with specifically mar-a-lago, you know, does he invite people to mar-a-lago or do they can to just show up at mar-a-lago and i think it's the latter in this case though, elon musk has been a very vocal supporter of donald trump in fact, just in the past few days, john joined. this is what he said on twitter. elon musk about donald trump very few americans realize that if trump is not elected, this will be the last election far from being a threat to democracy he is the only way to save it now, i don't think elon musk is necessarily going to get you a whole who lot of pennsylvania votes. but he does control the incredibly, incredibly influential platform of twitter. i guess it's called x

now, so i expect that elon musk, who is not only raising money for donald trump, will probably allow his platform to help promote the trump candidacy in these closing weeks. >> oh, he's spending a lot at a time promoting it on x twitter or twitter or whatever it's called mark preston. thank you very much okay. >> one month and one day. joining us right now, cnn political commentator and democratic strategist maria cardona and former strategic communications director for donald trump's 2020 campaign. marc lotter. i love john berman joke, especially when he starts laughing his own job before he finishes at, it's the best. let's play pro con wasn't together. mark obama's 27 days sprint for the harris campaign. give me a pro and con of that the democratic base. obviously they still hold him in very high regard. i don't think it will move the needle with undecideds because they tried this in 2016 when he was still the sitting president. it wasn't successful in the one key difference two-thirds,

nearly two-thirds of the american people still think our country is headed on the wrong track so going out there and saying that kamala's the new way forward, she is the way of right now, difficult to sell >> let's go flip side on this as john and mark are also talking about, is going to be a really powerful moment when donald trump returns to butler, pennsylvania, the site of the first attempted assassination that he faced elon musk saying invited are not showing up. he says he plans to attend the rally this weekend, pro and con of that well, i think the pro for them is that it will continue to motivate their own base the con, and that is, i don't think they're both their base really needs motivating what donald trump needs. >> most desperately is to expand his map, to expand the voter base that he needs in order to win. and what i think

has been frankly kind of head scratching a little jaw-dropping to me. is that every time he is on the campaign trail on everyone that he brings to the rallies with him does nothing of the sort and in fact, they serve to alienate the exact same voters that they need to win independence undecideds if there are any suburban women, the people who were completely disaffected by him in 2016 and in 2020, that he might have a chance to win back. he's doing absolutely nothing to do that. so for democrats, i think it's great, right? get him out there. the more that he talks, the more that he alienates voters in the middle that he needs to win the more people realize this is not what we need in the white house. this man is completely unfit to lead we're going to vote for kamala harris. >> perfect segue to then if they exist, the undecideds, if they do exist, if we do, i don't know if we still call them double-haters considering

how the campaign has changed, regardless, we've talked often mark about how liz cheney is not where the center of the republican party is right now, the center is donald trump. his campaign, her campaigning though with kamala harris in wisconsin, quite something to see that image just as a student of politics, let's play it. let me play this even before donald trump started spray tanning. >> i have never voted for a democrat but this year, i am proudly casting my vote for vice president kamala harris trump aides announcing that they're going to campaign for her in pennsylvania you might not like it. >> good strategy though well, i think it's a strategy that's

going to basically, again lock in people who are already locked in. >> i think if there are those 23, 4% of undecideds, i think they're undecided because kamala harris has not been able to convince them she has a plan to deal with gas and grocery prices, secure the border or the wars that are raging now around the world, it does show having some former trump advisors speaking to the whole threat to democracy thing that is just not moved the needle. and so there's a reason why i think they're still undecided. they're giving kamala harris the chance to earn their vote with an actual plan. she can't answer those questions and they know that wealth stuff was more affordable. the border was secure in the world was safer with donald trump. so she's either going to complete that deal or we're going to get more of the same, which is what we have now mark brings up a lot of what you're seeing is the is talking about donald. they what they view as donald

trump's threat to democracy. and we know maria, that when the transition from the democratic ticket went from joe biden to kamala harris, one of the things that really went away was the focus on january 6 and a threat to democracy and it was, it was a definite campaign messaging shift i don't know if you call it falling back, but moving to this now, is it as john was talking about? it is as you walk into a trap no, i don't think at all. and ensure that the it was it was more a message underscoring of what she needed to do in terms of the economy and immigration that she's leaning into it now. >> and in fact, she's closing the gap on those things, on the economy, on immigration and which is what she needed to do, especially as a new candidate where a lot of americans didn't really know her biography and her background. so i don't think it was so much a complete change in messaging that messaging was always there underneath when

the campaign talked about rights and freedoms that was they're front and center. so i don't think it's a trap at all. and in fact, i think it kind of puts a great bow tie on everything that democrats have been talking about, because donald trump is a threat to democracy, he is a threat to our rights and freedoms. he is a threat to our economy. he is our threat, a threat to the common sense? balanced approaches. the solutions based problem-solving that kamala harris is offering, and that donald trump absolutely does not. and in fact, he offers completely the opposite chaos on every single one of the issues that americans care about and so kamala harris being able to talk about that, even with bringing in january 6, i think underscores that stark difference in that stark contrast between those two candidates quick final thought mark well, yeah, what they're

trying to do is turn the page from the book they wrote, the american people know that we had low inflation, a secure border, a safe world, and kamala harris, joe biden, changed all of it. >> you cannot rewrite the history of today because you are the ones who wrote it. this here's the problem. you, the american people may know that kamala doesn't have the answers. >> actually, kate, what one? very quick thing the one important thing that obama can do, because i think americans understand that four years ago the economy was in a tailspin. the economy was in a tailspin because donald trump was an absolute failure and actually dealing with one of the biggest problems that we've had as a country in a century, which is the pandemic president obama can remind people that the first couple of years of of trump the economy was great because obama handed him that amazing economy. and what trump did with it was flushed it down the toilet what i have to say is when you play for you, chief gary, big day is one month and

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like, what does a comedy show doing on cnn too much i want donald. >> now, can you slice that provide guard news for you tomorrow at nine on cnn three, former memphis police officers were convicted on federal charges of witness tampering in an attempt to cover up the fatal beating death of tyre nichols the beating sparked national protests and renewed calls for major police reform. the officers were acquitted of the harshest federal civil rights charges for the death of nichols. one of them, demetrius haley was convicted of a lesser civil rights charge for causing bodily injury they face up to 20 years behind bars for the witness tampering conviction and are still awaiting trial on state charges with two other officers, tyre nichols died in january 2023 after being beaten mercilessly by officers following a traffic stop. joining me now is civil rights

attorney representing the family of tyre nichols, benjamin crump. thank you so much for coming in this early morning. this verdict is it's confusing to a >> saying they were completely relieved to say, thank you, god, when the judge said all of them are going into custody, this is verdict. when you think about it martin haley and meals the jury found that they were the ones most culpable. they found the other two officers were responsible, but they didn't think they did as much

as those other three offices to pled guilty, then they found haley guilty with their burden. this is so important when you think about it, sarah, are because that means the gear with conscientious, they looked at all the evidence and they said everybody is good guilty. everybody should be held accountable. every product goes to jail, but it's brutal beat down, untiring nucleus literally beat him to death, era but. >> they didn't find that they were responsible for his death, even though the medical examiner said that it was a homicide, we saw the beating on television. all of us saw what happened what did did the nichols family how are they responding this morning, you talked about what they were like in court yet? mr. day, how are they today? as all of this settles

like the jeer believed martin does any java important thing is that the city training, which is going to bode very well for us, for the silver case. remember, we want four justice, criminal culpability as silver accountability, sarah, and we want the laws changed because that would be the proper legacy for terry nichols his mother and father and their family are relieved to know that all the officers will be held accountable. they could face up to 20 years in prison and now we're going to be focused on the sentence and we want the same thing to happen to those officers would have happened? if the roles were reversed and tyre would have been convicted of killing them and they conspiring to cover it up. we don't want them to get any preferential treatment because they got a gun and a badge. that's what our community is looking at. we

want equal justice to send a message to these killers but cops they were still another case, potentially on the horizon, describe what that case is, and what these officers are facing from the state certainly, district attorney steve mulroy talked to turn romanucci, kareem ali, and everybody on our legal team about the fact they're going to be watching closely the sentencing from the federal court and they have assured the family that they are ready to proceed with the second murder charges against these five officers, as well as the lesser included and was so important sara is in the judge floyd justice and policing act bill it is a tyre nichols duty to intervene component that is in there. >> i don't care what you say

about these offices they watched. >> if you want to sit with more and if it was alia, whoever with the most fear of the perpetrators adelie. watch, just like in georgia, florida, all of these officers watch chauvin's knee on george floyd's neck and so they said was just a couple of bad apples. why are these good app was just watching the bad apples kill black people. we have to make sure we speak up that officers are allowed to see bad things from other offices inside where it's not my issue. it is your issue is all about issue because our children keep dying their job is to uphold the law not watch somebody break it. benjamin crump. thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on this morning john. >> all right. developing this morning, could newly revealed evidence clear the way for lyle and erik menendez? >> to sunday, be free again.

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all. the netflix show about the menendez brothers is a smash hit. number one for two weeks running, joining us now, cnn legal well us former federal prosecutor and, you menendez trial addict i understand in the 19 jennifer rodgers, nice to see you. >> good to see you so why does i mean, what does this mean that they're reviewing new evidence in the case? well, it could mean one of two things. it could mean that they are reviewing the conviction itself. a lot of offices now, da's offices have conviction review you units where they look back at whether there was prosecutorial or police misconduct or something else that calls into doubt the verdict. but it sounds more from what the da was saying, like they're doing a re-sentenced review, which means that even if they know the conviction is valid, the defendants actually did it all these years later with defendants who are older or have served a lot of time they're going to say, do they still need to be in prison? have they serve their debt to society? or can we ask the judge to take another look and maybe shorten their son's you walk down memory lane.

>> there were actually there was a hung jury in the first trial and then a new trial with both of them being tried together and they were found guilty. their defense was that it was self-defense because of years of sexual abuse. they say at the hands of their father and the mother knew and it never did anything about it so some of the new evidence that apparently came to light that the da may be looking at are having reviewed again, is a contemporaneous letter that one of the brothers wrote about the abuse so what impact could that have? >> well, if that had come in at the trial, in other words, they're saying we were abused. that's why we did it. they didn't really have any support for that at the time outside of their own testimony, if that had come out at the time and they could have said, look, we wrote this letter to this other person saying we were being abused. it may have given that more credence the jury made it felt that there was an excuse for what they did and possibly have acquitted them. i think in this case, again, they're not really looking to overturn the verdict, but instead to say had all of that evidence been available, perhaps the judge would have sentenced differently, right. had the

judge thought that they were abused and that was a big part of that. that's another thing. also, john, that we've learned since that time i'm 30 some years ago abused people don't always behave after something like this is a way that you think that they should. we've learned a lot about how sexual abuse survivors act in the aftermath of a crime like this. and so people think differently about these things now, and that's something that the da's office will consider when it says to the judge that he he or she should or shouldn't take a look at this again. >> so the fact that a big chunk of the country that may not have been alive at the time is now fascinated by this. i mean, it really is a smash hit on netflix mean what role does something like that play in shining new light on a case, we sort of saw it with serial podcast, right? >> yeah. i mean, it certainly can bring attention to it the da's office looks routinely at cases as part of this re sentencing unit. they also can take letters and so on from the people who are in prison and also other people. so it can draw attention to it. it shouldn't have any impact as far as, you know, a certain set

of people in the country want to see them re-sentenced or not. i don't think they'll consider that person but it's certainly can shine a light on people who've been sitting in prison for all these years and might want another look at it. >> you think they have a chance? do you think they have a chance to have their situation changed? >> i think that they do. i mean, again, it's the judge who does the reasons things. so what the da's office is considering should we give them a shot at this? should we make this motion? and then ultimately a judge will say, look, here are the facts as they were for then the even look at things as their disciplinary records in prison, right? how they behaved through all these years. do they deserve now, in middle age and getting into their older years, another chance to be out in society. and the judge will decide that ultimately, jennifer rodgers, i don't think it's the last time we're going to be talking about this seriously. i mean, it's very, very interesting if a judge is looking at this, you know, the interest level is extraordinarily high thanks so much for explaining it so well country music star garth brooks, accused of sexual assault and battery and facing a new lawsuit. >> what he is now saying about the allegations against and a wedding rehearsal dinner

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net. also the unemployment rate we were expecting that to come in around 4.2%. that actually went down in the month to 4.1% in terms of what's adding this, the food sector will perhaps going out and drinking more ahead of the presidential election. who knows, that was certainly a contributor construction also added health care was a big gainer as well government jobs adding. it doesn't get better for the white house and for the harris campaign than a jobs number like this one month out from the presidential election we'll see what next month brings that could be a bit more complicated hurricane helene, of course, the strikes for boeing that could complicate the numbers next month. but the federal reserve, looking at this is going to be saying wow, gave you a half a percentage point rate cut and you went not think qcells lucky yeah. i did want to ask you about that, so yeah, with the rate cut that we've already seen and they're seeing and of course they're trying to deal with inflation, which everyone is worried about costs. so this tell you that

maybe they won't do another one? >> said that many times, great question. remember the federal reserve look at both jobs and they look at inflation and what they've said to us in the past few weeks is look, this is primary for his now the jobs market not seeing any further weakness yes what these numbers show is a bump in hiring in a month. it's not really factoring in the benefits of the rate cut that we just saw beyond the psychological benefits. so we could see a further lift to the jobs market when those rate cuts start to filter in to answer your question in an incredibly long winded way. they've said that they think they can get another half a percentage point in for the rest of the year a quarter of a percentage point rate cut right before the presidential election. but maybe they'd be tempted to hanging fire in the face of this and not take the criticism that perhaps the trying to influence the presidential election. not, not that they are, but we're open to that criticisms that the criticism right before the presidential election, you could hold off based on these numbers we've got more data to

calm, but it's a while. >> but, but it is a word, it's almost double. i mean, it's much, much better than we were expecting. >> and obviously as you would expect pre market investors liking it. up a little bit. >> julia chatterley, thank you. it's always lovely to see you you're in the i think that we are going over to john, you high hi. >> yes i can answer that for you, correct fact check? yes. >> so listen, those jobs numbers that julian, sara were just talking about exploding expectations way over expectations unemployment, low at 4.1%, dropping seems to say the economy is in a good place. >> one of the numbers harry enten, senior data reporter, harry enten is here one of the numbers we always talk about an election is, do voters think the country is on the right track or the wrong track? what are the polls shift? yeah. if we look of whether voters believe we're on the right track or the wrong track i think that this sort of gets at a problem for kamala harris's

campaign, just 28% of americans think the u.s is on the right track. and i want you to put that into perspective right? when does the average when the incumbent party loses the election, look at that. it's just 25%. that looks a heck of a lot like that, 28%, right? that currently think the country's on the right track when the white house party wins, i, ii, kamala harris, his party, the democrats 42% on average, think that the country is on the right track. this 25% looks a lot more like dish 28%. it doesn't look anything like this. 42%, this to me is a bad sign for kamala harris campaign. the bottom line is, it looks a lot more like a loser than it does like a winner when it comes comes to the country being on the right track, can an incumbent party when with numbers like this? yes. so if we look historically speaking right, and we say, okay, say the us is on the right track. the incumbent party when they win today again, it's just 28%. look throughout history, right? 96, 88, 88041284. it all of these

instances in all these instances, far more than 28% thought that the country is on the right track. 39 was the lowest back in 1,996. we got upwards of 47%, 84, of course that was a blowout, right? for ronald reagan. so there is no historical precedent for the white house party winning another term in the white house when the country, when just 28% of the country thinks that we're on the right track. john simply put, it would be historically unprecedented. so is there any good news or interpretation or prison you can look through or democrats can say, well, maybe that's okay. >> ok, so let's look back to the last midterm because sometimes history is made to be broken. mr. berman. alright, say the country is on the right track and midterms, democrats had a good midterm despite this, the whole low for that be saying the country saying that we're on the right track, which 27% back in 1994, of course that was a blowout, right? the republicans wrong though of the democrats and bill clinton. but this

particular past mid-term look, just 26% said that the country was on the right track and democrats did pretty gosh darn good. maybe we've entered a new political environment where donald trump is so unpopular that these historical norms, these historical measures that we look at, don't actually mean what we think anymore. i'll tell you this much. kamala harris better hope that's the case, because otherwise this right track, wrong direction situation will not work out in their favor. >> the other thing democrats do say his numbers like the jobs numbers we just saw, they are seeing things improve a little bit by week on the margins. yeah. i would say look right now if we're saying, you know, 28% of the country on the right track, that number was closer to low 20s at the beginning of the year. >> so it has gone up a little bit, but still, you're very much in the danger zone when we're looking at that right track, wrong direction number that's where democrats are right now. they're going to have to hope that there's a historical norm broken like there wasn't a past midterm because if there isn't donald trump's going to end up in the white house will tell you, no one except for tom cruise top gun likes being in the danger

zone. harry enten. thank you. very much for that goose. >> i don't even know what to do. i'm going to leave it because that was always best with john and just leave. >> i know. but there was a bit of a mic drop. those go when i don't like to give them compliments, but that one guess i have to. >> alright. let's turn to this right now this morning, a former hair and makeup artist for garth brooks is accusing the country music star our of sexual assault and battery in a new lawsuit, brooks is also now speaking out and pushing back on the allegations, calling it extortion. cnn's elizabeth wagmeister is following all of this and elizabeth, you first obtained the lawsuit. what is he accused of? >> yes, kate. so garth brooks is accused of sexual assault and battery. this former hair and makeup artist that you mentioned says that she began working for garth brooks in 2017, but she had actually met him years before in 1999 because she began working for his wife country superstar trisha yearwood now, in the lawsuit, she alleges that she was raped in 2019 in a los angeles hotel room when they were traveling for business for

grammy tribute performance. but she also alleges that the abuse continued. she said that she was sent sexually explicit text, that he regularly exposed himself. he would change in front of her one, incident in this lawsuit, she alleges also in 2019 that garth brooks walked out of the shower in his home where she was to do his hair and makeup. he walked out completely naked and forced her hands on to him. this is just one of many allegations. it's very vulgar, very disturbing very lewd. but garth brooks is denying this. kate. >> and what is garth brooks saying last night? >> i received a statement from his publicist. i want to read part of it to you, kate, here is what he has to say, quote, i have been hassled to no end with threats, lies, and tragic tails of what my future would be if i did not write a check for many millions of dollars, it has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face. i

trust the system. i do not fear the truth and i am not the man. they have painted me to be. now, this is just part of a lengthy statement. he doesn't discuss his relationship with this woman. he doesn't say if he knows her at all, if he knows who she is, if he's alleging that perhaps if an incident did occur, if it was consensual, he gives no details like that, but here's where things get interesting. kate, yesterday, hours before this lawsuit broke, i reported on a filing in mississippi that came from an anonymous source liburdi plaintiff who filed as a john doe. we now know that john doe was in fact garth brooks, and he was trying to prevent this lawsuit from ever coming out. he said to the court he was being defamed, he was being extorted, and he asked them from blocking this accuser from coming forward and for allowing him to continue under for pseudonym, obviously the court did not respond to that or did not respond favorably to that. and now this woman has come out with this

lawsuit, so a lot more to come, we will see what happens. i have reached out to garth brooks, his team. i've asked was there ever a settlement payment despite his statement last night, they have not gotten back back to me up. >> all right. you're gonna be on top of this, bringing us the latest as you're getting it, great reporting as always, elizabeth. thank you very much. >> sara. >> all right. ahead. the response to hurricane helene has become a campaign talking point could this slow down the efforts to get relief to people in need and the incredible journey by a father through helene's disaster zone to walk his daughter down the aisle. those stories and more ahead. >> he never thought she would live than one a day she did you were made to chase your passionate we were made to put them in a packet. >> good day to cough.

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service, we want to really try and maximize that family time. and i here she is inside a hangar recently. well, coming americans where just been released from russia. >> i was in there. i could feel the emotion as one of the first physicians there to welcome them. do you feel weight on your shoulders and just really excited to be a part of that journey and figure out what you want to accomplish. now that you're back home. >> johnson and markel say they've treated dozens of freed americans during elite reintegration program called piazza, what is pisa stands for post-isolation support activities. >> we support the medical component of pisa for the individuals that come to san antonio. >> there's a part of the hospital where freed americans spend the first 24 to 36 hours getting a comprehensive medical exam. we can show it to you because it's super secret. what i can tell you is that it's highly secure, act says, is restricted and to ensure the privacy of the patient, even

medical professionals have to surrender their cell phones out the door to your a bit of a wonder woman you were saying that you delivered your boy in the middle of a mission? >> yes. six justices. >> that night i did go into labor and yes. was in the hospital texting and helping coordinate you're the chief of medicine here and you establish the team that treats these freed americans where do you start? part the first thing i do is contact my nursing lead and then of course i work with operations facilities. bam see is the only level one trauma center in the department of defense. it has a burn unit, a hyperbaric chamber and a prosthetic manufacturing floor would most people see is the pomp and circumstance. >> the president welcoming them and the joy of reuniting with their family but would people don't see or the scars that

they're bringing back, that mental anguish. >> what's the toughest parking them mentally and times people are coming home without a job, without a without a whole i wanted to read do you something that brittney griner wrote on her instagram. i want to acknowledge and thank the entire piece of staff and medical team. i appreciate the time and care to make sure i was okay to hear those words what does it mean to you? that's meaningful, that means the team is succeeding and accomplishing the mission. >> just an honor to be a part of somebody's recovery rosa flores, cnn, san antonio >> this morning, iran supreme leader issuing a new warning for israel while leading friday prayers for hezbollah is slain chief. he warned iran will attack israel again, quote, if needs be israel has vowed to retaliate against iran for tuesday's missile attack how

and where is still being determined the biden administration is hoping to avoid any major escalation and we have a lift off the vulcan centaur rocket excessively blasted off this morning from cape canaveral, florida. and its second test flight, the rocket made by the united launch alliance could soon be certified to take national security payloads into space and this is lovely a man getting ready for his son's wedding. missile dinner ended up rescuing a woman from floodwaters in north carolina. the woman was trapped inside her house as the water swirled higher and faster the house started to tilt and break apart after debris hit it. and she had to jump out. the groom's father, you see him there first tried to use a canoe to get to her, but eventually jumped into the water, grabbed her, help to swim to shore where she was reunited with her frantic husband. the wedding couple did invite both of them to their rehearsal dinner amazing story,

and wait, there's more different wedding. >> another amazing wedding story though here we go, which should have been a two hour car ride on any other day, turned into a seven hour trek for one, father determined to make it to his daughter on her wedding day in the aftermath of hurricane helene. those seven hours that was just part of the journey. that was just a part of the journey that he could stay in dr. in his car, basically the last half of this odyssey, he had to take it on foot >> police tried to talk me out of his state you persuade people clearing the roads? i told them all daughters walking down the aisle and 11 this morning and i'm going to be the one lock on it in all it took david jones 12 hours to get from boiling springs, south carolina to johnson city, tennessee. and you see it there? he did it and made it in time to reach his daughter and

walk her down the aisle. she was married on saturday and david jones joins us now. it is wonderful to meet you. how are you doing >> yeah i'm doing great. thank you. >> it's an amazing story. i know you've been getting quite a lot of attention after this is all started coming out. i mean, when was what was it what was the moment when you decided not only where you're going to try to take it to go by car. what did you come up against when you realize that you were going to you're going to walk >> so in boiling springs, the storm came through. we didn't have internet, we didn't have cell service i really didn't know exactly what i was getting into, but normally around here by the time that hurricanes get this far inland it's just rain. so really wasn't expecting the extent of the devastation. but

with all the traffic delays and all of that and routes and detours i was just in a mindset of all right. what's next? what's next? what's next? so when i came to you know, literally the end of the road, it was just like all right. >> what's next? >> i cant drive going to walk, i run marathons. >> i knew i was about 20 or 30 miles from home i can do this. let's go and i've seen those picks of you finish in marathon. so this is nothing for you, i guess i would say, but what was the hardest part of this track, david, i mean, was there a moment when your mile whatever through and you're thinking maybe this wasn't the right choice. >> well, i'm it was an easy choice to make my daughters getting married at 11 and i'm going to walk her down the aisle the execution was a little harder one point, i came

across the road crew. there was a bulldozer and a backhoe and they were zooming just back-and-forth across the road, clearing, trying to get the debris was huge positive 67 feet high, spanning the road and trying to get their attention. so i didn't become a casualty is they weren't expecting anybody in the bulldozer driver who's kind of startled is like, where did you come from? and they were kind enough to let me through and there was another debris field blocking the road and so i'm looking for a place to go over it and i really couldn't find it was all twisted and mangum, i tried to go around it and i dropped in what was it was mud. we've just like quicksand right up to my knees and it caused me to fall back and a sort of a seated position. i've got my cell phone light in one hand. i've got to stick in the other hand, there was going to use for self-defense, if any

animals came out at night and the backhoe had started back up again and i couldn't move so you know, talking to the lord don't know how much i need is at this point and probably yelled loud enough and he could hear me over the loud the equipment, the road equipment there and sure enough, i was able to get my right leg up, but the mud sucked my shoe off and i thought we'll do this without shoes. so i found a place to set myself phone down and doug my shoe out. i was able to get out very slowly and worked my way back to the road roadway and i found a path where i could actually crawl under a tree trunk and then through the pile and out the other side put my shoe back gone and off. i went that was probably the worst part