have a federally backed mortgage. and it's located in what's known as a 100 year flood zone. of course, given what's going on with the climate crisis, all this extreme, it's all changing right? where are you actually safe these days? unfortunately almost nowhere. and of course, florida is not safe right now. they're bracing for this direct hit from another massive hurricane. we're looking at massive flood risk in the next couple of days. we could see orlando get two month's worth of rain just through thursday tampa could get five months of rain. so we're looking at potentially even more flooding damage, billions of dollars in losses and florida has their own flood insurance problems, right? we've seen rates skyrocket there. some people who had flood insurance, they don't have it anymore because they've been dropped by their carrier. so it's a really, really big problem. highlighted by all this extreme weather. >> well, especially when the florida governor just said the entire peninsula portion of the state is under some watch or

warning as they're heading into this it is incredible is right. matt. thank you very much, kate. new hour of cnn news central starts now >> the national hurricane center out with a new update on hurricane milton. >> the track, the intensity when it is making landfall and the center calling it a once in a lifetime event and this has to stop that are the words of and that is what we were just told by the head of fema on this show about the false rumors swirling about the agency and disaster relief rumors being pushed by donald trump. and with 28 days until the election, voting groups are concerned how natural disasters like milton will be impacting your vote and voter registration. i'm kate baldwin with john berman. sara sidner is out today. this is cnn news central

>> we do have breaking news. we just got a brand new updated forecast on hurricane milton the major hurricane is still a category four storm. a very powerful category storm with potentially catastrophic winds, as well as an extremely dangerous storm surge threat in minutes. we're going to speak directly to the director of the national hurricane center to get the very latest on the track and the timing and the strength, but the bottom line is the time to get ready is now is right now, and you are running out of time. there's kind of an exodus underway from western cities in florida, and just moments ago, fema administrator and a really good interview with kate baldwin said this >> we plan for this. i'm not saying it's not going to be a challenge, but i know that we are going to be able to meet everybody's immediate needs.

as hurricane milton comes in, we're pre-positioning resources like search and rescue teams, health care assessment teams, the army corps of engineers for power assessment and generator support, and a lot of different resources to meet the immediate needs for the people in florida all right, let's get right to cnn's carlos suarez in fort myers, very much in the extreme danger >> carlos, what are you seeing right now john. >> good so for the folks that live in fort myers, florida, in lee county, the biggest concern for them is going to be the 6 to 10 foot storm surge associated with the hurricane. now, just two years ago, this part of southwest florida, lee county, was devastated, was a good part of it was destroyed by hurricane ian. and so the folks out here have been getting ready. essentially what you're looking at is some of the preps underway. but to give you a sense of where the water got about two years ago, hurricane ian brought a storm surge about probably about to here. so the

expectation is that the water that will be associated with this storm is probably going to be at this level, if not slightly above and so the businesses here in downtown fort myers, they're all getting ready for this hurricane. now to the north of where we are, the preparations, the evacuation orders there went into effect and began in earnest yesterday over in sarasota county, manatee county hillsborough county and pinellas county, the folks there began moving inland yesterday. traffic cameras really showed just the number of folks that were taking to the roads trying to get to northern florida central florida folks are trying to get over across to the east coast and south florida in fact, on our drive in from miami here to fort myers the traffic really did not let up across alligator alley, which connects both coasts of the of the state of florida. and so the line of cars really was from naples florida, on the west coast all the way into broward county on the east coast of florida. one

of the biggest concerns going into this storm is the debris that was left over by hurricane helene which hit about just two weeks ago. we were in the tampa area just last week doing a story on some of the damage there. and emergency officials really have been concerned about the fact that in pinellas county and in hillsborough county, there just has not been enough time to get all of that debris out. and of course those folks there are expected to get a more direct hit by hurricane milton if that forecast track holds. and so if you've got all of that debris laying out, laying around in neighborhoods, it becomes a safety concern for the tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of folks that have been ordered to leave their homes. and for the folks that stayed behind, the last thing they want to deal, of course, is all of that debris, which, again, has yet to be picked up. and you can only imagine what the damage that could cause in a hurricane with these kind of, these kind of winds, guys, all right. >> carlos suarez, for us in fort myers. carlos, terrific work we'll check back in with you shortly. thank you kate. >> and joining us now with the

latest on hurricane milton is the director of the national hurricane center michael brennan. michael, thank you so much for joining us. once again. we got your update yesterday. what is the latest what would you say is most significant for people to know about where the change in track intensity, any of it that people need to know today well, really things are pretty much on track. >> unfortunately for milton to be a significantly impactful hurricane with multiple life threatening hazards for the florida west coast. still, a powerful category four hurricane this morning. track forecast is really not changed very much. we're still expecting a powerful major hurricane to reach the west coast of the florida peninsula tomorrow evening or overnight tomorrow night into the early morning hours on thursday. we have storm surge warnings in effect, with the potential for 10 to 15ft of inundation above ground level for much of the tampa bay region, down to sarasota. so that's where those evacuations are ongoing. there we've just expanded hurricane warnings across the peninsula now all the way over to the east coast, including the metro orlando area, the melbourne

area, all the way up to places like saint augustine, ocala now under hurricane warnings, daytona beach. so we're going to see a substantial wind event across much of the florida peninsula. potential for widespread power outages wind damage, also the potential for life threatening flash flooding with up to 18in of rain, especially along and just north of the track. so that again puts that i-4 corridor and areas of north florida in play for that hazard as well. that is the entire i-4 corridor right there in these hurricane watches and warnings. so many people live there. obviously, the storm out in the gulf now over these incredibly warm waters. what may or could impact the track or the strength before landfall wednesday night into thursday morning well, in terms of what's going to happen in the next day or so, when we have these very intense category 4 or 5 hurricanes, they go through these eyewall replacement cycle where you have an outer eye form. >> the inner eye dissipates, and then it can weaken get bigger and then strengthen again. and that's what we're likely to see play out over, say, the next 12 to 24 hours. we could see milton again

become a category five hurricane, or be a high end category four. then as it gets closer to florida, we're expecting the upper level winds to get a little stronger and the environment to get a little less favorable for maintaining such an intense hurricane. but the trade off is is that the storm is going to grow in size, the wind field is going to at least double in size from what it is now. and that's why we're expecting such widespread impacts across much of the state of florida in terms of the storm surge that just expands the risk of seeing that life threatening inundation, not just near and to the right of immediate location of landfall, but hundreds of miles south that's why we have that storm surge warning. that's in effect all the way down to places like naples, fort myers, port charlotte, sarasota, and even the risk is now extends up north of tampa up to places like cedar key let's reinforcing something that you just made when you when you see the map that it shows and i'm looking at it, one of our walls over here, it's wednesday at 2 p.m. >> a category four. then thursday at 2 a.m., a category three. you see less intensity and you know that. so many people think, thank goodness, but what you're saying is less

intensity intensity. but a bigger storm basically is a wash out in terms of if it's looking better, it's just as dangerous in some ways. >> it's actually worse. it affects more people. you're going to have surge, winds, heavy rainfall over an even larger area than you would if you had a smaller, maybe even more intense storm. so it really does increase the risk. again, look at those wind watches and warnings. we've got tropical storm warnings in effect all the way from the florida keys up through miami, the southeast coast, and then hurricane warnings in effect for much of the central portion of the peninsula, just going to see a vast area of impacts and again, impacts that are going to last several days. you think of those power outages, the wind damage, the trees that are going to go down. and especially concerned about that i-4 corridor, tampa, orlando daytona beach is seeing potentially some of the most severe impacts for multiple hazards. >> what are you looking at in terms of rainfall totals yeah rainfall totals are going to be pretty extreme in some areas, especially along. >> and just north of the track, we could see up to 18in of rain

in some isolated locations. and again, this area you see here in pink is our highest level of risk for flash flooding that we could see play out from wednesday into thursday. and that again includes that tampa, orlando daytona, ocala widespread rainfall totals of 5 to 12in, with the potential for significant flash flooding across much of the florida peninsula as well. >> all right michael brennan, we really appreciate this update. it is very very helpful and i hope people are paying attention. thank you. >> his information, his clarity and his ability and his ability to come on and give these updates is so critical in these final moments, we also have this we want to tell you about hurricane milton, as we know, is already one of the top ten strongest storms ever recorded. and as derek van dam put it, it's about to have a t-bone collision with the florida coast expected to make landfall late wednesday or early thursday, just two weeks after hurricane helene devastated parts of the state. now a veteran meteorologist out of

miami in reporting about this became visibly emotional when seeing the latest updates on this monster storm just an incredible, incredible incredible hurricane. it has dropped ten hours. >> um i apologize, this is just horrific that is meteorologist john morales. >> he's with nbc six out of miami, as i mentioned, and he later posted john on twitter that he was shaken and that extreme weather driven by global warming has changed me just someone who sees a lot of it right and is overcome by it. >> so the warning from tampa's mayor about this storm we're talking about is straight and to the point, she said. helene was a wake up call and that people who don't get out of the zone now are going to die.

cnn's ivan rodriguez is there in tampa with much more on this. ivan, what are you seeing and what do you what's the latest on evacuations pretty much found all over the tampa bay region, right behind me, over my left shoulder. >> people are filling up sandbags here at a distribution center. we're right here on davis island and a lot of people here have been going to these sandbag distribution centers for the last 24 hours or so. and you mentioned sort of how officials haven't been mincing words. we also heard from florida's attorney general making the remark that people who choose to stay behind in their homes and those evacuation areas, those mandatory evacuation areas, she suggested riding with a sharpie on their arm. their first and last name so that they're easier to be identified. we know that in the last 100 years, there hasn't been a major hurricane to make landfall within 50 miles of tampa bay, so it really is

nothing like any one here in the area has seen their entire lives. and i can tell you, a lot of people are taking this seriously. kate. many people not only going to those sandbag stations, but also hitting the roads bumper to bumper traffic. we're seeing in the tampa bay, getting out of the trajectory of hurricane milton, either heading north or south, but just really wanting to get out of the way we also spoke with one resident who said they're taking this even more seriously than last time with helene and all the damage that helene caused when it made landfall less than two weeks ago the last storm we went 2.5ft under in the house. >> i already lost almost two cars, so hoping that because with all the stuff on the street, it's going to fly around. probably knock a couple of these buildings and i'm good. i don't want to be a part of that tampa bay international will suspend operations until it's

safe to reopen sarasota's airport will be closing later this afternoon as well, but the other biggest concern we're looking at here is all the debris that was left behind from hurricane helene, just to get to where we are here in front of this boat ramp area, we saw piles of debris in neighborhoods in front of homes and also apartment complexes. >> we know the state of florida has several agencies working around the clock to try and clean up a majority of that, but just the dangers that will be with that debris left behind, we're expecting when milton comes, heavy winds, those winds could pick up that debris. dangerous projectiles if not clogging up a lot of those roads. kate for sure. >> ivan rodriguez, thank you very much, john. >> all right. new fights to reopen. voter registration for states hit hard by hurricane helene including florida. but governor desantis says there is no need. the supreme court decides to take up a controversial second amendment case over so-called ghost guns

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milton. that's why some voting rights groups and liberal organizations sent a letter to the governor, pleading with him to extend the deadline by just eight days. they wanted to give folks who might be displaced from the storm more of an opportunity, more flexibility to get registered in these final weeks of the election but the governor held firm and said no. take a listen to how ron desantis explained his decision yesterday at a press conference in tallahassee what damage is there and if i have to do a similar executive order that i did in ian and that i did for helene we're happy to do it. >> but we're not going to change any registration deadline. you can register today. and there doesn't need to. there's no reason to open that up the governor he said he is willing to have some flexibility depending on the

damage from milton, to maybe extend the hours at some polling sites or move the locations of polling sites if there are damage to some of those spots. >> but voting registration window is now closed in florida. but if you are watching at home and you don't live in florida, you can google cnn voter handbook. we have state by state information. there's different rules in different states, and you can still register in a lot of places in this country. john. that's a very useful plug right there. go ahead and take a look at that immediately. what about north carolina marshall. in terms of the impact of helene on election and campaign stuff? there yeah. >> from the last storm, the hurricane helene impact on the election is something we are closely watching. election officials in north carolina provided an update yesterday. they said at least ten early voting sites in north carolina have significant damage or are simply inaccessible. they are

just down roads that may no longer exist or you just can't travel down. they are still assessing the situation, so that number may increase. additionally, some of the sites that were designated to be early voting locations are now have been transformed into disaster relief locations and they're saying they're going to need another $2 million. john, from the state and the feds to pay for all of these last minute changes all right. >> marshall cohen, again, these pictures still, the damage is overwhelming with this other storm still yet to hit marshall cohen, appreciate your work so we do have an update on the forecast for hurricane milton where it is headed, when it will make landfall, and the latest track. >> stay with us we'll and ask questions like, what is a comedy show doing on cnn? that's too much fun. >> landslide i want donald now. can you splice that? >> have i got news for you?

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streaming weekdays on cnn.com and max hurricane milton. >> moments ago, the director of the national hurricane center joined john and me, and he said that this storm will bring, quote multiple life threatening hazards and his big message to everyone in this moment is do not let the fact that this storm may weaken just before it makes landfall to a category three. don't let it fool you. his words. it will actually make it worse. cnn's derek van dam back with us now derek, can you help us understand what the director of the national hurricane center is getting at and everything that we learned from him earlier in the show. >> so a weakening storm means an expanding wind field, and that means that the impacts of hurricane milton will be felt over a larger area. that's basically what he is describing. we've got the latest 8 a.m. update, and what we're noticing is the fluctuations in intensity as anticipated, could regain strength to a category five. but we're also starting to notice that subtle east

northeasterly change in direction, the dreaded northeasterly turn that will bring it eventually and inevitably into the west coast of the state of florida. also, new at 8 a.m. is the hurricane warning has been extended from the west coast of the florida peninsula to the east coast of the florida peninsula. so we're expecting hurricane conditions across a large swath of the central florida peninsula late wednesday into the day on thursday. that is the time frame we are quickly losing time for your preparations and evacuations this wind field will expand. it's going to double in size compared to its compact size that it has now, and that means it will be realized at its most maximum potential. so wind threat the catastrophic major winds will be felt well inland from the shoreline and it will push up a significant amount of water twice my height. in fact, depending on exactly where that eyewall makes landfall, there's a lot of rain associated a rare high risk of flash flooding across the central parts of florida come friday

here's a satellite view of hurricane milton in the gulf. and also forest fires and heat out west. the fingerprints of climate change written all over this weather forecast today that is quite an image right there derek, thank you very much for all the updates, john. >> all right don't gamble with your and your family's lives. hillsborough county sheriff ahead of hurricane milton making landfall as you just heard, wednesday night into thursday morning. and sheriff chad chronister you so much for being with us. that warning what what do you mean by it expand well we know with this catastrophic storm comes with 10 to 15ft storm surge, 130 mile per hour >> i worry about the flash flooding. the down electric lines that some people got electrocuted during this last hurricane. and with storm surge rising that rapidly that. hey, listen, i think it's time to leave is going to be too late

the difference between this storm and the last storm was the sustained winds never got above 25 miles an hour. so we were able to continue our service. we were able to continue those rescues. this storm is going to be different. if you're an evacuation zone, please get out. don't gamble with you and your loved one's life make the preparations. find a hotel. find a family member. stay at a friend's house. worst case scenario, stay at a shelter. there's plenty of them open, but you bet you're better off being inconvenienced and uncomfortable yet alive. >> what are you seeing in terms of people complying with your pleas i today talking to you i'm very happy. >> since we've announced the mandatory evacuation in the two areas, we've seen a ton of traffic on the roadways. we were up in the helicopters yesterday filming we've even opened up the emergency lanes and today we are talking and discussing with the governor about opening up the the

shoulder of the road to get people out. that want to get out. i see long lines at the grocery stores. i see long lines at the gas stations. people are heeding the warning what do you need people to know? >> for those who do choose not to heed your warnings, for those who do choose to stay behind, what do they need to know confident and it's a horrible feeling for our first responder when that call for help comes and we can't go because those conditions are just too unsafe. >> if you choose to stay, you're staying at your own risk. i'm confident that those winds are going to be well above 40 miles an hour, and there's going to be a time frame where we're not going to be able to respond for that call for help. please be prepared and put your plan in place now, one luxury that came out of this storm slowing down. there's a lot of disadvantages is that we have more time to prepare. we have a little over

24 hours to take advantage of that time. >> when we talk storm surge in the tampa bay what does that mean for you what impact will you see on your streets >> catastrophic loss we have an area that's already heavily saturated. we're already recovery and healing from the last hurricane when you dump 5 to 10in of rain on top of 10 to 15ft of storm surge the system is already overburdened and full. the drainage and sewer system. there's no way for where for that water to go. it's going to be catastrophic and i've spoken to you before, during and after storms, before what will you be doing during this storm well there's a lot of prep work going into it. >> we're strategically placing our assets all over the place. our aviation unit, our amphibious vehicles, our marine assets. we're out providing security at the shelters, at

the sandbag locations. we're helping with the evacuation. we have a heavy presence in the evacuation zone areas i want people to feel comfortable getting out, knowing that, hey, we'll keep an eye on your belongings until we can't. we'll keep an eye on those personal belongings in your homes that you work so hard for we'll take care of that. >> you focus on yourselves during the storm we'll shelter in place just like everyone else. and then we'll be prepared. then. then we get really busy, right? we get busy with the search and rescue. our teams opening up roadways to allow utilities and. and first responders and emergency equipment to go in. it'll certainly be all hands on deck. we'll be prepared. we're just asking this community to to help be that good partner and be prepared with us. >> have you ever seen anyone like this? anything like this i've never seen anything like this in my 33 years of law enforcement experience. the flooding that we experienced just two weeks ago in the storm surge, i thought that would be the most we would ever see. and

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harassed by a point in pennsylvania two in michigan, two in wisconsin. way too close to call. you come over to the right side of the screen with me. sunbelt, battleground states. you see more red on this side of the screen than blue. we do see harris up by a point in nevada. again, way too close to call trump by a point in north carolina georgia. two in arizona. this has been the consistent story since kamala harris got into the race. right. that is that she has done better in those great lakes battleground states. she has closed the gap in the sunbelt battleground states, but still friendlier terrain for trump than those great lake battlegrounds. >> how confident should anyone on earth feel that these numbers would actually stick? >> okay, so i consistently say this race is too close to call, so i decided to go back through history. okay. and this to me says everything how much did the state poll averages miss by. all right the average error since 1972. in the close races in those battleground states that we've been looking at 3.4 points,

all seven of those key battleground states are within 3.4 points. what's the chance for an even larger error? you know, we talk about the margin of error, right so what is that 95% confidence interval. what is that true margin of error. 5% of errors in state polling averages are off by more off by more than 9.4 points. these battleground states are well within that. i want you to remember this number because the bottom line is this race is going to be too close to call almost certainly all the way to election day it's definitely going to be within this interval. and it's most likely going to be within this interval. so the bottom line is the state polling averages tell us what it tells us is it's just a race that is too close to call. maybe one candidate has a slight advantage over the other one, but the bottom line is it is way too close to call and it will remain so. >> superimpose all of this really important information that you just gave us on the electoral map. yeah. okay. so let's say the polls are exactly right. if the polls are exactly right, kamala harris gets 276

electoral votes to donald trump's 262 because she carries those great lakes battleground states despite losing north carolina, georgia and arizona. but let's say we have a polling miss like we had in 2020. what happens then? well, then donald trump wins the election in a blowout with 312 electoral votes because he carries all these great lakes battleground states plus nevada, plus the other states he was leading in arizona and north carolina and georgia but happens if we have a polling miss like 2022? well, in that particular case, now, the winner has flipped again. and kamala harris wins in a blowout with 319 electoral votes because she retakes those great lakes battleground states carries north carolina, georgia and arizona. so the bottom line here is yes, we have those state polling averages. but the real thing they tell us is that this race is too close to call. we're probably not going to know who's going to perhaps another month and change. >> it's the full employment act for senior data reporters i you know what? >> i will take it any employment is good employment,

my friend. thank you thank you kate. >> all right. joining us right now is the senior spokesperson for the kamala harris campaign ian sams. ian thank you so much. let's leave it as this race is still too close to too close to call from what we just heard from my colleagues, i want to talk to you about some of the issues and some of the the questions and answers that the that the vice president is taking and answering in these slew of new interviews that she's doing in the 60 minutes interview, the vice president was asked about ukraine, asked specifically if she would support ukraine's bid to join nato. let me play this for you as president, would you support the effort to expand nato to include ukraine? those are all issues that we will deal with if and when it arrives at that point. right now, we are supporting ukraine's ability to defend itself against russia's unprovoked aggression she did not answer the question about ukraine's nato membership. >> does the vice president support ukraine's push to join nato eventually

for having me this morning. >> i think that what the vice president was saying last night is, is true, which is right now in this very moment, the most important thing that the united states and the international community can be doing is supporting ukraine and against this invasion from putin and his war of aggression that has been brutal and slaughtered. so many people in ukraine, and she is committed to doing that. i think that what she was saying last night is that, like there will be a time and place for discussions like that right now, the most important thing is that the international community rally around ukraine cnn just this morning has new reporting on bob woodward's book that is coming out that reveals that president trump, since he left office as a private citizen, has, according to trump's own aides, had at least seven one on one calls with vladimir putin. i don't know what those are about i don't know if the trump campaign or president trump have explained what those are about, but what the vice president said last night rings

even truer. donald trump's plan with ukraine and russia would be for ukraine to surrender and to let vladimir putin take territory that he is trying to steal. that is dangerous we clearly have a different kind of risk that how they approach russia with him returning to office. >> but but the former secretary general of nato, he has even said that it's not it's a question of when, not if. ukraine will join the nato alliance. does kamala harris agree with that well, again, i'm going to reiterate what the vice president said, which is that there will be a time for that conversation right now, the conversation should be focused on how do we make sure ukraine has the resources it needs to repel putin and russia? >> it is something that she has led the international community. on meeting with president zelensky numerous times and rallying our allies. donald trump is saying cede territory to russia that should scare every american who is thinking about him. returning to the oval office. but i just want to make this point when donald trump

territory from ukraine to putin, think about what that means. that means that the the potential president of the united states is signaling to the world that if you're a dictator like vladimir putin and you want to take another country next door, go right ahead that is not the kind of strength that america needs on the world stage. and it's why the vice president has been so strong in standing up for ukraine. and for the united states in this moment. >> when's the right time if there's a time and place for it, when is the right time for the vice president to make her position known on if ukraine should if she would support ukraine joining nato people who want to know the position of these two candidates again on this campaign for one month more before the election on ukraine and russia, i think it's a pretty clear distinction of who has ukraine's back who is making sure that that putin and

his dictatorial reign is repelled when he tries to invade neighboring countries, and that we just cannot afford the risk that trump would put the united states in by letting dictators like putin do that they very clearly have different positions on russia and the support for ukraine. >> there's no question of that. just trying to nail that down a little bit more. let's move on. florida's staring down another hurricane this will be the second major hurricane to hit the state in less than two weeks. a white house official has now told cnn that vice president harris reached out to ron desantis, the governor, multiple times since hurricane helene and that the florida governor did not take any of her calls. responding to the reports of him not taking her calls, she called it political gamesmanship, irresponsible and selfish, which then led to ron desantis. >> um we don't have the sound bite which then led to ron desantis saying that she has no place. she has no place to be involved in any of these talks with

regard to hurricane helene recovery that he has been in touch with joe biden and she's basically trying to get her she's playing political games by trying to insert herself. what do you say to that now is, you know, i think you're right. >> we saw yesterday that the governor spoke to the president the vice president has tried to speak to the governor and would look forward to speaking to the governor, because a moment like this is about putting politics aside and making sure that states who are impacted by the devastation, whether it was hurricane helene or preparing for hurricane milton to come, which does seem very concerning. and the vice president said yesterday she's been briefed on this from fema and is encouraging residents in florida to listen to their local officials including governor desantis, about what to do on the ground there. as this storm threatens. and i think that what she was speaking to more broadly, which i think is very very important, is in a moment like this when you have a choice in a presidential election between kamala harris and donald trump, who is actually putting the

country first when it comes to preparing for a natural disaster, we know right now donald trump's own former aides said that when he was president of the united states, he would hold up relief to places that he didn't think voted for him. he politicized getting people the help they need. in a moment of pain and crisis, vice president harris absolutely will never do that she wants to make sure that people in florida and north carolina, georgia, the states who have been so impacted by helene, the states who may be devastated by this hurricane, that's barreling toward florida, that they get the help they need and that they have the resources that they need which is why she and the president have mobilized thousands of federal personnel. a thousand active duty military sent millions of liters of water and meals to states who have been impacted by helene. that's the kind of leadership you need in a moment like this. not disaster relief, not getting to places, who's trying to divide americans who are facing some of their biggest tragedies of their lives that is what we don't need from a president and a leader in a moment like

this. >> these storms and their impacts should definitely be above politics, that is for sure. ian sams thank you very much for coming on john. >> all right. new this morning. the supreme court is back in session for a nine month term. the justices will hear arguments in several high profile cases, including one today challenging a biden administration regulation on ghost guns and with less than a month until election day pressure is growing around chief justice john roberts, as he deals with the legal troubles of donald trump, the chief supreme court analyst joe biskupic, is with us now. what's the latest on this? joe good to see you, john. >> you know, chief justice john roberts is starting his 20th term on the bench. i mean talk about very fast 20 years for for john roberts, who was one of the youngest chief justices in history when he first came on. and it's a very fraught time for the court. you know they've had a series of divisive rulings including the one giving donald trump immunity from prosecution last july. they've got ethics

controversies. and as you just mentioned election litigation could loom over this court once we get to november. but and and it's it's played out in the polls multiple surveys show that the court's stature has shrunk. just one in particular that the pew research survey found that 47% of americans had an unfavorable opinion of the supreme court after july, when the term ended and the justices issued that immunity decision. and much of this falls on the shoulders of john roberts, who from the start has tried to differentiate the supreme court from the political branches. you probably remember, john, that he famously said, we do not have obama judges or trump judges. we only have neutral judges trying their level best to do right by both sides but but as we start this new term, it's really john roberts and opinions he's written that have put the court in this position. he wrote the trump

ruling, he wrote earlier decisions that favored republican interests, such as against voting rights and essentially endorsing partizan gerrymandering uh, rolling back administrative regulation of the environment and consumer affairs so this is a fraught time but a lot of it and a lot of it lands in his lap, but it's by his own hand john. >> part of the job. all right. joan biskupic, thank you so much kate. >> and we're continuing to track hurricane milton right now. the category four storm is stirring in the gulf of mexico, where the storm is expected to make landfall. how soon its outer bands could actually start impacting part of the florida's coast. we've got an update for you. and country music stars eric church and luke combs coming together to help victims of their home state of north carolina from hurricane helene. the big concert just announced by the two, along with billy strings and james taylor, eric church and luke combs, will join us next hour just as church releases a new song to help her

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rockets were fired by hezbollah at parts of northern israel. also in just one hour. all of this comes as u.s. officials are now telling cnn they are no longer pushing to revive a ceasefire deal between israel and the militant group. cnn's jeremy diamond is live in tel aviv with the very latest and a lot has happened overnight. jeremy. what are you hearing >> no question about it, kate. and, you know, one year after this war began, this multi-front war that israel is now engaged in is showing no signs of slowing down. instead, israel appears to be picking up the pace, intensifying its attacks on numerous fronts. first, we'll start in lebanon, where the israeli military is expanding its ground operations. initially into southern lebanon on the eastern portion of southern lebanon. now they are also going in on the western side as well. and now three divisions have now been activated in the fighting in southern lebanon, which represents quite a

significant force that the israeli military is bringing to bear. hezbollah is also intensifying its attacks against israel. today, a very large barrage one of the largest barrages that we have seen over the course of the last year that has been directed at haifa from hezbollah, about 105 rockets fired towards haifa and the surrounding area. there were a couple of injuries as a result, but the majority of those rockets were indeed intercepted. but it just shows that even as israel is, is pushing into southern lebanon with the aim of neutering hezbollah and effectively getting them to stop firing rockets into northern israel, for the moment, hezbollah is only escalating its retaliation. we are also seeing as the israeli military is deepening and intensifying its attacks in gaza. we saw over the weekend as the israeli military began a renewed ground offensive in jabalia. this is the fourth time, now, kate, that we have seen israeli troops go into jabalia and this is all, of course, raising

questions about israel's long term strategy for governance in gaza, or the lack thereof, as u.s. officials have been talking over the course of the last couple of days about the fact that israel now needs to turn the tactical winds that it has achieved in gaza into some kind of broader strategic picture. but there is no indication of that as of yet. instead, the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, yesterday vowing to continue the fight until israel's enemies are entirely vanquished. he was speaking in particular about hamas, but we have heard time and again from military and security experts, including those here in israel, who have warned that without any kind of alternative to hamas in gaza and without defeating hamas's ideology, you really cannot entirely defeat hamas as a guerrilla force, as an alternative, providing some measure of hope to people in gaza at the moment. >> kate. jeremy. jeremy diamond in tel aviv, for us. thank you so much. a new hour of cnn news central starts now