a conversation that's the challenge, right? >> sure, sure. sure and i mean, how much do you continue to take taxpayer money and invest in in recovery efforts for areas that are going to continue to be hit by these different natural disasters. do you take that taxpayer money and actually tried to invest more? in resilience. some of the programs that i described, you know, because you're going to have a choice. it cannot just continue to be a response that centered on the immediate disaster response sending trailers moving people into hotel rooms, paying for flood insurance program that will continue to rebuild homes that will be hit again, you're seeing more and more momentum around the long term sort of emergency response, which does involve not just resilience, but also investing in areas that aren't as prone to natural disasters. but, but this is difficult. i mean, when we've talked to people in these communities were talking about retreating at times from your home, from the place where you've grown up? >> that's a difficult conversation to have. alright.

thank you all for being here this morning. thanks to all of you for joining us as well. i'm kasie hunt. don't go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now >> hurricane milton is now a category five storm closing in on on florida's gulf coast hours away from landfall, possibly one of the most destructive hurricanes to ever hit that west central coast. one official warning residents in the evacuation zone this is not survivable. >> we have the latest up to the minute storm track as some gas stations are running out of fuel and exclusive cnn reporting the cia struggling behind the scenes, facing allegations of sexual assault and harassment at the agency. >> i'm kate bolduan with john berman, sara sidner is out today this is cnn new central

breaking news hurricane milton is closing in on florida as a catastrophic category five storm. it is poised to be one of the most destructive natural disasters in florida is history. officials at just forecast the storm will hit as a category four along the west coast hosts tampa, st petersburg, sarasota. you can see down to fort myers all on the path big population centers, all extraordinarily vulnerable predicted huge storm surge. the outer bands are now being felt. bridges are some barrier islands have already been shut down. officials say if you can get out, get out but that window is closing. cnn has stationed along the coast first, let's get the new forecast or meteorologist derek van dam. derek, tell us what you're seeing yeah john we are less than 24 hours away from one of the most powerful top ten atlantic basin hurricanes

to ever form, that will impact western and southwestern portions of florida. >> this did not weaken overnight and those are sobering words because we're only a matter of hours until we experienced it's tropical storm force winds in this region. and it's only a matter of hours before we start to see the water levels start to come up. the latest track from the national hurricane center does show a category four major hurricane making landfall late tonight into early thursday morning the exact location of that most powerful right front quadrant of the hurricane is so important, we know this is a game of miles, right? one computer model is still showing a worst-case scenario for tampa bay, but there are other computer models that bring it to the south. we should expect these types of wobbles with this type of an intensity of this magnitude, these storms tend to wobble back-and-forth. and that again determines who will see the worst impacts. >> for sure, the catastrophic winds will not be confined just

to the coastline. >> they will stretch far inland and notice this updated map, this has extreme catastrophic winds that's major hurricane force from hillsborough county into lee county, including charlotte as well as sarasota. now, in terms of this unsurvivable storm surge, again, it is that right front quadrant that is so critical, ten to 15 feet. you can see that includes sarasota, the port charlotte region. we are watching the satellite depicting every moment in its track as so critical on whether or not this has a suddenly component or a northerly component. and who gets the worst impacts? flooding rain will be a concern from this, john. we're talking about over two to three months of rain falling from the sky through the duration of the storm. it's already been raining. we've already seen tornadoes spinning up in miami dade county earlier this morning. and that will increase through the course of the day today. hey, i'm going to leave you with this, john. we have a rare risk of excessive rainfall leading to flash flooding where you see that shading of pink

remember if we've learned anything from hurricane helene, it is these rare high risks that cause the most destruction and also the most deaths there is so much to be concerned about, so much we have to pay attention to derek van dam were to keep coming back to you throughout the morning to get the very latest forecast because every little movement, every little wobble impacts millions. >> let's get to randi kaye, who is in sarasota, florida right now, right in the center of this path, randi, what are you seeing this morning? >> yeah. good morning, john. it has been raining steadily here this morning. we know that conditions are expected to get much worse here because we are as you heard potentially in the bullseye for this storm, we are on south shore drive here in sarasota. you can see there there's a dock behind me and some water and that boat. we don't know so how long that boat will remain there? we're also seeing some lightning here in the area as well, but we are expecting a potentially record breaking storm surge of ten to 15 feet here. they thought helene was record-breaking. it's seven feet here, so

certainly they are very concerned. they're also concerned about the winds that are expected to pick up this afternoon about 40 miles per hour and up starting with the tropical storm force winds this afternoon, we're hearing some thunder in the area as well. people, john have been evacuating here they know what helene did. they see the debris around the neighborhoods. people have emptied out their homes. one woman told me she spent 15 hours cleaning debris out of her home after it was basically destroyed by helene. so there's debris all over the neighborhoods that can potentially turn into projectiles. but there's also people boarding up their businesses, their homes, the restaurants are closed here. we spoke to one woman who told me that her husband rode out the storm on siesta key, one of those barrier islands that is now shut down. he was chest-deep in water. he wrote out helene there and they are still phil staying to ride out hurricane milton. here's what she told me now, as this hurricane is barreling down directly on our community, it feels like maybe helene was it's just a rehearsal for

what's to come there talking possible 15 foot storm surge. >> none of us in 100 years have seen anything like this. it is talking hurricane milton on the ninth floor of a condo building in downtown sarasota that is built to withstand a cat five hurricane. >> so they hope to be safe. >> john, randy, the thunder, lightening all around you just the beginning of what will be a chaotic day, please stay safe. they've let's get right to isabel rosales, who is in tampa now tampa, i know bracing for the worst-case scenario. we can see the rain falling on you starting to feel those outer bands are rain is starting to pick up and moments there's a little bit of a gas, but we know these conditions are only going to get worse, right now. we're in front of tampa general hospital. we're keeping an eye on the hillsborough bay we know that from helene, the storm surge got so bad here that the water is actually touched and got several feet

high up to the walls of tampa general hospital. the region's only level one trauma center with milton. we're looking at worst-case scenario, double that storm search. so ten feet on up. so this is a precarious situation. we're keeping our eyes on. and of course you have florida officials telling folks that if you haven't already, please evacuate or seek shelter. we heard from sheriff chad chronister of hillsborough county saying that this is the 11th hour, please get out. this is your shortening window. time to leave the area. another matter of concern here is once these winds reached about 40 miles per hour, this is a community of bridges. you're going to start seeing the sunshine skyway, the howard franklin, the corny campbell causeway, these bridges beginning to shut down also first responders, not as willing to go out for their personal safety over in treasure island in pinellas county, one of the one of the barrier islands residents heard this listen

has been debris. all of this debris piling up here from helene still out in the streets, those could become flying projectiles, very serious and very dangerous. john very dangerous indeed, isabella solace in tampa again, please stay safe. >> this is just the beginning of what will be perhaps a catastrophic 24 hours. kate, just watching them as the rain begins to come down, the thunder and lightning, bracing for what is to come it's absolutely that. and also this video, just all the debris that's still left behind from helene. and what's going to happen when the water our comes in and the wind bracing is right. so life-threatening storm surge, it's a main concern, a big concern of florida officials. the record storm surge could be headed their way. we're going to talk to the local sheriff who is warning do not gamble with your lives with this one. we'll also talk to two people who are

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south of tampa in hillsborough county still cleaning up. look at this video. still cleaning up piles of wreckage from helene. and now basically a ghost town as many people, so many people have cleared out the hillsborough county sheriff, chad chronister has warned anyone thinking about staying and riding it out do not gamble with your lives and share chronister joins us now, sheriff. thank you very much. it's just basically brace for impact is kind of described these coming hours. we you've heard what the mayor said, your warnings have been very specific as well, the mayor saying if you choose to ride this out in these evacuation areas of the county, you're going to die do you agree the threat is that serious here i think there's too many variables. >> the storm continues to wobble. we know is going to be a lot of rain, a lot of flash flooding, a lot of wind, a lot of downed trees already saturated areas. and then we always have to talk about the deadliest of them all, the storm surge, and we don't know what that's going to be like why gamble, why would you gamble with your life for the

lives of your loved ones? >> you get out, even if it's outside the evacuation area to a hotel, to a friend's house. >> we know it's an inconvenience. we know you're going to be uncomfortable, but you'll be alive that is quite, quite something sheriff than that is so true. how are evacuations going? i mean, do you have a sense of how many people you think are staying behind versus ever people by people listening to the evacuation orders this and i'm very happy, i think is going phenomenally well, two days ago issue to evacuation orders and we saw the traffic on major highways with individuals leaving. >> we even work with the highway patrol and open up the emergency lane, help give those individuals who wanted to leave the ability to do so? >> all the long lines at gas stations. i saw the long lines at grocery store and supply areas where people were getting those essential needs list i think a lot of people did heed the warning with a little help of hurricane helene. they saw

how horrible it can be. and this is going to be a lot worse. >> do you think hurricane helene was a wake-up call for everybody? mean you guys know storm's florida no storms, but just the serious turn the deadly turn that these storms are now taking it absolutely was a lot of years. we talk about hurricanes come in two years ago catastrophic worst hurricane in the history of florida was coming right for tampa bay and it changed and it went to the fort myers, naples area. >> these storms are unpredictable. that's why they call him the cone of uncertainty, because of the uncertainty. i think everyone saw during and helene, when they this time, they called for seven feet, storm surge and we got every inch of that storm surge. now they're being prepared. we knew then that lot of people didn't heed the warnings. they almost became a little too complacent the good part was as the wins never became too too sustained over 40 miles an hour and we never had to suspend service we conducted over our thousand rescues with armed fabius vehicles are marine unit with

air, air, airboats. this storm is going to be different when it becomes too dangerous. we're going to have to suspend services just too risky for our personnel who will be prepared and ready for that after storm response. >> so imagenet sickening feeling that i can't even think about when you figure it out. like, hey, i shouldn't be here. hey, i need help and helps not coming because at some point, people need to understand it's too dangerous for your teams to go out. >> they have to hunker down just like everyone else. there's a period of time when you are on your own in these deadly storms i saw officials in orange county have actually told residents that they want them to be finished with preps and hunkering down by 90. today. what what what's your advice is that what you want to see with folks? >> i think that's great advice. i know the county a lot of people are putting it out that hey, listen, be where you're going to be by 7:00 a.m. today. uh, benefit that came with the storm slowing down a little bit? yes, it's more powerful and there's a lot of disadvantages was that it allowed us the opportunity

to have more time to plan. but i think anytime after lunchtime today hey, we're really going to see these conditions deteriorate. so my recommendation be if you're going to go somewhere, if you're not hunker down and sheltered in for this storm, you better do so now basically that should everyone should think of that as their deadline to hunker down and be in place. sheriff. thank you very much. good luck in the next couple over the next hours. we're going to keep in touch with the sheriff there and hillsborough county. we're also going to hear from two people who decided to ride out the storm on a barrier island near st. petersburg. why they're doing that. and what they're preparing for. on the other side of the country. as sin city send off for the famous tropicana hotel and casino

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right now, we're looking at anywhere between eight to 12 feet of storm surge depending on exactly where this hurricane ends up tracking everything here behind me along the kaluza hatchie is going to flood if these forecasted storm surge a holds a large part of the reason that this takes place is because the kaluza hatchie river runs from lake okeechobee in central florida out into the gulf of mexico. and so that kind of topography really allows itself. it lends itself for the fact that when all of this water begins to rush in from the gulf of mexico, when you add in all of the rainfall that's expected to hit this part of southwest florida. and then you throw in a high tide that water has nowhere to go. and so the river itself serves as a funnel and then at some point without anywhere else to go, the water is just going to move inland. yesterday, we were live about two blocks from where we are here in the general direction of downtown fort myers because that's really the entertainment

district. that's where a lot of businesses and some apartment and some hotels are. and they were the ones that we're trying to get ready for this storm surge. they had sandbags out, they had plywood up along the windows there, just about everyone that we spoke to yesterday told me thus, that they expect their homes and their businesses to flood now over and cape coral to the north of me, charlotte harbor is the same kind of lay out, the same kind of topography. they've also got a rubber, a river rather that runs from central florida out into the gulf of mexico. and so those folks are going to see the same thing that we're seeing. and that of course the further north you get, you're going to get into tampa in the tampa bay area. and so as we get ready for this hurricane to continue on the path that it is on, that is kind of the overall sense out here. yesterday, i did drive around parts of southwest florida that were hit pretty hard by hurricane ian, including fort myers beach and john, i had to tell it was pretty much a ghost town. most of the folks there had to leave yesterday because there was a

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feet high. and milton storm surge could reach a foot higher than that? so it is impossible to know with certainty at this point where this is all going to hit. and when. but the places that are facing these catastrophic levels of surge from tampa on south, we're talking sarasota venice, port charlotte, punta gorda. this is how high it could get there and when you see he's a surge, this surge in relation to just an average human in a in a normal-sized room it is clear why officials are saying get out now all right, kate, thanks so much for that with me now is transportation secretary pete buttigieg. we are standing in what would be underwater in kate's demonstration right there, secretary what do people need to know about the roads in the airports, the transportation system. now, and what will they need to know tomorrow and going forward. >> so by far the most important thing to note is if you're under evacuation orders, get

out listen to those who are warn you in areas where it's not safe. and so many responders are doing their part to facilitate that process. we're working through our federal highway administration with florida's dot and local officials scholes, things like making sure that the shoulder can be used to effectively add a lay-in on i4 or i75 anything to facilitate that process? when it comes to airports, the airlines have added capacity and capped fares going out of the affected airports. but most of those are either close or they're about to close. so mainly we're talking about surface transportation now when it comes to evacuation sometimes by the way, the evacuations are shorter than you would think. it's a matter of just a few miles to get from a place that would be totally inundated to a shelter or a place that's centered safe. but again, if you're under those evacuation orders, listen to them, then you've got the maritime piece that's mainly a

story for of course, after the storm has passed, but we're very focused on things like port tampa bay. we're about 40% of refined petroleum that comes in serving the state of florida comes through. we just won't know until the damage assessments through how long it's going to take to get that port back up and running. >> have you had a deployment like this or preparations like this for anything you've seen before, we'll look as i speak, we're in the middle of the response to hurricane helene that continues to be a major efforts spanning multiple states. and again, that's everybody from federal highways to the federal aviation administration involved. i remember seeing the wreckage of hurricane ian flying up with the coast guard when that hit florida, a couple of years ago. but i have never seen a storm with the destructor at least since i've had this assignment with destructive potential, were talking about with milton, one of the things that everyone is dealing with now, particularly the government in its response to helene and preparations for milton misinformation, you had an interesting conversation with elon musk just a few days ago about misinformation that he was spreading?

>> yeah. i'm a big believer in picking up the phone. so i saw information that he was putting out that didn't seem right to me. it suggested that the faa was preventing emergency flights, which is definitely not the case so i encouraged him to talk to me. that's what i i would do with any major business leader who's encountering a problem and we spoke and found that there was an issue. it wasn't that the faa or female was preventing emergency operations, but there were some coordination issues on the ground. we've talked about it and got the information that was needed and that issue was resolved. so i guess the moral of the story for me is for taking to twitter, getting online, work through things, through credible sources and often the most credible sources in these disastrous scenarios. in addition, of course, to fema, is folks on the ground, your local first responders? >> has that may miss information go away? has elon musk stop spreading? >> unfortunately, no, we have a massive misinformation problem and this is something that

actively harms the ability of responders to do their job. i think a lot of it's driven by politics. some of it's just the internet doing what it seems to do lately u.n and amplify the loudest or strangest thing that is being said. but this is, this is a real problem with life and death implications because one of the most important things you need in any disaster scenario, you need power you need water, you need transportation, you need information. good accurate information. that's what this administration will provide and that's what we're also of course, counting on the media to make sure it gets out. the information is part of the infrastructure of disaster relief it really is the new york times had a story out today, and this is part of the helene response that now is part of this misinformation that's been spread. >> there are anti-semitic and violent attacks being posted about officials involved in the response they were running about the mayor of asheville, north carolina who is jewish and fema director of public affairs, who's jewish post that question, ms rothenberg, as the fema director of public

affairs, loyalty to the united states because of her jewish heritage, had more than 4 million views on x and other posts that called out mayor manheimer, the asheville mayor is faith racked up nearly 13 million views so on the platform, this is horrific. any kind of hate, and especially in a week like this week as we recognize the anniversary of october 7 seeing that kind of anti-semitism showing its face on american soil or anywhere else, calls for immediate unequivocal, swift condemnation. and unfortunately, we've seen this sort of thing snowball. we know where it leads. it leads nowhere. good. and the public servants who were attacked there and so many other public servants are getting up in the morning. i know what it's like to be a mayor who is facing a disaster. we're talking about a mayor who is preparing the community for everything that's coming their way. and i know the team at fema up professionals who are by the way, confronting multiple major national disasters at the same time, doing it with incredible

professionalism. i was at the nrcc. that's the national coordination center. we have u.s. dot personnel embedded to work the transportation piece. these american public servants are doing extraordinary work to help save lives and help get people back to normal secretary transportation, pete buttigieg. the message the most important message you're sending today, listen to your state and local officials right now on the florida coast, get out while you still can. thank you so much. thank you for being with us. >> and hearing from some local officials, at least some people are definitely listening because you can look at the traffic that we've seen all along the highways as people are trying to get away from the coast of florida. this we're looking at, this is naples florida. despite all the pleading though, that people have heard to seek safer ground despite seeing this traffic at people, a lot of people were getting out. there are still people choosing to stay to ride this one out cnn's paul murphy actually spoke with some of those people. he's live in st. petersburg for us. paul, what did they tell you?

>> joe? we're here in st. petersburg. >> we're in one of the barrier islands in the gorda mouth of tampa bay these two people despite what officials have said, we're in evacuation zone a here, this is going to be the worst storm firm area or the tampa bay the greater tampa bay area. they said, look, we're high above the ground. we are in a cement structure. we believe that we're safe. now, what you're seeing are this bridge, this is, that is the dawn saves our hotel right there this is pretty much far as you can get. >> you cannot go further. >> these cars that you see here all of this area was really devastated and leave the storm surge really did a number on these barrier islands and so what age or concern is, is that the debris that is still up in front of these houses that they have been trying to clean up. >> these votes that you see still in their dogs that were not picked up by helene their concern is that is going to come over with the storm surge with the wind knocked out

windows some of these people have stormed stutters some of them have hurricane windows one person we talked to you doesn't have hurricane windows, but they have a central farewell that they can hide in as things get bad again, what you're seeing here, you just showed pictures out of naples showing graphic people leaving you're not seeing traffic here that's good news, probably for official. there is no one on the road here. >> people have left and the people who are saying they now know that there is help once the one wants the situation here gets bad, their help is not coming for them. >> they knew that they knew the risk that they're taking, but they were more concerned about coming back and not being able to get to their homes. they wanted to stay put officials aren't going to like that, but that's just some floridians as well as a floridian myself, it's just hard to get good people to leave their properties okay. >> yeah, i'm paula, we're seeing mean you're you're in some rain right now and we

heard from the hillsborough county sheriff who's so don't gamble with arrives it's going to get a lot more gross for sure. fall thank you so much. lot more to come, john all right. >> new this morning, cnn has learned about allegations of sexual assault that are plaguing the cia results from an internal survey show 28% of respondents experience at least one instance of sexually hostile environment while employed, there. cnn's katie bo lillis is with us now this is an exclusive katie, what have you learned john, i've been doing a lot of reporting on this series of allegations of sexual assault. >> that's kind of spilled out in public court mostly and misdemeanor court in virginia and i'd started hearing from some of my sources about some particularly egregious allegations of assault at the agency that hadn't been publicly reported. one, especially upsetting story involved a young female employee who as alleged that a more senior officer came to her house with a gun demanding sexual relations. that person

has since been fired from the cia, but i got to i got to be wondering how widespread is this problem at the agency, right? do they have a uniquely high incidence rate of sexual assault at the agency or are they struggling with rafah? plead the same problem that broader society and other sort of large traditional organizations are struggling with. and i came to find out that the agency had recently done this internal survey and they found that of the 25% of its workforce that responded. so we should emphasize that there's some of this data is limited. they found that of the 25% of the workforce that responded, 7% it reported experiencing some form of unwanted sexual contact, contact, or assault during the course of their entire career at the agency. so this could potentially be conduct that spans decades. that's compared to just a little under 6% of u.s. women across the nation. the agency also found that 1% of its respondents express periods to this in the last year. that's dramatically lower than the u.s. military,

for example, which has really publicly struggled with its challenges with sexual assault what is the cia doing about this? katie yeah, the agency has sparred, sparked a really kind of widespread and major reform effort over the course of the past year. >> one of the unique challenges that the agency has is that in many instances, both the accused and the alleged victim are undercover. so their very eyes identities are classified as well as sometimes even the location of the alleged assault, right. so this poses like a big logistical hurdle for the agency when it comes to reporting allegations of sexual assault to state and local and federal law enforcement. so one of the big things that they've done is higher a dedicated federal law enforcement officer whose job it is to facilitate some of these interactions with local law enforcement in large part because victims have alleged that at least in the past the agency had sometimes discouraged them from going to law enforcement, but i talked to chief operating officer more burns who said, look, we

understand the agency. does have a problem. we've gotten even one victim is too many we have a problem, we have to deal with a senior officer that i talked to said, look, this is a cultural issue with the agency. we have unevenly punished sexual assault across over a course of years, right? sometimes people get off, sometimes they don't. that's the big target for the cia now is standardizing its approach to these allegations. john katie bo lillis, a cnn exclusive terrific reporting. thank you so much vice president kamala harris on the trail and slamming donald trump. >> why she says he quote, lacks empathy. >> the latest from that related from the campaign trail and a vegas style farewell for the famous tropicana casino plaques or i.s.i.s. helped me back now with skype resy, i'm

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>> he is brought to you by fib guard high, true law and vip guard but elections i think are won on vibes because one of the old saw is, is i, they just want somebody that they can have a beer with. so would would you like to have a beer with me so i can tell people what that's like the last time i was at a baseball game with doug there you go brewed. >> we might add a swing state. was vice president harris show with stephen colbert are all part of her media blitz with us. now is republican strategist, former advisor iser to senator tim scott's presidential campaign. matt gorman will get your name in there. also, former biden white house director of message planning, meghan hays. i just wanted to play the bureau clip because it reminded me that we've had two presidents in a row who don't drink we always

say we won't have a president. you'd like to have a beer with, and we've had, you know, eight years of presidents don't think i'm not saying that's good or bad. i'm just saying it is. i'm going to move on now to something that matters which is this storm is bearing down. it's impossible for me to believe that it won't have an impact. one way or another on this presidential campaign. it will become part of the campaign. it is interesting how the different candidates are dealing with it. i want to play a little more from vice president harris talking about donald trump's attitude about information and misinformation in regards to these storms, listen would you have done something differently than president biden during the past four years? there is done a thing that comes to mind in terms of and i've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact have you know, empathy, man for the suffering of other people. have you, no

sense of purpose if you purport to be a leader, to understand that being a leader means lifting people up in a time of need and not manipulating wanted to ask first about meghan there. why is that an important message to be discussing now time their lives, their very scared in these situations and may the information that's being given to them from the government and from leaders like donald trump needs to be accurate. and when people are spreading putting misinformation and disinformation that creates a level of fear and distress that's not appropriate. and frankly people can lose their lives so i think that's what she is saying. he needs to be out there with the facts and getting it straight. and if that means that the biden administration is doing something that's helpful to these people. and he just needs to say that he needs to not be reading facts that can cause people there live and i think that's where she was going with that when the storms occur because we saw with helene some of the misinformation and

disinformation was extremely dangerous to people on the ground that we're out of touch for several days. >> matt, if you can't address the question of empathy as a campaign issue first and then address the second part of that clip that we played a little early there, which i they'll republicans are focused on, which is vice president harris saying, in the interview with the view that she could not think of something she would do differently than president biden yeah. >> first one comes to empathy. i mean, how about empathy for the governor's facing down a cat five hurricane tried to protect its residents and it's state and you have kamala harris calling him selfish because he won't indulge new-look campaign stunt that she's never really involved herself in this sort of process before. and the same governor desantis, who biden has called cooperative and communicative but she's out there bashing. i don't think it's about empathy there either but you're right. and the other clip. i mean, that was a layup. i mean, it's like amazon prime days. i know he's going right now in october, but that was a gift from the hosts of the view to kamala harris to try and separate herself from joe

biden. she couldn't do i mean, that is a question >> that answer undermine that no, i don't think so. i think it's hard for you. no, you can't go on tv, ambassador bath, i don't think that's an appropriate thing to do either, but i do think that part of the issue here is that she's the vice president and she's here to execute decisions that the president makes. and yes, she's a part of the decisions, but they're not necessarily heard of vision. so i think where she needs to go a step further. are there and you could definitely lay out some policies where she's gonna go a step further on the economy and she starting to do that which would have been the most appropriate answer there, so that's how you separate yourself. but i do i don't think so. i think that people

see donald trump as a chaotic person, and i also think that the age factor comes into play here. and i think that that was clear when, when president biden was running and i think what former president trump i think that's what people are also saying. and if that they want a younger generation leading the country, i agree with you. never batch your boss on tv. i never talk about kate or sarah, any kind of way without the smote respect to bob woodward, jamie, again, gale obtained excerpts of this book from bob woodward, wish that are suggests that donald trump had moles we will conversations with vladimir putin after he left office. and donald trump scent covid test to vladimir putin early in the pandemic when they were hard to get in the united states. so the trump campaign put out a response to these excerpts yesterday very quickly and said, quote, none of these made-up stories by bob woodward are true oh, right. >> but then the kremlin came out and said donald trump, while in office, sent russian president vladimir putin

covid-19 testing devices during the height of the pandemic, we also sent equipment at the beginning of the pandemic pesky offset in response when asked about the book. >> i'm so mad that kind of undermines the none of these made-up stories by bob would were true thing doesn't it well, i mean, let's just take a step back. >> the kremlin historically, not the arbiter, and best truth-telling body. first of all that's number one, but we'll see, i mean, look i want to, read the book, it wouldn't be election season if bob woodward wasn't putting out bombshells and i think a lot of this will go around russia and ukraine and i think i'm interested to see more about this. obviously the trump campaign says it isn't true, but i'm interested in hearing more meghan i mean, the trump campaign also isn't the arbiter of truth here. >> so i don't necessarily believe their statements, but i also think this is not surprising that donald trump is talking to a dictator when he left office. so even if he's dead, he's friends with them. i don't think this is surprising. i also don't think it's really that impactful to the election. i just think

it's newsy information and it's kind of salacious, but i actually don't think it's important to what voters are going to vote on, which is b economy. so i think we can get back to talking about that. that would be most helpful to independent voters right? >> meghan hays, matt gorman, great to see both you. thank you very much. >> kate so source tells cnn that president biden will speak with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu today by phone and a phone call. >> they are expected to discuss israel's response to iran's missile attack last week, the call comes though after cnn reported that netanyahu told his defense minister to not go to washington on a planned trip yesterday to meet with u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin netanyahu, saying that he wanted to speak to biden first before approving that trip. this call today will be the first time the two leaders have spoken in 49 days.

hotel and casino, demolished after 67 years. on the vegas strip, its removal removal sound small for what just happened. there is to make way for the new home of the oakland athletics, the oakland it's when the tropicana opened. it was the most expensive hotel ever built on the las vegas strip at that time. >> the florida aquarium in tampa is making sure that its residents are safe ahead of hurricane milton, making preparations, staff there have moved their nine african penguins from their enclosure on the first floor to higher ground to avoid the possible very dangerous storm surge as we've shown you, other animals that you have temporary shelter ahead of the storm, snakes, lizards, alligators, and one hermit crab. >> the aquarium has been closed since tuesday, john, hermit crabs, by the way, live forever i say that as a father who has sons wants took them home from school and we're still raising them right. >> breaking this morning a major challenge for florida

residents racing to evacuate before hurricane milton lakes land makes landfall in these gas stations, gas stations are running out of fuel, seen as max egan is with us now, how bad is this? >> yeah, john, this is a significant problem where people are running out of time to get out of the wave, the hurricane, and some of these gas stations are running out of fuel as of 11:00 p.m. last night, roughly one in five gas stations across florida had no fuel that amounts to just over 1,600 hundred gas stations. and this isn't even bigger problem as you can imagine, in some of the areas that are facing evacuation orders in the fort myers region roughly, a third of the gas stations last night were out of fuel and almost a half of the gas stations in the tampa region had no fuel, no gas gasbuddy says that fuel is flowing, but this stations are just having a hard time keeping up with all of this demand from one people evacuating into from people filling up tanks because they want to be able to power their generators. the best bet if you're looking for fuel right now, where to go to the

major travel stops or the big chains. now, florida governor ron desantis, he tried to reassure everyone yesterday that the state is doing everything they can to bring emergency supplies to the station's that needed to take a listen to what he said over the past 24 hours as gas stations have run out. >> now there is no fuel shortage. fuel continues to arrive in the state of florida by port and what we're doing to bring it in on the ground. but lines at gas stations have been long. gas stations are running out quicker than they otherwise would no state troopers in florida or even escorting some of the fuel tanker trucks to the gas stations that needed the most john. one other point here is this is all happening before the storm after the storm, the big thing to watch is how much damage gets done to the port of tampa. this is a major port of entry for fuel supplies into a port that ends up supplies flying the entire