good morning. welcome to see cnn this morning. it's saturday, october 12. i'm victor blackwell. >> and on veronica miracle in for amara walker. here's what we're working on for you this morning her to bombs home. this whole neighborhood has been devastated and haven't even left the street yet recovery, rescues and the resilience in hurricane ravaged florida, hurricane milton is long gone with a deadly and destructive scars on florida are still evident we are in the storm zone this morning what the hell happened to aurora viral rescue aurora and every town that has been invaded and conquered, going to get them the hell out of our country former president donald trump brings more dark rhetoric and false claims about venezuelan gangs overtaking

colorado city as the 2024 presidential election heads into the final weeks, and deadly new strikes overnight and new warnings to evacuate northern gaza as israel marks its holiest day of the year, was sobering warning about the dangers of using some online pharmacies. >> the urgent new public health alert from federal officials. we have that for you ahead this morning. >> the number of those killed from hurricane milton, that number continues to rise. now, at least 17 people are confirmed dead. search and rescue teams are fanned out across florida there are still 1.8 million people without power across that state. and today, floridians are starting to sort through the pieces from milton's deadly tornadoes and historic rain, the high winds, all of it, super charged by climate change never, never have i experienced damage or the amount of tornadoes that came to this area? yeah. it was

the most frightening thing i've ever lived through. >> officials, are warning people to be careful not to wade into floodwaters as numerous rivers have overflowed. and in some areas, floodwaters have not receded yet. florida's largest power company also warning residents live power lines could be hidden underneath the rubble. >> cnn's brian todd has the latest on the start of the recovery across florida survivors still reeling from the destruction left by powerful hurricane milton. >> in hard hit st. lucie county. shane or stranded his wife, nicole and their dog had to scramble into a closet when a tornado hit them near fort pierce on wednesday, he describes when the twister slammed into their house, heard two bombs home is ringing, insulation everywhere. >> shane says when he opened his closet door, he realized he had lost everything. >> i walked the dog this

morning and that's when it hits me like when i see the neighbors with terrible damage, this whole neighborhood has been devastated and i haven't even left the street yet. >> robin long-term lives in the spanish lakes country club village neighborhood where at least six people died. she hunkered down in, held on as a tornado tore off the roof of her mobile home and i literally felt it lift up off the ground brown and jogged back down. and when i opened the door from the safe room, my roof was gone. >> robin was able to save her cats and two parakeets, but is still coming to grips with the loss of her home, devastating, scary definitely life-changing. others in the same senior community could not escape 66-year-old alejandro alonso's grandson tells cnn that alejandro and his girlfriend were killed the grandson describes alejandro as an amazing grandfather and a motorcycle lover it was living. >> its leader was in my house

for those who survived, it's still surreal. this woman hid in her bathroom as a tornado tore off her roof. >> it was very life-threatening. i felt like i was about to die, even the county sheriff's building was not spared. but as you can see here destroy this building crumbled the red iron metal destroyed lots of our vehicles. >> st. lucie county sheriff keith pearson told us the focus now is on rescues. >> we're not going to stop until we're able to rescue or recovery as many people as we can worse every body yet east of tampa, rescuers wade through knee-high waters to evacuate people inside homes in dover, guiding with a rope one-by-one to safety a floodwaters in lithia. >> got it this 77-year-old wrote out the hurricane in his mobile home in st. petersburg for a few years that i got left, i'd like to stay here and others slowly picking up the pieces i got to start all over again. >> yeah. i just everything i had. there's is no good. >> our cnn teams on the west coast of florida and here on

the east coast of the state, have spoken to several residents who say they're seriously rethinking the idea of still living in florida given the severity of the storms here to residents of this area have told us they would like to come back and rebuild in there current locations, but only if they can do it with stronger building materials. victor veronica well, president biden is planning to visit florida tomorrow to assess damage in areas hard hit by hurricane milton. >> he's also hammering away at the spread of misinformation about relief aid the president says he'll talk to house speaker mike johnson about getting congress to reconvene to approve more disaster relief funding fema has stressed, it, has the money to provide immediate help for those affected by hurricanes helene and milton but fema administrator has warned the agency will run out of funds before the fiscal year is up. senior cnn senior white house producer betsy klein joins us now from washington. so betsy, what can we expect tomorrow well, veronica, the president is planning to travel to

florida tomorrow see firsthand, really the scope and scale of that damage and destruction from hurricane milton. >> we are still learning more details about where exactly he plans fans to travel, but we certainly expect him to meet with some of those first responders on the ground that have been there before and after the storm and also some of the local officials. and we will see maybe if he does step into that consoler role. that was not something he was able to do when you went to north carolina earlier this month after hurricane helene, simply because the roads not accommodate a presidential motorcade. so we'll see if that happens. but the president has been briefed consistently every day this week, he has spoken with reporters really trying to get ahead of this spate of miss and disinformation some of which has been promoted by former president donald trump around the federal response. and here's what he had to say about working with republicans in the impacted areas we're talking a lot of republican mayors and governors are standing up saying this, not,

not sure why, but conservative hardcore, republican governors, hardcore republican rare but just got to stop has got to stop. i think those who have been spreading these lies to try to undermine the opposition are going to pay a price for it now, there are federal resources for those who have been impacted by this storm. >> there is aid from fema for homeowners and small business owners. there is aid through the small business administration. there is funding for renters through the department of housing and urban development, but all of this money during this very challenging hurricane season is running out and running out quickly. so president biden has said that congress needs to return and pass additional aid. now, he hasn't yet spoken to house speaker mike johnson says he plans to, but the white house is really still trying to get a sense of how much funding supplemental aid for the storm is needed. >> all right. betsy klein, so many people impacted by the storms. thank you so much. >> we'll all know this morning, a senior aide tells

cnn that kamala harris's campaign will release a report today detailing her medical history and health information almost a year ago, former president donald trump posted a letter from his doctor saying his health was excellent but has never released his actual medical records. >> and justin new polling from the new york times and sienna college among black likely voters, a major divide. harris leads trump 78% to 15%. >> so visited nevada last night where he continued to stoke anti-immigrant fears similar to what he said earlier in the day in colorado this. >> you can't live with these people. these are stone cold killers. you could be walking down the street with your husband. you're both be dead. they won't even remember they did it the following morning. you can't live like this so i hope that colorado will show a tremendous protest vote for.

what they did to try and keep me off the ballot. and more importantly, for what they have done to the fabric of your culture more unifying tone in arizona. >> she spoke to a group of republican supporters. she said she plans to create a by bipartisan council of it visors for policy feedback. if she is elected, now, both candidates are back on the trail this weekend, former president trump rally in california today, while vice president harris plans to visit north carolina tomorrow. axios, national political reporter sophia cai joins us now. good to have you. let's start with this news to poll just out in the last minutes. that shows among black voters, harris is it's 78% however president biden was it 87% of the exit polls from 2020 so what's the work that the harris campaign is doing to at least get close to that number

from biden in 2020 yeah, like 78% sounds like a high number, but is not may not be high enough for kamala harris. and you see her, here's her issue, right? >> she's got to have the base voters, which includes black voters in detroit black voters in philly, black voters in wisconsin. and she really needs those issues. those voters at the same time that she needs to get some of those swing voters, the suburban voters, voters who are on the edge, the protests, trump voters. so she's got to do these two things at the scene. in time, and she's really only got like three weeks left. >> you heard former president trump there in aurora, colorado. his name checked aurora several times over the last several years, claiming that venezuelan gangs have overtaken the city this is an immigration message. i think we have more to listen to here. so let's play a bit of it then aurora multiple apartment

complexes have been taken over by the savage venezuela prison gang known as tren day aragua and law enforcement all over the world. >> they know i'm all over the world they're savage gang. one of the worst in the world and they getting bigger all the time because of our stupidity. >> sophia, voters say that the economy is the most important issue. why is he closing out the campaign on immigration instead? >> he, believes that he won in 2016, the first time around and immigration and this time he believes it's the issue as well. i mean, why is he going to deep blue states? california, he's going to coachella, california why is he why was he in colorado? i mean he doesn't need to be there and it's very unconventional for a major party candidate to be in those states frankly, a

couple of weeks before the election, but he's messaging with his feet and his language is growing more for more extreme he's talking about how the country is being occupied or being taken over. aurora is not being taken over. in fact, he's put republican local officials and the very tough spot of having to come out and say, our city is not being taken over yes i mean, there was a little republican. >> what it was grossly exaggerated. continue your point there yeah. >> exactly. and so they've come out and have to say, look, we are a vibrant city, we are not being taken over unfortunately, trump is willing to use a city as a backdrop and as a result, cause a lot of chaos to the city let's talk about the vice president and this message that she says she will create a bipartisan council of advisers. >> she's already said that she'd put a republican in her cabinet she's of course, trying

to get those swing voters behind her. those disaffected republicans, any indication it's working >> look, i've been hearing from some and she's been using republican messengers like liz cheney, like the lieutenant governor, geoff duncan georgia. she's been using these, these republicans because she's trying to serve the message that you are allowed to vote for me as a republican i've been hearing from some that they're willing to vote for kamala harris simply because she is not trump and she is not joe biden. some of those republicans had concerns about joe biden's ability to serve and frankly, there's not a lot of talk from those republicans supporting comme la about kamala harris, you know, sometimes you'll just hear them talk about all all of the ways in which she is not trump or biden all right.

>> jd vance, let's play this ad by the new york times five times whether former president trump lost the 2020 election. let's play it election? i think that donald trump and i have both raised a number of issues with the 2020 election, senator yes or no. >> did donald trump lose the 2020 election? >> well, let me ask you a question about senator for vance. i'm going to ask you again to donald trump lose the 2020 election? >> did big technology companies censor a story is that donald trump did lose the 2020 election and his refusal to acknowledge that in this interview what does it mean? >> i mean, i assume that most people expected that he, the running mate of donald trump, wouldn't come out and say, yeah, he lost. of course, when the former president himself has lied and said he won for

several years yeah jd vance is a smart guy, but let me tell you why he is refusing to state the obvious it's because this is the issue that donald trump himself is unwilling to bend on the one issue he is not moderated on. he continues to talk about in his view who was stolen or rigged 2020 election. and he's also instructed his aides when he took over the rnc to focus not as much on a traditional ground game, but to focus on what he calls an election integrity unit and the early in those early months in the summer, early fall they hadn't more resources poured into that election integrity team than anything else. and they have 200,000 people poll watchers, poll workers who are pro trump, who are getting ready for the election. and it's it's really unusual and it's nothing like we've seen

before. and as a result, democrats have had a secretary of state's offices and election officials have had to get ready to respond in the very least, to be very transparent with what they're doing and how they're counting votes to combat trump's disinformation. >> well, the voting is happening now in several states and the counting starts in about three-and-a-half weeks. sophia cai thanks. >> coming up. cnn is live from tehran as we learn more about how iran is preparing for possible retaliation from israel, what the kremlin is saying about a revelation from bob woodward's book that trump sent putin covid tests in the early days of the pandemic. and a new warning from the federal government about websites claiming to sell powerful narcotics. that's all ahead week and asked questions like,

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escape as they come under gunfire and airstrikes food has also become scarce with no shipments entering northern gaza since the start of the month. the world food programme tells cnn that 1 million people are at risk of starvation in lebanon, at least four un peacekeepers have been injured in two separate attacks at israel's not taking responsibility for israel said it was responding to quote, an immediate threat. several european leaders, including those of france, italy, and spain, condemned the attacks. >> meanwhile, iran is increasingly concerned over how israel may retaliate for its missile attack earlier this month. sources tell cnn that iran has anxiety stems from uncertainty about whether the u.s. can convince israel to not strike iranian nuclear sites and oil facilities joining me now from tehran, cnn senior international correspondent, frederik pleitgen, fred how are iranians that you've spoken to reacting, are people scared and concerned?

>> i would say there is a good deal of concern here on the ground, veronica, this is early about this israeli possible strike here against iran, but possibly all of this getting out of control and becoming a wider conflict here in the greater middle eastern region that in the end could pit iran and the united states against one another. now, as far as the iranian government and those in power are concerned, there is still a lot of talk towards the israelis. in fact, the iranians are saying that if the israeli strike iran, that they will be quote, a crushing response from the iranians coming israel's way. now, yesterday, we went to friday prayers here in attack ron, and we also heard a lot of tough talk, not just towards israel, but towards the united states as well. here's what happened israel chance at the main friday prayers in tehran as iran awaits possible israeli retaliation for a recent missile strike against military installations inside israel. >> it's hard liners are trying

to send a very clear message to what the u.s and israel. ron doesn't want escalation, but if escalation happens they're ready for a bit hezbollah flags in the crowd and a giant poster of the slain hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah, recently killed in an israeli airstrike overlooking prayers. many here warning israel to back off they will see a very harsh response from the irgc, the army, and the people of iran. this man says, be sure that this will happen has really kept it and he says, israel has experienced this before. and if they repeat this experience, they will definitely finitely be destroyed ballistic missiles last week after israel killed hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah using several bunker busting bombs and wounded thousands of hezbollah members by making their pagers explode iran has

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