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the week, saturday, saturday, saturday morning. >> welcome to to cnn this morning its october 12. i'm victor blackwell and i'm veronica miracle in for amara walker. here's what we're working on for you this morning what the hell happened to aurora? >> i will rescue aurora and every three town that has been invaded and conquered, going to get them the hell out of our country former president donald trump doubles down on dark rhetoric. >> can false claims about better because whelan gains overtaking a colorado town as the 2024 presidential election heads into its final weeks. if you can believe it, we have new poll numbers on the tight race between trump and vice president kamala harris just ahead any breach to happen to me, nobody nobody expects it to happen. >> did them once the stories of recovery and rescues and

resilience in hurricane-battere d florida. >> milton is gone, but the deadly end struck the scars on florida. they're still there we have the stories for you ahead deadly new strikes overnight and new warnings to evacuate northern gaza as it's israel marks, it's fully a stay of the year and how keeping your heart healthy could help fight off dementia. >> we'll talk with a cardiologist about it too. all coming up ahead all right. >> barely three weeks now from the president it's eventually election and new polling just out this morning, the paper is still warm from the printer so those really tight races from new york times and siena college, a bit of a toss up in two key swing states. >> the new polling shows that kamala harris, taken a slight lead in pennsylvania while donald trump takes a slight lead in arizona a breakdown of the numbers shows that harris and maintains a large lead over trump when it comes to black, likely voters. >> but that lead has dwindled from the past two elections also, just in a senior aide to

the harris campaign says they will release a report on the 59-year-old candidates health and medical history sometime today? >> candidate health has been a hot topic during the election as trump and formerly president biden, we're the oldest candidates ever to run trump has revealed little detailed information about his own medical history. outside of this letter from his doctor that he posted on truth social about a year ago? trump is heading to another blue state this weekend, california, after visiting colorado and then nevada on friday, cnn's alayna treene was there in aurora as he continued to double down on his rhetoric against immigrants well, fresh off his visit to aurora, colorado on friday, donald trump escalated his anti-immigrant and dark rhetoric at a rally in reno, nevada, where he argued and repeated baseless claims about undocumented immigrants in this country, claims that have been debunked by local gold

republican officials on the ground. >> now, that speech in reno, victor and veronica was built by his campaign as being focused on the economy. however, donald trump said himself that he actually thinks immigration is the top issue and takes precedent over the economy and then spent a lot of time talking about the border. he touted that trip to aurora, colorado earlier in the day where he claimed that the city has been invaded and conquered by venezuelan gangs. and again, called for the death penalty, penalty for any migrant that killed and american citizen or a law enforcement officer, take a listen to what he said john kamala harris has reported a savage venezuelan prison gang. >> other than that defined people and i'm here by calling for the death penalty for any migrant that kills an american citizen or a law enforcement officer now, victor and veronica, donald trump's claims

about aurora, colorado has become such a central part of his campaign that he not only made a visit to that blue date on friday, but then used that language and made it a theme of his remarks in reno of course, which is ended the battleground state of nevada. >> and now this type of language, this fear mongering is not exactly new when it comes to donald trump, we know that he used this playbook in the leadup to the 26 it's teen election as well. however as someone who has been to the majority of donald trump's rallies, he is really ramped up this language in the final stretch of his campaign and using it to really stoke fear in the minds of voters about the immigrant threat in this country. back to you. >> alayna, thanks so much. vice president harris was in the battleground, state of arizona on friday, and she was focusing in on her republican supporters. cnn's eva mckend, was there vice president harris centering a country over party

message in arizona where she talks about how if elected, she would create a bipartisan council of advisers a clear attempt to pick up those nikki haley voters and republicans who will not support the former president and as harris works to rebuild the multiracial coalition that led in part to president biden's victory in 2020. >> she's also in spaces where she can reach black men to hold it account hall with charlemagne tha god tuesday in detroit, the radio host reacting to trump's comments, demeaning the city and asking breakfast club listeners to submit questions ahead of the event vice president kamala harris is a woman of color, black in india when trump says the whole country is going to be like detroit if she becomes president, he's telling folks that they need to fear america becoming two black i want local voices from detroit at voices from all the battleground states to get the opportunity to ask vice president kamala harris some questions. >> i know we got some pressing issues to talk about the future

of the nation is decided by who we elect. >> i'm told by a senior advisor or that event will focus in part on the economy and address obstacles to creating intergenerational wealth her next stops on the trail include a rally sunday in greenville, north carolina and erie, pennsylvania on monday, eva mckend, cnn, washington so let's bring in lisa rayam for analysis now, good morning. thank you so much for joining us. >> we're down to the wire 24 days away from this election, time is flying by and we just looked at new polling that shows that the candidates are, it's a tossup in two key states. >> so how either of these candidates get an edge at this point? >> i know three polls done in georgia this past week, and they are neck and neck and messaging, messaging. messaging is very important and you see that in georgia with the harris campaign bringing in the big guns recently, you have former

president bill clinton coming to the southeast. this week? yes. stumping for harris and he is the master messenger and he is just he's going to bring it in terms of getting the people to think about the economy, to think about immigration because that's where it needs to be with the facts, with the message and, just keeping the message on point so that voters get to the pole and so that they can really see where this polling is getting so that they can tip it in one way or or together. >> yeah. speaking of messaging former president obama was in pittsburgh on thursday with a message actually specifically directed at black men. let's take a listen to what he had to say. >> about sit out or supporting somebody

question president's. let's talk about the gender gap and how it's shaping this election. >> yeah, that message was really important because black man has been caught up in this confusion, so to speak. donald trump has been saying for many months now on that he had black males and his pocket, so to speak. he said that they were very disgruntled with harris because the economy, black businessmen in general and you go out and you talk to black male business owners and it just wasn't true. so he was

talking to those black males and just say come on now, don't don't get caught up in that rhetoric. get out and support kamalaharris like we know that you are doing and don't get caught up in his rhetoric that message was important and that was geared towards them yes, indeed. >> and speaking of former president donald trump, so his campaign is spending a lot of money on messaging around the economy, but as we've seen, that president, former president himself is focusing on immigration right now. let's hear what he had to say. >> i, will rescue aurora and every town that has been invaded and conquered. these counts have been conquered explain that to your governor. he doesn't have a clue. >> they've been conquered and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail or kick them out of our country. and we will be very, very effective in doing it.

it's going to happen very very fast. >> then again, them the hell out of our country do you think this messaging is effective? is it going to work? >> well? you know, right now, a lot of people are saying donald trump is all over the place because he's not making the dent with the economy like he thought he was. so now he's putting all of this out about immigration and some people are saying the kamala harris isn't as tough on immigration as she should be. so, you know, we'll have to wait and see. but right now, again, messaging and the facts is what's important. so if you're going to talk about immigration, you're going to have to come with the facts both sides of the campaign, both sides that kamala harris and donald trump. so we'll have to wait and see. but a lot of people are saying that he's gearing towards immigration because he couldn't make the dead with the economy like he thought he could. so again, we'll have to wait and see. we're in the 11th hour. so you're going to see these candidates all over the place did you expect it to be this close as we get so close to the final final day you once we

made the switch with you know, kamala harris and biden became a new game. >> so yeah, it's not that surprising. in this 11th hour that kamala harris is doing so well. but again, we'll have to wait and see because stranger things have yeah. >> except, you know, we are seeing that it's very tight and some of the battlegrounds extremely high specifically here in georgia. so anything can happen and we will see and they're saying that it may not be over after election yeah. >> have you spoken to any voters here in georgia in your home state? >> yeah. we've talked to a lot of georgia's who are still undecided. so you know, those people, you know, are waiting to hear is something that will turn the table when it comes to the economy. a lot of people are suffering and they want to hear that message that my. life is going to definitely change when this candidate takes office. and that's what they want to hear. >> all right, well, time is running out. >> yeah, it is it is lisa rayam. >> thank you so much. thank

you. >> this morning, the number of people killed by hurricane milton continues to rise, at least 17 people are confirmed dead. search and rescue teams are fanned out across florida right now, there are 1.8 million customers across the state without power, 30% of gas stations across florida have no fuel. the majority of the shortages are in the tampa st. petersburg area today, floridians are starting to sort through well, scenes like this brought to them by milton, the deadly tornadoes that historic rain, high winds. and they're all super supercharged by climate change never, never have i experienced damage or the amount of tornadoes that came through this area need most frightening thing i've ever lived through local officials are warning people do not go out in wade into the floodwaters. >> several rivers have overflowed in some areas and floodwaters have not yet receded florida's largest

power company is also warning people live power lines could be hidden underneath the rubble cnn's isabel rosales has more i feel privileged. >> he has been through the same thing. really get any expect to happen to me. nobody expects it to happen to them when hurricane milton barrels out of florida thursday morning, ralph and tina genito felt they had survived the worst of it but late thursday night, their daughter urgently woke them up, telling them get out. >> we left last night at 10:30 foot of water outside. so my daughter says he was going to come up even higher. >> milton's torrential downpour dumped ten to 18 inches of rain around the tampa bay area. and as a result, rivers and reservoirs overflowed and the danger not yet over as a river is forecast across as high as 25 feet friday night, a major flood stage. >> this area is not supposed to get this way it's not supposed to. we're the last road supposedly that floods. but now it's beyond us all the way to lithia long after the storm was

gone, ralph and tina unexpectedly forced to evacuate i think whatever they can carry into trash bags will be a long road. she's everybody knows it to cnn surveying the devastation firsthand by airboat with hillsborough county's sheriff. >> his message crystal clear. >> please get out now you know, we're we we have some people here that were rescue in that thought it would be okay. the water is not going down. the water is it's only going to increase. so if you're on the fence on whether you should leave or not leave, please. let's keep everyone safe. let's leave now. >> so many people now burdened with the thought of recovery, never predicting it would need a post-war evacuation more than 2 million people remain without power and more than 75% of the gas stations tampa area have no fuel. florida senator rick scott visiting the hard-hit area friday to assure the community, local leaders are doing everything they can to help with that recovery i'm here to make sure that federal resources are here. it takes you as individual takes local and state and federal work

together. so i'm here to make sure that we're going to do that there's another factor that's going to lead to these waters rising even higher neighbors here telling me that they are frustrated, they are angry because a flood protection agency will be releasing more water from a nearby reservoir that's fool that agency says they have to do this to protect the structural integrity of the dam and that if that dam fails, that will further endanger people. >> but neighbors here tell me that that's just going to make their lives even more hellish for days to come. victor, veronica isabel rosales. thank you for that reporting coming up, we're going to take you live to tehran. what the iranian government is doing behind the scenes to prepare for possible retaliation from israel plus president biden will head to milton ravaged florida tomorrow ahead. the horse harsh message. he's telling congress about disaster funding and why the biden administration is suing virginia over voter rolls.

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joining tens of thousands who had been ordered to leave this week. aid organizations say it is difficult for evacuees to 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 for un peacekeepers bruce have been injured in two attacks that israel is now taking responsibility for. israel said it was responding to an immediate threat to several european leaders, including those of france, italy, and spain, condemned the attacks, and iran is bracing for israel's retaliation for iran's missile strikes last week. sources tell cnn that iran is increasingly worried that israel will target its nuclear sites and oil fields. the sources also saying that iran's anxiety stems from uncertainty about whether the united states can deter israel from striking those sites. joining me now from tehran, cnn

senior international correspondent frederik pleitgen fred. how are the iranians that you were speaking to reacting to this news >> well, i'd say there's some concern, but there's also a great deal of defiance fans as well. in fact, iran's leadership has said that if the israeli strike iran, that there's going to be a crushing response coming from tehran towards israel and the other thing that the iranians they're also saying is that their support for hezbollah and their support for lebanon will continue. i'm actually quite interesting place right now. i want to show you ready donation drive for him hezbollah and for lebanon. and if we pan up, we can see that this is all taking place inside a mosque where the call for donations has happened. and then if we pan down again, you can see that there there's a big poster out here of hassan nasrallah, the second person on that poster is haba's, is abbas nilforoshan, who is a revolutionary guard commander if iran who was also killed in that strike, that. killed hassan nasrallah as well. and if we look over here, you can see that there are a lot of iranian flags and

hezbollah flags as well. so the iranian cnn's definitely making clear that they are going to continue to support hezbollah and that they are going to continue to confront israel and the united states here in the middle eastern region. and yesterday i was actually at friday prayers, the main ones in tech ron, we heard much of the same message, a lot of criticism of israel, but of the united states as well. let's listen then response from the irgc, the army, and the people of around. be sure that this will happen has really kept israel has experienced this before. >> and if they repeat this experience they will definitely be destroyed. they're getting cut with israel. >> they are brutally overseeing the bloodshed of innocent children, which is taking place. and both america and israel have a sharing this crime. they should overthrow the leadership of their countries kim with so those are some of the things that we heard yesterday. there at friday prayers here intact,

ron, at the same time, of course, you have diplomacy going on as well. >> the iranian president yesterday in turkmenistan meeting with vladimir putin of russia, but meeting with other leaders of the region as well and to bring all of this back to his bola and lebanon today, the speaker of the iranian parliament's he landed in lebanon and they're once again professor irans of support for lebanon and for hezbollah with a message from iran supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei's veronica fundraising event for hezbollah it's striking to see frederik pleitgen in tehran. thank you coming up, my president biden says, the house speaker needs to step up to start the process to approve more disaster funding ahead. what we know about when that money will run out and then the next day in our world, change, murphy has baby quayle has cao owns coming out episode says to the world, it's okay to be gay. george bush does not care about black people i never thought

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traveling with the trump campaign and this is cnn firsthand look at the damage hurricane milton did with a visit to florida tomorrow, the president says he plans to talk with speaker mike johnson about getting congress to prove more disaster relief funding. fema says it has enough money to provide immediate aid to those impacted by hurricanes helene and milton but fema administrator has warned that the agency will be out of funds before the fiscal year ends. >> cnn senior white house producer betsy klein joins us now from washington betsy. the precedent is also pushing back strongly against lies about the hurricanes. what can you tell us? >> well, veronica, we are learning that president biden does plan to travel to florida tomorrow to be on the ground and really witnessed firsthand. the devastation and destruction from hurricane milton. now some of the details about that trip where exactly he's going are still coming into view but we do expect him to meet wi