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i feel like it's a one-hit wonder. don't quote me on that, what i just said, but i think it's a one-hit wonder. stuart: good morning, everyone. it's 10:00 eastern straight to the money please, half hours worth of business the dow is down 40 not much, but the s&p is up 37, look at the nasdaq go. tech is doing quite well. 200 points up for the nasdaq, and all of the big tech companies are very much in the green. nvidia i think is a new high actually at 139. alphabet, microsoft, apple, amazon, they are all up, technology doing well. the price of oil, not doing much it's down $0.96 at $74 a barrel, bitcoin is on a roll, 65, 200 as of now that's a look at the markets and now this. we're in the home stretch for the election. the time when many people makeup their minds and the democrats are in panic mode. their candidate kamala harris has lost momentum. at this point she's losing and she's running out of time to get her mojo back. this moring she released her

plan to win back the votes of black men and it includes 1 million forgivable loans for black entrepreneurs. that's desperation. it's also condescending, not a winning strategy. over the weekend, she said trump was unfit for office, and that he, he, trump, was hiding. bit of a stretch isn't it? the media is rushing to her defense or rather rushing for nitpicking trump. case in point, martha radditz on abc saying only a handful of apartment complexes have been taken over by migrant gangs. she never thought to criticize harris for letting the gangs in in the first place. on nbc, the anchor was concerned that trump's medical records did not reveal his cholesterol level. no criticism of harris for covering up joe biden's chronic mental decline. the panic has invaded the campaign. axios reports tension is rising between the harris and biden camps. we are told that biden aids are wounded by his being pushed out of the election.

harris aids want her to be more different from the failing biden presidency. there be no tension if harris were running away with it, but she's not. the new york times says harris struggles to win over latinos, same with black voters. support among both demographics is shrinking. she can't win without them and another negative the democrats have lost almost all of their voter registration advantage. these things count. the state of play is this. trump is on a role. harris has stalled and is actually falling behind. the election is three weeks from tomorrow. the second hour of "varney" is just getting started. steve forbes with me now. all right, steve. trump has the momentum. can he keep it up? >> the answer is yes, if he accentuates positive things like tax cuts, versus her big tax

increases. regulations. i'll let you keep your car. i'll let you have a gas stove. i'll let you have a dishwasher that actually works under an hour and will do a load of dishes and things like that. if he hits those positive things and points out, hits the question, which reagan asked, and everyone has asked, are you better off today than you were four years ago and even more, do you think you'll be better off under more biden-harris policies. stuart: can harris regain the momentum? is there any way in your opinion she can do it? >> she didn't differentiate herself from joe biden. she didn't come out with really good new proposals. she came up with a few of minor ones that actual actually end up doing more harm than good so she didn't differentiate herself on "60 minutes" when she had a whole national audience. no that's why the desperation is there and the republicans better not get over-confident. stuart: i'm waiting to listen to what trump had to say about renegotiating trade deals. watch this. >> i want to take advantage, you know, the car industry. i want to, which lets me do

that, so i put a clause in, the harness clause i had with them was i want to be able to see how it's working and i want to renegotiate. >> what about us mca? what do you want to renegotiate? >> there are always things you can do better. i've got a clause that gives me the right to renegotiate it. we've been screwed by mexico and by china and by canada and by the european union. stuart: wait a minute. we've been screwed by mexico, canada, and china. steve? i think it's an old fashion tree trader. what say you to the nation we've been screwed? >> old fashion i'd use a different adjective there. but it's monday morning. but anyway, this is what i think prime trump negotiating. you look at his campaign rhetoric in 2015, 2016, when he's talking about tearing up this deal and that deal and what happened when he actually got in office. they sat down and updated

the nafta agreement so i think this is a preliminary softening up your opponent saying promising, you know, blowing up the world and then sitting down and cutting a better deal. mexico has a new president and they are already violating the current agreement in terms of ability of us firms participated in the energy industry, having fair access to court system which they are up ending in mexico, so there's plenty to talk about, so i think this is prime trump negotiating tactic. stuart: get on with it. steve forbes thanks for joining us. >> thank you. stuart: madison what's j.d. vance saying about trump's proposal to hike tariffs? >> he says that it's necessary for both our safety and for our stability as a country to put economic pressure on foreign competitors, so that we're not fully dependent on "chinese slave labor." so vance argued we're on a path where everything from pharmaceuticals to weapons of war could be made by foreign countries that don't like us very much, so take a listen to

what he had to say on fox news sunday. >> if you're a foreign competitor, working in china, using literal chinese slave labor at $3 a day, an american middle class worker is never going to be able to compete on cost alone. we can compete on quality with those foreign slave laborers in china. so if you're going to use slave labor in china what a tariff says is that you're going to pay a fat penalty before bringing those products back into the united states. reporter: vance went on to say that we have tried the experiment of shipping our jobs to china and building prosperity off of that and it's a failed experiment. makes us quite vulnerable as well. stu? stuart: what's this about some tension between the biden and harris teams? >> yeah, this is super interesting. in the final days of a race you really want all hands-on deck, but what we're hearing is that harris and biden, those teams are at odds so it's being reported that biden aids are upset with the president being pushed out and still, today, they are not comfortable with being the supporting staff of

the harris campaign. meanwhile, the harris staff is saying that the white house is not coordinating with the campaign. kind of undercutting her big moments. for example, biden gave an impromptu press conference in the white house on friday. at the same time that harris was about to do an event in michigan, so probably grabbing some airtime from the candidate but keep in mind, biden is dealing with multiple natural disasters hitting the south so obviously there is a precedence there, and then some of this criticism, what we've learned from fox news reaching out to sources, there's criticism that harris is cause playing as president. they laughed that off and said no comment and what the sources are telling us is that biden wants harris to win. that is the priority, but the harris team is annoyed they aren't always coordinating. stuart: there's a but coming there at some point. >> no but. stuart: wants harris to win, but. >> but the aids are upset. that's the but. stuart: that's the bottom line. back to the markets dow is down

a mere 50 points but the s&p is up 30, nice gain for the nasdaq and big tech it's up 182. jeff cica with me. tesla's robotaxi event last week didn't do much to impress investors. the stock is at 215 down a little. where do you think it's going from here? >> i think the robotaxi event was this big hyped up hollywood thing. i think that it met the expectations when it came to hype but let's face it. that robotaxi would take an act of god for me to get in that robotaxi the way it is now. to me, it looks like a little coffin wheeling itself without a driver which is frightening. stuart: waymo is operating successfully in a couple of cities in america i think. >> it is but here is what triple a said. now it used to be 52% of people wouldn't get in a fully autonomous vehicle. now they are saying it's more like 75% so people are not

becoming more confident with this. even with the driver-assisted vehicles, those driver-assisted vehicles for tesla have had 700 accidents with 17 fatalities but those are driver-assisted not fully autonomous but investors need to get comfortable with this , stuart, because it is right now, tesla's pushing $780 billion in market cap and what i wanted to see in this event is i wanted to see what they're going to say about their vehicles and elon has been talking about rolling out this less expensive tesla and i wanted to hear about that and he didn't mention it. stuart: i want to make the point that the successful spacex launch over the weekend was really spectacular. look at it. that's it. the booster is coming back down to land perfectly. it's really amazing. that's completely separate from tesla stock, right? there's no connection in terms of the stock price. >> no, but spacex will be public at some point and elon

musk, let's face it, he is a genius. we have to respect all he's done, but as an investor, you have to look at the revenue. you have to look at the earnings, and it's can these things deliver earnings when we want them? stuart: i think it probably will but more on this a bit later. jeff sica, thanks for joining us. always a pleasure. take a look at the movers start with, please, djt. after trump media announced the launch of its truth plus tv streaming service on the web. users can now access the content on computers laptop, mobile phones the stock is up 6% as we speak. coinbase. they just did something i'm not sure i understand. they just completed the first-ever a.i. to a.i. cryptocurrency transaction. a.i. agents can now autonomously handle crypto transactions. investors like it. coinbase up nearly 4%. still ahead, saturday night live roasted harris. harris' non-answers, watch this.

>> name something you can keep in your glove compartment? >> vp harris. >> steve, look. >> [laughter] >> i was raised in the middle class family. stuart: [laughter] that was funny. if you think it's funny wait until you see some of the other impressions. they are coming up for you. j.d. vance holding the media accountable. >> the incidents were limited a handful of apartment conflicts, apartment complexes. >> do you hear yourself? only a handful of apartment complexes in america were taken over by venezuelan gangs? stuart: nicely done, jd. joe concha gets up on that a little later. over the weekend, trump held a rally in arizona. he promised to expand the border patrol. the sheriff mark daniels is on that, he's next.

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an executive order forcing the virginia elections department to make daily updates, including comparing list of non-citizens to people who registered to vote. federal prosecutors argued he is violating the national voter registration of act 1993 specifically a section known as the quiet period. it says voters who are in eligible need to be removed before 90 days within an election and youngkin's program will likely take lawful voters off the roles, even if a mistake, the doj says the quiet period is an important protection for voters because systematic removal programs may be error-ridden, cause for confusion and remove eligible voters days or weeks before election day who may be unable to correct the errors in time to voter maybe dissuaded from voting at all and youngkin in august after he signed the original order. watch. >> virginia elections should be decided by virginians, and that's why this executive order is so important because it does make sure that we have clean voter roles.

it makes sure that votes are counted accurately and it recognizes the fact that elections need to be trusted by voters. reporter: after the justice department sued youngkin is quoted as saying virginia and americans will see this for exactly what it is. a desperate attempt to attack the legitimacy of the elections of the commonwealth, and it's notable, stuart the doj also sued alabama at the end of september citing the same law. back to you. stuart: got it dave it spunt, thank you. over the weekend, trump held a rally in arizona. he said he wants to hire 10,000 more border patrol agents and give them pay raises. the county sheriff mark daniels is with me this morning. i'm sure you're in favor of this , sheriff, but my question is is manpower the real problem here? surely it's policy isn't it? >> well it is policy. good morning, stu, thanks for having me. policy is the driving force here. we see something in three and a half years i don't think i've seen in my 40 years in law enforcement that is you open up

the border, bottom line, and we're seeing record numbers and that's a fact. not an opinion on my part, and so with those record numbers comes so many tragedies because the cartels are exploiting it for their own personal gain and need and obviously, the drugs are putting in this country. stuart: but the 10% pay raise for border agents plus a $10,000 signing bonus, that would seem to be very helpful when it comes to retainingr agents who maybe walking away from the job at the moment. >> well that's true, stu. let me just say this. border patrol, the morale has been in the dirt the last three and a half years. i was not surprised when they supported president trump and the fact that he engaged with law enforcement all the way down to the sheriff's level, police chief level. he's a big partner with us, so what they seen over the last three and a half years is something they have never seen in their whole career because many agents i speak to on the southwest border, stu, not one is happy with what's going on. stuart: got it. j.d. vance got into it, i'm going to call it a heated exchange with abc over

venezuelan migrant gangs. sheriff you've got to watch this. >> the incidents were limited a handful of apartment conflicts, apartment complexes in the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns. >> do you hear yourself? only a handful of apartment complexes in america were taken over by venezuelan gangs and donald trump is the problem and not kamala harris' open border? you seem to be more focused with nitpicking everything that donald trump has said rather than acknowledging that apartment complexes in the united states of america are being taken over by violent gangs. stuart: sheriff? radditz never questioned harris had let them in in the first place. >> and that's exactly right. what is drugs and violent gang, and you hear these excuses and

they set that aside but these are people's lives and their quality of life and it's public safety. that should be paramount. it's amazing we buried that, stu, for politics. it just amazes me. stuart: a lot of us, too, sheriff thank you very much for joining us always a pleasure see you again later soon. vance also went after the new york times over illegal migrants. madison what did they say? reporter: it was a really interesting exchange. so the reporter was suggesting that a crackdown of illegal immigration would exacerbate the housing crisis that we currently have because so much of our construction industry is propped up by migrant labor. vance pointed out that the us has produced far fewer houses than it should have over the last decade despite record high illegal immigration. take a listen to the exchange. >> about a third of the construction workforce in this country is hispanic. of those a large portion are undocumented. so how do you propose to build all of the housing necessary that we need in this country, by removing all of the people

working in construction? >> i think that what you would do is you would take let's say for example, the 7 million prime age men who have dropped out of the labor force and people say well americans won't do those jobs. americans won't do those jobs for below the table wages. why try to reengage in american citizen in a good job if you can just import somebody from central america whose going to work under the table for poverty wages. it is a disgrace and it is led to be the american middle class. >> vance really knows his way around an interview, taking down the question, pointing out the faults and also offering the solution. of course it's important to note he's also argued removing illegal immigrants will free up the housing supply making more inventory available and also pushing down prices that way stuart: got that right. madison one texas democrat getting some backlash over her comments about the migrant gangs. all right spell it out. what did she say? >> she said that it was the maga gang and not illegal immigrants who were behind

the crime and unrest in communities. representative crockett insisted saturday that trump is spreading lies about migrant crime claiming his refusal to call out white supremacy is the real issue. stuart: dear lord. >> he said that we've got these cities and these towns being over-run by gangs and the crime is out of control. i absolutely agree with that and guess what? it's the maga gang, it is the white supremecists decided to descend on places such as springfield, ohio so i agree with them. i just disagree with who the problems are. stuart: what? >> the problems are him and his minions. this is a congressman from texas. this is the gateway for migrants into our country, so obviously, very clear why she's getting pushback for her comments. stuart: we'll move on i'd say. >> okay. stuart: in trying to woo male voters tim walz posted a video of himself loading a shot gun. what a bust. he can't do it. we'll have the story for you

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stuart: here is the headline, ladies and gentlemen. the dow just hit a new intraday all-time high, 42, 870 is where we are. solid gain for the nasdaq too up nearly 200 points. some of the movers i'm going to bring them to you. adobe it is adding a new generative ai feature to its editing software. longer videos and smoother transitions between videos. the together is up 3.3% solid gain there. how about the airlines. across-the-board there, we have some green. delta for example, is up 1%. $51 a share but that's delta. usually an outperform era monk the airlines. now this a recent new york times poll shows kamala harris struggling to win over latino voters. her lead amongst latinos is shrinking by the way that's what the that graphic implies. joe concha joins me. joe, it seems like harris is

stalling and trump has the momentum here. that's my big picture. what say you? >> yeah, with only three weeks to go, basically, stuart, so trump peaking at this time while kamala harris is 2019 all over again it appears with her candidacy because the more she speaks the more things go south for her and these numbers of hispanic voters are stunning, stu, because let's put all those numbers into context. hillary clinton beat donald trump by an average margin of 39 points in 2016. kamala harris is down by more than half that. it's just the 19 point advantage in that new york times poll and there are other polls where the margin is smaller and trump is slightly leading. one abc news poll stands out where it shows 66% of voters support mass deportation up 40 points from 2016, so there are three major voting groups, stu, seem to be telling us with that three weeks to go that kamala harris is in serious trouble and maybe facing electoral

landslide. the three groups are hispanic voters, trump pay get more black votes than any vote, any republican since 1960 think about that and he's getting unions as well. you see the internal polls by the teamsters where the rank-and-file overwhelmingly support trump so in states like georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, arizona, nevada if she doesn't start doing considerably better and that media blitz she did last week shows us she can't donald trump is your 47th president if the numbers stay as they are today. stuart: next one, joe. saturday night live marks kamala harris as about her being from a middle class family. watch this. >> i want to play the game. okay one thing, name something that could keep in your glove compartment? vp harris? >> steve, look. >> [laughter] >> i was raised in the middle class family. >> [laughter] stuart: oh, here we go. >> okay my mother raised my sister and me, all right all right? she worked hard and saved up. >> yeah, uh-huh. >> we had a second mother too.

>> okay? did that mother have a glove compartment? >> [laughter] >> a small business owner named michelle. >> we've got that. something that you keep in your glove compartment? >> oh, a glock, steve. stuart: [laughter] that was funny. i'm sorry we're sitting here laughing at that because that was genuinely funny but it's a change of pace for snl, isn't it? >> it is, stu, and that's who plays kamala harris, she's going to do to her what tina fey did to sarah palin. it is that impactful and look, this is now three weeks running where snl actually mocked in a benign way kamala harris and tim walz because the material practically writes itself because kamala harris never says what she means and never means what she says when she talks about being raised in a middle class neighborhood over and over and give when asked about how she fixes the economy that she and the biden administration helped make everything from food to gas and heating, more expensive and that's always the reflex answer. by the way, it's a lie she grew

up in a middle class neighborhood. if her residence in montreal, canada was middle class, sign me up by all means because that looks more like the upper west side in manhattan when you look at pictures but all that said the overall theme of this election is this. when kamala harris, stu, is even partially the focus, even in places like saturday night live as we was last week, it becomes 2019 all over again. remember, the last time she ran for president, she had to dropout before she got to her primary and home state of california. it was that bad and now, history appears to be repeating itself because again, if kamala harris can't make a simple argument in terms of what she will specifically do to make this country better when 75% of the people think the country is going in the wrong direction, donald trump is looking good at least as it stands right now. stuart: well said. joe concha always great. thanks for joining us joe. see you again real soon. coming up, take a look at this , thank you, joe, take a look at this video, remarkable stuff. spacex catches a giant star ship booster. that is a major milestone. there's the take off a little

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stuart: on the markets this morning there's plenty of green. the dow is up 16 points, 19 now. earlier it hit a new all-time intraday high. the nasdaq still up close to, it's just over 1%, 187 points. show me meta please. i'm sure it's up. it is it's up seven bucks at 5.97. stifel raised their target price to $663 per share. meta on the upside today. next case. kamala harris will be campaigning across the blue wall states this week. mark meredith is in erie,

pennsylvania. it's her first stop. why is she going there first? >> stu, well this is also a county that flipped back in 201o biden territory, so for the vice president, she certainly will want to compete here. she will be speaking at this arena behind me but you mentioned it. she's doing stops in other battleground states including wisconsin and michigan but the big focus this week, stu, is on reaching black voters because polls have shown her support within the black community slipping. this week democrats launching new ads focused on black voters and unveiling a new economic plan which includes million dollar loans for black entrepreneurs, focusing on mentoring black men. also trying to address health and equities when it comes to the black community and also once again vowing to legalize recreational marijuana. the latest new york times poll of black voters shows a majority do back harris, however, her support has slipped to former president trump and now, a major reason why her campaign is

pivoting to black men specifically. >> that's vice president harris, right? somebody who understands that black men in particular always aim to be strivers. they aim to be providers and aim to open up small businesses and be entrepreneurs. >> last week former president obama, he was here in pennsylvania and pittsburgh area. he also claimed he was outraged some of the black community was going to support trump. he said they were making excuses for why they were doing so. the vice president also heading to detroit tomorrow for a big focus on the black community. stuart: mark thanks very much. kamala harris has accused donald trump of being "unfit for office." madison, why is she saying and using that word unfit? >> well, she's using it a couple different context but the latest is she has released her medical history and trump has not. so, the vp is arguing that trump is hiding information, that because of that he would not be able to lead this country. take a look. >> i will not give you a

medical analysis of his fitness but on every other level when it comes to what we should expect in a president of the united states around having the ability to actually exercise good judgment both as commander-in-chief and as the leader of this great country, we know that he does not have the ability to do the job. he is unfit for office. >> so the great irony is that harris covered up biden's health issue for months, really for years. she was insisting that biden was fine even when it turned out she had likely declined so much he was really pushed out of the bid for re-election. listen to her insistence that biden was healthy and fit for office. >> i think you will see that we have a very bold and vibrant president in joe biden. >> because joe biden is very much alive and running for re-election. >> not only is he absolutely

authoritative in rooms around the globe but in the oval office and i can tell you this is someone who is tireless in terms of working on behalf of the american people. >> the way that the president's demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts. >> how things have changed. she was part of the team that said biden was vibrant behind the scenes, running circles around his staff. that was some of the reporting we got out of the white house, so the credibility on harris when it comes to who is fit for office, it's quite low, but of course, she's going to claim her opponent is not fit for the office. stuart: i'd personally put it at zero. thanks madison. a new global study finds social media use among teenagers strongly linked to anxiety and depression. dr. siegel joins this monday morning.

how would you handle it? >> well, stuart. look. we've got to work with what works. you could put all the bans and regulations you want and i don't think it makes the difference. i mean, the surgeon general was all over this a few months ago and a study showed announcements from the surgeon general have an impact. i think family values have an impact. i think if you say to your kids, you can't bring that phone to the table, it works. i'm okay with that in schools. i think schools are for learning, not for texting and going on social media and feeling bad about yourself. studies show that if you use social media more than three to four hours a day and your routine, you get a bad body image as a result so i'm all for less but how do you get there and you start with a regulations and the restrictions and the banning, and it makes it seem more attractive and then the teams don't follow you, so i think it's more about a strategy of alternatives like being more family involved. stuart: the parents i talk to though have a problem with enforcing time limits on

social media for their kids because the kids, they are smart with technology. they know how to get around things. that is a problem isn't it? >> you bet it is, but that's why you've got to start earlier and again, you can't get around it. they are going to use it but give them something else. more face time. by the way, here is the worst stuart. you're sitting at the dinner table. you're using your phone? they are using their phone. well that doesn't work. so be a role model. stuart: i'll try. all right next one, doctor. another study found covid infections could make people more susceptible to a heart attack or a stroke. researchers found the risk of a major cardiac event doubled for the three-year period following a positive covid test. doctor? this sounds like statistical fear mongering. what do you say? >> i knew you were going to pull out the fear mongering term. first of all, prior studies, this was from the university of

southern california, prior studies have shown that it correlates with severe covid so if you're in the hospital with covid or you had a really bad case, especially early on in the pandemic, 2020, you're more likely to see this because of something called the spike protein and we know it's not good for you and we know that if a lot of it gets into major tissues or organs, the brain and the heart it could increase your risk of long covid. this is just another way of saying long covid. i'm on the look out for it trying to figure out what to do about it. a lot of researchers going on metformin has been raised as a possible treatment as has ozempic by the way so they are looking into what to do about it. it's in a minority of cases and again earlier in the pandemic correlates with severe covid. stuart: can i just get back to teen use of social media creating some anxiety and depression? sigh want to get back to that. do you think that therapists are in anyway part of the problem because the therapy industry has expanded enormously.

>> i think so. i think that that's part of the problem in that it's not your friend. it's not your family, and it's somebody praying off of your unease. listen, a study from cdc last year showed 57% of teen girls considered suicide. we've got an epidemic of loneliness and isolation and sure therapists profit off that. you don't feel good about yourself come here. that doesn't solve the problem. got to get back to fundamentals and the pandemic made this a lot worse with all of the lock-downs and shutdowns and people separated from themselves and an iphone and social media does not take the place of a good old hug, stew astrazeneca. stuart. stuart: got it. doctor thank you very much indeed. see you real soon. thank you, sir. still ahead if trump wins he plans to put elon musk in charge of ripping the waste and fraud out of the federal bureaucracy if he can revolutionize cars in space we can work wonders in washington can't he? that's my take, top of the hour.

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stuart: on the markets a new all-time high, looking at 42, 890 it's up there and the nasdaq is holding on to a solid gain up 160. check out yum brands they own restaurant chains like kfc. well, kfc announced a new $5 original recipe chicken tenders box. got it out there. they are take on another fast food deals like mcdonald's $5 value meal a fractional gain for yum brands. north carolina residents still recovering from hurricane helene. helene i think it is. madison is in asheville. what's it like there, because asheville was just about demolished wasn't it? reporter: yeah, stuart. we are in the river arts district of asheville right now. it's a really popular spot with tons of bars, restaurants and shopping, but i wanted to give you a look inside one of those businesses. we're at 12 bone smoke house right now. it's a staple here and as you can see , pretty much destroyed. mud still everywhere.

the owner tells us that there was water reaching up to almost the sealing and they are even finding mud up into the attic and the owner of this restaurant tells us thankfully he has another restaurant location and it's fine, but he doesn't think that they can rebuild this one. he says employees here are all wondering what's next. >> to have it decimated in such a way is it's a huge blow to asheville, it's a huge blow to the artificial intelligences community. i do hope that it's able to return in some capacity. reporter: all over the western north carolina mountains people are spending their days cleaning homes, businesses, and going through debris trying to salvage anything they can. people are traumatized from helene and aren't expecting major improvements to their towns any time soon and back out here live here the school

superintendent says that they have not been able to get in touch with the families of 21 students post-helene and they also confirm that four students have died and unfortunately, all across the state, the death toll continues to rise and it's still unclear exactly how many people are missing. back to you. stuart: extraordinary. madison thank you very much indeed. my next guest is a florida resident and owner of real deal sport fishing. steven joins me now from clearwater just outside of tampa. steven, i know you were hit hard by hurricane milton. i want to know about the recovery. have you got your power back? >> i don't have power back here yet, no. thank you for having me on this morning, stuart. you can probably hear the generate or running in the background. stuart: okay how about the gas stations? have you got that? gas at the gas stations? >> i do have gas. we were able to get gas yesterday. the lines were kind of long yesterday. today they are a lot better. we had a tree down here at the house. we had -- it's a mess here and we really

had a double punch here because we had hurricane helene and then a week and a half later we were just starting to maybe open back up for business and hurricane milton hit. so it was a double whammy for this area. during hurricane helene there was water in my front yard, like behind me there was a lot of my neighbors had water in their houses. it really devastated this area. stuart: well what about your business? your sport fishing business? is that back up and running yet? >> it is not, no. i'm actually able to run, i think, maybe starting today. the problem is there are no people here. all my charters for this week canceled. i think i have one saturday still coming, so it's really had a major toll on the tourist industry here in florida. stuart: is insurance going to take any of the burden off you? are you going to get money out of this? >> i don't think so. i really didn't have any damage on my boats, so i'm not going to

get anything for the loss of my business. i just haven't made any money for a month. i've honestly the only income i've had for the past month has been live streaming on tiktok. stuart: wow. how about fema? have you seen any workers on the ground near you? >> i have not. no. i saw florida national guard here right after helene. they were cleaning up debris. that's really been it though. stuart: last one, steven. how long before you've got a full recovery for your town, your business, the houses, and all of the residents. how long, months? >> it's definitely going to be months we'll be open for business. there are definitely hotels open here, restaurants, there are a lot of things to do here still but cleaning out and getting all of the sand off everything, i mean, i have a huge tree here in my front yard i've been trying to chain saw for days. it's going to take months and i think everybody around feels the same way. hopefully, i'm going to have

power today. [laughter] stuart: well look. we wish you the very best of luck. sorry about the situation you're in. but come and see us sometime in the future and we'll see how you're doing. thanks for joining us. >> absolutely. stuart: see you later. still ahead, brian brenberg on tim walz's attempt to woo male voters. christian whiton on the us anti-missile system with ground troops to israel. karoline leavitt on harris team us saying trump is the one hiding from the campaign trail and jason rantz on the seattle times which claims a trump victory would shatter the seattle economy. how do they get to that? the third hour of "varney" next.

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