from the current president. >> we talked about that. you want to get in like an injection, get out, leave the medicine and everything behind to further that metaphor, but you want to go because the media will follow you. no one follows anybody like the media following donald trump. he takes that pulpit with him better than anybody right now currently on the landscape. biden could not hang for the entire news conference. we have yet to see the vice president kamala harris. we will report the news as it happens with all of that response from the white house. meanwhile, a former president is on the ground. people are very much in need. you hear the word prayer. apply it early and often. god bless america. thank you for watching "outnumbered." our coverage of helene and other breaking news points continues on "america reports. >> john: moments ago we heard

from former president donald trump as he gets to survey the damage in georgia caused by hurricane helene before speaking next hour and faldo stuff. the white house is said to hold a press briefing. not as expected a short time from now and we will likely get plenty of questions on the administration's response and reaction to it. >> john: we are getting worried that florida governor ron desantis will be holding a news conference as well. we will be monitoring all of these events and bring them to you. our coverage kicks off at the latest on the ground. >> get out of the way. >> this is the main road. the bridge. >> there is a building right there between those two. gone. all of this stuff, completely broken and flooded through. >> the storm had impacts far beyond our borders.

it's impacting floridians and a tennessee mountains. >> we don't have internet service. no nothing. that's the biggest problem. communication. >> i saw a dumpster in the parking lot. >> many more will remain without electricity and water and food and communications. homes and businesses washed away in an instant. we are not leaving until the job is done. >> sandra: what are we doing about it at this hour? so many in need of health. heart-wrenching scenes across the southeast at least 120 people are now confirmed dead. that number is expected to rise as search-and-rescue teams make their way to more worlds areas at this time. just heartbreaking scenes. catastrophic damage. our hearts, our thoughts are with all of those communities that are in pain right now. i am sandra smith in new york.

>> john: it's incredible to see what's happening in those communities. in all of this land. i'm john roberts in washington and this is america reports. helene carved a 600-mile path of devastation from florida to tennessee more than 200 people are waiting for the lights to come back on. >> sandra: the mayor said it is a catastrophic event and she will join us in moments. >> john: let's go to our senior correspondent a veteran of the stores. he is in asheville which has been so hard hit. how crews doing? they are getting help to people there. >> not a lot of motion on the ground. you can see from the scope of this disaster behind me, these were 18-wheelers. they are pretty much smashed and tack up on top of each other. getting the word out has been a challenge. people need the basics appeared they need food and they need

water. they are setting up distribution points at 2:00 p.m. to try and get that out and get the word out that there is food and water available. they are trying to set up temporary cell phones. that is been cell phone towers. that has been a hit because of huge anxiety to figure out who is alive and who is in trouble and also to connect relatives with each other. they are doing things here because of the storm the old-fashioned way. we have seen rescuers going door-to-door trying to figure out if people are okay and when people do come out and see what has happened here to the landscape many say they are simply stunned by what has happened here. >> it's a lot to process. the drastic change between what was and what now is. it's a strange feeling when you think of what the place looks lt now the soil is gone from where was cured the road is kicked up and you can barely recognize some areas and you are trying to figure out where am i.

>> even people who live here are asking where am i? that is how scrambled things are in asheville. back to you. >> john: it's amazing the way that these storms change the landscape so dramatically. steve harrigan on the case for us. steve, thank you. >> sandra: let's bring in actual north carolina. thank you for your time here please do give us an update on that situation right now. >> hi. thank you for having me. this is a catastrophic situation that we have and asheville. an unprecedented storm event. you just look at images of the flooding that we experienced. rivers at an all-time historic high here in asheville. we are in need of everything. it water, power, communications. you name it. food, resources, close. major challenge getting into

this area because we have three of our four main highways into this area with failures. it is a dire situation and we are still in an active crisis situation. >> sandra: okay. what would be the number one priority? we were hearing from residents on the ground right now that the biggest problem is lack of communications. the wi-fi is down, sell signals are down, people cannot reach emergency services let alone folks to come in and help recover from this. what do we do to get communications back up and running? >> i had a call on my personal cell phone last night from the president, from joe biden, and they are sending startling trucks to help with communications. we are having to stand up temporary to improved medications. our number one need right now is water. drinking water. and then food behind it.

trying to receive help. i've been in touch and gotten contacts from walmart and other resource providers. the red cross. i want to thank everybody. every volunteer, every neighbor who has been working around the clock to help our community, check on the neighbors, make sure folks are okay and try to make contact with those who are physically cut off. rose watched out and no communications. we can't confirm whether people are okay and people that are outside the city limits that are cut off because of road outages, bridges are out as you've seen. >> sandra: this was resident gregory harrison asheville, north carolina, speaking earlier today on fox about what they are seeing.

>> people coming to help. the ability to bring in supplies, food, water our number one. gases number two. cell service is number three and there's very little attention i feel like being paid to support crews coming into take care of us. >> sandra: where is the very little attention? what was the focus of that they are. is that at the local level, are you having a hard time at the federal level? what is the biggest challenge for you right now with getting help? >> just getting to us has been a big challenge. our state has been in constant munication with us. our governor roy cooper will be here on the ground. i am meeting him shortly after this. what we are beginning to do, we are beginning to do water and food distribution but we know we will exhaust the resources that we have quickly. we have others bringing

resources into us. i think things will start moving now but i don't want anyone to relax or assume that we've got this. we need continuous support both public and private support and we certainly -- from the state level and the federal level, there is help arriving and already here. we will need more of that as well as our private partners to help us in this recovery effort but we are still in crisis mode. >> sandra: still in crisis mode. we hear you mayor. this was the governor of florida, certainly you have his sympathy. he was talking earlier at a press conference about your state. listen. >> as damaging as you see around here, it is important to acknowledge that they are in really dire straits right now. what they are now facing is you can't get out of some of these

communities. you can't drive cars in. most of the roads are impassable and people need of relief. that is something that as americans we should all be concerned about. >> sandra: and we all are concerned mayor. we are with you and that was the governor of florida referencing north carolina and how bad you all have it there. that's hard to wrap our minds when we are not on the ground there just how bad this is to get that water to folks who are in some of these badly isolated areas right now. give us your final thoughts here on what the coming hours look like and your goals in the next coming hours and the coming days and where you see all of this heading next. >> you know, first let me just say our first responders have been amazing. they are working round-the-clock. our firefighters and our officers and all of the folks from around the country that are coming in to help us provide

additional services to do that search and rescue you are seeing, to make sure we are locating everybody and making sure they are safe. that's the number one priority. food and water resources. that's what we have to focus on right now, today. we will begin looking across the way at city hall and we are beginning water distribution at the center of town. that effort needs to continue and needs to grow. >> sandra: we expect to get on the update from the governor shortly. people are in desperate need of help. we are pushing to get to them and we know that is a major challenge still. mayor, appreciate that. and we will let you get back to work. we appreciate everything you're doing for your residence there. our best to her and her community. meanwhile, fox corporation has made a donation to the red cross is hurricane helene efforts and continues to be an annual disaster giving program partner which enables the red cross to respond immediately to disasters like helene and providing safe shelters, hot meals, emotional

resources to aid in recovery. visit red cross.org/fox forward or scan that qr code on that screen. john, it is unbelievable what they're going through right now. to the governor of florida's point, you think it's bad there, they have catastrophic damage in north carolina. >> john: it's amazing the way that the water collects in those mountain valleys and comes rushing right through those towns. able. franklin graham is with the president today but he has a lot to take care of back home and blowing rock where they are located. blowing rock boone area just northeast of asheville. it was really hard hit as well. and striking when you see the water levels in some of the trees. the water level has now come down but it was going through at 12, 15 feet in some points over the last 48-72 hours. just unbelievable what that region has gone through.

>> sandra: our thoughts are with all of them and we will continue to have live updates as we go through the next couple hours here. we should be getting another update from the governor soon. >> john: now this. >> when you are facing down the bully, sometimes you have to punch him in the mouth. sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate. now we should celebrate this incredible tactical and operational victory. >> john: it's israel on offense preparing to move ground troops into lebanon and its fight against hezbollah paired what will it mean for the state of play in the middle east. michael oren here to react. >> sandra: and hard to believe but it could be the last debate before the election peered what can we expect from vp candidatem walz tomorrow night

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>> the fact that israel may be launching a limited operation into lebanon. are you aware of that and are you comfortable with the plans? >> i'm more worried than you might know and i'm comfortable with them stopping. we should have a cease-fire no peered. >> sandra: president biden calling for a cease-fire as israeli ground invasion into lebanon is imminent. that according to u.s. senior official peered all of this aftf air strikes on beirut wiped out hezbollah's top commander. former israeli ambassador to the u.s. michael oren shares his thoughts with us and moments but first nate is on the ground in tel aviv for us at this hour. what do we know about this looming ground invasion? >> according to a senior u.s. official it will be smaller and quicker than the second lebanon war in 2006 that lasted 34 days and ended in a u.n. resolution requiring that hezbollah operate

north of the look on a river but that didn't actually play out in practice which is why 60,000 israelis are evacuating from their homes right now because of incoming fire south of the river at the hands of hezbollah terrorists. the next phase according to defense minister will allow the northern residents to return to their home so presumably he is speaking about the pending ground offensive that we have learned from the senior u.s. official and more u.s. troops are coming. a few thousand more troops are coming including fighter jets and squadrons according to the pentagon despite the fact that president joe biden said yesterday that was not going to be happening. prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke directly to the iranian people today. he said the iranian regime is the reason for their suffering. listen to this. >> with every passing moment, the regime is bringing you, the noble persian people, closer to the abyss. the vast majority of iranians

know the regime does not care a whit about them. >> take a look at this sandra. visited the troops ahead of this limited pending ground invasion this morning. hezbollah's deputy chief of staff said that the terrorist organization is ready for it. israel continues fighting several iranian proxies at once. an air strike in beirut this morning took out three palestinian militants in central beirut which was an area that had not previously been hit. a separate strike killed hamas his head in lebanon. israel also responded to missile attacks on tel aviv fired by rebels in yemen. israel hit yemen support city on sunday which is roughly the same distance from israel to tehran. ahead of this anticipated ground invasion and southern lebanon we are also learning that an israeli air strike took out a mission launcher that according to the idf was located less than

a mile from lebanon's international airport. israel said it could threaten incoming flights. we continue watching israel's northern border and we continue waiting a response from iran which has been relatively mute. >> sandra: thank you very much with the update nate. john peered. >> john: let's bring in michael oren the former israeli ambassador to the united states. it's great to see you. the last time israel went into lebanon you and i were there. we were standing by a tank and southern lebanon just north of mattila. things at that time did not go particularly well peered how do you expect they will go this time? >> always good to be with you john and i'm a veteran of two lebanon war as per the first and the second and neither went pretty well. clearly israel does not want to invade it. it's a limited incursion being twofold. it is to put distance between the israeli border and hezb

hezbollah. so hezbollah terrorists will not be sitting directly opposite israeli towns peered on october 6th you could put your hand through the fence, i don'td you would touch hezbollah. no one will go back to their homes along the borders as long as hezbollah terrorists are there appeared to push them back but there's another reason. hezbollah has been shooting a number of rockets at israel, most of them go up in the air and come down. they can be intercepted in the air by iron dome and other systems that we have but they have also been firing antitank rockets which have a flat trajectory and we can't stop them unless we take out the ridges from which hezbollah has been firing those rockets. >> john: the direct line of fire, those are tough to knock down. i want to go back in time to october 14th of last year when in israel, you wrote that speared sooner or later we will need to face the northern front peered yesterday hezbollah fired first. we've a golden opportunity to act with support and legitimacy

to open up a front against the organization peered such an action since a clear message to arab terror organizations and directly challenges iran. it was a controversial viewpoint that you suggested israel deals with hamas later and go after hezbollah first. they are doing at the other way around but you knew this day would come. >> better late than never. what you are seeing now is what dwight eisenhower called the wrath of an aroused democracy striking back on all fronts now. striking against the rebels in yemen as well and anybody else who will be firing at israel will pay a price. yes, we are going out lebanon now. i would've preferred earlier when we had a greater amount of ammunition and a greater amount of international support. we are going up a lot of international opposition including the united states which is calling for a cease-fire. as far as i can see the cease-fire would only benefit hezbollah and israel must resist calls for a cease-fire until the status quo has changed and hezbollah's push back and deterred from that border.

we hope that the united states and other clear minded countries will understand that this is an amazing opportunity. it is an amazing opportunity to change the middle east. to eliminate the greatest source of instability and bloodshed throughout the entire region and that is iranian influence and deal a tremendous blow to iran. >> john: that's a question that i had. what comes next. if you cut off the head of the snake doesn't die or does another had to grow back on that snake. is it like a hydride doesn't have seven heads. the guy who was taken over in the interim said that spirit israel was not able to affect our military capabilities. there are deputy commander's and there are replacements in case a commander's wounded any post. it seems like they are planting on fighting though i do know in the wake of what happened there on friday in iran the ayatollah got moved to an undisclosed location. he's in the cave now. so clearly folks are worried about this but does anything

really change? >> i would not write off hezbollah. they had 150 to 170,000 rockets in their arsenal. 100,000 terrorists under arms. yes, we have dealt them a very severe blow but i would not discount the military capabilities. and i would not discount the iranian masters of hezbollah after losing hamas and maybe after losing hezbollah they will be perceived as weak by their own people. so iran and the ayatollah who runs it iran are facing a mortal threat in this battle. they will fight back. that's why it's crucial that the united states and the west stand by israel because here is an opportunity which we may not see again and it is to bring about peace relationships and stability throughout the entire middle east. >> john: i know that israel did not stop either over the weekend they took out the head of hamas in lebanon and again, i have to ink a real quicker and

since this that the leadership in iran had better be worried. how hard would it be to get the ayatollah. >> everyone should be worried but again, to really hammer in that message, israel needs the support of the united states and our western allies because i want to reiterate, we may not see this opportunity again and it is important to mention that the sharif hamas leader who was eliminated in lebanon yesterday was the head of andra in lebanon. isn't that amazing? the u.n. organization which is the really corrupt and in league with terrorists. spoon the united nation relief organization was big and gaza as well. thank you for taking the time. >> sandra: we are keeping a live look at valdosta, georgia, where former president trump is expected to see peak soon touring the area peered you heard from the mayor on the

ground. talking about how desperate some folks are just to get water. communication, electricity for some of them. folks there in georgia facing a long road to recovery after this hurricane. >> john: 45,000 dockworkers prepare to walk off the dog at midnight tonight. will the supply chain survive such a shock? charles payne on that. plus brooke taylor is live at a port in seabrook, texas, with a preview. brooke. >> we have seen hundreds of trucks coming in and out of the sport clearing out all of the containers are ahead of the possible strike peered we will tell you where things stand after the break. help keep you? the secret is the powerful ingredient, apoaequorin, originally discovered in jellyfish and found only in prevagen. in a clinical study, prevagen was shown to improve memory in subgroups of individuals who were cognitively normal

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spew on the clock is ticking for 45,000 dockworkers and their employers to find common ground on a new contract peered by tomorrow they could be walking the picket lines all the way from maine down to texas. fox team coverage charles payne

is here on the toll it would take on the economy. but first to brooke taylor live in seabrook, texas. any sign that the 11th hour deal might be possible? >> it's is looking quite the opposite right now. all signs point to a strike happening as soon the clock hits midnight. both sides just can't seem to agree. we have been here for hours at census morning. i have seen hundreds of trucks go in and out of this port trying to clear all the containers. those trucks will probably not be allowed in here or in any court this matter. texas is the number one export state in america according to the port authority of houston. the port it's crucial for the nation's oil and gas supply. houston is the number one and exports of petroleum according to the houston ports. a strike would not only shutdown houston sports but dozens of ports across the country peered without workers, the flow of goods stops leading to empty

shops and rising prices. analysts with jpmorgan estimate it could cost the economy up to $4.5 billion per day. according to the long story association, they represent 85,000 workers from maine to here in texas. the contrast with the u.s. maritime alliance is set to expire at midnight. the union demanding higher wages and protection against automation and if that does not happen workers say they are ready to walk. >> i would be concerned currently if there was a closure for fresh fruits and vegetables because those are imported from central america and south america predominantly. inflationary prices at the grocery store. i would be concerned about automotive parts for manufacturing and automotive's.

>> i reach out to the union to see where negotiations at stand at this hour. i want to show you some of the statement here. the united states continues to block the path toward a settlement. the ocean carriers represented by u.s. and mexico want to enjoy a rich billion dollar profits that they are making in 2024 why offer long short offers an unacceptable wage package that we reject. sources tell fox business that they made a counter this morning but as you've just heard from there, the union said they are not meeting their demands. meanwhile president biden who has long touted himself as this president who backs unions or refuses to in despite the major economic fallout that this could have on us. john. >> john: broke for us down there in texas. no sign that the president is going to do anything about this either. fingers crossed it won't happen but it looks like it will. >> sandra: let's bring in charles payne.

charles, give us your prediction peered will it happen? >> i think it will happen. it is one of these showdowns that comes your own not too often and i think that the stakes are extraordinarily high for these longshoremen and they are digging in their heels. here's the thing. this is for five years ago, pre-pandemic. most people had not heard about supply chain lines and those things. now they understand you start to mess around with a system design. not just now, but if you mess it up for too long, it will take a long time to fix because we lived through that and we have that going for them as well. >> sandra: this is the president saying that he will not intervene if these port workers go on strike. he said this yesterday. >> mr. president will you intervene in a dockworkers strike if they go on strike on tuesday? >> no. >> why not? >> it's collective bargaining. >> he is playing a very

dangerous game. a really dangerous game. and i think what happened with the weather in the storms over the weekend makes it more so. we heard the prior guest talking about food. 53% of egg imports and waterborne imports, the vehicle markets. eggs, poultry, beef. it goes on and on. cures for the rule of thumb. for every day it shuts down it translates to five days of disruption. >> sandra: and that can spiral. jpmorgan put out a potential cost of this. we estimate setting down the ports cabin economic and port of 38 and $4.8 billion of day, some of which could be recovered over time. we won't hold our breath. this is an american trucking association president and ceo. he was on earlier saying this is

the timing on it all. >> southern virginia is underwater or under moderate digging out. these people need help. and now we will shut down 36 ports. this is not the time for a strike. this administration needs to get these parties to the table and get a deal. >> sandra: this is serious stuff. if you look at the port strike locations on this map, you get his point. this is not a good time to have this happen. it's never a good time to have this happen but especially now when you have the devastation from this hurricane. >> it's amazing. portis of bono, port of charleston, wilmington, virginia, baltimore, philadelphia, new york, new jersey. new orleans. think of all the economic activity peered all the things that come through there that we need for our daily lives. >> sandra: essential things here that is for sure. and it's everything from the

things that you put in your bathroom or your covered shelves every day to automobiles. and you are talking about inflation that timing wise. i'm saying, politically isn't their incentive for biden to step in here and make this not happen? >> he's playing an extraordinarily dangerous game with american lives in the political future of his own party. >> sandra: charles, this will be something to watch. there are warnings of empty store shelves. >> i don't think it won't last more than five days. then we start sounding off the alarms. >> sandra: which will have enough of an impact. we will feel that. charles, thank you. >> john: deepfakes and election interference raising alarm after a parody video went viral using the ai generated voice of vice president harris. now there is a free-speech fight and federal court challenging a ban in california accusing the state of election interference. william la jeunesse has been following this. he has more from los angeles.

>> there was supposed to be a carve out for satire but one person who is not in this case according to governor newsom who called it misrepresentative of vice president harris. this video has been viewed 180 million times and it is now illegal here and a likely 22 other states that regulate the use of ai and election material. >> we chooses something different. >> this video helped launch the harris campaign. within hours, chris colds who goes by the online name mr. reagan created his own version replacing harris a voice with one generated by ai that sounds just like her. in his video, the ai voice mocks her policies and says any criticism of harris is sexist and racist. he labeled it a parody. elon musk bree posted video calling it amazing. however, without the disclaimer prompting an angry governor newsom to save manipulating a voice should be

legal. >> they were deeply damaging. >> last week he signed three bills making it illegal to post political deepfakes near pollitt time. >> i couldn't care less if it was harris or trump. >> he calls this deepfake. >> this a partisan and political. it rises to the level of political interference. >> most require online platforms to remove such videos or prominently labeled them as digitally altered. >> it is overbroad. >> in california the state can force companies like x, tiktok, or youtube to censor anyone who sent uses ai to create deceptive content or deceptive information that could harm and a candidate's reputation. >> this is commentary about elected officials and people running for election and that is

censoring the first amendment. >> he has asked a federal court today to invalidate the law. as for the election interference charge, the governor's office has declined to comment. >> john: and the babylon was an interesting ai of gavin newsom. they are out there. and it's amazing how good they are. william la jeunesse for us. thank you. >> sandra: dhs pushing back on the shocking ice report showing how many illegal immigrants become a violent criminal records could be right now roaming our streets. chad woelfel join us with his reaction plus this. >> this is right in front of our homes. oh, my god. >> john: georgia officials telling people who live near a chemical plant to get out after toxic smoke started billowing from the spoke. all of the health consequences of the devastation there.

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>> we are in need of everything. water, power, communications, you name it. food, resources for folks. it is a dire situation and we are in an active crisis situation. >> john: that was the mayor of asheville, north carolina, after hurricane helena ravaged her city. at least 120 people are dead, millions have been without power for days. let's bring in dr. marc siegel, fox news medical contributor and professor of medicine at nyu's langone medical center. so much destruction there and so much. very basic services. standing water means they're likely isn't drinking water, no sewer services, running out of

food, running out of fuel. the health consequences here could be astronomical. >> absolutely. and you hit on a lot of what i'm worried about paired i'm worried about people that are walking around in waters and running into things. i'm worried about the lack of portable water and diseases are very common in this situation. the loss of power to millions. hhs is looking at that very closely. what they do is they get a hold of medicare data and they figure out who is on a ventilator, who was on dialysis equipment, who was on stuff that will go off when the power will go off and they literally go door-to-door with batteries and ways to bring back power but you lose lives that way very, very quickly for people that are very sick to begin with. chronically. people have medications, do they have enough food. then there is the issues of from the floods, you get mold very easily. people that have asthma can be responding to molds within

hours. emphysema, asthma, people that are immunocompromised. black mold literally builds up within hours. all of that is deeply conc concerning. >> john: it seems like every time we have a disaster like this we hear of somebody who dies because they have taken a generator or some other device that creates carbon monoxide inside the home. >> and that's really important. i'm glad you brought that up because that is what people try to do. if they want power in the house, it's a very, very difficult to get ventilation to be proper. i say you can't do that using those generators inside the house. but obviously you have to keep windows open at all time. we are not in the middle of the winter here. we are in the south so it is clearly not a weather issue but absolutely. those generators are very, very dangerous. >> john: i want to ask you about something going on in

georgia just south of about 30 south of atlanta where there is a chemical fire which has been putting out a huge, huge plume of smoke. we don't know what's in the smoke though i've read that chlorine has been detected in the air. 17,000 people have been evacuated. 93,000 literally the entire county told the state indoors. >> you hit on it already. this biolab plant had a similar thing occur in 2020 but this one seems to be a lot worse because the smoke is still billowing and it has been over a day and a half already and the reports are the smoke may continue for days. what happens is the chemicals hit the hydrogen and the oxygen and the water and hydrogen makes it very, very hot. oxygen makes it oxidized and next thing you know you are spreading what seems to be

chloride. i think that is correct because this is a pool and spa treatment plant. it probably is chloride. chloride is an irritant to the eyes and the skin but if it gets into the lungs it can also cause an asthmatic type reaction, it can cause flu-like symptoms and severely it can affect your lungs and your heart. we need to keep it away from kids and you really have to stay indoors and away from any exposure to this whatsoever. >> john: i remember being west of toronto, ontario, 1979 i think it was. a propane tank blew up on a train and there was chlorine on the train and they evacuated the entire city. memories of that. thank you so much as we look at former president trump. he is in valdosta, georgia, where he is going to tour the damage down there. that is about 15 miles north of the border with florida. between the atlantic ocean and alabama. a lot of folks there are hurting. much in the same way that they are up there in north carolina

and some parts of south carolina, some parts of southwestern virginia and on into tennessee and kentucky. >> sandra: he spoke earlier and said while his opponent in the presidential election is out campaigning, he is there with the people on the ground. obviously making this an election issue. he is on the ground, he has been helping out hand out supplies in georgia rose. some of the areas there in georgia. but you just look at the devastation that these states are still dealing with. that interview with the mayor earlier this hour in north carolina. how they are still trying to get to people and some of these isolated areas who desperately need water. the lack of communication, the lack of ability to communicate with authorities to be able to come in and help them get what they need. it is still dire as she said at this hour. >> john: fortunately there it looks like most of the damage was done by wind although there

was a fair amount of rain there as well. but take a look at the right-hand side of your screen. asheville, north carolina, it is still underwater because towns like that and there are other ones to the east and to the northeast as well that said at the bottom of mountain valleys and the mountains there while not like the rockies or anything like that, there are still substantially high and all of that water runs down the side of the mountains and collects in the valley and rushes through the town bringing with it so much debris. homes have been filled with mud, some of the streets are caked with mud. it is a situation there that is not going to get better after the water recedes because then you have to clear all of the debris that was left over from all of that water rushing down the mountain. >> sandra: as you can hear the cheers, there are folks that are happy to see him on the ground there. he is helping hand out supplies. he is also getting briefed on the ground there. i'm listening to see if we can pick up any audio. not yet. but there is an official time at

which he will be addressing the press. 2:00 p.m. eastern time. 8 minutes from now he will step up in front of a microphone. >> john: that southern part of georgia really is trump country. it's pretty rural for the most part. there is the agent there by the way who we saw the famous picture from butler peered the fellow on the right and the white shirt. we saw the president. folks on there will appreciate. i've spent a lot of time in the southern part of georgia and you will see a lot of trump signs out on the front lawns of folks there. he is bringing relief supplies but i think just the fact that he is bringing himself down there is very appreciated by the folks who know that there is so much work ahead to recover from this and rebuild. >> sandra: and presi president joe biden, critics have said why is he not on the ground there? he said he and the vice president harris had hoped to travel to some of these damaged areas but they will do so, he said, once he believes

their presence won't disrupt emergency response efforts peered but to the mayor's point earlier in the hour, she wants e attention on them so they continue to get the supplies and the response that they need. it looks like we should be hearing from the former president here shortly as he continues to greet folks on the ground there. he has been briefed on the efforts by officials there. he has been helping hand out supplies and we do expect that he will tell us what he has learned there shortly. >> john: let's see if we can pick some of this up. >> he is helping us to distribute everything.

we brought a lot of things down. trailers. many trailers of material. >> john: the president they are obviously looking -- it looks like he's about to speak here. he's bringing his remarks up. let's listen in. >> thank you to all of those great people. we have seen you in many different sites over the years and you do a fantastic job. the job that franklin has done right here, we appreciate. i think we can go through the list. we have so many people from the state and from the area. we will start off with franklin. take you very much. lieutenant governor, thank you bert. tyler harper, we all know. mike collins we all noted. great congressman.

incredible patriots could kelly loeffler, former u.s. senator. sam watson, state senator. thank you sam. john corbin, state senator, john burchett state representative as you know. state representative. ashley polk, county sheriff. jace daughtry. so respected. cook county sheriff. ashley ty we know. page dukes we know. city manager. thank you. yes, thank you. scott james, bill slaughter, buddy duke, patrick and kate watson, i said i would've bought some furniture if you had some but i always look for furniture and they have beautiful stuff

and they will be rebuilt in a very, very short period. i want to thank everybody and we came down with truckloads of things and we will have that done by franklin's incredible organization. we've done this before but we have a lot of truckloads of different items from oil to water to all sorts of equipment that will help them. we stand in complete solidarity with the people of georgia and with the suffering and the terrible aftermath of hurricane helene. it turned out to be a big one. just about the biggest that anyone had seen. i spoke with all of the relief people, all the people that do this for a living. they said they've never seen one this bad. valdosta has been ravaged. the town is very badly hurting and many thousands are without power. they are running low on food and

fuel. we brought a lot of it down with us. it's going to be distributed now or soon throughout georgia as well as north carolina, south carolina, florida, virginia, and tennessee. that's a big one. the devastation wrought by the storm is incredible. it is so extensive. nobody thought this would be happening, especially not so late in the season for hurricanes peered homes, hospitals, highways, and cars have been plunged underwater. entire neighborhoods have been turned into lakes. nobody has seen anything like it and to every family that has been displaced here in georgia and north carolina which is really hit. we are going there also. they don't have communication or anything right now. i just spoke to eli. we want to get started link hooked up because they have no communication whatsoever and elon will always come through. we know that.

we are working on that. they asked me whether or not that would be possible and we will try to get started link in there as soon as possible because they have no communication and throughout the region our hearts are with you and we are going to be with you as long as you need. it is an hour of need. you are in our prayers and we pray to god throughout this a long week, the long weeks out lay ahead, you will have a lot of work but the end result as it is going to be good. we just wished so many people weren't so badly hurting and in many case, sadly, no longer with us. we love you, we love everyone. everyone, to be honest. we love everyone. and we will be back and we will be back again soon. continue to help until you are bigger, better, stronger than ever before but again, you can't ever discount the fact that people are lost. a lot of people have been lost

in this terrible storm, this terrible hurricane. it is a storm that has also taken the lives of i guess they have a count of 91 but that count changes on an hourly basis and it goes only in one direction unfortunately come up. but at least 91 people already and to the families and loved ones of those who have perished, we mourn alongside you and we grieve every single life so tragically lost. i would like to now ask for a moment of silence and prayer if you would for those who have died. thank you. thank you very much. as you know, our countries in the final weeks of a hard-fought national electio