>> we are moments away from today's state department briefing and at 2:30 p.m. eastern the pentagon will also hold a briefing. there is so much going on. keep it right here. fox news for all the coverage on everything as it develops. thank you all for watching today. thank you all for joining us on the couch. don't forget to dvr the show when you can't watch us live. now, here is "america reports." >> nobody in this town expected it to ever be like this. the street is completely flooded. everybody on the street lost everything. >> we came out of it safely but many people did not and we are just continuing to live don't lift that area come all of the rescue teams coming in, all of e supplies coming in. >> things haven't been addressed. we got skipped over as far as

relief efforts. >> there's a lot of people that are frustrated out there and i can certainly appreciate that and we felt that when we were on the road yesterday but also told them that this is unprecedented what we are dealing with. previously the worst storm georgia had ever dealt with. >> we don't need people in washington doing things, we need people here doing things and this community show that. >> sandra: brand-new top of the hour. we now know at least 200 are dead. holmes upended and homes unrecognizable. any moment now president biden will be getting an update in florida as he continues his tour of the hardest-hit areas. our thoughts are with all of those affected by this. it is brutal for so many. hello and welcome everyone. i am sandra smith in new york. >> john: our houtz go out. i'm john roberts in washington and this is "america reports."

today marks a week since hurricane calin made landfall. survivors are isolated by catastrophic flooding and they are desperately flooding stomach pleading for necessities. >> sandra: water and food for so many. hard to find at this moment. hard to believe. in moments we will be speaking with a man who is overseeing distribution centers across the tar heel state. thank god for him and are joining him is one of the victims. two at this moment with a little baby in tow that he is now trying to help. >> john: we will talk to them in a minute but first to steve harrigan live in swan and noah north carolina. what is it looking like they are. the picture tells a story. >> it really does. this is what it looks like when you get 10 feet of floodwater in your town. everything is covered with mud and the people here have been through so much as well. joe dancy lives in this house. he said the water came up so quickly that he had to break out through the window and swim to

safety. a lot of these people have gone through life and death decisions in the past 48 hours or so and many of them are expression of frustration with the lack of help they are getting. many being told to go on a website or text another when they don't have the basics like electricity or cell phone service. they express the frustration about that to us. >> we can barely text each other. the cell services so bad. they are giving people access to resources by calling phone numbers and web addresses and we don't have that access. >> people have been showing up to volunteer with chainsaws saying send us out to where people are trapped, we will go and get them out. it has been incredible. >> a lot of people in this neighborhood it rode the storm out on their roofs. fema has been through this neighborhood and they have talked to people here and one woman said her house was totally destroyed. fema offered her a $750

emergency disbursement peered she accepted that and she said she expects to get the money and ten days' time. back to you. >> john: what will she do until then? >> she is hoping to get in touch with family and live there but right now it is every man for himself, neighbor helping neighbor. >> john: seems like there needs to beat -- it sounds like there needs to be more immediacy to the relief efforts. we will keep pushing that peered steve harrigan for us. >> sandra: let's bring in doc kindly now. founder and ceo of wine to water. on nonprofit that is helping those on the ground in western north carolina and hannah smith. i want to start with you first because i'm sure probably is the intention with baby is limited. you have your beautiful baby there and you've been through so much. what is it like for you and what have you been through and what do you need right now? >> right now everything is just devastating. it is eye-opening.

i haven't been to my house since the storm hit. i've been going off what my father in law who is. but i talked to a close childhood friends yesterday and her house is completely destroyed and they are trying to find somewhere to live. we have family close by that is still stuck in their houses. we are thankful we can get here to get diapers and formula and a hot meal because right now those are very important to us because the stores don't have them. >> sandra: i can tell baby loves the sound of your voice. she is four months old and you have a 4-year-old as well and you are thankfully a huge part of the effort to help out victims like hannah. what are you doing for them right now? >> our organization has over a dozen teams from boone to asheville just like this one. we basically will send food trucks, hot meals all day long for people.

we set up a little mini grocery store and people can get whatever they want. flashlights, batteries, diapers, food, whatever it is. and water to wine is our passion as well. anything and everything they need they can get at these checkpoints from boone all the way to asheville. we have between 30400 volunteers on the ground in between. it helped to make all of this possible. that is the beginning stages of it and we are unfortunately probably going to be doing this for a while so thankfully volunteers are showing up every day to help us and food supplies, water continues to show up at our warehouse so we can continue to grow these operations. >> sandra: thank goodness for you. i know that this is what you need. more help on the ground. residents feel like they are forgotten and you are living through this every minute of every day with your baby there and her toddler as well at home. you said it this is life-changing and devastating. what does the road look like a head? you said your husband works at a golf course and he is trying to

survey the damage they are. what does life look like going forward? >> life is definitely up in the air. we are thankful for all of the help we are getting. thankfully my husband does have the job security that some people don't have. i have people that are out of their jobs and their life ahead is completely uprooted and they don't know if they will be able to stay local because there is nowhere to go with all the damage at their workplaces. most of them did wash away unfortunately. my life ahead is steady thanks to in-laws and my parents but a lot of people are not that fortunate. to have people close to help. >> sandra: amazing how strong you are. hearing what you are going through and your spirits are still up. as moms we know we have to. we need to plow right through. doc, i know hannah was explain it to our producers that she has family that is still stuck in their house because the driveway washed away.

there are people that can't leave their houses that are in them. >> that's right. and we have teams now that just left this morning that have atvs that are going up the mountain roads that you can't access by vehicle to get to these hard-to-reach areas. i got my children last night. we had to carry up a hill a 5-gallon pail. just to carry them water up the hill. i have seen this for the last 20 years and multiple different countries. this is where our organization is based. we never thought we would be back in our hometown serving our own families and our own people. it's one thing to see it on a far-off land but when it is right in your own backyard it is a different thing. to hannah's point, it is life-changing to see it in your own backyard. >> sandra: such a good point.

and hannah for you as well, is that your husband's dad is your neighbor? for so many of you your families are right there so there is nowhere to go because mom and dad don't live in a town. sometimes they live right next door. >> my in-laws are right next door. thankfully they had equipment to help keep that water from coming into our houses as much as they could. we did leave the house peered we went to the other side of the county as far away as we could get from the water. just hoping it wouldn't get as bad as it did. they say prepare for the worse, host for the best. that's all you can do right now. >> sandra: you are an amazingly positive and strong person hannah peered our thoughts are with you. what is baby's name by the way? >> this is my f. >> sandra: she is adorable and what a trooper. a happy, happy baby. she's honestly going through a lot right now and she has the spirits up as well. doc, thank you for what you are doing. hannah, our best to you.

and all of your families for that matter. thank you so much for joining us. we will check back in with them soon as recovery efforts continue peered fox corporation has made a donation to hurricane relief relief efforts this enabe recross to respond to disasters like a lien by providing safe shelter, hot meals, emotional support, and resources to provide an aid in recovery. scan the qr code on our screen. our viewers are so generous especially when they see families like that in need of help. cute little mile four months old and you see that mom and you think this is what you do as parents. you need to stay strong and you have to keep the spirits up and you have to get through this and they will but it will be a rough road ahead for sure. >> john: and thank god for people like doc who are out there with their organizations and there are so many that have mobilized to go to north carolina in order to help folks out.

as we heard from steve harrigan, fema comes into a neighborhood and says we will give you $750. first of all what is $750 going to do and secondly you won't get it for ten days. what do you do in that time? if they wanted to help people out they would be going up and down the street with hundred dollar bills and handing it out to folks that need to buy things immediately and doing everything that they can to get supplies to them but as we know, there are so many areas of north carolina where they have not gotten supplies yet and folks feel like they have been abandoned. >> sandra: hannah was telling us all the folks is that they drive by on the river are gone. possibly the one we are looking at here, they are not livable. they are showing up for the first time. hannah said she has not been back to her house yet. i think she is going to try to do that today. they show up and it is a question of where do you start. and that is a daunting, daunting feeling and task that so many are feeling right now. >> sandra: don't ask me when you look at how much mud is

covering the ground right now. hit it with a backhoe or a bulldozer but where do you begin. and then there is this aspect of all of this. listen to this. the homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas' warning that fema does not have enough funding to make it through the rest of the hurricane season. the department has hundreds of millions of dollars designated to supporting illegal migrants. life on capitol hill with this. >> good afternoon. here's the conundrum. republicans point to a man-made disaster like the border crisis having enough money but the response to a natural disaster like helene running low on cash. dhs decker terry alejandro mayorkas says fema is fine for now. >> we are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. we are expecting another hurricane hitting. we do not have the funds. fema does not have the funds to

make it through the season. >> congress infused fema with $20 billion for immediate disaster aid in last week's spending bell but helena will drain the reserves because it was so catastrophic. the hurricane season runs to the end of last month. they approved communities dealing with an influx of illegal immigration but money for the border and natural disasters come from different accounts. >> we are so quick to forget things like the incidents in maui or hurricanes here in florida or even the recent hurricane with hurricane helene that has impacted north carolina tennessee and georgia so much but we will focus and prioritize the illegal criminal migrants as well as borders 9,000 miles a away. >> some lawmakers want congress to give communities wrestling with the migrant crisis $3 billion next year. house speaker mike johnson is mindful of more disaster funding this fall.

>> congress will have to address it. it's an appropriate role for the federal government but to your point we need to prioritize federal spending. we were $35 trillion debt. you need to take care and handle emergencies. >> expect congress to reload fema with money and provide additional funds to help with helene. that is on top of money congress spends on wildfires in hawaii, hurricane beryl in texas, and a typhoon on guam. >> john: they can't get relief to folks fast enough. chad for us, thank you. >> sandra: a new report claims of multiple agencies dropped the ball on the border crisis and made our country less safe. rnc chairman michael whatley is here to tell us what it means or the election. >> john: plus negotiations as a cargo ship's stall as strike continues. larry kudlow has coverage from all the angles. stay tuned for that. >> this is a good old-fashioned

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colombia, chile. it begs the question why did these individuals not want us to know who they are? it underscores the alarming revelations in the report which shows they accept forced self-reported biographical information in the absence of ideas that allows migrants to obtain immigration forms then used it to get on domestic flights. the key finding here under current processes they cannot ensure they are keeping high risk noncitizens without identification from entering the country. i additionally tsa cannot ensure the vetting and screening procedures prevent high risk noncitizens who may pose a threat from the flying public for boarding domestic flights per dhs is pushing back saying they cannot detain individuals subject to detention. ice says they don't have enough beds. cvp says the detention facilities are for short-term detention only. the former border patrol union

president said he has seen the consequences firsthand. >> because we cannot properly vet these individuals we need to go with what they are giving us and that is why we saw the death of javier in florida at the hands of somebody who claimed to be a minor but was actually an adult. this is a very dangerous situation and the ig got it correct. >> tsa pushed back as well saying the report does not reflect current policies but it is hard to imagine how tsa can screen individuals properly if we don't know their true identity. >> sandra: very true. griff jenkins. >> john: for more on this let's bring in the rnc chairman michael whatley. the inspector general's report from dhs, the title says it all. cbp ice and tsa did not fully assess risks associated with releasing noncitizens without identification into the united states and allowing them to travel on domestic flights.

we keep hearing more and more about this and who have we let into the country? >> border czar kamala harris and this administration have absolutely made a mockery out of the border. what they have done is taken 94 executive actions to dismantle the most secure southern border we ever had. 10, 12, 15 million migrants have come across that border. it is a clear and present danger to all of our communities could even the fbi says we don't know who these people are but they pose a very real threat to america and now we are seeing study after study showing that we are spending more money than we should be spending to house illegal immigrants as we move them across. now we are seeing statistics. tens of thousands of them who are convicted rapists, murderers, hundreds of thousands who are felons in the united states that should not be in this country right now. it is a very real threat to every single community. >> john: let's stick with the security aspect because this is the ultimate conclusion of the

report. if cbp and ice continue to allow noncitizens who identity immigration officers cannot confirm to enter the country they may inadvertently increase national security risks. case in point convicted murderers and rapists were lent to the country, convicted murderers were roaming around the united states. people guilty of rape or sexual assault, 15,511. and that's just the known ones. >> it's a jaw-dropping number of statistics. we are seeing it in every single community. migrant crime is a very real thing and it was not a very real thing four years ago. what's amazing to me is that kamala harris and tim walz are going to double down on this agenda. they are fighting every opportunity that they can efforts to shut down the border. the administration sued texas when texas tried to put wire in place. tried to put a wall in place.

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but this does not seem to be the preeminent issue or a preeminent issue of the campaign. does the trump campaign need to hit this harder? if you look at the murderers and the rapes and all the other crimes committed by people came into this country illegally on kamala harris' watch, they said they should be her willie horton moment and it's not. >> in every single conversation that the campaign is having, that the president is having, that j.d. vance is out there having, certainly that i am having with folks, it comes down to immigration and the border. it comes down to inflation. >> john: but then it gets muddled with people in ohio are eating pets. why not just stick with the issue of the border. >> we are all about the border. and the president has been very clear that he created the most secure southern border in the history of this country. kamala harris and her administration took 94 executive actions to dismantle that

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>> i think we are making progress. >> how much progress sir? >> john: maybe we will. our own mark meredith pressing president biden earlier today as he was leaving the white house as dockworkers enter a third day of their strike. 36 major ports from maine to texas shut down and with negotiations at an impasse, despite what the president was saying about progress, the crisis is beginning to threaten the supply chain. we will speak with auto industry expert on what this could mean if you are in the market for a new car. but first to a less six miss adams who is live in brooklyn. what is happening on the noisy picket lines behind you? >> hey john. you can see me. i don't know if you can hear me.

these guys were on the picket lines saying they are not going anywhere until there will be a promise that there is no automation in this industry. they say it's not just about the money, it's about their families and job security. >> there are americans that believe this will leave the higher prices at the grocery store and a supply chain shortage appeared what is your response to that? >> it's an interesting theory because we precisely have seen inflation skyrocket because the shippers have increased the price per container put all these workers are asking for is their fair share and to make enough to feed their families. >> the strike happening at ports across the country. not just in new york. the international longshoremen's association reco represents 35,0 dockworkers. they want an increase in wages over the next six your contract deal. they've been very upset since the pandemic because they worked around the clock and they don't feel like they got their fair share.

they also want a ban on the automation of dates, cranes, and container movement trucks and the ports. according to the union's demands, this is what they say. they want more than a $5 yearly wage increase saying the members don't work typical 9 to 5 jobs. they work extra and extraordinary hours and sacrifice time with their families. three days in and the disruption in the supply chain keeps on coming. right now 100,000 shipping containers money that have perishable items like food that should be on their way to grocery stores across the country are just sitting at ports. days away from the presidential election and these union workers say they are walking both candidates responses. >> how do you think what happens here and what happens at the bargaining table will impact the election? >> i think overall the conversation about workers in america and how much work it takes to buy a house, especially

in new york city, should be the bread-and-butter issues of every election. >> when you talk to people across the country and on the campaign trail they say they can barely afford basic necessities at the grocery store. depending on what this does for food supply and supply chain, we could see prices go way up. these people say they are planning on taking on unemployment if they have to because they will not break the picket line until they get what they want. >> john: it's a great demonstration of focus in the field from our alexis mcadams. thank you so much. sandra. >> sandra: half past the hour we want to go to president biden who's on the ground in florida right now surveying the damage. obvious destruction that he is seeing firsthand. many days now after the worst part of the hurricane hit. he is on the ground with officials, first responders, talking to some of the victims and seeing the destruction and we are monitoring this for you.

we will keep following the president's movements there and bring more to you from there as it happens. back to the story that alexis brought us. mike hoddle is joining us now. mica, thank you very much for joining us. we will continue to monitor the president down there in florida as we know so many are hard-hit by this storm. we are also watching this strike because it affects all of us and it is affecting all of us. in particular the auto industry racing for a major impact from this port strike. how would you describe the impact and how big it could be? >> thank you for having me on. i have spoken to insiders at ford motor company, bmw, toyota, and junta and they've started planning this tragedy months ago with a looming strike which hit earlier this week. what automakers are telling us is that one or two weeks into this they will be okay but as you get into three or four weeks and passed a month you will see

inventory on dealership lots start to slide. the recommendation to consumers is if you are in the market for a vehicle or you need service done, you will need to make adjustments to your schedule and think about hedging your bet and doing it sooner rather than later because once inventory starts to slide, you will see prices start to increase on vehicles and all insiders have told me the exact same thing. if you need parts to repair it, you will also be in that same situation. don't put anything off is the message because automakers will be slim when it comes to dealerships. >> sandra: this affects so many from the workers to the buyers, the consumers. these are the ports that have shut down that bring in cars and to your point, car parts. you have to think about those that need to get the cars fixed on a pretty regular basis and getting those will become more difficult. it ranges from obviously new york new jersey to boston, jacksonville, philadelphia, baltimore, charleston, nor folk,

savannah. this is all over the country. when i look at the companies at the highest risk of port strike, you're talking about hyundai, general motors, goodyear tire. tell us about this and how the imports will be affected. >> great question. we always think about what the effects are here on american soil meaning importing vehicles but for these automakers it's not about importing, it's exporting. bmw manufactures is a german company. they manufacture here in the u.s. down in georgia and southern parts of tennessee. now what we are looking at is they will have to be not only waiting for imports to, but they are in a position of waiting for vehicles to go out. it's not just the auto industry. it's the marine industry. it's the rv industry. if you look at the national retailer association, 300 different companies including the rv industry have sent a

letter to the president of the united states saying we need to stop this now. whatever it takes to negotiate and come to completion on this, that is where they need to go but as we heard earlier from alexis, it is all about automation and that will be the biggest sticking point on top of the contractual agreement with getting the hourly rate increase. >> sandra: a great point as we look alive at the port of savannah, georgia, as the strike continues. the ceo of burma technologies brian gantz is speaking to the difficulties that businesses will have selling products due to these port backups. here's how he described it. watch. >> there are some industries here where we do not have the capacity any longer and you need to bring things in from overseas and we have a product with 114 parts. we can't sell it with 113. >> sandra: if you don't believe them on the difficulties, here is stew leonard talking about the strike's impact on transportation prices.

>> i just talked to our headquarter this morning which comes from south america right now in that area and he said he was paying $0.10 a pound to get it transported up to the store. this morning he had to pay $0.22 a pound. >> sandra: when you take it down to that level, you know just how big of an impact this can have and how fast it can happen. you shared with us this letter that was penned by organizations representing american manufacturers, farmers, businesses, wholesalers i see on here, wholesalers, restaurants, importers. the list is very long. they signed this letter writing to president biden urging him to bring an end to this. i want to get your final thought on that and how patient they can be with us. >> i have been on fox news for years covering the auto industry and this is the first time i have had a story that is the

complete trickle-down scenario where it is impacting every fabric of our society. you own a bakery and you need baked goods and you have a flat tire and you can't get access to a tiger or you can get access to transmission part and that crosses over all facets of the industry. action needs to be taken because we are talking about it now. you give it three or four weeks and people start getting laid off at the dealership level whether it is an automaker or an motorcycle maker. there are ramifications from the strike. let's hope that they close it sooner rather than later because as we get into the holidays, it will get worse. >> sandra: we hear the warning from you. we will definitely check back with you on this as it cont continues. we will see where it goes great thank you mike. john. >> john: the head of the united nations now barred from entering israel as we learn a top hamas commander killed in lebanon was collecting a paycheck from the united nations relief agency appeared what is

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former pentagon official and senior fellow at the heritage foundation. let's go back to april because april the 13th, iran crossed the rubicon. up until then it had been harassing israel through the proxies. be it through yemen or hezbollah and hamas. but iran sent a message saying it was willing to directly engage israel and it did again on tuesday. iran is at the edge of a nuclear break out and willing to take on israel one on one appeared where does that leave us today? >> we are at this point because of irresponsible statecraft and not taking the iranian remains she more seriously and the deterrents we had has evaporated and they are not being taken seriously more seriously. it's become irrelevant because of their action but it will take a forceful response and it seems like the israelis are on the cusp of that and i'm not sure we will see an escalation because we already escalated it but i don't think we will see an expansion of a region were because it has expanded as far

as it can go. >> john: if you have iran attacking israel it's an indication that those two nations are at war. trying to figure out where will israel go with the attack. i want to put up on the screen iran's nuclear facilities which is the big ticket item that israel may go after. a lot of analysts believe that israel has to strike at that otherwise very soon iran will have a completely existential threat against israel. but biden is cautioning israel against doing that. listen to what he is saying. >> do you support an attack on iran's nuclear sites? >> the answer is no. i think there are things -- we will be discussing with the israelis what they will do but all seven of us agree that they have a right to respond. spew and they should respond and proportion but won't that just

perpetuate the tit-for-tat retaliation? >> it important to state a couple things upfront. at this stage of the war it's up to the israelis as a sovereign actor to take whatever action they are able to do in the pursuit of their own self interest and offense. again, the days of them listening and getting permission slip from washington, d.c., seems to have passed months ago. what needs to be clear and with the president needs to be very clear about is the extensive and substantial military power, u.s. military power in the region has to be exercised if iran or the proxies attack americans or injure or kill an american in the middle east. that right now is where our interests lie and where the military force needs to be really to be exercised and that's not clear. >> john: they don't need the support of the administration prayed they would like it because that's what we've seen in "the wall street journal" which said biden protects iran's nuclear program pretty engages in public lobbying aimed at blocking a sovereign state and

allied siding on its own what's the best military response to an attack on the territory if mr. biden won't take the opportunity to destroy iran's military program, the least he can do is not stop israel. and this graph here shows how urgent the situation is. iran could have the things necessary for 50 nuclear weapons within five months. israel said it can hit tehran. it can take out missile batteries without detection. it has a jet fighters where's iran does not have an air force at all. it has a big ballistic missile arsenal. israeli jets can fly around iran with impunity and i'm sure the ayatollah is not looking forward to that. >> it's interesting. from an operational perspective and the logistics of exercising, you saw there's a lot of state speared many of them are heavily guarded and buried. that would be a prolonged air campaign with a lot of risks.

the longer a campaign military operation, it goes up algorithmically. of course taking out the head of the sip the snake like they did, that is quick. the economic attack as after the oil refineries because that isolates the regime from its supporters in beijing and moscow. >> john: we will find out one of these days which way they go. great to get your take on things. speak to tim walz it still trying to explain his many tripo communist china. what is he saying now? >> john: democrats targeting what they called this information. what it could mean for the upcoming election. could go up with the stock market lock in your gains? and when the market goes down, you don't lose anything. forward with your money. never backwards would have that investment strategy, that product actually existed? good news! it does! if you have at least $100,000 to invest, get your investor's guide and see if it's right for you.

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>> sandra: prominent democrats are calling on big tech to fight what they call this information. critics are arguing it's another attempt to stifle free speech. let's go to mike emanuel. hello to you mike. what exactly are they saying? >> good afternoon. some democrats are critical of social media giants who say they want to play a more neutral role in the upcoming election. california democrat adam schiff is leading a letter with seven colleagues pressing the major social media platforms. the letter was sent to the ceos of meta, x, tiktok, google, microsoft, instagram,

snapped, and youtube. they write we continue to be concerned with each of your company's ability to react efficiently and effectively to misinformation and disinformation or any potential incitement of violence occurring on your platforms. at tuesday night's vice presidential debate republican j.d. vance called out the biden-harris team for colluding with social media to censor covid information. democrat tim walz suggested there are limits to freedom of speech. >> you can't yell fire in a crowded theater. that is the test. >> fire in a crowded theater you wanted to kick people off of facebook for saying toddlers shouldn't wear a mask. >> the first amendment is a major hurdle in purposely spread false information. hillary clinton suggested americans should be arrested in some cases. >> there are americans who are

engaged in this kind of propaganda. and whether they should be civilly or even in some cases criminally charged is something that would be a better dete deterrent. >> what makes some critics nervous is who gets to be the information police. >> sandra: mike emanuel on that live for us. thank you. >> john: crisis at home and abroad mounting for the biden-harris white house. how is the harris campaign navigating all of this with less than five weeks ago until election day. we will ask our panel of doug high and jonathan caught just ahead.

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>> john: at this hour president biden is in florida getting an update from officials on the ground as he continues his tour of the hardest-hit areas of hurricane helene. i am john roberts in washington and we have a lot going on. as usual. >> sandra: i look at the video of the destruction and the new pictures that keep coming in