>> 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.

this destruction is vast and what these people are living through right now is brutal. i'm sandra smith in new york and this is "america reports" and it was a short time ago that hurricane helene marked the grim milestone as the number of deaths we now know has surpassed 200. emergencies crews are still on the ground and they are still searching for people who may be stuck in their homes. >> john: be mild those in florida and georgia still reeling from power outages. they stress they are not getting enough help. >> it is like nothing we've ever seen before. we had michael which is terrible. this hurricane is a bomb blast. >> this is the worst we have been hit in 30 years good when you have children and you can't provide any food for them to eat or even a hot meal without driving three hours and risking losing gas, that is a worse nightmare. unable to feed your children. >> john: live on the ground in

hard-hit nashville carolina. how's it looking there? >> it is raw and rough. you are pete seen people come in from the site i just heard. that is the case if you want to stay somewhere where you can get showers or even electricity. we talked with dr. devol. all of the cars that slammed into that word from this apartment complex around us. they were swept away. a few hundred feet because of 1. it got up to 19 feet down here. it shows you how drastic the flooding is. when we talked with dr. devol earlier he was saying the resiliency of this community and everything they are doing right now is why he was able to move forward. take a listen. >> it's beautiful. our whole neighborhood sounds like chainsaws and everyone is dropping resources where they

can and when they have extra they bring it to someone else. it has been really beautiful to see. >> it's beautiful how the community is coming together here. still very hard. a state of shock. i will say this this is the first big equipment we have seen come into this spot of asheville because most of these roads are inaccessible. it looks like they were able to dig out a generator. it is a long process and i know we are about seven days removed from when this flooding occurred. a larger city in north carolina about 100,000 people live here but still seems it happened just yesterday. there's a dire need for supplies and we will continue to give you those updates here. fox weather meteorologist fox bender paired we will will send back to you. >> john: they will need dozens if not hundreds of those backhoes and excavators. we met one in the last hour who's pitching in. >> sandra: and a little baby maia let's not forget four

months old she with her mother spoke to us and this is raw for all of them. >> 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 there says. talked to one of my close childhood friends yesterday and her house is completely destroyed and they are trying to find somewhere to live. we had family close by that is stuck in their houses. we are just 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: and they are from wind to water. if you can and are able, donate. they are on the ground as you saw helping people like hannah and little baby maia able to get water, baby formula, diapers for her kids. she has a 4-year-old and it the

story of hannah is there is nowhere to go. everybody lives in the community. all of their homes are devastated and there is nowhere to run. so they need to deal with this right there and our hearts break for them. >> john: a lot of folks down there are living paycheck to paycheck as well and fema comes in and they say we will give you $750 which it was cash money on hand right there in your pocket you could use to get a vehicle or get a ride somewhere and maybe go stay in a hotel for a few days but fema is saying you will get that money in ten days or so. the conundrum here is how to get relief to these people fast enough and thank god there are organizations like wine to water who are stepping in to fill that void. >> sandra: our best of them and we will follow-up with them because it will be a long road ahead. >> john: now this. >> you have people on the west coast. if they try to divert anything, it's an exercise in futility.

we will not move any of your cargo. >> brother bobby o'hara, also willie adams. they have put u.s. and mexico on notice that if any ships are diverted from the east coast, the i lw will not work them. [applause] >> sandra: brand-new sound from union leaders on the ongoing port strike. ships are being diverted blast and workers say they will not unload cargo and solidarity with workers on the east. ashley webster is live for us. how could this strike threat hurricane relief efforts? >> that's a good point sandra and with each passing day that there is no contract in place, that becomes a much bigger factor. three days into this strike now

and thanks to stockpiling ahead of this anticipated strike, there are still supplies to be had but again, the clock is ticking. one interesting thing you just pointed out there is ships diverted from the east coast to the west coast are not going to be touched by union workers there so that is a blow for those people trying to get the supplies through the ports of the u.s. and into the country. this is something that president biden spoke to yesterday when he visited storm victims in west and north carolina. he mentioned the port strike. listen. >> this is incredibly consequential. the last thing we did on top of that is a man-made disaster and what's going on at the ports. we are getting pushed back and we are hearing from folks that they are having trouble getting product. >> the port of savannah is a very important one in the

structure. the infrastructure of the east coast and gulf coast part system. 22% of east coast container trade comes through the sport. it is absolutely vital and as i say, with each passing day, the impact of this continuous. as for the workers, they say they will be here until they get the contract they want and let's not forget they want higher pay, they want more health benefits, and no automation. the vice president of the union said it's not that we don't like automation, we just want to keep our jobs. listen. >> we are okay with technology that makes the job safer and more efficient for our workforce but we are never going to allow and we will never apologize for robots taking our work. >> you know what, as you say, day three. for every day the port is closed, the estimate is five to

seven days to recover. by that math, we need 15 to 21 days to recover but they will be out here for the long haul. >> every day. >> there you go. no contract deal insight. with each passing day, the recovery and those supplies could become an short supply. >> sandra: you just heard appeared every day. it's good to see it. you and i over the years have covered so many of these workers strikes. for many reasons, this is unprecedented. this is affecting and will affect every single facet of our economy. your perspective on that having covered these over the years. >> it's funny peered the last time i was here was after the pandemic created that supply chain crunch and they were working double time here to try to get the economy back on track. here we are with a workers

strike that is having the same effect and what will happen is things become more scarce and we know what happens then. the prices go up at a time when we have inflation under control. the sooner they can get this result, the better for all of us. >> sandra: so well put. thank you so much for covering it and talking to the workers on the ground there. thank you. >> john: with less than five weeks to go until election day, the harris campaign is trying to strategize around a consequential new cycle. in the united states widespread destruction from hurricane helene, the dockworkers walking the picket lines on the eastern seaboard and overseas, there is fear of all-out war between iran and israel. let's bring in doug high and jonathan caught. let's start with you, jonathan. this is all about kamala harris. even "the new york times" pointing out she has a big dilemma saying a storm, a strike

come at war abroad chose challenges. she's being the number two to mr. biden and a top the ticket in her own right back in the spotlight. missiles over israel are unwelcome complications to keep the democrats in power. it's not shaping up to be a good october for her. >> no but this is what happens when you are actually in charge and governing and that's what she's doing. she is being the vice president working with the president and making sure there is aid on the ground to the people suffering in the southeast. she is making sure that we are working in a diplomatic way to do whatever we can to ease tensions in the middle east which is not easy. no president has been able to ease tensions over there. they are trying to. that's what she's doing. she is not being a candidate right now, she is being the vice president and that's a challenge. >> john: but people say this is what happens when you allow the stuff to happen. >> part of this is when we talk about what we have just seen with their hurricane destruction, i have family in

the asheville area so i've been dealing with this pretty closely as you have two problems. one is logistical. that is what sandra was talking about. if people can't get out, that means people can't get in and there aren't easy solutions to getting to places where roads are closed and i have some heroic footage of fema in batcave north carolina, and unincorporated community that i didn't know you could get you right now. and it is a structural program because it's about the building behind us. if we look at what happened the day before, congress passed another cr appeared what did it not contain? the emergency funding for fema. and that's not a problem with this congress peered that goes back congress after congress and nothing is about this process bx it, we will have this problem over and over again as we have had over and over again. >> john: but if kamala harris wants to be a leader but when she was getting a briefing at

fema she did nothing to project any kind of confidence when she was asked a bunch of questions by the press pool. watch here. >> can we have a word? >> madame vice president! >> john: it is basic of 101 peered you want to be a leader? take charge if someone shouts a question at you at a fema briefing about a hurricane. >> what she is doing as she is actually leading and talking to the people that she has to. >> john: but she needs to talk to the american people as well. that is part of the function of being a president. >> the main function of being a president is getting the job done and that is what her and joe biden are doing peered that is what you did not see them rush to go down there for a photo op. you did not see them go in front of cameras and lie about what the response was and lie about what governors had been saying and set up a prop to do a press

conference peered that is what donald trump did. >> john: but cory mills says biden went into north carolina. temporary flight restrictions. nothing was flying in or out relief supplies for four hours. how does that help? >> he went when he could and when the governor told him it would be okay to go. donald trump just flew into throw some paper towels around like he did in puerto rico cannot solve problems. kamala harris is not interested in just giving sound bites and sending out tweets and getting a good photo op. she is interested in making sure people get the relief they need and all governors that are dealing with her, democrats and republicans have said they got everything that they need from this administration which is very different from when donald trump was president and they got nothing. >> john: yet we hear people who are down and have not seen anything. >> i can talk about that. i have a cousin who lives in bryson city. we didn't know that he was okay until sunday evening because they did not have cell service. that's not joe biden's fault, harris' fault, donald trump's

fault. there've been structural failures over the years. but there wholly unsuited for what just happened to them. as for will be the first to get fixed. it has access to two interest rates. >> john: i want to ask you this. they said it fema is about to run out of money but let's put this up. the federal government, fiscal year 23 spent $66 billion taking care of an illegal immigration problem. that is money that could have gone to fema to pay for things like this. >> but if we stick ask the structural problems that mike johnson has said he wants to fix, john baynard speaker. >> john: but that doesn't help people now. >> but if we had solve these problems two years ago here that's the problem peered until congress can get the act together we will have this happen. >> john: you can say all you want with respect, say it all you want if we had fix this or done that. but we are in the situation we have done now and people need help so what do you do? >> the federal government will

get them the money they need to help. if congress has to come back, i don't think they will, they may come back and pass it under uc. they will get the money they need but doug is right. as things change, our climate is changing good we need to appropriate more money for natural disasters like this because we have once in a century or once in a decade hurricanes every two years, three years, sometimes four times a year. they will continue to happen. we need to act and appropriate money before this happens, not after it happens and they pass the bill and they got out of town and they aren't coming back peered. >> and the problem is we are playing from behind. >> john: we are always doing that. >> and that's the problem. >> john: we are always preparing for the last hurricane. someone needs to have some vision here. doug and jonathan. sandra? >> we can start the campaign

right now. >> sandra: can't blame them for trying. meanwhile. this is a live look at saginaw, michigan. former president donald trump is going to rally and battleground michigan later today. how he is appealing to the states of voters ahead. do you have the tune in your head now john? >> i do. plus the judges unsealing the court filing against former president donald trump. kerri urbahn coming up next. >> none of this is new but the idea was to get the evidence out in a spectacular way. the point of releasing this now can only be to affect the election. there is no legal need for it.

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>> sandra: with just over a month until election day, a judge has made new evidence in the jack smith case against former president donald trump present. they are blasting the move as total election interference. joining is now kerri urbahn. former counselor to attorney general bill barr. what does all of this tell you? >> i think it says that the justice department and judge chutkan are, to use the language that they use against donald trump, desperate to get the last ditch effort into influence the election and here's why. i think the january 6 the voter has already made up their mind either way. we have been hearing the same information that the doj put forth in the 145 page small book, 1625 page for four years. we heard it from doj, we heard from media, and we heard from donald trump himself. two things can be true at once. you can have a former president that behaved poorly around the

election and about it and you can have a department of justice that is behaving poorly now in releasing this information just several weeks out. it is stuff that we already know. i put more blame on the judge in this particular situation because she controls the briefing schedule peered she could have very well made this do after the election. we saw a number of judges delay until after the election. they knew they were going to get a trial before the election and so this is their closing argument in the case that trump wins. >> sandra: i want to move onto this idea of censorship because this is becoming a bigger and bigger election issue. i want to play this out. it is 53 seconds long and it is j.d. vance and tim walz on the subject on the debate tuesday night. >> i believe we do have a threat to democracy in this country but unfortunately it is not the

threat to democracy that kamala harris and tim walz want to talk about. it is the threat of censorship. >> it have massive repercussions for the idea that there is censorship to stop people from doing -- threatening to kill someone, that is not censorship. censorship is book banning peered we have seen that. >> the most disgraceful form of censorship that you see in the country in 2024 is when kamala harris calls the citizens of her own country, she calls them racist for daring to say that her wide open border is a disgrace. and i think of all the things that kamala harris has done, this is the worst. because it is the fundamental right of this country that when we think, harris is doing a bad job, we have the right to say so. >> sandra: as democrats continue to try to paint former president donald trump as the threat to democracy, j.d. vance is quite clearly on multiple occasions on the campaign trail and that debate stage punching bag. is it effective?

>> when i used to work in alliance defending freedom we had a lot of free speech cases and one thing i saw over and over again with the government, state government, local government, federal government, always trying to bludgeon out viewpoints with which they disagreed and they would often do that by labeling things as hate speech, as disinformation. where i saw this the most was with respect to people who held traditional views on marriage. that was labeled as hate speech. we saw this most recently in the lead up to the 2020 election with social media companies working with the government to shut down anyone who said the hunter biden laptop was in fact real and we know it was real. j.d. vance is completely right on this and i was quite frankly disturbed by adam schiff sending that letter to social media companies asking them to crack down on disinformation in the

weeks leading up to the election because it is a completely subjective thing. it is all within the hands of the person who has power. if i don't like your viewpoint, i call it hate speech and disinformation and to bring the force of the government behind that is especially rich coming from adam schiff who is king of the disinformation team considering for years he lied about trump's so-called connections to russia. the russia collusion hoax and he abused his connection as the chair of the intel committee to do so. so it's especially troubling but i also think it is telling. >> sandra: very good stuff. kerri urbahn joining us. thank you for that. >> john: day three of the dock workers strike. still no end in sight. larry kudlow joins us on the potential economic impact and it could be a big one. >> john: can't wait for that. and we are waiting the pentagon and a live briefing coming up this hour. as israel gives its response to iran and president biden tries

to tell our allies how to respond. nikki haley is a former ambassador to the u.n. and she joins us on that next.

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a building closer to the center of the city than many previous strikes. further south israel ordered the evacuation of 25 additional villages south of the latonya river. it has an estimated population of 40,000 people yet another indication that israel intends to expand the operation into southern lebanon. while it interrupts, they are continuing to strike the gaza strip killing more than 90 people this week alone. the israel official confirming a killed see me official three months ago bracing for the possible response from iran. we understand that israeli security officials are meeting again today to determine how they are going to prepare for such a response from iran or its proxies and possibly even launch a strike of their own against iranian territory. it comes as israeli forces are operating on the ground to make yet another israeli soldier killed today bringing the total death toll since the ground

invasion began to nine soldiers. >> sandra: there with the latest for us. we will keep watching all of it. thank you. john. >> john: let's bring in nikki haley peered former u.s. ambassador to the united nations and former governor of south carolina. also a host of haley live podcast on sirius xm. great to see you. thank you for coming in. biden is urging a proportional response from israel. listen to what he said in the wing of air force one. >> the answer is no. and 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 and they should respond. >> john: there is talk about what israel will do. they could go after a oil production but as long as they punch iran and the nose it will

continue the malign activities until it goes in and really breaks a bunch of things israel will face the threat. >> first of all let's take a look. you got a u.s. president who got together with a jersey seven who got together with the g7 to figure out what israel should d. i never thought he would take the side of the ayatollah saying don't do it, don't do it, go back and calling for restraint. why would you do that when the iranians and the irt seat facing death to america. it defies all logic. he has been an iranian sympathizer from the very beginning. the obama administration was like that's too. the question is what will harris to question work we have to ask her. this is a war happening in the middle east. this is already a war. how is she going to handle it? does she agree with biden that they need to hold israel back? you can say israel has the right

to defend itself but you don't get to say but. that is what is so wrong. i feel bad that israel is hearing from biden say we need to talk to israel, we need to talk to it. they are getting all their money from oil because biden won't put the sanctions on them. >> john: it would be interesting to see what kamala harris' position as parents because she has to answer it. spew and it would be nice if she would hold a news conference we could ask her but she is not. iran is for decades upsetting the apple cart of the middle east. it was attacking israel through the proxies but now iran is attacking directly. israel does not want this work. most people in lebanon don't want a war. egypt does not want a war, jordan does not want to work, saudi arabia does not want to war, bahrain does not want to bore, unite up arab emirates does not want to war and yet biden continues would've appears

to be a policy of appeasement toward iran. why doesn't he would just us the support of most of the arab world say shut this down now. >> he doesn't want to do it. they are taking on hezbollah in lebanon. cuba and striking since october 8th. 60,000 people displaced and now they are taking on the hootie's in yemen. this tiny little country is fighting all of america's enemies and yet the american president is taking the side of the mob boss the ayatollah who is leading the charge. it defies all logic. if we care about safety in america, if we care about holding the terrorists back that want to kill americans, we have to be on the side of israel and it says a lot when the american president is not on the side of israel and we have to ask who the next democrat nominee is going to be. what her role will be. if she's okay with what biden is doing, we are in trouble. >> john: i want to ask you

about your support for former president trump because you, robert o'brien, 298 other national security officials wrote a letter coming out in support of resin trump and his foreign policy. politico said that your endorsement of donald trump does not necessarily mean that people who supported you during the primary campaign are going to follow you. they said while it is unclear how many of the republican supporters are now back in the democratic nominee and it may be unwilling to support party leader trump. i'm wondering particularly when you take a look at the gender gap, let's put that up on screen. harris is leading with women 58% to 47% peered he could use the help of your support. what can you do to try to help them? >> the harris campaign is doing a good job of trying to claim he is losing them. i think of 150 chairs that we had, may be less than 10 have gone to harris aside. but what trump needs to do is

talk to suburban women. talk to independence. make sure they know he does not need to be having a primary debate at this point. he needs to be talking to the 5% of people who are going to decide that. suburban women and independents still have the verdict out. the best thing he can do is let them feel secure on what he will do with the economy, what he will do with the border, what he will do in terms of wars in the middle east. >> john: kind of like the security moms of 2004. >> it's one of those things where they just need assurances. and if you are talking about things over here that don't matter, if you are talking about whether, is down, if you are talking about haitians eating cats, you are losing them. but if you are talking about the fact that you will be strong with israel if you are talk about the fact that you will secure the border, if you are talking about paying down debt, that's when suburban women and independents pay attention and that's what he needs to do. >> john: i get the sense he is

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>> sandra: back to the crisis at our u.s. ports and with our supply chain. ships are being diverted west right now where workers now say they will not unload cargo in solidarity with workers who are striking on the eastern seaboard. the economists of course are warning that every day this goes on this will get worse. you will see the goods on your shelves disappear and it will have an impact on all of us. larry kudlow could have said that better. he joins us now. you did just say that a moment ago. you said -- i said this to ashley webster earlier because we have covered strikes over the years and this one is different. it's different for a lot of different reasons but your take is what. >> i don't favor the strike. i understand if it goes on for a couple of weeks it will create greater hardships and there will be higher prices. at the moment though, container markets are okay.

we haven't seen anything bad at all but that may change if it goes on for a couple of weeks. and it could take a half a point off the gdp if it goes on for a month or longer. i want to say something. wall street business people. what they are asking for, international longshore, what they are asking for is really justified or at least to a greater extent justified. they have a point on i want to read a couple numbers. and this is courtesy of my pal john carney and other people have pitched in. they are asking for a $5 an hour increase in wages in each of the next six years. that would move them up from $39 an hour to $69 an hour. that's not off the charts. that compares favorably with a lot of industrial unions. it happens to be a 77% rise over six years but five bucks. here's the key point. the maximum of $39 is what they

are making right now. it is worth only $30.70. $30.70 if you go all the way back to $2018. they have gotten killed like the rest of america particularly with biden inflation. real wages have fallen a lot and the ila has suffered the same thing. what they are suggesting is we don't know what future inflation might be. we have been hurt badly by inflation and the last four or five years. we don't like it. >> sandra: that's where i'm going with this. >> so many wage earners and practically the entire workforce in america except for the upper crust has been damaged. these are the actual numbers. $39 today is worth only $30.70 in $2018. they've been hurt. so when you see these numbers,

this increases by 77%. it's really $5 an hour per year and now the counter to that, the administration's counter was $4 an hour. but if we had not had the biden inflation in the first place, if we weren't spending six or 7 trillion access dollars in the first place. >> sandra: that's an important point. >> we would've had the 20% increase in the cpi over the last four years and the longshoremen and the rest of the workforce in america. but this is what happens when you have high inflation. one more point. in the 70s, we had strike after strike after strike. you know why? >> sandra: inflation. i got you. so the question is does the white house care? are they stepping in and doing anything about this? if you are saying the entire thing was caused by economic policies under this president, here's where they stand on it. if you don't know who the

commerce secretary gina romano, she was asked about this. watch this if it doesn't tell you anything. >> where have you been focused and hearing on what would happen if the strike goes longer than a week? >> i have not been very focused on that. i would refer you to the white house or the transportation secretary. >> sandra: what question she has not been focused? we can't end there. talk to pete buttigieg she says. here is pete buttigieg and who he is blaming. >> if you start the clock in the middle of the last decade over an eight year period, shipping profits went up by about 350%, the wages overall of workers went up by about 42% but the wages of these workers only went up by about 15%. their last contract reflected a tougher economic situation and they went certain years without any wage increases at all.

>> sandra: if i had the emoji where the brain is exploding. because for him it is all about the evil corporations making those big profits. >> i know. i will say this though. the company is running these places, dockyards, have made about $400 billion in the last three years. i don't begrudge it. i'm a capitalist in a free-market guy. i'm just saying they have done very well. i think this is a case where you really need to have people sit down around the table and that's the role that the white house should be playing. at some point, the last time we had this, george w. bush did invoke taft-hartley. we know it taft-hartley is. after 11 days. my guess is something similar should happen. >> all i want to say is the dockworkers have a point. everyone is beating up on them.

the moral of the story is try not to get 20% inflation. >> sandra: and inflation was not mentioned by either of those officials. you will sit down with former president donald trump. you are headed down there. 4:00 eastern time tomorrow. great to see you. >> john: sander, vice presidential candidate tim walz is having to clean up tuesday's debate performance particularly his claim about being in china during the tiananmen square protests. a live report next.

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>> john: vice presidential candidate can't tim walz could not seem to explain why he has claimed to be at china's historic and deadly tiananmen square protest when he wasn't. gillian turner was at the state department with the details and how does governor walz's plainness? >> his decades long ties to the chinese government and the chinese people is now under a congressional probe and when he was asked about this at the debate why he said he was there when he wasn't was this. this is some of what he said. take a listen. >> i grew up in a small rural nebraska town of 400. a town that you rode your bike with the bodies into the street lights come on could i have

poured my heart into my community, i've tried to do the best i can, but i have not been perfect and i'm a knucklehead at times. >> to follow up on that, the question was can you explain the discrepancy. >> all i said was i got there this summer and misspoke on this. that is what i have said. >> it didn't end there. he was pressed again yesterday on the same issue after critics accused him of lying and some debate viewers accused him of dodging. listen to him yesterday. >> i had my dates wrong. i was in hong kong and china in 1989. that move from hong kong into china was profound for me. >> he is facing scrutiny over his differing claims about exactly how many times he has visited the communist nation. here's what he said back in 2016 and again just yesterday. >> i lived in china and as i said i've been there about 30

times. >> august of '89 into hong kong, into china with students. >> somewhere between 15 and 30 times. the numbers, the details are being probed by the house oversight committee. we are hoping to get the truth on that. >> john: gillian turner for us at the state department. we will be right back. [child giggling with delight] (♪) come on you two. dinner time. ♪ ooooh. ooooh. ♪ at ameriprise financial our advice is personalized based on your goals, whatever they may be. all that planning has paid off. looks like you can make this work. we can make this work. and the feeling of confidence that comes from our advice... i can make this work. that seems to be universal. i can make this work. i can make this work. no wonder more than 9 out of 10 clients are likely to recommend us. because advice worth listening to

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