it is really is itself a form of misand disinformation labeling things that and pre-text to censorship. they want small committees of people they create to decide what is true or false and want to give that power to news outlets that they fund and favor. so i think this trend is very concerning. like i said if it were just one or two people but some of the most powerful people in the world demanding the right to decide what they are allowed to say and hear online. >> steve: thank you for joining us live from texas. >> thanks for having me. >> steve: tonight at 5:00 eastern time join melania trump with the panel. thank you very much for joining us today on "fox & friends." it is 9:00 in the east and here now "america's newsroom" >> bill: good morning, everybody. bracing for impact and for good

reason. hurricane milton closing in on florida. that storm shaping up to be catastrophic. president biden will give an update in our next hour. tampa hasn't seen a storm like this in 100 years as we say good morning. our coverage begins live in new york. i'm bill hemmer back together today. here we go. good to be with you. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." this is dramatic and a big news story. milton is poised to make landfall wednesday night, tomorrow night. currently holding strong as a cat category 4 hurricane. >> bill: it could be one of the most powerful storms to hit the coast from this angle heading straight for the population centers of tampa and orlando further inland. >> dana: here is where things stand at this hour. mandatory evacuation orders are in effect along the gulf coast. 15 million people are under flood watch. schools and colleges are closed and tampa international airport

has shut its doors. >> bill: all this in a region after hurricane helene. the mayor says if you choose to stay you may not survive. even if milton were to weaken the storm surge could be lethal. >> you run from the water and you hide from the wind. if we end up with a category 3 storm. if you hunker down you probably be okay. but the water, you just can't contend with mother nature. if you have ten feet of that surging in, it is incredibly destructive and not something you want to mess with. >> bill: madison scar pino is in western north carolina still reporting on helene. let's start with britt near sarasota, the tampa area on the west coast. good morning. >> good morning.

this key four miles from downtown sarasota is the barrier island. no one is home. that's the tough reality. the waterline from helene marked about two feet up on the house. this homeowner leaving the mark behind and every day everyone that leaves in this key comes in and try to get as much work done as they can and head back out before sunset. what is left behind are these massive debris piles because of helene. out here for over a week. you can see the mold that's growing on the cabinets. this is a huge health hazard. the problem is, it will turn into an even more dangerous catastrophic combination when we have hurricane milton come through. we could have worst case scenario 15 feet of storm surge move through here. this would take all of this, throw it back at the houses where it was ripped out of. it will cause significant

structural damage to the outside of the homes which right now is intact. all the damage from helene was inside the homes. in addition to the storm surge threat we could have peak wind gusts of 125 miles-per-hour. it can take debris and throw it at homes adding to the damage. no one is able to stay here term permanently. they're all in sarasota hotels. we could see a significant rise of water and evacuation orders have been ordered and people are listening to the warnings and finding a safe option. we haven't had an impact like this in over 100 years. nobody has really been through this before. you talked about the angle of approach. that's a very important fact to bring up. with helene that grazed the coast of florida. this is a direct hit which means not only will we have the most significant winds but the most significant storm surge. this represents one of many communities up and down the gulf

coast of florida. but i think it is really important to remember this is a real community. these are real people. in fact, you can see on this dresser drawer a little girl wrote her name, caitlin. this is not just someone's dresser it is caitlin's dresser. this community has been through a lot. unfortunately what's going to be happening over the next 24 to 48 hours is the worst of what they've ever seen. >> bill: two things. when do you expect landfall where you are? do you see many folks still there as a result of helene and the threat today? >> i see a lot of people coming in now that the sun is up to try to get work done. a lot of trucks within the city of sarasota showing up on the key. they want to try to get as much debris up as they can. they can't possibly get it all up. to answer your other question about landfall it will be late wednesday night thursday morning. overnight landfall possibly as late as sunrise on thursday.

there is a little uncertainty to exact landfall time and location. if this is a direct hit on tampa it is worst case scenario for tampa and sarasota. we'll be just south of that eyewall impacted by the most extreme storm surge we could be dealt. >> dana: how do authorities feel about the number of people that understand they have to evacuate? >> here they haven't been given the choice. i don't mean that in terms of a mandatory evacuation. that is in place. it is because of what mother nature has done. it is not safe for them to be here, dana. they don't have anything left inside their homes. local law enforcement is feeling at least encouraged the people won't be here. in such a sad way. the reason why they won't be here is because they can't safely live here right now. we've talked to multiple officers throughout the

overnight and got here at 2:00 in the morning. them checking in with us to make sure our timeline is locked in. they don't want us here as well. we won't be here tomorrow morning. >> bill: thank you. be good down there and take care and good reporting to you and your crew and we'll speak with you a bit later. thank you, britta >> dana: hurricane helene rescue efforts are intensifying. officials fear the worst as the death toll climbs and ability to find survivors diminishes. madison is live in seven devils, north carolina. madison, what did you see? >> good morning, dana. the official death toll is still at over 230 people. it is unclear when we'll get another update. a volunteer doctor tells fox news they are needing more body bags into the hard-hit communities and we spoke to a volunteer from new york who came to north carolina with his own cadaver dog.

>> it changed the entire landscape. the only thing i can relate to something this size to is it's quite a biblical event. >> we are starting to see more feds on the ground. u.s. soldiers visited fairfield, north carolina yesterday to help with disaster relief. the white house says tense troops and national guardsmen there are 7,000 federal personnel on the ground aiding with helene but many people here say it's the volunteers who really stepped up to help. volunteers from multiple organizations starting helping victims almost immediately after the flooding. not only are they helping people get meals, clothes and temporary housing but also dropping off key supplies to areas that can still only be accessed by aircraft. a cold front is coming. we've had a major temperature drop. volunteers say right now blankets and warm clothes are also a priority for survivors. back to you. >> dana: thank you so much. keep us posted.

>> bill: a big story for a lot of days. things got heated yesterday at the white house in the briefing room. peter doocy pressing karine jean-pierre and the administration's pledge to sunlit money to the middle east while americans in north carolina struggle to recover. a look at how that went down. >> president biden is fond of saying show your budget and i will tell you what you value. if he has money for people in lebanon right now without congress having to come back, what does it say about his values there is not enough money right now for people in north carolina who need it? that's not misinformation. >> no, it is. your whole premise of the question is misinformation, sir. what you don't get -- misinformation. the way you are asking the question is misinformation. there is money that we're allocating to the impacted areas. conscious needs to do their job and provides extra funding to disaster relief fund. that's what congress needs to do and we'll continue to urge that. you may not want that but that's

okay. that's what this president wants and what the vice president wants, thanks, everybody. >> bill: we had that. former house speaker kevin mccarthy to react on that. what do you think of that one? >> i was just wondering who dressed her. but if you look at the questions when she goes through here it is ama amazing. she never answers the question. >> bill: she has consistently talked about small businesses. you ran a small business. what is her plan if she were to win? >> i had this debate earlier today. here we are 27 days out. you can't tell me the three things she will do. the economy is number one issue and the border. she doesn't have a plan for either. wants to give people $25,000 to think they'll buy a home. it will raise the cost of the homes. this is the critical point that a lot of people are talking about. why won't she go answer -- even get interviewed? people running for city council get questioned more than she

does running for president. it is not like she ran and won the nomination. she was floated and put in as the nominee. you cannot become leader of the free world. this is not a republican saying it. this is an american saying whoever is running for president, you need to answer questions. you need to be free to be questioned on it and give your plan before this election takes place. i'm sorry, going on the view and a podcast is not being open to the american public asking you a question. >> bill: last night. bill whitaker on 60 minutes. the question on small businesses. >> small businesses are part of the backbone of america's economy. >> pardon me, madam vice president. the question was, how are you going to pay for it? >> one of the things that i'm going to make sure the richest among us who can afford it pay their fair share in taxes. >> how will you get it through congress? >> when you talk quietly with a lot of folks in congress they know exactly what i'm talking

about. >> congress has shown no inclination to move in your direction. >> article one section seven, all tax reform starts in the house. when we passed the tax bill under president trump, people got raises, corporations because you lowered the corporate rate gave it to the employees. everybody was making more money in the process. she wants to actually harm people to actually invest in a small business. when i opened my first small business it was a deli. three lessons i learned. the first one to work, the last one to leave, and i was the last one to be paid. if she adds more regulations, i couldn't open that small business today. i couldn't hire people to be able to earn a paycheck. that's the challenge that she doesn't understand. she has never owned a business or been an entrepreneur to know

the punishment she does through her regulations. >> dana: she is having a hard time with men in the country, including black and latino men. not where biden was. i thought in reading the coverage and looking at some of the polls feeling like president trump has a momentum going into the homestretch. >> he is carrying 41% of the hispanic vote. 16% of the black vote. that's unusual. much higher for any republican. a poll that doesn't have who you are voting for is very important. gallup came out with a poll last week. who do you identify with, republican or democrat? >> 48% said republican. more identifies with the republican party. a second question was who is best to solve the problem? republicans won that. so you are looking at a climate much different than we've seen before. if you correlate that through past elections when there is a discrepancy you could see when democrats would win the white

house. the polls are so tight. this is a closer race today than where joe biden was or hillary clinton was. so if it's within the margin i error i always give president trump a little bump because not everybody answers the question that they are voting for. >> bill: i take the answer to say i will raise taxes. is she right about that when you talk quietly to folks in congress? >> no. even when i would talk to democrat members in california she never talked to them. she is not very popular in congress. she has about the same favorability rating as she does with her own staff. one of the highest turnovers. this is the challenge she has. not only does she not talk to the american public, she doesn't talk to the lawmakers or have a good rapport with them. think for a moment we have an election for the highest office in the land and the democrat nominee never went out and campaigned with the american people. didn't spend time at the iowa state fair. didn't go to new hampshire. didn't go to south carolina and

listen to the people of what their challenges was. didn't go down to the border states and say you were in charge of immigration, what have you destroyed our nation? in massachusetts the number one issue is the southern border. new york the number one issue southern border which she was in charge of. tell me your economic plan to put us back on track. tell me your foreign policy plan that why are we losing military bases and why do we have five embassy evacuated? if you were the last person in the room why didn't you say your decision that created 13 more gold star families was wrong? what do you do different in afghanistan today if you are the commander-in-chief? >> bill: four weeks to close the deal and see whether or not she can in time. >> dana: at the moment doesn't look good for them. the think the democrats are nervous. >> they should have. >> bill: we saw this scene on the streets of new york last night. anti-israeli protestors in the streets of manhattan out in force, too. even on the first anniversary of

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[sirens] >> bill: that was breaking overnight in northern israel. hezbollah launching more than 100 rockets targeting the northern town of haifa. meanwhile smoke rising over the

lebanese capital of beirut. southern neighborhoods a hezbollah stronghold. the leader of hamas who planned the october 7th massacre resurfacing making contact with qatar in recent days. sinwar on screen here had not been heard from in a long time fueling speculation he might have been killed. apparently that is not the case. stand by for more on that with updates in the middle east. >> dana: look at what happened at home yesterday. thousands of anti-israel protestors flooded the streets of manhattan marking the one year anniversary of the hamas terror attacks. watch here. [shouting] >> dana: joining us now is the

founder of the lawfare project. here is the "new york post" cover is despicable. one of the things we also saw last night and the reason it is despicable is you had protestors chasing down jewish people in the streets of manhattan in 2024. get your reaction. >> thank you, dana, for having me. i think what is very obvious is that anybody who is marching for gaza on october 7th is celebrating murder. they like us to believe these are so-called pro palestinian or anti-israel protests. they are not. they are pro-terror protests. that's obvious. as you said they are chasing jews in the streets of new york. i'm absolutely shocked. i honestly thought i would never see this happen in my lifetime being the grandchild of holocaust survivors. the question is what is being done about the organizers behind

this. there is a group organizing the protests. they're violent, pro-hamas, hamas and hezbollah flags that fly at their rallies. we represented the lawfare project matt greenman, a jewish man viciously beaten by the activists at one of their rallies. what is the justice department doing? who is funding them and organizing this? where did this come from? not a woman that is just a mouthpiece. why aren't the organizers being charged with conspiracy to commit hate trims and arrested and charged with violation of the civil liberties of americans? not just jews. what they are trying to do with the marches is intimidate us. they are violent. they promote violence. more violence is coming if law enforcement doesn't get this together. i just want to say also, dana,

one thing. i commemorated october 7th with my family, colleagues and friends. we're commemorating a massacre that happened a year ago in the middle of an ongoing war why every day rockets are being fired. every day israelis, jewish, christian, bedouin, muslim are being murdered and slaughtered by terrorists. we are in the middle of this same fight and yet we're commemorating what started it one year ago and seeing these celebrations happen on the streets in america. it is shocking. >> dana: you also have -- the final word about this. you have the victims being blamed on the actual anniversary. >> yes, exactly. the ultimate victim blaming and you see these chants that they are doing at the rallies. they are echoing the language of

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>> this is literally catastrophic and i can say without any dramatization whatsoever, if you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you are going to die. >> dana: that's a dire warning from the tampa mayor. milton is category 4 hurricane. orlando international airport closing tomorrow morning. janice dean tracking its path. love your updates. >> 11:00 a.m. a new update with the track information. the national hurricane center has been straight on with their forecast and how strong this storm will be. we're at a category 4 right now. it is going over very warm waters in the next 12 hours so we could bump up to a 5. that's reflected in this track. a landfall wednesday evening into thursday. this is not a wind event,ist is a surge event. that means all the water piling

up and moving into potentially the most devastating area across the west coast of florida. it will be influenced by a trough. it will be weaken a little bit but also going to expand its wind. more of the west coast will feel this. it is going to be a rain story on the north side of the storm. a storm surge story on the southern side. where this eye comes ashore is key on where the worst of the storm surge is going to be. national hurricane center says bee line into the tampa bay area. all the water and wind piling into the bay and all these inlets. they haven't seen a storm like that in over a century. that's why the concern there. but you know what? fort myers, fort myers beach up to ten feet will cause catastrophic damage as well and hurricane force winds inland in towards the east side of florida. we'll keep you up to date. >> bill: remarkable stuff. don't go far, okay?

we'll get a fix on that storm surge, too. >> you got it. >> bill: thanks, j.d. we had a look at that last week. something else. really one of the pieces of video that helps capture the moment when helene went through in the western part of north carolina. at the beginning of the video you see the earth move and grass moves in front of that water. that video captured by former nascar driver greg, he shared it on his page on x. he is one of the pilots delivering much-needed aid to some of the hardest hit areas coming as another storm threatens a new wave of destruction that j.d. was talking about. greg is with me now. good morning to you and you are from the pacific northwest and been in the carolinas. when are you seeing when you head out today like morseville

and burnsville, north carolina? >> the real damage is all these mountain areas. you can imagine we are used to seeing hurricanes in the florida or coastal regions, low lying areas. you can imagine have 20 or 30 inches of rain in a mountainous area. all of that water goes down to the bottom of the valleys, steep rah convenience. we can see the water level being 50 feet highs in areas where it went through. roads and things underneath the water under 40 feet. finding people still stranded. the thing is this is so widespread and so many roads and access areas are out, it is hundreds of miles. the thing is we can't really see it from the air so to speak. so i think it has been under reported only from the fact that it's so difficult to see all these areas. >> bill: i want to show you

something on your instagram feed. this is you in a helicopter looking for people down below who need help and you spotted this guy. did he have a mirror or reflecting device? >> yes. this gentleman had the vanity mirror out of his bathroom. we had a general location of the hit that was the people that needed insulin, baby formula, diapers, food and water, so we're searching in this mountainous area and at 4500 foot elevation and we find this gentleman in the bottom of this valley. if you see the video on the top corner we've just noticed another man running for the field as they saw some relief in sight. so i caught this mirror out of the corner of my eye and then i had my co-pilot, aaron lloyd, that was helping me, guide me in there and it was one of the more difficult landings we've made just because it is so far down

in this ravine with power lines across that canyon. >> bill: amazing stuff. greg, how much help do they still need? we see the images and we see the rivers and all those roads washed out. what comes next now that you are ten days down the road? >> i tell you, bill, the biggest thing that i'm so happy that we were able to do is communication is key. star link sent us overnight at the beginning of this thing last sunday 300 star link units and we had over 50 private aviation helicopters deploying these units out to all of these communities, first responders, now we're still delivering them to -- unfortunately, search and rescue and cadaver dogs. i have an unconfirmed story from just yesterday that they found another person alive in the brush. that's obviously not confirmed,

piled up, the brush the size of a small hotel or a house piled against these bridges. it is really devastating. the main thing now is warm clothing. supposed to get into the 30s this coming weekend. these folks still don't have power. probably noting to have power for another month. it is just unimaginable the scale of the roads and the power lines that are gone. now, i'm talking about people that have homes still, no damage. they just don't have power or supplies. that's the issue. >> bill: they're lucky to have you and we need a couple thousand more just like you. thank you for sharing your story making sure their story is still out there. good luck today. nice to have you on. >> dana: there is a shift in strategy for the harris-walz tickets as they hit the media circuit. are they connecting with voters on key issues, though? that's the question.

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>> dana: crazy scene in long beach, california after an explosion on a residential property there. one man hurt and was rushed to the hospital with severe burns. officials say it happened yesterday at an independent unit behind the main house. the explosion blew off the roof. turned the building to a pile of rubble and still unclear what caused the blast.

that's scary, geez. >> bill: you have a violent home invasion along with a robbery comes to an end in dallas after a long swat stand-off at an apartment complex in texas. police arresting four suspects who are allegedly members of a venezuelan gang. brook taylor live in dallas. what did you find out? >> the details in this case let me tell you are horrifying. this woman says she was held at gun point inside of her own home by these four guys. she says they tied her up and threatened to cut her fingers off and beat her with a pistol. we now know these four men who were charged are illegal migrants from venezuela. this woman lives alone in her 50s. just pulled in her garage and the upscale brierwood neighborhood of dallas. they forced her inside at gun point. ransacked her home. stole money and jewelry. according to police records the suspects only spoke spanish and

communicated through google translate. police say she was not hurt. when they left she freed herself, ran to a neighbor's home and found 911. police matched a fingerprint to one suspect who named the others involved. they're charged with aggravated robbery and ice detainers. ice tells fox all four are from venezuela and according to records hernandez said they are involved in a criminal street gang. ice would only give me the immigration history of hernandez. in march he illegally entered the u.s. from el paso and been arrested at least twice before this. just months after illegally coming into the u.s., he pled guilty to a dwi. despite the conviction he was released right back into the u.s. >> it was very concerning because it is a nice part of dallas, a quiet part. we welcome people who are not --

who come here legally. but people who are not here -- are not coming in legally, we have to wonder about why they were able to get here in the first place and this far north. >> meanwhile over in san antonio, authorities cracking down on the venezuelan street gang tren de aragua. agencies are going door-to-door after reports of drug and human trafficking. 16 venezuelans there arrested, four were identified as tda members. the aggravated in dallas has neighbors concerned. a lot tell me it put them on high alert. the scary part, they say, this is a reminder it could happen to anyone anywhere. >> bill: we'll stay on it. i know you will. brook taylor live in dallas today. thanks.

>> dana: vice president kamala harris is embarking on a week-long media blitz. and four weeks to go before election day some say the democrats' messaging is missing the mark. carley shimkus and tom shillue. great to have you both. i want to read from a "wall street journal" columnist. the strategy of giving no press conferences and allowing the interviews only with journalists who support her remains intact. if we learn anything valuable it will be purely by accident. that was before she did the 60 minute interview. i thought bill whitaker did a good job of pressing her on a lot of things. the answers were pretty empty. >> no doubt. what she is saying and when she is saying it. she is on this pre-planned media tour right now. it is to energize the base and young voters. i understand why she is doing it. when you are running for president you knowed to see the whole picture and be able to pivot. number one story in the country

is the devastation by helene and that florida residents feel when it comes to hurricane milton and you have kamala harris going across new york city talking to celebrities for a friendly get to know me interviews. i think it just makes her seem really out of touch. she could -- she is missing an opportunity here. she could still be doing those interviews and saying to howard stern i'll do a phone interview and i'll be in north carolina and raise some money. the view remote from florida. it is not just what she is saying and having a big issue struggling to respond to these major questions for first time. i think having the media tour right now is a big mistake. >> bill: maybe it says something about the numbers internally what they need to do. charlamagne tha god is the lodestar for american politics. here he is. check it out on messaging. >> a lot of reporters and they

will be talking to trump or jd vance and talking to them about things happening here in america because it is an election season right here in america so there are so many things we care about here, right? it is always america first. you go to tim walz and asking him about geopolitical policy. a lot of times it makes him sound very out of touch and saying things like america first, and make america great again. that message resonates a lot more. not sometimes, it does resonate a lot more. >> bill: maybe they're on message in a smart way. >> trump has it easy in the sense he has always been consistent. we know where he stands and out there saying the same things over and over. it works. she is trying to hide her real policies because she is to the left of where the american people are. i think that she has -- it is a great opportunity when you are the vice president to say that i changed. she is not saying that enough. easy to do and something bill

clinton did when he ran. when i got out there. he was a good liar. he would say when i met those people they changed me. she could say when i was in california, i was against fracking but i met those people in pennsylvania and they changed my mind. she never said that. she goes on this long kind of -- you know she is lying because she said i grew up in a place where people had consensus. what are you talking about? you know she is lying when she takes the long way. if she just said i changed my mind because i met some great americans but she can't say that. >> bill: too circuitous for you. >> dana: i was saying last night on "the five" you are a woman running for president or in any political role, you have to punch above your weight. she is not. and it is like eating empty calories and doesn't get you anywhere. a lot of democrats today try to put on a brave face but you have

somebody like charlamagne saying guys, we're in trouble and i think they are. >> bill: do i have time to say something? >> i will say i think carl main the god saying america first and make america great again. how long has donald trump been using that slogan? one of the first times an influential democrat is the first time they said he might be on to something. how african-american and hispanic communities feel about illegal immigration. look back to the chicago city council meetings and how mad they were about the money going to illegal immigrants and sanctuary city policies and leading people like charlamagne tha god to feel that way now. >> bill: milton barrels toward florida. an update in a moment. the president will talk about this. when he begins we'll carry it live from the white house. also another big student loan bail-out is on the horizon.

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>> dana: get this, president biden will announce a new student debt bail-out this week. according to a senior administration official. both biden and harris are pushing for widespread debt cancellation. grady trimble is live from the white house with more. >> we expect president biden to make this announcement before he leaves for germany later this week. we're told the plan is to expand the public service loan forgiveness program. a program that forgives student loan debt for people who work in government and nonprofit roles. the details aren't clear who exactly will have their loans canceled with this week's announcement. so far the biden administration

has canceled nearly $170 billion in student loan debt for almost 5 million people. but a number of its programs are getting held up in federal courts as several republican-led states have moved to block those programs. and as vice president harris has sort of been moderating her more progressive positions ahead of the elections this is not an area where she plans to split from her boss. recently in a podcast interview that was released over the weekend, she doubled down saying that there is more to do when it comes to student loan debt relief. one of the problems, though, for people who have student loans and people who don't. the committee for responsible federal budget says it could add to inflation just as we've seen higher prices starting to come down. dana. >> dana: all right, grady, thank you so much. hurricane milton is a monster storm threatening deadly devastation heading for the west coast of florida. president biden is about to give

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