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our team is tracking the latest on the storm. in tennessee, the mounting questions for a factory wheremwhere more than a dozen employees were swept away. we're live with the new israeli offensive potentially on the horizon. how the largest water utility is responding to a strike to protect customers. and it was anything but a cool summer for taylor swift. how she cemented her reputation as the world's richest female musician. it's tuesday, october 8. "early today" starts right now.

good morning. thanks for being with me. i'm frances rivera. we begin with hurricane milton. the potentially catastrophic category 4 storm taking aim at already-battered florida. milton rapidly intensified in the gulf of mexico and is expected to be one of the most powerful hurricanes to hit the u.s. in 45 years. >> you always worry, but this one, there's something about this one that i'm feeling very uneasy about. >> residents now evacuating and preparing for the storm, expected to make landfall late tomorrow night. all this while cleanup, cleaning uh the destruction hurricane helene left behind less than two weeks ago. let's bring in meteorologist angie michelle. >> we're looking at storm surge up to 15 feet. winds are going to be howling up

to 100 miles per hour. there's still a lot of debris from helene. that's going to add to what they're dealing with by wednesday. we did see milton weak en and bit. it was a category 5 storm. but weakened a bit as of the 2:00 a.m. advisory. winds at 155 miles per hour. it's moving east at 9 miles per hour. and we do expect it to make landfall late tomorrow night into thursday morning as a major hurricane. notice that, look at that cone. we're looking anywhere from north of tampa right near fort myers. this still needs to be nailed down. still a category 4 storm by wednesday. we're expecting landfall later wednesday into early thursday. flooding rainfall, this is going to be a big story. we're looking at widespread flash flooding. rifrn river flooding up to 15 inches. we'll talk more about milton and

look another big story, the heat wave in the west still going on. we'll talk more about that coming up. >> tough for those people as they clean up for this. turning now to the devastation from hurricane helene in tennessee. an investigation is under way after flooding swept away workers at a plastics plant. survivors of the families of the victims asking why so many workers were still there as conditions worsened. guad venegas has more. >> reporter: a week after six workers from a plastic plant went missing trying to escape flooding waters from hurricane helene, officials defending the rescue efforts. >> water moved in fast that morning. and i know we had rescue personnel in the area. >> reporter: county officials say the remains of five of the six employees missing have now been recovered. impact plastics worker, she is among the victims. her husband said she called in moments before she was swept away in the rising waters. what did she tell you?

[speaking in a global language] >> translator: this is getting really ugly. i don't know what's going to happen. but tell my children that i love them very much. >> reporter: multiple impact plastics employees who survived the flood say by the time they were told to evacuate the industrial park, it was too late to escape. >> we had no evacuation plan. i never seen one. >> nobody stood around. we were all trying to get out. we just couldn't get out. the cars were already up to their windows in water. there was no way out. >> reporter: impact plastics refutes these accounts, saying employees were given ample warning. >> employees were told to leave the plant at least 45 minutes before the gigantic force of the flood hit the industrial park. there was time to escape. >> reporter: the tennessee bureau of investigations now leading a probe into the timeline of events that morning. an attorney representing workers and some of the victims'

families says he believes the deaths could have been avoided, and they plan on taking legal action. >> our thanks to guad for that report. we are now only 28 days out from the presidential election. vice president harris is overhauling her media strategy while former president trump is facing backlash over his latest comments about immigrants. here's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: after facing criticism for avoiding unscripted events, vice president harris on a new media blitz. on cbs, pressed on her economic plan. >> how are you going to pay for it? >> well, one of the things, i'm going to make sure that the richest among us who can afford it pay their fair share in taxes. >> but we're dealing with the real world here. >> but the real world includes -- >> how are you going to get this through congress. >> you know, when you talk quietly with a lot of folks in congress, they know exactly what i'm talking about. >> reporter: meanwhile, former president trump who's called for the mass deportation of migrants

is igniting new controversy, suggesting that those who are convicted of murder have bad genes. >> it's in their genes, and we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now. >> that type of language is hateful. it's disgusting. it's inappropriate and has no place in our country. >> reporter: the trump campaign saying the former president was clearly referring to murderers, not migrants, while trump is also slamming the biden-harris administration over their response to hurricane helene, saying they're not getting help to devastated communities last enough. >> kamala harris has left them stranded. they send hundreds of billions of dollars to foreign nations, and you know what they're giving our people? 750 bucks. >> reporter: the white house says it's not true. the $750 is only an up front payment for emergency costs, while fema assesses people's eligibility for more. some $200 million have been allocated so far. back to you. >> gabe, thank you. a day after israel marked one year since the october 7th hamas attacks the war with hamas

and hezbollah rages on. both groups fired rockets and missiles into israel monday. no deaths have been reported. the idf is also preparing major new offensives, issuing evacuation orders for a quarter of lebanon's coastline as much as much of northern gaza. for the latest, let's turn to claudio lavanga. bring us up to speed. >> reporter: good morning, frances. yeah, it was an anniversary marked not only by commemorations but by heavy fighting, both in the north and the south of israel, starting from the north on monday, hezbollah said they fired missiles at what they called was an israeli military facility near the city of haifa in the north of israel about the third largest city in israel. and israel confirmed that about 190 projectiles were filred inside the israeli territory, injuring at least 12 people. in the meantime, israel continuecon continued to bomb what they

called hezbollah infrastructure. and they confirmed two more israeli soldiers lost their lives in combat in possibly that ground operation at the border with lebanon, bringing the death toll among israeli ranks in that area to 11. now also israel issued an evacuation warning for fishermen, residents and also vacation goers along a good stretch of the lebanese coastline, starting from of course the border with israel, ahead of what could possibly be a maritime operation. going south, hamas has said that they, or pledged that they will rise from the ashes like the phoenix, at least according to a hamas leader in exile who said that despite the heavy losses for the past years in gaza, hamas still has the ability to manufacture weapons and to recruit fighters, frances. >> claudio lavanga, thank you. commemorations of october 7

took different forms on american college campuses monday. at columbia university in new york city, pro-palestinian protesters called for an end to the year-long war. and, outsides university gates, pro-israel demonstrators waved flags and prayed for the israeli hostages. universities nationwide have been bracing for renewed protests and clashes that shook campuses last school year. the presidents of penn, harvard and columbia all resigned after contentious testimony on capitol hill. new overnight, the largest water utility company in the country said it was the target of a cyber attack. american water provides services to more than 14 million customers across 14 states. the company became aware of unauthorized activity on thursday and immediately shut down certain systems and paused billing. american water does not believe its operations were impacted, and they're working with law enforcement. the historic heat isn't letting up on the west coast.

meteorologist michelle grossman is tracking those temperatures for us, among many other things more seriously like milton that you're watching. good morning michelle. >> good morning. still watching milton. we'll be watching that for days to come. and we've been watching this heat wave out west for days. we're looking at temperatures well above normal. still record-breaking heat alerts for san francisco, phoenix, place phoenix, places in the desert southwest. look at that high allowing all this heat in. we're going to see triple digits. phoenix, 108. the record there is 104. las vegas close to 100 degrees. salt lake city into the 80s. and this warmth is going to spread on to the east. temperatures in the northern plains and southern plains into th , lots of sunshine.

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manager, she says the point isn't who they vote for, it's that they're able to vote. >> people feel like it's very complicated, the process of registering to vote. and so we do the best that we can as a group to share information. >> reporter: more than 300,000 indigenous americans live in arizona. there are 22 federally-recognized tribes. their vote is essential and coveted in the swing state. president biden narrowly won arizona in 2020, the first democrat to do so in 20 years, with strong support from citizens of the navajo nation. but former president trump has had an advantage with indigenous voters nationwide. both parties are working hard this fall to win over native voters. at a revcent rally, vice president kamala harris acknowledged tribal leaders. >> i will always respect tribal self-determination. >> reporter: while the gop is

courting votes on social media through groups like navajos for trump. but many face huge hurdles, that's why the non-profit was launched. >> we know the 101 ways it is hard to vote. however, we're doing our part to pitch in to help people overcome some of those barriers. >> reporter: the challenges, language barriers, a proof of citizenship requirement, which can pose a problem for elderly indigenous people who don't have traditional birth certificates, and, in some instances, no physical mailing address. >> a lot of reservations have the same experience of, you know, not having official road names. >> reporter: that means, in some cases, volunteers like jandi must physically draw a map on the form. >> i would draw to say this is where the fire station is. >> reporter: describing where a would-be voter lives. and then the voters have to actually get to the polling stations, which, for many, can

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