♪♪ good day. i'm jose diaz-balart in for chris jansing. the strongest hurricane to strike florida's big bend is still packing a major punch. helene is barrelling through the southeast carving destruction as it moves north. millions are without power as the region grapples with catastrophic flooding and damaging winds. we are tracking the storm and surveying the damage as this life-threatening situation continues to develop. vice president harris faces a key vulnerability head-on. she's heading to the southern border. can she flip the script on trump on immigration? new york's law and order mayor forced to give a plea before a judge. eric adams' arraignment on a five-count public corruption indictment. what's next for the case? we begin here in the south

where at this hour at least 22 people are confirmed dead and around 4 million customers still are without power after the strongest hurricane ever to hit florida's big bend region brought up to 20 feet of unsurvival storm surge. in a matter of a couple hours, water rose to the roofs of multi-story homes. unbelievable images are coming in across florida, georgia and the carolinas. look at this. rescue crews in florida finding homes in flames as they try to save people trapped by rising waters. the sheriff further south in lee county posted videos through the night of boats scooping in to save people stranded. near tampa, officials rescued four people and a dog trapped in a chest-high water. roads still pretty much impassable today.

from this neighborhood all the way to atlanta, where communities more than 500 miles away are experiencing historic floods. entire neighborhoods are underwater. my energy colleagues are reporting from the ground in florida. kathy park is in florida. what are you seeing where you are? >> reporter: jose, we made our way here, roughly 90 miles outside of tallahassee. the damage here is widespread. we are on the grant property. this is the house. the water got so high here, it actually entered this house. it's built high for a reason. roughly 14 feet high because there's a river behind this home. it floods here often. it never floods to the extent that we saw last night. the storm surge here, the initial reports more than 15 feet. i want to show you something else. a lot of the roads are

impassable. this is. you can see part washed away. we are told that that river, it flooded and that water pushed over this bridge here, carrying debris. there's a marina nearby. there's someone's dock in this as well. swing to the right here. you talked about just flooded out roads and property. we see a lot of that here. this one almost completely underwater. there's a garage over here in the corner completely destroyed. it looks like it's submerged as well. we have a helicopter above us. a lot of recovery efforts underway. this is a snapshot of what we are seeing here on the ground. earlier, as i mentioned, we were talking to susie grant. she has never seen a storm like this. >> i was in shock. this is the worst i have ever seen it here.

i've been -- i'm glad i left. i'm glad i still have a house left. i got something to work on. >> reporter: you got a chance to go up there. what did you see inside? >> it has mud and all that and everything has been floated around. >> reporter: jose, residents here are telling me they are just exhausted having to endure another hurricane. last year, they had to go through idalia. it was a powerful storm. they spent months rebuilding. in fact, she lives -- she works as a restaurant nearby. that has washed away. they moved in in december after rebuilding from idalia. idalia, and they spend months -- she works nearby, at a restaurants, and they just reopened. adding insult to injury, this is another blow to this community,

jose. >> kathy, the state of florida as, unfortunately, been so used to, and has had to prepared for storms, hurricanes, et cetera. i'm just wondering, and so in susie's case, the how is elevated, but apparently there was in penetration through the windows. have you seen a lot of that recovery effort being brought in from officials from the state of florida? >> reporter: yeah. right on cue, jose, i'm not issue if this was commissioned by the state, but this is what we're seeing here in steinhatchee. there are trucks pulling in, so it appears recoveries efforts, in advance of the storm, thousands of linemen were already in place to begin recovery efforts after the storm passed. i think they were ready this time around, because they realized how catastrophic this

storm would be. >> kathy park, i thank you very much. volunteers are doing the essential work of clearing the way for first responders. our next guest is a veteran with team rubicon. they're there to work through emergencies, help rescuers, anything and everything. thank you, lawrence montoya for being with us today. tell us about what your work there entails. >> well, team rubicon, we have a rock clearance package, which means we have capabilities of cutting trees off roads, and a compact tractor to push those trees off the road to allow ingress of emergency services or egress of folks trapped by the storms. with you roads cleared, we'll us proi proceed tarp roofs, and other services to assist the

residents of florida. >> so, lawrence, what kind of things has your team been seeing there in florida? >> we literally had a tree fall 30 feet in front of you about 20 minutes ago. we quickly got out and cleared that road, so traffic could continue to flow. we had some police officers stop to thank us for getting the road opened up so quickly, that's one of our capabilities. we came back here for several hurricanes, and now we're here to support for helene. >> for all of these, there are a lot of people that contribute every day to our economy, that are part of our country, who may not have english as their first language, may have a different immigration status. what are your teams doing to reach them? how can they, in turn, reach out

to get some assistance. >> please join our team. volunteer trusa.org, and if you are unable to filly assist, donate. trusa.org. >> so, what kind of volunteer work could people do, for example, in these cases, in florida, clinesas, georgia, what are the actual manpower needed, and what are the things being carried out? >> again, there's -- whatever we're asked to. maybe to provide assistance with distributing food, as well as our core capabilities, again, folks who come out and assist es with mucking out houses. we provide the training stars roof tarping.

there's a class to be taken for chain saw and equipment operators. volunteers come out, you know, please come join the team. and there's just so much work to be done, so much debris to be move. the more hands, the better. >> lawrence montoya, thank you very much for being with us. i appreciate the work all of you are doing. coming up in 90 seconds, the 0 seconds, where helene is heading, and a forecast on where the storm goes from here. forece the storm goes from here pil? so i started my own studio. getting a brick and mortar in new york is not easy. chase ink has supported us from studio one to studio three. when you start small, you need some big help. and chase ink was that for me.

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clearing the way, [rumble] [whoosh] so you arrive exactly where you belong. helene is threatening millions with floodwaters blocking off key roads. sandy springs, georgia. wear can be seen all the way up to the top of the mailboxes. priscilla thompson is forecasting from valdosta, and bill karins is here, and priya is here with us in atlanta. priscilla, what is the scene like where you are? the governor says around more

than 150 structures in this area may be damaged, and when you see what has happened in some of these neighborhoods, you can understand how -- look at this. they're probably at least half a dozens trees that have fallen in this yard alone. you see the massive hole that's been left by at least one of these trees that's fallen. neighbors here tell us the residence who is here is out of down. with idalia, and this is the kind of damage we're seeing. crews have been through outside the day working to resolve these issues. we were just talking to a they fix their back porch. they had just fixed their back porch, spent $120,000, he estimates, to do that, now they're dealing with eight fallen trees in their front yard. they rode out the storm here. they said around 11:00 at night, they heard the trees begin to

fall. they got into the hallway, basically slept there, hovered there, and woke up to this damage. i want to show you how business these trees are. they are massive trees, just completely snapped throughout the area, and, of course, now the cleanup is beginning, but also more than a million people in georgia without power, 99% of this county is without power, so we know the governor has 500 national -- georgia guard troops on the ground. he's activated another 1,000 this morning. they're working to get the debris out of the way and try to get generators down here to get the street lights restored. i want to play some sound from that neighborhood i was telling you about, bill, about what they experienced in their home last night. >> it sounded lightfreight

train. that wind was howling. we just put the back porch back together after one year. the process starts over again. >> reporter: so really scary stuff for folks. a lot of people will have insurance and find a way to fix this. i was speaking to a woman who lives in an apartment. they had a tree fall in their apartment complex. she's not sure if they can stay there. she doesn't know where they're going to go. a lot of people are trying to figure out what's next, as officials are trying to get things moving an. wow 99% of the county you're in is still without power. that's a bit -- >> i think it's less than 200 people who have power out of the 30,000 that are here.

priy. a, a lot of part still there? >> reporter: that's right. we've seen some progress here. the officials -- this road was completely submerged, but they're trying to assess the situation and deal with the standing water. you can see there's two homes in this area that are completely submerged. the vehicles were left in the driveways, those are probably going to be a total loss. we're told that one of the homeowners over here was able to evacuate when they discovered their home was flooding. their next-door neighbor wasn't as lucky. they had to have one of tows dramatic swiftwater rescues. there's still a few of rescues going on because of peachtree creek which is three feet over its flooding capacity.

as you mentioned, a rare flash flood emergency issued here in atlanta. typically it's a watch or warning, but it was escalated to an emergency. the hours for that were extended. we're also dealing with the same things that priscilla was talking about. governor kemp sadly just issued a press conference recently, saying the death toll here in georgia has increased to 11 fatalities,ic as a result of falling trees on both cars and homes, jose. >> so, bill, you know, we've been talking about this for some time. it was such a rapidly -- it gained force so rapidly, but this has been drenching entire parts of -- look at georgia, and south carolina, and, of course, northern florida. how is it possible this is continuing to cause so much damage?

>> jose, i would estimate like 90% of the damage has been from water. there is wind damage. as we said, the eye made landfall in a relatively unpopulated area. the surge hit an extremely populated area, and then the inland rainfall, atlanta heading up into the mountains of north carolina. down to greenville, south carolina. we just now saw finally the flash flood emergency has been lifted for atlanta. i saw one report, jose, 240 roads are closed because of flooding in western north carolina. they are people asking to be evacuated, asking for help, first responders can't get to them, because roads are washed out. we have the lake lure dam that is in fear of overtopping.

all of that water is causing a ton of problems. in atlanta, your rainfall total the last two days, highest ever recorded, and the records go back about 150 years. that's why we're seeing the pictures we showed you. as far as additional rain, we're going to take everything in to be this afternoon and tonight into kentucky, southern indiana, still a chance for isolated attorneys. raleigh, you're in the clear, but this tornado washington is right around i-95. the storm itself, most of the damage has been done from the we said. that's pretty much over with. and we'll see if they wet any flooding in tennessee and kentucky, but not anything in the historic stuff like we're dealing with in north carolina. >> bill, how do you explain this whole cat 4.

it picked up speed so quickly. it got to cat 4, it hit an area where we're so close to hall hassee, for example. how do you explain what it did where it did? >> the biggest analogy i can give is putting fuel into a fire. this storm, when it went over the gulf, it was extremely warm, that water. this storm took advantage of that. all summer long there's been record temperatures, humidity, so the gulf of mexico is the warmest it's ever been measured. this storm just took advantage of energy that was available and produced it. a lot of people want to say this happened because of climate change. that's not the way to correctly look at it. this storm was much worse. it likely would have happened anyways 100, 200, 300 years ago, but the added energy put into

our atmosphere, this storm was maybe 10%, 15% stronger without human-induced climate change. thank you all so very much. we appreciate it. if you are or someone you know needs help, assistance after helene, go to fema.gov. there you can apply for assistance or call 1-800-621-3362, and let me do it in spanish. [ speaking in a global language ] spanish [ speaking in a global language ] up next, vice president

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26 past the hour. this hour vice president harris is traveling to arizona. this comes as new polling shows a very tight race in that critical battleground state. the latest poll finds harris down six points, which is within the margin of error, but a new bloomberg arizona poll shows a different story, harry actually up three points, which also is within the margin of error. gabe gutierrez is on the ground in arizona. and we have the chief advocacy officer here, and gabe, what does the vice president hope to accomplish? >> reporter: they are trying to cut into trump's lead on

immigration. we've heard she's down 21 points in the most recent nbc news poll. when you compared that to back in january, which trump led by 35 points, that could make a huge difference in this critical swing state. the harris campaign is trying to build on that. she's expected here later today, calling for more border control agents, more fentanyl, included in that bipartisan border bill, at the urging of donald trump. she's expected to bring that up, as she has the past few months of this campaign. we've got speaking with voters here on the ground. trump supporters are skeptical of harris' record on immigration, but harris supporters say they do like her policies better than that of president biden. take a listen to two on either side, a trump supporter and harris supporter.

let's listen. >> she's trying to make the case that she has been tough on a border, as a prosecutor it's in california, what do you make of that? >> it's lies. >> reporter: what do you make of democrats trying to argue they're tough on the border. >> it's political rhetoric that as absolute lie. >> it's unfortunate that earlier this year there was a bill in congress to address these issues, but for partisan reasons, it didn't go anywhere. that really swayed my vote. >> reporter: that was danya acosta, a former sheriff's deputy here in cochise county. she's in and out a council member. she says she is supporting vice president harris after being disappointed a bit by president biden. it's those type of voters, people that live here and could make a spivetal difference that

vice president harry is trying to reach this afternoon. >> gabe, talk to us about where you are. >> reporter: certainly. this is the southeastern part of arizona. i'm not very far from the border at all. there's the fence behind me. there's a port of entry right over there. this was copper mining area that really cochise county has seen a lot of republicans come through here, j.t. vance, donald trump we are here, many republicans have come here, so for vice president harris to come here for the first time -- come to the border in more than three years, she's trying to go to the heart of the issue and wing over some swing voters concerned about immigration. jose. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you very much. erica, good to see you. i'm wondering what you would

like to tell the vice president if you had the opportunity to see her face-to-face. what could you ask and tell her? >> jose, thank you for having me again. i would ask her, as someone who is running against one of the most anti-immigrant candidates we have seen in recent time, one of the morse anti-immigrant former presidents, who has been making of lies, all kinds of accusations against migrants, or telling people, that we're basically less than human. he's been dehumanizing us. i would ask someone who will uplift, who has also done good stuff on immigration when she was there as a senator. that she stands up to that, and also to talk about what she sees

and what she hears from border patrol, but i'm hopeful she can talk to organizations that are on the ground also receiving and welcoming people, migrants who have been making really hard an long journeys to seek safety in this country. unfortunately that's not something she has focused as much on, but to me it's also important to ensure we're lifting up humanity in our community. >> erica, the issue of immigration, and also the issue of migrants and men, women and children is so politicized, i think maybe now more than ever, but it's something that's easily -- the whole issue of the border bill that's become a political pinata, i think, for a lot of political sides on both

sides, you know, if that border bill includes, for example, the building of the wall in areas like arizona? so i'm wondering, where is the talk about that? the ethos, the men, women and children. >> there isn't. unfortunately that's where a narrative has, you know, it's been going in a direction both speaking of this issue as if it was just about security, if it was just about criminality. that's not the case. i know that. i am an immigrant. i came here undocumented. i speak and work with people who have come to this country to seek safety. their stories and their realities have really not been a central part of the conversation on immigration, right? it's just frustrating to me to see that.

you know, as your previous question, you know, it's something i keep saying, if i could advise vice president harris, is that it's important to continue to tell the story of our community, the story of people like my mom, who was raided at some point. our home was raided, and how that will affect immigrants in this country, but citizens who lives in mixed families, and that person who's running, donald trump has promised to really do a mass deportation of people like my mother, people in our communities, and that is going to really affect not just us as immigrants, but this country. so, i would keep on also talking about not just this issue it's about security and criminality, it's not. it's about human beings trying

to make a journey to seek a better life, to contribute really, to this nation. erica, i don't think there's any question about how donald trump thinking and feels. he has said, if he wins, he will create the largest deportation force in history. separation of families, no problem. he's clear on his positions. he's very clear on it. i'm just wondering, erica, there hasn't been any comprehensive immigration reform in this country since 1986. where is the talk of the dreamers? where is the talk of the millions, millions of people who live in this country that are part of this society, our culture, and our economy, and that have mixed status of immigration families. that reality, which affects so many people, nowhere to be seen, nowhere to be talk about.

>> that's correct. also this, jose, if we do end up in a situation where donald trump is the president again. if we end up in that situation, people are going to see the consequences of max deportation, the consequences of family separation. we already saw it. we saw it on a scale that perhaps we would -- it could be even bigger if he gets elected. as i mentioned before, i know how it feels to see your mother taken from your home. she was seeking asylum from domestic violence, and she ended up being taken from her children in handcuffs. she only came here to seek a bev life for us. that's the story of millions of people who have become

invisible, because the entire conversation on immigration has been focused on the border, on security. so, i do hope that the harris campaign can tap into those stories, because i know harris has worked with those families. she has worked with the community, and we need to push back on those narratives about our communities and narratives than really just lying, right? which has happened in ohio. people have literally been targeted because of current narrative because of our immigrant communities. >> erica, i'm always grateful to have the chance to speak with you. my admiration for you is constant. thank you, erica. >> same here. thank you, jose. up next, florida rescue crews are battling violent winds. these are pictures out of tampa, florida. entire roofs have been blown

out, and there are rescue operations going on through introduce the state, but the whole southeast, georgia, north carolina, south carolina, devastating impact the storm surges will have, and will have impact for months to come, next. impact for months to come, next.

:40 past the hour. more on the breaking news this hour. tropical storm helene is bringing dangerous winds and storms. rescue crews are herring to people. the coast guard saved a man and his dog, who were on a boat. take a look at this aerial footage out of tampa. you can see all the roads

completely flooded. we'll check in against with kathy park, and joining us now, meteorologist catherine -- >> reporter: >> reporter: we have repositioned ourselves not too far away from where we were positioned just a few minutes ago. the devastation is widespread in steinhatch yes. we were told, this once was a restaurant. they finished rebuilding in december, were moving back in, and then got hit again. you'll notice an apartment building, that blue one, we talked to the property owner. she was telling me the water got to the first left of that building over there. i'm going to turn around and show you. this is the river, and the gulf

opens up, the storm surge to about 15 feet. it was just devastating it was complete oover, and to this section. if you take a look a lot of the roads are currently impassable. this is what we're dealing with. a lot of these road blocked by toppled power lines, trees, a lot of roads are already still flooded in this community's well. it's certainly widespread here. >> 42 million people under flood alerts. what are the areas most at risk today? >> today, we're actually more worried about that inland flood

threat. so what we're going to deal with now is the river flooding, the catastrophic water that's rising in parts of north carolina. it was under their first-ever flash flood emergency this morning. that was just lifted, but still numerous flash flood emergencies across western north carolina, parts of north carolina are catastrophic, and honestly overwhelming flood impacts as we speak. >> yes, exactly. helene will go down in the record books.

it will also likely be a name that's retired on our list of hurricane names, due to this destruction it's caused. so it was one of largest just in terms of size to strike this part of florida. also, the strongest on record going back to the 1850s, there's never been a category 4 hurricane that's hit this part of florida, being the big bend. this is the strongest hurricanes that this region has had to deal with. kathy park and catherine, thank you both so very much. rescue efforts are still underway across florida right now. we were looking at kathy park there in -- this was hernando county last night. the fire department rescued 13 people and six pets with the help of the state coast guard. david decarlo is joining us, thank you very much for being

with us. i know our state is no stranger to historic storms. learning to officially and effectively issue rescues, is in a way unique to from a florida. how has your county been dealing with it? and as it pasted, it was about 100 miles off our coast, going north, so as it moved north of us, that storm surge, we started to see that storm surge rise. we experienced it and the damage and the defendant station we have seen we a bunch of marinas hit on our west coast. we have several boats that are in the middle of the roadway, a major roadway.

we have several boats in the marshland areas. we still have wear that's still impassable. and we're going door to door, knocking on houses, making sure everybody is fine, if they need any just making sure everybody is safe. >> david, we're showing as we're speaking with you, a large part of the screen there, live pictures from the helicopter over the tampa bay area. david, is it the majority of the damage is water related?

>> like catherine said before, who is just about as long in length as the state of florida. it's very elongated. we had a very long duration of storm surge that just kept pushing water into our doe to make the storm surge that dramatic and that drastic. we have never seen that time of storm certain here in hernando county in the past. the power is out on the west coast of our county. we're still clearing roadways, trying to get debris, trying to make it safe for the electric crews to get in there. they probably won't be able to get in there until tomorrow to do the assessments. >> david decarlo, thank you very much. very quickly, if we could go back to the live pictures, david, i thank you for everything. i know you haven't slept one second. i appreciate everything that you

and your folks are doing. take a look at that, that speedboat, way over a 30-footer. >> yes. >> essentially just jumped over and into this person -- past the dock, into the houses. this is a really significant damage done, as they're saying, for this part of florida, it was mostly a water destruction event. . >> yes. catastrophic. instead. i thank you, sir. coming up, new information on new york city's first-ever indicted mayor eric adams. he had his first appearance in court today. what happens next, and how soon we could see this case going to trial. and how soon we could see this case going to trial.

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of new york, flanked by his defense attorney on the right, was asked a series of questions, did he understand the charges against him today, some of the things you have outlined, the idea of soliciting foreign donations, which is illegal, and the judge going through, making sure he understood it. does he have counsel, of course he does. and asking if he would like to plead. his attorney said, yes, he would like to enter a plea. the mayor leaning forward into the microphone, and according to chloe atkins who was in court saying not guilty, your honor, telling the judge what we have been hearing the past several days, weeks from the mayor that he believes he's not guilty of any sort of conduct. the next step in the process is for the district judge to take over. that will happen on wednesday of next week. at that point, they will start to talk about this upcoming case in earnest, as far as potential

dates for motions to be filed, for potential dates for there to be a trial, and importantly, the defense has signalled they're going to file a motion to dismiss on wednesday. that's the state of play so far there, jose. >> paul, this motion to dismiss, adams lawyer says he plans to file that motion to dismiss for the mayor next week, alleging the entire body of evidence is one staffer who they claim has lied. how far could this argument go, do you think, paul? >> the mayor and his lawyer appear to have different defense strategies. when the charges were first revealed, mayor adams says the biden administration was coming after him. he sounded like donald trump saying that the justice department has been bluff or not. there's no evidence to sport any of that. damian williams, the u.s. attorney who brought the case is black, as is the mayor.

today in court, the defense attorney said he will attack the credibility of witnesses. he's also likely to suggest that this is small potatoes, federal prosecution based on outrage for lights and hotel rooms. >> and so, paul, do you see this as the mayor has said, he is not stepping down under any circumstance, is there anything going forward, do you think, that may surprise us? >> yes, there could be a superseding indictment with more counts relating to these bribery and illegal campaign contribution charges. but, jose, there could be another criminal case or cases brought against the mayor based on separate allegations and investigations that are squirrelling around, adams and people in his orbit. we know that the same day this indictment was unsealed, fbi agents executed a search warrant at the mayor's official residence, a clear sign that the investigations are continuing.

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good to be with you, i'm katy tur in for chris jansing. we're going to begin with breaking news out of lebanon.