this is how much of the city of asheville in north carolina looked after. the storm struck in september. it caused what some officials described as biblical devastation, wiping out homes, roads and bridges. more than 230 people were killed, including more than 40 in asheville alone. even weeks later, parts of the city were still underwater as some businesses worked to get back on their feet. all of this coming during the fall foliage season, which is usually the lifeline for the local economy. the city is now slowly recovering, but there's a long road ahead. let's dig into this. hayden clemons is the executive director of the asheville downtown association. she's speaking with us from asheville. hello. how are you doing? >> doing well. thank you. >> so glad to hear it. there is so much going on in the world right now. there's so much happening in the u.s., too. after so much of the coverage of helene in september. i guess people just moved on, but not the people actually impacted by it. so tell me, what is the latest on recovery efforts and how do you feel

i was struck by, prior to helene, the mayor of asheville said that actually asheville, the lowest unemployment rate in the state. i know this can add to the challenges, right? we know how tough staffing has been for the last several years for folks across the country. with businesses closing, some people left to look for work elsewhere. how has it been in terms of getting people back to staff up some of these businesses as they're reopening? >> you know, businesses are still paying off loans coming out of the pandemic and also building back their workforce. so this is certainly a blow to our community. but i've really not seen the grit and gumption of a community like asheville and western north carolina. that determination is really, really on display right now. you know, if your viewers want to want to help or even you, erica, you can be like forbes and put asheville on your bucket list to visit in 2025. there are lots of things happening through the holidays and into the new year in february. we have stars serving up love, which is andre agassi, andy roddick, emma navarro and jessica pegula

she remembers attending her first gingerbread contest in asheville when she was just 4 years old. >> you could have ever hoped for in a hallmark movie. >> reporter: when the official 2024 contest was canceled, jennings made this. >> even the ink here is edible? >> yes. >> reporter: a series of houses dedicated to communities impacted by the hurricane. >> banner elk, chimney rock, these are all north carolina towns? >> yes. >> reporter: the house on top is hope. which is a word you see a lot around here. >> he with need people to come to the community to rebuild and to keep the traditions alive. we need hope. >> reporter: sabrina miller had hoped this would be the year she'd finally earn a prize in the contest. >> i'm good. >> reporter: but instead her work is being displayed in a downtown shopping arcade as part of an effort to drive traffic to local businesses. >> well, we needed people coming in. we needed the tourism back. >> that's cool. >> that's very cool. >> we needed to give people already here something to see, something to look forward to, some sense of normalcy. >> is it a

. ♪ on cbs sunday morning ♪ >>> conor knighton takes us to asheville, carolina.read is providing holiday cheer. >> reporter: the national gingerbread contest in asheville, north carolina, is a destination event for bakers and spectators. when the damage caused by hurricane helene threatened it, christmas was feeling less sweet. down but not out on gingerbread lane coming up on "sunday morning." >>> ben mankiewicz talks with filmmaker, writer and actor, werner herzog. seth done explores israeli settlements on the west bank. we will offer insight those drone sightings causing so much confusion these past few weeks. plus historian douglas brinkley on the long, fruitful relationship between the great bob dylan and the movies. and much more on this first sunday morning of winter, december 22, 2024. we'll be back in a moment. ♪ ♪ ♪ alleluia ♪ ♪ alleluia ♪ ♪ alleluia ♪ ♪ alleluia ♪ ♪ alleluia ♪ >>> the heavenly voices of the young people's chorus of new york city, something of a holiday tradition here at "sunday morning." they are helping us celebrate the most enduring

so i'm going to listen. >> patty turner joins us now from asheville.is lovely to see you now, three months later. and patty, you just got access to clean drinking water two days ago. and i know i'm not telling you anything you haven't lived through, but i just think for the rest. >> no, no, it was actually in november. in november, two days after. >> okay. all right. we had been told two days ago, which seemed insane. november is still bad, but that's better. okay, good. >> 50, 52 days without potable water was enough. i. yeah. that's interesting to. yeah for sure. no. and and actually for the damage that happened to our water system 52 days was miraculously fast. they had to replace over 2000ft of pipe that literally the road that it was located under that road was gone. so they had to rebuild the pipe, rebuild the roads, they had to rebuild the roads to get people to be able to rebuild our water system. it was it the level of devastation here is unimaginable. unless you have come and put your boots on the ground, it's it's amazing. and and when you a

asheville fire department.as fire fighters association. >> it's part of a fundraiser and helping our people get back on their feet. so t-shirt sales we've done, we've given that money directly to guys who lost their homes. reporter: tell me about that fundraiser. these t-shirts are amazing. >> profits are going back and we'll try to sell 100,000 of them and www.hookandasheville.com and we have t-shirts and sweatshirts ss and more. reporter: god bless you all. my husband is a fire fighter in new york and i feel like you're part of my family. thank you for doing what you do, you have serving hearts and nothing better. merry christmas to you all. >> thank you, janice. reporter: guys, i'm so proud to be here. the station is widespread here in the asheville area. people coming together is such a beautiful thing. and brings hope and joy for the season. will: taste of ireland fox team bringing christmas to fox square. carley: celebrating through the celtic dance show now through december 22nd. question have the dance

for businesses in asheville. we went through covid, the recession, and then to have this hurricane, it was just life changing for everyone here. a lot of people were going to be without work, and we wanted to try and keep our payroll going. our customers showed up as as they always do. we actually hired 20 other people to help out in our fulfillment department. >> botanical gardens is a superfood dog treat brand. i started my business shortly after we adopted our dog, carnaby from brother wolf animal rescue, and when i saw that brother wolf had lost their shelter in the floodwaters, i was just heartbroken because i know that my business wouldn't exist without them. so we're donating back to brother wolf for every order this holiday season to help them route their rebuild efforts. we feel really fortunate to have fared well, be up and running in business, and be able to give back to our community and help them recover. >> this is a bag that we commissioned a local artist to do a design for. kind of represents all

this weekend's sold- out show, nothing short of a miracle for the asheville valley company.d of how this all goes. >> reporter: including the company's rehearsal space with floors flooded and ripped apart, costumes battered and mold growing. >> the piano is in the corner. >> reporter: the director said while the space was destroyed, their spirit remains strong. >> i have never seen anything like this, ever, ever. i thought i have to pull this together somehow. i have to because everybody needs it and everybody needs the nutcracker this year. >> the valley company got to work with dancers and volunteers putting this space back together. and they would get it cleaned out with drywall ripping out the floors. and reversing on -- rehearsing on weekends in a borrowed studio. her home was hit hard as well with trees down, no power for weeks. but it was the magic and joy of this show she said that helped her and so many others here enter. >> it took me here to say i have a voice and i have something to share that will help. you know, i want people to come and think i can do this. >>

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he shut his whole shop down and began to build those 75 kits which we shipped individually to the ashevilleiness owners in the chatham area. and if they shipped those down. and then we had over 120 the 0 -- 120 the 0 volunteers from across the united states come together in asheville, north carolina, to begin to the assemble those kits that were constructed in chatham. charlie: so what's the total number of cabins that you've provided so far? >> so right now we've had other churches from as far away as ohio, south carolina to actually call us and say, hey, we want to to build a couple of these, can you send us the specification, so not only the ones we've built, we've also built additional ones on the ground. some areas, charlie, as you're reporting, you can't even get a vehicle to, so we had to actually walk some of the material in and build them on site in people's yards because you couldn't even get a vehicle, like i say, close enough to the home to deliver it. so right now as we stand today some ten, just under ten weeks of being on the ground with all our volunteers and supporters, vie

asheville, 41 degrees. altoona it feels like 11.inter weather advisories stretching from the u.p. of michigan all the way into the northeast. we've got -- this is chardon, ohio. from our station in cleveland, good snow squall going on right there. in fact what is a snow squall. let's show you what we got. you can see the snow making its way through. this is from december of 2019. the snow squall is a quick, intense burst of heavy snow, combined with strong winds. and then what you get is this blowing snow, rapidly reducing visibility to near zero. you can have white out conditions that make driving difficult to impossible. and in fact, the tug hill plateau between watertown and syracuse, another foot or more. could be two feet of snow from erie to bradford and we have winds to deal with from hartford to asheville. 51 million people will be affected. air travel will be a problem today with these wind gusts anywhere from 25 to 45 miles per hour. delays in boston, new york, philly, d.c., detroit right on into chicago. we're going to ge

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let me talk about the snow that happened in asheville, north carolina. measurable snow in nearly three years. that is the longest stretch they've gone without snow since records began more than 130 years ago. look at this. now we've got all of these advisories down to asheville for the wind, up to philadelphia and new york and back into wisconsin and minnesota. this clipper system moves through fast. not necessarily about the snow, but the lake effect behind it and those wind gusts. again, easily 40-60. could even impact flights tomorrow. look at the windchills. asheville will feel like 3 below. it will feel like zero friday morning in chicago. we will have that touch of cold by saturday morning here. >> michael: all right. if you don't have your jackets out, get them out now. thanks so much for that, ginger. now new details on the stowaway who flew from new york to paris and how the tsa says she slipped onto that flight. gio benitez is here with the latest. you are about to answer the question we've all been wondering the last few days. >> gio: there ar

a therapy dog with the asheville police department. you see her right there in north carolina.he supported people throughout the devastation of that storm, helene helping them cope with anxiety and stress. and joining us now, it is a great honor to have both. officer cora right there and her handler, senior officer debbie lacroix. thank you so, so much for being here. merry christmas. this is such a treat. but before i get to the positives of the award, officer lacroix, i mean, this has been a hard year for so many in asheville. just how are you and your colleagues in the department doing? >> well, it as you said, it's been it's been a tough year. um, a couple a tough few months, actually, with in the wake of hurricane helene, it was devastating to our community. and, um, our, our agency as well. so, um, yeah, it's it's been nothing like we've ever seen before. >> well, and for that reason, it seems like officer cora truly is a godsend for this department and for this whole community. so you got to tell me that is this is the sweetest dog i've ever seen. uh, tell me a little bi

i hope i get to come back to asheville to see all of you and the wonderful people in this town.for all that you do, and thank you for coming today. >> of course. reporter: you want to say hi to anybody at home? >> hi, grandma. repo>> hi, mom. >> hi, john. reporter: this is a wonderful opportunity and thanks to maddie's toy stop and tunnel to towers and all the wonderful volunteers from asheville and all the surrounding towns. they all still need your help. of course we're going to continue to shine a spotlight on this area that was completely devastated by the storm. but, you know what, it's the season of christmas and we're seeing so much hope and love today. i'm so happy that "fox & friends" is here with us today. and all of the viewers at home for helping us. thank you, guys. god bless. will: thank you for highlighting goodness. reporter: merry christmas. will: thank you, janice for highlighting that and paying attention to people in north carolina. we're going to continue now here in new york with the made in america gift series and first up joining me chris and his wife, i

honor to be invited by our fellow senator, soon-to-be vicee president jd vance to accompany him to asheville north carolina to view the damage of the flood. you may say why you and i asked the same question why me. basically, jd said you are in appalachia and you understand appalachian response. the difficulties in the rural area to answer the difficult challenges of such a disaster. we went to the volunteer fire department where we met with the family ofil the battalion chief. tony garrison left his home because he knew there were people in distress. it was amazing the way everyone was so isolated down there because of the hills. he and his nephew and his son went to rescue some folks that they knew were in distress. mr. garrison and his nephew lost their lives and his son lived. the widow and the family came and met with us to tell us about tony, but also the way he and volunteer fire departments all across the nation rise to help and volunteer to d help folks wo are in need. i have seen this in our own tragedy and floods in west virginia. one of the frustrating things, what it was called

joining us now is one resident, jesse dean, the founder and owner of the asheville tea company. this was completely destroyed after helene. jesse, it is great to talk to you. how are you feeling this morning? first of all, given this news overnight, is there a sense of relief i have to imagine you were probably a little bit nervous at different points, when it didn't seem like things were going to go very well absolutely. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> yes. >> this has been a nail biting experience for me and so many others. >> um, for the past three months, to be honest, but especially the past few days. so we're very relieved. i'm very relieved. >> i wonder how you felt as you watched the bill that had the money for aid kind of blow up midweek, and as you saw that it was in jeopardy. not only the government shutting down, but any support for you and your 11 employees was in jeopardy. what were you feeling? what were you thinking? >> well, it was a really, um, kind of scary and disappointing experience, to be honest. we, um, we are working so hard as a community to b

as we all know, asheville was severely impacted by hurricane helene. baxter, this facility employed 3000 employees, and it is the largest production facility for saline in the united states. pretty sure they had a business continuity plan. what they may not have accounted for was a hurricane that washed out all of the roads that led to their facility. moving saline, which has a shelf life, from that warehouse out to hospitals became a very difficult thing. and they supply like 80% of saline to hospitals nationwide. when you go into a hospital or medical facility, saline is like water. you just get it. it is something regardless of your condition they hook you up to an iv bag. and so really having the ability to think creatively, to use a little healthy paranoia, and look at your entire environment and understand where disruption in different processes could impact your ability to deliver is really important. that is the kind of know your dependencies, in every organization. no one is immune to this. you really need to sit down, and it is important to b

why are they sending to ukraine instead of asheville? not just for sending to asheville and borrowing and take it from somewhere else and a lot of green new deal subsidies out there and haven't been spent and go to big corporations and not going for some emergency, they're going to cronies of the democrats that own tomorrow rations and solar panel companies or what have you and they're getting subsubsidies and all ended and all the expenditures and the democrats are piling on, there's many there and covid money we can claw back and then there's a question, most estimates for north carolina at $50 billion. why doing $110 billion. maybe we could do 50 billion and ask again in a month or two and being wisely spent or people are stealing the money. larry: i agree with all that stuff. that leaves us where? you want elon musk to be the new speaker of the house and is that a vote of no confidence against speaker johnson. you think elon musk could do any better? >> i'm afraid it would be a step down from making rockets and tesla. it would be a b

. >> first, think is much for coming here and having us live from asheville.e 15 days at my house no electricity in 20 days no water at all and 52 days without drinking water. this tinker behind me lived new belgium brewery one example how we brought thousands and thousands of gallons of people who needed water asheville weeks and weeks on end. they are really incredible and it's been an incredible journey to be a part of this. >> john: thankfully you don't need that tanker anymore because people hooked up to water. there was so much need across the area that, whether area. we checked in with a fellow eric tribbett living in a tent for a couple of months. the temperature is getting down there make. we saw the thermometer there and we saw the temperature where you are 31 degrees. so you get up in the mountains and it probably gets colder than that. he received by virtue of wine to water, one of those little tiny homes. here is his reaction when he walked in the door and saw it for the first time. >> wow! i don't know what to say. i'm now. you know, my family ha

in asheville temperatures are expected to plunge into the teens.onditions. this morning parts of the country buried under feet of snow and bracing for even more with the powerful clipper system on the move. dangerous snow squalls could slam the great lakes and northeast with intense whiteouts causing poor visibility on the roads. with the threat of severe winter weather -- >> i'm always prepared. >> reporter: -- residents are stocking up on shovels and salt. >> first aid kit and something to make sure your phones are charged up. >> reporter: hard erie, pennsylvania, national guard has been called in to help residents dig out. months after hurricane helene tore through asheville, north carolina, residents are still trying to recover. cassie hale and her family have been living in a camper since the storm. >> what's your day to day look like? >> we get up and warm up the camper and go to work. the kids go to the library. >> reporter: now with temperatures dipping below freezing volunteers are working around the clock to provide heaters. >> i see fami

fairview for people who know the area or don't, is right outside of asheville, north carolina.mall community in the county. it is a little bit southeast of asheville, north carolina, but the people of western north carolina, many of them have still been living in tents. essentially abandoned by the federal government. people whose jobs are essentially to help these very people in their time of need. they have been abandoned by those working for fema. by even the governor roy cooper. but not j.d. vance, not today and not his wife and not the incoming trump administration. we'll monitor this and bring you more as we get it. democrat leaders have been building resistance to president-elect trump and his incoming administration. especially focused on efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. this week boston's city council voted to reaffirm a law forbidding police from cooperating with ice. the city's mayor and the state's governor have shared similar stances. dozens of illegal immigrants in massachusetts have been arrested for sex crimes in the last few months, many against mi

began into the christmas spirit and december 14th, i will head to asheville, north carolina.ted by hurricane helene and we will get about toys, tunnel to towers and retired firefighters and myself headed to asheville area and surrounding areas giving out toys. you guys have been amazing donating so much money. the most donations they have had in 23 years with this company so givesendgo.com/holiday. thank you, brianna, video. >> brian: it is going to be great december 14th and we will talk about that janice. the hollow apps and you know the hollow app annual christmas challenges here are. that is next but first, my challenge is to toss to bill and dana together getting up this week at the top of the hour. >> well done, brian. we are ready to go. >> brian: sorry about the bengals. >> i appreciate that and rest in peace next year will be in the year. we will hear from multiple legal and political voices on the move to clear hunter biden coming up here. >> also, you will meet an american doing hard time as the same offense has hunter biden. >> we will talk to tom homan how we wil

fox weather meteorologist steve bender in asheville, north carolina. steve. thanks. a cute as a button cuddly bear cub than holiday season this little guy's name is jen, his story next. ♪ ♪ ♪ have yourself a little merry christmas ♪ ♪ this a bear cub from china may beat the next internet breakout star. her adoring fans line up to see him playing with his toys or splashing around in the water. visitors to his fluffy fur coat reminds them of a teddy bear. zookeepers say he has always been a lively and playful. they seemed shocked by his new fame. that is how fox reports this sunday, december the 15th of 2024. we'll see you next weekend. ♪

we're about 2 miles just outside of biltmore have village in asheville.ince 8 a.m. this river is what created all of this devastation the that you see. it runs about 25 miles through western north carolina. it flooded all these mountain communities and, sadly, back in september killed over 100 people. these areas, of course, still trying to to recover, but their spirits remain strong. in the neighboring community of swannanoa, nonprofit groups are helping people restore their homes after the flood waters swept through. we met with daniel wright who, despite his entire home being gutted, remains thankful that he and his family survived this unthinkable storm and keeps a resilient mindset for what's to come. >> it's hard to kind of be in a space like when you're used to it being, you know, your home and where you raised your family. it kind of turns into an opportunity, i guess, for new beginnings and to be grateful for what you do have. >> reporter: elsewhere meals. we rode with the a group of 200 displaced veterans. national guard when the water began to

i spoke to the mayor of asheville earlier today and she says people in asheville north carolina are still homeless, waiting for sba loans and the sba is still out of money, waiting for money right now. she says congress needs to act immediately. >> collateral damage all over again in a fight that has nothing to do with us. it has been tearing us down. you have seen the devastation. i know you know what the right thing is to do. i need you to come across the aisle, to compromise and work with fellow congresspeople to' pass a bill right before the christmas holiday that will help western north carolina be able to manage itself through the storm and be as whole as possible several months from now. >> this chaos has a real impact, lisa, and you have spoken to somebody with a unique perspective. >> earlier this week i spoke to patrick mchenry a congressman from north carolina. he has been here 20 years and is retiring. he knows all about this kind of chaos. he stepped in as acting speaker when kevin mccarthy was ousted. earlier this week he told me he thought speaker johnson had no problems. t

. >> t is a reporter for the asheville citizen times. >> there are two industries in the area, the christmasstry and tourism. helene devastated the tourism industry. being able to fall back on christmas trees is huge for them. reporter: one of the main problems after the storm was getting around. the roads were washed out, making a hard to transport the trees to loading areas. but officials went to work. >> this. they have shown coming together to get their roads fixed up and get the trees out is pretty amazing. >> we harvest up to 5 million christmas trees annually. reporter: north carolina is the second largest producer of christmas trees in the country, selling44 million dollars worth in 2022. >> the hurricane hit four weeks before harvest season. it already made a stressful time much more stressful. it will be a long time before western north carolina is back and fully operational. but it will happen. obviously it is happening a lot quicker than i thought in a lot of places. people are very community oriented. i think that the storm has really brought our communities together. reporter:

so if folks out there are watching and don't have anywhere to be over christmas, go to asheville, gorolina. they're ready to welcome you with open arms. while those people are struggling, our state legislature had the audacity, the cynicism to title their bill that stripped me of power, stripped the other council state members, duly-elected this past november, a hurricane relief bill when it didn't provide a dollar of hurricane relief. it just took from the people the power that they had assigned to the governor and gave it to the legislature. >> it is stunning to watch it happen. i mean, you didn't win by a little. you won by a lot. you beat mark robinson by more than 14 points. this was a decisive win for you, and democrats also won the majority of the state-wide seats. they won not just your seat but the lieutenant governor seat, the attorney general's seat, and the margins were single digits in some of the other cases but they all won. it seems the message from republicans is, yeah, we don't care that the people want to be governed by democrats. you're going to get republican pol

ukraine or asheville, north carolina? we have enough money to do both if we borrow it. but when we borrow, we add to the debt, the fed buys the debt and it is inflation. it is no mystery why your goods cost more. during the last four, years, groceries meat, poultry, gasoline, rent, everything has gone up on average at least 20%. did it become more precious? did we lose a supply? no, the dollar became weaker, diluted, because we had to buy all this debt. it is a bait and switch. we expand, this week $200 billion for social security, $10 0 billion for disasters, $30 billion for farm subsidies. $330 billion unpaid for. the people that will vote for this will go home, pat themselves on the back. isn't that what you want me to do, bring you free stuff? it is not free. it has ramifications. they are destroying the dollar, they are destroying the country, and yet it goes on. because it seems to be easy just a promise people something for nothing. i have a couple different solutions to pay for social security. let's gradually raise the age. three months each year. it pays entir

i will be in asheville, tomorrow in that area looking at some of the damage.eers. we need volunteers to come. it's cold, it's snowing. i just talked to my wife. my kids don't have school today. imagine you lost your home and living in a tent or something like that. we got a lot of work. i need volunteers that are hearty and keep coming. go to samaritan's purse.org sign up volunteer. chainsaw work, muck outs. >> ainsley: during the commercial break what do you need to national hurricane norte ounce we need volunteers. help some of these families even if it's for a weekend. thank you so much, edward. tell your family hey and we love them. >> thank you, merry christmas. >> ainsley: god bless you. hand it over to lawrence. hey, lawrence. >> lawrence: we do love them. the patriot awards are tonight and the makers of the award metal art of wisconsin is revealing the design right here on "fox & friends." joining us right now with more is the president of metal art of wisconsin, shane henderson. we got some steel here. >> yes, we do. >> lawrence: tell us about the awa

i spoke to one of them, asheville's mayor esther manheimer, earlier today.s people in asheville, north carolina, are still homeless, waiting for sba loans. as the sba is out of money, waiting for this money right now. she says congress needs to act immediately. >> i feel like we're collateral are damage all over again in a fight that has nothing to do with us, but has every bit a part of tearing us down. you have seen the devastation and. i know you know what the right thing is to do. and i need you all to come across the aisle, to compromise, to work with your fellow congresspeople and pass a bill right before this christmas holiday that will help western north carolina be able to manage itself through the storm and be as whole as possible several months from now. lisa: geoff, back to you. geoff: well, look, this chaos you has a real impact, lisa, and i know you have spoken to someone who has a unique perspective on that. tell us about it. lisa: i spoke earlier this week to patrick mchenry, congressman of north carolina. he's been here 20 years and he is re

♪ ♪ nothing short of a miracle for the asheville ballet company.eptember. >> this could be the end of how this all goes. >> reporter: including the company's rehearsal space, floors flooded and ripped apart. costumes battered. mold growing. >> piano was in the corner. >> reporter: but its director, ann dunn says while their space was destroyed, their spirit remained strong. >> but you never see anything like this ever, ever. i thought, i've got to pull this together somehow. i've got to. because everybody needs it. everybody needs the nutcracker this year. >> reporter: the ballet company got to work. dancers and volunteers putting the space back together. >> people would show up, about a dozen a day and get it cleaned out first, cutting drywall, ripping out the floors. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: rehearsing on weekends in a borrowed studio. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: dancer crystal foreman's home was hit hard, too. trees down, no power for weeks. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: but it was the magic and joy of this show, she says, that helped her and so many others here endure. >> it

and six months ago i moved to asheville, north carolina. so i came and went through a divorce hill and i thought i had said goodbye to, but i had to come back to heal. and it's been really hard. and today i went to get a pedicure, silver spring. i'm thinking this will make me feel better. i'm going back to asheville tuesday and you know, everybody's their phones not talking. i'm like, --, i miss the south i mean, south's got problems. people can act in the south. y'all small town upstate, silver spring, rice or town anywhere. right. so i'm in there like, okay, elizabeth, put your foot, foot your phone and just be present and amazing woman caught my eye who is the director of the core chorale that you sang with heather along. oh hi caroline and we called each other's eyes gosh i hear my southern drawl coming out i've been in north carolina now. this is how i really i'm not going to do the code switching that i did when i lived here for so long trying to talk this. you know, i really do talk like this and it's okay. so this lovely thank you t

reporter: it may be disorienting for the folks in asheville who are right on the precipice of finally getting that money, the small business loans. and donald trump kind of blew it up. and they hear you say, donald trump is right. help orient them as to how that's so. sen. tillis: one thing that i'd really like to see here, we're talking about the 47th president of the united states but where's the 46th president right now? what is he saying about this? to what extent is he getting democrat members of congress to stop thinking they have us where they need us and coming to the table and solving this? so if we want to have that discussion about president trump, the future president, let's have that discussion about president biden, the current president, and i have not heard him weigh in one ounce over the last month. thank you all. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] announcer: american history tv, saturdays on c-span2, exploring

grip of cold air in place for the eastern half of the country, it's 15 degrees tomorrow morning in ashevilleme temperature reading in new york city and gainesville, florida. starting your day off at 29. norah, it's all yours. >> norah: lonnie quinn, thank you very much. well, wintry weather is the last thing they need in the mountains of north carolina after the deadly flooding brought by hurricane helene. cbs's janet shamlian reports that people there are struggling to recover more than two months after the storm. >> reporter: snow and biting cold, december delivering a different type of storm to hurricane-ravaged western north carolina. what do you need? >> just people to come check on us. i mean, [bleep]. >> reporter: his home destroyed, steve crowell showed us the tent he lived in for weeks. >> reporter: is this your food in boxes? >> yeah, people drop stuff off that we already have and most of it is expired food. >> reporter: this is how hundreds of people are still living in western north carolina, in campers and in tents amid bitterly cold temperatures. shana levine's family with seve

en nueva york, en filadelfia, en charleston y tambiÉn en asheville. esto es en carolina del norte.55. boston en tres grados. nueva york en ocho grados. asÍ que estaremos hablando de un fin de semana sumamente gÉlido. sobre todo las maÑanas. serÁ tan frÍo que hasta aquÍ en la florida se sentirÁn temperaturas muy gÉlidas. >> es para que se siente el espÍritu navideÑo? >> asÍ es. porque sÍ, porque la navidad realmente ya luce mucho mÁs caliente. y santa claus, por lo menos en la florida, podrÁ venir en sandalias y en pantalones cortos. >> bueno, navidad no es navidad para mÍ en lo personal, sin la nieve, asÍ que ojalÁ llegue un poco de nieve a chicago en el 24. >> bueno, a cruzar los dedos, pero no lo veo posible. pero en navidad hay que estar feliz en navidad. hay muchasas lindas pasando. gracias, carlos. claro que sÍ. >> bueno, y hablando de otros temas, vamos con esto. ya que hay buenas noticias. la esperanza de vida en estados unidos aumentÓ de manera significativa el aÑo pasado. en el 2022 este indicador fue de 77.7 aÑos y se elevÓ en el 2023 a 78.4, alcanzando asÍ su nivel mÁs a

put those spar sharp in asheville. yeah. cuz just go the other way. just like that. yeah. last night and my last wife i shot my brother in law. i got a sense of bringing board and i just thank god today i doing, telling me so i made a mistake. they were hours or she divorced me. you know? no, no. i mean, i could talk about it now, but it was a very difficult time. i. i remember that time and being in prison on top of that, i couldn't even talk. i go to my mouth, i my crack, which is and think i was broke and has it man, but i did day in there. i mean it was a restaurant space there. i remember though to say that was only 5 years ago or so for me you yeah. about 5 years minus the 7 months and 7 months that i left it for prison for 7 months. i'd rather talk about the future in like what i'm just doing now, you know then, and then all the problems they gotten here. but i mean, you know, you have to bring it up, i suppose, just to, you know, the, the whole story. you don't want to. yeah. yeah. it's not that big a deal though. i guess just seem like a lot when i was going throu

more lake effect, and even record lows, as far south as asheville. david? >> david: ginger zee with us. we'll see you first thing in the morning on "gma." thank you, ginger. >>> we turn next tonight to the new video just in of that passenger accused in that security breach at jfk airport in new york, getting past security and then getting past the ticket agents at the gate, boarding a delta flight to paris. the plane then taking off. passengers onboard had no idea until that plane landed and then the announcement. abc's gio benitez with the images tonight. >> reporter: tonight, for the first time, we are seeing the woman who managed to sneak past airport workers and onto an international delta flight from jfk to paris. >> please help me. i don't want to go to united states. >> reporter: officials struggling as they tried to send her back to the u.s. on another delta flight. according to sources, the woman was so unruly she had to be removed, and she remains in france. it was last tuesday when pilots made this startling announcement after crew members discov