with me now at least, you know, when you look at what's happening to brian, you logos having to bill weir anderson, all of them, they're starting to really use these waves coming up one knocking bill the win there. what when, when, when mountains going to make landfall, obviously that that could happen here in these next moments in our, what does that going to look like? but yeah, the odd wall pieces of the eyewall is coming on shore, right now. >> that's why they're shots look like that. you see this box here. this is the extreme wind warning. it's a very rare warning for extreme winds up to 115 miles per hour or greater. this is for the it's tough part of the eyewall includes st petersburg and includes tampa. it includes bradenton. when you have this extreme wind warning, you need to treat it like a tornado warning getting into an interior room away from windows in a basement because those wins will just be so vicious and you can see the rukare on the radar where we've got this piece of the a.i. that came through saturday so it is up your brain eaton and then swinging through some of th

this looks similar to what bill weir was expected appearing saying in st. petersburg about an hour or two ago, water really coming up on the piers there. this is the first time now that we are seeing this here bill a bill, i want to bring you in here in st. petersburg because this reminds me of your live shot earlier in the day it's just fascinating that this is just started here northern side of this storm. >> we've got the slop, we've got so much more of the rain that was a monster that was thousand. >> take your breath away. watch out. watch out. now we see signs started to flood voice back up, back up. there's a construction sign that just is about to blow through this intersection i don't know if you saw bill. >> we just had a big transport. it looked like a transformer over it's going off. and again, the water is really coming up i'm so wet, it doesn't even matter what we've heard. >> hurting with fangs hearing percussive bangs in the last couple of seconds that we think might be transformers blowing. or maybe it's just signage getting smacked against

bill weir in st. petersburg, florida for us, i want to go to cnn's randi kaye for some more right now. she's in sarasota, florida near the location where milton is forecast to barreled ashore. randi, what's happening there? because this hurricane is closing in worst weather we've seen, we were out the door about 12 hours ago to start live shots this morning. >> and it was it's been a steady rain for 12 hours here, but this is the heaviest rains that we have seen all day. also, the wind has certainly picked up. we expect we're going to see the worst of the wind in the next few hours here in sarasota, we're in a neighborhood here which is completely evacuated. we are really the only ones here. i can see this street here behind me, i definitely would not say it would be safe to walk on water is already picking up here thank and adding up here in the distance there, i'm not sure if you could see there's building they're building a structure out there and those are construction fences that are now whipping

and each of them ms presale, cnn's bill weir has the story conservation success story stops through the fields a couple of hundred elephants living in relative harmony with a quarter million humans the densest concentration of wild pachyderms and people in the world they know all the elephants by name and personality. >> for most incredible story. and if we could tell that story, we might be able to inspire a little bit more sort of close living with other animals as well. >> so ruth, in her fellow wildlife lovers, decided to spread the message of coexistence in a way that turns heads one hundred elephant migration across america. >> each one a life-size replica of a beloved individual all hand-made by the people who know their wild neighbors. best. >> the end of thing is used to make been into before it mean to people don't use furniture in their lives. but when we started making elephants, they the experts. they know the elephants better than we know it. so it's an amazing sense of pride and there and position in society has changed from being at the bottom rung manual laborers, they'

you just saw bill weir in st. petersburg. you could see all of that developing there right now, over half 1 million homes and businesses have lost power with conditions deteriorating by the minute this storm has also spawned a record number of tornadoes, all across the state of florida, far beyond where the storm has actually making direct hit tonight, there have been 19 confirmed tornadoes. so far, the sheriff of st. lucie county has just confirmed that there have been multiple fatalities after an outbreak of tornadoes. there many more warnings of course just to give you a sense of how massive and intense the storm that is hitting florida right now is. look at this satellite image fitch showing lightning strikes and breaking out everywhere. we have reporters fanned out across the storm zone, across florida, anderson, you're in bradenton, florida. we were just looking at you and the manatee river as clearly you're just seeing how much this is developing nearly by the minute yeah. >> yeah. kaitlan, it is really changed. i mean

that's bringing do we have bill weir who is in st. petersburg? we see him in pretrial. the camera. bill, can you hear us? >> you got me. >> yet? we hear you, bill. what you experienced it? >> yeah, i got you, laura. hi, can you can you see me out so if anybody's been watching for the past several hours, you've been hearing me harping on about the tower cranes and st petersburg that the city put out a war according and said, look, we know this is dangerous, but it takes months to disassemble these things. we just don't have the time. so be worn. well. >> one of them came down right here on central avenue, as you can see, carlos can zoom in down there one of the for tower cranes downtown has collapsed in these wins, there's another one, right above a source sort of keeping our distance i hope you'll understand. we don't want to get too close down there. there was one you can see the flashing lights. so one first responder has at least knows it happened, it came out, but if it looks like it fell into a building on the left side of the street here, smashing into these lawsuits over here

i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn people are dying in north carolina. they're dying all over those 56 states are dying. and they are getting no help from our federal government because they have no money, because their money has been spent on people that should not be in our country donald trump, there is wrong disaster relief money is separate from the money that goes to migrants needs. and both the white house and fema have now responded to that wildly spreading false claim. now that aid is being provided to help victims of the hurricane and there's not being siphoned away from other purposes. but some of trump's own former white house aides are now saying that when he was in office, he initially refused to help blue states with disaster relief, joining us now in our fifth seat is cnn's chief climate correspondent, bill weir. bill, first of all, let's start with the fact here that we are are talking about these incredibly destructive storms. and they are affecting large swaths of the country. red states, blue states rather than talking about that, don

plays an important role in regulating the region's arid climate cnn chief climate correspondent bill weir joins us now. bill, what is driving this and how serious is the problem? >> well, boris, its people, its people both in those the vulgar river, which feeds most of the water into the caspian sea that winds through russia. russia has put up dozens of dams there. there's a lot of overuse, but the underlying culprit that is really seems to be out of control is global warming. climate change that is, makes inland seas much harder to maintain a consistent water cycle. the caspian has gone up and down over the eons as everyone has warmed and cooled. >> but right now it's happening faster than ever before. the 4,000 mile coastline has receded, the lake levels have dropped by about five feet and you look at the trends it's getting worse and worse. >> and this is going to create sort of resource stress in a place that depends on this water, not for drinking farming and every other us you can imagine there in five different countries, but cast a light on sharing resources in the age of climate

cnn's bill weir shows us how this intrepid group is taking an odd installation to new york designed to draw attention to both issues in the >> a conservation success story stops through the tea feels a couple hundred elephants living in relative harmony with a quarter million humans the densest concentration of wild pachyderms and people in the world they know the elephants by name and personality score. >> the most incredible story. and if we could tell that story, we might be able to inspire a little bit more close living with other animals as well. >> so ruth, in her fellow wildlife lovers, decided to spread the message of coexistence in a way that turns heads hundred elephant migration across america. each one a life-size replica of a beloved individual all hand-made by the people who know their wild neighbors. best. >> the end of thing was used to make funded said before, right? people don't use furniture in their lives but when we started making elephants there, the experts. they know the elephants better than we know it. so it's an amazing sense of, pride and their position in s

let's go to cnn's bill weir, who's in st. pete bill, what are conditions like there right now and st. petersburg ahead of landfall >> nasty and getting nastier downtown st. pete behind me, keeping an eye on those four big tower construction cranes, 34 stories are worried about those in 100 mile-an-hour winds so far we're sort of gusting less than 50 miles an hour. we're going to go down to the waterfront here on the st. pete pier to give you a sense of the difference depending on where you're standing of a violent physics of the storm. and this one feels different. jake. i got to say then to a few of these, not the least of which is that this is a second of a one-two punch for us from liam. i spent yesterday looking at these mountains of debris which are going to be turned into either floating are flying debris in this hundred mile an hour blender named milton. but we're just beginning to see the waves really kick up on the jetty here at the st. pete. hear often the distance that's a nice restaurant called tik really perilous

i want to begin though first with bill weir is outfront with a look at these final hours before landfall emotionally. they were all ready picking up the pieces on florida's gulf coast flight hysteric can't eat keep loving. now, that's caldwell must cut short her search for her mother's wedding ring to evacuated for the second time in as many weeks, you're saying they're really worried about folks who have made it through this one, but may not but yeah, because the amount of debris on this street and when even if it slows down, governor desantis said this morning that even with 24/7 debris removal there wouldn't have all of helene's damaged cleaned up in time for milton to make landfall. >> and this is why there is one front-loader over here waiting to fill up a line of empty dump trucks that's the problem. >> miles along this beach was covered in millions of dollars of fresh shan to try to protect this community, which just got washed away. >> that's right. what does that tell you about how we prepare and how we have to just to this new earth the fact is, is you cannot adapt your way out

i do want to go to the coast though for our colleague, bill weir has been watching a lot of damage kind of the exclamation point damage thus far that we've seen overnight without that first it's light of day to assess the communities and neighborhoods. and i want to start bill with you on the roof of tropicana field when i first saw this video, i first thought katrina. and of course what happened there at mercedes-benz? what did you see and explain the damage you're seeing across it? st. petersburg >> victor, we're here at the tropos as it is known, and you can see from this angle the entire roof is just shredded away this had the distinction of being the only non retractable dome and major league baseball and this hurricane retracted it forcefully right there. this is also a very controversial stadium and area. this is the gas plant neighborhood, historical black community that was displaced in order to make this stadium and these parking lots it's one reason why people say that only 10% of the businesses in the st. petersburg or black-owned as a result of that, baseball fans long hate

bill weir in st. petersburg, please stay safe. >> joining us now. michael brennan, he's the director of the national hurricane center. michael, what is your biggest takeaway is the storm moves in? >> that they're going to be multiple life-threatening hazards of to start playing out across much of florida tomorrow, jake, first we're going to start with that life-threatening storm surge inundation everywhere you see in this dark purple here, much of the west coast of florida from south of fort myers, naples, cape coral, up through charlotte harbor, tampa, up to near cedar key under a storm surge warning, meaning the life-threatening inundation is coming associated with milton as its center approaches the coast of florida tomorrow night in the early morning hours on thursday and were especially concerned about this area here from just north of tampa, say the pinellas county, hillsborough and manatee sarasota, this purple area here, someone in here is going to i see ten to 15 feet of inundation of ground-level, likely near and just to the right of where

>> luckily, i'm pretty adorable there's no safe flight, simply safe i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn early voting kicked off today, north carolina, more than 209,000 ballots cast so far approaching record numbers despite hurricane damage in the western part of the state. even in the storm-ravaged counties, just four out of 80 plan voting sites failed to open our miguel marquez reports >> rice is a good ron. ron right now, this is really, can access some areas of storm ravaged north carolina. >> russ robertson has been helping out, doing anything and everything since day one brush cutting, landslide, clearing, immediate needs, met. now a big new need, figuring out how to vote in an area cut off by the most severe storm damage. >> those that want to go, i'll 100, 100% be able to get them there, right to vote but there will be communities that probably some people don't get the vote that want to vote water swept through. >> jeff will lead home on the cane river in yancey county. >> we would like to early vote if we can get in. we might need an all-terrain vehicle, but we

again, that's 1871 to 3,800 i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn for a former olympian accused of running a billion-dollar transnational drug ring even more to serving officials say that the group used contract killers to take out anyone who got in their way. >> and we're talking about former snowboarder, ryan wedding. he competed for canada and the salt lake city winter olympics back in 2000 to cnn's polo sandoval is on this story and pull authorities say that wedding is linked to this sinaloa cartel. what are you learning? >> so alex and brianna had a chance to read those federal charges against wedding. and in those documents, he's often referred to as and he fail or the boss that's because federal investigators are alleging that he was the head of a massive cocaine smuggling and distribution operation, one that really stretch from colombia all a way to canada and everywhere in between, prosecutors alleging that the so-called wedding drug trafficking organization would often smuggle these large quantities of cocaine from mexico into the united states, often storing t

so call now life-changing for me get growing at neutrophil.com i'm bill, weir on the california coast and this is cnn closed captioning brought to you by guilt visit gilt.com today for up to 70% off designer brands has the designers that get your heart racing had inside a prices new every day, hurry. they'll be gone in a flash designer sale hill said up to 70% or so of gilt.com today. >> all right, we're on the final sprint to election day, right here in america. and the next president could very well be decided by a trio of states, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. cnn's jeff zeleny has more on how democrats are working to win the so-called blue wall in an incredibly tight race so much is at stake in this election democrats are grabbing a bullhorn and feverishly working to fortify their blue wall this election is going to come down to a handful. >> hey, it's, and that's why we're doing the blue wall bus tour michigan, pennsylvania, and of course the great state of wisconsin are going to decide the outcome in this election. >> you battlegrounds hold as much critical symbolism as this

. >> i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn let me ask you something. could you work with someone who called you these names stupid, ill-tempered, despicable, a narcissist. well, according to a new book, those are some of the not so nice things at mitch mcconnell had to say about donald trump. and he makes the case against donald trump in a way that i think kamala harris would be pleased about. she said, privately, he said it's not just the democrats who are counting the days until trump left office. and at trump's behavior only underscores the good judgment of the american people. they've just had enough of the misrepresentations, the outright lies almost on a daily basis and they fired him yeah. >> i mean, look, this is exhausting. i wish people wouldn't wait until books were written to say what they really feel. i wish they wouldn't want to be clear. he does not say those things. know. >> he said it was reported that he said these things, but i think the thing is is that i guess i kind of wonder to the conservatives at the table, i guess i kind of wo

kamala harris, wednesday at nine eastern on cnn i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn all right. new this morning, people pouring over the wards from elon musk, the richest person in the world who seemed to promote election lies and other falses will stumping for donald trump at a solo town hall in pennsylvania. cnn's marshall cohen. here to explain. good morning, marshall john. >> good morning to you, elon musk on his social media platform, almost every single day promotes election disinformation, but he took his show on the road last night for this first solo town hall on behalf of trump, promoting trump's campaign, where he brought up some of these 2020 conspiracy theories i'll play for you a clip of what he said, but do not believe everything you hear. we will fact check it after the clip. take a listen when you have mail-in ballots and no know sort of proof-of-citizenship, it becomes almost impossible to prove cheating is the issue there are some very strange things that happen that's that are statistically incredibly unlikely so because as always, it's a question

. >> i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn are the people who will decide the next election. and we talk a lot about them. but comedians may have a point when they wonder if, at least in this election voters who have not made up their minds yet are more of a myth than a reality i'm talking about the undecided voter are you kidding me i mean, are you kidding me? the same people you see at the ice cream shop asking for 12 minutes moon samples it's a three-dollar tone as you don't see a difference britain between kamala harris and donald trump is left for you to learn about that how they load a dishwasher nobody has ever thought, wait, is that a trump quote or a harris quote the people who take the 12 samples at the ice cream shop their, their, they're bad people they are it's true. but i mean, it's not the same situation that we're in right now with undecided voters know, i think with undecideds, i think it is very easy, especially for comedians. no offense, but it it's easy. easy, fair to say, like, what are you doing at this point? like it's quite obvious that there's two di

provider at roan.com slash sparks i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn israel tonight with new reporting on the killing of hamas leader yahya sinwar. first israeli sources tell cnn's matthew chance that officials are weighing how they can leverage his remains, which are obviously in israeli custody to secure the release of hostages that are still being held in gaza. and that comes as we're also learning tonight that the autopsy results reveal that he was killed by a gunshot wound to the head cnn's jeremy diamond spoke with the chief pathologist who conducted that autopsy and it disputes the israeli military's initial account of how sinwar died with matthew and jeremy are here with me in tel aviv in germany. obviously this is interesting because initially we thought it was firefight. we know they obviously took down the building that he was in. but what did you hear from this pathologist? >> yeah, he's really military said there was a gunfight involving three militants who they didn't know who they were. one of them clearly was sinwar in the end. and then they fired at

cnn's bill weir is in st. petersburg, florida. a bill. it's so amazing to see behind you. now where you are. the wind died down significantly. i mean, earlier you were talking about monsoon, like conditions. what is it like for you right now >> milton is as chilled a bit in this part of the storm right now, there's still some gusts. you still see it, but nowhere near as intense as we experienced for the last couple hours. and miraculously, the power is still on here in st. petersburg, at least in the downtown area. we know that 1.6 million floridians are without power. so far in the storm and given all the lineman who are working up in the carolinas after helene is getting the lights back on in this state, it seems like it's going to be challenge but another thing i went back and looked at the excellent tampa bay times, did an excellent series a couple of years ago or were they determined that pinellas county, where i am right now, is the most vulnerable in the state when it comes to flooding vulnerability that in a category one storm over 700 vital buildings, schools, chu

. >> i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cn. >> closed captioning brought to you by fellow optimum enhanced calming for cats. >> if your cat sprays outside the litter box, fights with other cats, or scratches the furniture, they could be telling you they're stressed. to help them feel more calm, try feliway optimum. >> make them riot. those three words jumped off the page when presented as proof by jack smith and the election conspiracy case against donald trump. but the context of what was happening and who we now know, is alleged to have said those three words only increases their significance. this is in the special counsel's 165 page narrative that we got last week, where jack smith says, person five, a campaign employee, agent and coconspirator of donald trump tried to sow confusion when the ongoing vote count at the tcf center in detroit, michigan, looked unfavorable for trump. there. when a colleague at the tcf center told person five, we think a batch of votes heavily in biden's favor is right person five responded, find a reason it isn't. give me options to file li

he'd with you want to get a bill weir in st. petersburg? bill a load of the way and we found a great heidi hole in this parking garage or on the fourth floor, and you get an amazing perspective chad said that gusts here around 78, 70 but look at that. that looks so much more powerful than anybody i've seen. look at the that huge tree limb just blowing through the intersection the sign on university boulevard let's come down. this is first avenue, the intersection in downtown st petersburg and the other thing we've been keeping an eye on and even and some of the folks who are sheltering here said, did you notice the crane is blowing around? that's another one of those construction trades. oh, we just saw that lightning sort of backlash sit there for a second. this thing has moved almost 180 degrees from where it was pointed. when the storm began and the gusts up there must be swinging those things around the city. st. petersburg put out actually awarding just be cognizant of the for tower cranes down one more thing to worry about here, but th

contact lenses and wait 15 minutes before reinserting dry eye over and over it's time for zaida i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn campaign trail and battleground, pennsylvania or stops today include a meeting with the u.s. basketball team spending time at a west philadelphia church and a black-owned bookstore. and during a campaign event in philadelphia, harris, all also offered a warning about the fragile state of american democracy, while urging young people to get out so days, nine days left in one of the most constant elections of our lifetime. >> and we know this is going to be a tight race until the very end so we have a lot of work ahead of us but we'd like hard work hard work is good work is and make no mistake. we will win we will win we will win and we will win because here's how i think about it when you know what you stand for, you know what to fight for? extremely different visions for our nation. >> fun. donald trump's was focused on the past and himself talk about gaza for a minute okay we can and we must seize this opportunity. end this war, and bringing th

i want to go to cnn's bill weir. he is in st. petersburg, florida. bill, you're actually buy tropicana field. >> what are you seeing? >> yeah, we're just getting a glimpse of that teflon roof that's been just completely shredded by hurricane milton the devil rays, sorry, double race fans don't play october baseball and not good enough this year for sure. so the much more painful part of this is that this stadium was going to be a staging ground for first responders and maybe a shelter for those who need it. there's 10,000 cots in tropicana field that were ready there. what now? not shelter at all, as you can see, the storm is taking a toll also on the water infrastructure of st. petersburg. we got word that there's been a water main break and the city is shutting down main water service to sort that out, that probably means boiling water for folks who don't have enough bottled on hand right now. so that's one more headache as a result of this storm. and like other folks, anderson has been commenting on this, it is cold. there's this cold front that ca

about switching 070 it's giving away a free phone every hour, seriously i mean, it's true now i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn welcome back everyone. >> will china is celebrating a major anniversary. the people's republic was founded 75 years ago on october 1, 1949 at all sorts of events have been getting underway in beijing, despite china's persistent economic downturn, president xi jinping said the country is moving moving forward at a use the week long national holiday to bring up the tense topic of taiwan. so let's turn to cnn's marc stewart is covering this live from the chinese capital. good to see you, marc. so in the midst of these festivities it's president xi jinping is repeating calls for china and taiwan to reunite what's the latest on this? and of course, reaction to these calls good to see you rosemary, look, these calls for reunification with taiwan are not necessarily a surprise as china looks at that past, but it also looks forward on the 75th anniversary. >> this is very much a time of celebration, a chance for xi jinping to talk about china's accompli

now i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn vowing to retaliate. >> israel weighs its next move after iran's historic attack as the israeli military sends more troops into southern lebanon, cnn's jim sciutto is live in tel aviv for us jim, what are you hearing? >> well, deliberations now as to how iran, how israel is going to respond is just after 5:00 p.m. here in tel aviv, much of the world waiting and watching israelis as well. israel says that it will retaliate against iran for what was the largest ever aerial assault by iran on the jewish stay fired some 200 missiles over the course of just about an hour they were able to intercept most. in fact, the vast majority of those missiles. yet at least one person was killed several, several were injured. iran says it was responding to israel's recent attacks on its proxy force, hezbollah in lebanon. i want to bring in now cnn global affairs analyst and former defense secretary mark esper secretary, thanks so much for joining us. >> good to be with you, jim there's a great deal of speculation now in this country as to how isra

advantage plans and with the aarp name for coverage, you can count on for your whole life ahead i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn this morning, donald trump is doubling down and claiming voter fraud in pennsylvania. >> trump posting on his truth social this morning, pennsylvania is cheating and getting caught at large scale levels. rarely seen before that is despite officials in lancaster and york county saying there's still looking into potential issues with voter registration applications and they were the ones that caught it as they normally would, county and state officials are trying to reassure voters. this will be a free and fair election, joining us now is the chair of the wisconsin elections commission. and jacobs. thank you so much for being here this morning. i know this is an extremely busy time for you and the staff there. i do want to ask you what you are hearing, what accusations of potential voter fraud are already coming in to you and how are you combating it? >> thank you so much for having me this morning you know, some of the concerns are people who rea

. >> our bill weir on the california coast. and this is cnn the breaking news from the middle east as the idf continues to confirm whether the leader of hamas was killed during an operation in gaza. >> but first another one of this morning's top stories, vice vice-president kamala harris his first sit down with fox news was a fiery one as she and host bret baier sparred over everything from the border order to whether her presidency will be a continuation of the biden administration citizen citizenship act of 2021. >> and essentially, but i i just sit yes, i finished math, finish responding. but but you have to let me finish let me be very clare. my presidency will not be a continuation of joe biden's presidency and like every new president that comes in to office, i will bring my life experiences, my professional experiences, and fresh and new ideas i represent a new generation of leadership. >> i hope you got to say what you wanted to say about donald trump. there are a lot of things that i there are things that people want t

that's what 80688 to don't wait lumi do.com and get your first starter pack with 30% off i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn former president obama is going to launch a 27 day series of campaign events for vice president harris next week, first off for him as pittsburgh, but for both, it is just the latest in a long political and personal roe that they've traveled there's a great district attorney in san francisco whose name is candela harris sees she's brilliant. >> she's smart and she's got a big future and they call her the female barak obama, the political connection between vice president kamala harris and former president barak obama goes back to decades aid say obama recalls first meeting harris in 2004 at a california fundraiser for his senate race. that meeting blossomed into now 20 year friendship when obama first ran for president in 2008 harris was district attorney in san francisco. she took a political risk and endorsed him in the primary over hillary clinton. obama won the iowa caucuses and went on to become president harris had campaigned for him in io

. >> go to da tv, tv.org i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn warnings are pouring in from former military leaders who worked under former president donald trump, his former chief of staff, john kelly, a retired four-star marine general, said this week, trump would roll like a dictator if you want a second term earlier this month, we heard from journalist bob woodward's new book, war, in which general mark milley trump appointed chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. specifically sought out woodward to tell him he thought trump was a quote fascist to the core. unquote. woodward recently said the general jim mattis, the former secretary of defense under trump for two years, also reached out to him after that came out. take a listen a couple of days ago, gotten an email from general mattis saying he thinks the book is important. >> he believes it's true. >> did he take that as endorsement of the warrant's about trump and the book yes joining us now, the former secretary of defense under trump, mark esper, or secretary esper what do you think? >> you have all these people

people and the sea level has gone up by a foot that is pretty stunning to just even consider that bill weir. thank you very much in st petersburg and he will be there through this storm. i want to go outfront now to the air force hurricane hunter, major alex boykin, who just flew through hurricane milton major blinken. i appreciate your taking the time. what was it like in there could evening it's quite a large storm. we had several different passes through five different passes today, and each one a little different in each one, you could feel how just how strong the core of the storm is, and it has the potential to be. >> so you took some video from your flight and one meteorologist to talked about just the astounding amount of lightning, something like 58,000 strikes one lightning event every second he says, unlike anything he has ever seen in the atlantic how does it feel like to you and what does it look like when you go through and see that whole intensity of the storm itself, the whole system, the lightning is just can be just all inspiring phenomenon. it's striking all around the ai

. >> so do we because these last 20 years here's aren't just the beginning i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn let's get back to our top story, the race for the white house entering its final two weeks amid a bombshell, a new report from the atlantic magazine on stunning comments down i'll trump reportedly made while he was president the atlantic magazine's editor, jeffrey goldberg, who writes about a conversation trump had while still president. >> and i'm quoting now from the article, these are quotes allegedly made by trump. i need the kind of generals that hitler had. trump said in a private conversaersation. the we house, that according to two people who were heard him say this people who were totally loyal to him that follow orders. trump's campaign is strongly denying this joining us now the legendary, the great journalist, bob woodward, he's the author of a brand new book entitled war. and we'll discuss that in a moment, bob, thanks very much for coming in. what's your reaction? action to this? this is sort of fit in. you've interviewed trump many times, and you'v

what does treating dry it differently feel like doctor about prescription my bot i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn vice president harris. >> it's all three blue wall states today then goes back to pennsylvania again for the cnn the town hall. and this comes as we learned overnight that she really broke records with a huge fund fundraising haul, $346 million cash on hand at this point, you can see ahead of what donald trump has raised more than 1 billion in just a three-month period that hadn't been done ever with us. now, senior spokesperson for the harris-walz campaign ian sams. ian, nice to see you this morning. there was a headline in the new york times that grabbed my attention. it said, starring and kamala harris is closing argument donald trump and went on to say that harris has made a notable shift in strategy. why? >> well, thanks for having me. i think that we're here on the home stretch of this campaign two weeks ago to election day and right now fundamentally, the choice is coming into crystal clear focus for the american people, vice president harris is

cnn chief climate correspondent bill weir joins us now and build many people would considered asheville to actually have been a climate crisis haven. and this is obviously given new perspective on the meaning of that exactly the idea that maybe there's no such place actually have some extended family, boris who left florida ten years ago for the mountains of north carolina, thinking, well, at least we don't have to deal with hurricanes anymore. >> and just last year, the asheville newspaper ran an op-ed head worried about the influx of climate migrants they're trying to get away from coasts thinking they would be safe and it's actually a climate city by profession between academic researchers and you've got government agencies there. there's more folks per capita working on climate in asheville than anywhere else. and ironically, if you go to check the list of billion-dollar disasters being kept by the national centers for environmental information. you get an error message because it happens to be located in asheville right now, this is just a real lesson. you heard brian kemp say in g

eggs vapors vaporizing nighttime sniffling, sneezing, coughing, besley, but the cold medicine i'm bill, weir on the california coast and this is cnn it's been, a, bit of grimacing inside the trump campaign after republican house speaker mike johnson pledge to make major changes to the deeply popular affordable care act are commonly known as obamacare. >> if donald trump is reelected next week be a big part of the agenda. when the, when i say we're going to have a very versa first hundred days agenda. we got a lot of things on the table. >> no obamacare we need massive reform to make this work, and we got a lot ideas on how to do that of course, the affordable care act transform health care and the u.s. >> more than 45 million americans are now enrolled into it. and those comments come as vice president harris and sludging and her campaign against trump to explain and the affordable care act all of this, putting a deeply unpopular position back on voters minds as they are about to go to the polls on election day, my political sources are back here with me and margaret, the house speaker expla

ten rosie, the number one dermatologists pre dash.com right now and see how much you can save i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn and welcome back. >> both doctors are back with me. the technical issue has now been worked out. sincere apologies to everyone. dr. ahmad, if we can just pick up let's talk about the situation on the ground in gaza as it stands today. one year later, what are you hearing from doctors that are still working in gaza today about what they're facing, what the civilians there are facing, and what they're having to do to try to bring people care deteriorated, its become exponentially worse and kate make no mistake. i mean, it's because of how israel is prosecuting this war that we're in this humanitarian catastrophe. i mean, we're unable to supplies in because the border is totally shut down, were not able to get patients out who needs specialty care. and it seems like life in gaza is what's come under assault. i spoke to a physician and a nurse yesterday and i was talking to them about a conference that we were holding here in chicago and they were t

to three lives better, debt-free i'm bill, weir on the california coast and this is cnn closed captioning is brought to you by sokoloff law mesothelial more victims call now 30 billion in trust money has been set aside. you may be entitled to a portion of that money all when 8085920400. that's when 808 8085920400 of the sexual assault cases that sean "diddy" combs is facing a federal judge ruled a woman suing the music mogul for rape must identify by herself for the case to move forward. her lawsuit is one of about a dozen that john or jane doe plaintiffs have filed against combs since his arrest last month cnn's kara scannell is following these developments for us. >> so kara, how is the judge justifying this decision? >> so the judge has said that she is weighing the interests of both the plaintiffs, their privacy, as well as the defendant's right to face their accuser and the public's right, the constitutional right that the presumption that judicial and court proceedings are made public. so the plaintiff had argued in this case that her identity should remain private because she had c

. >> it goes $400, maybe not, sta like.com today i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn now, j.d. >> vance and tim walz square off in a vice presidential debate the first and only while donald trump has continued to insult walz on the campaign trail, calling him a moron, his surrogates and aides are taking a much different tone warning that walz is very good at debating and should not be underestimated. perhaps no one has more knowledge about tim walz's debate style and skill than boys olsen, he has moderated three debates with walz and he joins us now. thank you so much for coming on. you've moderated these three debates with walz. what did you see there and walz has warned harris during the vetting process that he was a bad debater. is that your takeaway? >> that's not my takeaway at all. he's he's a pro at underestimating himself and then delivering in those three debates, he came in with clear themes in new his numbers, and he was very disciplined he also, i think one of the pieces was that he rarely tried to get his opponents to react to him. instead, he just stayed

thought one of the best investments i've ever made on shark tank available at these retailers i'm bill weir on the california coast and this this is cnn explosions in beirut. and there are new blast, israel issuing new evacuation orders for civilians in lebanon. this is the night sky in beirut, just a bit ago as israeli jets striking the city, the onslaught coming ahead of israel's imminent the anticipated strike on iran as of this hour, us officials believe israel is still deciding exactly which targets to strike. today, president biden, not shutting down the possibility that israel will include iran's oil facilities will carry out what it calls a crushing response when israel strikes. >> today, we went to the front lines in the north just a couple of miles from the border with lebanon, surrounded on two sides by lebanon and on one via syria, at least ten hezbollah rockets are fired up on the town where we were today. we heard about 22 outgoing artillery and projectiles in 118 minute period in another 30 minute period, we heard 28 that should give you a sense of just how constant and relen

vegetable accident gradient, gentle, dependable, seneca also available in delicious gummies our bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn russian troops raising alarm over north korean soldiers joining their ranks. >> this is what's being revealed just now from leaked intercepts obtained by ukraine. ukraine just released the audio they say was taking this week yeah on stir up, you prism were border by table battalion nneka. >> you don mockery, but hear more is tracking this one for us and mark your now getting new reaction from north korea about this evening, kate, we are getting some reaction from north korea. it's coming to us from state media. a statement was released by the government. it is not necessarily dynein nor confirming the presence of north korea are you in troops into russia for this deployment into ukraine? but it does go on to say that if this is indeed true, it's legal, it's following international law. international protocol. so that is the very vague response we are getting from north korea we are also hearing from vladimir putin himself from the kremlin he is

. >> i'm bill, weir on the california coast and this is >> one of the maga movement's biggest firebrands once more in speaking to the media for the first time since his it's released from prison. >> that's right. right-wing provocateurs. steve bannon, out this morning after spending the last four months behind bars for contempt of congress and cnn, sara murray has been following the bannon saga for us. sara, he also, by the way, hosted his podcast today the first time since july. what's he saying? >> yeah, i mean, he's trying to come out and hit the ground running. and last week before election day, doing his podcast, doing this press conference. as you might expect, there's plenty of criticism of kamala harris as he's trying to rev up the maga base in this last week before election day. let's just take a listen to a portion of what he had to say at his press conference, which is still ongoing >> i've been in empowered by my four months at danbury federal prison why was an empowered because i was able to listen to observe and to learn from working class minorities after young african ame

. >> i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn closed captioning brought to you by mesobook.com if you or a loved one have mesothelial not we'll send you a free book to answer questions you may have called now and will come to you 800 a31, 3,700 hundred it is a message that you've heard time and time again from democrats, women should have individual rights, but the messenger, this time is surprising individual freedom is a fundamental principle that i safeguard without a doubt there is no room for compromise when it i'm studies essential, right? that all women possess from birth individual freedom what does my body? my choice really mean of course, the irony here is that her husband, former president trump, and the current republican nominee is who appointed three justices who helped overturn roe v. >> wade, and routinely takes credit for that with me now is host of the source our very own kaitlan collins. so kaitlan, she's been largely absent from this campaign and then she comes out with this message that undercut her husband stance on the issue. >> what do you think about al

. >> robitussin with real honey and elderberry i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnnl, people in the music industry might be looking over their shoulders and wondering if the allegations again sean, "diddy" combs could implicate them. singer aubrey o'day, who was part of the duty group, danity kane, calling out diddy's inner circle, posting on x quote, all of you who knew all of you, who knew who did he was that paid this man with money or opportunity or enabled him to continue? >> you all have blood on your hands, unquote nowaday and other accusers believe a culture of silence and complicity runs rampant in the music industry, hoping to turn a blind eye to alleged abuses again diddy has denied all the claims against him my next guest reports that as diddy accumulated more money more power, people close to him saw the music mogul change, saying that he plummeted into a drug induced haze, calling him a quote, addict. >> and even a sociopath with me now, we're now did music writer, critic and author to ray. he's covered diddy and the industry for decades to ray. thank y

>> not reallnd three vitamins for all your skin's cold bond i'm bill weir on the california coast, and this is cnn closed captioning brought to you by philo. a optimum enhanced calming for cats. if your cat sprays outside the litter box, fights with other cats, or scratches the telling you they're stressed to help them feel more calm try feliway optimum county aka delco land of wawa land of water, ice and hoagies where every man, woman and child bleeds kelly green. >> i'm jake tapper, along with erin burnett right there. you were just watching a cnn special town hall, a potential final view for voters of vice president kamala harris in a completely unscripted setting. >> i was were reading it, and i could not restrain smiling but the democratic nominee did go against the conventional wisdom in that town hall, jake. so she said, the american people have not heard enough about what a danger donald trump, especially donald trump, unchained is to american democracy. those are her words. she continually brought up warnings from trump's former chief of staff reported in the atlantic, and ref

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bills looking at why exactly colorado has such high prices around car insurance. and so it's not necessarily controlling prices, it's looking at what the factors are, making schuur weir applying pressure to companies, making sure the government is doing all it can to bring down the bottom line for people. >> you don't support price controls? you did support a bill that set up a board to control the price of some drugs. ms. caraveo: for medications it's different, i would not do that across the board. >> president trump plans to impose a 10% to 20% tariff on everything import. economists on both sides warn that could increase costs by about $2,000 for the average household. do you support higher tariffs? if so, how do you address the price hikes? mr. evans: when we're talking about tariffs we have to draw a distinction between countries like china that don't compete fairly. the chinese government subsidizes a lot of their industries and they have a long history of human rights violations where they use slave labor to po deuce these goods. for countries like china we have to use every tool at our disposal to make sure they're play big international rules to make sure o

the bass player featured in the original line—up of the band alongside jerry garcia , bob weir, bill b weir, bill kreutzmann, and ron mckernan. the musician's official instagram account said he passed peacefully this morning. he was surrounded by his family. peacefully this morning. he was surrounded by his family . those surrounded by his family. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. now it's back to tatiana and ben for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gb news .com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> very good morning to you. hope you're well. thank you for your company. and welcome to the weekend with tatiana and i. first question, are you a working person? >> are you a working person, ben? >>i ben? >> i think i am. i think i graft quite hard. >> yeah, i think we both are working people. we go to work, we earn a salary. >> kyrees. keir starmer. well, number 10 said that keir starmer is a working person and my problem with that was that, you know, starmer during the week was saying anyone who hold

the bass player featured in the original line up of the band, alongside jerry garcia, bob weir, billeutzmann and ron mckernan. the musician's official instagram account said he passed peacefully this morning. he was surrounded by his family. peacefully this morning. he was surrounded by his family . those surrounded by his family. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to dawn . headlines. now it's back to dawn. >> thank you very much, sofia. looking lovely in orange , isn't looking lovely in orange, isn't she? this is an orangey red. before you ask. and before we get started, i'm going to say a good morning to or good afternoon even to kez . dawn, afternoon even to kez. dawn, what's the point in asking for our comments? we just get ignored. just think how many can be read out every time you ask for one of us. well good morning, i've just read your comment out gbnews.com/yoursay if you want to get in touch. okay, now let's get straight into today's stories, shall we? sir keir starmer has said that the upcoming budget will not be a war against the middle classes , a war