he praised he buttigieg. >> that was two days late.t happened he sent his great, you know, gadgets he has -- the star links, it's incredible for communication. but, they were asking me, the people of north carolina and representatives, they said could you possibly speak to elon musk and get it? and elon came through, and then they sent it in and they wouldn't allow it to go in. it took two days and then boot edge edge as you say. buttigieg called and two days late though. >> were they shamed into saying -- >> of course huge publicity they wouldn't allow. he had helicopters bring stuff in not even gettable you can't even get it. honestly elon did an amazing job. >> i called him and told him the situation. they were trying to get -- you know, it's very hard to get. i called him. he had things being delivered literally by the time i got off the phone i'm even wondering it was so quick they got there and fema said they were going to keep it. the publicity went crazy and then all of a sudden they got it. >> laura: joe biden says on friday h

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pete buttigieg, thank you for being here. i want to ask you as a military veteran to just give me your take on the muted response to not one but two generals saying that the president they worked for, the former president, is indeed a fascist. and a hitler fan. >> well, it's an -- yeah. it's an extraordinarily big deal. first of all, it's a big deal for somebody with that kind of military background to weigh in on politics at all. that's not something that someone like general kelly or general milley would do lightly. but the other thing that's amazing is these aren't just faceless people from the national security establishment. john kelly was also a political appointee of donald trump. the top political appointee of donald trump. the leader of his white house, his chief of staff. and i can't think of another time in history when an american president had his own chief of staff turn around and say this person is dangerous and has no business near the oval office. just as i can't think of another time when this many republica

our conversation with transportation pete buttigieg coming up next.. ♪ >> of the three major crisis facing the country, secretary of transportation pete but played a key role in helping address two of them. he up to and the porch strike but international longshoremen's association after three days which is really fast. nearly avoiding what could have been an economic disaster. he's assisting in the emergency response to hurricane helene which has destroyed critical infrastructure of people stranded and isolated areas picked that job has been made more difficult by a swarm of misinformation that confuses victims of the storms. joining me now is secretary of transportation pete but. it's great to see. we know you've had quite a week. we appreciate you being here to talk to us. i know we will talk about the strike but let's start with the hurricane and aftermath of hurricane helene. your department has helped. the washington post reports that rumors and conspiracy theories have prompted a necessary evacuations and some of these falsehoods have been viewe

join me live is secretary of transportation pete buttigieg. great to have you back on bbc news. us. we mentioned it seems like negotiations at the moment are stuck. is there anything that is moving this forward? �* , ., ., anything that is moving this forward? , ., ., forward? administration has en . a . ed forward? administration has engaged both _ forward? administration has engaged both the _ forward? administration has engaged both the union - engaged both the union leadership in the ocean carriers and other parties on the other side of the negotiation. we have urged the parties to come to an agreement. we actually believe economically they may not be that far apart, and of course it's important for them to reach any agreement that takes care of workers, that allows them to participate in the record profits of the shipping industry, one that i think is compatible with that industry remaining very profitable, and to get those ports back up and running and goods moving in this country as quickly as possible. i this country as quickly as possible-— this country as quickly as os

>> reporter: walz has been doing mock debates too, with transportation secretary pete buttigieg playing vance. but his campaign also trying to lower expectations. sources telling us walz warned harris during the vetting process that he's quote, a bad debater. >> david: mary bruce with us, also here in new york tonight. the conventional wisdom, mary, is usually that these vice presidential debates don't matter all that much. we think back to the past, we can think to a moment or two vice presidential debates, but when you look at the polling in the seven key battlegrounds that will decide this election, it is so close. a point difference between trump and harris. how they perform tonight, if either one of them gets themselves into trouble or has a great moment, it could actually make a bit of a difference here. >> reporter: david, it is so close. just look at the fivethirtyeight averages of the battleground state polls. it is razor thin. harris up 1.9 in michigan. wisconsin, harris up 1.6. in must-win pennsylvania, harris up by just 0.6. trump leading by less than a point in north caroli

pete buttigieg baker is the chief white house correspondent for the new york times. mark, the staff writer for the atlantic. pete buttigieg, let's start with vice president harris calling out donald trump directly for his remarks. she has been going on the offense about his fitness to lead. tonight she went after him on reproductive rights and ivf. you think this will land with voters at this point? >> what she decided to do was to take him on directly. she is focusing on the warrior part more than the joyful part. she has done that the last few days by showing clips of donald trump at her rallies by making clear that the things he is saying are the kinds of things that democrats and independents would find repugnant. that he would send the national guard or military to round up people he does not like. the idea that january 6th, a day of terror is somehow a "day of love". calling him out day after day the last stretch because she realizes she needs to make a contrast stronger in order to attract few voters who may be undecided. >> mark, vance tried out several lines

>> no, i did not know any of the dp candidates except buttigieg.ut seeing him and listening to who him, i think he's just like me. a regular guy like me. >> ok. here is a republican in grand fourth, north dakota. hello, peter. >> i'm really interested to see how people lay out their policies. i'm torn about who to vote for because i'm not really a jd vance supporter. but i think if harris -- >> we are going to move on from peter. let me show you the debate rules. this is what cbs laid out. this is a 90 minute debates. there are two breaks at four minutes each. there's no audience similar to the previous debate. only moderators ask questions and candidates stay behind podiums. senator vance will be on stage right. also, no props or prewritten notes are allowed. a pen, pad of paper it, and water are provided to the candidate. no topics or questions have been shared in advance. microphones may be cut at moderator discretion. the light will indicate time left with green at 15 minutes, yellow at five minutes, flashing red, and then read at zero. there w

pete buttigieg, where union heavy going up against pete whon had a port crisis on his watcht.ehow didn't lose his jobd over that? the american people have not dodged the bullet by kicking the can down the road past the election. >> laura: now, him mary katharine ham i was howling and laughing before the show becaus. i was watching liz cheney and wisconsin, the woman ther democrats called were criminals and her father shoul td be in jails and charge between standing for kamala harris. watch. >> january 6 shows us there is not an ounce who do not an ounct of compassion in donald trump.nc he is petty. he is vindictive. and he is cruel. and donald trump is not fit to lead this good and great nation>>. [cheers and applause] >> laura: okay, so that is tha it. mary katharine, that is it. that is the joy they are delivering. what holds them together, liz cheney and the democrats, is a hatred trump in the america first agenda. that is pretty much it. t >> i mean, thahet is it.ey here is that the thing, it goesr beyond that because liz cheneyes said donald trump is a unique threat. ther

. >> transportation secretary pete buttigieg, weighing in on day three of a massive port strike. >> no contract, no work. >> operations at major shipping terminals along the east and gulf coasts are at a standstill. >> we have been engaging the parties on all sides, urging them to come to the table. if the strike starts pushing into a second week or third week, we're going to start to see some disruptions. >> there are already signs of supply chain uncertainty in some cities. store shelves around the hampton roads area of virginia bear of many essential items like water and paper goods. as union members picket outside of the port there. experts caution against panic buying, noting that many of those daily basics are produced in north america, not reliant on shipping imports. >> we have thousands of cases that are on order from holidays, and a lot of those are on the water now trying to get here. >> for retailers who do rely on ships like this wine and liquor store in houston, a prolonged strike could dent holiday sales and frustrate customers. >> the next thing is consumers will see hi

. >> pete buttigieg is here with his take and jd vance finally answer what he would not answer for weeks. >> know he says, donald trump did not lose who's the 2020 election at least not in his words an inside source will join me this hour. what he knows about the battle for the police, they couldn't do decide this entire i are election pennsylvania senator john fetterman is here. i'm kaitlan collins, and this is the source election. vice president kamala harris went where she has never gone before and frankly, where no democratic nominee has gone in quite some time on fox the vice president campaigning for those few persuadable conservative voters. in an interview that was contentious right from the jump, fox's bret baier question, the vice president on everything from immigration to trans rights to how she'd be different than president biden. she was interrupted several times as she was answering those questions. and there were tense exchanges just throughout this entire interview. but it was this moment maybe when she was asked about trump's supporters, that things got incredibly heate

pete buttigieg just here with his take. and jd vance, finally answer what he would not answer for weeks know. he says, donald trump did not lose the 2020 election, at least not in his words an inside service will join me this hour. what he knows about the battle for the police, they couldn't do decide this entire election pennsylvania senator john fetterman is here i'm kaitlan collins, and this is the source election. vice president kamala harris went where she has never gone before. and frankly where no democratic nominee has gone in quite some time on fox. the vice president campaigning for those few persuadable conservative voters in an interview that was contentious right from the jump fox's bret baier question, the vice president on everything from immigration to trans rights to how she'd be different than president biden she was interrupted several times as she was answering those questions. and then we're tense exchanges throughout this entire interview. but it was this moment maybe when she was asked about trump's s

those who need help the most let's bring in secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg, secretary buttigieg, it's good to see you as we just heard, president biden spoke about information it has many any specific concrete fallout from this misinformation? obviously, it's horrible for misinformation to be shared. what have been some actual results that have caused damage? >> well, what i know is if you're out there and you hear somebody saying that the 750 bucks for example, that that is what fema does to help you get immediate food. diapers, water if somebody out there says that's all you're going to get, and you believe them then you might not apply for more funding, which you can and should get and which you deserve, such as one example of how there can be real harm for real people as a result of lies or misinformation spreading. look some of it sounds incredibly at so outlandish the eu and really worry about people believing it like a united states member of congress talking about whether control, but a lot of folks, if they hear a member of congress say something because it's a member o

pete buttigieg, do you know how outrageous that is a union heavy going against pete who already had aisis on his watch and somehow didn't lose his job over that. the american people have not dodged this bullet. they are kicking the can down the road past the election. >> laura: mary katharine ham i was howling before the show started i was watching liz cheney in wisconsin. the woman hot democrats called her family war criminals, her father should be in jail. should be tried before the international war crimes tribunal. standing for kamala harris, watch. >> what january 6th showed us if there is not an ounce of compassion cruel. donald trump is not fit to lead this good and great nation. >> okay. so that's it. mary katharine, that's it. that's the joy that they are delivering. what holds them together, liz cheney and the democrats is a hatred of donald trump and the america first agenda. that's pretty much it. >> that is it. here's the other thing. it goes beyond that because liz cheney has said donald trump is a unique threat. it's fine. people not fond of donald trump. she is also ba

. >> laura: pete buttigieg said he clear the way for the helicopters to come in.ttigieg. >> former president trump: that was two days later because what happened is he sent his great gadgets and starlinks but it is incredible for communication. but they were asking me the people of north carolina representatives, could you possibly speak to elon musk get it? and he came through and they wouldn't allow it to come in t the. pete buttigieg called and two days late. >> laura: where they shamed, are you saying? speed huge publicity they would not allow. he had helicopters bringing stuff that wasn't even gettable. honestly, elon musk did a great job and i told him the situation. but it is very hard to get. i called him and he had things been delivered literally by the time i got off the phone. it was so quick. but then they got there and they said they would compensate it and keep it. fema and they were going to keep it to curator than the publicity got crazy and all of a sudden they released it. >> laura: it's joe biden said on friday, he believes the election would be

why did musk have to go on x to pete buttigieg and say stop -- it's about trying to help.hen you have to go on x and ask pete buttigieg the secretary of transportation to stop hindering aid that is going in and it worked. buttigieg intervened and suddenly you could get the trucks and planes in. >> harris: i want to give david a chance to respond and we'll move. >> this is about they're articulating the problems. what's wrong is always available and so is what's good. we need to do more and say we've heard from the governors saying they get the fema response that they need. and yes, are there always problems in a disaster? >> harris: are you a ware what the president said, people were happy? >> it's taken out of context. >> harris: it is not. >> he is talking about the nasty responses receive. >> harris: he was asked about the response to hurricane helene. he couldn't -- he was like i thought you were talking about a different storm. milton wasn't on the map yet. >> he is talking to actual people working on the ground saying they are getting the responses and that he respon

in title 46, we went and saw pete buttigieg and secretary buttigieg and del toro have authorities in law to build ships, what they cost overseas except that account hasn't been funded since 1983. if money can be built into that account we could build ships in america for the same price built overseas and that's how we had 7,000 flag ships and the world's biggest ship builders in 1960's and 1970's, still in law and then also a lot of collaboration that we need to do on work force development. in fact, you know, i'll give a shout out to hyundai and we signed an agreement between mit, versus of michigan-- university ever of michigan and hyundai and to tap into the expertise that the koreans have in their shipyards and also at the national university is assigning to this to get after a major weakness we have in the u.s., there's only one university left in america, one ro1 university in america, to post doc in ship building. we don't have any of the engineers, office managers, and if you were to open a ship yard in the u.s., there would also need to be a lot of things done to bring your

and secretary buttigieg says they already have a head start on that because of funding earmarked for climate resiliency in the infrastructure package passed back in 2021. in washington, i'm hannah brandt. >> kron 4 in our parent company nexstar partnering with the red cross to help the millions of people affected by hurricane helene. if you would like to help out, you can scan the qr code on your screen. it will take you to a website where you can donate. >> tesla is recalling tens of thousands of cybertrucks for the 5th time this year. this time it has to do with that rearview camera issue. tesla says the display may appear blank for up to 8 seconds when the cybertruck is going in reverse and that's so well below the 2 second display standard that's required by federal safety rules. tessa says it's a released a free over the air software update too. fix the issue. >> coming up at a owners worldwide gathered today for the blessing of the animals, including here in the bay. a closer look at the event >> the news never stops here a crown for let's check in with dan thorn now for a look

he praised buttigieg. >> that was two days later.ecause what happened is he sent his great, you know, gadgets in. he has one of the most -- the starlinks. then they sent it in, and they wouldn't allow it to go in, took two days. boot-edge-edge, as you say, boot-edge-beej called, two days late, though. >> jimmy: yeah, when in doubt, mispronounce buttigieg, that's how you do it. [ laughter ] 78 years old, still sounding out his words. laugh have then we have captain jerk of starlink himself, elon musk, who yucked it up with tucker carlson. >> nobody's even bothering to try to kill ka maximum la, because it's pointless. what do you achieve? just buy another puppet. >> exactly. deep and true. >> nobody's trying to kill joe biden. pointless. >> totally. >> does it seem strange that no one's even bothered to try? >> jimmy: hilarious. just two sociopaths laughing it up about who's worthy of being assassinated or not. not weird at all. and likeable. so likable. [ laughter ] are we sure they're not a.i.? we keep hearing a.i. is going to kill

speaking to the bbc�*s sumi somaskanda, us transport secretary pete buttigieg says these issues can beontract for dockworkers and we spoke to those issues, this is an example of the sort of things that the two parties have to come to terms on but we believe that can absolutely be done, certainly we have seen in other countries that have a very strong labour tradition and labour protections, ways that has been addressed in a collective bargaining was not the bottom line is that we believe in the collective bargaining process and its capacity to create notjust bargaining process and its capacity to create not just the terms around issues like that. issues like benefits and the basic question of pay. these workers went without razors in some recent years, including 2020, a year when they went to work, covid was going on, many of them lost their lives doing a job that can't be done over sumer. it is understandable they want to participate in the astronomical profits that have been accruing to shipping speaking to the bbc�*s sumi somaskanda, us transport secretary pete buttigieg says these

. >> joining us now is united states secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg. mr.retary, it's great to see you. >> good to be with you. thank you for having me. >> i want to get to your personal fight with disinformation one of its biggest purveyors in a second. can you share with our viewers what the department of transportation is doing to prepare for and protect folks in the path of this hurricane and florida hurricane milton? >> well, we've got folks positioned now and that's everywhere from faa to federal highway administration ready as soon as it's possible to get into the affected area afterwards to help. we've been engaging up until now to support things like evacuation, making sure that the shoulder lanes are in use on i-4 and i-57 to take one example. doing anticipatory approvals for drone flights that wouldn't normally yet be licensed but are going to help florida utilities, for example, survey the damage that may be happening. so whether we're talking about sea, air or land, we're doing everything we can to help make sure that florida is well positioned

secretary pete buttigieg judges here. he's going to talk about the stakes for vice president harris this evening. we're also gonna get his reaction to what we heard from john kelly, trump's longest serving chief of staff in the atlantic and the new york times is harris prepares to face voters in this critical battleground, pennsylvania, stay with us with more reporters on the ground. and the best political team in the business follow the candidates follow the voters, follow the facts, follow. cnn liberty mutual customizes my car insurance, so i saved hundreds. >> but to money i saved i thought i get a wax figures myself. >> cool, right look at the craftsmanship. >> i mean, i even got my nostrils right just nice to know years after i'm gone this guy will be standing the test. >> it he's, nothing oh jeez. >> know only pay for what you need to mean starting from scratch at university of maryland global campus. it means building your neck success on the foundation of life experience thank you mgc values to successes you've al

and on the other side, there's pete buttigieg, paris hilton, richard simmons, and what i presume is the other olsen. >> i think the olson sister has something in common with ashley olsen and that's their parents right first up, we've got basic mitch's, which two of these people play the bass guitar. i know one, mike huckabee play his base are you saying? >> i hug be has written i just say he played bass the correct answer is mike huckabee and pete buttigieg. his peak keeping the groove at a bar in indiana can't remember. >> though claim played the saxophone is neo that wouldn't it with a member of corn course all i saw was to base players who in good none after the show next up, we've got dolls to the wall, which two of these people collect a freaky amount of dolls. i'm 90% sure it's richardson months. >> okay feels it's like barbra streisand. she has like an entire doll wing of her home. >> the correct answer is richard simmons, left over $400 behind in his hollywood hills home when he passed away and demi moore believe over $2,000 behind when she dies amber google, barbra streisand an

thursday morning, jeff zients and transportation secretary pete buttigieg and lael brainard met over zoom to discuss the ports. we're told those officials together pressured to make a deal before the end of thursday and promised to get the ila back to the table the officials met five times to get to the strategy to lead to the tentative deal that was reached in the late afternoon on thursday we will hear from acting secretary julie su live on "squawk on the street " here on cnbc in the 9:00 a.m will this create those supply chain issues we have been so worried about and will it have any impact on inflation? a lot of things could happen here the estimates vary the estimates on the negative impact to the economy is estimated to be just over $4 billion a day for every day of the strike this is a three-day strike estimates also vary, but generally, the consensus here is for every day the port was closed, there's about a week of port congestion and backlog that has to be worked through i spoken to a number of analysts and economists saying this will raise prices during the holiday season

buttigieg is too busy not working on at the airplanes but apparently a stand in for j.d.able crisis, and government, when something happens, they've got to do something. they can't just be impotent. and they haven't done anything to prevent this. and under the harley act, they are not going to do anything, let it get past the election, they don't care because they are stuck in the unions, and by the way, they already had no automation in their contract, they should continue it, but automation can be good and can help you and be part of safety thing and take over your job, too. >> jessica: a car decomposing in new jersey. next, kamala hits up a podcast to talk about doritos and much more. ♪ ♪ liberty mutual customized my car insurance so i saved hundreds. with the money i saved i thought i'd get a wax figure of myself. cool right? look at this craftmanship. i mean they even got my nostrils right. it's just nice to know that years after i'm gone this guy will be standing the test of ti... he's melting! oh jeez... nooo... oh gaa... only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, libe

secretary buttigieg. he said that we at d.o.t.ard with a new plan here, he said tolerating -- the era of tolerating poor treatment of airline passengers with disabilities is over, with this penalty he says we're setting the standard of accountability for airlines that violate the civil rights of passengers with disabilities. here's how the $50 million fine breaks down. 25 million will go to the treasury. 25 goes to passenger compensation, equipment upgrades. >> has american said anything else about this whole fine. >> reporter: they're paying the fine and they settled. here's their statement, american has a long-standing commitment to serving passengers with disabilities. as you know, kate, we've seen these videos go viral of wheelchairs being thrown around, down on the runway, tarmac, getting broken, a lot of this is going to come down to training their personnel to do better. >> tom, thank you. >>> as we close in on election day, there's one number you'll hear over and over again. 270, the number of electoral votes a candidate n

talk to pete buttigieg she says. pete buttigieg and who he is blaming. >> if you start the clock in the middle of the last decade over an eight year period, shipping profits went up by about 350%, the wages overall of workers went up by about 42% but the wages of these workers only went up by about 15%. their last contract reflected a tougher economic situation and they went certain years without any wage increases at all. >> sandra: if i had the emoji where the brain is exploding. because for him it is all about the evil corporations making those big profits. >> i know. i will say this though. the company is running these places, dockyards, have made about $400 billion in the last three years. i don't begrudge it. i'm a capitalist in a free-market guy. i'm just saying they have done very well. i think this is a case where you really need to have people sit down around the table and that's the role that the white house should be playing. at some point, the last time we had this, george w. bush did invoke taft-hartley

pete buttigieg, the labor secretary. they were all sort of involved in this coordinated effort to end the strike. and not hit a tipping point thursday morning when there was a zoom call with some of the port operators where they pressed the to get a deal and in fact the washington post reported that the port operators were told the president was going to be informed that there would be a deal by the end of day even though there wasn't at that time. at that point labor secretary julie soup went up to new jersey to speak with union leadership and it was something that -- a lot of folks were wondering whether the administration being a lame-duck administration would be able to really do anything. and the answer in this case was yes. they came together pretty quickly and were able to get it done. i think it's interesting to note that president biden himself was not quite as involved in this one as he has in the past during the real dispute in 2022. he zoomed into the meeting and talked to the rail operators and the union lea

this is sort of a recurring role for buttigieg. back when harris was the vice presidential nominee in 2020, she prepped for her vice presidential debate by having pete buttigieg play mike pence. on the republican side, jd vance has reportedly been preparing for his debate for more than a month, holding debate prep sessions at his home in cincinnati and over zoom with trump adviser jason miller, with senior aides, and with his wife. also, republican congressman tom emmer has reportedly been playing the role of tim walz for their practice debates. congressman emmer like tim walz is from minnesota. they overlapped in congress for a bit. emmer has reportedly been studying old tapes from governor walz's past debates to better prepare vance. the harris ticket does appear to be trying to set low expectations for governor walz. there is reporting about how he is nervous about his performance, how the campaign is not expecting a win tonight. there have been reminders that he warned kamala harris during the vice presidential selection proces

and secretary buttigieg says they already have a head start on that because of funding earmarked for climate resiliency in the infrastructure package passed back in 202m. in washington, i'm hannah brandt. >> got 4 in our parent company nexstar have partnered with the red cross to help the millions of people have been affected by helene, if you would like to help out live to do is scan the qr code on the screen. it will take you to a website where you can donate. >> coming up, a successful rocket launch this morning. what it could mean for future space missions. >> news nation tonight, dan abrams live special hour. one year after the october 7th hamas attack, dan takes us to the dramatic events of that movements movement. plus former hostages talk like that to returning home tonight at 9, central on newsnation news nation has the best political team anywhere on this now and join him dot com. just code to me news for all america. >> all systems go for the second vulcan rocket test flight. let's take a look or >> 3. we have engine ignition. one. >> liftoff of the united united launch al

let's just start there, secretary butte buttigieg.rs are seeking in the negotiation, and what you see as the impacts, both immediate and long term if this stretches on for weeks. >> yeah, so these dock workers, they're the people who unload the ships, make sure the goods get to where they're going, and on their way to our homes, to stores. they've been through a lot. if you think about covid, you know, this is obviously not a job that you can do over zoom. they came in every day. some of them lost their lives during that period. what the union is demanding is wages that would help them participate in the enormous profits that the shipping companies have made, especially in recent years. if you start the clock in the middle of the last decade, over about an eight-year period, shipping profits went up 350%. the wages overall of workers in the country went up by about 42%. the wages of these workers only went up by about 15%. their last contract reflected a tougher economic situation. they went certain years without any wage increases at

. >> reporter: both are hunkered down doing mock debate prep and former kamala told pete buttigieg hasn playing the role of ohio senator j.d. vance and vance has been doing mock debates, as well. tom emmer playing the role of walz. >> david: the fact that you're standing in a storm zone speaks volumes about the moment we're in. rachel scott, thank you. be sure to join us for live coverage of the debate. our special will start at 8:00 p.m. with the wheel team and the vice presidential debate at 9:00 pchl m. governor tim walz and senator j.d. vance. you can watch the debate at 9:00 p.m. here on abc. >> in the meantime we continue to follow this developing situation in the middle east. israeli forces moments ago announcing the start of what they're calling, quote, limited, localized and targeted raids on the ground in lebanon in hezbollah. ian pannell in beirut tonight. >> reporter: tonight israel launches raids into southern lebanon with limited and localized land operations against hezbollah. with their support israeli troops will go after hezbollah fighters, weapons and infrastructure.

secretary of transportation pete buttigieg was in asheville yesterday surveying some of that damage.> there's nothing like being here, seeing it for yourself and speaking with people who have been impacted. it redoubles our motivation to make sure that the federal government is doing everything that we can. that includes the work of fema. it includes, of course, the work of our department. we have got the first 100 million out to help with the immediate needs that the governor's team are meeting. but we know with 7,000 damage sites around the impact area and hundreds of road closures that this is going to be a long haul. >> and a lot of hard work has been done. 600 roads still remain closed with 100 of those on parts of interstates as well as federal and state highways. as far as crews, there are 2,000 crews out here working across western north carolina to reopen those access points and quite literally rebuild these roads to communities. as far as early voting goes, i know that there are 76 polling centers open in these hard-hit counties in western north carolina. down from the plan

and secretary buttigieg says they already have a head start on that because of funding earmarked for climate resiliency in the infrastructure package passed back in 2021. in washington, i'm hannah brandt. >> california's attorney general and secretary of state are working to make sure voters know their rights when it's time to cast their ballot. they wanted to remind people today about the basics. >> it is an election deadline instead of an election day because in california, you have many, many days before november 5th to cast your vote. and that's one of the things i want to talk about today. in fact, it is your right as california to vote early as a california voter to vote early and to cast your vote in the mean that works best for you. >> to find exact information about when and where you can vote. you can go over to the secretary of state's website. that's s o s dot ca dot gov. backslash elections. you can also visit your county registrar of voters. educators, parents and administrators rallied outside of the santa clara office of education today after santa clara county superi

and secretary buttigieg says they already have a head start on that because of funding earmarked for climate resiliency in the infrastructure package passed back in 2021. in washington, i'm hannah brandt. >> the city of san francisco, we are under a red flag warning in some parts of the bay area, the east and south calais. here to talk about kind of concerning when it comes to fire danger. when you see it is it is now the good news is we are pullin back a little bit from yesterday as far as the heat is concerned. i want to talk about some of the heat we had yesterday. san jose set a record again. >> tickets the 3rd in a row. 3 days in a row yesterday. you got up to 101 that beat a record of 97 degrees back set in 1917, 1985. so blew past that. >> with no problem. and as we take a look at some other spots across the bay yesterday, livermore got up to 1, 0, 5, 1, 0, 2 in concord. 99% refill hayward santa rosa, 98. so they didn't get quite triple digits with very close. and then 89 in oakland and 80 degrees in downtown san francisco. so obviously another well above average day. this is

and now, transportation secretary pete buttigieg says this new fine shows that era is essentially over's really this new tiktok that thrust this issue back into the limelight. this is from last november and it shows american airlines baggage handlers essentially throwing a wheelchair down the chute of a jetway. the department of transportation says, this is just one of thousands of cases where american airlines mishandled wheelchairs between 2019 and 2023, its investigation found that the airline also failed to provide adequate assistance since to disabled passengers. in fact, one passenger in a wheelchair told investigators that she felt like the airline treated her like cargo. so now she just doesn't fly anymore. the punishment here is the largest ever of its type, and the federal government is finding airlines, american airlines, $50 that fine old includes the mandate that americans spent 20 $25 million to reduce cases of damage wheelchairs and make significant infrastructure upgrades. now american airlines and says it's already doing that, having spent $175 million this year on dis

minnesota governor tim walz, has been having mock debates with transportation secretary pete buttigieg. meanwhile minnesota congressman tom emmer stepped in to help j.d. vance. >> it's going well. >> going great. you're going to see jd literally expose tim walz for the radical liberal that he is. i wish the american media. >> emmer says he's been trying to copy walz's mannerisms and phrases, so vance knows what to expect. walz has been working with a team of advisers he plans to highlight harris's vision for the nation. we are counting down to this vice presidential debate tomorrow night, republican vp candidate jd vance and democrat tim walz will debate in new york city. you can watch the debate right here on abc seven. live coverage begins at five. >> a potentially crippling port strike is now in motion. tens of thousands of dock workers walk off the job. what this could mean for prices from coast to coast, plus, we were having fatalities from people who were crossing the street in the crosswalk. >> they were being hit by cars and killed. >> thinking outside the box to solve the seri

with the bridge and helping elon musk helping and with the communication update and elon and pete buttigieg a back and forth on x and said let me help you resolve and musk tweeted this has been cleared up. this is getting in, which is good. that's good. rachel: the one thing that every single american could agree on with proper use of our tax dollars that we worked so hard to provide our government, is fema. we've been hearing a lot of reports ben taking commodity supplies or state impacted by helene is false. fema is working with federal families and local impacted areas and affectively bringing in life-saving resources to people in the communities that need it most. that's a statement from fema. you hope that's true. however, you can't discount the people who are just getting on their social media there on the ground. will: what i experienced in maui and know to some extent to be true in north carolina. it's chaos. most of what you hear is fema is not there. i contested mo they can be everywhere. we hope they could be. now private st.s step in -- private citizens step in. goods plow in an

sources tell nbc news that walz has been doing mock rehearsals with transportation secretary pete buttigieg in the role of vance, while vance has been preparing with minnesota congressman tom emmer playing walz. cbs has said it's going to leave live fact checking up to the candidates on stage to hold each other accountable. and this debate is taking on outsized importance, not only because the race for the white house is just so tight, but because it could also be the last time we see a debate before the election. vice president harris has said she's quote, all in for a late-october debate. former president trump has said he is not, arguing it's too close to the election with early voting already under way. it is now october 1st. that means we're just a little over a month away from that all-important day, frances. >> alice, thank you. >>> tonight you can watch the vice presidential debate right here on nbc. we have full coverage starting at 8:00 eastern. >>> it is october, but the heat isn't letting up out west. nbc meteorologist michelle grossman is tracking the temperatures for us. good

administration has had a personnel working this from day one transportation secretary pete buttigieg says the federal government has thousands of people in place to help with recovery, but he says more funding will be needed for the days ahead. will not be able to do all of the work that has to be done without help from congress. neither florida nor georgia's republican governors joined the president's visit. >> though georgia governor brian kemp did speak with the president on the phone fight them for visteon and also thank the president for adding additional counties to the disaster declaration. but kemp says some counties are frustrated. they're not part of the disaster declaration. so he's aware of that situation on the ground. florida governor ron desantis said hurricane victims could be hurt by the dockworkers strike at u.s. ports >> he worries it could delay delivery of needed supplies. and that will include perishable foods, medical equipment, desantis called on the white house to do more to put an end to the strike. we have no time for delays. >> biden harris has a responsib

get out now all right, kate, thanks so much for that with me now is transportation secretary pete buttigieg are standing in what would be underwater in kate's demonstration right there, secretary what do people need to know about the roads in the airports, the transportation system. now, and what will they need to know tomorrow and going forward. >> so by far the most important thing to note is if you're under evacuation orders, get out listen to those who are warn you in areas where it's not safe. and so many responders are doing their part to facilitate that process. we're working through our federal highway administration with florida's dot and local officials scholes, things like making sure that the shoulder can be used to effectively add a lay-in on i4 or i75 anything to facilitate that process? when it comes to airports, the airlines have added capacity and capped fares going out of the affected airports. but most of those are either close or they're about to close. so mainly we're talking about surface transportation now when it comes to evacuation sometimes by the way, the evacuati

i mentioned secretary buttigieg. we have our director who has been in touch with both parties and what we have been encouraging to do and this is something we have been pretty consistent. what i am saying here, we said before, which is we believe both parties should come to the table in good faith and come to a fair agreement. this is something we have also been consistent about. well, we are going can take -- we are going to continue to send that message and urge them to come to a fair agreement. >> are you prepared to ask congress to intervene? >> i am not into hypotheticals. we have made our message very clear, very clear. we support collective bargaining. come together to get to a fair agreement in good faith, in good faith, and we have been consistent throughout this administration about that. >> i want to ask you about the border restrictions that this administration extended today as well. the immigration advocacy organizations have come out -- 5000 cuts for migrants. we have heard criticism as well from immig

. >> yeah, secretary buttigieg, 6-3, address fishing just said that is a major focus of his today and will be tomorrow. matt egan. thank you. thank you, john. great to see you. brand new era of cnn news central starts now about it. we're going to get hit and it's going to be hard everybody out from milton. and we're trying to get all the debris up from helene you can't take no chance at all. i know that this storm is the storm. >> what are you guys doing? >> we're actually saw about actually until friday, we were able to come out and do some rescues for families with kids that decided to try and hunker down and that was not a good idea. i hope that people learned from that and decided to leave. once we leave, there'll be no first responder here. if you don't take heed you're on your own update on hurricane milton is now out of this hour. >> the monster storm is a category four storm that's downgraded slightly from where it was as a cat five wind speeds are now up 100 now at 155 miles an hour this is just shy of a cat five, but make no mistake. this is a bohemian, this is deadly and da

the bottom line here is that this really sets the precedent and buttigieg says, this fine needs to be big enough. so airlines simply cannot consider this the cost of doing normal business wow, that was an eye-opening video and i'm curious as to what other airlines might potentially face fines. >> well, the big deal here is that this is about 25 times bigger than any previous fine for something like this, the video is really incredible. and it just shows remember, these wheelchairs can be incredibly expensive. this is not like $185 a real chair that you're going to get from a pharmacy or a cvs or kaiser or what have you some of these wheelchairs can especially custom ones can cost in the thousands. this is really lighting up online right now. and people simply want to know how airlines can get away with this. we get data from the department of transportation pretty much every month about one they have mishandled wheelchairs, but essentially the bottom line here is that this has gone on for too long. it became background noise in the the strait and the department of transportation reall

in title 46, we went and saw pete buttigieg and secretary buttigieg and del toro have authorities in law to build ships, what they cost overseas except that account hasn't been funded since 1983. if money can be built into that account we could build ships in america for the same price built overseas and that's how we had 7,000 flag ships and the world's biggest ship builders in 1960's and 1970's, still in law and then also a lot of collaboration that we need to do on work force development. in fact, you know, i'll give a shout out to hyundai and we signed an agreement between mit, versus of michigan-- university ever of michigan and hyundai and to tap into the expertise that the koreans have in their shipyards and also at the national university is assigning to this to get after a major weakness we have in the u.s., there's only one university left in america, one ro1 university in america, to post doc in ship building. we don't have any of the engineers, office managers, and if you were to open a ship yard in the u.s., there would also need to be a lot of things done to bring your

i've been having secretary pete buttigieg step in as senator j.d vance. they've been having these preparations sessions for that meeting on this debate stage tonight, both of them are lowering there expectations for one another. jake, though i should note that each of them has plenty of debate experience on their own. donald trump for his part, has been voicing confidence he's actually spent less time really talking about how vance is going to do more time attacking governor walz and what he believes is going want to be his inability to perform well on that debate stage tonight, jake, i will say we are in the spin room right now. one thing we do know from the vance campaign is that we can't expect it you see the senator from ohio here in the spin room after that debate tonight regardless of how it goes, it's a pre-planned decision for them to have the senator himself coming on here. jake all right. >> interesting stuff. kaitlan collins, thanks so much. anderson team here in new york. >> alyssa, i mean, all the polls show that this is a tight race. the lat

even pete buttigieg. yeah. buttigieg. yeah, whatever. but. but she was known.nd then they did this. they pulled the old switcheroo, right? yeah. and so now they have no choice because. right. they they were put in a corner. and i think biden, in this weird way. right. maybe maybe he knew what he was doing. yeah. i have to say this. you know what it is. yeah, it's definitely a comedy show. yeah. it is. it's very indiana jones and the last crusade. yes. you know how, like, they set up the cup. so if you take this one, an arrow comes at you. that's what i'm talking about. biden killed them. he knew he nuked the party. yeah, well, you look at biden, too. he's thrown on trump hats and everything like he hates her. like the little part of his brains. not rotten. he hates her. jill keeps trotting him out there without his meds. you know, he didn't do an interview for three and a half years. now he's literally running after reporters, handing them a mic and a tape recorder. like, ask me anythin. gianno. you wrote a phenomenal book about how democrats have failed black

said this would be overly complicated for them to implement, but transportation can secretary pete buttigiegouncing this in a post on x, said passengers deserve to get their money back when an airline owes them without headaches or haggling, he really put airlines on notice back in july telling them to make it super clear to passengers one, they are entitled to a refund. >> this has really blowing up on social media and on tiktok. so many people are happy to hear this, who have been caught up in the cancellations and delays that were really big in 2021 and 2020 but the good news here is that airlines are doing much better. the cancellation rate about 1% of all flights pete muntean, it is good news for a lot of travelers. they hate having to negotiate when they are frustrated their fight isn't taking off. alright, appreciate you. john. >> new video obtained exclusively by cnn shows the final moments before an incarcerated man's death. after being restrained by police this morning to college quarterbacks it's quitting football the same week, how concussions could be pushing more young athletes