the north carolina national guard has deployed over 350 national guardsmen and 131 vehicles to include high water vehicles and aviation assets to assist in the event and are adding to those numbers throughout the day. the logistics branch assisted response partners with meals, water, tarps, and other commodities and supplies. flooding may occur outside the areas that normally flood with the forecasted rainfall totals we're seeing. stay safe today, check on your neighbors and those in your community who need assistance and take protective actions when directed by local authorities to do so. during a disaster or major event, we're stronger together and make for more resilient communities. finally, i'd like to say thank you to the dedicated and brave first responders and members of the emergency management community who are answering north carolina's call and working to save lives in your communities across the state. thank you. governor cooper: thank you. i've activated additional soldiers to help with this. i'm going to ask major general todd hunt for his update. todd: thank you, govern

we had north carolina national guardsmen in asheville the night that the storm hit. they have been engaged with local law enforcement and emergency management officials and the helicopters have been flying and we have delivered to places like beech mountain, madison county, waynesville, and i've already mentioned ockham county. but not everyone is seeing that because as you said it is difficult to reach everywhere but please reiterate help is on the way and we are there in the north carolina national guard will be there for our fellow citizens until the mission is finished. >> john: folks in the hard-hit area of the stakes can take comfort in the fact that the national guard is on the job. good luck with the work ahead. >> thank you john. >> john: fox corporation by the way has made a donation to the red cross hurricane helene relief efforts and continues to be an annual disaster giving program partner which enables the red cross to respond immediately to disasters like a lien by providing safe shelter, hot meals, emotional support, and resources to aid in recovery.

.said it's going to be a big, big demonstration, in the city, and i want to give you 10,000 national guardsmen. palosi practically denied me that, and even her daughter said that she is fully responsible for what happened, it would never have happened if madam polosi and the mayor of the city had not done it ma'am. palasi didn't do that, and she didn't do what needed to be done, but i want the vice president to answer what happened: i was the vice president-elect at that time, and at that time i saw, that the president practically incited a riot of disaffected people and... and many hundreds of security guards were injured as a result of this riot, some of them died, died, and it was as a result that and the impeachment process was started against the former president, it was an angry mob of people who carried the fascism with them, and you know the president ... said that they were good people on both sides of the conflict, let's not forget that they were even happy because illegal gunmen were in that crowd, and all these people who were watching what was going on, remember what happened on j

when we were attacked on january 6th on the capitol in the days after, we had more than 2500 national guardsmen guarding the capitol. that's the tools and agreement that donald trump left president biden with. >> and there were thousands more nato troops as well. the 2500 is a little bit misleading. but let's put that aside. just to honor our allies there that surely you know about. i want to ask you about the isis threat. on friday, it was disclosed that a 20-year-old isis supporter was apprehended 12 miles from the u.s.-canada border. the fbi said the individual was a pakistani citizen residing in canada planning a mass shooting attack in new york city on or around october 7th to kill as many jews as possible. do you have any insight into whether this individual was self-radicalized, directed? what is the threat picture here? >> yeah. you know, we've been out of session for some time, so it's been a little while since i've had a classified briefing. i probably can't specifically answer the question about that individual. what i can tell you is two things. number one, isis is dedicated as is,

i have had to put 394 national guardsmen and women on the border and it is shameful that he does not support new border agents and investment to improve the quality of our border security. it says everything about donald trump and his hypocrisy. [crosstalk] she is fierce, she is tough and i think she is underestimated. particularly, dare i say come up with men. i have known her a decade before we were both elected office and she shows up at these debates at a different level. she is disciplined and will not get off her game. it is an impossible task for donald trump to not get off his game. she will get under his skin. i think she will show up with a handshake. i think you will see something very different on the outside of this debate. if i was donald trump, i would look out. they have never met. he is about to experience something many of us have experienced and world leaders will see, tough, integrity, character, discipline. >> you can see governor newsom is formed by the media at the philadelphia convention hall in the spin room, hundreds of reporters there ahead of tonight's deb

general, how does the situation look in your direction, where is it going, indeed, my fellow national guardsmen continue to carry out tasks in several areas of defense in the east of our country, the situation remains as critical as possible. tense, because the enemy uses many fire weapons, uavs, and my comrades are doing everything possible to destroy the occupiers every day, to add statistics before the establishment of the general staff, and in fact these statistics are the destroyed eyes of these scoundrels who continue to try to storm, the situation has an extremely high intensity, the dynamics are very... great contact in principle does not feel, and attempts to storm the enemy are presented, but in fact the enemy tried to storm much more than is indicated in the reports, because even every mortar fire, artillery fire, bepala attack is the same contact, and in fact, without any abatement, the enemy uses what he can use a lot of its reserves, it is noted in several areas, in general... in the east, the enemy is making rotational actions, this indicates that the enemy has the opportunity to

national guardsmen, trump threw the following phrase: that you see, ukrainians are rushing to russia, you will have the third world war, so he said, not ours, well, it is always typical of politicians to distance themselves from the people, especially such a temperamental one as trump. as for the reaction of the europeans, it is positive, and especially the military... analysts, from the very beginning they did not understand and knew neither the plan nor the goal, but seeing the speed of the advance and the moderate withdrawal of troops from the east in order to save the situation in the area kursk region, they began to positively evaluate even the zmi they took this quote from trump and those revealed to trump's team on... positive consequences and intentions, as they consider this operation, but the importance is that the majority of serious analysts in the west point to this, that this course of events and this operation in the kursk region the field is multivariate, and this actually puts many in a stupor, and the majority does not understand the plan, does not see the goal. whic

of completion, the withdrawal of american troops, meeting with the association of veterans, national guardsmentrump threw such a phrase, you see, ukrainians rush to russia, you will have the third world war. that's what he said, not here, well, it's always typical for politicians to distance themselves from the people, especially one as temperamental as trump. as for the reaction of europeans, then it is positive, and especially of military analysts, they from the very beginning, ah, did not understand and knew neither the plan nor the goal, but seeing the speed of the advance... and the moderate withdrawal of troops from the east in order to save the situation in the kursk region, they began to positively evaluate, and even the media, who took this quote from trump, and they revealed to the trump team the positive consequences and plans, as they consider this operation, but the importance is that most analysts are serious in the west. .. show what this transition is for events and this operation in the kursk region is multivariate, and actually this puts many in a stupor, and the majority doe

completion of the withdrawal of american troops and, meeting with the association of veterans, national guardsmen, trump threw such a phrase that you see, the ukrainians are rushing to russia, you will have the third world war, that's what he said, not with us, well, it is always typical for politicians to distance themselves from the people, especially one as temperamental as trump. as for the reaction of the europeans, it is positive, and especially of the military analysts, they have been since the beginning. ah, they didn't understand and didn't know either the plan or the goal, but seeing the speed the advance and the moderate withdrawal of troops from the east in order to save the situation in the kursk region, they began to positively evaluate, and even the media, who took this quote from trump, and they revealed to the trump team the positive consequences and plans, how they consider this operation . but the importance is that the majority of serious analysts in the west point to this, that this course of events and this operation in the kurt region is multivariate, and this actually puts

there are also representatives of the international legion and special operations forces and 38 national guardsmen. next, volodymyr aryev, people's deputy of ukraine, will be on our air. mr. volodymyr, glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes. look, every time something new comes out with these gun stories. now stoltenberg, it is easy for him to speak, of course, he is leaving his post in october and... his tongue is now completely loose with his recent statement that nato could have armed ukraine even before the full-scale invasion, and then this would not have happened, because if they had given more weapons, more equipment, it would have prevented the war, now it is necessary to give everything to start the war like this, but obviously, well, they listen to him, but they continue to do their own thing. this, this, we will give it, we will not give it, today we will give permission, tomorrow we will not give it... we will give it here, but we will not attack ourselves, let us storm shadow, but we will not tell you about it, wait a little longer, and for a statement we were still waiting on wednesda

but they will be available to reinforce some 5,500 illinois national guardsmen, some 2,000 fbi, secretgo police force. - we are concerned about the build-up of the force because we think anything that's built up like this is liable to be used. - now, you're a girl. are you afraid of any violence that may occur? - there'll be violence, yes, no doubt about that, but i'm not afraid of it. - about 500 students, hippies, yippies, radicals, activists, mccarthy kids, and other peace demonstrators marched four miles from lincoln park to the downtown hotels housing the democratic convention delegates. they stayed on the sidewalks. they stopped for traffic signals, and they did not try to cross police lines. - kindly obey the traffic signals! - as the protesters marched back toward lincoln park, they clashed with police. - whoa, hey! cool it! - we were told that we would have to leave the park at 11 o'clock at night. at 5 o'clock, the police started beating people up. all: we want the park! we want the park! [crowd shouting] - they disperse into the streets. - i'm giving you one more warning! -

there are 3300 fema personnel. 5500 national guardsmen from 11 states in search and rescue from 19 statesoesn't reduce the devastation of this and how horrific it is. to say that joe biden and kamala harris are out to lunch during this or they are sitting on a beach reclining there, they are clearly giving them what they need. they will be showing up when it is appropriate. it's different for donald trump. he's a guy trying to be president again to show up and throw some bounty of people versus someone who is actually the commander in chief and doesn't want to distract from what is going on. i will let you know when it is appropriate for you to come. the same goes for georgia. >> several people died as well. last word to you. >> i don't really have much to say. i'm not crazy about framing the hurricane in any kind of political way. you don't need a crisis to reveal whatever shortcomings there are in leadership. we know what is on both sides at this point. it depends on who is president at the time. the level of outcry you will see. if it happens to be a republican, the media will be up in

prosecuted in new york, there are a number of charges there, in new york, suddenly, a huge number of national guardsmenty has gone into martial law, here's journalist nick sorter, watching what's happening on the streets of america's largest city, asking... a fair question, let 's hear it. new yorkers are reporting a huge increase in the number of national guard troops deployed throughout the city. two possible reasons for the national guard's activation: the possibility of trump's imminent imprisonment, or the fact that new york city is overrun with illegal immigrants. both could have catastrophic consequences. our country is really on the verge of total collapse. which version do you like better? as far as i understand. with corresponding human victims, i mean the creation of a dissident movement on the territory of the united states, that is, with american money, the irony, the irony is that this is happening with american money. and all this, of course, brings us to the sad thought, about what we have already talked about here for a long time. the falling empire of the united states, it is dying, i

candidate seem like the kind of guy who would be a classroom teacher or football coach and a national guardsmenstudents. the measure of a great coach the performance of your players. a great sergeant is measured by the readiness of your soldiers. it's about other people. as is how the office of governor or president or vice president ought to be. i think that's why the trump-vance people literally don't know what to do. they have no concept of that. >> pete buttigieg: you played pence for harris' debate prep in 2020. that's a front row seat to how she responds to pressure. what can you say about the vice president from that vantage point? >> pete buttigieg: it's difficult to describe the process of trying to mentally get into the shoes of mike pence but i'll do anything for a good cause. the good cause was to help her anticipate some of the things he would say and how he would say them. i got to be in the room as she was preparing for those leading up to the debate. i saw this intellect. she's very smart. people who see her know that. you see it and it's really impressive. but also that that in

. >> we have 3500 national guardsmen standing by. our state guard standing by. we have state troopers standing by. they will be active if need be. i know we have a lot of our local first responders ready to be able to be on scene as well as needed. we are going to be ready for road clearing. there is going to be debris on the roads. we want to get these roads open, make sure that people can travel safely. our department of transportation is standing by for operations and those will begin as soon as its safe to do so or can they are going to go in and inspect the bridges so we can ensure they are safe and can be reopened. they have made 40 large pumps to be able to pump water out of areas that have flooded as well as almost 700 generators. then another mission is going to be power restoration with tens of thousands of linemen that are standing by, people have seen some of the pictures that we've seen. they are going to be on scene probably as soon as its light outside in the morning. you will have all day friday, a full day worth of power restoration to. think th

more than 4000 national guardsmen are on the ground. so far.cued 149 people and 55 animals. power, though still out for millions of people across the southeast. for many, it will be weeks until the lights are back on in georgia. more than 700,000 people remain in the dark. cars lining up for critical supplies with people waiting hours at the very few open gas stations to buy water and fuel. and i would just tell you from a statewide perspective, this storm spared no one. and as tim golden, the d.o.t. commissioner, said to me yesterday, these storms are taking the soul out of me. and i know that's how people are feeling down here in north carolina. catastrophic flooding swallowed entire communities, historic communities. you see there. crews have rescued more than 200 people from raging waters. strong winds also toppled trees, power lines and cell phone towers. well, back here locally, a lot of families in california are opening their mailboxes and finding a bombshell. a letter from their insurance company saying they are losing their home cover

i've had about three at 94 national guardsmen and women on the border it is shameful.eful he does have the back of the border patrol does not support agents and investments to him everything about donald trump in the democracy. none on she is a fierce she is tough i've seen this for decades. she's under estimate is critically there i say with men. i've been in the room i have not studied game film i've been up and close. i have known kamala harris a decade before their elected office. i have seen her show up at these debates at a different level. she is disciplined she's not going to get off her game. her her name and when she shows up she's going to show up at the handshake. i think at that handshake you're going to see something very different from the outset they never met he's about to experience something that toughness, character integrity this he swarmed up by the media and that media filing center at the philadelphia convention hall there in the city hundreds of reporters there ahead of tonight's debates. we expect surrogate supporters for the former president

. >> we have 3,500 national guardsmen standing by. we have our state guard standing by he'd be all right. >> cnn has team coverage throughout the morning as hurricane helene moves up the east coast, cnn's ryan young is in atlanta for us, but let's begin first with cnn meteorologist allison chinchar. allison, good morning. >> and good morning. yes. at the top of the hour, we just got our most latest update and here's the thing it is now a tropical storm but it's finally dropping back below hurricane status. but this is significant because it is well over 100 miles inland before this system finally weakens back down into a tropical storm, sustained winds, however, still at 70 miles per hour, this is still a very potent storm and because it is moving so quickly, there are some communities were the worst is still yet to come. even though well, this storm has made landfall. all of these areas you see here in green are under a flood watch, meaning the potential is there for significant flooding. the red areas indicating more flash flooding

of national guards members such as yourself and your team right now, florida has about 3,900 national guardsmen currently engaged in response missions in 21 counties throughout the state. what are you all seeing on the ground there? what areas appear to be the hardest hit? >> well, thanks for having me this afternoon. jake, you at the end of the day we got up early this morning and actually we had quite a few soldiers and airmen that were in the impacted areas. but, you know, as life started come up, we started to consolidate our forces in the the taylor dixie in the levy county is basically getting as close to ground zero as we could. that the road networks would allow and working with some of the local first responders and some of the other teams out there. it's pretty devastating to look at a lot of homes that have been wiped off the foundations and a lot of people that are probably going to be having to restart their lives here pretty shortly. >> the florida national guard has engaged in search and rescue missions, groundwater air, how many floridians have been rescued? do you know how many

to you 800 a31, 3,700 our back with the breaking news in our national lead, thousands of us national guardsmen have been activated to help in recovery efforts in the aftermath of hurricane helene. >> many of them are supporting north carolina communities that remain cut off from the world in need of rescues, water, food, you name it the very first warnings that this weather event might be unprecedented for the southern appalachian region began on wednesday evening, the weather service issued a dire warning at 6:00 p.m. wednesday saying, quote, this has the potential to be an extremely rare event with catastrophic flash flooding that hasn't been seen in the modern era, unquote on thursday, county officials urge people in asheville and the affected areas to evacuate like you wait, let's see if north carolina attorney general josh stein signals there. there he is. okay. we've been having problems with signal is also the democratic candidate for governor in north carolina. we should point out attorney general stein, given the urgency of the language issued wednesday night. i have to ask where's th

national guardsmen and women from additional states are eight supporting north carolina under existingmergency mutual assistance compacts, known as emacs, with more than 700 personnel helicopters, a cargo plane and rescue vehicles to help with road clearance , provision of commodities, transportation, and search and rescue. this is the best of america. we have national guard coming in as far as from connecticut, ohio , and new york. who are deploying to north carolina to support their fellow citizens in need. in addition, about 200 medical responders are also stationed in florida, alabama, and north carolina, along with medical equipment and supplies to ensure the continued health care delivery that is required following the landfall of hurricane helene. family as department of health and human services declared a public health emergency for north carolina, florida, and georgia, which gives health providers and suppliers greater flexibility in meeting emergency health needs of medicare and medicaid beneficiaries. in order for communities to begin functioning again, we all know it is cr

officials, concerned about the optics of national guardsmen being at the capitol while the capitol is being breached violently. if, as some believe, that january 6 was an insurrection, on this institution, that purposely delaying the d.c. national guard from coming to help quell the insurrection was in fact participating. when you had the ability to send the forces to stop it, and you refused to do it because you didn't like the optics, then we need to take a serious look at this. mr. speaker, thank you for the time here this evening. we will continue to look into the truth of what happened on that day, in an unbiased way, and report that. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: does the gentleman have a motion? mr. loudermilk: mr. speaker, i move that the house now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the motion is on the -- the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. ithe ayes have it. the motion is adopt. accordingly, the >> the house began work on for bis d passed one of them. tomorrow lawmakers vote on legislation to fu

functions that sailors and soldiers once did come up to the guards over the prison who are national guardsmenomen who come on nine-month assignments to live on the base, be fed on the base, be entertained on the base, be provided with vehicles and clothing and the aspects of life of a deployed soldier, which in the confines of small-town america. all of that is expensive. to maintain staff here -- 900 people work at that prison, in part because of the rotation there have to be overlapping functions. we did a study about five years ago and to maintain the prison and keep up the infrastructure in this very humid, unfavorable climate, the buildings are temporary. i am in a press center put up like a trailer and the ceiling is creaking even a year later. maintaining this facility has proven to be expensive. calculate and what it costs to run the prison and maintain the staff works out to $13 million a year per prisoner. once i did that study, some people in the defense department stop cooperating with helping me figure out costs year to year, so the best last figure we had was $13 million per yea

functions that sailors and soldiers once did come up to the guards over the prison who are national guardsmenomen who come on nine-month assignments to live on the base, be fed on the base, be entertained on the base, be provided with vehicles and clothing and the aspects of life of a deployed soldier, which in the confines of small-town america. all of that is expensive. to maintain staff here -- 900 people work at that prison, in part because of the rotation there have to be overlapping functions. we did a study about five years ago and to maintain the prison and keep up the infrastructure in this very humid, unfavorable climate, the buildings are temporary. i am in a press center put up like a trailer and the ceiling is creaking even a year later. maintaining this facility has proven to be expensive. calculate and what it costs to run the prison and maintain the staff works out to $13 million a year per prisoner. once i did that study, some people in the defense department stop cooperating with helping me figure out costs year to year, so the best last figure we had was $13 million per yea

heroes, heroes, glory, they saved a partisan, the odessa guardsmen conducted a rescue operation on the battle line of the southern direction, the national guard reports, the man performed the task in the body of the enemy, in particular determined positions of the occupiers. after the successful operation , the partisan was supposed to... swim across the river to the territory under the control of ukraine, but there were difficulties, so the ukrainian defenders with the help of drones threw the man into lifebuoys and evacuated him to a safe place. extinguishing fires, rescuing people and animals, clearing debris, demining territories, all these are ukrainian rescuers who are celebrating a professional holiday today. one of them , vladyslav hnatenko from poltava, says. the profession found him, and he did not find her, which is the most difficult job for a lifeguard, a man shared with my colleague anna morozova, he gets dressed, and that's where he went, vladyslav hnetenko, has been working as a rescuer in the poltava part of the state emergency service for more than 10 years, says that he never dreamed of such a job as a child, and afte

guardsmen will also give a speech and people with their passion and feelings will show their deep connection with hezbollah, lebanon, the nation of sin and lebanon, god willing, in every today, the face of all of islamic iran is a cry of anger, a cry of disgust, a cry it is an epic and the cameras, your good colleagues who are always at the event , will surely convey these scenes to the world that the iranian nation is never separate from the palestinian nation, the lebanese and the resistance front, and supports the oppressed of palestine with all its heart. and the lebanese and israel should also know that , god willing, he will take his last breath. god willing, we are witnessing that these popular demonstrations and popular reactions are not limited to the people of iran. the public opinion of the world has also gone along with this the protests are not limited to muslims. about the nature of these public protests and the support of the public opinion of the world with the axis of resistance, especially the people of lebanon and palestine, it is good that this movement of the people of the world , whether muslim or non-mus

the national guard says it has three helicopters in the air. in nevada, guardsmen captured a video that should be coming up. oh, he did of a black hawk chopper performing a water bucket drop over the weekend. that's what we're looking at right now. and then we do want to go back to that video of at least a dozen horses trying to escape the flames in southern reno. there are power outages in that area, and up to 14,000 people are under evacuation orders. >> the flames crested the hill back over there. so we said, okay, let's get out of here before they you know, actually come and just force us out. >> tonight, fire officials will hold a community meeting at a local reno middle school. back to you at the desk. >> thanks, amanda. you can keep track of the wildfires across the state with our interactive wildfire tracker. just head to abc seven news.com/fire map. the bluegrass music festival, held each year in tahoe, has been canceled for 2025. organizers are blaming the rising costs of doing business in northern california. winter wonder grass tahoe will take a year of

the national guard says it has three helicopters in the air, and nevada guardsmen captured this video from a black hawk chopper before performing a water bucket drop over the weekend. and then we want you to check this out. at least a dozen horses trying to escape the flames in southern reno. there are power outages in that area, and up to 14,000 people are under evacuation orders. >> the flames crested the hill back over there. so we said, okay, let's get out of here before they, you know, actually come and just force us out. >> tonight, fire officials will hold a community meeting at a local reno middle school. back to you. reggie >> mayor. thank you. you can keep track. >> you can keep track of wildfires across the state with our interactive wildfire tracke. just head to abc seven news.com/fire map. >> the bluegrass music festival, held every year in tahoe, has been canceled for 2025. organizers blame the rising cost of doing business in northern california. winter wonder grass tahoe will take a year off. organizers say they hope to return after a year of review and reorganization.

a lot of this for the national guard we deploy them before it made landfall earlier today 1000 dark guardsmen already and an additional 240 so we have 500 will follow us as needed. the the department of public safety and they remain available right now we have a hard time getting up we will continue working and we will have those resources to do so. a little while to get the choppers of because of the wind this morning so to get in regards to that. i will turn it over to the general wilson. >> local and state and federal level some of the missions current and it seems we are doing that. as quickly as possible and we do that with a lot of engineers to provide support. and for the next 12 to 24 hours there will be a lot in response. >> across the state and the damage. i want to say thanks to the government. there is a lot of work to be done assessments to be done but still i 75 commodity aquaculture widespread power in the community as well. processes all of this damage the next several days to get better than where are, a better understanding such as gas stations and grocery stores back online

national guard general wilson to talk a little bit about that here in just a second. we've deployed 250 of them before helene made landfall earlier today, as you know, authorize a further 1,000 guardsmen and we've deployed already an additional 250 of those and so we have 500 i feel as we speak and will call the rest as needed and as requested they have 20 mobile cut teams, eight heavy equipment teams, and we're also moving pods around for supply distribution department of public safety, troopers and officers remain available currently right now, we're having a hard time getting to places, so we got to get our chainsaw cut teams to continue working, to free up roads, but we will have those resources moving as soon as that safely to do so we're moving troop deployments from northwest georgia again to south once more, roads are clear, we're currently assessing by air. it took a little while to get the choppers up and drones up because of the because of the wins and then also a low ceiling. this morning. so we'll continue to get more information in regards to that well, that i will turn it over to general wilson more here from commissioner harper and then when you take your questions, si

national guard now deployed into communities. >> we have search and rescue boats. we have high-water vehicles. we've got soldiers that will react. once the storm lifts -- >> reporter: but even the guardsmenpact. one of its trucks skidding off a rain-slicked road. luckily, no one was hurt. the storm setting off tornado warnings across louisiana and southern mississippi. >> i'm just praying and ask the lord to protect us. >> reporter: and all flights in and out of the new orleans airport, canceled. the powerful system strengthened by the warm waters of the gulf, hitting many communities still bearing the scars of past hurricanes. now a new recovery begins. we're here in jefferson parish this morning. and on that point, some folks here still dealing with the effects of hurricane ida from 2021. they're just beginning to get their insurance payouts. now they have to deal with all this flooding damage and structural damage as well, just in this area about 100 homes took on water. now, there's also -- they're also dealing with power outages this morning. hundreds of thousands without power and, hoda, you know well, to not have power, not have ac in new orleans in the summer can be completely un