paula newton is on the ground. mean, you just don't hear tornado and new jersey. >> no and, chris, you know what they said here, this is not oklahoma. this is not tornado alley. this is new jersey. and they are absolutely staggered by what happened here a little bit more than 24 hours ago. chris, you and i can picture this, right? you are at home. you have either finished your meal. you are about to have your meal. people like the thomases, their home behind me, destroyed. they said they had about three minutes to get into the basement. mom is pregnant. two little ones in the basement. when they were in the basement, the debris from their home was still raining down on them in the basement. we -- you had said earlier, the governor of new jersey saying, look, 23 tragic deaths. most of them, people trapped in their vehicles. people here know that if it wasn't for those three minutes of warning that they got from the time they saw it on their cell phone to the time they got in the basement, they would not be as fortun

then in new jersey where paula newton is in mullica hill, new jersey, they saw powerful tornados thattroyed all of these homes. paula. >> reporter: yeah, i mean, alisyn, victor, look at the mess behind us right here. the thing that is so stunning, look at this destruction, and yet i can tell you not far from here, in fact just a few feet, other homes were untouched. the ferocity of the winds coming through there all too punishing and very little warning. now, you know, county officials here telling us that as of right now they're not aware of any serious injuries or any deaths, and that right now -- you've got to call it a miracle. the last time i have seen anything like this was in hurricane dorian in the bahamas. look, these homes have been absolutely shredded. here residents have already started the cleanup, but it is unbelievable the destruction. next-door neighbors, one home almost destroyed, right next door absolutely pristine and still in good shape. they are in absolute shock here, i can tell you. again, as you guys were saying, this is in the southern part of the state. if yo

paula newton has more on the reaction in ottawa. paula. >> reporter: the sheer speed and choreography of everything that unfolded caught many by surprise. and yet there are relief. not just the families of michael salvor and michael korviq, and the deal by which she would return to china, even though under the retention rule in china. she had ankle bracelets. she was living in a multimillion-dollar mansion that she was able to be released and go back to china. but that the two michaels, would be left in china at harsh conditions that has included solitary and intense negotiations, with that in mind, the prime minister trudeau make an announcement. i want you to listen now. >> these two men have been through an believable difficult situation but it is inspiring that they're on their way home to their two families. >> the two michaels will arrive saturday and no doubt there will be time to parse what happened here. china denied this had anything to do with hostage diplomacy, it was not retaliation, yet, how could anybody think anything

paula newton, cnn, ottawa. >> now, meng wanzhou is expected to be back on chinese soil in the comingours. will ripley is joining me from taipei. it really is hard to argue now as china has done that these two cases are unrelated. how is this going to be received in china? >> reporter: i'll tell you two words that you will not be hearing in china on their state media or their social media are the words "hostage diplomacy." there was some sort of a hashtag like that to pop up, it would be quickly scrubbed away by the army of online censors and trolls that are always making sure that everything is squeaky clean on the chinese mainland internet. they're reporting that meng wanzhou did not have to plead guilty. they're not mentioning she didn't dispute facts, but she did plead not guilty. this deferred prosecution deal means she was free to go home, free to get on a jet to leave her multi-million dollar mansion in vancouver where she's been under house arrest for nearly three years under conditions that arguably are going to be looser than the conditions that she'll be facing when she arr

we saturday with paula newton in montreal. what's the latest there?n trudeau called this, as you said, two years early, in the middle of a pandemic. some called it smart. others called it completely cynical. he looked at the poll numbers and said this is my chance, i can get more seats in parliament, be able to govern the way i want. let me say, this is lightning speed here. only five weeks. imagine getting an election done in five weeks. in the beginning, his polls were down. that's what really crushed him at this point with voters saying, look, why are we even having this election, considering we have a fourth wave that is crushing. the other is his rival, aaron o'toole. a former military captain, air navigator, corporate lawyer. here's what he did, john, he moved to the center. he is unapologetically pro-choice, has a climate plan. for a few weeks, canadians propelled his popularity to new levels. but right now, as this race has again focused squarely on the pandemic, the fact that that conservative party and aaron o'toole says, look, we are not fo

paula newton, cnn, new jersey. >>> for more on ida's path of destruction, derek van dam is joining me now. i watched as you were on location for cnn as you were battered by ida down south, but we had no idea that it would week such destruction up north. >> yeah, the effects are just so long standing going from the gulf all the way to new england. this of course is the remnants of tornadoes that just really put their mark on new jersey. there were eight confirmed tornadoes that took place and this was all associated with the remnants of ida which as kim just said i was riding out in southern louisiana. so couldn't even catch up to the storm. it wasn't just the tornadoes that were the problem, the storm surge and the south coast and into the gulf coast i should say, but also the extreme amounts of rain that took place across new england and some of the major metropolitan areas. we had over 20 daily record rainfall totals just on september 1 alone. so we havare seeing the climate crisis seeing it unfold. heatwave last month and now the remnants of ida and of course the 00 ongoing drought

cnn's paula newton reports. >> reporter: in the last lingering days of summer, a snap election seemed canadians. it's the middle of a pandemic, not even two years since the last one, and it was tough to dodge, especially this campaign. it was ugly. this, the token moment. protesters, many of them opposing vaccines, threw gravel at justin trudeau and stalked his campaign. his rivals have hit him rhetorically, calling him selfish for calling the snap election in mid-august, trying to capitalize on good poll numbers to secure a majority in parliament. at first, those favorable polls collapsed for trudeau. for a few weeks, he even trailed the main rival, conservative party leader erin o'toole, who accused him of attempting a power grab. >> we're actually in the middle of an unnecessary $600 million pandemic election called by mr. trudeau for no other reason than himself. >> this event will no longer be taking place here today. >> reporter: the angry, loud, anti-vaccine chants of canada's people's party energized the trudeau campaign and put the pandemic squarely in voters' sights. >> we'r

paula newton is covering this from montreal.he motive for this election. how so? >> well, you know, his argument, jake, was that, look, canada, voters need to weigh in. what do you want canada's comeback to look like post this pandemic? there were serious issues on the table. $10 a day day care. meeting and exceeding climate targets for canada. all that was there but so quickly as you said, voters saw through it and thought we're still in the middle of a pandemic. not only that, western provinces are having a hard time with the pandemic. still talking about having to bring in the military. all of it wore thin. and there certainly was an ugly underbelly to this election i haven't seen before. some of the protefsters were anti-vaxxers. it energized him through this. and all in all, voters said, what is this about? you were governing just fine in a minority parliament making coalitions with another left-wing party. so far so, good, right? and for that reason it will be interesting now to see if voters end up punishing him. i have t

cnn's paula newton is joining us in new jersey right now. she's just south of philadelphia. 25 homes, paula. is that right? >> absolutely, and the devastation here is not to be believed. you have to think in the state of huge, wolf, the devastation from one end of the state right to the other. we're a couple of hours drive from new york city and here it was the tornado, not so much the water. look at this home, wolf. i mean, this was a family home but not that -- built not that long ago but by the description of the thomas family who were in here. they had a few young minutes, two young girls, a pregnant mother had to flee to their basement them. said when they emerged they could actually continue to see debris falling into their basement. so many of these residents here, wolf, completely terrified. i want you to listen to mike castle. again, just making dinner. he was in the shower and all of a sudden his wife got the alert on her phone. take a listen. >> i was up in the shower and we got the tornado alert warning, and my wife said you've got to get out right now. it wasn't

paula newton is on the ground. i mean, you just don't hear tornado and new jersey. >> reporter: no, and chris, you know what they said here. this is not oklahoma. this is not tornado alley. this is new jersey, and they are absolutely staggered by what happened here a little bit more than 24 hours ago. chris, you and i can picture this. you're at home you've either finished your meal or about to have your meal. the people like the thomas', their home behind me destroyed. when they were in the basement the debris from their home was still raining down on them in the basement. you had said earlier the governor of new jersey saying, look, 23 tragic deaths, most of them people trapped in their vehicles. people here know if it wasn't for those three minutes of warning they got from the time they saw it on the cellphone to the time they got in the basement they would not be as frpt today. today they are concerned thankfully about things that are stressful. these are their dream homes, their family homes, but they know how

. >> let's go to paula newton in new jersey, which had an entirely different extreme weather event. tornados. >> reporter: people here too running for their lives. take a look at the castle family home. this is a family dream house. they built it seven years ago. it's been turned into rubble. you' mike castle there with his work gloves on trying do clean up his home. he took his 3-year-old daughter brianna. they had just a few minutes to get to the basement. look what happened. those windows, completely blown out. this is new jersey. this is not oklahoma. they just were not expecting this. he said if it had not been for the urgency with which his wife was speaking, he may not have gotten out. minor injuries here and no deaths. they're thanking everyone for that here. this is a close knit community. they're doing their best to already clean up this morning and assess the damage. this is nothing they say they could have foreseen. to sit and think that you were running for your life inside of a span of about 3 minutes and if those homes didn't have fortified basements, they believe the

cnn's paula newton is in montreal for us. >> reporter: good morning, christine and laura, it is electionears before he had to call an election. he was looking at his polls and the handling in the pandemic and thought he could win through some more seats in parliament. for that reason, he called this election. it's gone on just over five weeks. it's already been too long for so many canadians. there's been an uncharacteristically ugly side to this election and that has included protesters that have dogged justin trudeau and the main issue there has been the antivaccine movement, the antivaccine mandate movement. that has angered so many people in canada. justin trudeau's main rival is a party leader. he's trying to seem a kinder, gentler person of the conservative party. he is firmly pro choice and has a plan for the environment. the polls are tight. at the same time, joind trudeau is still betting that he will be able to take control of the parliament. that could be something the biden administration watches very carefully. it will mean that if justin trudeau gets the majority he is look

paula newton is on the ground. she's joining me now. paula, how bad is the damage there? >> reporter: kate, as sobering as it is, and i want to show you the damage here, look at this. homes destroyed completely by a tornado. at least eight tornadoes touching down in the northeast. what's so miraculous is people know they're lucky despite the destruction. there have been no severe injuries, no death, but the voracity of the storms, you hardly had any time at all. they could see the funnel clouds through their windows as they got notice on their mobile phones to take shelter in their basements, and within a few minutes, it was all done. i want you to hear from mike ca cassel. they took their 3-year-old girl into the basement and that is what they're sure saved their lives. take a listen. >> it look as little more like oklahoma today, but it's south jersey, farm town. never would have thought. >> reporter: people keep saying three minutes. how desperate do you think it would have been had you not heeded the warning? >> i think it would have been dire for a lot of people. i m

paula newton is in mlica, new jersey. and te muntean is in philadelphia. miguellet me begin with you because at least 23 people, we're learning in nejeey, have now died from thastorm that passed through. fldwers are still ghear ere you. are they ever going recede? >> reporter: they are, and they are receding now. there's an alarm going off over here. actually look over this way. they're inging a truck in, probably to start moving out some of that debris as the wat the tide is going out here o the rareton river in new brunswick and the water is going with it. when we got here several hours ago, the water was up over ts wall i'm standing on now. it's recedrobably 10, maybe , 12 inches downhis wall. so by morning, most of this water, if not all of it, will be gone but there is going to be aot of debris left over, and that's why you have that vehicle there starting to move the debris f the roadway and try to start cleaning this out so they can get back to something approximating noal within a day or two. but, you know, crews are still out looking. emergency cr

paula newton has more from the canadian capital on what has become a source of national pride. >> onopen courts, cool canada is on fire. the newest unlikely heroes on the hard court are inspiring fans back home and beyond. >> i'm very proud of dan. >> first, to 19-year-old leyla fernandez, an unseeded finalist, virtually unknown, now im bedded in many hearts in her northern homeland. canadian prime minister tweeted, he caught some of the women's semifinal match before he took the stage in a national political debate. basketball hall of famer and fellow canadian steve nash cheered from her player's box and he praised, magic johnson called her captivating. >> she just turned 19 years old, a fresh face who is just able to pull out victories, not necessarily power, but with gile, with grains, with strategy and absolutely -- with brains, with strategy, and absolutely delightful to watch. >> there are more stunners from canada. yes, canada. 21-year-old felix auger-aliassime, gutsy, composed, making it all the way to the semis. he and fernandez are all canadian kids, both the children of im