Right here, its apocalyptic. I mean looking at that and were going to hear, i know you had on your show people on the ground there my show also going to talk to some of the residents who are climbing out of this with kids, trying to juggle that with schools being closed, figuring out a place to live, where to get water, food. It is an ongoing crisis for these people, and were going to continue to shine a spotlight jim, thanks so much. Ill take it from here you bet. And good morning, everyone. You are live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Pamela Brown in washington, and we begin this hour with exclusive new video Into Cnn that will give you more perspective on the scope and the scale of the catastrophe in the southeast and what people are dealing with right now in this very moment. You are looking at the wounds of asheville, North Carolina one of the cities that Helene Hit the hardest. Take a look here. This is the river arts district, just more than a week ago. It was a vibrant, beautiful area
Outfront starts right now outfront next, the breaking news, two new polls with good news for kamala harris as trump tries to convince it s america that he won the debate. Those are his words, is his inner circle that we find that plus setting the record straight, the city of springfield, ohio with a message tonight for trump after he claimed migrants were eating cats and dogs. A top official for springfield will be outfront and more breaking news tonight, rapidly intensifying intensifying hurricane with winds over 100 miles an hour, making landfall near new orleans. Intensity of the storm ticking everyone by surprise, very sudden intensification. We re going to take you there live. Let s go outfront and good evening. I m erin burnett, outfront tonight. The breaking news, two new polls showing harris momentum. Let s look at virginia this is a wide lead. Now that the vice president has in the polling ten point lead two months ago, this very same poll that you re looking at with harris su
For next weeks debate, his super pac has advised him to take a hammer to Vivek Ramaswamy but defend trump if trump is attacked by chris christie. Here was some reaction after Fulton County d. A. Fani willis indicted trump and 18 codefendants for state rico violations. South carolina senator tim scott said this. We see the legal system being weaponized against political opponents. That is unamerican and unacceptable. Vivek ramaswamy said that should he become president , he would pardon trump. The reality is this, these are politicized persecutions through prosecution. Trumps former Vice President mike pence, who has criticized trump for putting himself above the constitution, says he prefers that trumps fate be decided, quote, by voters, not criminal courts. Ron desantis said i think its an example of the criminalization of politics. I dont think this is good for the country. Even chris christie, who has been consistently critical of trumps underlying conduct told cnn, he thought that
He faces legal peril from prosecutors, the stronger his standing among republicans, which is no doubt why his gop rivals largely avoid confronting him for the 91 Felony Counts he faces. Its why in Ron Desantiss prep for next weeks debate, his super pac has advised him to take a hammer to Vivek Ramaswamy but defend trump if trump is attacked by chris christie. Here was some reaction after Fulton County d. A. Fani willis indicted trump and 18 codefendants for state rico violations. South carolina senator tim scott said this. We see the legal system being weaponized against political opponents. That is unamerican and unacceptable. Vivek ramaswamy said that should he become president , he would pardon trump. And he said this. The reality is this, these are politicized persecutions through prosecution. Trumps former Vice President mike pence, who has criticized trump for putting himself above the constitution, says he prefers that trumps fate be decided, quote, by voters, not criminal court
thank you. by the time donald trump took the witness stand today in the case of e. jean carroll versus donald trump, the questions his lawyer would be allowed to ask and we re already working out in detail and discussions with the judge and lawyers on both sides of the case while the jury was out of the courtroom. judge lewis kaplan instructed donald trump s defense lawyers once again that donald trump would not be allowed in his testimony to contest the fact that he raped e. jean carroll in a department store in manhattan. judge kaplan told the lawyers the jury in the previous age internal lawsuit and the same courtroom found that donald trump did in fact sexually assault e. jean carroll. and that was not an issue before this jury. whose duty is solely to decide how much and money damages donald trump should pay e. jean carroll. judge kaplan told the trump lawyers the jury should be instructed that regardless of what he says in court here today, he did it, as far as they are