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Struggling with helenes catastrophic aftermath, much of the areas famed Scenic Lands its gate completely unrecognizable. Look at these visuals. It just tells you everything you need to know about the devastation and the damage from helene in Buncombe County where asheville is at least 35 stormrelated deaths are reported with more than 600 people unaccounted for officials warn the Death Toll could go much higher. And these exclusive pictures just in to cnn showed the extent of the destruction sho...

300,000 additional troops will be called up to fight. this comes as russia has suffered ahumiliating losses to ukraine with troops retreating from territory. putin used his most direct language to date regarding the possible use of nuclear weapons. >> translator: this is not a bluff. the citizens of russia can be sure that the territorial integrity of our homeland, our independence and freedom will be ensured. those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the prev...

the wo woods just yet. ten storm-related deaths after facing an overnight hammering across the peninsula. residents describing what it was like to ride out one of the worst storms to ever hit the u.s. >> i feared for my life. i went across the street, i got sticks and it didnt last enough for the big bad wolf that puffed away. >> i was just scared for my children. >> trace: rescue and recovery efforts underway in numerous cities that have seen historic flooding, fallen trees, downed po...

Ron desantis a bipartisan effort to save families in florida putting politics aside and making sure that they get the fema funding that they need and they had a very pleasant call. ron desantis who calls himself brandon and if youre political opponent had to admit that biden was leading on these issues as did rick scott whose fema chief was extremely competent and wonderfully effective as they had the really important calls. >> trace: you make a very good point that theres cooperation as far as ...

Power or water restored any time soon. the national guard showed us how mudslides have limited access in those areas. theyre trying to clear those out to get in any sort of relief supplies that they can get to those who still dont have power and water. >> very rough, very difficult. we have some road that got block. the part of the road in the beginning when you coming up collapse. so now we have only little pass to come up and to come down. power, we know that, you know, were going to face that...

You can see from far, far away the utter devastation and damage. coast guard search and rescue are still under way. here in mexico beach theyre still going door to door. i saw a man with a canine earlier walking through with rubble. we drove through panama city beach on into mexico beach, saw convoy after convoy of trucks trying to restore electricity where they can. the fema chief, brock long, said so many areas are still unsafe and he will travel here to florida tomorrow. those who did survive...

Dont want your property value going down, you dont want your community to suffer as a whole because people cant get back in. and the economy suffers. >> youre absolutely right. were seeing the same thing right now in the keys. we had a lot of homes damaged, and people did not have insurance. and theres a lot of debris there, the homes are half destroyed, and they just simply dont have the funds to rebuild it. and it makes the whole community look bad. we ran into it in new orleans. luckily, we h...

Because this was a despicable act of neglect on the part of his administration. >> reporter: all this as democratic senator, jeff merkley, saying nearly $10 million in fema funding was given to immigration and customs enforcement in june, to spend on detaining or deporting undocumented immigrants. >> im simply saying, well have $10 million less than it would have. and $10 million is significant. it just goes to the judgment of the administration at the very time hurricane season is starting. >> ...

Chief, his fema official, top official on in a little while. what do you need from the federal government right now? >> i talked to the president. he promised to help. he said that the federal government would be there for north carolina. and we are certainly going to depend on that. i also talked to the fema administrator, brock long. were pretty much in constant contact with him and other fema officials who are embedded with us in north carolina. i visited fort bragg yesterday which is one of ...

Preparations, we bring in former fema chief, he served in the president george w. bush administration right after hurricane katrina and also, you were at miami-dade fire chief during hurricane andrew, a lot of experience dealing with this. wonderful to see you today, wish it were under different circumstances but great to be able to lean on your perspective. things learned and things that are different, what do you say? >> one thing i do say, particularly from katrina is the governor is, all fou...