hopes on former president obama. bill: he was stumping wasn t he? georgia, michigan, wisconsin. a desperate attempt to drum up enthusiasm. democrats bracing for what could be a bad night. watch. i understand why you might sometimes just want to tune out. just watch football. but i m here to tell you that tuning out, milwaukee, is not an option. you have a choice between folks who will say anything and do anything to get power, and leaders who share our values. dana: underscoring democrats concerns the fact that new york is now seen as a battleground state. lee zeldin has a real chance to become the state s first republican governor in two decades bringing in heavy weight surrogates to help him over the finish line. the other thing he will do and what new york really needs to do, you need to stop codling criminals. stop turning them loose on the street. if you do crime, you must do the time. we want a government that isn t passing pro-criminal laws. we want district
the men on the scene who jumped in to help the congressmen. are going to be talking to him this morning about everything that went down. carley: another eyewitness that has all the breaking details. ashley, good morning. new york republican gubernatorial candidate and current congressman lee zeldin did in fact have a campaign stop last night. you can see the man job on stage while zeldin was speaking, police say he approaches, swinging a sharp weapon toward zeldin s neck. that terrifying moment was caught on camera. watch. there is is only one option. the county sheriff s office as the suspect is in custody. the 42-year-old is charged with attempted assault on the second degree. zeldin said he was able to grab the man s rest and hold them off until others could jump in and tackle him. felt grateful for the attorneys are stepped up quickly to assess, the law enforcement officers are quickly responded. to do my part to make a cliff again. the suspect will likely be righ
fist and yelling coming you re done. and one of the men on the scene in a help the congressman and here to tell us what happened at. carley: we begin with ashley strohmier with the breaking details, ashley, good morning. the gubernatorial candidate and congressman lee zeldin getting attacked at a campaign stop last night. now, you can see a man jump on stage while lee zeldin was speaking. the police say he approaches and start swinging his sharp weapon towards his neck. that terrifying moment was caught on camera, watch. there is only one option. you re done. speak with the monroe county sheriff s offer say the suspect man was taken into custody and charged with attempted assault. zeldin was able to grab the man and hold him off until others can jump in and tackle him, the attendees who stepped up to quickly assist and the law enforcement officers who quickly responded. as resolute as ever to do my part to make new york safe again. the suspect will likely bit back
around the clock to find families who still may be trapped, some residents losing everything. animals are without people. homes are destroyed. we need as much help, please, i m begging anyone who sees this, help my town, help my people. cnn s joe johns is live for us in hazard, kentucky. and the debris field is tremendous, joe, and we heard the governor there say they continue to look for people because so many remain unaccounted for. what are you finding? reporter: that s right, and they say it s possible this could go on for weeks, not days. so they say a picture is worth a thousand words, fred. and i just wanted to show you where we are. we are in hazard, kentucky. you look behind me here, there s the foundation of a house. believe it or not, before the flood there was a house there, a woman inside told us she started feeling the house moving around 1:00, 2:00 in the morning. she gets out, and then the rushing water essentially d demolishes the house and sends the de