Tonight on 360 vice president harris at the border, her effort to get voters to believe were the numbers already show the progress is being made even as her opponent says otherwise the polling rewards him. All sorts of night with 45 killed and counting what hurricane helene did as it roared its way north. And with the rain at pax is still doing to parts of north carolina and tennessee. And a new series of israeli airstrikes on hezbollah targets in beirut, just hours after a major airstrike targeted hezbollah's leader, hassan nasrallah good evening. A lot to get to tonight that we are expecting to hear from vice president harris. Any moment will bring that to you live the city of asheville, north carolina was already flooded from days of heavy rain when hurricane helene dumped even more of it overnight. Tonight, one person there described the situation is complete pandamonium, a citywide curfew is now in effect until seventh 30 tomorrow morning. The same could be said in irwin, tennessee or dozens of people were pulled from the hospital rooftop driven there by rising waters or cedar key north of st. Petersburg, where the storm picked entire houses off their foundations and blew them away. According to michael bobbitt who lives there and spoke to us is just as it was getting bad last night. Cedar key is we know it as completely gone. He now says michael bobbitt joins us shortly as well. We'll have ch all aspects of the storm, especially in places where the danger is still real and the staying safe is still the immediate concern joining us right now as we wait for vice president harris, cnn, political commentators van jones and scott jennings, also journalist gretchen carlson, cofounder founder of lift our voices. Then this is obviously a big deal for vice president harris there has been obviously a lot of focus on her position on the border. Prison. Biden's position on the border, the the deal that donald trump killed the bipartisan deal that the heat he helped kill on the border. What are you expecting to hear from harris tonight well, she's got something to say. She's going to a border that the biden administration has secured. It took a while and they took a lot of beaten. But they got it done and so she can say we got it done donald trump stood in the way and i think republicans should be very happy now, i bet scott jennings is going to give her a lot of crash night because he wanted something done on the border. She got something done on the border. She wanted him to separate from biden. She separated from biden so i expect republicans to give her a lot of love today. Scott jennings, are you going to give her a lot of love today i love brother van as he knows, i can i let i mean that i love like your brother, but no, there'll be there'll be no love for me. Are republicans for kamala harris today. In fact, i think the trump campaign line today ought to be arsonist returns to scene of crime. I mean, look at the last 3. 5 years we've got the border is effectively been opened. People flowing across ice. Ice today released information that there are 13,000 noncitizens convicted of homicide and almost 16,000 noncitizens convicted of some kind of sexual crime who were in the country. Right now, only because we're in the shadow of an election is commonly harris trying to rush and pay some lip service to this issue as a tactical matter anderson, i don't think harris should be trying to elevate this issue because this is the best ground from which donald trump has to fight. So no, i think the harris campaign is making a tactical mistake and i think they have very little to say that the american people are going to buy on this today richard, it's interesting point that gretchen, it's an interesting point that scott made that this is a gamble for the harris campaign obviously, donald trump has a lead when it comes to the issue of immigration among likely voters she's certainly hoping to chip away at that lead, but to scott's point, her going to the border does raise questions about her role as she wasn't the borders are as republicans are trying to paint her, but as dealing with central america during the biden administration and the and what the biden ministration data or did not do over the last four years in the border yeah. This is going to be her first trip in three years. Look, i've been saying from the beginning that she needed to step aside from some of biden's policies. But on this one i think she has to stick right with it with his executive order when he issued no more asylum for people who are coming across the border and apparently tonight she's going to be even tougher on that. But as you state, this is a bit of a conundrum for her or a big conundrum because i think she absolutely had to go because donald trump is leading in the polls on immigration. But at the same time, it could biter because voters are going to be reminded that she may hasn't paid as much attention to this issue as she should have. So she needs to talk about the fact that border crossings are down. She also needs to talk about the fact that trump trump could have had a huge victory with this. He had a bipartisan bill sitting in front of him earlier this summer. And because that would have looked like a victory for the democrats, he convinced the republicans in congress to not vote for this. She needs to talk about that a lot. But look, voters have a choice between a tougher kamala harris now on immigration and a trump who's always been tough, but who is actually going to deport legal immigrants, possibly what about that? i mean, it don't trump has talked about mass deportations at the republican national convention. There are people, a lot of people holding up printed signs saying you know, mass deportations do, do you think that is feasible? do these realistic? i don't know. Donald trump is just terrible. He says terrible stuff. He has terrible ideas that the reality is, he is if there's a border crisis now it's donald trump's fault because it could have been fixed in a bipartisan way and bound trump through banana peels on the sidewalk marbles on the stairs, and made sure america couldn't respond and it was a biden/harris regime that stepped up board and we're going to get something done about it. And now you have lower border crossings, then you had under donald trump. And so she should be happy. She's ever shoulders back she got it done. Donald trump tried to trip america down the stairs to make sure we couldn't fix a problem. They got it done. Anyway and should be proud of it now, that's that's just the benefit of our saying that it is it's actually the truth. It's a truth, but it's not this crazy stuff. And donald trump but then at the end of the debate between donald trump's sort of finally got around to align which was probably workshop ahead of time and he just neglected to actually get to it until the end of the bait, which was, you know, what, why didn't you do it you know, what, even over the last three years on the border are essentially that he loves that's the push bathroom. There. It took us it took them too long. It took them too long. They didn't take it seriously enough. That is true. But then when they tried to get everybody together to fix it, donald trump wouldn't let them and they got it done anyway, all that's trope and she's just one i understand. It gets worse than that. It's not that it took them too long. It's that they actively work to undo everything donald trump had done during his time in office on the first day, they rescinded all of donald trump's border executive orders. The floodgates opened. All these people come rushing across. Then it becomes a political problem. Now he ended the election. They want to blame it on donald trump for her entire career. She has wanted a more permissive immigration structure when she ran for president before she wanted to decriminalize border crossings in her heart and her heart of hearts. She wants a more liberal, permissive immigration structure. And in his heart of hearts, donald trump wants to crack down on the border that's why when you look at the cnn polling this week trump is far more trusted on immigration and harris, that is not going to change, but because of this visit today or anything she says today, the die is cast on this issue. If i were her, i'd want to bury this issue, not make it more prominent, but hey, if she wants to have border events, i think republicans will rejoice because it'll increase the prominence of this issue for the the last month of the campaign gretchen do you think it is that kind drive know? i do not vice president harris is coming out let's let's let's listen we're extraordinary courage, please believe have a seat, everyone. Thank you. It's good to be back in arizona thank you so very much you. Thank you thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you so very much i just wanted for a moment speak about teresa we we had some time together backstage and you know, i think that in moments of crisis such as the fentanyl crisis there are people who through their suffering and their pain rise with, courage in such a selfless way to be a voice for others with the anticipation and the hope and the hard work of hoping that their story will be the reason other people don't have that story and you sharing your story about jacob and your advocacy on why we have to stop this scourge is so incredibly important. And again, i applaud to recent, i know we all do stop this issue as one of the reason that we're all here together today. I also want to thank the extraordinary elected officials who are here senator mark kelly extraordinary life, gabby giffords traveled with me from washington dc to be here and senator kelly has been talking with me for quite some time about the importance of this visit. And so i thank you in front of all of our friends for your work that feed will try to get that back to the panel, i think is still with us obviously, gretchen, one of the things that that this administration is trying to the harris campaign is trying to do is chip into the lead that former president trump has on this issue. Scott was saying he doesn't think that's possible. Do you think it is? yeah. I mean, if you look at the polls about where trump was against biden on this, he was up 22 points on immigration. He's now up six to eight to ten depending on what poll you look at. So she's already had a massive victory in direction that started searching and i see she's let me go back to the vice president and i harris want to say a few words about hurricane helene i spoke this morning with our fema administrator criswell, and president biden and i of course, will continue to monitor the situation closely we have mobilized more than 1,500 federal personnel just support those communities that have been impacted. We have food, water in generators that are ready for deployment and are working to restore power for millions of people who currently are experiencing outages and i just want to stress and for the press that is here to those who are watching the storm continues to be dangerous and deadly. And lives have been lost. And the risk of flooding still remains high. So i continue to urge everyone to please continue to follow guidance from your local officials until we get past this moment. So thank you all. And now, i'll speak about in particular the people who are here today and why we are gathered here together today. So arizona, i think you all know and this is why you are here. There are consequential issues at stake in this election and what is the security of our border? the united states is a sovereign nation and i believe we have a duty to set rules at our border and to enforce them and i take that responsibility very seriously we are also a nation of immigrants the united states has been enriched by generations of people who have come from every corner of the world to contribute to our country and to become part of the american story so we must reform our immigration system to ensure that it works in an orderly way. That it is humane, and that it makes our country stronger visiting the border in the port of entry in douglas. I spoke with dedicated agents from border patrol and customs officers who every day see the overflow of commercial traffic through the port. These men and women who work there and at other places along our southern border help keep our nation secure. And they need more resources to do their jobs which is why we have and are in the process of investing half $1 to modernize an expand the port of entry here in douglas and why last december, i helped raise the rate of overtime pay for border agents and also why a strongly supported the comprehensive border security bill written last year, written last year's, you know, by a bipartisan group of senators, including one of the most conservative members of the united states congress. That bill would. Have hired 1,500 more border agents and officers. It would have paid for 100 inspection machines to detect fentanyl that is killing tens of thousands of americans every year it would have allowed us to more quickly and effectively remove those who come here illegally and it would have increased the number of immigration judges and asylum officers it was the strongest border security bill we have seen in decades it was endorsed by the border patrol union and it should be in effect today producing results in real time right now for our country it he picked up the phone and call some friends in congress and said stop the bill because you see he prefers to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem and the american people deserve a president who cares more about border security than playing political games and their personal political future and so even though donald trump tried to sabotage the border security bill, it is my pledge to you that is president of the united states. I will bring it back up and proudly sign it into law issue of border security is not a new issue to me. I was attorney general of a border state for two terms i saw the violence and chaos that transnational criminal organizations cause, and the heartbreak and loss from the spread of their illicit drugs i walked through tunnels that traffickers used to smuggle contraband into the united states. I've seen tunnels with walz as smooth as the walls of your living room? complete with lighting and air conditioning, making very clear that it is about an enterprise that is making a whole lot of money in the trafficking of guns, drugs, and human beings and my knowledge on how they work comes from the fact that i have prosecuted tr