Seat and julie roginsky. Thank you, both. A new hour of cnn, new central starts right now. All right. Breaking overnight, getting ward, the biden administration he is preparing for a possible iranian attack. Historic devastation. We just got a brand new Death Toll from Hurricane Helene now, One Hundred And Two people killed that number does appear to be rising. We are getting our first look at some of the areas hardest hit and brand new details on how the Vice President ial candidates are preparing for Tomorrow Nights debate. Im John Berman with Sara Sidner and kate baldwin. This is cnn new central Destruction And Devastation than people really are having a hard time putting words to this morning when you just take a look at these images from florida to Virginia Power systems, crippled roadways washed out, cell service, wiped out food, water, and fuel. Now, becoming hard to come by. Hurricane helene is left so much damage in its wake. And as janja said, just moments ago, we have a new Death Toll number the Death Toll is rising at least 102 people have been killed from this storm, hundreds of people are still unaccounted for the latest check. This the latest check, and then some of the other numbers this morning, nearly 2 Million customers do not have power, Utility Crews are working on it. But if you just take a look at the damage sustained, just look look at that in one part in North Carolina, the Roadways Impassable Debris left behind. Its clear that they have huge challenges ahead, ahead of them to restore power in North Carolina, the last numbers what we had in North Carolina where at least 36 people were killed and there have been more than 1,000 reports of people missing we had the governor of North Carolina on with us just last hour tremendous effort in the short run. But looking at it, at the long run with hundreds of roads that are destroyed communities that were wiped off the map we have to make sure that we get in there are smart about rebuilding doing it in a more resilient way but right now were concentrating on saving lives and getting supplies to people who desperately, desperately need them and this is days in Cnns Rafael Romo joins us now from asheville, North Carolina, one of the places hardest hit rafael, what are you hearing from residents and its are desperate here because its been three days since the Storm Hit this area. And let me describe to you where we are this behind me is a billboard, avenues, one of the hardest Hit Areas here in asheville, North Carolina. You can see behind me that wendys is surrounded by mud, then on the other side of this, theres a long John Silvers that is surrounded by debris and then you find mud everywhere. No matter where you look, its muddy and it also things that have, been carried away by the floodwaters like this Barrel Container that ended up here in the middle of this Gas Station where we are, which of course is not operational and that goes for not only this Gas Station, but does this and dozens in this part of the country. And one of the things that i was noticing kate is that, for example, this screen here at the gas pump. It has sand inside this green which tells you that at one point the Water Level was at least this high. Now, we have been talking to people here who tell us that they have no water, they have no Power Mobile services nonexistent. The same goes for internet, than theyre getting desperate because they are unable to talk to the Loved Ones to let them know that theyre okay. We also heard from people just north of here in Madison County in the mountain areas. And they described to us what it was like to go through this very powerful storm lets take a listen edges, happens watch the water come, push through these walls take out buildings, and move them entire areas over. There, takes my breath away you know, its its been here for so long. The Face Pause springs is never going to be the same again but that doesnt mean that hotsprings will not be the same our community will be the same. Weve come together, and this is going to make a stronger as many bad things is that i have seen ive seen a lot of good things in recent days with people helping people Strangers Hug Strangers Relief is coming for sure to North Carolina, probably not as fast as people would like kate, but the reality is that the state officials are saying that there are as many as 19 Outofstate Search and Rescue Rescue teams. There are three more from the federal government at the North Carolina national guard rescued 100 people, hundreds more by all those teams that i mentioned before. But the reality is that still hundreds of thousands of customers without power at this point, theres a little bit of good news here. We were talking about about 400 roads that were impassible on saturday. The figure last night was 280, so slowly, but surely things are getting better here. Now back to you. Okay. Rafael, thank you. Unfortunately, the governor of North Carolina said that number of impassable roads has now ticked back up and he said that hes going to be heading in with the Fema Director Today to see the damage himself, john, what a challenge there. All right. New this morning, the clearest signs, yet that a Ground Incursion into lebanon may be imminent after new airstrikes on beirut, a major intersection in beirut including a residential highrise, were hit cnn international diplomatic editor Nic Robertson is in tel aviv. The question i think everyone wants to know, nic. Will israel move in on the ground troops who are on the border right now want to know that as well, john and the Defense Minister yoav galant, was up there at the border speaking to them to golani brigade. This is one of the most battle experienced Battleready Infantry units. That the, that the israeli military have. They also have the elite paratroopers from the 98th Division there along the border, the scene is set and the message from the Defense Minister today appears to be very clear. He said, look, killing Hassan Nasrallah was a very important first step but this is a message to our enemies. We are, we have many capabilities. We are going to use. All our capabilities and he was saying that to these elite troops, right at the border, that and he said, when i say all our capabilities i mean, you thats what he was telling the troops. Weve seen over the past few days, tanks, Armored Personnel Carriers in video, thats been released by the idf. So the signs and signals are there for israels enemies to see. But the messaging for the troops coming from the minister himself. That is also there so this is a very strong and clear signal out, and we also know that of course there have been a reservist groups called up as well over recent days, john nic, you mentioned all capabilities also, perhaps all enemies you were on an Idf Carrier that was part of the mission. Recent Airstrike Against Yemen The Second Longest and Combat Mission that the israeli Air Force has ever undertaken. The last one was back in 1985. I was aboard a Boeing 707 which was fitted out as a Fuel Carrier that was dispensing fuel to F35 Fighter jets and thats what i was seeing as we flew down the Red Sea to the yemeni Port City of hudaydah, which is houthi controlled. And theyre f 35s, took part in strikes against its a Power Station against against the fuel depot. There and the message i was told this is to the houthis who had only the day before fired another ballistic missile into the heart of israel. Indeed, they said they were firing it at the airport, the Main International Airport here, whether Prime Minister was on the tarmac coming back for new york. This was very strong message for the houthis. Cease and desist, and a message for the iranians to, and that message echoes what the Prime Minister has been saying. He said at the unga israel has a long reach and it can reach out and get its enemies a message to iran to stay out of a fight thats going on in lebanon right now. A flurry of new developments there, Nic Robertson in tel aviv. Nic, thank you very much, sara. All alright. And joining us now, a retired major, lyons, my clients and were going to have Barak Ravid as well, political and foreign Policy Reporter for axios. Im going to start with you meter. When you look at this, i want to go to the beirut damage because weve heard nasrallah has been taken out. They are going to now name a new leader. But there are all these other top leaders of hezbollah who had been taken out with the pagers and with strikes. And how damaged is is hezbollah at this point, how much trouble are they in a very significant surge . Look at this damage here. I mean, this casualties must be off the charts when you think about the level of attacks here, bunker busters, not only did they get the leadership, they got the lieutenants, the second and third Team Level members. So its significant, theres no question about it. And then also the communications with pagers and walkietalkies takes out another whole layer, so theyve been seriously decimated at this point. Now again, they still have capability and lets hope, you know, israel is not going to take Advantage Vomit from overreaching perspective, thinking that this is now over at anytime soon, hezbollah still has tremendous Capability Right . Barak ravid, im Gonna Go back up but to the, this map where we are now hearing and seeing that israeli troops are amassing on the border. What are the chances you think that they will actually go in to lebanon . I think the chances are very high here from israeli officials that it could be a matter of days these rallies already have enough forces on the border to at least start a Ground Invasion that will be focused on whats called the first the line of villages on the lebanese side of the border where the israeli military believes there are quite significant hezbollah military infrastructure, either outpost, Tunnels Missile Launch positions and the idea is to go to this first line of villages to quote unquote, like from what israeli officials say, quoteunquote clean it up and then either go back or stay there some sort of security zone, at least temporarily all right leisure. Im just curious how much further when you look at sort of the region, how much further can israel go without iran deciding to engage itself directly . Well, iran doesnt really have many allies now that can help them at this point, i dont think from a military perspective, which is what israels designed to do, is take out hamas, take out hezbollah. They fired that the mnes further the houthis down there. Weve seen those rockets there. So iran is really out of, you know, kind of Magic Wands when it comes to having allies in the region. So the next the expansion of the conflict is israel attacks iran or its ron attacks in israel. I think that if a Ron Good because israel, a reason to do that, the first target is all the nuclear capability that the iranians have. Thats what this i think is really about israels, youre looking over the horizon saying we have to take out that nuclear capability that the iranians have. The iranians have for the last 30 years assembled these proxy forces around israel to be kind of a Ring Of Fire to keep israel on there toes and keep them always on the defensive. But right now, israel said this is the time for war and regional war means israel going after. Those nuclear facilities so youve got the houthis, youve got Hasb Lie Youve got hamas. And then youve got way over here, iran and youre seeing the strikes in strategic places and theres an expectation you just heard from braugher v. That maybe there is going to be a Ground War. If there is a Ground War what about a regional conflagration . It already seems like were headed that way but a Ground War is smaller incursion. I dont think it goes into beirut. I dont think it goes and things can go that far. No, i think israel well, again, its going to play this smartly, get into what ill Call Tube Artillery range 20 to 25 kilometers north of that border there to try to move back the civilians. So the northern region, if you look at that a map the missile range. When you look at the ranges of these rockets here any of these rockets and these missiles down here, are strategic these, these Iron Dome is taking out these kind of rockets here, but its this year the katyushas and the philoctetes. These are the ones that really threatened those areas in the north here. So that i think is what israels focus is going to be now, hezbollah still has this capability to overwhelm Iron Dome is real, can still take casualties, significant casualties here, lets hope theyre not overreaching. You also have davids sling that also tries to get because they only taken one of the longrange rockets from lebanon to you, barack when it comes to the capabilities of israel what is going to make it to that theyre overstretched or are you concerned that they have that . The troop numbers to be able to do, for example, a Ground Invasion as well most of the forces that were in gaza over the last 11 months of moved to the north right now, israel has in Gaza Something like two brigades . Very low numbers of troops, all of them, all the others mostly moved to the northern arena, either the border with lebanon also the border with syria but the problem is not whether the Spread Problem is that once he go in, you can never really say, okay, were stopping here in 1982 when israel went into lebanon firstly, well supposed to go up to the litani river, which is something like ten kilometers from the border. Then it turned into 40 kilometers from the border. Eventually they reached bail the Root And Israel stayed in lebanese territory for almost 20 years with a hundreds of israeli soldiers killed in the insurgency that took place. There and the power that did this insurgency was hezbollah so we can all already learn from history that once they go in you have a real danger of staying there for a long, long time, all right. Another 2006 war lasted i think something like 34 days or something like that. Major my clients. Thank you so much as to you, but ravid for that great analysis. Thats appreciate you both. Kate the pentagon is making new moves to prepare for any possible retaliation from iran, from all of this, what that now means for us troops in the region. And Vice President ial candidates have one more day to prep two day. That is before they face off on the Debate Stage Tomorrow for what could be the final debate of being the entire Election Cycle with power out and Food And Water systems just devastated now for days already in all of the states hit by Hurricane Helene the new concern is illness. 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