Helene. Dozens of communities cut off from freshwater and much needed supplies are dwindling by them Minute Rescue teams now racing to get to those stranded residents. Plus a final day of prayer for what could be the last debate before Election Day new boarding on how senator j. D. Vance and governor Tim Walz are preparing specifically the lastminute jitters. Walz says he is feeling as the Trump Team tries to set expectations high for their Rival And Israel carrying out new raids in lebanon as we learn new details about the possibility of a Ground Offensive how hezbollah is responding after the assassination of their leader were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central across Pasta Southeast are grappling with Incomprehensible Storm Devastation after helene left a 500 mile wide Path Of Destruction from Florida To Virginia One of the hardest Hit Areas though, is western North Carolina. And some of the scenes there, frankly, theyre hard to process this used to be a lake in the Chimney Rock area. This right here now its just unrecognizable to littered with debris. And this is what it looks like in asheville where helene washed out roadways left residents cut off for much needed supplies there and millions are without Power And Cell service because the service there is crippled i saw this. I broke out in tears undescribable. I dont know. It just was covered in litter and trees and mud and its stinky and it was all the way up The Street appear it just looks like the bottom of a River It was crazy. The water came all the way up to the top of our driveway and usually, you might see a little bit of flooding down at the bottom of The Street, but it came up i mean, another 15 feet more than that at least 115 people have died. That is across six states. Officials are fearing though that that number is going to go up because there are many more people who are still missing at this Point President biden spoke a short time ago about his Administrations Response Effort were not leaving until the job is done. All smart, you know, im committed to traveling in the impacted areas as soon as possible well, ive been told that disruptive. I did it right now. We will not do that at the risk of diverting or delaying any Response Assets needed to deal with this crisis for more on whats happening on the ground in North Carolina, were joined now by moss brennan. He is an editor for North Carolinas Watauga Democrat Newspaper and also an emt for the Watauga County Rescue Squad and for the deep Gop Volunteer Fire department, moss. Thanks for taking the time to join us on the phone. Can you just tell us what kind of damage that youre seeing there in your community its i mean, its hard to describe as many people have said, there are places that just look like bombs have been dropped complete destruction and you know, its all over, its widespread, which is the real issue. We have small communities, big communities that are just destroyed roy and some of these small communities really its going to take years for them to recover if they ever do and moss were seeing the pictures. It is really i mean, its horrible. What were looking at here. Youre a journalist, youre also a first responder. I know that youve done some swift water rescues. Tell us about that of on friday, i prioritized Life Safety and was working with target Rescue Squad to help out with some of their swiftwater efforts. While also keep in my Reporter Hat on in trying to get information out to the public friday especially, in saturday, there was barely any signal was it was really hard for us to get any information out. But as that got better, we were able to do that M1 Kind of a Recovery Phase where were trying to find people that are missing. Crews have been working 24 7. The western part of our county is a lot of people are isolated over there ash and avery counties are devastated as well and its just were in the Recovery Phase now and its just going to be hoping we can find people and hoping we find them alive and are people able to communicate now with Emergency Services . Has Cell Phone Connectivity been restored . In some places . It has it is still very limited in areas no western part of the county especially theres really no service in avery county, which is our neighboring county. They really have no service. Ash county. Again, one of our neighboring counties they are getting limited service back its still not a lot of people can communicate with Emergency Services, are each other which is why people are not able to contact Loved Ones at the moment. Yes. Which is why we dont even have necessarily a full scope of whats going on in those areas, Moss And Talk to us a little bit. About the biggest challenge right now and what people in the area need mean, the biggest challenge in just getting through these people and kind of figuring out where they are and how to access them we have chainsaw crews up in the area have been told by our Watauga County Emergency Management we have volunteers up here. We have been having volunteers calm and kind of start freelancing any of that can be dangerous. So i would just urge everyone to go and check in with one of the local services that are up here. Theres many places that are taking donations, taking supplies and we have been reporting on that on our website with a democrat. Com and you know people will need help. The one thing that ive been told from many people just dont come to western North Carolina at the moment roads are bad the more people there are that are here, the harder it is going to be for Emergency Services. To get to people that they need moss brennan. Thank you so much and thank you so much for what youre doing as a journalist and as a first responder, we really appreciate you joining us and telling us whats happening there on the ground. If maam, thank you for having Me Boris The Storm may have passed, but the Flood Threat remains for some areas hit by Hurricane Helene lets go now, live with the Cnn Weather Center and Meteorologist Chad myers. Chad, whats in the forecast for today . Well, no more rain for the people here that already have all the damage. But this water has to go somewhere, eventually has to get into the atlantic ocean. So there are rivers that are going to rise downhill from here in parts of Western Northern North Carolina here. But what place in the world can take this type of rainfall and not get absolute devastation station. And i would say thats probably maybe the top of kuae because theres just nobody up there and its top of a volcano. When you talk about how much rainfall came down over those days, and it was very heavy at times, it happened before for the hurricane and then it happened during the hurricane. And now its finally ending for the most part, but 20 to 30 inches of rainfall in these higher elevations. Thats just really hard to put your mind around because all of that water had to run downhill, had to wash Away Homes i know you see those pictures and it looks like sticks and twigs, but there are bits of homes in there. Theres pits, peoples livelihoods and their, this is a truly devastating event here from asheville okay. Toward black mountain, places that if youre from the south, you go there because they are so beautiful. Well, this is going take a long time to be beautiful again, im afraid for many people say yes, we will have some rainfall across parts of virginia today, but likely only about one to two inches. So this is not a big event, but what you may have missed over the weekend. Now, we have three isaac kurt, can joyce, its like, wow, you guys really ramp things up in a hurry and now we have one that could protect initially here be in the gulf of mexico, same place that the last one was likely not growing as much as the last one is the Computer Models are not making big circles here. Thats what wed be looking for right now. Those tight eyes just dont see it yet. Not impossible. The water is still very warm. But if this thing does, finally develop it will be leslie will see Chad Myers live from the weather center. Thank you so much, chad. So in the next hour, former President Donald Trump will make remarks as he visits hurricane ravaged valdosta, georgia. He landed there in the last hour to see that damage firsthand and get a briefing. Georgia, of course, a key Battleground State in the president ial election. Yeah, trumps visit is coming after he criticized Vice President harris for holding Campaign Events over the weekend instead of helping impacted communities. We do note that the former president also continued on with his regularly scheduled campaign rallies. We have cnns Kristen Holmes with us now. Kristen, what is trumps goal with this Trip Today . Well, look, they had been telling me that they were going to try to travel every single day from now until the election, or as many days as they could with a lot of these stops in battle well, grounds, states and there was a plan to go to Georgia Today before the Storm Hit, before the devastation that were talking about, a rally. They were talking about a Messaging Event obviously, everything changed its that storm took place now, what Donald Trump is going to say, youre going to hear what he already has been saying. Hes hitting Kamala Harris, sitting Joe Biden saying, why arent they on the ground trying to seize this as an opera . For tunity to show himself as the former president who is caring for these people on the ground. But i mean, obviously its a lot different than having a sitting president or a sitting vice its president on the ground. Theres nothing he can really do in terms of promising aid are promising distribution. Theres nothing he can really even glean from this to take it to other states, or to try to help with the disaster response. So its really a show here of him reaching out. Now the other thing thats kind of interesting is hes now trying to blame the administration for only helping certain areas of North Carolina in particular, essentially saying that theyre not helping republicans and his supporters. This is what he posted on truth, social he said i was also going to stop in North Carolina, which has really been hit hard. I have a lot of supplies ready for them, but Access And Communication has now restricted and we want to management is able to focus on helping the people most effective and not being concerned with me. Ill be there shortly, but i dont like the reports that im getting about the federal government and the democrats, governor of the state, going out of their way not to help people in republican era as maga, we have no indication that that is true. We have not heard any of these reports and just to be clear, we one of the things that we heard from president Joe Biden today and we know this to be true, is that its very difficult and it does take a lot of resources for a sitting president or even a sitting Vice President. To travel to these areas, particularly a place like North Carolina, where they need all of those emergency resources. And its been a point of contention in past presidencies as well. Do you go right away . When do you go . You do not want to be responsible for taking away resources that could potentially help people who are suffering or even with this recovery. But also they want you on the ground and you risk being hit politically for not being there are mean we just spoke to someone from Watauga County who said they are having a hard time getting in touch with people there and in the neighboring counties. And the piece of advice he said was dont come here. And so thats certainly something to heed. 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Vance going Toe To Toe Tomorrow in New York, a key moment for both campaigns. And one that walz apparently is especially nervous about. Cnns Isaac Dovere has that new cnn reporting isaac, youve been speaking with players behind the scenes of his Debate Prep and whenever i see stories like this, i wonder, is this Expectation Setting by the campaign, how much of this is legit . You just told me before the commercial break. This is actual nerves. Hes actually nervous. There. Its fair for you to feel like theres Expectation Setting going on, but there is genuine nervousness going on here. Walz is pretty committed to the idea that he does not want Donald Trump back in the White House. He does not want to let Kamala Harris down and make her think that she screwed up her choice. But its also so about going up against j. D. Vance, j. D. Vance, who is better at debates than walz has been. Their past performance. He went to Yale Law School Walz has been in congress. It was in congress for 12 years, has been governor for six years. Thats a long time, but he has never been great at the Debating Part of it. And in fact, he was at a fundraiser in New York last week and one of the people there asked him have Debate Prep going and he said someone in the room told me that he he said you know, as teachers, we are trained to answer the questions and we train our students to answer the questions. Thats not what this is. So hes gotten his head. How do you get a question . In answered in under two minutes . What is your face look like when youre not on camera . How do you respond . All of these things a lot to do and look, you and i, weve never been in a nationally televised debate. Its a big crime crazy thing, and especially in this case, because it does not look like there will be any other debates for him or for harris and trump. This could be the last marquee event of this Campaign Thatd be Something Or Pitch isaac a debate between you and i on you know, we really go at it. We mostly agree on every day Isaac Dovere. Thank you so much. Again so brianna, you know, what can help shake off some pre debate jitters. A good laugh. Yeah, no doubt. I know its how we manage to calm nerves around here, right . Well, h