Can help you get started with your idea called now 807, 710002 zero getting a firsthand look at the devastation the station from hurricane helene. He is in the Carolinas Today with a swarm has killed nearly 100 people. How the federal government is helping the Recovery Effort is haunted words of thousands still remain without power and as cities are running low on food and water, plus, as the world awaits, israels response to a ballistic Missile Attack from iran, the idf ramping up its Ground War in lebanon. Another major question amid heightened tensions, what role will the United States play . Then turns of that thousands of Fort Workers hit the picket lines. A strike that could have a huge impact on the economy and things that you buy every day. Were following these major developing stories many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central President Biden is flying over the devastation from helene, the deadliest hurricane to hit the u. S. Mainland since breanna back in 2005, total of 180 victims so far, that has been reported across six states. And the largest number of those, 91 were from pardon me, North Carolina regional, state and local officials have described this hurricane is leaving historic destruction with major parts of rhodes in Power Grids wiped out the president has ordered 1,000 active duty soldiers to help out in the relief in areas that have been hit very hard. Lets get to cnns miguel marquez, who is in raleigh, North Carolina, following the president s visit here, miguel, tell us what the president is going to be doing and what hes far today. Well, as we speak, brianna, he is flying up over western North Carolina where some of the hardest Hit Areas are and the stories that you hear from people and to see it with ones own eyes is shocking entire livelihoods, homes, businesses, in some cases, entire community please. Just swept away out of existence from the water and the debris that followed it. Incredible amounts of damage we were in asheville, North Carolina. This is a vibrant city, about 100,000 in the blue ridge mountains. We spoke to some of the artists and The Business owners. There about where they go from here your first time seeing this . Yeah, this is my first time in his mark, right. Peers into her prince shop studio. I dont think i can recover from this. Her sails table, its enormous hangs from the rafters. How hard is it to look at this stuff it looks like a war happens. Ashevilles river Arts District devastated the waterline two feet or more above the second floor of many buildings near the french broad river. Will you and your business survive this one . Im choosing to not survive this one i will not continue here. I do not think it is right at the goal for me landlady to rent these spaces i will not put myself or anyone else through this kind of trauma. Again ll be in the air longer over North Carolina and then he will come here to raleigh where they have the statewide sort of resources and federal resources gathered in raleigh, where he will go through several hours of briefings to try to figure out how they go from here because the immediate needs are one thing, the electricity, the water, the Water Systems the Water Pipes entire roads and bridges were washed away. So getting water to people, even if electricity is reestablished, your sinks, your toilets, your bhatts, none of that will run for a lot of people. So there are very big lines for water in many places like asheville and many smaller places as well. They are trying to get to all of those three sources that bringing on today lots of helicopters as well will be necessary in this very mountainous area back to you guys. And miguel, Vice President harris just arrived a short time ago in augusta, georgia. One of the storm impacted areas there. She is going obviously to be seeing the federal response tell us about her visit so shes in georgia today. She will also come to North Carolina later in the week. And this is going to be a full on effort by the administration to get not only the immediate needs of people met everything from food, water, electricity, i mean, diapers all the and medicine as well and moving people from place to place and even still, many people have not been heard from. So she will be Coordinating Efforts there. And then shell be coming up here in North Carolina where it was probably the worst hit of the many states that were hit. But this will be ongoing not only today, but next week months years to come back all right. Miguel marquez. Thank you for that report for us from raleigh, for us joining us now is pete gainer. Hes a former fema administrator. Hes also the Vice President for Resiliency And Disaster recovery at hill international, pete, thanks so much for being with us theres growing frustration in the region over a lack of Cell Service. Im wondering what kind of Obstacles Cell companies have as they work to restore service yeah. So i think the response is still happening down there that will go on for a number of days and then start looking at things like, how do you do restore Cell Service in some of these communities . I have some friends in asheville that ive talked to there there are no infrastructure left in some of these communities, so no water, no telecommunications no power. And so its going to be a monumental effort in some of these communities to kind of get some of the basic necessities back. Like been able to talk on your phone. I think that leads us some of the frustration is maybe some of the challenge of accounting for people is the lack of seltzer among many other things, food, Water Basics for survival are an issue right now yeah, that question of accounting for folks is part of the reason that thats a priority. I wanted to ask you about President Biden deploying 1,000 active duty soldiers up to 1,000 for North Carolina at famous request. What is that Mission Life for them . How can they help . Yeah. So, you fema, its not fema alone. Respond to these disasters. Its all of government, its the private sector, its Volunteer Organizations like the red cross. And National Guard. So National Guard units and active duty units and i think for North Carolina, especially enjoyed your lots of active Duty Army and marine corps units down there that are able to do this, they train for it. They have the equipment to do and heavy equipment to get in there and create access to some of these communities where they havent been able to get in by land and so a lot of Helicopter Missions are part of this. I would imagine that the active duty participation, this will grow in the coming days and weeks we heard from our reporter there on the ground, miguel marquez, who spoke to several local Business Owners. We heard from a Restaurant Owner in asheville who says, they dont know when therell be able to reopen what can the government do to help those small Business Owners get back on their feet and perhaps intervene before they wind up shuttering their doors yeah. I mean, theyre going to have a theyre have a long road. Theres no doubt about it and so in order to stay in business i think you need to have access. You need to have power, need to have water, wastewater, you need to have all those critical Community Lifelines that make community is livable and until you get there, then i think you can start thinking about how do you keep businesses and business so many federal programs. The small Business Administration is one of our partners at fema that help businesses stay in business through grants and loans that will happen i think down the road a little bit, but right now, its getting the essentials that humans need to survive. Food, water, Power And Telecom to make sure that they can get information and give information. I think one of the critical aspects of this is again, talking to some white friends down there and the only way theyve been getting information is through am, fm radio. When you think about it, that is kind of the last Resort Kind of device that people think about. We take it for granted, but its critical in disasters like this where you have to rely on that that really simple am media to get information. So thats what, thats what its like on the ground right now. Are good information to keep in mind, especially as there is still a month left, or so of hurricane season, p gainer. Thanks so much for the time, correct . Thanks, boris. Brianna new details now, on irans ballistic Missile Attack on israel yesterday, and iranian envoy to the United Nations saying that the assault was a quote, necessary response to what it calls israels aggressive acts in the Middle East over the past few months right now, israel is weighing its next move and expanding its Ground War in lebanon following the attack with israeli forces and hezbollah militants engaged in fierce combat today, earlier we heard from President Biden, amid the growing escalation, and he said that hell likely meet with israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu soon and that the u. S. Will discuss with israel what it plans to do. Lets go live now to cnn, Chief International Diplomatic Editor nic robertson. He is live for us in tel aviv. Nic, what are you hearing about . The latest there yeah, the offensive on the ground by troops into lebanon, which has been targeted. Its been localized, its been focused these characterizes raids is already indeed meeting stiff resistance. Weve seen video released by the Idf F of the troops walking across the mountainous terrain, going into buildings searching buildings. But hezbollah claims to have engaged the Idf Forces inside of lebanon in several firefights. Its and the idf says now that eight soldiers have been killed 47 injured in a number of these fights. Some of them they described as being facetoface fights against hezbollah. One of the hospitals where the casualties were taken to declared a medical emergency earlier in the day, three different hospitals but alls picking up the casualties and the injured soldiers. This is a very significant blow for the idf because of course it ria reagans the concerns and the differences between airstrikes which have been very successful in lebanon over the past few weeks against hezbollah, versus going in on the Ground And Clearing in the buildings where hezbollah fires Weapon Systems directly into israel. So theres no sense of that mission is slowing down more reservists have been called up. But i think the dangers of it and the potential for further the losses that has become very, very clear today. And whats also become clear today is that President Biden has said the u. S. Does not support israel responding by targeting irans nuclear facilities. What exactly are israels options for a response . Including that one that one would be at the top of the Target List if you will a maximal target, one that israel has wanted to target for a long time because it believes thats the only way to stop irans growing intention to build its own Nuclear Weapon despite but it says this is just for civilian use, for powergenerating use only. So theres, there is that and there will be many Security Experts in israel who would see this as an opportunity because hezbollah is weakened weakened from Firing Missiles into israel, which would be part of a deterrence that iran could try to use here. But it may be under the pressure from the United States and we saw this back in april when iran targeted israel for the first time with over 300 Missiles Israel didnt respond at Full Throttle under pressure from the United States facing that similar pressure. Now, they will want to insist that what they do gives a credible deterrence to iran all right, nic robertson. Nic robertson live for us in tel aviv. 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Been Reading And Hearing about the work youve been doing over the last few days. And i think it really does represent some of the best of what we each note can be done, especially when we coordinate around local, state, and federal resources it has to meet the needs of people who must be seen, must be heard. These are very difficult times and in a moment of crisis, i think that really does bring out the best of who we are to each of them. Is that important and good work . So im here to thank you and to listen and senator, i want to thank you for the work that youve been doing on behalf the state because i know youve been talking to me in the president and many others about making sure that the federal resources get to this beautiful state. So thank you all. And may or i am now listening all okay. Thank you, madam Vice President. Thank you for the press for joining us and that we will excuse you from the room so we can get down to business and as they get down to business, we should note that cnn has learned the Vice President is planning to also traveled to North Carolina according to the campaign in the coming days . No specifics on that, but obviously see it comes at a sensitive time following more than 180 people killed by hurricane helene. And obviously only a few weeks from Election Day georgia and North Carolina could play a big role in this election speaking of the upcoming election, Vice President ial candidates, ohio Senator Jd Vance and minnesota governor Tim Walz. Bot