Did for me. Im Alayna Treene traveling with the Trump Campaign and this is cnn thanks for joining me on Jim Acosta in for fredricka whitfield. We are heading into the Home Stretch in the race for the White House, the election theres now just a month away in both candidates are out in full force hitting the Campaign Trail. For those last minute undecided voters in critical Battleground States with voting already underway in several states polls look at this, showing the race is still neck and neck. Both Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump, are campaigning at some very big and important news stories, or having the potential to shape, shape this race in reshape at time. And again, war in the Middle East, the devastating aftermath of helene and a surprisingly strong jobs report that just came out yesterday any minute. Now, Vice President harris will depart Washington And Flight in North Carolina to survey the aftermath. Of helene and that important state. She is set to arrive in charlotte in the next hour. Were she will get an ontheground briefing on the States Recovery efforts. The western part of North Carolina, of course, suffered catastrophic damage when helene swept through last weekend, cnn, Sunlen Serfaty joins us now sunlen, were getting pretty close to the Vice President taking off and heading to North Carolina. Shes going to be getting a lot of information when she gets on the ground. There thats absolutely right, jim. And certainly Vice President Kamala Harris, really eager here to show her leadership, Show Competency in the face of a natural Disaster Or Something that a future President Should she win . And the White House would have to take on. Now she is going to be leaving washington in the next hour, traveling to charlotte, North Carolina, shall receive an ontheground breeding briefing, shall see some aid being distributed. Shell learn about the Recovery Efforts taking place there on the ground and also importantly brief about the upcoming federal response and the continued federal response. Now, notably this Trip Today is taking place right in Smack Dab in the middle of the Campaign Trail season. Just over 30 days to go to election day, while the Vice President , of course, is traveling in her capacity official trip as Vice President sun also be viewed through the lens of the political season she has traveled in the last week to two Battleground States, georgia and now North Carolina. That of course have been devastated by the hurricane. And so certainly notable that shes taking part of those Recovery Efforts and being seen in front of care that cameras talking about the federal Governments Response. And it comes as former President Donald Trump, her opponent here is also doing similar. He traveled to georgia earlier in the week to talk about the devastation of there hurricane and pointed a finger at the administration, blasting them for the amount of aid theyre spending saying unclaimed, saying that they were withholding help from some specific areas. So jim, the Vice President s trip, todays at least optically speaking, can see, be seen as a response to foreign President Trumps assertions about what the administration is doing, trying to show that they are continuing to send aid to those in need. Jim yeah, well see if theres an opportunity for Vice President harris to speak to the cameras, maybe there will be a reporter who will ask about what trump has been saying out on the Campaign Trail. Maybe well hear a response from the Vice President. And these hours to come a busy afternoon, Sunlen Serfaty. Thank you very much. Over at the White House and while Kala Harris is in North Carolina, former President Donald Trump is set to return to the site of his first Assassination Attempt for rally in butler, pennsylvania. Later on today, trump narrowly survived an attempt on his life on july 13, at that location, when a gunman opened fire and a bullet grazed trumps ear, one attendee at that rally die two others were injured and cnns Alayna Treene joins us now, live from butler, pennsylvania. Alayna set the scene for us. What can we expect that Todays Rally . I wont be just trump speaking out there. Is that right welcome back to the butt. Thats right. Eye. And actually the preprogramming has actually just kicked off. We just heard from a pastor who i was speaking, Giving Indebted coding his prayers to the family of corey comperatore, the man who was killed at that first rally in butler on july 13. But to your point, jim, we are not going to just hear from Donald Trump today when he gets on stage, were going to hear from Elon Musk, who actually just shared on Social Media that he is planning emily attended this rally, but hes going to speak here. Were going to hear from Donald Trumps running mate, jd vance. We know that some of trumps family his son, eric eric trump, his daughterinlaw, lara trump. All of them will be here as well. Theyre also gonna be bringing up some of the other victims were injured during that first rally, but luck one quick key question. A lot of people had about this Rally Today is what would security look like . I know theres a lot of people kind of anxious about whether potentially there could be a copycat. But what i can say is Secret Service and local Law Enforcement have significantly increased their preparations for this rally tonight. One big difference that theyre going to have one Command Center that is a change from what they had back in july. They have a better drone control system. You can see some of the drugs while you cant, but i can see some of these drones flying around up in the sky right now. Theyve also have added more agents to the ground. You can actually see a lot of that presence here, here in butler right now. So thats a big change which now i did speak with many rally attendees today, some of whom were here on july 13, some of who were in. And i asked them about this, how concerned are you about your safety most of them, i would argue actually said theyre not concerned at all and that theyre excited to be back here and to support the president and are happy that he came and returned to them i want you to take a listen to what they told me a day great white buffalo news. Nowhere stayed away. Lahmari thought worried at all, good security good people feel very secure. I feel totally competent. Everything knew a lot of balls drawn from the Cia And Everything that went down through, if you actually who can do it that this is something too where they shouldnt happen in first place . They probably got their act together that after what happened the last time theyre not sir. And hopefully, you know, they do their job here today as well. Jim, Alayna Treene. Thank you very much. Lets get to developments in the Middle East right now and new today, were learning that a Top Leader of hamass Military Wing was killed in a rare for israeli airstrike and Northern Lebanon near tripoli The City has not been targeted by israel in almost 20 years. And you can see a cnns cameras capturing smoke rising from israels attacks on beirut suburbs. Earlier today as well, hezbollah has also been launching rockets into northern israel, where israeli officials say some homes were damaged and cnns Jomana Karadsheh is in lebanon for us. Jomana, what can you tell us about these attacks across Lebanons Border Today it has been pretty active today every day of this past ten days, jim, hezbollah claiming that it has carried out 14 attacks targeting israeli troops. They saying israeli territory as well as those trying to advance into Southern Lebanon as well, that in 14 statements from hezbollah as questions are being raised about their capabilities right now after the severe blows that they have faced in recent weeks, but clearly from these statements, they say that they are still active and theyre still carrying out these attacks. Now, elsewhere in the country here in beirut, in the Southern Suburbs, weve seen strike after, strike earlier this afternoon. Our Team Saw what appear to be an israeli strike. Really close to beiruts international airport. This is one of many strikes that happened during the day and we have to mention these happened with no prior warning. Yes. It is targeting the Southern Suburbs where hezbollah is known to a strong presence, where its leadership has been attacked and killed in recent weeks. But this also is a densely populated part of The City. There are civilians who still live there. There are civilians that weve spoken to who go back and try and grab their belongings from their homes from which they were displaced. In the past few days. And the situation in Southern Lebanon, jim, is so dire. We are seeing an intensification in israeli strikes there. Youve had the israeli military ordering the evacuation of more than 100 villages in recent days. And this is just adding to lebanons largest ever for internal Displacement Crisis with 1. 2 million people who have been displaced from their homes in a matter of days and then youve got the situation absolutely catastrophic when it comes to the Health Care, facilities, the hospitals there, according to the World Health Organization, on thursday, at least 30 seven hospitals are out of service. Out of commission as were speaking, jim, we can hear another strike in the distance coming from the Southern Suburbs of beirut. And this really has become a daily occurrence and we have seen these strikes intensify over the past couple of days. And while the people of beirut have gotten used to this, again, the situation in Southern Lebanon is absolutely dire hospitals are needed more than ever right now to deal with the thousands of casualties theyve had to deal with, yet they say the World Health Organization says Health Care is under attack. The lebanese government is using israel of the israeli military of deliberately targeting its Healthcare Facilities but the israeli military is accusing hezbollah of using these facilities and using ambulances to transport weapons and fighters and when you speak lebanese officials about this, they tell you, weve heard this all before In Gaza, jim yeah, we have heard that before. Youre absolutely right about that. Our Jomana Karadsheh in lebanon. Thank you very much, please stay safe. We appreciate the reporting. As always. Lets bring in suzanne maloney. Shes the Vice President and director of the foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution Center for middle East Policy. And i guess a lot of places where we can start suzanne, but i mean, your impression of what jomana was just saying a few moments ago and these attacks that are going back backandforth between Israel And Hezbollah it just seems as though this is not winding down by any stretch. No, jim, i think youre exactly right. The war is expanding and its intensifying in ways that i think are quite dangerous. Israel has scored some very impressive victories in lebanon by taking out not just hassan nasrallah, the longtime leader of hezbollah, a Terrorist Group which has threatened israel and, conducted attacks against israelis and americans and other citizens for 40 years. But really has also taken out the entire Upper Echelon of the leadership of hezbollah. But that doesnt mean that this Group Cant continue to mount attacks on israel. It also has a fairly sizable arsenal of missiles and rockets that can do significant damage. And i think were nowhere near a resolution to the conflict either in lebanon or In Gaza well, and that leads me to this or exam because i mean, Israels Response to hamas and gaza exceeded expectations in terms of intensity and civilian casualties. Its happening again in lebanon. It seems and now were waiting to see what israel does in terms of mounting a major retaliation against iran, should we see might we see the same thing play out in this retaliation against iran . Well, i think well see something very different with respect to Israels Retaliation against iran. We dont quite know what that will look like at this point. I think theyre different types of operations they might undertake. They could do something along the lines of what they did in april, the first and last time that iran had fired off a hundreds of missiles missiles and at that time, drones as well at israel. They took out the Air Defense System and a key nuclear installation. It was subtle, it was sophisticated it avoided any escalatory pressures that the iranians didnt feel compelled to respond. I think the israelis are likely to do something bigger and bolder this time around. They could do a bigger and im older version of that attack, take out the entire Air Defense System of the other installations as well. But i think theres going to be a temptation to hit something harder, whether its Irans Oil and gas infrastructure, or even elements of the nuclear program itself that either one of those options could be, could provoke us another retaliation from the iranians and that would put us in an entirely different situation, a huge escalation from the current bloody state of conflict In Gaza and the intensifying war in lebanon in iran, israeli war would be of Epic Proportions and it would draw the United States Military and in a very immediate certainly play out and obviously this is getting injected into the election cycle. The Election Season here back in the u. S and trump this week suggested something you just said that Israel Go after a10s nuclear program how would that play out . How might that play out well, the difficulty is that the israeli some Selves Wouldnt have the capability to take out the entirety of irans very longstanding, diverse sense of his decatur nuclear program. There installations throughout the country, including very close to heavily popular slated centers of cities. And so, you know, the Size And Scope of really sending back the Iran Nuclear Program would require the involvement of the united States President biden has said, hes not inclined to support that kind of a strike the danger would be if prime Minister Netanyahu decides to do it anyway alright. Suzanne maloney. Thank you very much for your time. We appreciate it thank you. Very precarious situation. Alright. Still to come, a new Tropical Storm has just been named in its path is floridas Gulf Coast. 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