From former President Donald Trump as he gets to survey the damage in georgia caused by Hurricane Helene before speaking next Hour And Faldo stuff. The White House is said to hold a press briefing. Not as expected a short time from now and we will likely get plenty of questions on the Administrations Response and reaction to it. John we are getting worried that florida governor Ron Desantis will be holding a News Conference as well. We will be monitoring all of these events and bring them to you. Our coverage kicks off at the latest on the ground. Get out of the way. This is the main road. The bridge. There is a building right there between those two. Gone. All of this stuff, completely broken and flooded through. The storm had impacts far beyond our borders. Its Impacting Floridians and a tennessee mountains. We dont have internet service. No nothing. Thats the biggest problem. Communication. I saw a dumpster in the parking lot. Many more will remain without Electricity And Water and food and communications. Homes and businesses washed away in an instant. We are not leaving until the job is done. Sandra what are we doing about it at this hour . So many in need of health. Heartwrenching scenes across the southeast at least 120 people are now confirmed dead. That number is expected to rise as searchandrescue teams make their way to more Worlds Areas at this time. Just heartbreaking scenes. Catastrophic damage. Our hearts, our thoughts are with all of those communities that are in pain right now. I am Sandra Smith in new york. John its incredible to see whats happening in those communities. In all of this land. Im John Roberts in washingtOn And this is america reports. Helene carved a 600mile Path of devastation from florida to tennessee more than 200 people are waiting for the lights to come back on. Sandra the mayor said it is a catastrophic event and she will join us in moments. John lets go to our senior correspondent a veteran of the stores. He is in asheville which has been so hard hit. How crews doing . They are getting help to people there. Not a lot of motion on the ground. You can see from the scope of this disaster behind me, these were 18wheelers. They are pretty much smashed and tack up on top of each other. Getting the word out has been a challenge. People need the basics appeared they need food and they need water. They are setting up Distribution Points at 2 00 p. M. To try and get that out and get the word out that there is Food And Water available. They are trying to set up temporary Cell Phones. That is been Cell Phone towers. That has been a hit because of huge anxiety to figure out who is alive and who is in trouble and also to connect relatives with each other. They are doing things here because of the storm the oldfashioned way. We have seen rescuers going doortodoor trying to figure out if people are okay and when people do come out and see what has happened here to the landscape many say they are simply stunned by what has happened here. Its a lot to process. The drastic change between what was and what now is. Its a strange feeling when you think of what the place looks lt now the soil is gone from where was cured the road is kicked up and you can barely recognize some areas and you are trying to figure out where am i. Even people who live here are asking where am i . That is how scrambled things are in asheville. Back to you. John its amazing the way that these storms change the landscape so dramatically. Steve harrigan on the case for us. Steve, thank you. Sandra lets bring in actual North Carolina. Thank you for your time here please do give us an update on that situation right now. Hi. Thank you for having me. This is a catastrophic situation that we have and asheville. An unprecedented storm event. You just look at images of the flooding that we experienced. Rivers at an alltime historic high here in asheville. We are in need of everything. It water, power, communications. You name it. Food, resources, close. Major challenge getting into this area because we have three of our four main highways into this area with failures. It is a dire situatiOn And we are still in an active crisis situation. Sandra okay. What would be the Number One priority . We were hearing from residents on the ground right now that the biggest problem is lack of communications. The wifi is down, sell signals are down, People Cannot reach Emergency Services let alone folks to come in and help recover from this. What do we do to get communications back up and running . I had a call on my personal Cell Phone last night from the president , from Joe Biden, and they are sending startling trucks to help with communications. We are having to stand up temporary to improved medications. Our Number One need right now is water. Drinking water. And then food behind it. Trying to receive help. Ive been in touch and gotten contacts from walmart and other resource providers. The Red Cross. I want to thank everybody. Every volunteer, every neighbor who has been working around the clock to help our community, check on the neighbors, make sure folks are okay and try to make contact with those who are physically cut off. Rose watched out and no communications. We Cant Confirm whether people are okay and people that are outside the City Limits that are cut off because of road outages, bridges are out as youve seen. Sandra this was resident gregory harrison asheville, North Carolina, speaking earlier today on fox about what they are seeing. People coming to help. The ability to bring in supplies, food, water our Number One. Gases number two. Cell service is number three and theres very littlE Attention i feel like being paid to support crews coming into Take Care of us. Sandra where is the very littlE Attention . What was the focus of that they are. Is that at the local level, are you having a hard time at the federal level . What is the biggest challenge for you right now with getting help . Just getting to us has been a big challenge. Our state has been in Constant Munication with us. Our governor Roy Cooper will be here on the ground. I am meeting him shortly after this. What we are beginning to do, we are beginning to do Water And Food distribution but we know we will exhaust the resources that we have quickly. We have others bringing resources into us. I think things will start moving now but i dont want anyone to relax or assume that weve got this. We need continuous support both public and private support and we certainly from the State Level and the federal level, there is help arriving and already here. We will need more of that as well as our private partners to help us in this Recovery Effort but we are still in crisis mode. Sandra still in crisis mode. We hear you mayor. This was the governor of florida, certainly you have his sympathy. He was talking earlier at a Press Conference about your state. Listen. As damaging as you see around here, it is important to acknowledge that they are in really Dire Straits right now. What they are now facing is you cant get out of some of these communities. You Cant Drive cars in. Most of the roads are impassable and people need of relief. That is something that as americans we should all be concerned about. Sandra and we all are concerned mayor. We are with you and that was the governor of florida referencing North Carolina and how bad you all have it there. Thats hard to wrap our minds when we are not on the ground there just how bad this is to get that water to folks who are in some of these badly isolated areas right now. Give us your final thoughts here on what the coming hours look like and your goals in the next coming hours and the coming days and where you see all of this heading next. You know, first let me just say our first responders have been amazing. They are working roundtheclock. Our firefighters and our officers and all of the folks from around the country that are coming in to help us provide additional services to do that Search And Rescue you are seeing, to make sure we are locating everybody and making sure they are safe. Thats the Number One priority. Food and water resources. Thats what we have to focus on right now, today. We will begin looking across the way at City Hall and we are beginning Water Distribution at the center of town. That effort needs to continue and needs to grow. Sandra we expect to get on the update from the governor shortly. People are in desperate need of help. We are pushing to get to them and we know that is a major challenge still. Mayor, appreciate that. And we will let you get back to work. We appreciate everything youre doing for your residence there. Our best to her and her community. Meanwhile, Fox Corporation has made a donation to the Red Cross is Hurricane Helene efforts and continues to be an annual disaster giving Program Partner which enables the Red Cross to respond immediately to disasters like helene and providing safe shelters, hot meals, emotional resources to aid in recovery. Visit Red Cross. Org fox forward or scan that Qr Code on that screen. John, it is unbelievable what theyre going through right now. To the governor of floridas point, you think its bad there, they have Catastrophic Damage in North Carolina. John its amazing the way that the water collects in those Mountain Valleys and comes rushing right through those towns. Able. Franklin graham is with the President Today but he has a lot to Take Care of back home and Blowing Rock where they are located. Blowing Rock Boone Area just northeast of asheville. It was really hard hit as well. And striking when you see the Water Levels in some of the trees. The Water Level has now come down but it was going through at 12, 15 feet in some points over the last 4872 hours. Just unbelievable what that region has gone through. Sandra our thoughts are with all of them and we will continue to have live updates as we go through the next couple hours here. We should be getting another update from the governor soon. John now this. When you are facing down the bully, sometimes you have to punch him in the mouth. Sometimes you have to escalate to deescalate. Now we should celebrate this incredible tactical and operational victory. John its israel on offense preparing to move ground troops into lebanOn And its fight against hezbollah pAired what will it mean for the State Of Play in the middle east. Michael oren here to react. 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Official it will be smaller and quicker than the second Lebanon War in 2006 that lasted 34 days and ended in a u. N. Resolution requiring that hezbollah operate north of the look on a river but that didnt actually play out in practice which is why 60,000 israelis are evacuating from their homes right now because of incoming Fire South of the river at the hands of hezbollah terrorists. The next phase according to Defense Minister will allow the northern residents to return to their home so presumably he is speaking about the pending Ground Offensive that we have learned from the senior u. S. Official and more u. S. Troops are coming. A few thousand more troops are coming including Fighter Jets and squadrons according to the pentagon despite the fact that president Joe Biden said yesterday that was not going to be happening. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke directly to the iranian people today. He said the iranian regime is the reason for their suffering. Listen to this. With every passing moment, the regime is bringing you, the Noble Persian people, closer to the abyss. The vast majority of iranians know the regime does not care a whit about them. Take a look at this sandra. Visited the troops ahead of this limited pending Ground Invasion this morning. Hezbollahs Deputy Chief of staff said that the terrorist organization is ready for it. Israel continues fighting several iranian proxies at once. An Air Strike in beirut this morning took out three palestinian militants in Central Beirut which was an area that had not previously been hit. A separate strike killed hamas his head in lebanon. Israel also responded to Missile Attacks on Tel Aviv fired by rebels in yemen. Israel hit yemen Support City on sunday which is roughly the same distance from israel to tehran. Ahead of this anticipated Ground Invasion and Southern Lebanon we are also learning that an israeli Air Strike took out a Mission Launcher that according to the idf was located less than a mile from lebanons international Airport. Israel said it could threaten incoming flights. We continue watching israels northern border and we continue waiting a response from iran which has been relatively mute. Sandra thank you very much with the update nate. John peered. John lets bring in Michael Oren the former israeli ambassador to the united states. Its great to see you. The last time israel went into lebanon you and i were there. We were standing by a tank and Southern Lebanon just north of mattila. Things at that time did not go particularly well peered how do you expect they will go this time . Always good to be with you john and im a veteran of two Lebanon War as per the first and the second and neither went pretty well. Clearly israel does not want to invade it. Its a limited incursion being twofold. It is to put distance between the israeli Border And Hezb hezbollah. So hezbollah terrorists will not be sitting directly opposite israeli towns peered on October 6th you could put your hand through the fence, i dontd you would touch hezbollah. No one will go back to their homes along the borders as long as hezbollah terrorists are there appeared to push them back but theres another reason. Hezbollah has been shooting a number of rockets at israel, most of them go Up In The Air and come down. They can be intercepted in the Air by Iron Dome and other systems that we have but they have also been firing antitank rockets which have a flat trajectory and we cant stop them unless we take out the ridges from which hezbollah has been firing those rockets. John the direct line of fire, those are tough to knock down. I want to go back in time to October 14th of last year when in israel, you wrote that speared sooner or later we will need to face the Northern Front Peered Yesterday Hezbollah fired first. Weve a golden opportunity to act with support and legitimacy to open up a front against the organization peered such an action since a clear message to Arab Terror Organizations and directly challenges iran. It was a controversial viewpoint that you suggested israel deals with hamas later and go after hezbollah first. They are doing at the other way around but you knew this day would come. Better late than never. What you are seeing now is what Dwight Eisenhower called the wrath of an aroused Democracy Striking back on all fronts now. Striking against the rebels in yemen as well and anybody else who will be firing at israel will pay a price. Yes, we are going out lebanon now. I wouldve preferred earlier when we had a greater amount of ammunitiOn And a greater amount of international support. We are going up a lot of international opposition including the united states which is calling for a ceasefire. As far as i can see the ceasefire would only benefit Hezbollah And Israel must resist calls for a ceasefire until the Status Quo has changed and hezbollahs push back and deterred from that border. We hope that the united states and other clear minded countries will u