Relief efforts. Theres a lot of people that are frustrated out there and i can certainly appreciate that and we felt that when we were on the Road Yesterday but also told them that this is unprecedented what we are dealing with. Previously the worst Storm Georgia had ever dealt with. We dont need people in washington doing things, we need people here doing things and this Community Show that. Sandra Brandnew Top of the hour. We now know at least 200 are dead. Holmes upended and homes unrecognizable. Any moment now President Biden will be getting an update in florida as he continues his tour of the hardesthit areas. Our thoughts are with all of those affected by this. It is brutal for so many. Hello and welcome everyone. I am Sandra Smith in New York. John our houtz go out. Im John Roberts in washington and this is america reports. Today marks a week since Hurricane Calin made landfall. Survivors are isolated by catastrophic flooding and they are desperately flooding Stomach Pleading for necessities. Sandra Water And Food for so many. Hard to find at this moment. Hard to believe. In moments we will be speaking with a man who is overseeing Distribution Centers across the tar heel state. Thank god for him and are joining him is one of the victims. Two at this moment with a little baby in tow that he is now trying to help. John we will talk to them in a minute but first to Steve Harrigan live in Swan And Noah North Carolina. What is it looking like they are. The picture tells a story. It really does. This is what it looks like when you get 10 feet of floodwater in your town. Everything is covered with mud and the people here have been through so much as well. Joe dancy lives in this house. He said the water came up so quickly that he had to break out through the window and swim to safety. A lot of these people have gone through Life And Death decisions in the past 48 hours or so and many of them are expression of frustration with the lack of help they are getting. Many being told to go on a Website Or Text another when they dont have the basics like Electricity Or Cell phone service. They express the frustration about that to us. We can barely text each other. The Cell Services so bad. They are giving People Access to resources by calling Phone Numbers and Web Addresses and we dont have that access. People have been showing up to volunteer with chainsaws saying send us out to where people are trapped, we will go and get them out. It has been incredible. A lot of people in this neighborhood it rode the storm out on their roofs. Fema has been through this neighborhood and they have talked to people here and one woman said her house was totally destroyed. Fema offered her a 750 Emergency Disbursement peered she accepted that and she said she expects to get the money and ten days time. Back to you. John what will she do until then . She is hoping to get in touch with family and live there but right now it is every man for himself, Neighbor Helping neighbor. John seems like there needs to beat it sounds like there needs to be more immediacy to the relief efforts. We will keep pushing that peered Steve Harrigan for us. Sandra lets bring in doc kindly now. Founder and ceo of wine to water. On nonprofit that is helping those on the ground in Western North Carolina and hannah smith. I want to start with you first because im sure probably is the intention with baby is limited. You have your beautiful baby there and youve been through so much. What is it like for you and what have you been through and what do you need right now . Right now everything is just devastating. It is eyeopening. I havent been to my house since the storm hit. Ive been going off what my father in law who is. But i talked to a close childhood Friends Yesterday and her house is completely destroyed and they are trying to find somewhere to live. We have family close by that is still stuck in their houses. We are thankful we can get here to get diapers and formula and a hot meal because right now those are very important to us because the stores dont have them. Sandra i can tell baby loves the sound of your voice. She is four months old and you have a 4yearold as well and you are thankfully a huge part of the effort to help out victims like hannah. What are you doing for them right now . Our organization has over a dozen teams from boone to asheville just like this one. We basically will send food trucks, hot meals all day long for people. We set up a little mini Grocery Store and people can get whatever they want. Flashlights, batteries, diapers, food, whatever it is. And water to wine is our passion as well. Anything and everything they need they can get at these checkpoints from boone all the way to asheville. We have between 30400 volunteers on the ground in between. It helped to make all of this possible. That is the beginning stages of it and we are unfortunately probably going to be doing this for a while so thankfully volunteers are showing up every day to help us and food supplies, water continues to show up at our warehouse so we can continue to grow these operations. Sandra thank goodness for you. I know that this is what you need. More help on the ground. Residents feel like they are forgotten and you are living through this every minute of every day with your baby there and her toddler as well at home. You said it this is lifechanging and devastating. What does the road look like a head . You said your husband works at a Golf Course and he is trying to survey the damage they are. What does life look like going forward . Life is definitely up in the air. We are thankful for all of the help we are getting. Thankfully my husband does have the Job Security that some people dont have. I have people that are out of their jobs and their life ahead is completely uprooted and they dont know if they will be able to stay local because there is nowhere to go with all the damage at their workplaces. Most of them did wash away unfortunately. My life ahead is steady thanks to inlaws and my parents but a lot of people are not that fortunate. To have people close to help. Sandra amazing how strong you are. Hearing what you are going through and your spirits are still up. As moms we know we have to. We need to plow right through. Doc, i know hannah was explain it to our producers that she has family that is still stuck in their house because the driveway washed away. There are people that cant leave their houses that are in them. Thats right. And we have teams now that just left this morning that have atvs that are going up the Mountain Roads that you Cant Access by vehicle to get to these hardtoreach areas. I got my children last night. We had to carry up a hill a 5gallon pail. Just to carry them water up the hill. I have seen this for the last 20 years and multiple different countries. This is where our organization is based. We never thought we would be back in our hometown serving our own families and our own people. Its one thing to see it on a Faroff Land but when it is right in your own backyard it is a different thing. To hannahs point, it is lifechanging to see it in your own backyard. Sandra such a good point. And hannah for you as well, is that your Husbands Dad is your neighbor . For so many of you your families are right there so there is nowhere to go because Mom And Dad dont live in a town. Sometimes they live right next door. My inlaws are right next door. Thankfully they had equipment to help keep that water from coming into our houses as much as they could. We did leave the house peered we went to the other side of the county as far away as we could get from the water. Just hoping it wouldnt get as bad as it did. They say prepare for the worse, host for the best. Thats all you can do right now. Sandra you are an amazingly positive and strong person hannah peered our thoughts are with you. What is babys name by the way . This is my f. Sandra she is adorable and what a trooper. A happy, happy baby. Shes honestly going through a lot right now and she has the spirits up as well. Doc, thank you for what you are doing. Hannah, our best to you. And all of your families for that matter. Thank you so much for joining us. We will check back in with them soon as Recovery Efforts continue peered Fox Corporation has made a donation to Hurricane Relief Relief efforts this Enabe Recross to respond to disasters like a lien by providing safe shelter, hot meals, emotional support, and resources to provide an aid in recovery. Scan the Qr Code on our screen. Our viewers are so generous especially when they see families like that in need of help. Cute little mile four months old and you see that mom and you think this is what you do as parents. You need to stay strong and you have to keep the spirits up and you have to get through this and they will but it will be a rough road ahead for sure. John and Thank God for people like doc who are out there with their organizations and there are so many that have mobilized to go to North Carolina in order to help folks out. As we heard from Steve Harrigan, fema comes into a neighborhood and says we will give you 750. First of all what is 750 going to do and secondly you wont get it for ten days. What do you do in that time . If they wanted to help people out they would be going up and down The Street with hundred Dollar Bills and handing it out to folks that need to buy things immediately and doing everything that they can to get supplies to them but as we know, there are so many areas of North Carolina where they have not gotten supplies yet and folks feel like they have been abandoned. Sandra hannah was telling us all the folks is that they drive by on the river are gone. Possibly the one we are looking at here, they are not livable. They are showing up for the first time. Hannah said she has not been back to her house yet. I think she is going to try to do that today. They show up and it is a question of where do you start. And that is a daunting, daunting Feeling And Task that so many are feeling right now. Sandra dont ask me when you look at how much mud is covering the ground right now. Hit it with a backhoe or a bulldozer but where do you begin. And then there is this aspect of all of this. Listen to this. The Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warning that fema does not have enough funding to make it through the rest of the Hurricane Season. The department has hundreds of millions of dollars designated to supporting illegal migrants. Life on Capitol Hill with this. Good afternoon. Heres the conundrum. Republicans point to a manmade disaster like the Border Crisis having enough money but the response to a Natural Disaster like Helene Running Low on cash. Dhs Decker Terry Alejandro mayorkas says fema is fine for now. We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We do not have the funds. Fema does not have the funds to make it through the season. Congress infused fema with 20 Billion for immediate Disaster Aid in last weeks spending Bell But Helena will drain the reserves because it was so catastrophic. The Hurricane Season runs to The End of last month. They approved communities dealing with an influx of illegal immigration but money for the border and Natural Disasters come from different accounts. We are so quick to forget things like the incidents in maui or hurricanes here in florida or even the recent hurricane with Hurricane Helene that has impacted North Carolina tennessee and georgia so much but we will focus and prioritize the illegal criminal migrants as well as borders 9,000 miles a away. Some lawmakers want congress to give communities wrestling with the migrant crisis 3 Billion next year. House speaker Mike Johnson is mindful of more Disaster Funding this fall. Congress will have to address it. Its an appropriate role for the federal government but to your point we need to prioritize federal spending. We were 35 Trillion debt. You need to take care and handle emergencies. Expect congress to Reload Fema with money and provide additional funds to help with helene. That is on top of Money Congress spends on wildfires in hawaii, Hurricane Beryl in texas, and a typhoon on guam. John they cant get relief to folks fast enough. Chad for us, thank you. Sandra a new report claims of multiple agencies dropped the ball on the Border Crisis and made our country less safe. Rnc chairman Michael Whatley is here to tell us what it means or the election. John plus negotiations as a cargo ships stall as strike continues. Larry kudlow has coverage from all the angles. Stay tuned for that. This is a good oldfashioned negotiation that we have had from the beginning of time with the workers and employers and the idea that the federal government will tip their finger on the scale to this degree is going to scare the heck out of everybody. I can make this work. It can help you reach them with confidence. 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Good Afternoon Sandor appeared for years i have witnessed migrants discarding their ideas at the border. These are from china, venezuela, colombia, chile. It begs the question why did these individuals not want us to know who they are . It underscores the alarming revelations in the report which shows they accept forced selfreported biographical information in the absence of ideas that allows migrants to obtain immigration forms then used it to get on domestic flights. The key finding here under current processes they cannot ensure they are keeping high risk noncitizens without identification from entering the country. I additionally Tsa Cannot ensure the Vetting And Screening procedures prevent high risk noncitizens who may pose a threat from the flying public for boarding domestic flights per dhs is pushing back saying they cannot detain individuals subject to detention. Ice says they dont have enough beds. Cvp says the Detention Facilities are for shortterm detention only. The former Border Patrol Union president said he has seen the consequences firsthand. Because we cannot properly vet these individuals we need to go with what they are giving us and that is why we saw the death of javier in florida at the hands of somebody who claimed to be a minor but was actually an adult. This is a very dangerous situation and the ig got it correct. Tsa pushed back as well saying the report does not reflect current policies but it is hard to imagine how tsa can screen individuals properly if we dont know their true identity. Sandra very true. Griff jenkins. John for more on this lets bring in the Rnc Chairman Michael Whatley. The Inspector Generals report from dhs, the title says it all. Cbp Ice And Tsa did not fully assess risks associated with releasing noncitizens without identification into the united states and allowing them to travel on domestic flights. We keep hearing more and more about this and who have we let into the country . Border czar Kamala Harris and this administration have absolutely made a mockery out of the border. What they have done is taken 94 executive actions to dismantle the most secure southern border we ever had. 10, 12, 15 Million migrants have come across that border. It is a Clear And Present Danger to all of our communities could even the fbi says we dont know who these people are but they pose a very real threat to america and now we are seeing study after study showing that we are spending more money than we should be spending to house illegal immigrants as we move them across. Now we are seeing statistics. Tens of thousands of them who are convicted rapists, murderers, Hundreds Of Thousands who are felons in the united states that should not be in this country right now. It is a very real threat to every single community. John lets stick with the Security Aspect because this is the ultimate conclusion of the report. 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