This destruction is vast and what these people are living through right now is brutal. Im Sandra Smith in New York and this is America Reports and it was a short time ago that Hurricane Helene marked the grim milestone as the number of deaths we now know has surpassed 200. Emergencies crews are still on the ground and they are still searching for people who may be stuck in their homes. John be mild those in Florida And Georgia still reeling from power outages. They stress they are not getting enough help. It is like nothing weve ever seen before. We had michael which is terrible. This hurricane is a bomb blast. This is the worst we have been hit in 30 years good when you have children and you cant provide any food for them to eat or even a hot meal without driving three hours and risking losing gas, that is a worse nightmare. Unable to feed your children. John live on the ground in hardhit nashville carolina. Hows it looking there . It is raw and rough. You are pete seen people come in from the site i just heard. That is the case if you want to stay somewhere where you can get showers or even electricity. We talked with dr. Devol. All of the cars that slammed into that word from this Apartment Complex around us. They were swept away. A few hundred feet because of 1. It got up to 19 feet down here. It shows you how drastic the flooding is. When we talked with dr. Devol earlier he was saying the resiliency of this Community And Everything they are doing right now is why he was able to move forward. Take a listen. Its beautiful. Our whole neighborhood sounds like chainsaws and everyone is dropping resources where they can and when they have extra they bring it to someone else. It has been really beautiful to see. Its beautiful how the community is coming together here. Still very hard. A state of shock. I will say this this is the first big equipment we have seen come into this spot of asheville because most of these roads are inaccessible. It looks like they were able to dig out a generator. It is a long process and i know we are about seven days removed from when this flooding occurred. A larger city in North Carolina about 100,000 people live here but still seems it happened just yesterday. Theres a dire need for supplies and we will continue to give you those updates here. Fox Weather Meteorologist Fox bender paired we will will send back to you. John they will need dozens if not hundreds of those backhoes and excavators. We met one in the last hour whos pitching in. Sandra and a little Baby Maia lets not forget four months old she with her mother spoke to us and this is raw for all of them. 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 fatherinlaw who is there says. Talked to one of my close childhood Friends Yesterday and her house is completely destroyed and they are trying to find somewhere to live. We had family close by that is stuck in their houses. We are just 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 and they are from wind to water. If you can and are able, donate. They are on the ground as you saw helping people like hannah and little Baby Maia able to get water, baby formula, diapers for her kids. She has a 4yearold and it the story of hannah is there is nowhere to go. Everybody lives in the community. All of their homes are devastated and there is nowhere to run. So they need to deal with this right there and our hearts break for them. John a lot of folks down there are living paycheck to paycheck as well and fema comes in and they say we will give you 750 which it was Cash Money on hand right there in your pocket you could use to get a vehicle or get a ride somewhere and maybe go stay in a hotel for a few days but fema is saying you will get that money in ten days or so. The conundrum here is how to get relief to these people fast enough and thank god there are organizations like wine to water who are stepping in to fill that void. Sandra our best of them and we will followup with them because it will be a long road ahead. John now this. You have people on the West Coast. If they try to divert anything, its an exercise in futility. We will not move any of your cargo. Brother bobby ohara, also willie adams. They have put u. S. And mexico on notice that if any ships are diverted from the East Coast, the I Lw will not work them. [applause] Sandra Brandnew Sound from Union Leaders on the ongoing Port Strike. Ships are being diverted blast and workers say they will not unload Cargo And Solidarity with workers on the east. Ashley webster is live for us. How could this Strike Threat Hurricane relief efforts . Thats a good Point Sandra and with each Passing Day that there is no contract in place, that becomes a much bigger factor. Three days into this strike now and thanks to stockpiling ahead of this anticipated strike, there are still supplies to be had but again, the clock is ticking. One interesting thing you just pointed out there is ships diverted from the East Coast to the West Coast are not going to be touched by Union Workers there so that is a blow for those people trying to get the supplies through the ports of the u. S. And into the country. This is something that President Biden spoke to yesterday when he visited Storm Victims in west and North Carolina. He mentioned the Port Strike. Listen. This is incredibly consequential. The last thing we did on top of that is a manmade disaster and whats going on at the ports. We are getting pushed back and we are hearing from folks that they are having trouble getting product. The Port Of Savannah is a very important one in the structure. The infrastructure of the east Coast And Gulf coast part system. 22 of east Coast Container Trade comes through the sport. It is absolutely vital and as i say, with each Passing Day, the impact of this continuous. As for the workers, they say they will be here until they get the contract they want and lets not forget they want higher pay, they want more health benefits, and no automation. The Vice President of the union said its not that we dont like automation, we just want to keep our jobs. Listen. We are okay with technology that makes the job safer and more efficient for our workforce but we are never going to allow and we will never apologize for robots taking our work. You know what, as you say, day three. For every day the port is closed, the estimate is five to seven days to recover. By that math, we need 15 to 21 days to recover but they will be out here for the long haul. Every day. There you go. No contract deal insight. With each Passing Day, the recovery and those supplies could become an short supply. Sandra you just heard appeared every day. Its good to see it. You and i over the years have covered so many of these Workers Strikes. For many reasons, this is unprecedented. This is affecting and will affect every single facet of our economy. Your perspective on that having covered these over the years. Its funny peered the last time i was here was after the pandemic created that Supply Chain Crunch and they were working double time here to try to get the economy back on track. Here we are with a Workers Strike that is having the same effect and what will happen is things become more scarce and we know what happens then. The prices go up at a time when we have inflation under control. The sooner they can get this result, the better for all of us. Sandra so well put. Thank you so much for covering it and talking to the workers on the ground there. Thank you. John with less than five weeks to go until election day, the Harris Campaign is trying to strategize around a consequential new cycle. In the united states widespread destruction from Hurricane Helene, the dockworkers walking the Picket Lines on the eastern seaboard and overseas, there is fear of allout war between iran and israel. Lets bring in Doug High and jonathan caught. Lets start with you, jonathan. This is all about Kamala Harris. Even the New York times pointing out she has a big dilemma saying a storm, a strike come at war abroad chose challenges. Shes being the number two to mr. Biden and a top the ticket in her own right back in the spotlight. Missiles over israel are unwelcome complications to keep the democrats in power. Its not shaping up to be a good october for her. No but this is what happens when you are actually in Charge And Governing and thats what shes doing. She is being the Vice President working with the president and making sure there is aid on the ground to the people suffering in the southeast. She is making sure that we are working in a diplomatic way to do whatever we can to ease tensions in the Middle East which is not easy. No president has been able to ease tensions over there. They are trying to. Thats what shes doing. She is not being a candidate right now, she is being the Vice President and thats a challenge. John but people say this is what happens when you allow the stuff to happen. Part of this is when we talk about what we have just seen with their hurricane destruction, i have family in the asheville area so ive been dealing with this pretty closely as you have two problems. One is logistical. That is what sandra was talking about. If People Cant get out, that means People Cant get in and there arent easy solutions to getting to places where roads are closed and i have some heroic footage of fema in batcave North Carolina, and Unincorporated Community that i didnt know you could get you right now. And it is a structural program because its about the building behind us. If we look at what happened the day before, congress passed another cr appeared what did it not contain . The Emergency Funding for fema. And thats not a problem with this Congress Peered that goes back congress after Congress And Nothing is about this Process Bx it, we will have this problem over and over again as we have had over and over again. John but if Kamala Harris wants to be a leader but when she was getting a briefing at fema she did nothing to project any kind of confidence when she was asked a bunch of questions by the press pool. Watch here. Can we have a word . Madame Vice President john it is basic of 101 peered you want to be a leader . Take charge if someone shouts a question at you at a Fema Briefing about a hurricane. What she is doing as she is actually leading and talking to the people that she has to. John but she needs to talk to the american people as well. That is part of the function of being a president. The main function of being a president is getting the job done and that is what her and Joe Biden are doing peered that is what you did not see them rush to go down there for a photo op. You did not see them go in front of cameras and lie about what the response was and lie about what governors had been saying and set up a prop to do a Press Conference peered that is what Donald Trump did. John but cory mills says biden went into North Carolina. Temporary flight restrictions. Nothing was flying in or out relief supplies for four hours. How does that help . He went when he could and when the governor told him it would be okay to go. Donald trump just flew into throw some Paper Towels around like he did in Puerto Rico cannot solve problems. Kamala harris is not interested in just giving Sound Bites and sending out tweets and getting a good photo op. She is interested in making sure people get the relief they need and all governors that are dealing with her, democrats and republicans have said they got everything that they need from this administration which is very different from when Donald Trump was president and they got nothing. John yet we hear people who are down and have not seen anything. I can talk about that. I have a cousin who lives in bryson city. We didnt know that he was okay until Sunday Evening because they did not have cell service. Thats not Joe Bidens fault, harris fault, Donald Trumps fault. Thereve been structural failures over the years. But there wholly unsuited for what just happened to them. As for will be the first to get fixed. It has access to two interest rates. John i want to ask you this. They said it fema is about to run out of money but lets put this up. The federal government, Fiscal Year 23 spent 66 Billion taking care of an illegal immigration problem. That is money that could have gone to fema to pay for things like this. But if we stick ask the structural problems that Mike Johnson has said he wants to fix, john baynard speaker. John but that doesnt help people now. But if we had solve these problems two years ago here thats the problem peered until congress can get the act together we will have this happen. John you can say all you want with respect, say it all you want if we had fix this or done that. But we are in the situation we have done now and people need help so what do you do . The federal government will get them the money they need to help. If congress has to come back, i dont think they will, they may come back and pass it under uc. They will get the money they need but doug is right. As things change, our climate is changing good we need to appropriate more money for natural disasters like this because we have once in a century or once in a decade hurricanes every two years, three years, sometimes four times a year. They will continue to happen. We need to act and appropriate money before this happens, not after it happens and they pass the bill and they got out of town and they arent coming back peered. And the problem is we are playing from behind. John we are always doing that. And thats the problem. John we are always preparing for the last hurricane. Someone needs to have some vision here. Doug and jonathan. Sandra . We can start the campaign right now. Sandra cant blame them for trying. Meanwhile. This is a live look at saginaw, michigan. Former president Donald Trump is going to rally and Battleground Michigan later today. How he is appealing to the states of voters ahead. Do you have the tune in your head now john . I do. Plus the judges unsealing the Court Filing against former president Donald Trump. Kerri urbahn coming up next. None of this is new but the idea was to get the evidence out in a spectacular way. The point of releasing this now can only be to affect the election. There is no legal need for it. Craig here pays too much for verizon wireless. So he sublet half his real Estate Office to a pet shop. Theres a smarter way to save. Comcast business mobile. You could save up to an incredible 70 on your wireless bill. So you dont have to compromise. Powering smarter savings. Powering possibilities. Switch to comcast Busines Internet and mobie and find out how to get te latest 5g Phone on s with a qualifying tradei. Dont wait call, click or visit an xfinity store today. Its our son, he is always up in our business. Its the Verizon 5g Home internet i got us. Oh. He used to be a competitive gamer but with the higher lag, he cant keep up with his squad. So now were his squad. What are kevins plans for the fall . Hes going to college. Out of state, yeah. Yeah in the fall. Change of plans, ive decided to stay local. Oh excellent oh thats great why would i ever leave this . Aw we will do anything to get him gaming again. You and kevin need to fix this internet situation. Heard my name i swear to god, kevin we told you to wait in the car. Everyone in my old squad has xfinity. Less lag, better gaming im gonna need to charge you for three people. Sandra with just over a month until election day, a judge has made new evidence in the Jack Smith Case against former president Donald Trump present. They are blasting the move as total election interference. Joining is now kerri urbahn. Former counselor to attorney general bill barr. What does all of this tell you . I think it says that the Justice Department and Judge Chutkan are, to use the language that they use against Donald Trump, desperate to get the last Ditch Effort into influence the election and heres why. I think the January 6 the voter has already made up their mind either way. We have been hearing the same information that the doj put forth in the 145 page small book, 1625 page for four years. We heard it from doj, we heard from media, and we heard from Donald Trump himself. Two things can be true at once. You can have a former president that behaved poorly around the election and about it and you can have a department of justice that is behaving poorly now in releasing this information just several weeks out. It is stuff that we already know. I put more blame on the judge in this particular situation because she controls the Briefing Schedule peered she could have very well made this do after the election. We saw a number of Judges Delay until after the election. They knew they were going to get a trial before the election and so this is their Closing Argument in the case that trump wins. Sandra i want to move onto this idea of censorship because this is becoming a bigger and bigger election issue. I want to play this out. It is 53 seconds long and it is j. D. V