Them morning. You were live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We are following Breaking News this Morning Disaster in Western North Carolina as one North Carolina official put it the devastation is quote biblical large swaths are completely cut off in that area. Official say, all roads there are considered closed. These are exclusive pictures coming into cnn showing the destruction in asheville. What you are looking at is the main Road And Biltmore village near the famous biltmore estate. Its a five lane road, usually full of cars now, its covered in debris and mud. People walking down the Middle Of The Road looking for supplies that as a comment in sight these days, helene tore through the historic village, the floodwaters. You can see right here rising to Roof Level and pushing trailers and to buildings, Power And Water are out in much of the city. This is a transform where you can see it right there just lying in the Middle Of The Road leaking fluid. Its been there f
bermuda before moving out to sea. let s get right to puerto rico. you just got back from touring some of the serious damage with the national guard. what all did you see? reporter: we actually got our first chance to get into the interior part of the island. we went where we could see mud slides were blocking the road and keeping some communities out there isolated so we went in with the national guard as they tried to clean that up. where i am right now, ana, we are in the southern part of the island and the cleanup here continues. take a look at the mud on the van as the cars go by what folks in an area that was completely inundated just a few days ago are dealing with now and that is because of the water. let s talk about the power because that s something that the governor just addressed minutes ago in a press conference. he says that he feels pretty confident that a good chunk of the island will have power by the end of tomorrow. one exception the south where we are ri
its republican governor can make a midterm immigration point as a texas sheriff makes him the target of an investigation. ron desantis defends his move. they all signed consent forms to go and then the vendor that is doing this for florida provided them with a packet that had a map of martha s vineyard, the numbers for different services on martha s vineyard. what we ve been able to do is show this border is a disaster. biden has failed on this as much or more than on any other policy, and now people are talking about it. the breaking news against donald trump. a brand-new court filing from the former president s lawyers hit the dockett. in it the legal team asked to keep in please a stop on the investigation of those documents seized from an fbi search warrant served at mar-a-lago. they called the doj probe, quote, misguided, and argue the justice department hasn t proven any of the documents taken from his mar-a-lago home are indeed classified. more on this new respon
we re on the verge of a lot of roads crumbling. nobody is talking about that. nobody is talking about the inflation of gas prices. people are not talking about the war on russia and ukraine. they re not talking about the oil and what this is costing the american people. people have to understand that people go to work to make a living. we don t go to work to put gas in our car. sometimes we have to be more human and understand our family units. i don t think that a lot of candidates are thinking about that. they re still talking about stump speeches and feel good speeches. at the end of the day, how as americans how are we going to survive as people. martha: deb, what do you think matters as you look to mid-terms and how is the country doing as a whole? inflation has to be number 1. the egg prices here in norwalk were about 79 cents before easter. they re $2.63 a dozen right now.
we think we ve been productive. we think we ve put up a record of accomplishment that is good for the american people. we ll stay focused on those. senators, i don t think it matters whether you re driving through south dakota or worcester, massachusetts, or wherever, but this country is falling apart. bridges and roads crumbling. tom friedman raises an interesting issue in today s new york times. the last time the gas tax was raised to support the federal highway fund was 1993. gasoline prices have come down enormously in the last two years. is there any chance, would you support a nickel increase in the federal gas tax in order to rebuild parts of america? i don t think i ll have that option this time. there is no appetite for a fuel tax increase. we have to confront the issue of rebuilding infrastructure. there is something there ought to be widespread agreement on among both democrats and republicans. in fact, the vote last week in the senate, we got 65 votes for