Another problem in the United States of America right now that we've talked about is we seem to be really capable of taking hundreds of billions of dollars and singing them at what appeared to be endless, useless, pointless wars that just get people killed.

But one thing we can afford to do is seem to fix problems like this.

Breaking news as Hurricane Helene gets closer to making landfall.

The storm's footprint, massive.

You can see it from the satellite there in space.

Tropical Storm Force winds extending up to 310 miles from the center.

Parts of Central and Southern Appalachia

are under flash flood warnings after the region got slammed with historic rainfall.

Nashville's included Western North Carolina,

were the worst of the weather happening now,

but so many people will be impacted.

Hurricane Halen has moved on, but left in its wake a trail of death and destruction.

The only way to describe the damage here in Asheville is historic and catastrophic.

Officials in North Carolina say they were blinded by Helene's sheer intensity.

Homes swept away, restaurants and shops torn to pieces.

You can see all those roads and yards covered in mud, water, debris.

The mayor there calls it apocalyptic.

Homes and buildings swept away by raging floodwaters that have submerged the town.

It's beyond anything I've ever seen in my lifetime.

Parts of the town not underwater completely cut off.

The storm now being blamed for at least 133 deaths,

49 of those here in North Carolina, and that number is expected to go up with as many as 600 people still missing as of this morning.

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