If it's Monday, communities in crisis, millions without power, and hundreds still unaccounted

for as state, local and federal officials rush resources to the area's hardest hit by Helene.

Plus Israel expands its attacks after the killing of the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

as special forces crossed into Lebanon ahead of a possible ground

invasion despite President Biden's renewed calls for ceasefire. And we'll get the

view from Latino voters and some of the most important presidential

battlegrounds as new polling

from NBC news shows Democrats support with the key voting blocks slipping

compared to past elections. this. Hi there, welcome to meet the press now. I'm Ryan Nobles in Washington and we begin

with the widespread devastation and the ongoing disaster response following Hurricane

Helene. Right now authorities are blaming that storm for at least 116 deaths across four states.

Hundreds remain unaccounted for.

Thousands are stuck in shelters, millions are without power, and some areas remain

unreachable. More than a third of the reported deaths are from North Carolina,

where more than two feet of rain fell in the Asheville area.

FEMA Administrator Dan Chris Well is in Asheville where President Biden says that she'll remain

for quote the foreseeable future.

She and the North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper are expected to brief the President this hour

and we do expect to hear from President Biden in the Oval Office after he receives that briefing.

In neighboring Georgia, at least 25 people have been

killed by the storm. Governor Brian Kemp told reporters today that Helene

quote literally spared no one in Florida where Helene made landfall as a category 4 hurricane, entire

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