North Carolinians Flee Floodwaters
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🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Huge swaths of the Southeast are still digging out from Hurricane Helene after the storm made landfall Thursday night along Florida’s gulf coast. As of late Sunday, more than 90 people were reported dead across six states. Tampa and western North Carolina saw some of the worst damage from the storm. Blue Ridge Public Radio reporter Gerard Albert III joins us to talk about rescue and recovery efforts around Asheville, N.C.
Later in the show, Michigan Democratic Sen. Gary Peters talks about the state of play in one of the most pivotal swing states in the upcoming election.
And in headlines: Former President Donald Trump called Vice President Kamala Harris ‘mentally impaired’ during a weekend rally, Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a Friday airstrike, and the International Longshoremen’s Association and its tens of thousands of members are set to strike starting Tuesday.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, September 30th. |
| 0:03.3 | I'm Jane Kosten, and this is What a Day, |
| 0:05.3 | the show where we are still not going to see any horror movie this fall. |
| 0:10.0 | Nope, won't do it. |
| 0:11.6 | Being scared on purpose, not for us. It's a presidential election year. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm just going to wait for Paddington 3. |
| 0:18.0 | On today's show, Israel continues to strike Lebanon, plus longshoremen are on the brink of a strike |
| 0:26.1 | that could impact your daily deliveries. But first, huge swaths of the southeast are still |
| 0:32.0 | digging out from Hurricane Helene. |
| 0:34.0 | The storm made landfall Thursday night along Florida's Gulf Coast and moved up into Georgia, |
| 0:38.8 | north and South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. |
| 0:42.0 | As of our recording time Sunday night, more than 90 |
| 0:45.0 | people have been reported dead across those six states and that number is |
| 0:48.7 | expected to keep going up as rescue efforts continue. Tampa and parts of Western North Carolina |
| 0:54.0 | so some of the worst damage from the storm. |
| 0:56.1 | On Sunday, officials in Buncombe County, North Carolina, |
| 0:59.0 | home to Asheville, confirmed 30 deaths. |
| 1:01.6 | Helene caused massive flooding and mud sleds that knocked |
| 1:04.2 | out power, cell service, and even water for a lot of people in the area. The county |
| 1:08.2 | manager said Sunday that officials had also received about a thousand |
| 1:11.4 | reports from people who said they can't contact their families. |
| 1:14.4 | Democratic Governor Roy Cooper talked about the challenges the region is facing during a press conference. |
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