Trump Plays Politics With Hurricane Helene
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🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The death toll from Hurricane Helene topped more than 120 people on Monday across six states in the southeast. Hundreds are still unaccounted for, and the number of casualties is going up. Juliette Kayyem, faculty chair of the homeland security program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the author of ‘The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters,’ explains what the next steps in recovery will look like.
And in headlines: Israel launched a ground invasion in southern Lebanon, schools outside of Atlanta closed Monday because of toxic smoke from a chemical plant, and a Superior Court judge in Georgia struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, October 1st. I'm Jane Coastin, and this is what a day. |
| 0:05.0 | The show where we want to congratulate former President Jimmy Carter on joining Kleenex, |
| 0:09.0 | Band-Aid's, and menthol cigarettes on turning 100 years old today. Real mixed bag that year. |
| 0:17.0 | On today's show, Israel starts a ground invasion into Lebanon, plus a Virginia |
| 0:25.5 | congressional candidate borrows a family for his campaign ads. But first, the death |
| 0:30.7 | toll from Hurricane Helene topped more than 120 people on Monday and hundreds are still on accounted for |
| 0:36.7 | Because of that the number of casualties he's expected to keep going up as six states in the southeast continue assessing the damage from the storm. |
| 0:44.4 | In Western North Carolina, entire towns are still cut off from cell service and electricity. |
| 0:49.4 | Many don't have clean running water. |
| 0:51.3 | And AIDS still can't get in because a lot of roads are |
| 0:53.8 | impassable, leaving people stranded. The Federal Emergency Management |
| 0:57.5 | Agency is working with a Defense Department to airlift supplies into areas with |
| 1:01.0 | severe storm damage. On Monday, Governor Roy Cooper surveyed some of the wreckage in the state and spoke with reporters. |
| 1:07.0 | The devastation was beyond belief, and even when you prepare for something like this this is something that's never |
| 1:16.4 | happened before in Western North Carolina. |
| 1:19.2 | Speaking to political on Sunday Cooper also said he'd spoken with President Biden and told him |
| 1:24.5 | quote, it's not the right time to come. |
| 1:27.6 | He said the state didn't need elected officials that require a lot of security coming |
| 1:30.9 | through while people are still trapped and resources are |
| 1:33.4 | scarce. But in southern Georgia former President Donald Trump took the |
| 1:37.1 | opposite approach. He claimed to have brought in truckloads of supplies to residents |
| 1:40.8 | in Valdosta along the Florida border. |
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