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Speaker 1: The US correspondent Richard Arnold's with us.

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Speaker 2: Hey Richard, good morning, Good morning Heather.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what's the latest on the hurricane.

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Speaker 2: You know, when it comes to natural disasters, the emergency

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Speaker 2: services typically saying they're on at the mobilized things are

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Speaker 2: occurring much as anticipated. Well, this time it is a

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Speaker 2: different take from Diane Criswell, who runs FEMA, the federal agency.

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Speaker 2: She says she doesn't believe that anyone could be fully

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Speaker 2: prepared for the amount of flooding brought on by this

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Speaker 2: Hurricane Helene. This massive storm barreled on shore as a

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Speaker 2: Category four hurricane early on Saturday, your time.

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Speaker 1: It was.

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Speaker 2: The storm surge has been catastrophic and the amount of

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Speaker 2: water falling inland has been just devastating. Place after place

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Speaker 2: just looks like a disaster's owned. The desktoll Ride at

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Speaker 2: the minute is sixty four and increasing. Ashville in North Carolina,

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Speaker 2: Mountain Town has been isolated. They're sending food into that

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Speaker 2: place through air drops because more than four hundred roads

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Speaker 2: have been closed, damaged or washed out. FEMA chief Criswell says,

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Speaker 2: we have right.

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Speaker 1: Now, I believe it's nine search and rescue teams in

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Speaker 1: North Carolina. We have more that are coming in today.

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Speaker 1: I talked to our lead on the ground there this

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Speaker 1: morning and the current information I have is they've done

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Speaker 1: close to five hundred rescue.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, some people are being taken off roofs of flooded buildings.

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Speaker 2: It's reminiscence of Hurricane Contriter in my mind, going back

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Speaker 2: way back to five. Eastern Tennessee also is badly his.

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Speaker 3: I don't think anyone thought it would be this bad.

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Speaker 2: At A number of places just looked like a bomber's kit.

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Speaker 3: They don't have homes, they don't have oxygen, they don't

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Speaker 3: have water.

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Speaker 1: They're just trying to keep everybody alive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the full scale of this really isn't known at

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Speaker 2: the minute. But this fellow who lost half his home says, what.

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Speaker 1: Do we do now?

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Speaker 3: Do we keep? Do we continue to do?

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Speaker 1: This?

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Speaker 2: Good question? Our things changing. We know the Gulf waters

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Speaker 2: are getting warmer by a few degrees and the behavior

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Speaker 2: of these storms is shifting, says the FEMA chief in

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Speaker 2: her assessment of it.

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Speaker 1: We're seeing so much more water damage, and I think

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Speaker 1: that is a result of the warm waters, which is

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Speaker 1: a result of climate change.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's been a lot of debate about that, obviously,

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Speaker 2: and by the sound of it, there's going to be

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Speaker 2: a lot more. Richard, the US must be feeling pretty

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Speaker 2: upset with Israel over the ceasefire talk ahead of the

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Speaker 2: weekend and now nowhere near spot on. Of course, we've

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Speaker 2: seen President Biden talking about his hopes receies fire over

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Speaker 2: weeks and months, but is Ready leader that Yahoo not

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Speaker 2: Biden seems to be the one who is setting the course,

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Speaker 2: and this is ongoing. We have another high ranking Hasbela

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Speaker 2: leader who has been killed by an Israeli airstrike following

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Speaker 2: on from the assassination of the head of the terror

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Speaker 2: group huss And Israela, who led her for more than

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Speaker 2: thirty years. US says he did not know of the

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Speaker 2: assassination plans. Take that as you will. President Biden says

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Speaker 2: in a statement that no Israela's death is a quote

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Speaker 2: measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of Americans, Israelis,

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Speaker 2: and Lebanese civilians. The US is as Ready forces now

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Speaker 2: have killed the top thirty or so leaders of Hasbola

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Speaker 2: over the past few weeks. One was a man named

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Speaker 2: Ibrahim Akiel, who was sought by the Americans over his

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Speaker 2: role in the bombing of the US Marine cor barracks

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Speaker 2: in Beirut way back in nineteen eighty three. As for Israela,

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Speaker 2: he would go to extraordinary lengths to try to conceal

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Speaker 2: his location, and the New York Times reporter Neil mccarcua

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Speaker 2: recalls being taken to interview him. This was twenty something

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Speaker 2: years ago.

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Speaker 3: We were taken in a darkened vand with blindfolds on,

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Speaker 3: driven around for a while, and then they let us

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Speaker 3: into an apartment complex, not unlike those.

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Speaker 1: That were bombed.

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Speaker 2: Well, the Israeli has found him clearly, and from the

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Speaker 2: images of the building damage, it looks like Israel employed

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Speaker 2: a US made bunker busting bomb as a national security aid.

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Speaker 2: Here John Kirby is saying now of Hesbula.

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Speaker 3: The command structure has been nearly decimated, thousands of missiles

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Speaker 3: and drones destroyed by Israel over the last few days.

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Speaker 3: There's no question that the Hesbeler today is not the

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Speaker 3: Hesbeler that was even just a week ago.

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Speaker 2: But can you destroy a terror group by assassinating its leader?

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Speaker 2: And what will Iran, which has supported Hasbela as its proxy,

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Speaker 2: what will Iran do about all of This is a

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Speaker 2: very good question, Richard, thank you very much. My appreciate

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Speaker 2: It's Richard Arnold, US correspondent. For more from the micro

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