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Retired North Carolina police officer delivers thousands of dollars in supplies, food to Helene survivors
EXCLUSIVE: FAIRVIEW, N.C. — Retired Asheville Police Department Officer Steve Antle immediately answered the call to help his local community of Buncombe County, North Carolina, after Hurricane Helene struck in the early morning hours of Sept. 27.
Antle, his wife, members of their church and others have been putting thousands of dollars in donations toward delivering literal truckloads of supplies to remote neighborhoods in the mountains on a trailer attached to their Hyundai.
“I saw a news article on Fox where the president was saying that people here were getting everything they needed, and they’re not,” Antle told Fox News Digital on Sunday during one of his trips coordinating a delivery of supplies to Spring Mountain Baptist Church. “I can’t help but feel that Appalachia has always gotten short shrift … going back decades and decades.”
Antle added that the area is “at the beginning of the beginning of the beginning” in terms of rebuilding what was lost during Helene.
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Retired Asheville Police Department Officer Steve Antle has been delivering supplies and food throughout his local community of Buncombe County, North Carolina, since Hurricane Helene struck in the early morning hours of Sept. 27. (Adam Eugene Willis for Fox News Digital)
“My opinion is that this storm has completely altered certain areas of our county, in our area, that are just never going to be the same,” Antle said.
For more than two weeks since the storm, Antle has been sharing updates about how donors’ money is being spent, what kind of necessities are needed and where he is delivering supplies.
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For more than two weeks since the storm, Antle has been sharing updates about how donors’ money is being spent, what kind of necessities are needed and where he is delivering supplies. (Adam Eugene Willis for Fox News Digital)
When the storm struck, civilians needed water and food, and first responders needed bee spray and boots that fit properly. Now, people need gas, propane and stoves as temperatures drop to the low 30s at night halfway into the month of October.
More than 250 people perished across seven states during Helene, including 123 in North Carolina. While an unknown number of people remain missing across those states, North Carolina authorities estimate that the whereabouts of approximately 92 people remain unknown.
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Antle, his wife, members of their church and others have been putting thousands of dollars in donations toward truckloads of supplies that they deliver to remote neighborhoods in the mountains on a trailer attached to their Hyundai. (Adam Eugene Willis for Fox News Digital)
The former police officer — who was working as a delivery driver prior to the hurricane — estimates that he has received about $7,000 in donations from friends and strangers, which he has put toward essential items for those in his community. He has been delivering some items to community gathering places like churches and some supplies directly to elderly residents or those in inaccessible places.
Antle is one of many community members in the western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee areas who have taken relief efforts into their own hands in their spare time.
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Samaritan’s Purse volunteers help clear destruction and debris after Hurricane Helene. (Samaritan’s Purse)
“We’re going to need long term support … and when I say long term, I mean years. Years. We were just at the very start,” he said.
People from across both states and other areas of the country, too, have donated money, supplies and even private helicopters and construction equipment, initially to help with search and rescue efforts and now to help devastated communities rebuild in hard-to-reach areas.
Some have used trailers to create makeshift bridges to transport supplies to residences that were isolated when bridges collapsed in rapid flooding.
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People from across North Carolina and Tennessee and other areas of the country have donated money, supplies and even private helicopters and construction equipment, initially to help with search and rescue efforts and now to help devastated communities rebuild in hard-to-reach areas. (Adam Eugene Willis for Fox News Digital)
Members of the Army and National Guard, police officers and sheriff’s deputies, volunteers, first responders and others from across the country are still stationed in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee working to find missing people, rebuild roads and bridges, clear debris and clean mud out of buildings.
Linemen have been working 16- and 17-hour days to help get power restored for the tens of thousands of people who are still without electricity in remote areas of the Appalachian Mountains.
Neighbors are also coming together to help each other, even if they were strangers before the storm.
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Jesse Craig, who lost 11 family members to mudslides in Fairview, N.C., points to devastation in the neighborhood known as “Craigtown.” (Adam Eugene Willis for Fox News Digital)
Black Mountain Police Chief Steve Parker previously told Fox News Digital that it has been “amazing” to see how the community has come together after a tragedy.
“One gentleman the other day, he said, ‘I never knew my neighbors.’ But he said, ‘Joe over here needed this, and Susie over here needed that and Jake over there needed this. And we all got it for them.’ So, they’re working together to help each other, and they’re truly becoming a community.”
Certain North Carolina towns are encouraging tourists to return during the western part of the state’s peak autumnal travel season, while other towns are still working to bring water and electricity back to residents.
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Former President Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, is joining Fox News’ Harris Faulkner in the battleground state of Georgia to speak with an all-female audience about issues that affect them most in a town hall event that will air Wednesday.
The town hall will be filmed at a venue called the Reid Barn in Cumming, Georgia, on Tuesday and air on Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET on “The Faulkner Focus.” Ahead of the event, Faulkner underscored the importance of the female vote and for presidential candidates to have the opportunity to explain their platforms to the demographic.
“Women constitute the largest group of registered and active voters in the United States, so it is paramount that female voters understand where the presidential candidates stand on the issues that matter to them most. I am looking forward to providing our viewers with an opportunity to learn more about where former President Trump stands on these topics,” Faulkner said in a Fox News press release.
Georgia is once again a battleground state where both parties are vying for votes to help determine the election. Trump won the state in 2016 against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The state flipped blue in 2020, with now-President Biden winning the state by 0.23% over Trump.
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Former President Trump is joining Fox News host Harris Faulkner for a town hall event featuring an all-female audience that will be filmed in Cumming, Georgia, on Tuesday. The town hall airs on Wednesday morning. (Getty Images)
Fox News polling from late last month found that the Democrat nominee, Vice President Harris, had a three-point advantage over Trump.
More Georgia voters reported that Harris is the candidate who will help the middle class and protect democracy by a three-point margin on each issue. She is also seen as more likely to fight “for people like you” by six points.
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Harris’ largest lead is on handling the issue of abortion, where she is favored by 18 points over Trump. The VP notably received her best numbers from Black voters, urban voters, those under age 30 and women.
The top issues affecting women this cycle, according to Fox polling, include abortion, the economy, immigration and health care. Trump is expected to discuss these issues at length during the town hall.
Vice President Harris speaks during a campaign rally at East Carolina University on Oct. 13, 2024, in Greenville, North Carolina. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Abortion has once again featured prominently in this election, with the Harris campaign repeatedly claiming that Trump would roll out a federal ban on abortion if he’s re-elected to the White House.
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Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, have repeatedly pushed back and said there would be no federal abortion ban, noting that after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, abortion laws and rules are left up to individual states.
Trump recently vowed in a lengthy Truth Social post to “protect women at a level never seen before” and ensure that “powerful exceptions” for abortion are adopted across the nation. (AP/File)
Late last month, Trump vowed in a lengthy Truth Social post to “protect women at a level never seen before” if elected and to ensure that “powerful exceptions” for abortion are adopted across the nation.
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“Women are poorer than they were four years ago, are less healthy than they were four years ago, are less safe on the streets than they were four years ago, are more depressed and unhappy than they were four years ago, and are less optimistic and confident in the future than they were four years ago,” he wrote.
Republican presidential nominee former President Trump speaks at a campaign town hall, Oct. 14, 2024, in Oaks, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“I will fix all of that, and fast, and at long last this national nightmare will be over,” he said. “Women will be happy, healthy, confident and free!”
Fox News has repeatedly extended a standing town hall event invitation of the same stature to the Harris campaign since August, when she officially became the Democratic Party’s nominee. Harris did accept an invitation for a sit-down interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier early Wednesday evening.
Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Fox News’ Dana Blanton contributed to this report.
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A Georgia judge stopped a planned hand count of ballots on election night, ruling Tuesday that it would create “administrative chaos” if poll workers were required to handle millions of ballots without being trained.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney found that the controversial rule was “too much, too late” to implement for the 2024 election – which is less than three weeks away.
“The public interest is not disserved by pressing pause here,” he wrote in his decision. “This election season is fraught; memories of Jan. 6 have not faded away, regardless of one’s view of that date’s fame or infamy. Anything that adds uncertainty and disorder to the electoral process disserves the public.”
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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney speaks during a hearing to decide if the final report by a special grand jury looking into possible interference in the 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
McBurney said in his ruling that his decision was not final and would be further detailed at a later date, but not until after the election.
“Our Boards of Election and Superintendents are statutorily obligated to ensure that elections are ’honestly, efficiently, and uniformly conducted,’” he said. “Failure to comply with statutory obligations such as these can result in investigation by the SEB, suspension or even criminal prosecution.”
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The rule, passed by the Republican State Election Board, was set to go into effect Oct. 22, just two weeks before the election, and after early voting in the Peach State is well underway.
Supporters of Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump attend a campaign event at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Oct. 15, 2024. (REUTERS/Dustin Chambers)
The rule, which McBurney temporarily halted, was pushed through in September on a 3-2 vote but prompted a lawsuit filed by Georgia Democratic officials.
Election workers oversee early election voting at a polling station in Marietta, Georgia, Oct. 15, 2024. (REUTERS/Jayla Whitfield-Anderson)
The rule would have required precinct poll managers and poll officers to unseal ballot boxes and count the ballots by hand individually to ensure the tallies match the machine-counted ballot totals.
Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
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Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is celebrating after a Georgia judge temporarily blocked a rule that would have forced election officials to hand count ballots after they have been machine-tabulated.
“From the beginning, this rule was an effort to delay election results to sow doubt in the outcome, and our democracy is stronger thanks to this decision to block it,” a joint statement to several media outlets read.
“We will continue fighting to ensure that voters can cast their ballot knowing it will count.”
The brief comments were released by Georgia Democratic Party Chair Rep. Nikema Williams, D-Ga., Democratic National Committee acting Co-Executive Director Monica Guardiola and Harris-Walz Deputy Campaign Manager Quentin Fulks.
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Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 campaign is celebrating the Tuesday night court decision in Georgia. (Getty Images)
The joint statement lauding the ruling is a reflection of how lockstep state and national Democrats have been in opposing the new measure.
Slated to go into effect Oct. 22, the rule would have required three county elections officials at each polling place to manually count the ballots cast — not tally the votes themselves — after ballots were tabulated by a machine.
It was passed in a 3-2 vote by the State Elections Board (SEB), which is now facing several lawsuits against the measure and other changes by the GOP-majority board.
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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney issued the ruling. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)
Democrats have argued that the rule was created to purposefully sow division and uncertainty in the presidential election in Georgia — which was decided by less than 12,000 votes in 2020.
In Tuesday night’s ruling, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney did not take issue with the intent of the rule itself but criticized the SEB’s decision to make changes so close to Election Day.
He noted that no training had been implemented or developed to prepare election workers for the new procedure, nor had funds been allocated for that purpose.
“The administrative chaos that will — not may — ensue is entirely inconsistent with the obligations of our boards of elections (and the SEB) to ensure that our elections are fair, legal, and orderly,” McBurney wrote.
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Georgia Republican Party officials and allies of former President Trump held up the rule as a fair guardrail to increase voter confidence in the election process.
McBurney wrote that the rule “on paper” appeared consistent with the SEB’s goal to ensure fair and legal elections but added any new measure “that allows for our paper ballots — the only tangible proof of who voted for whom — to be handled multiple times by multiple people following an exhausting Election Day all before they are securely transported to the official tabulation center does not contribute to lessening the tension or boosting the confidence of the public for this election.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the Trump campaign for comment on the ruling.
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