It states Hurricane Helene was just upgraded. A powerful category three storm. Its already wreaking havoc on bridges and roadways such as this one youre looking at in Southwest Florida for those in the Big Bend, thats where the Florida Panhandle meets the peninsula. The storms Outer Bands all already have brought extensive flooding. And were told that works is yet to come. Listen to what federal and state officials are saying right now, it looks like its dead on hit to tallahassee. This is an unusually dangerous storm that threatens to bring Heavy Rain and potentially catastrophic flooding. This will be a statewide event. We expect strong winds throughout date with hurricaneforce Winds Wind Gust up to 8,200 miles an hour you just heard from the North Carolina Governor and the Georgia Governor we are standing by to hear from florida governor Ron Desantis in the next hour. And as you heard, it is not just florida in helenes pam, georgia, south carolina, North Carolina, are all all facing
long. it s been a rough start to the summer season, and we re seeing the worst of it now shifting. a lot is going to go where you have a lot of friends, heading toward the west coast. so far most of the suffering has been throughout the south, texas, a hot fourth in areas of the northeast, and today the hottest has been in the areas of south florida, miami feels like 105 degrees. the problem with miami is it s been very humid too, and hasn t had time to cool off. last week at one point, up to 15, 16 million. we re down to 14 million. a few spots in florida, and now we re focusing the dangerous heat into the southwest. you re going to start to hear wild numbers coming out of the desert areas as we head through the week next week. it looks to peak somewhere around wednesday or thursday. today, 111 in phoenix, a little bit warmer than it should be. normally it should be 106 this time of year. they ve had six days in a row above 110. just in the back of your mind, the record in
capitol hill. and this is cnn. just in to cnn space, exclaiming it triggered its own explosion of that history making rockets. we re going to tell you why. and another act of senseless gun violence. the look on this six year old girl s face speaks volumes, doctors removing a bullet fragment from her cheek after a basketball rolled into her neighbor s yard, and he allegedly opened fire a manhunt now under away with the girl s mother is saying about the moments before he pulled the trigger. and his violence torment sudan, the u. s military is now deploying additional capabilities nearby. that means u. s service members to be in place to secure the u. s. embassy to prepare for potential evacuation civilians desperately trying to flee as fighting between rival factions is now overwhelming hospitals. we are following these major developing stories and many more. all coming in right here to cnn news, central. we begin with the rocket launch turned fireworks show space x s historic
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presidency. i m john berman. brianna is off. cnn chief white house correspondent and pinocchio fan kaitlan collins is here. i know a thing or two about trump, we got a lot to talk about when it comes to that. not making any connections. we begin with the new cnn reporting overnight involving a newly revealed email from the national archives, email that shows just how long donald trump has been holding sensitive documents in the archives did not think should be in his position at all. the email indicates records were not returned despite a determination by a top white house lawyer that they had to be, according to a source throughout 2021, there are about a dozen emails and calls including a may 2021 email from the national archives to trump s lawyers that reads in part, it is also our understanding that roughly two dozen boxes of original presidential records were kept in the residence of the white house over the course of president trump s last year in office and have no