Warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the u. S. And Around The World. Im max foster. It is friday, september the 27th, 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 4 00 a. M. In the florida big Bend Region where Hurricane Helene has made landfall overnight sweeping across the coast as an extremely dangerous category four hurricane, with winds of 100 140 miles per hour. Its now weakened, but continues to unleash lifethreatening Storm Surge, flooding, rains, and destructive winds across the Southeast Helene out power to more than 2 Million homes and businesses in florida, georgia, and the carolinas won florida sheriff says theyre fearing the worst when The Sun comes up and Tallahassees Mayor says his city has never seen a storm like It None of us have experienced a category four hurricane this close to tallahassee this is a historic storm for us right now, Everyone Stay safe. Shelter in place, stay home about 40 people have been rescued from rising water in pasco county, just north of tampa. And rescu
heavy rains to end over you and also daybreak. are you asking for people in the surrounding areas and towns to your north and northwest that weren t hit as hard to come and help with boat rescues? not at this time. we stood up our emergency operation center last wednesday. we do have quite a few resources. i m not saying that they are not that it s not that we have enough because you never have enough for something like this, but right now it s very organized and we know what we are doing and probably the better thing would be after the rain stopped first of all, you can t get to us. every street, highway, freeway that comes into beaumont at some place outside of beaumont is blocked with the exception i-10
two hours. it s about to cross i-10 right over the top of lake charles, who, by the way, has been spared. look at our poor friends in beaumont. the storm as it moved to the north is producing tremendous amounts rain. remember we showed you the picture of the cajun navy, all the boats coming in to the region to help, they re telling them don t come in. some of the boats had to be rescued themselves. the rescuers are now being rescued. that s how dire the situation is. bill, thank you. we ll be back in touch with you very soon. to put all of this in per expect i, 26 inches in a 24-hour time period in beaumont, 50 inches in houston. seattle, which is supposed to be obviously one of the rainiest cities, i just checked it really quickly, 37 inches of rainfall per year. per year.
neighborhoods have been pretty thoroughly searched. folks we talked to are fairly optimistic since they re not fining additional people trapped in these homes. they re optimistic because it sounds like the rain event here in western houston is going to be completely over but a couple these folks i was texting with one of the rescue truck drivers they re starting to get their marching orders to head east to beaumont where the need is great and going to get greater. i-10 eastbound is closed right now so the challenge will be getting the help they need from houston to the folks in beaumont and port arthur. garrett haake thank you very much. let s go straight to bill karins for the latest on this. the pictures in port arthur what happened is incredible. 26 inches of rain in 24 hours. this is one of the highest totals we ve ever seen in one location in our country in recorded history as far as rainfall goes in 24 hours.
rescued them. the child survived, the mother did not. and the shelters are flooding. we saw the prediction of 20 inches of rain coming into beaumont, texas. anybody who knows beaumont knows that is just a tragedy waiting to happen. sure enough they re bearing the brunt right now. we said a week ago 50 inches calling, that s ridiculous. if you have your social media account, go in there and type in port arthur. one lady says my grandmother is wheelchair bound and the water is at her knees, please help her as fast as she can. there s dozens of people in port arthur saying please rescue me,