Breaking news and good evening. I m erin burnett outfront tonight. The breaking news unsurvivable. That is the exact word officials are using right now, as hurricane helene has now grown to an extremely dangerous category four hurricane, bringing with it potentially really historic storm surge levels right now expected at 20 feet. Let s just look at the scene right now is a live camera that we have in met lots of florida trees right there right now, you ve got up to 130 an hour gusts coming through that area on that bridge. We have seen cars coming and going really even in these past few moments, which is pretty stunning. Many bridges have already been closed. This is the skyway bridge, as you re looking here, which is now completely submerged. Imagine being in one of those cars. And right now, darkness is descending on the area more than 200,000 people in the dark without power right now, there is a sheriff asking people who do not evacuate to write their name and date of birth on the
how far will u.s. and allies go to try to calm rising tensions in the region? plus, a heartbreaking find. the california family that was kidnapped, found dead. the youngest victim, only 8 months old. what detectives are saying about the person they believe is responsible. welcome to the lead. president biden taking his first steps possibly towards the decriminalization of marijuana on the federal level. he is pardoning all prior federal offenses of quote simple marijuana possession. this will clear convictions for several thousand americans. president biden is now also encouraging governors to follow his lead and pardon those convicted on similar state charges. the biden administration also says it will continue to review the federal classification of marijuana. right now, it is still a class 1 drug alongside heroin and lsd which means according to the government, cannabis has no accepted medical use at the federal level despite study after study. it is legal in 37 states
pine island. these are slow draining basins in florida. we ve got to get the flooding under control then i think we can attack the remaining leaks. are they still finding victims of the storm? finding bodies? when i was there yesterday, the search and rescue teams and ambulance crews were still out. two days before ian made landfall, you approved a plan to reduce erosion and flood risk along the shoreline of miami-dade county. what impact would this have for future hurricanes that didn t hit miami-dade? we have a number of studies that will be presented to congress for this next water resource development act of 2022. projects around the country that we re attacking these more powerful storms and of course sea level rise that we have been working to account for all of our projects for the past 12 years. this would help. you re not a political guy. you re army commanding general. anytime we talk about climate change and the fact scientists say these storms are getting more int
ago, we are not seeing problems with food or water. a city of mariupol, they are completely surrounded. they can t get people in and out. they need everything. so i m very grateful and blessed to be where i am in kyiv, where we have access to essentials. we need body armor, ballistic plates, helmets. we need things like night vision goggles, so we can conduct night operations, infrared. smoke grenades, regular grenades, grenade launchers would be tremendous. i hear there s antitank missiles like javelins, t-4s, but as far
large package of aid that was announced by president biden. can you tell us what s in it? what we have here is pretty much everything that s been provided. what is interesting about this latest package is the distinct items they are bringing in for urban combat. earlier on we saw a lot of stingers, javelins, patrol boats, helicopters. that was for this outside larger conventional fight they were going to have with the russians initially. but what we are now seeing is very interesting equipment that specifically says both the u.s. and ukrainians are starting to focus urban combat. these at-4s right here, anti-armor systems, very short range. they are effective to about 300 meters. they kill tanks. buff 300 meters is pretty close. that tells me they are going to use those inside the cities. more grenades, huge amounts of