Watching at this very moment to take this storm very seriously, and please follow the guidance of your local officials. The Storm Storm Surge is well beyond the immediate path of the mur cane, could be significant and deadly for you and your Familys Sake Everyone near the path listen to local officials. 20 foot Storm Surge, you cant good morning, and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, September 27th im jonathan lemire, and we start this morning with Breaking News out of florida, where Hurricane Helene just a moment ago downgraded to tropical Storm Helene, Made Landfall as a category 4, making it at the time the strongest hurricane to ever hit floridas Big Ben at this hour the storm has indeed weakened, but forecasters warn it could still bring life threatening winds and unsurvivable Storm Surge with waters reaching as high as 20 feet in some places. So far the devastating impact has led to three it deaths, one in florida, two in georgia. At least 1 Million florida customers remai
Georgia with heavy rains, powerful winds, severe flooding, keeping people from florida to tennessee and the carolinas on alert. Embattled new York City mayor Eric Adams making his first Court Appearance in connection to those federal Bribery And Wire fraud charges. We will have a live report in a few moments. As Ukraines President Zelenskyy meets with former President Trump here in manhattan about Ukraines Prosecutor about whats next in their war with russia. We have a very good relationship. I also have a very good relationship, as you know, with president putin. I think if we win, i think were going to get it resolved very quickly. More good relations. It takes two to tango. Israels prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rips into iran at the u. N. General assembly this morning and accuses the World Body and its criminal court of antisemitism. The real War Criminals are not in israel. Theyre in iran. They are in gaza, in syria, in lebanon, in yemen. Those of you who stand with evil agains
Extremely dangerous four. It s more than 400 miles across, pushing a storm surge that officials are calling unsurvivable is now hitting florida s gulf coast as much as 20 feet of water what are forecast along the shore south of tallahassee, which itself is expected to take a direct blow. Some coastal areas already flooding. Take a look live pictures right now from gulfport in tampa on the right interstate to 70 prison biden this evening, urge anyone in the storm s path that take it extremely seriously. A lot of water there is certainly there graham gulfport, especially emergency managers and florida s taylor county are telling people choosing to stay and there are people choosing to stay to write her name and date of birth on a leg to help identify their bodies. Storm warnings are now in effect as far north as charlotte, north carolina. We ve got cnn correspondents all along the places now harm s way in chad myers in the cnn weather center, let s start with cnn meteorologist derek van
Now i ll see you tomorrow evening. I m kaitlan collins. This is the source hurricane helene is about to slam into florida and i expected to make landfall and just a couple of hours from now, it s now an extremely dangerous category four storm and winds are now up to 140 miles per hour. If it stays this strong, it ll be the strongest storm to ever make landfall in florida s big bend region. That s the area that we re keeping a close eye on. This hour, more than half 1 million people there have already lost power. And forecasters are predicting tonight that the storm surge in some areas could be unsurvivable reaching as high as 20 feet surges and high winds were already the reason for the closures of several major bridges in the tampa area that we saw tonight? officials, there are telling residents to shelter in place, that it is going to get worse and don t go outside. Emergency managers and one florida county are being so blunt with their warnings for those who are in low lying areas a
Conspiracy charges against eric adams, the mayor of new york city. The democratic mayor of new york is indicted. We are not focused on the right or the left. We are focused only on right and wrong. Tonight, what we know about the charges and what it says about the equal application of law. I noticed the indictment is very old. It goes back a long time. I had the same thing. Then jamie raskin on jack smith s big filing. Plus the house republican doubling down on his vile attack on immigrants. Higgins is a dear friend of mine and also a very principled man. The mac as hurricane helene approaches landfall, what we know about the damage already done when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. We are following breaking news in florida where a category 4 hurricane is about to hit the florida panhandle. Hurricane helene is now categorized as an extremely dangerous storm with wind at 130 miles per hour. Yesterday helene pummeled cancun as a category 2 hurricane,