Cnn breaking news good evening. I m abby phillip in new york. Our special coverage continues tonight of hurricane helene, a monster category four storm that is now moments away from making landfall in florida. At this moment, it was too late now for folks along the coast too evacuate. Officials warned that the winds and the storm surge will be be catastrophic in some areas, the word that they are using is unsurvivable helene could be the strongest storm on record for the big bend region. And we are already starting to see a major surge in these cities. So we have our anchors and our correspondents. They re fanned out as the storm is now hitting and we have chad myers as well with the latest forecast in the cnn weather center. Let s go first to john berman. He s out in tallahassee in the socalled dead on a hit zone, john, what s happening where you are right now? yeah the winds have really started to pick up abby over the last half an hour. The rain really coming down here, you can see
Of them is going to lead the country just a good reminder and a pretty stunning, pretty stunning clips there. Alright, panel. Thank you very much. And thanks to All Of You for joining us. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere cnn new central starts right now breaking overnight the mayor of new York City, Eric Adams, indicted and facing at least one federal Criminal Charge following a corruption investigation, the mayor says hes innocent, but hell now need to surrender to federal custody in a matter of days right now, florida is feeling the outer bands of helene is topicals, is tropical Storm Force winds since hit the coast there, a category one hurricane continuing to strengthen as it inches closer and with it, the potential for an unsurvivable Storm Surge where i am in tallahassee, the capital, florida bracing for the most powerful storm this city has ever seen it wont stop here millions of people over five states we are tracking it all on John Berman in tallahassee. Sara is out today. Kate
Jim sciutto In Washington will continue to follow Breaking News out of florida where the fbi is now investigating an apparent Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump just two months after the former president was shot in the e. R. At a rally in Pennsylvania Trump is safe. He was not harmed in Sundays Incident at his Golf Club in West Palm Beach, florida a 58yearold man identified. You see him there as Ryan Wesley Rows has been detained he had weighed in on politics, on Social Media in the past at times criticizing trump a source says the Fbi Investigation has now gone global. As officials look into the alleged Assassins Background or attempted assassinate, the background earlier, the Palm Beach County Sheriff said the Secret Service fired shots at a man who was holding a rifle in the bushes along the perimeter of the trump international Golf Club. A source says trump had been playing golf at the time it is moving between the fifth and six holes his outing, we are told was a last Minute D
Polk county where we are located. Let me pop up to Story County just north of our location. We are only at 7 . We have a lot of votes to come in from Story County. That is ames iowa. Iowa university as a target for nikki haley. We will see if she can be successful here. Popped out again. Dealers choice. If you like jackson county, if you do trump at 62 reporting. Upwards of 73 . Lets go back in time to eight years ago and see what this county did. Pretty good battle with ted cruz. We saw this throughout the entire state eight years ago. It doesnt tell us a lot, i dont think. Trump won the County County by 41 votes. 4. 4 . There was a lot more competition eight years ago. You had 10 different candidates in the state of iowa. I want to show you this