Is Cnn Newsroom. We begin with Breaking News as we track Hurricane Helene, its now the strongest storm to ever make landfall in floridas Big Bend, sweeping across the coast hours ago as an extremely dangerous category four hurricane with winds of 140 miles per hour. Now the effects have been felt far from the center of the storm. The mayor of clearwater told me his community has been inundated despite being 100 miles from the center now, helene is weakening now but has knocked out power to more than 1,000,000. 5 homes and businesses in florida, georgia, and the carolinas. At least three people have been killed as the storm continues to pummel the southeast to end georgia. And one in florida we have had a report of a fatality on the roadway. Car driving on i4 near your Ybor City and tampa, was hit when a sign fell onto onto the highway. So that just shows you that its very dangerous. Chris conditions out there you need to be right now. Just hunkering down nows not the time to be going o
You watching us here in the united states, canada, and Around The World. Im Kim Brunhuber we begin with Breaking News as we track Hurricane Helene, at least three people have been killed in Florida And Georgia as the storm continues to pummel the southeast national Weather Service is telling residents to stay in their safe place. Helene is now moving over South Georgia as a category one storm with 90 mile per Hour Winds. Officials say its still an extremely dangerous and lifethreatening situation. Now, it made landfall a few hours ago as a Monster Category four hurricane with winds of 140 miles per hour, its the strongest storm to ever make landfall in floridas Big Bend. National Weather Service is describing it as unsurvivable with up to 20 feet of Storm Surge expected in some areas, helene in his knocked out power to more than a millionandahalf homes and businesses in florida, georgia, and the carolinas you need to be right now. Just to ring down. Now is not the time to be going out.
Very much for being here. Have a wonderful weekend. Thanks to All Of You for joining us. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere cnn new central starts right now all right. The breaking News Water rescues underway across several states right now in Life And Death situation, after Hurricane Helene made landfall as the strongest hurricane on record to hit floridas big ben. Im John Berman in tallahassee, florida this morning where its mostly just messy this city did not see the worst of it the Storm Made Landfall near harry about an hour from now as a category four storm with 140 mile per hour winds, it is now a tropical storm as it moves over georgia this is affecting so many states in as everyone wakes up this morning, were only beginning to get a sense of the impact this morning. First, responders they are seeing scenes like this. This was south pasadena, florida, flooded home on fire Dumpsters Gloating through the floodwaters and steen steinhatchee, florida A House just voted away on the Way
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And unsurvivable about Helene Making Landfall Last Night in florida. Cat 4 hurricane. Big storm and really moving like a clipper, too. Im bill hemmer, welcome to our program. Dana im dana perino. This is americas newsroom. Another fast week. It was good that it moved fast but still means there is a lot of damage. Ron desantis was right on time yesterday and we expect to see him any moment. Lets get to Steve Harrigan outside of tampa. This is the scene a lot of people in florida and even georgia are waking up to today. Two feet of water on the ground. Gets deeper the closer you get to the water. Many houses under water. The challenge now for people is getting out of their homes. Getting to their cars trying to make sure theyre safe. Weve seen a number of Air Boats and water rescues, 80 in this county just overnight. We see people really just stumbling around. More than A Million people in florida without Electric Power right now. More than 800,000 in georgia. So it will be a tough day a