Now ill see you Tomorrow Evening. Im 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, its now an extremely dangerous category four storm and winds are now up to 140 Miles Per Hour. If it stays this strong, itll be the strongest storm to ever make landfall in floridas Big Bend region. Thats the area that were 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 dont go outside. Emergency managers and one Florida County are being so blunt with their warnings for those who are in low lying areas and did
Cnn Breaking News good evening. Im 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. Theyre fanned out as the storm is now hitting and we have Chad Myers as well with the latest forecast in the Cnn Weather Center. Lets go first to John Berman. Hes out in tallahassee in the socalled dead on a hit zone, john, whats 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 it p