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.
Look at georgia, look at some of look at the massive amount of area in florida right now, were gonna be here for as long as it takes. Were going to help florida get back on its feet one meal at a time. Were going to give these people hope, let them know that were, that were here for him. And that were going to be keep coming back every day until until theyre settled, until there big, they get their Feedback Underneath so glad youre there, so thankful that youre there. John torpey. And the whole crew from World Central Kitchen really appreciate what youre doing out there a new hour of cnn new central starts right now is cnn Breaking News im John Berman in tallahassee, florida. This is cnns special Live Coverage of helene, which is now a tropical storm, but a storm that has caused major your peril over hundreds and hundreds of Miles Water rescues in multiple states. This after a catastrophic Storm Surge on Floridas Coast that surge was nine feet or higher in some areas, me right now, fra
The sun will come up and we will see catastrophic damage in florida and toward georgia. Here are top Wind Gusts in georgia, 100 mile per hour in alma, valdasta, 96 miles per hour. Power outages will be a big deal, trees will be down for Florida And Georgia and could see Power Outages for days and even weeks. 5 a. M. Advisory, 75 mile per hour sustained winds, moving quickly. One good side to this storm , i is moving very fast, it is not lingering. It made Way Inland and now in central georgia. Carolinas, part two of the story, a system moved through earlier this Week And Rainfall on top of that will give us potential Flood Emergency for southern appalachians. They are warning of the worst flooding they have seen in recent memory. Made impact on florida as category 4, does not take much to cause Flooding And Damage and that is going to happen again. W widespread potential damage up and down the coastline for southeast to midatlantic and ohio and tennessee River Valley where rem Know Nan
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