Right 6 00, a. M. On the east coast. A live look at clearwater, florida on the West Coast of florida as Hurricane Helene barrels through the gulf of mexico, gaining more and more strength through the day today. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us. The latest update from the national hurricane center, just a short time ago shows helene is getting stronger now with 90 mile an hour winds the storm though, expected to get much stronger than that. Helene is forecast to arrive as a major hurricane along floridas Big Bend later this evening, bringing lifethreatening Storm Surge and catastrophic winds widespread Power Outages are also expected. Recovery teams already mobilizing across the state to get the lights back on once the storm passes many people will lose power depending on where you are in the state. So just prepare, be prepared for that understand that Thats Something that could happen and have a plan in place. So youre able to whether that alrigh
Several days with high temperatures that will keep getting hotter as the weather goes on. The weather will bring the risk of power outages. And its why we have Team Coverage on whats to come and how to handle i. We start with sandhya patel. Hot enough to make you sweat, dion and dan. Lets take a look at the red flag warning first. That goes into Effect Tomorrow night. It runs until 8 00 a. M. The winds at 35 to 50 miles an hour. The diablo winds will dry it out even more and any fires that develop will quickly spread. Heres a look at the hour by hour wind forecast. As we head into tomorrow night and sunday, the winds begin to increase. These are lower elevation winds, cal stoeg, a 29 miles an hour. 24 miles an hour at middletown. Now on sunday we have a second round of gusty winds coming. That has prompted a wind advisory from 2 00 a. M. To 10 0 a. M. Tree limbs may get knocked down by the gusty winds. The human with the down sloping wind is really going to drop. So tomorrow afternoon,
We start with the breaking news from the battle against the wildfire in washington state. Three firefighters there killed in the line of duty. Officials say the firefighters were involved in whats described as initial attack operations against the fire. During that time their vehicle crashed, and its believed they were overtaken by the flames. With more details, heres abcs kenneth moton. Reporter washington is in a state of emergency requesting immediate federal help hours after three firefighters were killed and another four injured while battling a raging wildfire in the Eastern Community of twist. The sheriff describing it as a hell storm. The bottom line this was hell in here. Its just obvious. It was blowing in every direction and we lost three. Reporter more than 230,000 acres burned. Several homes have been evacuated in Okanogan County and Emergency Management posting it has been a rough day. We have lost three firefighters, homes and security. The National Guard is on the groun
In the line of duty. Officials say the firefighters were involved in whats described as initial attack operations against the fire. During that time their vehicle crashed and its believed they were overtaken by the flames. With more details heres abcs kenneth moton. Reporter washington is in a state of emergency requesting immediate federal help hours after three firefighters were killed and another four injured while battling a raging wildfire in the Eastern Community of twist. The sheriff describing it as a hell storm. The bottom line this was hell in here and its just obvious. It was blowing in every direction and we lost men. Reporter more than 230,000 acres burned. Several homes have been evacuated in Okanogan County posting it has been a rough day. We have lost three firefighters, homes and security. The National Guard is on the ground trying to protect thousands of homes. Past ten hours were up here, its hot, you know, i got new boots yesterday. Were breaking them in, getting bl
Three firefighters there killed in the line of duty. Officials say the firefighters were involved in whats described as initial attack operations against the fire. During that time their vehicle crashed and its believed they were overtaken by the flames. With more details heres abcs kenneth moton. Reporter washington is in a state of emergency requesting immediate federal help hours after three firefighters were killed and another four injured while battling a raging wildfire in the Eastern Community of twist. The sheriff describing it as a hell storm. The bottom line this was hell in here and its just obvious. It was blowing in every direction and we lost men. Reporter more than 230,000 acres burned. Several homes have been evacuated in Okanogan County posting it has been a rough day. We have lost three firefighters, homes and security. The National Guard is on the ground trying to protect thousands of homes. Past ten hours were up here, its hot, you know, i got new boots yesterday. W