Good day. Im Jose Diazbalart in for chris jansing. The strongest hurricane to strike floridas Big Bend is still packing a major punch. Helene is barrelling through the southeast Carving Destruction as it moves north. Millions are without power as the region grapples with catastrophic flooding and damaging winds. We are tracking The Storm and surveying the damage as this Lifethreatening Situation continues to develop. Vice president harris faces a key vulnerability headon. Shes heading to the southern border. Can she flip the script on trump on immigration . New Yorks Law and Order Mayor forced to give a plea before a judge. Eric Adams Arraignment on a fivecount public corruption indictment. Whats Next for the case . We begin here in the south where at this hour at least 22 people are confirmed dead and around 4 Million customers still are without power after the strongest hurricane ever to hit floridas big Bend Region brought up to 20 feet of unsurvival Storm Surge. In a matter of a co
removed 89 policies from two previous administrations. bill: congressional correspondent watching that starts us off and sets the table on capitol hill for this. good morning. good morning to you both. we won t actually see or hear from secretary alejandro mayorkas, we are expecting this hearing to be pretty fiery especially between democrats and republicans as pretty much every lawmaker knows where these hearings are going. we will hear and see from chad wolf, of course, the former acting d.h.s. secretary under former president trump. he s expected to compare and contrast president biden s border policies with that of former president trump saying that this is really just a crisis by design. now, there has been a lot of impeachment talk in these hallways as of late and last week, represent clay higgins actually became the latest republican to introduce articles of impeachment against mayorkas. but it s pretty unclear. you have some republicans out there who are not convi
right now you can feel the pressure drop. feels like the hand of death. a significant, significant impact. herself florida s governor describes one of the worst weather threats in decades. hurricane expected to pack severe ones greater than 130 miles an hour. it makes landfall as a cat four storm in the coming hours. this is video from cedar key is florida. north of tampa. likely to take a severe impact. with many coastal residents heeding the official warnings. evacuating in under out of state. those who have stayed, officials say they will be on the one with no help available
there s a tornado watch. until 6 am for the west coast. the peninsula of florida. rightfully so, here you can see some of the bands filling in right around this hurricane. producing some of those bands that produce some activity capable of doing that. here is the center of the hurricane. now we are looking at the push of water. not reena, getting the rain bands but as we see the storm surge, now the inclusion is 12 to 16 feet in these very low lying areas. cedar key has about a five foot elevation. even for tallahassee, these are low-lying areas. a lot of repopulated like a tampa. like a naples florida. wait gainesville. it s a rule area. people of. livelihoods of businesses, they
category three. it is not, it is still category two. one mile an hour difference then being category three. 1:10 miles an hour. moving towards the north. 60 miles per hour. we ve got our attention is that it is moving at 60 miles an hour. it is slowing down. that is not good news. we ve watched this going from just being a massive thunderstorm to having a clearly defined i. and the more clearly we can see the, i am more tells us that it s ramping up. becoming a mature hurricane. now positioning of a few miles to the south of cedar key. it is on task to move to that big ben area. we will make landfall? merrill the eye cross land? well as we all know it is just not that one point. it is the entire area. because this hurricane is so broad. it s still impacting tampa. still impacting naples florida. coral gables florida. with heavy rainfall.