Being felt everywhere. It has come in as a category three storm with 120 mile per hour sustained it went even higher gusts according to the national hurricane center, we are talking to Rental Rain extremely dangerous wind. What is being described is lifethreatening Storm Surges that are now pounding portions of the state. At this hour, a Lifethreatening Flash Flood warning has just been issued for nearly 2 Million people. That includes tampa, saint petersburg, and clearwater. You just saw Bill Weir in st. Petersburg. You could see all of that developing there right now, over half 1 Million homes and businesses have lost power with conditions deteriorating by the minute this storm has also spawned a Record Number of tornadoes, all across the state of florida, far beyond where the storm has actually making direct hit tonight, there have been 19 confirmed tornadoes. So far, the sheriff Of St. Lucie county has just confirmed that there have been multiple fatalities after an outbreak of tor
It has dropped 50 millibars in ten hours. Um i apologize, this is just horrific all right. Joining us now with the latest on the ground in tampa. Cnn News News Source correspondent Ivan Rodriguez. Ivan, good morning to you. What are you seeing down there trying to get out of the Tampa Bay Area and weve been hearing it all morning long. And also yesterday, officials pleading with millions of people that now is the time to evacuate and do so before conditions begin to deteriorate. We want to show you these live images here of Traffic Bumper to bumper, getting out of this Tampa Bay Area. We know that across the state of florida tolls have been suspended on these major highways as well to assist with the evacuations and also the state is allowing for Hurricane Evacuees to drive on the shoulder in order to keep that traffic moving all day yesterday. Casey, we saw traffic also backed up on several highways here in the Tampa Bay Area, and it really seems like people are taking this seriously
Resource tonight and angry president biden responds to donald trump accusing him of lying about the government s response to hurricane helene. Politics colliding with a natural disaster. As officials are still searching for survivors tonight. Meanwhile, israel has just launched a ground offensive into lebanon where airstrikes are lighting up the skies from beirut to damascus, or sit in teams are live in the middle east and as trump is calling for the police to get violent and calling his opponent. And i m quoting him now, mentally disabled holds a big name republican will join me as he is endorsing vice president harris. I m kaitlan collins, and this is the source tonight one of the deadliest storms and are nascent nation s history is colliding with the closest election in modern history. But we cannot let that a clubs what is happening tonight inside these states, inside north carolina and georgia is a hundreds of people who are still missing or unaccounted for this evening. The death
Hes had a lot of endorsements over the course of his career that dont matter so i think that is probably part of what is informing his calculus here. Track that is all in tonight. The special editions of Alex Wagner starts right now. Of Alx Wagner starts right now. Not in our usual new York City Studio Tonight instead, we are coming to you live from lancings midtown Brewery Right here in the Battleground State of michigan this is one of the crucial states that will decide who the next president is, and both campaigns know it. Later this Week Donald Trump will be headed back to the detroit Metro Area meanwhile, the Harriswalz Campaign is barnstorming the state with a Bus Tour focused on the issue of reproductiv that bus just rolled into town this morning, and were going to more on that later on this hour including an interview with one of the very important people riding on thatop bus. It is ath critical time for the Harris Campaign in the state of michigan. He today a new Usa Today Pol
Assembly aS President of the united states. Itll be my last. Ive seen a remarkable sweep of history. I was first elected office of the united states of america as a u. S. Senator in 1972. Now, i know i look like im only 40. I know that. President Joe Biden Yesterday with a lighthearted start to his final United Nations address. Well bring you much more of the president s major speech to World Leaders straight ahead. Meanwhile, the former president , continues to take a much different tone on several Foreign Policy issues including Russias Invasion of ukraine. Well also play for you those comments. And well bring you the latest out of The Middle East as israel and the lebanonbased militant group, hezbollah, appear to be moving closer to an allout war. Good Morning And Welcome to way too early on this wednesday, september 25th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And we have a lot to get to this morning, and well begin with president Joe Bidens speech at the United