Now i ll see you tomorrow evening. I m 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, it s now an extremely dangerous category four storm and winds are now up to 140 miles per hour. If it stays this strong, it ll be the strongest storm to ever make landfall in florida s big bend region. That s the area that we re 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 don t go outside. Emergency managers and one florida county are being so blunt with their warnings for those who are in low lying areas a
Breaking news and good evening. I m erin burnett outfront tonight. The breaking news unsurvivable. That is the exact word officials are using right now, as hurricane helene has now grown to an extremely dangerous category four hurricane, bringing with it potentially really historic storm surge levels right now expected at 20 feet. Let s just look at the scene right now is a live camera that we have in met lots of florida trees right there right now, you ve got up to 130 an hour gusts coming through that area on that bridge. We have seen cars coming and going really even in these past few moments, which is pretty stunning. Many bridges have already been closed. This is the skyway bridge, as you re looking here, which is now completely submerged. Imagine being in one of those cars. And right now, darkness is descending on the area more than 200,000 people in the dark without power right now, there is a sheriff asking people who do not evacuate to write their name and date of birth on the
Criminal charges involving classified documents found at his home. But it is his latest indictment on the Capitol Attack that may lead to new Court Restrictions on the former president. In a court filing last night, Special Counsel jack smith seeks to stop Defense Lawyers from Sharing Copies of evidence with trump that is deemed sensitive. Smith said he feared what the er psident would make public. Writing, if trump, quoting now, were to begin suing public posting details or for example grand jury transcripts ined in discovery here, it could have a harmful, Chilling Effect on witnesses, or adversely affect the Fair Administration of justice in this case. End quote. And smith flagged trumps online post from yesterday, as an example, it says, if you go after me, im coming after you. A trump spokesperson said the comment was the definition of political speech. And it had nothing to do with the case. Trump in alabama yesterday, kept up his condemnation of the prosecutions against him and m
all right, so here is a saying that i m sure you have heard before. i certainly hope you have. the internet is forever. once you post something on it,, it is never really gone even if you think you have diluted it. and despite this gop hopefuls across the country are taking a power washer to their campaign website ahead of the midterms and scoping out the mention of the hard-line antiabortion stances. take for example blake masters, the republican senate nominee over in arizona. last week masters website claimed the candidate was, quote, 100% pro-life. that language is now gone. masters also deleted his support for quote a federal personhood law which would grant the same rights and legal protections to fetuses as any person. and he is not alone. several house candidates in battleground states like michigan, north carolina, colorado, they have all removed antiabortion language from the website. i wonder why. republican governor nominees in minnesota oregon, they are also foll
you have to lead it. and despite this gop hopefuls across the country are taking a power washer to their campaign website ahead of the midterms and scrubbing any mention of the hard-line antiabortion stances. take for example blake masters, the republican senate nominee over in arizona. last week masters website claimed the candidate was, quote, 100% pro-life. that language is now gone. masters also deleted his support for quote a federal personhood law which would grant the same rights and legal protections to fetuses as any person. and he is not alone. several house candidates in battleground states like michigan, north carolina, colorado, they have all removed antiabortion language from the website. i wonder why. republican governor nominees in minnesota oregon, they are also following suit. look let s be clear here for a moment. it is normal for candidates on both sides of the aisle to move to to the center, at least, rhetorically, before elections from some of the positi