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
Cnn breaking news good evening. I m abby phillip in new york. Our special coverage continues tonight of hurricane helene, a monster category four storm that is now moments away from making landfall in florida. At this moment, it was too late now for folks along the coast too evacuate. Officials warned that the winds and the storm surge will be be catastrophic in some areas, the word that they are using is unsurvivable helene could be the strongest storm on record for the big bend region. And we are already starting to see a major surge in these cities. So we have our anchors and our correspondents. They re fanned out as the storm is now hitting and we have chad myers as well with the latest forecast in the cnn weather center. Let s go first to john berman. He s out in tallahassee in the socalled dead on a hit zone, john, what s happening where you are right now? yeah the winds have really started to pick up abby over the last half an hour. The rain really coming down here, you can see
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
Absolutely. No question about it and important for parents to watch for sure. And i know you have little ones and you just wanna do everything you can to protect those little ones as much as possible. You absolutely do for sure. I have to i dont think im going to be letting them play football but that at least high school, i dont know either you know, well see what happens. All right. Jim acosta. Thanks so much. Ill take it from here. Good morning, everyone. You are live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Pamela Brown and New York and we have a new news this morning. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivering an impassioned plea at the United Nations General Assembly just moments ago here On Cnn, we heard him rally global support for ukraine more than twoandahalf years after russia invaded his country and launched a War Zelenskyy brought the chilling warning that russia is Planning Attacks on nuclear Power Plants in ukraine. Heres a bit of his message to World Leaders recently i received
Los angeles and this is americas late news, Fox News Night. Breaking tonight, Vice President Kamala Harris making the Border Crisis 1 of the focal points of her campaign after arguing repeatedly that president Donald Trump only brought attention to the issue for his ego. This issue is about a Vanity Project for this president. That wont stop them. His whole political stripe around a Vanity Project called a wall that would cost taxpayers billions. That wall will never get built. Trace of course much of the wall did get built and it did Stop Thousands of illegal immigrants from pouring into the country under trump. Until bidenharris Stop Construction on day 1. The Border Czar even created her own chaos with her attempts at trying to explain why she would not go and see it for herself. You have plans to visit the border . Not today. [laughter] ive said im going to go to the border. When are you going . Administration has asked im not finished. You havent been to the border. And i havent b