Life threatening Flash Flooding and historic Storm Surge. It left towns across the Gulf Coast completely underwater as floodwaters submerge cars, crashed over highways and seeped into homes. At least six people have lost their lives. Take a look at this, rescue crews in pinellas county, encountering homes engulfed in flames as they try to save people trapped by rising waters. Right now, helene has weakened to a tropical storm, as it heads north, putting 42 Million people under flood alerts. Millions across the south are still without power. And here is the moment when the eyewall hit perry, florida. Jesse kirsch was reporting live on the air. Reporter i can tell you that we have had intermittent moments of really powerful gusts. Were getting some right now, again. This is some of the i want to point out, i dont know if you can see it off in the distance, but there are cars out here, i can tell you, 45mileperhour winds, not to be on the roads anymore. Anyone out here, presumably, not a
Tonight, several developing headlines as we come on the air. The numbers just in. 165,000 new cases of coronavirus in just 24 hours. And tonight, the news, cases are now on the rise in all 50 states. By one estimate, 74 americans diagnosed every minute. Tonight, the refrigerated trucks we have not seen since the spring. The hospitals in the Heartland Running out of beds. And news on that Pfizer Vaccine tonight. When could it be widely available and what dr. Fauci just said about when americans will likely get this. And how theyll have to transport it. I needs to be kept at 94 degrees below zero. Also tonight, the other breaking headline. 24 hours after President Trump fired his Defense Secretary in a tweet, tonight, three more top pentagon officials out. Martha raddatz standing by. Tonight, the President Elect joe biden is asked what would he say to the American People on what is now playing out. A president who will not concede. Bidens response and mary bruce is live. The Supreme Cour
democrats, hello over there, we know this isn t your fault and we know these republicans are doing this and we know that your margins are slim, but if you don t stop this it is going to happen. if it happens, it is going to be cataclysmic in the most macro, meta, existential sense of what our democracy is. but it also will mean that republicans will win a bunch of elections they shouldn t win otherwise. if you want to do it in naked political terms or in ideological terms about the future of the country, you have to get with this program. yes, it is very hard. your margins are narrow. the filibuster is there. there are things that are impeding you from being able to do this. this is not a slam dunk, but the fact that they ve screwed around since january and never put this front and center, i know there are other important things. by the way, again, i will say that, too. i know covid is really important. economic rebuilding is really important. the green revolution is really important.
determine whether republicans keep control or whether democrats take control of the senate. steve osunsami from georgia now. reporter: it s looking very likely tonight that control of the u.s. senate will lie in the hands of georgia voters on january 5th, when four candidates who were unable to win a majority in the election will try to punch their ticket to washington. these seats have been held by republicans for the better part of two decades. but democrats raphael warnock and jon ossoff think they can make history here. i think that these incumbent republican senators just felt entitled to an easy dance back to victory. reporter: conventional wisdom says the democrats shouldn t win, that they do poorly in runoffs here, but joe biden is proving that things change, holding onto a heat in a state that president obama lost twice. sitting senators david perdue and kelly loeffler are trying to beat the democrats. in january, i have one of the most radical opponents on the democra