Sullen day in the history and the Nova Music Festival as the country marks one year since carried out a brutal Terrorist Attack and 1200 people killed becoming the deadliest day for the since the holocaust. But is still an active War Zone right now and plumes of smoke rising in beirut as israel trades heavy fire. Overnight hamas a barrage of missiles at Tel Aviv to march the massacre and to wipe the Jewish State off the map. We have much more on this throughout the morning but first. For the second time in two Weeks Florida is bracing for lifethreatening storm. Governor Ron Desantis about to give an update on Hurricane Milton or Joe Wood has rapidly intensifying and could force the biggest evacuation in years. Good morning im Dana Perino and bill is often great to have you here jillian. Im Gillian Turner and this is Americas Newsroom and gaining strength the gulf of Mexico And Category 3 but could get stronger still when it makes landfall wednesday. Dana milton on track to hit Tampa An
Good to be with you. Im katy tur. One year ago today, hamas militants launched an unprecedented multipronged attack on southern israel, descending on communities close to the border, killing 1,200 people, including 46 americans, and taking more than 250 hostages back to gaza. Kids, and babies, moms and dads, grandparents, soldiers, people in their homes, people at work. People at a Music Festival. It was the largest massacre of jews since the holocaust, the worst Security Failure in israels history. In the years since, israel has turned gaza into rubble, trying to root out hamas. And rescue hostages, killing 40,000 gazans, militants and civilians. In many cases, entire families, and lots and lots and lots of children. More than 16,000, according to local accounting. On top of that, an ever escalating humanitarian catastrophe, a lack of food, water, shelter, and medicine. Of the 250 hostages taken back to gaza, 117 have been released in shortterm Cease Fire and lopsided Prisoner Exchang
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Cnn breaking News Amar codes alongside John Berman. With cnns continuing coverage of Hurricane Helene, the Monster Category four storm set to make landfall just south of tallahassee, florida. And at any moment, nearly 1 Million people are already without power across florida and also georgia and the impacts they are far reaching this is new Video Tonight of rescues that are taking place in fort Myers Beach in southwest florida. Youve got local deputies using boats to rescue people who call for help. Streets. Theyre turning into rivers the warnings are dire. This is a patent strophic storm, packing can winds around 140 miles per hour and the Storm Surge Forecast or say, will be unsurvivable 20 feet in some parts. Helene is one of the biggest storms to ever hit the gulf coast. Its about 400 miles wide absolutely massive and making matters even worse all of this is happening in the dead of night. Florida governor Ron Desantis is set to hold a Press Conference a few moments from right now,
Is Cnn Newsroom. We begin with Breaking News as we track Hurricane Helene, its now the strongest storm to ever make landfall in floridas Big Bend, sweeping across the coast hours ago as an extremely dangerous category four hurricane with winds of 140 miles per hour. Now the effects have been felt far from the center of the storm. The mayor of clearwater told me his community has been inundated despite being 100 miles from the center now, helene is weakening now but has knocked out power to more than 1,000,000. 5 homes and businesses in florida, georgia, and the carolinas. At least three people have been killed as the storm continues to pummel the southeast to end georgia. And one in florida we have had a report of a fatality on the roadway. Car driving on i4 near your Ybor City and tampa, was hit when a sign fell onto onto the highway. So that just shows you that its very dangerous. Chris conditions out there you need to be right now. Just hunkering down nows not the time to be going o