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
Facing another issue in the us, increasingly chilly relations with the republican party. Donald trump has accused Mr Zelensky for refusing to do a deal with moscow and has questioned why the us is giving billions of dollars of aid to ukraine. And also, the House Speaker and the us, mike johnson, has accused the ukrainian ambassador in washington of organising what he called a partisan Campaign Event to help the democrats. Lets talk through some of theseissues lets talk through some of these issues with a ratio lets have it, he was Deputy Director of the russia ukrainian programme. 8 Billion worth of aid and billions more on top of what america has really given. How much of a difference to think that is going to make to ukraine and to the Army Fighting Rush at the moment . Fighting rush at the moment . Russia. Fighting rush at the moment . russia. There is war is very high Intensity War and it costs a lot of money. The annual needs of ukraine to really be able to repel russian Invasio
Already begun in Southwest Florida. The impacts were not that significant, where the storm has already passed, fdot crews have already driven and cleared more than 2000 miles of roadway in Southwest Florida so weve already started working once the initial initial response is through our cut and tell us crews were transition to Debris Removal. And undergoing are two sentences, leadership, we will stand ready just like with the Dahlia And Debbie to support fiscally constrained counties with the Debris Removal operation please leave dr. Please do not drive on them water over a road can be very dangerous, especially around culverts and bridges. Every storm season, we see people tried to navigate through water. You have no idea whats Going On underneath the water, please do not drive through but were going to stay in touch with our airports and Seaports Sea ports are closed, Water Side right now airports are going to reopen just as soon as practically feasible and thank again, governor. Tha
It states Hurricane Helene was just upgraded. A powerful category three storm. Its already wreaking havoc on bridges and roadways such as this one youre looking at in Southwest Florida for those in the Big Bend, thats where the Florida Panhandle meets the peninsula. The storms Outer Bands all already have brought extensive flooding. And were told that works is yet to come. Listen to what federal and state officials are saying right now, it looks like its dead on hit to tallahassee. This is an unusually dangerous storm that threatens to bring Heavy Rain and potentially catastrophic flooding. This will be a statewide event. We expect strong winds throughout date with hurricaneforce Winds Wind Gust up to 8,200 miles an hour you just heard from the North Carolina Governor and the Georgia Governor we are standing by to hear from florida governor Ron Desantis in the next hour. And as you heard, it is not just florida in helenes pam, georgia, south carolina, North Carolina, are all all facing
You dont want to listen to what were saying. The message is take this seriously. Is an understatement a Hurricane Helene Closing and end time running out for welcome everybody i am Neil Cavuto this is your World Prisms are up to 100 to desist most phone the sizes into billy really big role in the impact to see. Currently when i there be a nice lisbon of two unknowns urgent 0 into georgia ultimately associate to severe whos who visions and its a long factor for august of The Star stretches well out of the seven mandated to hand dealt with a lot of with this received awareness is said her hand on its a large swath of the country as a Hood Industry who grew as new suit when again the Strauss Windsor is there any merciless person with all the rain and when it implies a their Parent Event and certainly on going to get worse is in the Henna Rant Wire was left of the system alone even if youre not right only visions lets go to tallahassee with the string to pick up a lot here. We had closer t