Per hour. And its barreling straight toward florida as a Cat Category four storm. People have across the state are trying to evacuate before it makes Landfall Tomorrow Night the city of tampa is in the storms bull bullseye. And later this hour we will get an update from the mayor. Shes already issued a blunt warning. If you stay in the Evacuation Zones, you who are going to die President Biden echoed that sentiment from the White House moments ago a potential for this storm to both enter florida as hurricane and leave Florida Hurricane on the atlantic coast this could be the worst Storm Hit Florida in over a century. And god willing, it wont be, but thats what its looking like right now. If youre under Evacuation Orders, you should evacuated. Now. Now now i should have already evacuated. Its a matter of Life And Death, and thats not hyperbole. Its a matter Life And Death the president just canceled his planned foreign trip this week so he can oversee the response to the second hurrican
Of them is going to lead the country just a good reminder and a pretty stunning, pretty stunning clips there. Alright, panel. Thank you very much. And thanks to All Of You for joining us. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere cnn new central starts right now breaking overnight the mayor of new York City, Eric Adams, indicted and facing at least one federal Criminal Charge following a corruption investigation, the mayor says hes innocent, but hell now need to surrender to federal custody in a matter of days right now, florida is feeling the outer bands of helene is topicals, is tropical Storm Force winds since hit the coast there, a category one hurricane continuing to strengthen as it inches closer and with it, the potential for an unsurvivable Storm Surge where i am in tallahassee, the capital, florida bracing for the most powerful storm this city has ever seen it wont stop here millions of people over five states we are tracking it all on John Berman in tallahassee. Sara is out today. Kate
welcome back to our viewers and united states and around the world. i m john, those cnn center in atlanta. it is now 1 am on the u.s. u.s. east coast. the entire state of florida, embarrassing for the hurricane in. a massive storm stretching 100 miles across, which early made landfall on western cuba. knocking out the islands electricity grid causing a nationwide blackout. 11 million people right now in the dark waiting for more process to damage. as of this hour, no reports of any fatalities. since leaving cuba, it has gone in strength fueled by the warm waters of the gulf of mexico. as it heads to florida, now category three, sustained winds of about 120 miles per hour. along with life-threatening storm surge, florida is facing catastrophic flooding, strong powerful winds, all day long, tuesday, visitors across the state to make landfall, now expected sooner than first forecast, and further to the south. but in some parts, it has always been felt, conditions tore throughout
won t take much of a shift to get this closer to pinellas county, closer to tampa bay and increase the storm surge areas there, and also, we have a full moon wednesday night. the high tide is already expected, it s supposed to be extremely high, the whole southeastern coast, and we re going to have a strong tropical storm or a hurricane at the same time. that s going to be a huge issue for the south carolina, georgia, and north carolina coast too. we have hurricanes from fort myers north wards, we have storm surge warnings. the biggest message is going to be that storm surge, jose. right now possibly up to 7 to 11 feet, these counties north of here. i ll give you one town that i m worried about here, jose. crystal river only has the highest elevation of about 5 to 7 feet, and they are in the 7 to 11 foot. so those are the people that, you know, even if they re a mile or two inland, that water could easily be ten feet all the way inland. this is going to be another huge disaster that pe
landfall somewhere south of the port charlotte area, not form from put the cone up. a little farther towards the north, but at this, point it is such a broad feature, the impacts certainly gonna be felt wide reaching across the state of florida. and you ll notice, say the major hurricane, shortly after landfall, continues as a tropical storm through this part of central florida. we merging back over to the eastern area of the state, there before possibly making another landfall across parts of the state of georgia. but notice, the model guidance, really getting tight here as far as the confidence on where the system is going to end up. typically, when you are within about 12 hours a landfall system, the margin of error drops down to about 10 to 15 miles. so pretty confident on where this track is. because the last couple of days, we kind of see this gradual shift, move it farther, farther towards the south, that is move tampa bay out of the hardest hit potential zones for storm surge t