Now i ll see you tomorrow evening. I m kaitlan collins. This is the source hurricane helene is about to slam into florida and i expected to make landfall and just a couple of hours from now, it s now an extremely dangerous category four storm and winds are now up to 140 miles per hour. If it stays this strong, it ll be the strongest storm to ever make landfall in florida s big bend region. That s the area that we re keeping a close eye on. This hour, more than half 1 million people there have already lost power. And forecasters are predicting tonight that the storm surge in some areas could be unsurvivable reaching as high as 20 feet surges and high winds were already the reason for the closures of several major bridges in the tampa area that we saw tonight? officials, there are telling residents to shelter in place, that it is going to get worse and don t go outside. Emergency managers and one florida county are being so blunt with their warnings for those who are in low lying areas a
it s hard to make it out. you really have to sort of look in the midst of all of those emergency response vehicles that have that come that have come to the scene. it s on president george bush turnpike. if you know the dallas area well, irving, texas, is just slightly north of the downtown area of dallas. it s also where the cowboys used to play. it is an extraordinarily busy the freeway system all around north of dallas and going into the irving area is an extraordinarily busy freeway area. it also takes you out to dfw airport too. there is frequently a lot of traffic in that area, but here we have again, i can t tell you anything else i know about this turnpike wreck, but we do know that there may be some people trapped in that bus. let me just ask quickly if we know if there is a tourist bus or if it was a transit bus. do we have that information? we don t have that yet. we re going to continue to scour our sources as well through the thats area. let s go back to tampa wher