Good to be with you. Im katy tur. We have Breaking News out of lebanon. Any moment from now, Vice President , you know what, thats the wrong script. We do have Breaking News out of lebanon where israel just struck the headquarters of hezbollah. U. S. Designated terror group. You can see this in video that the strike was big, hitting a building in southern beirut. An israeli official tells Nbc News that the target was the iranbacked leader, Hassan Nasrallah. It wasnt clear whether he had been killed. The strike had interesting timing, launched just an hour after prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this to the United Nations. They endanger their own people. They put a missile in every kitchen, a rocket in every garage. I said to the people of lebanon this week, get out of the Death Trap that hezbollah has put you in. Dont let Nasrallah Drag Lebanon into the abyss. Were not at war with you. Were at war with hezbollah, which has hijacked your country and threatens to destroy ours. As lo
Extremely dangerous four. It s more than 400 miles across, pushing a storm surge that officials are calling unsurvivable is now hitting florida s gulf coast as much as 20 feet of water what are forecast along the shore south of tallahassee, which itself is expected to take a direct blow. Some coastal areas already flooding. Take a look live pictures right now from gulfport in tampa on the right interstate to 70 prison biden this evening, urge anyone in the storm s path that take it extremely seriously. A lot of water there is certainly there graham gulfport, especially emergency managers and florida s taylor county are telling people choosing to stay and there are people choosing to stay to write her name and date of birth on a leg to help identify their bodies. Storm warnings are now in effect as far north as charlotte, north carolina. We ve got cnn correspondents all along the places now harm s way in chad myers in the cnn weather center, let s start with cnn meteorologist derek van
Cnn breaking news good evening. I m abby phillip in new york. Our special coverage continues tonight of hurricane helene, a monster category four storm that is now moments away from making landfall in florida. At this moment, it was too late now for folks along the coast too evacuate. Officials warned that the winds and the storm surge will be be catastrophic in some areas, the word that they are using is unsurvivable helene could be the strongest storm on record for the big bend region. And we are already starting to see a major surge in these cities. So we have our anchors and our correspondents. They re fanned out as the storm is now hitting and we have chad myers as well with the latest forecast in the cnn weather center. Let s go first to john berman. He s out in tallahassee in the socalled dead on a hit zone, john, what s happening where you are right now? yeah the winds have really started to pick up abby over the last half an hour. The rain really coming down here, you can see
Tapper starts now new Cnn Poll on the president ial race, and were going to dive in into it with you. Lead starts right now exactly. Six weeks to the day before Election Day new data revealing the strengths and weaknesses among different voting groups its for trump and for harris. But did Vice President harris just lose out on a key endorsement . A senator who backed biden is telling her Today Shame on you the explosive report on a new York Congressmen in a tight race for reelection, revealing that he reportedly put his Fiances Daughter and his lover on the Payroll Missouri Death Row Inmate just hours away from execution, even prosecutors are saying, however, he might be innocent so why is the States Governor essentially . Police saying, tough luck the lead. Im Jake Tapper and were going to start with a major development breaking in our Law And Justice Lead Today hey, Judge Tanya Chutkan, the federal judge in the January 6 case against Donald Trump, has ruled that she will allow the sp
Harris it has come down to any moment now. Former President Trumps suspected would be assassin, Ryan Routh, is about to appear in Federal Court accused of hiding out with a gun for nearly 12 hours, enough food to do that, too. He was in for the long haul. It was right next to the former president s Florida Golf Course last sunday. But he was spotted. The u. S. Justice department now will argue routh should stay in jail until his trial. Today the department of justice released this photograph of the rifle he had with him. And a note he allegedly left in a box with a neighbor a few months ago. Here is Back Story coming in clear. In that note, Ryan Routh admitted plan to kill former President Trump. Routh faces two federal gun charges so far. Constitutional Law Attorney Jonathan Turley says more charges are coming. They come with a hefty maximum, 20 years. He is interesting in one sense that will drive the Defense Counsel to distraction. That is he is all aggravateors, no mitigateors. Usu