Saying yeah, we have a category three hurricane on our hands right now, what 125 mile per hour winds my point that out because it category four hurricane starts at 130 mile per hour winds, so were really talking about a difference of five to ten miles per hour here, right . So right now, its a very Highend Category three teetering on that category four, which is why the national Hurricane Center is saying, hey, look, its still sitting over very warm from Ocean Waters right now. It has all the ingredients it needs to strengthen. So theres really not much to stop it from gaming that five miles per hour that it needs to just get to that category and become a category four either way, whether its this Highend Category three, or it makes that fivemile per Hour Difference to a category four. We are still talking about the Sam Catastrophic on survivable impacts when it comes to the Storm Surge and heavy Rain And Everything else. Weve been talking about, the radar. You can see again still with the outer bands that have been lashing all day, finding winds sustained winds of 50 miles per hour right now for myers, 32 miles per hour in Key West heres a look at the latest track again, still in the same spot for the big Bend Area just to the east of apalachicola. Again, with this Highend Category three, possibly teetering on this category for the Hurricane Warning stretching towards making. And then that blues or the tropical storm warnings. Because again, this storm is incredibly wide 400 miles stretching all of these damaging catastrophic winds possible that could really wipe out some of the power. Heres a look at the Storm Surge. Again, still 15 to 20 feet. This isnt going to change whether its at Highend Category three or that Lowend Category four, its those impacts that matter when you have the ocean just rising 20 feet of wood destructive waves and coming in. Thats going to do damage. Thats the unsurvivable part that people need to escape and need to evacuate from, again, is a very wide storm. Its really topping the list of some of the largest as far as Breadth And Width of it. And thats why were really worried about this. Span of Power Outages, not just for florida with the Hurricane Force winds that can be catastrophic. And the Big Bend. But look at the tropical Storm Force winds again that stretch into georgia, where were worried about widespread Power Outages, even into the carolinas. And they dont want us to forget about the Rain Part of this, The Rain doesnt care what category is that rain is going to squeeze out no matter what weve got, that high and risk for rain, Heavy Rain from asheville down to tallahassee. Officials in asheville are actually asking people to evacuate because theyre worried about more than a foot of rain maybe approaching two feet in the mountainous area numerous landslides when you have a high risk like this, its only issued 4 of the time, but its responsible for 40 of our fatalities and 80 of our Flood Damages again, some of this Rain Up in the Western Carolinas well be over a foot and again in a mountainous terrain, theyre worried about landslides that could be unprecedented. The weather service, theyre really calling it an event that people there have never seen before, not since 1916. And again, this rain will squeeze out no matter what the category is. Jake. All right. Elisa raffa. Thank you so much for that update. Cnns John Berman is in tallahassee, the capital of florida. John, youre about to get slammed. What are you seeing right now . Right now, the starting to pick up a little bit as those outer bands begin to pass over tallahassee, the coast is about 20 miles south of here. That is where helene will make a direct hit. But the storm is expected to pass directly over where i am in town well, he said it would be the first Storm Theyve seen on record to hit tallahassee as a full Force Hurricane and as it approaches a category four, you can imagine easily only 20 miles inland to could still be a category two storm, very powerful as it passes over this city population, some 200,000 isnt with all kinds of trees, jake, the county administrator, warn me that they expect thousands of trees to come down, hundreds of roads to be closed. And whats happening right now is really lastminute preparation, or i should say, staging. The preparation has happened now, people are just waiting at the hotel that were hiding behind right now. Now for shelter inside this hotel, firefighters from Miami Whove come up to be on call for tomorrow just in case theyre needed to go to the hospitals to evacuate them if the power is out, if their flooded, if there are trees down, we saw Power Companies lining the roads, the highways in and out of tallahassee overnight staging to try to get that power up when it inevitably goes down in these overnight hours. Again, this storm is moving quickly about 20 miles per hour, which means it wont have time to weaken as it passes over land, which is why it will hit tallahassee is expected to so hard and still be a hurricane when it crosses just north of us into georgia millions of people, jake in its path john, does it appear that, that many people have evacuated . What whats the sense there some so definitely some people have left tallahassee. This is normally a fairly bustling small city of some 200, 100,000 people. Not a lot of people around and about and there had been some specific event accusations, order, fsu, florida state university, the students were told to get out of their dorms in one area, about 700 students were told to get out 500 of them are in a shelter that has generators and all the windows protected. So the students can all be accounted for. So hopefully, people are listening. If you havent moved yet, for the most part, officials are saying stay where you are the safest thing at this point is to ride this out as it gets worse over the next several hours, jay. All right. John berman in tallahassee. Thanks so much joining us now is adrian Elliott Apalachicola City commissioner. Shes in floridas Big Bend thats the part of the united states where the panhandle of florida connects to the peninsula of florida and adrian extremely Heavy Rain has already flooded roadways in your area. How prepared are the residents of apalachicola for the next phase of this Monster Hurricane Lot of residents, everyones been stocking up. Were used to getting tropical weather in this area. Many residents were here for Hurricane Michael. So thats kind of been our bar to gauge for this Today Downtown the last week preparations were finalized with Business Donor is getting things boarded up moved out some of our lowest lying areas in town have already been subject to a little bit of flooding from The Rainwater, but our Sewer Systems and everything are still functional. This time. We do have some of the floodwaters starting to back a little bit, but the Storm Surge is not hit anywhere near what were seeing in places to the east its the best right now. Franklin county was put under a mandatory Evacuation Order at noon yesterday. Do you believe most people heeded those orders . Have you heard of anyone refusing to leave . There have been a good deal of residents that have gone ahead and left those being people that have moved here within the past 5101520 years, people that have been here their whole lives. There have been those that have been too stubborn to leave and still are here there are those of us that are staying because we do have a sense of obligation to stay here. We are a community that has a lot of elderly in it. And whenever events like this happen, theres not a lot of people left behind. Theyre able bodied, enabled to help out those raids residents that gets left behind, gets stuck or trapped i think the most important thing to remind people at this point is it if you are still here, you need to stay shelter in place getting contact with other locals that are still here, because the most dangerous thing you can do is try to leave too late and get stuck on those roads in those floodwaters are forecast here is Hurricane Force winds are supposed to hit this hour. What kind of damage are you most worried . Read about to be quite honest with you. We were most weve been most concerned about the Storm Surge. That was what we dealt with the most in Hurricane Michael with wind, weve got a lot of old historic homes around here. So theres no telling what kind of damage can be faced with that were just hoping for the best in that regard alright. Adrian elie. Thank you so much really appreciate it. Cnns Michael Yoshida is also in the big band. Hes farther down the coast also right in the path of the storm. Were going to go to him at the other side of the break, stay with us 30 years. Ive been saying publicly what people are say and turns out i have enough money. I could just shut up and back I Cant saturday, October 5th on cnn at verizon, every phone can be the new iphone 16 pro with apple intelligence. 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He joins us from steen hatchie michael, whats the latest from where you are hey, there jake, at this point you can see Light Rain at right now, but we know thats going to change significantly over the next few hours with officials saying basically at this point the windows closed on if you were going to try to evacuated, now, you basically need to hunker down. Weve seen those preps going on and the last few days and even today, you can see this rope right here, this marina been time there, docs together as they tried to prepare for this storm, theyre worried about that Storm Surge. This part, particularly maybe 20 some feet, put that in perspective, the owner of this marina telling me this stock was well above the top of this Poll Lap last time they got a significant Storm Surge. So thats on top of everyones mind. All of that water, all of that wind why everyone here tells us theyre not risking it with this storm all right. Michael yoshida, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Stay safe. Lets go to cnns Elisa Raffa on the Hurricane Headquarters right now, at least when are we going to start to see some of the most severe parts of this storm . This evening is when that ice starts to get onto the Big Ben and make that landfall. And the most catastrophic parts of the storm are in that i thats where the strongest winds are. So thats where youll find the strongest winds, the most damaging winds, and the most destructive Storm Surge. Now, weve been watching this Satellite Loop and this ai. Im not sure if you could tell from home, but this is getting wider clear and more symmetrical. So like i mentioned earlier, were only five miles away from that category for status, right . Were kind of, you know, splitting hairs right now. So were really not going to be surprised if this does become a category four thats why the national Hurricane Center is saying thats definitely likely as it starts to approach this coast because it has just been sitting in this bathtub of fuel. Weve had Sea Surface temperatures incredibly warm, and that is fueling this hurricane to continue to gain strength just before Landfall Youve got The Rain here that has been lashing of the Florida Peninsula here all day, Wind Gust to 52 miles per hour in Tampa Bay. And i remember hurricane is