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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 it pulling up all over the water here. And i think he can get a sense of these trees been a to really lean over and blow. And that's the real concern here in tallahassee. It is the wins. Tallahassee has steamed storms pass over but never really was sustained. Hurricane force winds. The likes of which they are expecting here in just a few hours, thousands and thousands of trees could come down. Officials say with hundreds and hundreds of road closures. Again, these will be hurricane force winds may be be 100 miles per hour in this relatively urban area to 200,000 people live here. All these live oaks line all the avenues in near their houses. That is what they're most concerned about. We're about 20 miles inland. So when this storm makes landfall 20 miles south of here as a category four storm, it will really only be the beginning for places like tallahassee, they have move people into shelters for mobile homes in lower lying areas here evacuated some students from florida state university housing into shelters, public transportation has been closed for a long, long time in this city closed down and a waiting this long, long night, the wind speeds here, i think are approaching tropical storm force at this point, they've had gusts of 35 miles an hour or more, 45 would be tropical storm that's certainly going to happen here. I think over the next few hours as this rain just continues to pour down, they've had more than six inches over the last day expecting, i think another six inches. It will make for a very, very dangerous situation here overnight, abby. Yeah. I mean, you mentioned the evacuation since that are ongoing or do you get the sense that the town the city, has actually heeded the warnings that this could be a kind of storm that most people there have not seen in a long time yeah. Look, i don't think anyone in tallahassee has seen a storm like this period full stop because of what's happening, it's moving so quickly. It will pass over tallahassee is a pretty powerful hurricane in leon county, where tallahassee is the event vacua orders were really just for an bull home and was in manufactured housing, not the widespread evacuations. You see further closer to the coast, but the difference is the number of people who live here, right? taylor county where this storm could make landfall, the whole county has 20,000 people. Tallahassee alone, which is in leon county county, has some 200,000. So a lot more people here could be directly affected, even if down along the coast they may see the areas of greatest danger, but abby i do think people are paying attention to the sense that maybe they didn't leave the city, but certainly at this point they're at home and they're going to have to wait this out throughout the night. Yeah. I hope every everyone does listen because this is not one of those things that you want to just go with your gut. I listened to the officials that are telling you what to do here, john, we're going to get back to you soon. As you continue to wait for this landfall, which we are expecting to happen, sometime in the next hour, coming up next for us, cnn meteorologist derek van dam. He's in illogical florida, where potentially there are extremely damaging storm surges expected. Derek, what are you seeing where you are? well, i'll be i'm going to be quite frank with you you know the fact that we're about 40 miles, 50 miles roughly west of where the most powerful part of hurricane helene is. And we're feeling these types of winds i'm i'm worried about what it's going to look like in the morning at first light across the big bend area, we know how powerful this storm is. And the most extreme part of the storm about to make landfall. I think it's important to put it into perspective for our viewers just from a meter the logical standpoint, hurricane ian in 2020 came ashore with a central pressure of 941 millibars. Remember, a lower pressure means a stronger hurricane hurricane hunters now flying through the eye i'll have recorded reading submit 940 millibars. So the storm could be coming on onshore. More powerful than ian did when it came ashore. Just south of fort myers there's so there's this extreme wind warning and i want to walk you through that because this is the national weather service reserves that wording and those warnings for only the most extreme events. And this is one of them. They ask people to treat it as if tornado was approaching their household or their business if they did not evacuated with an extreme wind warning this is about i hate to use that adjective over, but it is about as considerable extreme. And most dangerous part of the storm with these winds that will easily peel back the roofs of houses obviously build up the storm surge and the very shallow hello, waters of the gulf of mexico that we've seen already setting records from tampa bay northward. This surge is going to come in with a vengeance because of the policy or of the wind that's pushing upon the puppet the tops of the ocean here. So people need to be prepared to ride out several days without power. If not longer. And abby, we know too that it's not just a coastal storm. We've been covering this for several days now, but we are very concerned about the copious amounts of rain that this will dump across the southern appalachians into central georgia. And there are a lot of trees in this area and it's not going to take much to topple them in this very, very saturated environment. And it won't take much more rain to flood much of the southeast based on what you're seeing in these conditions, i mean, it is your concern, your biggest concern right now that the strength of this wind and we heard john berman saying where he was in tallahassee, that mostly the evacuation warnings war if we're for manufactured homes, maybe mobile homes, other people were asked just shelter in place. Do you think that the infrastructure where you are can withstand the kinds of winds that you're expecting franklin county where i'm located in apalachicola it's a mandatory evacuation for all residents vincent, all visitors of course, not everybody decides to leave. And a lot of the infrastructure here does involve mobile homes that cannot hold up to 100 mile per hour plus winds. You've got to understand when we talk about category four hurricanes than the safra simpson the scale where we measure the destruction potential of a hurricane. They use the word catastrophic for a reason because that's the type of damage that you get with these extreme winds on the northeastern quadrant of those i walz, the ones that are making landfall right now, the ones that the national weather service has reserved for this extreme wing end warning were 50 miles or so west of those most extreme winds. And thank goodness we are because we can continue to report for you with electricity city that's a miracle, but i am sure of it that the power number is the amount of number of people without power this evening is going to double quadruple as the storm moves inland, it knocks out the trees and creates the hazards far away from the coastline derek, we will continue to check in with you. Thank you very much for that. Chad myers is in the cnn weather center with more on the latest forecast here. So chad, tell us what you're seeing there. What is the storm preparing to do? the eastern edge of the eyewall itself, which is where all of these winds that we're talking about, that's where the winds are in the eyewall about to come on shore right now, very close to steen hatchie, florida and then that has just slightly shifted to the east over the past couple of hours as on the right side of the cone, not the left side of the cone. Now you cannot take a sigh of relief tallahassee, but it does not appear that you will get both sides you're not going to get the north side and south side of the eye itself. But perry, you will valdosta, you likely will winds here are already approaching 6070 miles per hour, even in down the south is still blowing sarasota at 55, the highest surge ever and clearwater beach is happening right now that includes the superstorm that happened back in the 90s, never got that high, even when that storm rolled up the east coast. So here's the radar, there's the center of the eye officially landfall is not going to happen when the eyewall touches the center of the eye, the middle of this i write here, has to cross over land. That's when they will call landfall. Itself. That's what landfall means. He put that by that time, abby, half the damage has already been done. Be it says he cannot half the storm will already have been onshore in this area right through there where that high wind warning is? that's the area that is coming on shore at this hour. Now for 95% of that area, it is a nature area. It is. There are towns in the way, but there aren't there aren't cities in the way like tampa or sarasota? so yes, this is the second storm that they've seen this year. And it seems like the third one in two years, look at how much rainfall is still to come. High wind, high rain, pushing up the mountains and still all the way to macon, georgia is in a hurricane warning because they are going to get hurricane conditions. And their hundreds of miles away from where this thing is going to make landfall because it is moving so quickly now, the wind is not going to die off. It's not going to have time to die off and it's going to keep right on going. And mowing all well, those trees that derek was talking about. All those trees are going to be coming down one after the other, even if pitches big branches. Abby, we're talking about millions of customers without power by the time this is done seriously, it's a huge swath of geography here that could be affected by these the winds and the rain as you pointed out, chad continues standby for us. We want to go now to franklin county, florida, where they've been under a mandatory evacuation since wednesday at noon, but some locals have chosen to stay put and ride out the storm. One of them is nancy plymouth companion. She is currently in st. George, ireland. Nancy. Thank you for joining us. First of all we just want to know, are you safe? and what is it like right now outside of those windows? we we fail say we we have a place in greenville, florida that has been thrown two hurricane passed here and here before. So we feel a lot safer being on the island, them being at the farm that would call it because of all the trees and all the way and it just cannot withstand boundaries. And when just do not go together. But, but here on the island, we feel safe. We're in a home that strapped down with hurricane straps and we're on pile monday and so we feel a lot safer here than we do downing in greenville. Are you starting to see the effects of the storm where you are and what does it what does it look and sound like right now there's a lot of rain and the wind is starting to pick up, but it has not been as bad. We had about two weeks of solid rainfall, so the grounds are already saturated. And then now the hurt kindness just made it even worse. We are living at some the storm surge and that's one of the things that i'm concerned about, especially on the bag yeah. Seems like the bay has a lot of we have a lot of damage on the bay yeah. I mean, i wonder i know you say compared to your other property that is in a more kind of wooded area or there's more tree life around you what are your concerns at this point? i mean, is it flooding? storm surge and what are your contingency plans if those things come to pass well, we have that you know, when hurricane michael was here the next day, the water had had receded than we were able to get in and start the 20 and so that's what i expect for tomorrow. When the sun comes up. Well, just start with that process and during hurricane michael, we had 5. 5 foot of water in our home on the bay. So i'm probably expecting that much or less and then we'll just we'll start cleaning up and nancy, do you have an idea of what you'll do if you do need help at some point coming down once they make a down, my brothers come and he's got to stand stare that that held found him and and help clean up and pull the sand down and pulled up the murder and the dirt out and then just start picking up all the trash. All the leads, and everything else that that gets thrown around alright, nancy, well, we certainly hope that you and your entire family remains safe in the middle of this extraordinary storm. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank, you. Were going to go now back to john berman in tallahassee, florida, which is as we told you earlier in that dead hit zone. Plus we're getting word about a boat rescue in fort myers beach. This is cnn special live coverage didn't ship back like this and watch all. Shot like that this show was the highest rated oprah winfrey show of all time. 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Whether tech is so much easier laser measured floor liners up here, seat protector, and breaking news <\/a>good evening. I'm abby phillip in new york.<\/a> Our special coverage <\/a>continues tonight of hurricane helene, a monster category <\/a><\/a>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.<\/a> 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 it pulling up all over the water here. And i think he can get a sense of these trees been a to really lean over and blow. And that's the real concern here in tallahassee. It is the wins. Tallahassee has steamed storms pass over but never really was sustained. Hurricane force winds.<\/a> The likes of which they are expecting here in just a few hours, thousands and thousands of trees could come down. Officials say with hundreds and hundreds of road closures.<\/a> Again, these will be hurricane force winds may be be 100 miles per hour in this relatively urban area to 200,000 people live here. All these live oaks line <\/a>all the avenues in near their houses. That is what they're most concerned about. We're about 20 miles inland. So when this storm makes landfall 20 miles south of here as a category four storm, it will really only be the beginning for places like tallahassee, they have move people into shelters for mobile homes <\/a>in lower lying areas here evacuated some students from florida state university <\/a>housing into shelters, public transportation <\/a>has been closed for a long, long time in this city closed down and a waiting this long, long night, the wind speeds here, i think are approaching tropical storm force at this point, they've had gusts of 35 miles an hour or more, 45 would be tropical storm that's certainly going to happen here. I think over the next few hours as this rain just continues to pour down, they've had more than six inches over the last day expecting, i think another six inches. It will make for a very, very dangerous situation here overnight, abby. Yeah. I mean, you mentioned the evacuation since that are ongoing or do you get the sense that the town the city, has actually heeded the warnings that this could be a kind of storm that most people there have not seen in a long time yeah. Look, i don't think anyone in tallahassee has seen a storm like this period full stop because of what's happening, it's moving so quickly. It will pass over tallahassee is a pretty powerful hurricane in leon county, where tallahassee is the event vacua <\/a>orders were really just for an bull home <\/a>and was in manufactured housing, not the widespread evacuations. You see further closer to the coast, but the difference is the number of people who live here, right? taylor county <\/a>where this storm could make landfall, the whole county <\/a>has 20,000 people. Tallahassee alone, which is in leon county county,<\/a> has some 200,000. So a lot more people here could be directly affected, even if down along the coast they may see the areas of greatest danger, but abby i do think people are paying attention to the sense that maybe they didn't leave the city, but certainly at this point they're at home and they're going to have to wait this out throughout the night. Yeah. I hope every everyone does listen because this is not one of those things that you want to just go with your gut. I listened to the officials that are telling you what to do here, john, we're going to get back to you soon. As you continue to wait for this landfall, which we are expecting to happen, sometime in the next hour, coming up next for us, cnn meteorologist <\/a>derek van dam. He's in illogical florida, where potentially there are extremely damaging storm surges <\/a>expected. Derek, what are you seeing where you are? well, i'll be i'm going to be quite frank with you you know the fact that we're about 40 miles, 50 miles roughly west of where the most powerful part of hurricane helene is. And we're feeling these types of winds i'm i'm worried about what it's going to look like in the morning at first light <\/a>across the big bend area,<\/a> we know how powerful this storm is. And the most extreme part of the storm about to make landfall. I think it's important to put it into perspective for our viewers just from a meter the logical standpoint, hurricane ian in 2020 came ashore with a central pressure of 941 millibars. Remember, a lower pressure means a stronger hurricane hurricane hunters <\/a>now flying through the eye <\/a>i'll have recorded reading submit 940 millibars. So the storm could be coming on onshore. More powerful than ian did when it came ashore. Just south of fort myers <\/a>there's so there's this extreme wind warning <\/a>and i want to walk you through that because this is the national weather service <\/a><\/a>reserves that wording and those warnings for only the most extreme events. And this is one of them. They ask people to treat it as if tornado was approaching their household or their business if they did not evacuated with an extreme wind warning <\/a>this is about i hate to use that adjective over,<\/a> but it is about as considerable extreme. And most dangerous part of the storm with these winds that will easily peel back the roofs of houses obviously build up the storm surge and the very shallow hello, waters of the gulf of mexico <\/a>that we've seen already setting records from tampa bay northward. This surge is going to come in with a vengeance because of the policy or of the wind that's pushing upon the puppet the tops of the ocean <\/a>here. So people need to be prepared to ride out several days without power. If not longer. And abby, we know too that it's not just a coastal storm. We've been covering this for several days now, but we are very concerned about the copious amounts of rain that this will dump across the southern appalachians <\/a>into central georgia.<\/a> And there are a lot of trees in this area and it's not going to take much to topple them in this very, very saturated environment. And it won't take much more rain to flood much of the southeast based on what you're seeing in these conditions, i mean, it is your concern, your biggest concern right now that the strength of this wind and we heard john berman saying where he was in tallahassee, that mostly the evacuation warnings <\/a>war if we're for manufactured homes,<\/a> maybe mobile homes, other people were asked just shelter in place. Do you think that the infrastructure where you are can withstand the kinds of winds that you're expecting franklin county <\/a>where i'm located in apalachicola it's a mandatory evacuation for all residents vincent,<\/a> all visitors of course, not everybody decides to leave. And a lot of the infrastructure here does involve mobile homes <\/a>that cannot hold up to 100 mile per hour plus winds. You've got to understand when we talk about category four hurricanes than the safra simpson the scale <\/a>where we measure the destruction potential <\/a>of a hurricane. They use the word catastrophic <\/a>for a reason because that's the type of damage that you get with these extreme winds on the northeastern quadrant of those i walz, the ones that are making landfall right now, the ones that the national weather service <\/a><\/a>has reserved for this extreme wing end warning <\/a>were 50 miles or so west of those most extreme winds. And thank goodness we are because we can continue to report for you with electricity city <\/a>that's a miracle, but i am sure of it that the power number <\/a>is the amount of number of people without power this evening is going to double quadruple as the storm moves inland, it knocks out the trees and creates the hazards far away from the coastline derek,<\/a> we will continue to check in with you. Thank you very much for that. Chad myers <\/a>is in the cnn weather center <\/a>with more on the latest forecast here. So chad, tell us what you're seeing there. What is the storm preparing to do? the eastern edge of the eyewall itself, which is where all of these winds that we're talking about, that's where the winds are in the eyewall about to come on shore right now, very close to steen hatchie, florida and then that has just slightly shifted to the east over the past couple of hours as on the right side of the cone, not the left side of the cone. Now you cannot take a sigh of relief tallahassee,<\/a> but it does not appear that you will get both sides you're not going to get the north side <\/a>and south side <\/a>of the eye <\/a>itself. But perry, you will valdosta,<\/a> you likely will winds here are already approaching 6070 miles per hour, even in down the south is still blowing sarasota at 55, the highest surge ever and clearwater beach <\/a>is happening right now that includes the superstorm that happened back in the 90s, never got that high, even when that storm rolled up the east coast.<\/a> So here's the radar, there's the center of the eye <\/a>officially landfall is not going to happen when the eyewall touches the center of the eye, the middle of this i write here, has to cross over land. That's when they will call landfall. Itself. That's what landfall means.<\/a> He put that by that time, abby, half the damage has already been done. Be it says he cannot half the storm will already have been onshore in this area right through there where that high wind warning <\/a>is? that's the area that is coming on shore at this hour. Now for 95% of that area, it is a nature area.<\/a> It is. There are towns in the way, but there aren't there aren't cities in the way like tampa or sarasota? so yes, this is the second storm that they've seen this year. And it seems like the third one in two years, look at how much rainfall is still to come. High wind, high rain,<\/a> pushing up the mountains and still all the way to macon, georgia is in a hurricane warning <\/a>because they are going to get hurricane conditions.<\/a> And their hundreds of miles away from where this thing is going to make landfall because it is moving so quickly now, the wind is not going to die off. It's not going to have time to die off and it's going to keep right on going. And mowing all well, those trees that derek was talking about. All those trees are going to be coming down one after the other, even if pitches big branches. Abby, we're talking about millions of customers without power by the time this is done seriously, it's a huge swath of geography here that could be affected by these the winds and the rain as you pointed out, chad continues standby for us. We want to go now to franklin county, florida, where they've been under a mandatory evacuation since wednesday at noon, but some locals have chosen to stay put and ride out the storm. One of them is nancy plymouth companion.<\/a> She is currently in st. George, ireland. Nancy. Thank you for joining us. First of all we just want to know, are you safe? and what is it like right now outside of those windows? we we fail say we we have a place in greenville, florida that has been thrown two hurricane passed here and here before. So we feel a lot safer being on the island, them being at the farm <\/a>that would call it because of all the trees and all the way and it just cannot withstand boundaries. And when just do not go together. But, but here on the island, we feel safe. We're in a home that strapped down with hurricane straps <\/a>and we're on pile monday <\/a>and so we feel a lot safer here than we do downing in greenville. Are you starting to see the effects of the storm where you are and what does it what does it look and sound like right now there's a lot of rain and the wind is starting to pick up, but it has not been as bad. We had about two weeks of solid rainfall, so the grounds are already saturated. And then now the hurt kindness <\/a>just made it even worse. We are living at some the storm surge and that's one of the things that i'm concerned about, especially on the bag yeah. Seems like the bay has a lot of we have a lot of damage on the bay yeah.<\/a> I mean, i wonder i know you say compared to your other property that is in a more kind of wooded area or there's more tree life <\/a>around you what are your concerns at this point? i mean, is it flooding? storm surge and what are your contingency plans <\/a>if those things come to pass well, we have that you know, when hurricane michael <\/a>was here the next day, the water had had receded than we were able to get in and start the 20 and so that's what i expect for tomorrow. When the sun <\/a>comes up. Well, just start with that process and during hurricane michael, we had 5. 5 foot of water in our home on the bay. So i'm probably expecting that much or less and then we'll just we'll start cleaning up and nancy, do you have an idea of what you'll do if you do need help at some point coming down once they make a down, my brothers come and he's got to stand stare that that held found him and and help clean up and pull the sand down and pulled up the murder and the dirt out <\/a>and then just start picking up all the trash. All the leads, and everything else that that gets thrown around alright, nancy, well, we certainly hope that you and your entire family remains safe in the middle of this extraordinary storm. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank, you. Were going to go now back to john berman in tallahassee, florida, which is as we told you earlier in that dead hit zone.<\/a> Plus we're getting word about a boat rescue <\/a>in fort myers <\/a>beach. This is cnn special live coverage didn't ship back like this and watch all. 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I want to go back now to tallahassee, florida where john berman is starting to feel those bands all so with us is emergency management director <\/a>for leon county, kevin peters leon county <\/a>is also the home of tallahassee and john, i know you have some questions for kevin as well, but kevin, i just want to start with you. What we do. Expect this landfall to happen shortly in the next 11:00 our can you tell us about what conditions are like where you are and what are the things that you are expecting to see in the coming minutes and hours as we expect landfall to happen yeah. Thanks we've been seeing rainfall with this storm well in advance, we've had rain all day and tell glassy, even starting last night up on to the west end <\/a>of our county, we've had it up to eight inches of rain. But over the last hour or so, we've seen are gusts, wind gusts <\/a>get up to a tropical storm force strength.<\/a> We just heard from the national weather service <\/a><\/a>their peak gust <\/a>in tallahassee has been 43 so far. So it is starting to get stronger here and tell him and in one county emergency <\/a>managers are advising people who had decided not to evacuate just write their name and date <\/a>of birth on their legs so that their body can be identified. That's a pretty stark warning. I wonder how dangerous will the storm be? the people who stayed behind and certainly there are some people who are not on emergency or mandatory evacuation notices do you think that those people really are safe to stay in place what are the most dangerous aspects of a tropical system is the storm surge and the county that issued that that warning and all the counties south of us here in the big bend,<\/a> they're expecting up to 20 feet of storm surge. That's 20 feet above ground level <\/a>the national weather service <\/a><\/a>has put it very well. It is not survivable. Storm surge, so you had not evacuated you let yourself in a very dangerous situation john berman is with us mr. Peters. I'm going to let john ask you some questions. John, go ahead kevin.<\/a> Nice to speak with you. I think your accommodations here in tallahassee might be a little better than mine are right now. We're still danny out here and i am feeling those gusts which do feel like their approaching tropical storm force, you said 43 miles an hour, 45 would be tropical storm force that clearly does seem to be about to happen here specifically in tallahassee. What are you most concerned about and what are you prepared to? do the minute the storm passes and it's safe to get out yeah obviously, the high winds are going to affect the trees in our community. We will have trees that fall down. They'll bring down power lines, they'll block the roadways throughout the day. Our crews have been staging their emergency equipment <\/a>and we have personnel throughout the community. So as soon as this storm clears are area and the winds are at a level that are safe enough. We're going to immediately get out on the roadways begin cutting the debris, making the path saw responders <\/a>can respond to emergency calls.<\/a> They can begin to assess and begin to make repairs to the infrastructure network.<\/a> So we have everybody staged and ready. We just need the storm to pass by yeah, it hasn't done it yet. I can tell you that we're getting our strongest gun so far. These are almost definitely tropical storm force coming in, right now, when you talk about the staging, staging, the power crews,<\/a> we saw them driving in overnight last night, really all around northern florida.<\/a> It's also interesting in the hotels and the various places this is in tallahassee, where we're staying. We've got fire crews <\/a>from miami standing by waiting. They've been waiting today because tomorrow morning they expect to go out in there their target, they tell us will be local hospitals. The case those hospitals don't have power in patients need to be evacuated. How important is the planning for storms like this yeah. We've been communicating and coordinating with all of our community partners,<\/a> such as our local hospitals. Since the weekend sharing information, making sure that everybody that is part of our emergency response process <\/a>knew what the forecasts was going to be over providing them the updates throughout the week. So everybody could be as prepared as possible and i keep glancing just so people know, i keep glancing over in this direction. That's where the wind is coming from right now, one of the things you do have to be careful about standing out the wind like this is debris, but so far it everything seems to be okay. No loose things flying about here. We talk about the danger with the storm surge in the areas south of here along the big bend area,<\/a> storm surges <\/a>that could be 15 to 20 feet those people who stayed behind, when do you think you might be able to reach them of, the firefighters you were referring to are probably part of search and rescue teams. We know that the state has brought numerous search and rescue teams. As soon as the winds die down, those teams are going to go into these impacted counties and they're going to conduct an initial urban search and rescue mission <\/a>to do as best they can to find survivors and rescue them. For those that may have stayed behind it, coastal counties i'll throw it back to abby in a second here, but i guess my last question is, what are these nights like for you? is it just an ap? all night standing <\/a>by the phone watching the monitors hoping your power doesn't go out have a room full of professionals here with us in the emergency operations center.<\/a> We've been activated for a few days now. They are very long days, but it's a lot of people working together sharing information in doing everything we can to keep our community safe as possible all right. I certainly appreciate the work you do and i know that people here in tallahassee do as well. Sorry, abby thank you john and thank you. Kevin peters for joining us and we'll continue to check back with you as this goes on john before you go,<\/a> i do want to bring in chad myers for just a moment because he had a question for you, is, as everybody can see, you're standing out there as this storm is starting to come ashore here it certainly is abby. I mean, we already have now the eastern eyewall <\/a>that's onshore here, very close to the town of steen hatchie.<\/a> We've been talking about for last hourandahalf or so. But there's john right up there in tallahassee. And every time one of these bands comes by, the wind, pick pickup when the band goes by, and then it kind of calms down.<\/a> Then you'd wait for the next one. John, are you ready for this one here too? this one's probably 45 minutes away. That's probably your first gust over? i would say hurricane force. So be ready for that. It is coming, sir well, thank you for the warning, chad, we've had the 40 to 45 mile an hour one so far, but nothing hurricane force <\/a>as of yet, as i said, this is going to be a long, long night for the some 200,000 residents of tallahassee, you really haven't seen anything like this? now in the trees in that town are so beautiful. I was in that town when i was covering ivan in the flooding of st.<\/a> Marks, when ivan was 100 or so miles away in pensacola and i got to spend the night and ten how it has he just one night and i had a walk around and look at the loss and look at the trees and the fact that it hasn't been hit in so long. It's like a place in the west that hasn't had a fire in a long time. There's so much that is there. Nothing that has been knocked down yet, and that's what i think you're going to be waking up to tomorrow morning. If you even do get any sleep, a lot of these trees are going thank do at least that weaker branches are going to be on the ground, which means you're going to see the power outages <\/a>will come down with those weaker branches because the power lines <\/a>are going to come down all night long thanks so much, chad, you know, abby, they say thousands and thousands of trees could come down here. Yeah. I mean, that's going to be extraordinary to see in the morning. We just hope that you and everyone else as you make it through the night, you stay as safe as possible, john, chad, both of you standby. We're gonna be back with you as the storm continues to make its way onto land and joining me now though, is florida chief financial officer <\/a>and the state fire marshal,<\/a> jimmy patronas jimmy. Thank you for joining us. There are a number of management touri <\/a>evacuations, all around the state of florida do you have a sense of in the places where this is the most critical, the most lifesaving, how many people really have heeded these warnings we've heard numbers like st. George, john, franklin county <\/a>as south of tallahassee,<\/a> where you've had as many as 70 individuals that would have been identified that were decided to weather the storm on the coast there. That the real challenges of urban search and rescue <\/a>teams that means they're going to have to use helicopters because the storm is so severe that those individuals will be rescue. The stubbornness or likeness <\/a>that people have during times like this are what put our first responders at risk when we ask them to evacuate literally, literally their way to 100 miles, ten miles to a local shelter is more than adequate to save a life. We just spoke to someone who's in st. George and she told us that she felt like once the water came in, maybe five or six feet it would recede quickly in the morning and then they would begin to clean up. When you hear that, i mean, what do you think so? i was on the beaches of fort myers <\/a>beach hours after hurricane ian made land short myers beach,<\/a> there was a huge contingent of people that decided not to back away. But there was also over 100 loss of lives because of those that were used to evacuated. So again, i hope for the best, but know that we will have some instances where the reluctance people the war are going to have very grim outcome that's unfortunately a reality of these terrible storms that are increasingly hitting this part of florida that typically does not see this kind of destruction. Jimmy patronas.<\/a> Thank you very much. You continue to stay safe. We'll check back with you as well. Coming up next. We're going to take you live to tampa where the storm is surge. 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Carlos, what is the situation? there as the storm is now starting to make landfall? well, abby, this part of pinellas county was really hit hard by the flooding. You can see just behind me how much of the debris litters <\/a>this one neighborhood that we are in this white that's stuff that you see at the top of the water here, we believe that to be a part of a doc that broken half a few feet from where we are back here. As you noted in st. Petersburg, there was a great deal of flooding. We've been driving around town here late into the hour and we know that the power for a good part of the city is as for neighboring of gulfport where we were earlier in the day, that part of pinellas counties saw anywhere between four to eight feet of storm surge and a lot of this water is still coming in even though the storm is far to the north of us. The forecasting tells us that a lot of this water is not going to recede ad the until tomorrow morning. And then of course, once they break comes, we'll get a better look at the damage. And of course, the recovery effort <\/a>that will soon then get underway. Adi. So carlos, i want you to stay with us. We have with us also tampa fire chief barbara tripp barbara.<\/a> Thank you for joining us. Tell us what you are seeing right now and what is your sense? the severity of this storm, it starting to move in its to the north of you. All right now, but what are you seeing there well, actually, tampa has been affected by a lot of the storm surge we are actually experiencing anywhere between five to eight feet what did that's been coming inland. Some of our loan line properties <\/a>that we have evacuated personnel were looking at the cameras and i'd tell you it is very devastating you're you said five to six feet there. We are starting to see a helaena generating <\/a>that level of storm surge and a lot of places. And just last year, there was hurricane idalia.<\/a> The damaged hundreds of homes. I just four feet of storm surge. So what are your concerns? the night is progress pressing will wake up in the morning and see the damage. What are you expecting to see well, we had to close all of our bridges coming in and out of tampa. That's actually leading to pinellas county and some of the things that we hope individuals do not do is get out there and whether we said re still seeing windy, that's up to 40, 50 miles our we've had to slow the first responders out from respondents are some of the calls the biggest concern we going to have is to see how much flooding, how much water damage,<\/a> how many buildings have been affected by? i all the water has come into the tampa bay area <\/a>and carlos, i know you're still here with us. You have a question for barbara. Go ahead right chief. So i've covered a number of hurricanes the last three years and we've always come either to hillsborough county or pinellas <\/a>county. I'm curious what the flooding situation <\/a>looks like in bayshore drive <\/a>i have that's one of the areas that normally we go to. We visit, we preposition there because we know that evacuation area.<\/a> We know it it tends to flood even just during a normal thunderstorm. And so i'm curious, i'm in pinellas county, so i'm on the other side of the they you're over in tampa. What's bayshore drive <\/a>looking like my understanding is early in the day, it was pretty flooded yes, that's one of the areas we seen distances flooding in the area and basically brain shore <\/a>is definitely closed off. It is underwater barbara tripp, please you're still with us. I mean, the only i guess yeah. Of course. I think the only other question that i would have to follow up with that is i know decision. 's the storm has to obviously be clear are part of a florida before any of these bridges reopen, but i don't know if the chief has a sense of exactly when that might happen. Happen. I know that there was some concerns about not just the wind involving some of these bridges, but also some of the flooding. And so i'm curious if that decision might be made come daybreak or are exactly when some of these bridges might reopen because as you all been talking right now, if you live in an alice county,<\/a> you really can't cross over tampa bay and you can't get down to braden ten bill, basically the, bridges will not be opened until it's safe and cleared. We expect the wind gusts <\/a>as well as letting to kind of dissipate probably by early morning about six to 7:00. We do have what we call our crews that would go out and assess the damage before they give the residents clearance <\/a>to be able to return to your home? chad thank you chief tripp.<\/a> One quick question before you go for i let you go. You mentioned that bayshore drive <\/a>is is it's flooded basically at this point. Do you have the sense that the evacuation warnings <\/a>in that area heated we have a couple of shelters open, so we do know some of the residents. I don't know exactly where they come from, but we do have shelters open that help how some of the residents doing the evacuation zone.<\/a> So we're hoping everyone did get out of that area. We've had course responded to respond in certain areas down in south tampa <\/a>where bay show <\/a>is. But at the moment, i really don't know the numbers that did not evacuate alright tampa fire chief barbara tripp.<\/a> Thank you very much. A carlos suarez. Thank you as well. We will be back with both of you as the storm progresses i do want to note that we did just get word that record storm surge <\/a>has pushed water to the highest level ever in tampa bay. The storm continues to be extremely dangerous and moving quickly into the state of florida, we're going to go back to apalachicola where the storm is about to hit hard. You are watching cnn's continuing live coverage of hurricane helene tim walz <\/a>what's in j. D. Vance in their first and only facetoface debate,<\/a> and cnn has covered with the best political team in the business,<\/a> a cnn special event the vice president central debate,<\/a> tuesday at nine on cnn. She worked her way ahead as summer job <\/a>at mcdonald's. He was born there. I'm very rich. She fights for you when arm middle class <\/a>is strong man is strong he doesn't give me she has a reason for running. 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The wynton's do look like they are picking up rainfall is still coming down there and tell us what you're experiencing well, look, abby, were about 50 to 60 miles away from the most intense this part of the sentence of hurricane helene but as you said, landfall is imminent of the store, but i think it's inappropriate remind people that even though you've got this ai moving on shore it may become calm for a brief moment in time, but that does not mean you go outside. Inspect your property, inspect your belongings, because the winds will change direction and come back with a vengeance on the other side. But from a different direction. So a lot of people forget that when they go through a large, i like hurricane helene as it makes landfall now, but here in apalachicola even though we are well away from the center, we're still feeling the impacts of very intense winds the surge component <\/a>here, not as much of a concern even though we were about 3. 6 feet above normal tide levels earlier at low tide. We haven't seen any flash flooding <\/a>on the roadways aside from the drainage within this area, from the heavy rain <\/a>that continues to fall, abby. We also have chief bobby varennes <\/a>here with us. From apalachicola, achieve. There is a mandatory evacuation warning and franklin county <\/a>where you are it doesn't look like people have heeded that warning a lot has some hatton pretty good bit of people has left. There's always a few to son strike <\/a>i wonder what kind of assets do you have standing by tonight for anything that might need to happen either tonight or in the morning. Several house says out where the county and the city and we just really wait until in the morning so we can see to assess the situation, so you see what all we got. I don't think we have a lot of damage i feel like we got pretty lucky this time around derek, you're still with us. Go ahead and ask a question yeah. I'm just wondering what type of power did you have cross frankly and into apalachicola because we feel pretty forth right now have hour where we are just awful i don't reports. Do you have coming up with the city i think most of the county has power. I know an apple pledge.<\/a> Everybody pretty much has power except one little section to traffic body <\/a>is in the middle of the town. I think of possible transformer blew out there that i the only place we know of right now. And, you know, aside from a couple of tree limbs <\/a>and pom, ferns that have blanketed the roadways here. Have you seen in any significant damage in apalachicola specifically no, sir. We you know, like like out a few liam's nothing major.<\/a> We did have one tree fall <\/a>in a yard, but it didn't hit the house we were very fortunate. We've been through a lot of hurricanes and the size of this only very lucky same cannot be said, unfortunately for our her neighbors to our east we're thinking about taylor county <\/a>right now. Perry, the town of perry other <\/a>taking the brunt of the northern northern, eastern and i eyewall and this is the area where they are getting these catastrophic winds are you going to be sending any of your resources there tomorrow at first light. Do you have any plans for that? we are aware are really small agencies, but the sheriff's office usually always since stuff over there and we'll try to contribute what we can with them. I have a lot of really good friends over that way. I'll don tact within the cfa needs something and we'll do what we can and to have and honest, i am worried about what we're going to see tomorrow morning with the power of this storm that we know is coming ashore all right now and it's going to be an all hands on deck,<\/a> abby, as local sheriffs and local police agencies, maybe pool together their resources to help the community entities <\/a>that are going to be most impacted by dorm. I think i think that's that's right. It's this is a very powerful storm, a very dangerous storm. Derek van dam.<\/a> And chin chief bobby barnes.<\/a> Thank you. Both very much. Please stay safe out there. I want to go back to john berman back in tallahassee, florida. John we're just getting word this hour about 780,000 people without power or as a result of this storm you are out there. The wind has been picking up the rain has been continuing. And what are you now experiencing as we are waiting for the storm? start making its way on shore yeah,<\/a> this is stained wins now are really what is noticeably the wind just keeps on coming and coming thing in calming it isn't so much those waves in the bands that we've seen in the rain is just a sort of a steady relentless rain. And that number you decided about 780,000 customers simmers without power. That's going to go up. And i think it's gonna go off <\/a>by a lot because as far as i can tell, they're still e is power here in tallahassee in this would be one of the biggest population centers affected by this storm so far and the storm, the main part of the storm has not even passed over tallahassee yet. We still are going to get the worst of it here with those trees coming down into the power lines <\/a>and that could knock out power to thousands and thousands more just for reference, hurricane michael <\/a>a few years there's a ago, which pass well to the west of here, well to the west of tallahassee, it knocked out power for about 90% of the customers in this city for several days this is going to be a direct hit or a near direct hit on tallahassee itself. So they're going to be many, many more thousands who i think end up waking up without power tomorrow morning.<\/a> Abby john <\/a>what are what's your sense of what local hospitals are doing? i mean, do you see the evidence of the prepositioning of resources that might be needed once there is light. After this storm yeah, absolutely lots and lots of prepositioning of resources. As i mentioned before, even in the hotel, we are staying, there are firefighters from miami who are looking at all hospitals here in contact with them to see if they are going to need anything in the morning when the light comes up hospitals in general they have generators, they may continue and you'd see plans in case the power goes out where it gets into a problem situation <\/a>is if it's out for several days a week or so and it's just too early tell that right now. Right now it looks as if the center of the storm may move a little bit to the east of tallahassee. Chad myers <\/a>was mentioning, which means that the eyewall may pass over tallahassee only once instead of twice instead of getting the north and the south that may make things slightly better here. But i think it will be some time before we know for sure abby <\/a>alright. 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Com hurricane <\/a>helene is about to make landfall in florida imminently. I want to bring in chad myers. Chad tell us what this new track is going to show? well, i think we're going to probably move it slightly off toward the right, which may take a little bit of wind away from atlanta, maybe a little bit of wind away from making, but put it into augusta, georgia in the greenville, maybe back into asheville, raising the numbers off toward the east as we tend to take that track and move it off toward the east just a little bit,<\/a> the storm has been on the right side of the cone most of the night, but now we're really right in the middle of the cone and we don't have landfall yet. And i know the one side of the eyewall is on land, but that does not qualify as landfall. The middle of this thing has to get overland. And i say land because you can't really tell the difference between a mangrove swamp <\/a>i've been land in this area, but we will probably get this called within. I would say the next 15 to 20 minutes we're still going to have significant amounts of flooding all the way up the appalachians. We're going to have four to six inches of rainfall that will come down tonight. The chances of flash flooding <\/a>are high heavy. Alright. Chad myers, thank you very much. Our special coverage, of course, is going to continue of the storm with laura coatescoates","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"archive.org","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","width":"800","height":"600","url":"\/\/ia902209.us.archive.org\/26\/items\/CNNW_20240927_020000_CNN_NewsNight_With_Abby_Phillip\/CNNW_20240927_020000_CNN_NewsNight_With_Abby_Phillip.thumbs\/CNNW_20240927_020000_CNN_NewsNight_With_Abby_Phillip_000001.jpg"}},"autauthor":{"@type":"Organization"},"author":{"sameAs":"archive.org","name":"archive.org"}}],"coverageEndTime":"20240927T12:35:10+00:00"}