Good day. Im Jose Diazbalart in for chris jansing. The strongest hurricane to strike floridas Big Bend is still packing a major punch. Helene is barrelling through the southeast Carving Destruction as it moves north. Millions are without power as the region grapples with catastrophic flooding and damaging winds. We are tracking The Storm and surveying the damage as this Lifethreatening Situation continues to develop. Vice president harris faces a key vulnerability headon. Shes heading to the southern border. Can she flip the script on trump on immigration . New Yorks Law and Order Mayor forced to give a plea before a judge. Eric Adams Arraignment on a fivecount public corruption indictment. Whats Next for the case . We begin here in the south where at this hour at least 22 people are confirmed dead and around 4 Million customers still are without power after the strongest hurricane ever to hit floridas big Bend Region brought up to 20 feet of unsurvival Storm Surge. In a matter of a couple hours, water rose to the roofs of multistory homes. Unbelievable images are coming in across florida, georgia and the carolinas. Look at this. Rescue crews in florida finding homes in flames as they try to save people trapped by rising waters. The sheriff further south in Lee County posted videos through the night of boats scooping in to save people stranded. Near tampa, officials rescued four people and a dog trapped in a chesthigh water. Roads still pretty much impassable today. From this neighborhood all the way to atlanta, where communities more than 500 miles away are experiencing historic floods. Entire neighborhoods are underwater. My Energy Colleagues are reporting from the ground in florida. Kathy park is in florida. What are you seeing where you are . Reporter jose, we made our way here, roughly 90 miles outside of tallahassee. The damage here is widespread. We are on the grant property. This is the house. The water got so high here, it actually entered this house. Its built high for a reason. Roughly 14 feet high because theres a river behind this home. It floods here often. It never floods to the extent that we saw last night. The Storm Surge here, the initial reports more than 15 feet. I want to show you something else. A lot of the roads are impassable. This is. You can see part washed away. We are told that that river, it flooded and that water pushed over this bridge here, carrying debris. Theres a marina nearby. Theres someones dock in this as well. Swing to the right here. You talked about just flooded out roads and property. We see a lot of that here. This one almost completely underwater. Theres a garage over here in the corner completely destroyed. It looks like its submerged as well. We have a helicopter above us. A lot of Recovery Efforts underway. This is a snapshot of what we are seeing here on the ground. Earlier, as i mentioned, we were talking to susie grant. She has never seen a storm like this. I was in shock. This is the worst i have ever seen it here. Ive been im glad i left. Im glad i still have a house left. I got something to work on. Reporter you got a chance to go up there. What did you see inside . It has mud and all that and everything has been floated around. Reporter jose, residents here are telling me they are just exhausted having to endure another hurricane. Last year, they had to go through idalia. It was a powerful storm. They spent months rebuilding. In fact, she lives she works as a restaurant nearby. That has washed away. They moved in in december after rebuilding from idalia. Idalia, and they spend months she works nearby, at a restaurants, and they just reopened. Adding insult to injury, this is another blow to this community, jose. Kathy, The State Of Florida as, unfortunately, been so used to, and has had to prepared for storms, hurricanes, et cetera. Im just wondering, and so in susies case, the how is elevated, but apparently there was in penetration through the windows. Have you seen a lot of that Recovery Effort being brought in from officials from The State Of Florida . Reporter yeah. Right on cue, jose, im not issue if this was commissioned by the state, but this is what were seeing here in steinhatchee. There are trucks pulling in, so it appears recoveries efforts, in advance of The Storm, thousands of linemen were already in place to begin Recovery Efforts after The Storm passed. I think they were ready this time around, because they realized how catastrophic this storm would be. Kathy park, i thank you very much. Volunteers are doing the essential work of clearing the way for first responders. Our Next guest is a veteran with team rubicon. Theyre there to work through emergencies, help rescuers, anything and everything. Thank you, Lawrence Montoya for being with us today. Tell us about what your work there entails. Well, team rubicon, we have a rock clearance package, which means we have capabilities of cutting trees off roads, and a compact tractor to push those trees off the road to allow ingress of Emergency Services or egress of folks trapped by The Storms. With you roads cleared, well us proi proceed tarp roofs, and other services to assist the residents of florida. So, lawrence, what kind of things has your team been seeing there in florida . We literally had a Tree Fall 30 feet in front of you about 20 minutes ago. We quickly got out and cleared that road, so traffic could continue to flow. We had some Police Officers stop to thank us for getting the road opened up so quickly, thats one of our capabilities. We came back here for several hurricanes, and now were here to support for helene. For all of these, there are a lot of people that contribute every day to our economy, that are part of our country, who may not have english as their first language, may have a different immigration status. What are your teams doing to reach them . How can they, in turn, reach out to get some assistance. Please join our team. Volunteer trusa. Org, and if you are unable to filly assist, donate. Trusa. Org. So, what kind of Volunteer Work could people do, for example, in these cases, in florida, clinesas, georgia, what are the actual manpower needed, and what are the things being carried out . Again, theres whatever were asked to. Maybe to provide assistance with distributing food, as well as our core capabilities, again, folks who come out and assist es with mucking out houses. We provide the training stars roof tarping. Theres a class to be taken for Chain Saw and equipment operators. Volunteers come out, you know, please come join the team. And theres just so much work to be done, so much debris to be move. The more hands, the better. Lawrence montoya, thank you very much for being with us. I appreciate the work all of you are doing. Coming up in 90 seconds, the 0 seconds, where helene is heading, and a forecast on where The Storm goes from here. Forece The Storm goes from here pil . So i started my own studio. Getting a Brick And Mortar in New York is not easy. Chase ink has supported us from Studio One to studio three. When you start small, you need some big help. And Chase Ink was that for me. Earn up to 5 cash back on Business Essentials with the Chase Ink Business Cash Card from chase for business. Make more of whats yours. What the biggest companies deliver is exceptional customer experience. What makes it possible is unmatched Connectivity And 5g solutions from tmobile for business. Tmobile connects 100,000 Delta Airlines employees. Powers Tractor Supply stores nationwide with reliable 5g business internet. 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Neighbors here tell us the residence who is here is out of down. With idalia, and this is the kind of damage were seeing. Crews have been through outside the day working to resolve these issues. We were just talking to a they fix their Back Porch. They had just fixed their Back Porch, spent 120,000, he estimates, to do that, now theyre dealing with eight fallen trees in their front yard. They rode out The Storm here. They said around 11 00 at night, they heard the trees begin to fall. They got into the hallway, basically slept there, hovered there, and woke up to this damage. I want to show you how business these trees are. They are massive trees, just completely snapped throughout the area, and, of course, now the cleanup is beginning, but also more than A Million people in georgia without power, 99 of this county is without power, so we know the governor has 500 national Georgia Guard troops on the ground. Hes activated another 1,000 this morning. Theyre working to get the debris out of the way and try to get generators down here to get the Street Lights restored. I want to play some sound from that neighborhood i was telling you about, bill, about what they experienced in their home last night. It sounded lightfreight train. That wind was howling. We just put the Back Porch back together after one year. The process starts over again. Reporter so really scary stuff for folks. A lot of people will have insurance and find a way to fix this. I was speaking to a woman who lives in an apartment. They had a Tree Fall in their apartment complex. Shes not sure if they can stay there. She doesnt know where theyre going to go. A lot of people are trying to figure out whats Next, as officials are trying to get things moving an. Wow 99 of the county youre in is still without power. Thats a bit i think its less than 200 people who have power out of the 30,000 that are here. Priy. A, a lot of part still there . Reporter thats right. Weve seen some progress here. The officials this road was completely submerged, but theyre trying to assess the Situation And Deal with the standing water. You can see theres two homes in this area that are completely submerged. The vehicles were left in the driveways, those are probably going to be a total loss. Were told that one of the homeowners over here was able to evacuate when they discovered their home was flooding. Their Nextdoor Neighbor Wasnt as lucky. They had to have one of tows dramatic swiftwater rescues. Theres still a few of rescues going on because of Peachtree Creek which is three feet over its flooding capacity. As you mentioned, a rare Flash Flood Emergency issued here in atlanta. Typically its a watch or warning, but it was escalated to an emergency. The hours for that were extended. Were also dealing with the same things that priscilla was talking about. Governor kemp sadly just issued a Press Conference recently, saying the Death Toll here in georgia has increased to 11 fatalities,ic as a result of falling trees on both cars and homes, jose. So, bill, you know, weve been talking about this for some time. It was such a rapidly it gained force so rapidly, but this has been drenching entire parts of look at georgia, and south carolina, and, of course, northern florida. How is it possible this is continuing to cause so much damage . Jose, i would estimate like 90 of the damage has been from water. There is wind damage. As we said, The Eye made landfall in a relatively unpopulated area. The surge hit an extremely populated area, and then the inland rainfall, atlanta heading up into the mountains of North Carolina. Down to greenville, south carolina. We just now saw finally the Flash Flood Emergency has been lifted for atlanta. I saw one report, jose, 240 roads are closed because of flooding in western North Carolina. They are people asking to be evacuated, asking for help, first Responders Cant get to them, because roads are washed out. We have the Lake Lure Dam that is in fear of overtopping. All of that water is causing a ton of problems. In atlanta, your rainfall total the last two days, highest ever recorded, and the records go back about 150 years. Thats why were seeing the pictures we showed you. As far as additional rain, were going to take everything in to be this Afternoon And Tonight into kentucky, southern indiana, still a chance for isolated attorneys. Raleigh, youre in the clear, but this Tornado Washington is right around i95. The storm itself, most of the damage has been done from the we said. Thats pretty much over with. And well see if they wet any flooding in tennessee and kentucky, but not anything in the historic stuff like were dealing with in North Carolina. Bill, how do you explain this whole cat 4. It picked up speed so quickly. It got to cat 4, it hit an area where were so close to hall hassee, for example. How do you explain what it did where it did . The biggest analogy i can give is putting fuel into a fire. This storm, when it went over the gulf, it was extremely warm, that water. This storm took advantage of that. All summer long theres been record temperatures, humidity, so the Gulf Of Mexico is the warmest its ever been measured. This storm just took advantage of energy that was available and produced it. A lot of people want to say this happened because of climate change. Thats not the way to correctly look at it. This storm was much worse. It likely would have happened anyways 100, 200, 300 years ago, but the added energy put into our atmosphere, this storm was maybe 10 , 15 stronger without humaninduced climate change. Thank you all so very much. We appreciate it. If you are or someone you know needs help, assistance after helene, go to fema. Gov. 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