Breaking news and good evening. I m erin burnett outfront tonight. The breaking news unsurvivable. That is the exact word officials are using right now, as hurricane helene has now grown to an extremely dangerous category four hurricane, bringing with it potentially really historic storm surge levels right now expected at 20 feet. Let s just look at the scene right now is a live camera that we have in met lots of florida trees right there right now, you ve got up to 130 an hour gusts coming through that area on that bridge. We have seen cars coming and going really even in these past few moments, which is pretty stunning. Many bridges have already been closed. This is the skyway bridge, as you re looking here, which is now completely submerged. Imagine being in one of those cars. And right now, darkness is descending on the area more than 200,000 people in the dark without power right now, there is a sheriff asking people who do not evacuate to write their name and date of birth on the
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thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. the beat with ari melber starts now. happy monday. thank you very much. i m ari melber and of all of the important items that begin this week, we have one our office is buzzing about that we are lighting up about, if you will, if you ll take the visual entendre. the man you see there rainn wilson from nbc s hit the office will join us live by the end of this hour and that is some office news. believe me, we think it s worth sticking around for that. the top story of the news, though, is a loss for a trump-era prosecutor who has been trying and failing to find any deep state conspiracy against donald trump after getting his special political assignment from trump attorney general bill barr. i m talking about a special counsel, you may remember, was tapped originally in that trump-barr doj before the biden administration and the project was to investigate the investigators to hash and re-li
states and all around the world. investigators offer a reward for information leading to the arrest of the mass shooting suspect in texas. plus the husband and father of two victims describes why he chose to run away from the gunfire. regulators weigh bids for first republic. plus the crisis in sudan. the first u.s. evacuation ship is expected to arrive at a saudi arabian port in the hours ahead. you will hear from those who managed to escape the fighting, and what they endured. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with rosemary church. thanks for being with us. well, a small texas town is in mourning and on edge after a deadly shooting in which five people were killed. this man lost his wife and 9-year-old son in the shooting the meanwhile, more than 200 officers from multiple law enforcement agencies are involved this the manhunt for the suspected shooter. and there s also an 8 o$,000 reward being offered for any information that could lead to his arrest. a
he shared with so many. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with a warning from law enforcement. we do not know where he is. those chilling words minutes ago from the top fbi agent in san jacinto county, texas, about this man, 38-year-old francisco orapeza. he has been the focus of a desperate manhunt since friday night. that s when neighbors asked him to stop firing his rifle in his front yard because they were trying to get a baby to go to sleep. police say orapeza entered their home and began shooting. an 8-year-old boy was among the five neighbors slaughtered almost execution-style in the words of the sheriff. cnn s ed lavandera is in cleveland, texas. the sheriff and fbi just held a news briefing. what did you learn there? reporter: well, we learned that clearly investigators here, what they are saying publicly is they essentially have no idea where this 38-year-old murder suspect is, francisco orapeza, not seen since