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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 ....
History and the lnu complex the third. Add in the czu complex and the fires burned nearly 732,000 acres combined. There are 560 wildfires burning throughout the state, many sparked by lightning. At least 965 structures destroyed, many of them homes. Heres a quk look at how widespread these fire zones are. The north bay, primarily in napa and sonoma counties and spread out among lake county. The scu complex aparts santa clara and costa con thtra counts and the possible threat of new thunderstorms is a main concern right now for firefighters. Good morning,l lisa. What can we expect . We have a red flag warning. The weather watch is elevated through 5 00. We have dense fog at the coast creating calm winds a. Layer of smoke among the fog at about 800 feet and looking still in the possibility of gusty winds and lightning threats as we go through the overnight hours tonight into monday morning. Air quality right now is poor, unhealthy. Perhaps having issues in livermore. You can see the red ....
Contained and the czu august lightning complex fires burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Now 19 contained calfire seeing cooler weather and extra resources coming from outside the bay area has certainly helped crews gain some ground on these fires and weve got Team Coverage of the czu lightning complex fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties. And you can take a look here at the map and it shows you the areas burned by that fire or complex of fires which has destroyed more than 440 homes and other structures kron fours will tran is live now at the Cal Fire Base Camp in Scotts Valley with the latest well. No i can tell you the conditions are favorable for firefighters at this particular time it is cold, its still smoky. And yes, the fires are still burning but slowly its not chewing through all of that dry ve ....
State, many sparked by lightning that will become a concern again today. At least 965 structures destroyed, many of them homes. Heres a quick look at just how widespread these fire zones are. The lnu complex in the north bay, primarily in napa and sonoma counties and spread out among lake county. The czu in san mateo counties. The possible threat of new thunderstorms is a main concern right now for firefighters. Something we are tracking. Lisa, we can we expect this morning . We are looking at better possibility of that tonight into monday and under a red flag warning right now and we have fog dense along the coast but the view of mt. Tam shows the colors and the air quality is better for most of you this morning. That will be changing into those winds throughout the afternoon. 60 in mountain view. 57 in San Francisco. This is the east bay where you can see the gray sky here and some of the smoke and poor air quality with you. 53 s ....
Quick look at the weather. Good morning, liz. We have a lot of stratus out there, the low clouds as we look at live doppler 7. Youll notice up into the north bay weve got the fog. S also along the peninsula there and thats going to setup a pretty good sea breeze. 3 to 4 miles Half Moon Bay. The airport is reporting fog and hazy conditions in livermore. The worst air quality right now through 7 00 is up in the north bay. Going through 2 00 it lifts further north, so were looking at slightly better air quality, we get into that afternoon sea breeze and those winds continue to push the smoke up into the north bay throughout the afternoon, the overnight hours. And your sunday is going to feature some warmer air and some lighter winds. Still with a spare the air alert both days. Weve got the unhealthy air along the Central Coast and bay today and our had inland east bay as well as t ....