Code Lumen Tv good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We begin with breaking News Right now, Hurricane Helene is churning in the Gulf Mexico is currently a category two strength, but is expected to become a major hurricane before it slams into florida. Later tonight, officials are warning of lifethreatening Storm Surges of up to 20 feet plus new York City mayor Eric Adams indicted sources say the mayor is now facing at least one federal what criminal charge this morning, investigators took his phone and are searching his residence and later on defending a racist post. Reads the Gop Congressman Clay higgins stands by his ugly comments, Calling Haitian Migrants Thugs and Quote Slapstick gangsters Breaking News but we do begin with the breaking News Right now, a tropical storm conditions are lashing florida. It is going to get worse though as Hurricane Helene barrels toward the southeastern united states, we are seeing flooding already hours before the
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
It states Hurricane Helene was just upgraded. A powerful category three storm. Its already wreaking havoc on bridges and roadways such as this one youre looking at in Southwest Florida for those in the Big Bend, thats where the Florida Panhandle meets the peninsula. The storms Outer Bands all already have brought extensive flooding. And were told that works is yet to come. Listen to what federal and state officials are saying right now, it looks like its dead on hit to tallahassee. This is an unusually dangerous storm that threatens to bring Heavy Rain and potentially catastrophic flooding. This will be a statewide event. We expect strong winds throughout date with hurricaneforce Winds Wind Gust up to 8,200 miles an hour you just heard from the North Carolina Governor and the Georgia Governor we are standing by to hear from florida governor Ron Desantis in the next hour. And as you heard, it is not just florida in helenes pam, georgia, south carolina, North Carolina, are all all facing
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