Is Cnn Newsroom. We begin with Breaking News as we track Hurricane Helene, its now the strongest storm to ever make landfall in floridas Big Bend, sweeping across the coast hours ago as an extremely dangerous category four hurricane with winds of 140 miles per hour. Now the effects have been felt far from the center of the storm. The mayor of clearwater told me his community has been inundated despite being 100 miles from the center now, helene is weakening now but has knocked out power to more than 1,000,000. 5 homes and businesses in florida, georgia, and the carolinas. At least three people have been killed as the storm continues to pummel the southeast to end georgia. And one in florida we have had a report of a fatality on the roadway. Car driving on i4 near your Ybor City and tampa, was hit when a sign fell onto onto the highway. So that just shows you that its very dangerous. Chris conditions out there you need to be right now. Just hunkering down nows not the time to be going o
You watching us here in the united states, canada, and Around The World. Im Kim Brunhuber we begin with Breaking News as we track Hurricane Helene, at least three people have been killed in Florida And Georgia as the storm continues to pummel the southeast national Weather Service is telling residents to stay in their safe place. Helene is now moving over South Georgia as a category one storm with 90 mile per Hour Winds. Officials say its still an extremely dangerous and lifethreatening situation. Now, it made landfall a few hours ago as a Monster Category four hurricane with winds of 140 miles per hour, its the strongest storm to ever make landfall in floridas Big Bend. National Weather Service is describing it as unsurvivable with up to 20 feet of Storm Surge expected in some areas, helene in his knocked out power to more than a millionandahalf homes and businesses in florida, georgia, and the carolinas you need to be right now. Just to ring down. Now is not the time to be going out.
Warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the u. S. And Around The World. Im max foster. It is friday, september the 27th, 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 4 00 a. M. In the florida big Bend Region where Hurricane Helene has made landfall overnight sweeping across the coast as an extremely dangerous category four hurricane, with winds of 100 140 miles per hour. Its now weakened, but continues to unleash lifethreatening Storm Surge, flooding, rains, and destructive winds across the Southeast Helene out power to more than 2 Million homes and businesses in florida, georgia, and the carolinas won florida sheriff says theyre fearing the worst when The Sun comes up and Tallahassees Mayor says his city has never seen a storm like It None of us have experienced a category four hurricane this close to tallahassee this is a historic storm for us right now, Everyone Stay safe. Shelter in place, stay home about 40 people have been rescued from rising water in pasco county, just north of tampa. And rescu
Theyre going to delay the interests until they have to pay it or to start to repay that loan and its a tremendous resource to really help small businesses get back on their feet decide where to position yourself tomorrow with The Storm made. Were listening here to the fema administrator, deanne criswell. She is giving an update on Hurricane Helene, which is intensifying and which is huge. It is now on the verge of becoming a category three. It is barreling towards the Southeastern Us and she is warning so much of the Storm Surge that we are expecting already seen tropical storm conditions as we are looking towards this landfall that is expected here in the coming hours, but already there are parts of florida were seeing it here underwater as these conditions are battering the coast, the national Weather Service is Warning Breaching of the bay. I was over there maybe about an hour ago and you could see that some of the water because of the rough seas and the strong winds have started to
Across the country are now on strike this busy Labor Day Weekend. Districts involve mostly hyatt, marriott, Hilton Hotels and they will last about three days. The workers unions say they want higher pay, increased staffing, and reduced workloads. In moments, a day of Heartbreak And Protest in israel after six dead hostages are recovered in gaza. Good day to love you. From Msnbc World headquarters in New York, thank you and welcome to Alex Witt reports. We begin with Breaking News. Protests across israel spilling into The Streets in outrage over the six hostages killed by hamas in gaza. Many israelis putting the blame for their deaths squarely on prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who they accuse of failing to strike a Ceasefire Deal. We have a number of reporters in place covering the latest development for us. First, we go to Matt Bradley in Tel Aviv for us. Matt, it has been loud behind you, there are thousands upon thousands in that square in Tel Aviv. Where are the protesters now,