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
Just coming in right now. The Federal Reserve has announced a half a point. That was not the most expected. Most of what i read was a Quarter Point expected. It was a toss up, and really heres the thing, the Federal Reserve raised Interest Rates to get inflation down. The more recent readings we have gotten on the economy the last six weeks since the last time they announced decision is pointing to a weakness in the labor department. To cut into unemployment and make more people get out of jobs or increase unemployment further, well, thats the reason why they wanted to dramatically cut Interest Rates. They decided to do so by half a Percentage Point. Economic activity has continued to expand at a solid pace. Job gains have slowed. Well have to see what Fed Chair Jerome powell says to explain cutting Interest Rates by a Half Point. Im going to ask the Control Room if we can get a ticker and keep an eye on whats going on with the stock market. Its going wild . There we go. Ran insana, th
Well be good. 1 30 this afternoon, a call of shots fired. Because were in constant contact of them at all times. We were notified of that and we had units here that immediately sealed off the area. Fortunately we were able to locate a witness that came to us and said hey, i saw the guy running out tof the bushes. He jumped into a black nissan and i took a picture of the vehicle and the tag. Which was great. So, we had that information. Our realtime crime center put it out to the License Plate readers. And we were able to get a hit on that vehicle on i95 as it was headed into Martin County. We got a hold of Martin County Sheriffs Office and they spotted the vehicle and pulled it out and detained the guy. After that we took the victim, im sorry the witness the witness that witnessed the incident. Flew him up there tnand he identified the person that he saw running out of the bushes that jumped into the car. Now in the bushes where this guy was is an Ak47 Style Rifle with a scope. Two bac
Students and two teachers who were killed less than 48 hours ago, they were sitting in the Front Row of that courtroom lets get right to cnns Rafael Romo outside the court were kind of inbetween moments right now rafael in court yeah. Thats right. Waiting for the parent who is going to show up here at the courthouse. Any moment now about probably in about 30 minutes, it was heartbreaking. John and let me tell you to see those families sitting quietly, respectfully in the Front Row in the proceeding started at exactly a 30, 3 00 a. M. In front of Judge Curry mingle dorf here at the Barrow County courthouse. Defendant was brought in two minutes later. His arms were shackled and he was wearing a green Top And Tan pants. He replied to questions by the judge, by seeing a yes, sir. In a respectful manner as he was informed of his rights under the law and the charges, and that he faces. Lets remember that he has been charged, says adult with four counts of Felony Murder Scene with the victims
The united states its around the world and streaming us on cnn max, Im Rosemary Church just ahead. Grief and rage in israel, Tens Of Thousands of protests yes. Just filling the streets, calling on prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a Ceasefire Deal following the deaths of six hostages In Gaza we have the first poll numbers following the Democratic National Convention. What they say and where the candidates will be in the days ahead and china pushes back on criticism my after yet another collision with a philippine Coast Guard Vessel in the south China Sea from atlanta. This is Cnn Newsroom with Rosemarie Church good to have you with us. So it is 9 00 in the morning in israel were ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv has halted departures and arrivals of flights for at least another hour as part of a nationwide strike. It comes as Anger And Anguish build over the deaths of six hostages In Gaza. On sunday, Tens Of Thousands took to the streets in Tel Aviv and other cities demanding p