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
Backfire. It follows a vote in the us House Of Representatives which passed a bill that would require the tiktok owner bytedance to sell its stake in the Social Media Platform. During the debate, lawmakers repeatedly said that tiktok has links to the Chinese Communist Party Something denied by both tiktok and bytedance. The Chief Executive of tiktok posted this on the Social Media Platform a short time ago. Us lawmakers were debating whether the pastor bill, they had repeatedly said that tiktok has links to the Chinese Communist party, something denied by both tiktok and bytedance. Denied by both tiktok and bytedance denied by both tiktok and bytedance. Denied by both tiktok and b edance. ,. , bytedance. Our intention is for tiktok to continue bytedance. Our intention is for tiktok to continue to bytedance. Our intention is for tiktok to continue to operate l tiktok to continue to operate but not under the control of the Chinese Communist party. I the Chinese Communist party. I want to
At least five people were killed including one unrwa staff member with many more wounded. These pictures have been verified by the bbc. They were shot at a nearby hospital, where casualties were taken. Israel has not yet commented on the incident. The us and others continue to urge israel not to launch a full scale assault on rafah, where more than a million palestinians have taken shelter in recent weeks. These are pictures of the warehouse taken in the immediate aftermath. This was the scene inside some of the images are too graphic to broadcast. Lets hearfrom unrwas director of Communications Juliette touma, who spoke to us from jordans capital, amman. This is a Distribution Centre for food, and also a warehouse where we store food supplies, but also other critical supplies. We know that it is the Israeli Forces who were responsible it happened this morning, our teams were on site and they reported back the casualties. It comes at a critical time, as hunger spreads across the gaza s
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Where it faces an uncertain future. Majority leader Chuck Schumer has been noncommittal about whether hell bring it up for a vote. Some senators have already vowed to vote against it. It does move to the senate, President Biden has said he will sign it. Proponents have argued that tiktok is a Security Threat and the 170 million us users. Are still vulnerable to data theft. The riori vulnerable to data theft. The priority is vulnerable to data theft. The priority is National Vulnerable to data theft. Tue priority is national security. Thats what the primary issue is. There are trade offs. Former President Trump used a vac this idea, but this week, change his tune, tiktok poses security and privacy concerns, banning the app would be of boom for facebook with that, and national security, free speech and youth issue also becomes a campaign issue. Protesters took to capitol hill in support of tiktok. Do you have any concerns about china tapping into peoples phones or Security Risks . Securi