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
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We are back with video of a tornado near des moines, iowa, happening even before the warning sire we are back with video of a tornado near des moines, iowa, happening even before the warning sirens could go off. It was one of several in the state and the second day in a row for the des moines area. And it was the third day in a row for heavy rain and flooding in south florida. Many roads are under water in miami. So far that storm system is staying away from floridas space coast. Forecasters say theres a 60 chance of acceptable weather at the Kennedy Space center for this afternoons launch. A college in New Hampshire is seeing a spike in applications to its nursing school, and its being attributed to the pandemic. The incoming class of nursing students at colbysawyer college is 34 larger than last years class. The dean says news stories highlighting the role of nurses fighting the virus have inspired students. Isolation rules for covid19 hospitalizations have been particularly hard on
Outbreak to hit City Health Officials say it is not a matter of if but when Health Officials announced 2 new cases of coronavirus in Santa Clara County. This brings the total number of crowd of iraq fires cases in that county to 9 in San Mateo County Officials Say one resident has tested. Presumptive positive for coronavirus which means the person has tested positive at a Public Health lab. Officials are awaiting additional confirmation testing from the cdc has new cases with unknown are just begin to pop of understanding the risk of cor navirus has become more and more important. The cdc says at this point we should all be prepared for more cases to emerge across the United States kron fours well bellow spoke with an Infectious Disease expert at u c berkley is she standing by live with more well thats right the head of Infectious Diseases at u c berkeley doctor lee riley says. This is an outbreak it is an epidemic after comparing it to sars and mers he believes there are 3 likely outc