Record 30inches of rainfall. More than 32,000 people are still without power at this hour. Retired u. S. Army lieutenant general Russell Honore is joining us. Let me get your assessment as someone who knows what an operation like this looks like. The damage youre sering right now. What do you make of the damage were seeing across the south . Well i think you clarified that it was a storm that attacked florida, and made its way through georgia, tennessee to new mexico. It dropped an awful lot of water. Not measured in inches but foot. It overmatched the terrain and when you drop water in those mountains, ayman as we all know it started going to the valleys. The community had not seen or experienced that and overtime, development happened in the deeper part of those valleys. And what we have seen is and with condolences to all those who have lost their lives that Flash Flooding that has occurred. The good news, theres a lot of people working to get to them. Lets talk about the operations
Pete we begIn wIth a fox news alert. Israel scorIng a major vIctIm agaInst hezbollah. The Idf confIrms the Terror Groups leader, Hassan Nasrallah, Is dead after a massIve strIke In beIrut. WIll rIght now smoke Is rIsIng after that the cIty after over 140 Idf strIkes sInce last nIght. And Irans Supreme Leader Is callIng on the people of lebanon to rIse up agaInst Israel. Rachel our own Nate Foy Is lIve on the ground In tel avIv. NatIve, good mornIng. Reporter nate, good mornIng. Reporter good mornIng, guys. Irans Supreme Leader Is out wIth a new statement accordIng to reuters reactIng to the strIke that the Idf says kIlled Hassan Nas Allah yesterday In beIrut nasrallah, sayIng that the future of The MIddle East wIll be determIned by the forces of the recess dance, and It wIll be led, he says, by hezbollah. But what hezbollah looks lIke wIthout Nas Aal La remaIns to be seen. The TerrorIst OrganIzatIon has not put out a statement sInce Yesterdays StrIke that happened In the early evenIng
RankIng hezbollah offIcIals. The shIIte clear at Hassan Nasrallah, Lead Hezbollah sInce 1982 and grew the group Into the most powerful IranIan backed force In the regIon, both mIlItarIly and buIldIng has below to what Is called the state wIthIn a state and led the group through decades of conflIct wIth Israel. The bIden admInIstratIon saId It was not alerted ahead of tIme to Yesterday Pack the strIkes In beIrut. In a statement, the head of the supreme natIonal SecurIty CouncIl saId It acts as a resIstance and wIll respond wIth force at the rIght tIme and that Israel has opened the Gates Of Hell agaInst Itself. Israel carrIed out more strIkes thIs mornIng In Israel And Hezbollah fIred more rockets Into Israel. JoInIng leave thIs mornIng Is my frIend brett bradley. He Is In beIrut. A country he knows well. ReportIng on an organIzatIon that he reported on for a very long tIme what you make of everythIng that has happened In the last 1218 hours . It Is not just somethIng that happened In t
We want to extends a special welcome to our Fox News viewers. Im meteorologist are arti from our studios here in new York City and weve been covering helene over the last several hours over the last several days. This has been an extremely well forecast storm, before it even formed down in the western caribbean. It looked like something like this was going to happen, so again, we still have technically a Hurricane Storm and Hurricane Center will probably see it downgraded slowly throughout the night, but one unique thing about helene, this particular storm is that it was very large, right . So large storms take a longer time to lose their strength as they move inland so you look up here to the north. Not only do we have a long Wind Damage to get, were going to see some hikely catastrophic rain, and i want to bring Ian Oliver. He started out in st. Petersburg beach and hes now made the trek over to tampa, so kind of on the other side of town, and ian, whether you started on the of other
Households in florida are reportedlyfl without power and thousands have been ordered to evacuate from their thhomes. As you can see from these satellite images, helene is huge and is expected to effect nearly the entire state of florida with damaging winds and heavy rain. Still what mayea bring the most danger areri the Storm Surges. Earlier today residents experienced flooding in places like pine island, which is just outside of fort myers. But flooding will likely get much worse across the state as the night continues. A Storm Surge Warning is in place for almost the entirety of floridas west coast. This video is a simulation of what could happen if the Storm Surge rises to approximately 10 feet. But in some parts of florida officials warn that Hurricane Helene could cause Storm Surges of c up to 20 feet, around doub the amount shown in in simulatiOn And those officials are calling that a level of Sto Surge potentially unsurvivable. Earlier today the first bands of Wind Andt Rain Las