Dozens are dead, millions without power right now. These buildings have survived storms for years, but hurricane Helenes Storm Surge shoved them right off their foundation. Maurice israel says it struck hezbollah headquarters in lebanon, aiming to take out the terrorist groups leader. An allout war should be avoided. Maurice and we go On The Road to find out how a Mans Halloween Display touched hearts, no bones about it. It was very touching to think that somebody would go to that effort for a stranger. Maurice the Cbs Evening news starts now. Good evening. Im Maurice Dubois in for norah. We begin tonight with the danger from helene, now over the midsouth after roaring onto land over the big Bend Portion of florida as a major category 4 hurricane, with winds up to 140 miles per hour. Tonight, flooding is the main concern across north carolina, georgia, and tennessee, where we just learned dozens of people had to be rescued after being stranded on the roof of a hospital. They are among
Alertmac now a category of four hurricane, boys to make landfall in florida and the next two hours. Things are getting very dicey, multiple states bracing for the worst, storm surge, heavy wind threatening the entire gulf coast and beyond. We will get to the monolog in moments but let s check in across city in florida, yeah, fox weather is robert rae, what is the latest? and things are deteriorating in a big way here, on the nature coast. And eminent landfall in the next two hours, the wind speeds just updated the national hurricane center to 140 miles per hour sustained. That is catastrophic, like you cannot even explain. It is coming in here in the dark night, we are beginning just the rain in the wind and it will just deteriorated more in the coming hours. Has already about 400,000 customers without power in the great state of florida, a state of emergency here across the entire peninsula, up into georgia. One of the biggest concerns after landfall is as a system tracks up into geor
Of them is going to lead the country just a good reminder and a pretty stunning, pretty stunning clips there. Alright, panel. Thank you very much. And thanks to All Of You for joining us. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere cnn new central starts right now breaking overnight the mayor of new York City, Eric Adams, indicted and facing at least one federal Criminal Charge following a corruption investigation, the mayor says hes innocent, but hell now need to surrender to federal custody in a matter of days right now, florida is feeling the outer bands of helene is topicals, is tropical Storm Force winds since hit the coast there, a category one hurricane continuing to strengthen as it inches closer and with it, the potential for an unsurvivable Storm Surge where i am in tallahassee, the capital, florida bracing for the most powerful storm this city has ever seen it wont stop here millions of people over five states we are tracking it all on John Berman in tallahassee. Sara is out today. Kate
Saying yeah, we have a category three hurricane on our hands right now, what 125 mile per hour winds my point that out because it category four hurricane starts at 130 mile per hour winds, so were really talking about a difference of five to ten miles per hour here, right . So right now, its a very Highend Category three teetering on that category four, which is why the national Hurricane Center is saying, hey, look, its still sitting over very warm from Ocean Waters right now. It has all the ingredients it needs to strengthen. So theres really not much to stop it from gaming that five miles per hour that it needs to just get to that category and become a category four either way, whether its this Highend Category three, or it makes that fivemile per Hour Difference to a category four. We are still talking about the Sam Catastrophic on survivable impacts when it comes to the Storm Surge and heavy Rain And Everything else. Weve been talking about, the radar. You can see again still with
Already begun in Southwest Florida. The impacts were not that significant, where the storm has already passed, fdot crews have already driven and cleared more than 2000 miles of roadway in Southwest Florida so weve already started working once the initial initial response is through our cut and tell us crews were transition to Debris Removal. And undergoing are two sentences, leadership, we will stand ready just like with the Dahlia And Debbie to support fiscally constrained counties with the Debris Removal operation please leave dr. Please do not drive on them water over a road can be very dangerous, especially around culverts and bridges. Every storm season, we see people tried to navigate through water. You have no idea whats Going On underneath the water, please do not drive through but were going to stay in touch with our airports and Seaports Sea ports are closed, Water Side right now airports are going to reopen just as soon as practically feasible and thank again, governor. Tha