And unsurvivable about Helene Making Landfall Last Night in florida. Cat 4 hurricane. Big storm and really moving like a clipper, too. Im bill hemmer, welcome to our program. Dana im dana perino. This is americas newsroom. Another fast week. It was good that it moved fast but still means there is a lot of damage. Ron desantis was right on time yesterday and we expect to see him any moment. Lets get to Steve Harrigan outside of tampa. This is the scene a lot of people in florida and even georgia are waking up to today. Two feet of water on the ground. Gets deeper the closer you get to the water. Many houses under water. The challenge now for people is getting out of their homes. Getting to their cars trying to make sure theyre safe. Weve seen a number of Air Boats and water rescues, 80 in this county just overnight. We see people really just stumbling around. More than A Million people in florida without Electric Power right now. More than 800,000 in georgia. So it will be a tough day a
carolinas at this hour with high winds, heavy rain and the threat of floods. now, officials say the storm thankfully has been downgraded from a hurricane, but it still poses a threat as it makes its way inland. it has already caused considerable damage in south carolina where it made landfall friday. now, you see that video there. it s the storm ripping through a pier in north myrtle beach causing part of it to collapse. now, it also submerged this neighborhood with a storm surge that was several feet high. so far, thankfully again there have been no reported deaths in south carolina. it s not the case in florida. at least 45 people have lost their lives, and we re getting a clearer picture of the extraordinary damage this storm left behind. entire neighborhoods that were once brimming with life i mean look at it. they re now flattened fields littered with debris. this is footage from fort myers beach where one woman s struggle to survive was captured in a phone call. i a
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good day to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. right no on early start, joe manchin says he is not running for re-election. so what will he do? and israel just announced a new evacuation window for gaza. how many will escape the warzone in the coming hours. and fbi investigating suspicious 4reletters sent to election offices. who is behind it and why. it is friday, november 10. happy friday. 5:00 a.m. here in washington where democrats are nervous after west virginia senator joe manchin announced that he will not run for re-election. that will be a tough blow to his party s hopes for holding on to the closely guided senate. democrats can only afford to lose one seat and west virginia is now a bright red state. chair of the committee says we like our odds in west virginia. the other reason for democrats to worry? this line from manchin s speech saying he won t run for re-election. what i will be doing is traveling the country and spe
A very high level. Some are saying its one of the biggest storms ever to hit our country. It built very rapidly,ed a briefing with secretary of Homeland Security and the administrator of fema and we are watching Hurricane Michael. Its just hitting shore now. Winds are going up to close to 200 miles an hour. Category 4. You dont hear about that. Its the most powerful recorded storm to strike the Florida Panhandle ever. It will bring with it anywhere from 150 mile to almost 200 mile an hour winds. The storm surges could be up to 15 feet. Additional rainfall could also produce Flash Flooding at the highest levels. We have been in constant communications with governor rick scott of florida. With all the authorities in the various states. Were very well prepared for massive amounts of food and we have First Responders all over, the Electrical Companies are staged and ready to go in after the storm. Over a thousands trucks. We have large amounts of food and water and Everything Else that you