Struggling with helenes catastrophic aftermath, much of the areas famed Scenic Lands its gate completely unrecognizable. Look at these visuals. It just tells you everything you need to know about the devastation and the damage from helene in Buncombe County where asheville is at least 35 stormrelated deaths are reported with more than 600 people unaccounted for officials warn the Death Toll could go much higher. And these exclusive pictures just in to cnn showed the extent of the destruction should in asheville. What you are looking at is the main road there and biltmore village, its near the famous biltmore estate. Its a five Lane Road usually pull up cars. Now, as you see a is covered in mud and debris. People walking down the Middle Of The Road looking for supplies helene tore through the historic village, the floodwaters rising too level and pushing trailers into buildings power, and water are out and much of the city just basic necessities. People need to survive they dont theyre
Life threatening Flash Flooding and historic Storm Surge. It left towns across the Gulf Coast completely underwater as floodwaters submerge cars, crashed over highways and seeped into homes. At least six people have lost their lives. Take a look at this, rescue crews in pinellas county, encountering homes engulfed in flames as they try to save people trapped by rising waters. Right now, helene has weakened to a tropical storm, as it heads north, putting 42 Million people under flood alerts. Millions across the south are still without power. And here is the moment when the eyewall hit perry, florida. Jesse kirsch was reporting live on the air. Reporter i can tell you that we have had intermittent moments of really powerful gusts. Were getting some right now, again. This is some of the i want to point out, i dont know if you can see it off in the distance, but there are cars out here, i can tell you, 45mileperhour winds, not to be on the roads anymore. Anyone out here, presumably, not a
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
Also this hour, ron desantis at war with some fellow republicans who are taking aim at the Florida Governor over his support of Teaching Guidelines that suggest enslaved people benefited from slavery. All that, plus a woman who faked a story about going missing is now being charged for false report by officials, you say they wish they could have gone further. In a global heat wave from soaring temperatures here at home, to heat fueled wildfires overseas, will bring you the latest on the dangerous situation around the world. Lebron james posts new video of his son, brawny, just days after he went into Cardiac Arrest. What bronnys Health Crisis can teach parents of other Young Athletes, especially young men of color, thats all coming up next. Were gonna begin with former President Trumps rally in pennsylvania, which is set to start in just a few hours, hell be hearing even more baggage this time, with those for us charges from the doj on the classified documents case. Lets go right to it
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