Is Cnn Newsroom. We begin with Breaking News as we track Hurricane Helene, its now the strongest storm to ever make landfall in floridas Big Bend, sweeping across the coast hours ago as an extremely dangerous category four hurricane with winds of 140 miles per hour. Now the effects have been felt far from the center of the storm. The mayor of clearwater told me his community has been inundated despite being 100 miles from the center now, helene is weakening now but has knocked out power to more than 1,000,000. 5 homes and businesses in florida, georgia, and the carolinas. At least three people have been killed as the storm continues to pummel the southeast to end georgia. And one in florida we have had a report of a fatality on the roadway. Car driving on i4 near your Ybor City and tampa, was hit when a sign fell onto onto the highway. So that just shows you that its very dangerous. Chris conditions out there you need to be right now. Just hunkering down nows not the time to be going o
Warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the u. S. And Around The World. Im max foster. It is friday, september the 27th, 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 4 00 a. M. In the florida big Bend Region where Hurricane Helene has made landfall overnight sweeping across the coast as an extremely dangerous category four hurricane, with winds of 100 140 miles per hour. Its now weakened, but continues to unleash lifethreatening Storm Surge, flooding, rains, and destructive winds across the Southeast Helene out power to more than 2 Million homes and businesses in florida, georgia, and the carolinas won florida sheriff says theyre fearing the worst when The Sun comes up and Tallahassees Mayor says his city has never seen a storm like It None of us have experienced a category four hurricane this close to tallahassee this is a historic storm for us right now, Everyone Stay safe. Shelter in place, stay home about 40 people have been rescued from rising water in pasco county, just north of tampa. And rescu
The Usjustice Department sued americas largest card network, accusing the company of illegally monopolising the Debit Card Market and driving up prices for businesses and consumers. Lifting us financial markets, well, there was a sharp rise in Al Darling nvidias stock price. That was after the company said its ceo, jensen huang, was done Selling Stock in the Chip Maker for now. And Chinas Wave of stimulus to jolt its ailing economy, well, that also boosted us stocks that have exposure to china. So far this week, it has been light on the economic front, with investors still digesting that Rate Cut from the federal reserve. But on the economic calendar, things should pick up as the week goes forward. As michelle mentioned, the Usjustice Department has filed a lawsuit against visa. It says the worlds largest Payments Processor illegally stifled competition to maintain a monopoly over the american Debit Card Market, through means like paying off potential competitors. Visa says the claims
Is the appropriate sentence. Today former mams Police Officer zerk Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1 2 years in prison for the Nurd R Murder Last May of george floyd. Hes been the prison since april when a jury found him guilty of several charges all for him holding his knee on George Floyds neck until mr. Floyd was deemed up conscious and he died on a minneapolis Street Corner. He was going to receive a theoretical maximum sentence but the theoretical maximum associated with any particularly crime is put up against statebased snepsing guidelines. Considering the fact that mr. Chauvin had no criminal history, the Minnesota State guidelines for a sneps in this case actually recommended a sort of presumptive sentence of about 12 1 2 years. Judges can depart from those Sentencing Guidelines and in particularly they can depart upward if there are aggravating faeblgts that make the crime worse than that source of base level offense. The judge in this case had ruled that there were four di
Rubble, 50 apartment buildings, condominiums collapsed to the ground, most of the people in that building were asleep, 99 people unaccounted for. A lot of Family Members desperate for information. Here is florida senator marco rubio and what they are going through. I cant imagine having someone i love, wanting to believe they are alive, hoping for a miracle and desperation folks are feeling at this moment. All we can do is help people who are in that situation and hope Something Like this never happens again. Search and Rescue Operations continue overnight, incredibly tough conditions, they are drilling in an underground parking lot trying to find the source of sound or banking, hoping to find people still alive, 36 people rescued on the first night, one of those Rescue Workers were rescued by civilian who was out walking his dog and noticed a 10yearold boy able to wave his fingers in the rubble. Heres that civilian. He knew we were there. I got a firefighter and Police Officer over th