impacted by the storms bands and we are seeing that particularly in the northern part of the state. so are seeing that particularly in the northern part of the state.- northern part of the state. so far there have northern part of the state. so far there have been northern part of the state. so far there have been 262000 - northern part of the state. so far there have been 262000 and - northern part of the state. so far - there have been 262000 and accounts that have lost power, have been restored. and there are more than 250,000 accounts that are currently out of power and in need of restoration. as you imagine the counties that have the highest percentage of power outage other counties that were in the main pathway of the storm, dixie, suwanee, madison and jefferson and columbia. utility workers are actively working to restore power in all affected areas. they have started doing that is soon is it was safe to do so. those restoration efforts are ongoing. we do anticipat
good afternoon. people in florida are bracing themselves for a hurricane which the authorities say could be catastrophic . these are some of the latest pictures of hurricane idalia, with possible winds of 130 miles an hour and the danger of a storm surge of sea water overwhelming low lying areas. pilots on an evacuation mission filmed these pictures of the rare electrical weather phenomenon known as st elmo s fire. more than a million residents have been told to leave their homes and the hurricane is making landfall about now in northwest florida. our correspondentjon sudworth has the latest from tampa. as you can say, the straits of tampa are pretty quiet this morning for a city of 400,000 people but the hurricane has largely passed by this stretch of coastline is now coming ashore in an area of the state known ashore in an area of the state known as big bend. the realfear is the storm surge, with warnings it could bring waves as high as 16 feet. the unusually warm conditio
the diplomacy will go. and a 56 year dynasty comes to an end in gabon another coup, the eighth in former french colonies injust the past three years. good evening. idalia s power has waned some as it heads towards georgia, but maximum sustained winds were still over 100 miles per hour. and it s worth remembering a storm s category doesn t necessarily indicate how much damage there will be. this storm surge that was pushed into the big bend area of the gulf coast peaked at 15 feet high. and that area of north west florida acts like a giant baseball mitt, it s flat, it s low lying, there s every reason to fear that the waters will have washed right over it. the federal emergency management agency said idalia is the strongest storm to make landfall in this part of florida in more than 100 years. more than a quarter of a million people in florida and another 100,000 in georgia are without power right now. the national guard and the federal emergency teams are staged ready to re
with knee deep water covering roads and inundating towns. let s show you this timelapse footage that captures the dramatic transformation of the weather conditions on the coast of miami, as hurricane idalia moved in. you can see the cloudy blue sky rapidly morphing into a dangerous, stormy grey. and these are some of the latest pictures of a highway in tampa streets are flooding there, as surges of seawater brought on by the storm threaten to overwhelm low lying areas, and wind speeds reaching around 125 miles an hour. several roads and bridges have been closed. more than a million residents have been told to leave their homes. in a briefing just before the storm made landfall, florida governor ron desantis warned people against taking any risks. you don t want to be messing around with these winds. there s going to be things flying all over the place. obviously, if you re in a place that s close to the coast and you see that surge, that s going to be a legitimate surge. it
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