Now i ll see you tomorrow evening. I m kaitlan collins. This is the source hurricane helene is about to slam into florida and i expected to make landfall and just a couple of hours from now, it s now an extremely dangerous category four storm and winds are now up to 140 miles per hour. If it stays this strong, it ll be the strongest storm to ever make landfall in florida s big bend region. That s the area that we re keeping a close eye on. This hour, more than half 1 million people there have already lost power. And forecasters are predicting tonight that the storm surge in some areas could be unsurvivable reaching as high as 20 feet surges and high winds were already the reason for the closures of several major bridges in the tampa area that we saw tonight? officials, there are telling residents to shelter in place, that it is going to get worse and don t go outside. Emergency managers and one florida county are being so blunt with their warnings for those who are in low lying areas 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
Rockets across the border, israel replying in kind with Strikes Tonight inside beirut. We will get reaction from New York and from lebanon. Also tonight Keir Starmer s first speech to a Labour Party Conference, as Prime Minister. The speech offered some detail of what he wants to achieve while in office. We will have reaction from liverpool. And would you take a flight 50 mins longer across the atlantic, if you were told the Plane Hello and welcome. The Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres says the world cannot afford for lebanon to become, what he called another gaza. Mr guterres was speaking as clashes between Israel And Hezbollah intensified. In his speech to the Un General Assembly us president Joe Biden said full Scale War was in no one s interests. But diplomacy has its limits. The two sides are inching towards full Scale War. Today international airlines suspended more flights to lebanon amid an israeli bombardment that authorities say has killed almost 560 p
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