We want to extends a special welcome to our Fox News viewers. Im meteorologist are arti from our studios here in new York City and weve been covering helene over the last several hours over the last several days. This has been an extremely well forecast storm, before it even formed down in the western caribbean. It looked like something like this was going to happen, so again, we still have technically a Hurricane Storm and Hurricane Center will probably see it downgraded slowly throughout the night, but one unique thing about helene, this particular storm is that it was very large, right . So large storms take a longer time to lose their strength as they move inland so you look up here to the north. Not only do we have a long Wind Damage to get, were going to see some hikely catastrophic rain, and i want to bring Ian Oliver. He started out in st. Petersburg beach and hes now made the trek over to tampa, so kind of on the other side of town, and ian, whether you started on the of other
Viciously over the last 20 years, in the last year, completely unprovoked. A day after the Hamas Massacre in October 7th, hezbollah began attacks against israel which forced more than 60,000 israelis on our northern border to leave their homes. Becoming refugees in their own land. Hezbollah turned vibrant towns in the north of israel, to ghost towns. Think about this in equivalent terms. Just imagine if terrorists turned toes in San Diego into ghost towns. How long would the american government tolerate that . A day . A week . A month . I doubt they would tolerate it even for a single day. Yet israel has been tolerating this intolerable situation for nearly a year. Well, ive come here today to say enough is enough. [ applause ] we wont are rest until our citizens can return safely to their homes. We will not accept a Terrorist Army on our northern border in order to perpetrate an October 7th style massacre. For 18 years, Hezbollah Brazenly refused to implement u. N. Security Council Re
This is brand new video just to us. Israel says it struck the central headquarters of hezbollah in Southern Lebanon. You can see in this video the blast was massive. And israeli official tells Nbc News the target was hezbollahs powerful leader. It comes as israel has been systematically targeting high level commanders of the u. S. Designated terror group, both within and abroad, which prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says israel will continue to do in order to defend itself from groups looking to eliminate the state. Nbcs Matt Bradley is live in beirut for us. Also with us, aaron david miller, former arabisraeli negotiator, and Senior Fellow at the endowment for peace. Give us the latest. Reporter we were here a couple of hours ago when our walls of our hotel shook. You cant see it now but it was just over my right shoulder here in southern beirut. This is a neighborhood that has endured repeated israeli bombardments all week long. And most of that, as you just mentioned in your intro
Extremely dangerous four. It s more than 400 miles across, pushing a storm surge that officials are calling unsurvivable is now hitting florida s gulf coast as much as 20 feet of water what are forecast along the shore south of tallahassee, which itself is expected to take a direct blow. Some coastal areas already flooding. Take a look live pictures right now from gulfport in tampa on the right interstate to 70 prison biden this evening, urge anyone in the storm s path that take it extremely seriously. A lot of water there is certainly there graham gulfport, especially emergency managers and florida s taylor county are telling people choosing to stay and there are people choosing to stay to write her name and date of birth on a leg to help identify their bodies. Storm warnings are now in effect as far north as charlotte, north carolina. We ve got cnn correspondents all along the places now harm s way in chad myers in the cnn weather center, let s start with cnn meteorologist derek van
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