Tonight, a Monster Storm about to make landfall. This hour, Hurricane Helene slams into floridas Big Bend as a category four. Plus, new York City mayor Eric Adams is defiant as he faces multiple federal Corruption Charges including Bribery And Wire fraud. We will get into it with the former manhattan prosecutor. And then, how Wall Street is responding to buys president harriss big economic addresses the 11th Hour gets underway on this thursday night. At evening. Once again, i am stephanie ruhle. Good to be back in new York City where tonight we are tracking Breaking News in the southeast is the incredibly powerful Hurricane Helene is heading the florida coast. Im going to bring in our own Bill Karins with the latest. Whats going on down there . A horrific storm. The Storm Surge is in areas that people have never seen the water on the West Coast of florida. The Big Bend is now getting 20 foot Storm Surge and the storm itself is now moving inland with destructive winds. This is the shore
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 on the last word with lawrence o donnell. Good evening, we will get to andrew weissmann and other news, but we will begin with the hurricane. As you just heard from alex wagner, there are 600,000 people are ready without power. We will go straight to nbc news meteorologist bill karins at this hour for the latest on exactly what the track of the storm is. What do you see coming? we are in the impact his own. We are now watching the northern eye move onshore and it is like the equivalent of a tornado that is 40 miles wide that is now moving into florida and it will knock down everything in its path if it is not made of concrete or brick. You can see where the storm is. It has intensified all afternoon and all evening long. It is a solid category 4, almost to the higher end of category 4. The hurricane hunters said it is still intensifying right up until landfall. This is the coast and where the really destructive winds are and now they are starting to close in on populated areas. Thi
Breaking news and good evening. I m erin burnett outfront tonight. The breaking news unsurvivable. That is the exact word officials are using right now, as hurricane helene has now grown to an extremely dangerous category four hurricane, bringing with it potentially really historic storm surge levels right now expected at 20 feet. Let s just look at the scene right now is a live camera that we have in met lots of florida trees right there right now, you ve got up to 130 an hour gusts coming through that area on that bridge. We have seen cars coming and going really even in these past few moments, which is pretty stunning. Many bridges have already been closed. This is the skyway bridge, as you re looking here, which is now completely submerged. Imagine being in one of those cars. And right now, darkness is descending on the area more than 200,000 people in the dark without power right now, there is a sheriff asking people who do not evacuate to write their name and date of birth on the
I m laura ingraham. You re looking live at the trump rally in pennsylvania where the former president is about to take the stage. The state was critical in 2016 to trump and now he s at a statistical tie according to the rcp polling average. Other polls have him up. We ll keep an eye and bring you new breaking news as it happens. First, we have some new details tonight about that wouldbe trump assassin, ryan routh. He s still behind bars after appearing in court earlier today. Now he showed up shackled with his hands and feet and at times he wore a smile. Things are not looking good for him. Seems like the doj has audio of what could be an apparent admission by routh. Now, he made a jail house call to a woman and apologized twice. His female friend told him he did the worst thick he could have possibly done. Things are not looking good for the secret service either. We re learning that routh may have cased the golf club and maralargo multiple times in the month ahead of the assassinati