been downgraded bringing dangerous wind and heavy rain. looking at these latest pictures out of carolina where wins are heading across the beach there as idalia heads across the coast. early wednesday idalia lashed florida, making landfall as a category 3 storm. at least two people have died due to driving accidents in wet conditions, and more than 500 thousand are without power across florida and georgia. florida s governor ron desantis warned 1.5 milion people to evacuate tuesday night, but not everyone chose to leave. these are the latest pictures now that we can look at coming out of south carolina where the wind is whipping across the beach there is tropical storm idalia continues along the coast. 500,000 people are without power across several of the state so let s go live now to our reporter in florida. helena, what is the situation where you are? in this area where you are? in this area where i am, the hard hit area of cedar key it is also without power tonight. of ce
the tide level in charleston harbour was reported as the fifth largest ever recorded. idalia made landfall in florida as a category three storm, before charging across georgia. at least two people have died due to driving accidents in wet conditions, and nearly half a million people are without power across florida, georgia and south carolina. now that the rain has mostly cleared in florida, the impact of idalia can be seen. this is footage from cedar key, filmed by our team on the ground there. as you can see, although the skies were blue and the sun was shining, the destruction is clear to see. live now to our correspondent helena humphrey, who is in ha rd hit cedar key. what are conditions like where you are now? you like where you are now? have to keep in mind, her on you have to keep in mind, here on the big bend of florida, this is the worst storm they have seen in over a century, want to show you some of the destruction we have seen on the ground, if i move out of shot
away from the embassy, to the centre south of tel aviv. to the centre, south of tel aviv. and earlier in the week, as you were saying, there are activists within the eritrean community they mostly reside in the south of tel aviv who had warned against hosting this. they say that the authorities didn t heed their warnings. certainly, the israeli authorities the police, the hospitals as well seem to have been really caught by surprise with what happened here. there were attempts to break through police barricades. the israeli police then ended up using all of these different riot control methods, as they describe them, to try to push people back but you could see as well from some of the videos that have been shared on social media that there were actually also street fights going on and notjust with the police, but also involving asylum seekers who are against the eritrean regime and those who are in favour of it, and that has been something that we ve seen in the