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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 ....
Ef-3, because it isn t a 4 or 5, a wide ef-3. i believe that it was almost a mile wide of that wind circulating around and these men were caught in that circulation for some reason. we still don t know quite yet, but a lot of experts i talked to say at least some storm chasing is out of control. as you re watching mother nature at work and all the associated dynamics, fantastic. it s absolutely fantastic. reporter: veteran storm chaser tim samaras made a living getting inside the storm, studying tornados and their fury for the past 25 years. safest place to be is right here in this vehicle. reporter: the 54-year-old researcher and two others from his team, including his son, were killed friday when a tornado crushed their vehicle near el reno, oklahoma. his brother was shock. i didn t think it could happen to him because of his level of expertise, years of doing this. reporter: tim wasn t the only ....