Is Cnn Newsroom. We begin with Breaking News as we track Hurricane Helene, its now the strongest storm to ever make landfall in floridas Big Bend, sweeping across the coast hours ago as an extremely dangerous category four hurricane with winds of 140 miles per hour. Now the effects have been felt far from the center of the storm. The mayor of clearwater told me his community has been inundated despite being 100 miles from the center now, helene is weakening now but has knocked out power to more than 1,000,000. 5 homes and businesses in florida, georgia, and the carolinas. At least three people have been killed as the storm continues to pummel the southeast to end georgia. And one in florida we have had a report of a fatality on the roadway. Car driving on i4 near your Ybor City and tampa, was hit when a sign fell onto onto the highway. So that just shows you that its very dangerous. Chris conditions out there you need to be right now. Just hunkering down nows not the time to be going o
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
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Up the east coast. Why this storm still has potential to be dangerous. High pressure moves of wi today and as it moves to our east in the next few days we start warming up. Lots of sun today with highs in the low 70s. By tomorrow, well move into the upper 70s and by sunday we will hit the 80s again. Our warming continues ahead of a low early next week and by tuesday, were in the mid 80s with a chance for rain and thunderstorms. Today mostly sunny. High 74 dewpoint 55 wind e low 56 dewpoint wind e 37 mph saturday mostly sunny. Angelica adlibs traffic red on traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some delays green on traffic map no delays hurricane hermaine made landfall in flr overnight. But the storm has since been downgraded to a Tropical Storm. Tropical storm warnings remain in effect for parts of the florida gulf coast, georgia. And up through north carolina. Kim joins us with the latest. When the storm made landfall overnight hermine was the first hurricane to hit florida i
From fox6 meteorologist rob haswell High Pressure moves of wi today and as it moves to our east in the next few days we start warming up. Lots of sun today with highs in the low 70s. By tomorrow, well move into the upper 70s and by sunday we will hit the 80s again. Our warming continues ahead of a low early next week and by tuesday, were in the mid 80s with a chance for rain and thunderstorms. Anchor adlibs traffic red on traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some daylight is bringing the first clear look of the effects of hermine in florida and georgia. The heavy rains from the Tropical Storm have moved into the carolinas. Kims in the newsroom with the latest. Tropical storm hermine still packing a punch this morning as across the south east. All hurricane watches and warnings have been dropped but tropical warnings still remain in place. Just after midnight. Hermine slammed into florida with strong winds and heavy rain. And thousands of residents in the Sunshine State are wa