the east as we tend to take that track and move it off toward the east just a little bit, the storm has been on the right side of the cone most of the night, but now we're really right in the middle of the cone and we don't have landfall yet. and i know the one side of the eyewall is on land, but that does not qualify as landfall. the middle of this thing has to get overland. and i say land because you can't really tell the difference between a mangrove swamp i've been land in this area, but we will probably get this called within. i would say the next 15 to 20 minutes we're still going to have significant amounts of flooding all the way up the appalachians. we're going to have four to six inches of rainfall that will come down tonight. the chances of flash flooding are high heavy. >> alright. chad myers, thank you very much. our special coverage, of course, is going to continue of the storm with laura coatescoates

cnn breaking news amar codes alongside john berman. with cnn's continuing coverage of hurricane helene, the monster category four storm set to make landfall just south of tallahassee, florida. >> and at any moment, nearly 1 million people are already without power across florida and also georgia and the impacts they are far reaching this is new video tonight of rescues that are taking place in fort myers beach in southwest florida. you've got local deputies using boats to rescue people who call for help. streets. they're turning into rivers the warnings are dire. this is a patent strophic storm, packing can winds around 140 miles per hour and the storm surge forecast or say, will be unsurvivable 20 feet in some parts. helene is one of the biggest storms to ever hit the gulf coast. it's about 400 miles wide absolutely massive and making matters even worse all of this is happening in the

dead of night. florida governor ron desantis is set to hold a press conference a few moments from right now, and he has been urging people to evacuate all day. but now the time is running out. we'll bring you his update live as soon as it begins. team of correspondents and meteorologists had been fanned out all along the storm's path. all night long and our width us as we approach this historic landfall, john will begin with you right in the bullseye there in tallahassee. what's it like there right now the wind is so strong behind you were unable to hear you effect actively right now, which just tells us just how significant is we're going to come right back to you so we can get this taken care of. please stay safe. we'll come

right back to you. john berman in the bullseye of this storm. let's go right now to cnn correspondent carlos suarez in st. petersburg, florida, just southwest of tampa. you have had to move to higher ground all throughout the night because of the flooding in the area, what are you seeing so far? >> that's exactly right, laura. so we began today out in gulfport. that is about 20 minutes from where we are. but because of the storm surge that they are late this afternoon, anywhere between four to six feet of it. we had to find higher ground and then from there, we tried to make our way back to hillsborough, which is the tampa area, but because several bridges have been closed because of this storm, we decided to stay put in st. petersburg and the flooding here is just as bad as it was over in gulfport. if you can kind of make out where on that because much of this neighborhood is without power, you can see he just how much of the bay has pushed into this one street out here. the white

stuff that you might be able to make out in some of this water here, some of this bay water we believe to be a part of some styrofoam, a party. of a concretes, a doc that was broken in half that sits just behind me, but it's really we'll be difficult for you to make out just because again, there's no power out here and it's really difficult to put a light considering the amount of flooding that is going on at that place. they're going into the storm. the concern from emergency officials in pinellas county was the fact that even though the hurricane was going to track north and west still vause. and so this area was not going to get a direct hit. the concern was that these low-lying areas would flood no matter what. we have prepositioned in pinellas county the last two years in a row to cover to other hurricanes. one hurricane was en, two years ago, that hit to the south. and then last year here we were in pinellas county to cover hurricane idalia, which made landfall to the north. and in both of those

hurricanes is this part of pinellas county flooded and it flooded pretty bad. in fact last year during hurricane idalia, which again stayed off the coast state to the west, went to the north, did not have a direct impact on things out here for more than 1,500 homes here in pinellas county were damaged in the flooding. laura unbelievable. >> we're seeing the water. we're seeing the white matter and substance. it's floating around. you're thinking about the power to be able to break up some sort of a dock is unbelievable. and we know the winds are picking up. we just tried to talk to john berman as you can hear, hardly hear anything he said because the winds were that strong. we're learning up to 100 140 miles per hour. this is incredibly dangerous look earlier this afternoon when we were in gulfport, the storm was directly to the west of us when we saw the worst weather of the day. that's when we started getting those strong gust of wind. that's when we

started seeing that storm surge just push all of this water from the bay onto this one neighborhood where we rely from. it's also where we saw the heaviest rainfall throughout the day. and so what would john is experiencing is obviously a magnitude that we did not see here. but the fact that we were on the western, the eastern side of the storm rather is he cut as part of the reason why we saw the worst weather even though it was about 100 miles to the west of us and the real big issue laura, with this storm and the other storms that we've seen the last couple of years, is that what ends up happening is when all of these forces some these confluence of forces kind of come together, you end up with exactly this. and what i mean by that is when the rainfall hits and then you've got the storm surge hitting and then you add to that high tide, there is absolutely nowhere for this water to go. and in fact, this does seem pretty high

already well, a little bit below my knees here, but we're being told it's probably still got a couple more feet because high tide is around the top of the hour and 1:00 in the morning. so even though the storm has all the way up by the panhandle, several hours from where we are we're still not only feeling the effects of the storm surge, which again it's pushing all this water in we're still seeing some of that rainfall. we're still seeing some of that strong wind. >> and yet we still have to deal with the fact that we have high tide, which is going to hit tonight, which is why we don't expect a lot of this flooding to recede until tomorrow morning when low tide comes in unbelievable. carlos suarez please stand by. i want to go back to john berman. he is in tallahassee. john what is it like for you right now very wet. >> the water was getting into more wires, which is why we lost audio before and it's down now in my boots, you mean you can't wear rain gear that keeps rain out like this? i

mean, it's just coming from every direction now, the winds are picking up. it is going to get progressively worse over the next several hours once the storm makes landfall south of here, it will really speed right over a tallahassee in tallahassee while there have been names storms that have passed over the last several decades, none that seem like they're going to be as strong as hurricane helene is with sustained a hurricane force winds over the city of some 200,000 people. this city has got the beautiful live oaks everywhere in what they're most concerned about here. >> in tallahassee. >> he's isn't the storm surge that's going to happen 25 miles south of here. they're concerned about the winds bringing the trees down, knocking power out, closing hundred of roads. their concern over the next day or so. and then of course, there's the rain also. i mean, it's rain in parts of this county, eight inches. already and i don't think the worst of it is going to come down for the next hour

or so. so it was just so wet the ground is so saturated, it's going to create major, major problems overnight, everyone hopefully inside now, you're gonna to ride this out over the next several hours. >> laura, regarding berman, there are colleges in tallahassee, florida. there our students who are probably far from home wondering how they're seltzer and the fema administrator has all but begged begged residents. it's okay. this hurricane seriously do even seek shelter on higher ground. have locals heeded those calls? >> so florida say you mentioned the colleges, florida state, they evacuated several of their dorms on campus and move students into one evacuation centers, some 750 students moved out in many of those students are staying at a shelter on the football team, got out early so that they can get to their game this week. yes here in tallahassee itself, leon county, the evacuation orders, the mandatory orders were only four mobile homes and

manufactured homes. those were the mandatory orders. everyone else just told to be really, really careful and be careful will means pay attention to where the trees are near your house governor desantis, the last time you spoke to talked about when you hear the limbs cracking, you know, there's a problem, gets somewhere safe inside your home into a center room, maybe a bathroom, depending on where you live, maybe a basement. not so many basements in this part of florida, but that's the main concern. and nasa, what you need where you need to take precautions, laura. >> well, john berman, i hope you robert, as well stand by. we're going to keep relying on you let's turn now to cnn meteorologist derek van dam, who was in apalachicola, florida. you're in that big bend area. what is duration like on the ground there at this very hour yeah, apalachicola, so we're roughly 50 miles or so from the center of hurricane helene, which is now just moments away from making landfall in taylor

county just watching for these updates because remember, landfall is not win the eye wall crosses land. it actually has to have 50% or more of the ai to cover, to go over land. and this is important because it effectively begins the process of taking away its energy source, which is the abundantly warm record record-breaking, warm ocean waters. so this is going to stop its strengthening process, which it has been doing for several days and rapidly here within the past 24 hours to different rapid intensification cycles before it's final approach. just to land. so we are just seeing what's happening and unfolding as the storm makes its imminent landfall. and in the big bend region, not only with the record breaking storm surge coming out of cedar key

eclipsing hurricane idalia, that's happening as we speak. but there is this extreme wind warning and i want to talk about how important that is, because the national weather service reserves that warning for only the most extreme events such as this. and they asked the residents who decided i did laura not too, actually evacuated. that they need to treat this where they're under this extreme wind warning, taylor county, for instance, treat this as if a tornado was barreling down at your house. so you need to move into the center of your home away from windows. the sturdiest part of your home? to ride out the storm. and i think it's really important to note too, if we do have viewers that are tuning in, in and around the eye are will receive the center of hurricane helene as she works her way inland this storm will go calm for a period of time. this is the nature of hurricanes, especially when

they're this powerful and you may get curious. you may want to go check out your property your business, your home that is not the time to do it because what will happen on the ballot? backside of an ai will be a change in wind directions and wins just as fierce as what you are struck with on the northern side of the eyewall. so i think it's really important that people understand that this extreme wind warning, the most intense part of hurricane helene, right now is not that time to go outside and check on your property. this is the time to bunker down and it really just ride the storm out as best as possible you know apalachicola here i think we've been spared the worst, but we're really going to be thinking about the people too our east who are taking, taking the brunt of the storm as a meteorologist here, i'm fearful what sunrise will bring for the big bend area. and so many other locations

that are being impacted by this there's no doubt in my mind, laura, that this will be another billion-dollar disaster to write on the history books my god, derek van dam, thank you so much, guys, please stand by and thank you for those warnings to make sure people are aware. >> this is not the time to go and check property. i want to bring in cnn meteorologist chad myers. he is at the weather center. the latest advisory saying the hurricane helene is very close, very close to making landfall in that florida big bend. and you just heard our colleague, what is your biggest concern right now? >> certainly that we have a 7.5 or eight foot surge and its only about halfway done because now that the center of the eye has moved very close to shore or onshore. now, it's going to be the west wind that pushes all that water back into seen hatchie into cedar key and the water is just going to go up all night long. and we he talked to people earlier today that said, we're not leaving,

we're going to stay and i think that might have been the wrong wrong answer. we're going to have to see that morning, perry, you just got a wind gust of 76, seeing some other gusts now, over 90 miles per hour also, the threat of tornadoes on the ground tonight, when a landfalling hurricane gets into the land and itself, the storms that rotate around it start to spill. the friction of the land. they begin to spin and some of those can put down tornadoes. we've already had a couple of reports of some damage today, so there's the ai before i got here, just two minutes ago, i was anxiously hitting refresh as fast as i possibly good because we are right there on the edge of half of the eye being on land and the other half of the eye being still offshore. that's exactly when that center passes. that's when they call landfall will still have to see this is 140 mile per hour wind here in this center that's the problem we're seeing right now. berman backup here in tallahassee getting these outer bands,

derek back over here still seeing the northern bands getting pushed that way and then cross city steen hatchie, door to cedar key. boy, that water could go up here for a moment after speaking, let's listen some sustained winds of 140 miles per hour and is moving north nor see northeast at 24 mile per hour hurricane force winds are extending up to 60 miles from the center of the storm and tropical storm force winds extending 300 miles from the center of the storm. >> i'm joined here, of course by kevin guthrie the division of emergency management executive director, as well as dave kerner, executive director of the florida highway patrol. we have had a report of a fatality on the roadway. car driving on i94 near ybor city in tampa was hit when a sign

fell onto onto the highway. so that just shows you that it's very dangerous conditions out there. you need to be right now just hunkering down. now's not the time to he going out. not only do are we seeing it hit landfall here in northern florida, you still seeing surge and water rising and put parts of florida far south from the big bend area. so you look at southwest florida. florida. you look at the tampa bay area. you're seeing really significant they can amounts of surge. there's going to be streets that are that are flooded and will continue to flood all up and down the west coast of florida. so it's hazardous conditions right now. in please do not be going outside until things settled down. we know that travel on the road codes can be hazardous and we typically unfortunately will have fatalities and every

storm from that, when you are out on the roads in the middle of one of these storms that is very, very dangerous. so please do not do that. stay put also, if you're sheltering in place no your surroundings in terms of trees, you are going to see trees that are going to get knocked down. i'm sure some have already been knocked down. but you have these hundred and 40 mile an hour winds hitting here in north florida. this is going to extend. i mean, you're going to have hurt kane force winds that are going to extend across a couple of counties to the east and west of taylor county and that's going to cause trees to fall down if you are in an area where you have that please take precautions. they're treated almost like a tornado as that's going by, you for there, we have many major bridges that have been closed throughout today at various points most of the major

bridges, of course, in places like tampa bay have been closed and they will be opened as soon as it's safe to reopen them. we have f dot there standing by as soon as is it safe, they're going to go in there, do the inspections and get those bridges open again you may. if you're here in north florida, you may have a period of calm when you were in the eye of the storm, just understand that storm is not done and it's very, very hazardous to go out for there, especially with how fast this storm is moving. you're going to be putting yourself in jeopardy. if you try to go out in the middle of the eye wall of the storm, we are going to see downed power lines, those are very he hazardous as well, please do not mess with any down power lines in and around your home or anywhere. you may come in contact with them also, be very careful about standing water people get up in the morning when it's light out there's going to be standing water and

a lot of parts of this state don't go trudging through that. there's going to be a lot of hazards that could be in there and please please please be mindful of that the storm is going to pass and when it does pass, you're going to have still going to be dark outside. >> do not go out in the pitch-black trying to navigate any brie or anything that's just not going to be the safe thing to do wait till you get light. >> and you can take stock of what's going on in your property. and governed accordingly from there when you're using ladders, please be safe with that. we do have fatalities involving people climbing none ladders trying to get to their roofs and falling. and that happens almost every storm please just be very careful with that. and also of course, there's going to be an enormous amount of debris in various places. and you can have down power lines, you

could have the governor governor ron desantis, i want to break in here landfall has been made her the storm helene has now made landfall as a category four. i want to go to john berman, who is in the bull's-eye. let's talk to him and tallahassee. john berman is now made landfall as a category four hurricane hurricane helene officially making landfall. what are you feeling? what are you seeing yeah category four, landfall 140 mile per hour winds hearing it made landfall about ten miles southwest of perry, which actually puts it east of tallahassee in maybe on a path to skirt tallahassee instead of going right over it, which might be a little bit of relief for the people here that said this is a huge storm in terms of how wide it is. >> so the hurricane force winds in the tropical storm force winds will spread over a huge part of the panhandle, the

upper panhandle, and into georgia but this storm made landfall with 100 mile per hour winds and it's moving very, very quickly, which means that it will maintain its hurricane force as it moves over northern florida and into georgia. and that's where old bring the trees down the power lines and create even more problems the storm surge numbers that we are going to get from the big bend area in florida. i can only imagine what they will be if that storm made landfall with what they're saying, 140 mile per hour winds, it must have put so much water up into those areas. i suppose the only saving graces there aren't too many people who live along the coast in the big bend area and hopefully most of them were able to get away. but now that the storm has made landfall, it's all about watching where it goes in the damage that it leaves behind perry, which is just ten miles there's north of where it made landfall already experienced hurricane

debby, which was what, a month ago. and then last year, i was driving trying to get through perry and hurricane dahlia and you couldn't get through because there were so much tree damage there, so it's going to be very difficult for that town over the next several hours. laura it's john berman, so important and we are listening to the governor talking and saying to everyone you got to hunker down that there were expecting either landfall, but the surge and the water that was going to continue to rise the hazardous conditions be wary of the standing water, be wary of the downed power lines, or could also be there as well and to take precautions and israel tom was saying to treat it as if it were a tornado with those huge for us, i'm going to 140 mile per hour winds and thinking about that eye of the storm, don't be fooled. >> governor desantis said, by the calm that might come, this is not the time to look around and i want to go to the tallahassee mayor right now because they are bracing for what? >> all the most powerful storm to hit the city potentially in written history.

>> the mayor of tallahassee, mayor john dailey joins me now, mayor, thank you for joining us. we've just heard that landfall has happened. the governor was speaking, tell us what tallahassee is experiencing right now well, i appreciate you having me on and you're right. the we just had landfall. i can hear it outside. am i'm probably about four blocks from where john berman is reporting at an i'm at city hall right now and you could tell we have one heck of a storm going on outside right now yeah. my i'm thinking about also all the surrounding communities outside of tallahassee. we are all getting hit very hard historically, your city has been spared. >> sometimes the worst when hurricanes come through the florida panhandle. and yet and still you're concerned the people in the community are concerned, those around you as well. what is your message to people who have not experienced a storm quite like this before well, actually none of us have

experienced a category four hurricane this close to tallahassee this is a historic storm for us and i appreciate you re iterating right now. >> now, everyone stays safe, shelter in place, stay home? yes. i think we can expect a lot of damage after the storm significant wind event going on right now, significant rain event. we are not a coastal community. we're about 30 miles from the coast, so we're not as concerned with the storm surge for tallahassee as much such as we are known for are trees and we love our trees and internationally known for our natural beauty. but trees and power lines in winds do not mix so we are reminded the residence and quite frankly being honest recovery is going to take awhile it is not going to be a sprint. it's going to be a marathon. >> but the city is prepared and once the storm passes and it's safe, we're going to roll up our sleeves. >> we're going to get out and do the assessment and begin rebuilding i'm glad you mentioned not only the natural

beauty, but the prospect of the wind and the impact on those trees and what it could possibly bring down. the wind is not the only concern. as well. and the national weather service is warning of potentially catastrophic flash flooding that could also occur? correct. how is the city preparing for that? >> so we've been preparing for the past week alone. we the city manager is all the utilities in town. one of our key utilities is not only electric, but also storm water. and the great men and women of the city of tallahassee utility department has been out cleaning out all the storm water facilities, making sure now we can capture up top capacity, be able to convey the water through. but nonetheless, we have above average rainfall and tallahassee, we've been saturated. and when you dumped this amount of rain on top of an already saturated ground yes. you have the potential for flash floods. it's part of the reason why leon county or county government also put out

a mandatory evacuation from a manufactured homes for the wind event, but also for the rain event that could take place to tallahassee the capital of florida. i wonder how important it is for the city to get up and running as quickly as possible to manage that only what's happening, they're in tallahassee, but also statewide relief efforts of course. so we have learned from previous storms that it's preparation, preparation preparation, having said that, even mother nature sins a category four hurricane here where you're going to have damages. but nonetheless, we have, we put out an all call across the united it's states and called in our mutual aid agreements. we've had utility workers from us far away of oklahoma traveling through the night to come help us. we have tripled our workforce prior to the storm, which stations are assets all across the community or personnel is safe all across the community. and we are fully prepared once the storm passes and it's safe to go out and begin the rebuilding process.

we also expect more mutual aid to come in after the storm. and our goal is to increase our workforce five-fold. but nonetheless, it is a very powerful storm that is currently moving through our area. and there will be significant damage mayor john dailey, the touchdown the landfall has happened. we are concerned and looking at your city and so many others, please stay safe. thank you so much yes ma'am. >> thank you there is much more coverage on hurricane helene that has just made landfall as a category four oren just a moment arrived. >> we look at the news of the week and as questions like, what family show doing it on cnn people have spoken something racist to say. >> you go to hell it all wait up. >> freestyle. >> that's too much but i want

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news, hurricane helene making landfall in the big bend of florida as a category four storm has go back to john berman in tallahassee. >> john, we're hearing during the storm has turned deadly. is that right? what happened? >> yeah. it's so interesting even before the storm made landfall, it turned deadly. there was a driver, governor desantis just reported who died on ai for interstate four. that's down i believe nearly pinellas and hillsdale county, hillsborough, which is which the st. pete, tampa area the driver hit by a sign that was falling or swept by the wind and that just illustrates the danger of being out on the roads during this storm. i don't know how much earlier that was, but you can get a sense of how dangerous it is because that was you know, 506070 miles from where the eye of the storm was passing. it did make landfall anywhere near that part of florida. of course it did just make landfall

southwest of perry and it's now moving up here. i will tell you one of the things we have started to see here as flashes and it's a little bit hard to tell whether we're seeing lightning or transformers go boom. i'm pretty sure one of them at least was a transformer which doesn't bode well for the power situation, power will almost certainly go out and parts of leon county where i am, but i do also think we're seeing lightning, but it is one relatively new development here. one of the things you do see when you're out in these hurricanes, as you see these blue lights flashing in the sky. and those are the transformers. and sure enough, that's a sure sign that the power is about to go out with laura. >> a really big concern here we are in the dead of night and of course, as the good the governor was speaking, talking about what could come in the morning, be wary of the standing water we may not have anticipated in the course, some of that structural damage and the in the downed power lines very, very dangerous not to approach them. i get a sense of course, that there will be some moment of calm and as you

experienced likely before, but that is not to lock someone into a false sense of comfort no there are really two things there, laura. one first, there is a moment of calm. if you're in the eye of the storm, there really is. if you're in the eye of a hurricane like this one that's so big, there will be several minutes where the north wall passes over you put then there's almost nothing. there's an eerie, calm don't go out in it now, the one nice thing is it's the middle of the night at this point almost. >> so hopefully people are sleeping, they won't even think about that. but governor desantis did warn about that. the other calm that people need to be aware of is in the morning around here after the storm really does pass through after you open your door and maybe walk out on your yard all kinds of dangerous will be around from the downed trees to the down branches to the down power lines to the standing water really dangerous to drive around even tomorrow morning once the storm passes because

you don't know what's under that water, you don't know how deep it is. you don't know if the roads are passable. so often there are acts there are injuries, there are deaths, even the day after a storm like this passes through again, this is really just the beginning for northern florida over the next several hours, there's going to be so much more damage that people have to be alert and aware of. >> john berman, sam by, we will come back. i mean, 140 miles how per hour winds landing until landfall, touching down as a category four this is the hour were the florida panhandle is experiencing the worst of helene and in taylor county, florida, the local sheriff is urging people who did not evacuate two write their names and the date of birth on their arms. that way, authorities can identify them in case the worst case scenario develops i can't even imagine that the city of perry is in taylor county and

ward kettering, the mayor of perry joins me now mayor, thank you for being here this evening. i understand you're taking shelter at an airport. what are you experiencing right now all right. >> now, is actually going right over us. the wind has subsided just a little. the rain has stopped but i want to warn everybody that it is going to pick up. again, wants to actually pass as a son if you have a radar shot, you can share a screen of what's going on right now, but you can see the eyewall is ashley moving northeast at about another probably 20 or 30 minutes. the wind and the rain will pick up again i said what we're experiencing right now, it's just an enormous amount of rain and enormous amount of wind and it was a very powerful storm. >> we still got that. >> you have to go through again, that eye of the storm, don't be fooled all is not

calm. it's temporary. and in fact, the county sheriff i just read an issued that just scary message, very ominous to anyone who did not evacuate. do you have a sense of how many people decided to stay in perry as opposed to evacuate? >> honestly, we have no idea of knowing they honest what we just we can knock came as i can guess on that it makes me shudder to think of that warning and the worst-case scenarios, particularly as we're seeing a sense of calm, knowing that it's likely the worst is yet to come. >> your city is taking a direct hit from this monster storm to a category four mayor how concerned are you about those who did decide to ride out this storm? >> fairly concerned. i mean, i know a lot of the houses can hold up to it. some of them can. it just depends on how they're built sorry for but i just i just really hope everybody came through this. okay. >> i mean, i really hope we don't have any any anybody

anybody hurt or anybody otherwise over this. i certainly i absolutely. we're all thinking about that when we see the landfall being made and the risk, i mean, how well-prepared is your city to handle this kind of storm? eventually, the aftermath one left you last year and then just about a month ago, debby and we got we have a great bunch of paperwork and for the city of perry, entire county we've been getting prepared all week long the power crews have been getting getting prepared to come in and they've been staging outside the city i mean, cerebral like to complete her miles outside the city and there appeared to come in on the morning of the city of perry. >> he public works they've all been working, getting generators and other things they need in place make sure the water, sewer, and gas

systems stay up and running they're going a fantastic job that really appreciate doing that to we were we were pretty well-prepared yeah. i don't know if the only thing ever get totally prepared for something like this. but we've definitely been through a lot in the past you're watching all of this and i wonder, is your city getting any calls? >> are you hearing from people who are asking for help to try to evacuate or try to get to safety, are you receiving those calls? >> balls? >> oh, i think we lost him for a second there, but we're watching right now this satellite image. you see the i cheated the moving, the pace of this. remember it's 140 miles per hour. that's happening right now. let's go back to cnn meteorologist derek van dam, and apalachicola, florida. you are in the big bend the area with a hurricane just made landfall. it's a category four what are the conditions there

right now you know the list of superlatives that are going to be used to describe the storm is going to be long. >> it's going to be exhaustive and here i think we were really spared the worst because we're about 50 miles to the west of where the most powerful part of major hurricane helene made landfall there in taylor county, again, just to my east and now they're getting the brunt of the storm. the most intense part of the storm, just to put it into context, give you a little bit idea how powerful the storm was upon lip hurricane ian back in 2022, made landfall near fort myers beach. remember the devastation that came in. they're came in at 941 millibars. millibars. this is a central pressure of a hurricane a lower number means a stronger hurricane. this storm came in on shore with a low pressure of 938 millibar. so in essence, a stronger, more powerful deeper,

more intense hurricane. then ian actually was. so i really do fear what the daylight will bring tomorrow morning. just seeing some of these nighttime shots on social media dimly lit photos of of some of the devastation that we're seeing coming out of the coastline. they're seeing tzachi perry, you know is going to be quite a sight tomorrow morning. and i'm concerned about the people who are enduring these very, very moments because we hear in apalachicola were spared. but right now, we've got this extreme wind warning and this sends from taylor county through madison county northward into georgia. now doorstop under the extreme wind warning and i've talked about this quite a few times the night, but it's important because these are only reserved for the most extreme moments of a storm of this magnitude. so the national weather service, when they talk about these

extreme wind warnings, they're asking residents who decided did not to evacuate to treat this as if a tornado was approaching your house and we know how damaging tornadoes can be. so that is really the extent of what this storm is bringing to a vast vast area here in the big bend of florida and quickly racing inland as well. i think this part is extremely important as well for people to understand this storm is moving at roughly 25 miles per hour inland. and yes, now it's on shore effectively losing its energy source, which was the warm gulf of mexico waters. but now it's going to move inland. so quickly that before it even has time to collapse on itself before it has time to really weaken it. it's going to bring these hurricane force winds category two, category three, even up to category four well inland and we're talking not ten miles inland, not 50 miles inland, but several 100 miles inland. i

mean, just as a meteorologist watching the hurricane alerts the tropical storm warnings and hurricane warnings that extend as far north as macon, georgia, the southern metropolitan of atlanta, georgia i can't even recall the last time that we saw those colors of warnings have the national weather service maps sort astounds me to see that. and i'll take it from me my family who is bunkering down tonight in our home and atlanta. we're taking this storm really seriously because that's the next chapter of this storm. as it moves inland, it's going to bring those powerful winds too large metropolitan areas. it's going to knock over trees. people need to be prepared to ride out several days without electricity and then we talk about the unprecedented and his storage nature of the flooding that is ongoing right now across the mountains of north carolina, south carolina. there will certainly be swift water rescues. there will be extreme

moments tonight and into the early morning hours of friday that we don't want anyone to have to bear witness to. but unfortunately that's the reality of the storm laura, it's a sobering reminder of how powerful nature can be and i fear what the daylights we to bring them all morning. >> i'm telling you, just thinking about just the number of states you've mentioned, the scope of this category for thinking how quickly it's traveling. most storms are losing that speed and momentum. this hit at 140 miles per hour. they're van dam standby. we've got much more coverage on hurricane helene. a category four, moving rapidly. and not only from florida, but all the way up and through places like georgia, sun. we've got more in just a moment. >> to 30 years. >> i've been saying publicly what people are saying things out. i have enough money. i could just shut off and back i

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contact your volvo retailer to learn more. underdog i'm elizabeth wag my start in los angeles in this back with the breaking news and hurricane helene were told two people died in georgia for a tornado tied to this storm. >> that's emissions over the one deaths reported already in florida and as a storm moves inland, more than 1 million people are now without power and florida alone joining me now on the phone, the emergency management director for levy county in florida, john mcdonald, levy county they includes cedar key, which is facing serious storm surge. john. thank you for joining us. cedar key. it's a barrier island, three miles off the coast of florida what have you heard about what's happening there right now? >> yeah. well, they've got the storm surge is coming in board

there we've already the last number that i got on my measurements. >> oh, my tide gauges and all that stuff there right at about ten foot adl. that is the highest storm surge record for them. >> they old former the century back in 93. that low pressure system that was a little under nine. so this is actually the highest surge we've ever seen it's still going to be going up, so i would expect him to be somewhere maybe around 11, 12 by the communist has done the highest you've ever seen ten feet. that's unbelievable to think about just the heightened live with that, george would look like, have you heard reports about people being stranded, john we had about, we get the ones that didn evacuated, we got the addresses and all that. so we know who are those folks are located at until conditions get to where it's safe to go out there and go around and go door-to-door and make sure they spoke to her while one allen itself actually, everybody on our hope coastline and we've got about 117 people that did in evacuated hundred and 17, a

resident from who lives in cedar key are on cedar key and is riding out the storm, likely one of those 117 he told her on anderson cooper that he doesn't even know if cedar key will exist, come morning. >> are you worried about how bad the damage could be? much. i mean, they've got a big hill out there so that hills about probably 35 feet up to the top of it. so they have an elevated place. they can go when that surge started coming in so i'm sure most of those probably collected up at the community center of the city hall, up at the top of the hill but but yeah, i mean, those structures and all that stuff there and it's going to be lucky to see if any of them structures are still there, especially some of them closer to the dock street. but that hundred and 17 number that was the whole coastline. coastal communities. we've got another small coastal community called yankee town, which is on the south-end of levy county on the width of coochie river that ones it's mostly residential, but 117 about 25 of them were

in that neighborhood i wonder, just given that whole khoza, how soon would you be able to even get emergency services out there? well, we already have things pretty staged in place out there to go. so as soon as as soon as it's not too dangerous to get out there, we'll start making a tamper with some search and rescue teams and all out there and what we'll do is we'll go hit those addresses where we know where those individuals were. >> john, mcdonald thank you so much. we wish you all the best and safety. we certainly hope everyone will be safe there. thank you so much. i want to bring it london in. a councilman at large in tampa bay, florida. councilman. thank you for joining us. have mean, you have been riding out the storm with your family. >> what are you experiencing right now? to see a storm of this magnitude come up the coast, be so far away from us and still see the kind of devastation that we're seeing in tampa widespread flooding. i'm sure tomorrow we're going to wake up to a catastrophic property

damage we are what? it would normally be erode looks more like an ocean now, there's a water rising all over the city and continues to rise getting reports from across the city of devastating flooding what is it been like for your family knowing that this is happening? >> i mean, roads turned to oceans are reports of damage. it must be very, very scary well, i think we been in florida and i grew up in florida where we've kind of trained for this our whole lives. but i've lived in tampa now for over 40 years and i've never seen anything quite like this. this is this is one of those what they tell you is going to happen and then it happens. it's it's kind of it's shocking to see it firsthand to see they're kind of rapid water rise and the type of damage that we see around the city what type of damage are you seeing or hearing about widespread flooding. in homes

where people are having 34 feet of water inside their houses, furniture floating you're seeing a lot of the typical stuff that you would see in a normal storm. but the storm surge was nothing to mess with. it was exactly what they told us was coming it is met every bit of the expectations they told us what was coming and it showed up this. is certainly not an incident that people crying wolf and i certainly hope everyone will be safe. councilman allen cleansing and thank you for joining us. we'll keep an eye out. please stay safe. >> more on this massive category storm hurricane helene, which just made landfall, you've heard from people what they said was coming. it arrived there's more in just a moment that took culture over the edge, people who are watching and then our world change he

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infrastructure but the wind that's just one of the dangers and the storm that spans spans more than 400 miles the storm surge is inundating streets and clearwater, florida near tampa. some places could see a surge as high as 20 feet up to a foot of rain or more could cause potentially catastrophic flooding all across florida. and the southeast region. florida governor ron desantis is warning people the worst isn't over yet you need to be right now. >> just hunkering down. now is not the time to be going out. not only do are we seeing it hit landfall here in northern florida you're still seeing surge and water rising and put parts of florida far south from the big bend area let's go to derek van dam, who joins us from apalachicola on the florida panhandle. what are you

seeing right now okay. so you know, we were spared the worst of what hurricane helene had to offer, but there's no doubt in my mind that people who decided to ride out the storm we're starting to lose sound for him. we're going to come back in just a moment and get back to what's going on in apalachicola, spared temporarily, but he's expressing the concern about what's happening around the region as well. let's go to chad myers right now. chad this storm, it made landfall. it's a category four. it's already turned deadly absolutely. >> and now perry, you are right in the middle of the eye literally, you may be able to look up and see the sky. the eyewall did make landfall the center of the eye then made landfall there dolphins perry. and now the center of the eye

is right there. and now we're actually going to see berman here, pick up a little bit of wind as tallahassee gets on the west side of what is now an expanding. ai. and that's really what's going to happen. we're not going to get this tightening of the eyes. sometimes we can, when we get something called a brown ocean, brown ocean is really a very warm saturated ground and it looks like ground, but it's really a swamp or a bayou that's not going to slow down a storm this, now, this land, land here is actually going to cut off the moisture from the hurricanes potential and slow the thing down. but we've had so much rainfall, laura, we've had three to ten inches of rainfall in what's called a precursor rain event. it rained at before the hurricane even arrived up to the north. now this is a saltwater flood. this is the 15 to 20 foot saltwater surge, the wind pushing on land. and now taking all of

that water that is here, pushing it into cedar key, pushing it into steen hatchie. this is what i'm really concerned about because we're seeing those water levels rise very quickly. and we know people didn't evacuate. so yes, cedar key seven 7.9 feet of surge urge so far on top of what your high tide should be. here's where the rain is still going to fall. look how much rain has fallen here. we have seven to ten inches already in nashville, another three to four inches here, nashville is where the storm is actually going to stall. this is going to rain for a few days over nashville, make an atlanta york we're going to see the rainfall and now we even have flash flood warnings just really almost all the way up and down. i75. this is what we expected it to do when you have hurricane warnings to the north of macon essentially in the southern suburbs of atlanta, hurricane warning means that this storm is gonna go by. it means you're going to you get hurricane conditions and they're going to get that to

the north of macon, georgia. i do know that there are an awful lot of people here on the road, at least earlier. now, you need to truly be off because the wind on i75 anti ten is certainly going to get well in excess of 80 to 85 miles per hour our so far, we're kind of piling up 80s and 90s for wind speeds, but we know that this storm was 100 140 somewhere. we just may not have any kind of an anemometer there to actually see what it was. because a lot of the area from cedar key, steen hatchie all the way up to and around on to almost apalachicola is a national wildlife refuge. not a lot of people live there. i guess that's some good news except for the wildlife. but really 15 inches of rainfall has already fallen. and it's still raining one last thing laura, to worry about tonight, make sure you keep your radio on. if you are in yellow, orange, maybe even under the green, there's a potential for small tornados,

but they spin up quickly and they've already done some damage already today, even though they're small. ef-0's zeros and ones doesn't take much of it hit your house or your rv or wherever you're living. so keep that in mind. >> hurricanes, tornadoes, chad myers, we will definitely stand buying and tell you to follow what's going on. thank you so much and i want to go back right now to derek van dam. he's in apalachicola derek, i think we have your sound and of course we're hearing about you being spared the worst of it, but that doesn't mean you're out of the water, out of the emit clear we still have several hours to go before the storm completely clears. there'll be gusty will get the occasional rain gus but really spared the worst from what hurricane helene offered just 50 miles to my east and my heart breaks for the people who are going through what does undoubtedly the worst night of their life this storm came in so, so powerfully, it really

took advantage of that abnormally warm ocean waters and it's gonna leave a path of destruction that is going to be tough to see once we get first light in the morning. you know, there's this extreme wind warning new extreme more nordean has actually just been issued by the national weather service. and i want to read you this because they've got it in bold and highlighted i say this is an extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation places in madison county, northern taylor county, take hover now, treat these imminent extreme winds as if a tornado was approaching and a mute and unmute immediately move into a safe room of your house or your shelter. >> so this is what people are dealing with. >> if they chose not to evacuate here in franklin county where i'm located, there was mandatory evacuations, but there were certainly people who decided to ride it out and let can honestly say they got lucky but that is just not the case for

so many its rampage northward, i75, i ten, these are the areas you do not want to be on the road. chad was talking about his or some of the regions that have these extreme wind warnings and think about the amount of truckers that drive up and down north and south and eastern west over those areas, getting buffeted by 100 mile per hour hurricane force, category two wins. that will topple jackknifed 18 wheelers in a heartbeat there's going to be trees down, there's going to be powered down. we're all have already reached 1 million customers without power and that number is going to continue to climb exponentially and as this storm interacts with an approaching front that we have been discussing for the past couple of days. it is going to squeeze out all of the tropical moisture that a carried in from the gulf of mexico. and you guessed it. it's going to form. and

deposit that in the form of heavy rainfall. and that's ongoing. and i'm really worried about those mountainous regions up in the southern appalachian, western north carolina, western portions of south carolina even portions of georgia into the piedmont. these areas are getting unprecedented and historic amounts of rain this will cause life threatening storm water levels. and there will certainly be swift water rescues that are either ongoing now or will begin shortly over nights just at my house alone in atlanta we've had 8.5 inches of rain since yesterday. and the bulk of the rain is still has not arrived yet. so this just gives people an understanding of how much water will fall from the sky as this storm rings itself out across the southeastern us we talk about the storm surge threat here along the coast, the extreme winds, laura that are battering these coastlines but

this storm will be felt well inland and you know, i think it's pretty safe to say that this will be yet another billion-dollar plus us weather disaster for the year of 2024 my god. >> derek van dam, please stand by. i want to go now to cnn correspondent, ivan rodriguez, who is in tallahassee. ivan give us a sense of the conditions there right now laura here in tallahassee, it's been raining consistently for the last several hours now, i'd say within the last hour, we are seeing a little bit stronger rain, but also looking at that trajectory from helene, we were really on that west side of that hurricane eye. >> so a lot of good news here for people in tallahassee, but as you mentioned there with derek as well, we're not necessarily in the clear just yet where i'm standing right now is a bit of an elevated hill. i have a good vantage point of the entire city in terms of power outages here in leon county, we know there's about 130,000 customers without

power. that's pretty low when you compare it to the entire state of florida with more than than 1 million customers without power. but i say that because looking out, i still see a lot of buildings in the surroundings. you're in the background with power on these streetlights here behind me, for example, they did flashed on and off very quickly. we do have some lightning and thunderstorms in our area. here as well, but the winds themselves haven't been a massive factor, just yet. maybe that's something that we feel a little bit in the future here in the coming hours, but it hasn't been anything massive like what we were expecting about, you know, up to 110 mile per hour winds. we haven't really felt that just yet. again, another good news there for tallahassee, but i did want to bring what we heard from governor ron desantis, and that's a one confirmed fatality in the tampa area. he mentioned that one car driving on interstate four in the tampa area. the driver was killed after a sign fell on that car

and georgia, we're also learning that two people are dead from a tornado related did two hurricane helene as well, the mayor of alamo, georgia, confirming that alamo georgia is about 75 miles south of macon, georgia, which we know is also going to get hit hard by hurricane helene as well. so a lot still to come as helene makes its way northward. >> now, a deadly category four, please stay safe. ivan rodriguez. thank you so much. i want to bring in cnn correspondent carlos suarez. he is in st. petersburg, florida. tell me what's going on there? >> well, laura, so many hours after the storm state to the west of us and continued on north and we are still dealing with some rainfall at this hour and we're dealing with a significant amount of flooding. we are in a neighborhood in the st. petersburg area that really has seen some pretty a significant storm surge. and one of the more interesting things in the last hour or so

we had a line of storms move through and some rain. and whereas the last time we joined you, the water was coming in from the bay. it's now coming from a top the hill. it seems like this water that's pushing down on already saturated part of the neighborhood that we're in is contributing to yet more flooding this particular part of the st. petersburg area. as you can see behind me, or as much as you can because there's not much power out here. it is just littered with debris. a lot of this we believe came from a pier that is a few feet from where we are. that broken hip path. and so we believe some of this is some styrofoam and as well as some concrete that was further up the road when we first got here earlier tonight as some folks were talking about just a few minutes ago, the governor announced a death here in florida in ybor city. that's in the tampa area. one person died apparently was driving their car when sign fell on. and so that's at least one of the confirmed fatalities and at

least one injury that we know of that has taken place in the tampa bay area but again, right now, as we head into the 12th, 30, 1:00 hour, we expect that a lot of this flooding is going to be here through at least five or six clock in the morning. that's at least what our team of meteorologists are telling us. and we're about to hit high tide right now. so this is probably the most that the water is going to accumulate out here. there have been some concerns that if we had more rainfall and some more storm surge that things might get a little bit more dicey once we hit high tide, but we're about to hit that point point right now. and then low tide will be in the morning. and then once we're there's day daybreak out here, laura, we'll get a sense of just how much damage there is across pinellas county. and of course, what the recovery effort is going to look like once folks are able to leave their homes if it is safe enough for them to do so. >> reminder again, carlos suarez has the governor said, be wary of the standing water that might be there as well in

the morning. and of course, what could be contained in the water and those down power lines at the very least sam, please. hurricane helene. now, a category four storm bearing down on florida, flooding, downed power lines, and debris, all louis complicate potential rescue and even recovery efforts. let's get right to greg craig, few gate on the phone. he's the former fema administrator, craig meg. thank you for joining us. you've lost power and now more than 1 million other people in florida as well. what are people up against as this storm continues to bear down on them tonight? >> yeah. right now, we're worried about strong gusty winds, trees coming down, some isolated tornadoes, but the best advised governor desantis said this is stay home, stay inside, don't go out until these winds past. and so i'm engaged. we're still getting gusts, tropical force winds. i'm hearing leon's coming down i'm bouncing off the roof so

right now it's just really stay if you're somewhere safe to stay there and stay off the road i would expect power outages are going to be measured in days to weeks for a lot of folks but the biggest thing is get through tonight. so you can start your recovery tomorrow. >> when it comes to the response here, what is the most urgent resources if we're going to need from all the wind, all the flood damage. and of course, considering the power outages that you say maybe case of days and weeks to restore. >> well, first thing is going to be search and rescue. we've got a lot of people that may not have the vacuum waited as you reported earlier, keys coastal areas they're going to be people they're cut off big issues going to be getting roads open tomorrow. you can't really get the utility crews in there until they get the debris off the roads and yes, that will start the process of getting power back up fema has moved a lot of resources. and again, i think everybody's focused on florida now we're talking about georgia. this is

going to be a multi-state, multi-day event. >> so for fema, they've been basically getting ready for different phases and resources that are going to be needed across this area. i'm glad you mentioned just the scope and breadth of this storm now, traveling in places like georgia, we heard about nashville and rain as well. and of course, other areas of the southeast region being battered this 20 foot storm surge though one of the words i keep hearing tonight unsurvivable. can you put into context how dangerous that could be? >> yes. i've kayak this area everything from the acyl, river down to cedar key on those area. >> very well. it's flat very shallow that water has nowhere to go, but up and n and the, we talked about as deadly will the two major causes of deaths will be drowning and crush injuries, blunt trauma from cars and propane tanks and the walls of buildings crashing into people and so this not only is going

to be very dangerous, it's going to be very difficult operation to get back end or most of these roads are 20 to 30 miles that you have to drive down to get these communities will be flooded i think covered with debris you're going to have a lot of hazardous materials that have everything from flooded gas tanks to propane tanks that have broken loose. so it's going to be dangerous for responders to get down there, much less for the people that stayed and as you mentioned, and i burst, i always said it about the people who have lacked and those who were unable to leave for whatever reason they felt they could not. can you speak to the risk, though more broadly, of first responders who are under the pressures around it right now, as the eye of the storm is overland, particularly in that big bend region of florida yes. >> i mean, for most of the people that haven't been through this you're used to being able to call mom and wanting get help. and for most of this area, you're not gonna be able to even get help to

rescuers are staying places that are safe we've lost a lot of communications. in fact, the other than my phone my only other way to get information sparked radio. so for a lot of these communities, they don't have information most of their communications that are gonna be down so it's going to be a huge operation to support that. and again, make it easier for the responders stay inside, stay safe, so they can get to the people that need help. the dla cracks you, gabe. thank you so much. rea wise words. i hope people are safe in the communities that they're in right now, hunkering down ahead, we'll talk to a storm chaser who is riding out hurricane helene, stay with us you didn't sit back like this and watch shot like that. >> this show was the highest rated oprah winfrey show of all time. these years later, we're still talking about it opened really opened the door for us

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georgia state capitol in atlanta. this is cnn our breaking coverage of hurricane helene continues the storm made landfall in the last hour as a potentially catastrophic category four storm, i want to bring in storm chaser adam lucio. >> he is in perry, florida and the eye is right over the town right now. adam, that conditions they have drastically changed just in the last hour. what are you experiencing right now? >> all right. >> we're still experiencing relatively calm winds. we're getting some occasional gusts as we wait for that backside of the eye to approach but it's still relatively calm compared to what it was about half an hour ago. very large ai tell me about what happened about a half-hour ago. what would those extreme winds like i was definitely very windy. >> we were getting gas pushing 9,000 miles an hour you believe the damage isn't as extreme as

it could be? >> a lot of sheet metal blow some sheds tipped over, blown apart down trees, down power wires, things like that you're an extreme storm chaser. >> how does this compare to what you have seen in the past and how confident are you that this eye of the storm, when it passes this same level of damage free relatively low damage will continue well, role was hopeful that the backside won't be as intense. >> it reminds me a lot of galea last year, which is the same town, perry i was in perry last year for hurricane dahlia and the damages is pretty comparable to that made a huge mess of everything. and we're hoping the backside the eyewall won't be as intense because things have already been damaged and then the backside just makes it worse when structures are already compromised so we're hoping that backside of the eye wall isn't as strong you know, there has been a lot of warnings have been issued for people to stay in place, not to

go on the roads to heed the warnings. are you seeing people around? are you seeing drivers? are other people especially during the eye of the storm moment, trying to assess damage dangerously. so by the way, i've seen, only a handful of other drivers. it's mainly storm chasers in chondrite nobo be spotted only a couple locals checking things out. it looks like most people heeded the warnings and they evacuated, which is good to see we haven't seen too many people walking around that's a good thing. adam, we'll see you. keep us posted while you're chasing this storm. thank you so much. look, there are still about 100 people who are still in the town of cedar key, florida. and that's a barrier island. that's getting hammered by helene's storm surge. and one of those resins is with me now, bobby wet a lifelong floridian and a boat captain, bobbie, you are riding this storm out on a boat. what are you experiencing right now yes hello?

>> yes, ma'am. it is rough ride. real rough ride how talking my god we'll. >> have? a, little hard to stand up in the boat. >> it's rockin and rollin so bad but the wind has eased off just a little and now the charges come in and i'm seeing a lot of water how high are you experiencing this water? >> can you estimate how high this is? how much farther a higher above your boat? >> well, the boat goes on up. i'm looking down at everything now. i'm looking down at the world ten foot surge, something like that maybe, more. >> it's it's a lot of water why oh, i'm sorry. >> go ahead well, i know the town's got to be flooded if it's doing that right here

like i say, the winds, we had a couple of hours ago were i'm sure 100, 100 mile-an-hour over. >> it's just incredibly bad when the when this surge and you're on a boat, why did you decide to write the hurricane on that boat well, to keep it safe and to keep an eye on my property here and try to save as much of my businesses i can it's a water-based business here done my whole life. >> i've been a waterman my whole life, and that's what some of us do stay with her boats, protect them it's your livelihood. we understand that. and thinking about what things look like, cedar key had been hit by a powerful hurricane just last year. and you wrote that one out too and said that was the worst storm you had encountered. is this one worse than that?

>> i think so. i don't know, maybe unsafe that every time, but this was a bad one and is still wet. i mean, it's still i don't know what it is. >> 50, 60 mile an hour winds, but not going to like it was but yeah. >> no, it's been a bad storm robby what you stay safe where we are thinking about you and all the people who are making their living and their lives as waterman as well around the community. and it just how unsafe of a condition you must be in right now, please try to stay as safe as you can. >> all right. thank you very much thank you. hurricane helene made landfall just about ten miles south of perry, florida, which is where my next guest is. i want to get right to aaron jayjack. he is also a storm chaser in perry, florida aaron, just moments ago, we obtained this it's video of power that was going out in a

perry, florida neighborhood you are there right now what are you seeing yeah. >> i'm here in perry, florida by wives three, right now jack storm draft channel hurricane as it came into paris corner here getting a number into hurricane wind gusts here hurricane-force wind gusts well over her hurricane-force approaching that category three category four strength causing frequent power flashes frequent power flickers shelf stuff all over the place and then we entered the eye of the storm, the eye came through here. >> we had that call mitch i we could see birds flying around in the eye they could see lightning flashes in the eye. a little bit of calmness, strong

winds, and you could see those power flashes right now, you guys or show that video picked time clashes with sparks flying everywhere. >> and now we have entered that backside of the storm right now a little bit drier. >> so the front side, we're getting hit by heavy rain, strong winds, strong rain, and now so we're just getting the occasional strong wind gusts. it's still very dangerous to be out here in perry, florida right now. unfortunately, it seems everybody has stayed indoors. people are hunkered down. >> i keep themselves safe, keeping their families safe, and we shouldn't be out of the worst of it very shortly here, probably in the next hour of the storm should rip are voting against i'm very impressed with how well perry, florida stood up to this. and it's likely due to dahlia coming through last year and kind of putting the trees, taking out any kind of weak infrastructure that has not been repaired and made stronger i suspect the worst impacts can are. >> actually going to be locations to my north approaching boston, georgia

area and points northward have never probably ever seen wins as strong as they're about to experience here overnight across the u.s. southeast of the united states isn't that fascinating to think about the storms that have come in the last year or more may have prepared the area and that only in preparation for those infrastructure, but also trying to prove out what, what may have been weakened structures that could have fallen this time are you seeing a lot of damage this time around compared to what you did see with the dala dark right now, right? we bhatt. >> i'm actually surprised we have a walmart right now where we do our i'm not sure if they're running on a generator or whatnot, but the rest of the town of perry appeared zone lost power much more damage. >> and hearing a perry from a idalia last year, also a category four storm weakening as it made landfall, but again,

as i mentioned, i think, you know, this area has never seen a hurricane. his power is this one right now, sitting helene ending here and i believe a dolly i guess i mentioned it took out anything that's week. and even though it's the stronger hurricanes, other wins last year, aaron jayjack. >> thank you so much. stay safe, please. next, a man braving hurricane helene in his kayak after his home got flooded, will speak with him next >> tim walz and j.d. vance in there the first and first and only face-to-face to bait and cnn has covered with the best political team in the business, a cnn special event the vice presidential debate tuesday at nine on cnn, you know, priceline hopes families say, but the 60% on family-friendly hotels, so many great trips, we might just leave here with another vacation baby i'll take

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breaking news coverage of hurricane helene making landfall last hour in florida. >> i want to bring in matt heller, the first here is a video of him sitting on a kayak and his fighted living room and tampa bay, florida, matt, i understand your power just went out as well. what is going on and watching this flooding in your home? >> yeah, the storm started really slowly and then all of a sudden i live on the water here in the storm, just kind of came in and it's been rising and rising since, according to our tides is going to keep rising until about 3:00 a.m. so we've got our fingers crossed. that the boat stays intact. we just lost power. we've got a couple of battery packs, so we're hoping that carries is this through and i'm talking to you guys on candlelight at the time being. >> wow, i mean, how long did it take for that flooding to reach that level in your home where he talking a matter of minutes, hours, what? >> it just came out of nowhere within probably an hour-and-a-half. it went up about four feet from nothing.

we didn't think we were going to get hit by the storm. it didn't even really rain. all today and then just the wind and the storm surge. it's just the homes flooded before we've had an inch of water here or there but nothing like this. this is definitely the biggest, biggest flood we've ever had. so it's kind of a bummer. i self-insure but i moved all the cars out of the way. i'm just hoping that the boat holds on now. it is what it is that i love your attitude and positivity in this, i as i will be pulling out my hair going, i'm sitting in a kayak four feet of water. >> you've got a positive attitude. me ask you this though, is the water is still coming into your house yeah. it's still rising. >> really? yeah. yeah. the wind. i keep checking the weather apps and checking cnn for the weather and i don't know it's just getting worse and worse. i'd like to say i can go to sleep. i haven't headache for some reason, but i don't think i can sleep. so i'm just up watching it.

>> it's not for some reason your house is flooded right now i think we can identify the cause of that particular headache. i'd tell you. i don't even have medical degree on this, but i just wanted i my heart is going out to you until many people, this must be representative of who we are having this flooding inside their homes how do you even begin to clean up something like this? >> it was saying according to the tide app, the water is not going to receive until about 1:30 p.m. tomorrow so i'm sure it's still going to be i don't i don't know. i've never dealt with such a cleanup like this can't say i'm looking forward to it. but again, we have our health and we lost we lost the last the power for now, but we're still kicking so why did you things and ride this out? >> you didn't think it was going to hit this week? >> we didn't think it was going to be this typical famous last words and they told us, we thought it was going to go west and stay out in a golf and we

just didn't expect this much storm surge, but it was kind of like a really perfect storm. pardon my pun with the wind and the tides. so that's where we're just getting this incredible storm surge right now, although the hurricane didn't hit us in the rain, didn't hit us. we're just still getting blasted here you own a business there as well? >> i understand selling car horns. what do you know about your merchandise oh, i don't even so we lost i was checking the cameras at work as well, but now we lost wifi in power at the office. >> i'm in an older warehouse. i've been saving up for a new roof over the past year, so we have we are moving product around and merchandise from the spots that it could potentially leak will see i was in the office all day until 6:00 p.m. i'm going to go in tomorrow. of course i've been checking on my employees and just hoping everyone stays safe and we will rebuild my god. >> i mean, you is is and you had a friend as well? because says that his house was destroyed. what are you hearing about that?

>> yeah, my my best friend, shane krugman, he lives over in st. pete area and he said his his whole two levels are underwater there. he said he had over 12 feet of water he's also self-insurance. i feel terrible for my buddy shane. i feel terrible for all my neighbors, but we're all in this together and this is what living in florida is team together and try to rebuild hopefully, somehow there's a ted talk or a motivational speech about the purple kayak mat. and you're and your optimism about what's going to happen i have to ask about the purple kayak. did you just happen to have it why the purple yes. it was my escape plan in case stuff got to harry, we get we have we have the to kayaks. i didn't think i was going to need it in my living room so yeah, i was floating around almost. yeah. i'm surprised the power stayed on as long as because it did have my little security cameras everywhere. so i'm going to compile all that together should be some funny video. but

it's a bummer also because of the elevation of the home were hooked up to a septic system, not the sewer so the water is really nasty i came upstairs and showered him we're thing off. and shortly after the power died, so we're all good, made it in the nick of time. >> well, matt, i'm so glad that you are safe. i certainly wish you and your community, the best and safety. >> what an unbelievable moment this dorm, that powerful to have four feet of water in about an hour in your home? >> stay safe. thank you. yeah. >> as a floridian, we take it for granted. i mean, i was in i was in south florida in fort lauderdale for hurricane andrew in 1992. and you just never lot of crying wolf and you think it's not going to be as bad as it is this one was really bad. and we didn't think it was gonna be bad, bad well here. we are. >> and we again, glad to see that you're safe. thank you so much for letting us know what you're experiencing and what your community is as well. >> yeah, sure. thanks, guys. have a great night hurricane

helene. >> it's now moving north and is set to pass right over parts of georgia and it's already turned deadly. i want to bring in bow dura, the mayor of albany, georgia, also with me, the albany, georgia fire chief cedric scott mayor dora, i mean you are right in the path of this storm. and while we're talking to people who the storm may have passed temporarily it has yet to reach you. how has your community prepared? mayor? >> well, she's got to be the individual who the best fig to that. but we've been hammered time and time again and we're very proud of our capacity to prepare for natural disasters we've been own red alert entire week and as your last guest, just mentioned he assumed that model was correct, that and he would be secure our

good fortune as somebody else's misfortune and by that, i mean, it appears that the path of the storm will actually be somewhat to our east, whereas the models that we had seen earlier in the week had the storm coming directly over all been as a result, we were anticipating wins of over 70 miles an hour. >> it looks like there'll be less than 50 miles an hour. we were anticipating rainfall of six to eight inches and it looks like it might be as little as three inches, but chief would have the most up-to-date information about that? >> well, let me ask you, chief about that and the preparation knowing what one prepares for it, and then what is ultimately possibly going to occur, how, what is it like on the ground right now in terms of trying to match the expectations and what you're seeing well, it is it gets to be very stressful and trying to assure that we we

make the right decisions and what we have is we have our training years of experience and dealing with emergencies, a weather emergencies. >> and so what we do is we prepare for the worst we put a state of emergency in place to do to our mayor and chairman for a state of emergency in place. we opened up a shelter. the shelter is open now and we have some 125 people taking shelter tonight as i'm taking into consideration, the dangerous and the effects of helene coming through our community. so that shelter is in place and we were able to get people out of homes that they thought may not at the estate able to withstand we also made sandbags available for for our residents as well.

we have experienced some some power outages we've seen the rain begin to come in and kind of go out on us a few times, wind has picked up a bit like the mayor said, and we're still looking at a window of time still ahead of us was certainly not not out of harm's way. and we want to stay vigilant and we want to encourage us citizens just because it appears that the rain and wind and that we were expecting at those very higher size, maybe close to category one winds. perhaps that may or may not come our way. we're still watching it very closely, but we want our citizens still take it serious. we want you to stay in if you have to go outside, stay inside, and we put a curfew in in place. this evening. in albion and doherty county from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. we did that for the protection of our

citizens, so we've taken a number of precautions to be ready. as i mentioned, we've had quite a bit of experience with this, but it still doesn't make it any less stressful. we continue to worry about you know, our citizens our residents and trying to make sure that we assure that we provide them all the information we can so that they can be as safe as possible. >> we certainly hope your community will be mayor bow daro. thank you to cedric scott. thank you as well. stay safe. >> well, thank you i want to go back to cnn correspondent ivan rodriguez. >> he is in tallahassee house where you are hi, laura, that rain is still a been coming down continuously. we are seeing a couple of cars here on the road. might be media driving around here as well. the wind hasn't been a massive factor here in tallahassee, but there are those moments when the wind comes in really strong and then it dies down just a little little bit where i'm

standing. i have a really good vantage point in terms of power outages. i can still see some buildings in the vicinity here in the background with power on. but when i take a look at the county and the power outages that we're looking at here in leon county. there's 130,000 customers, about without power and when you look at the population of leon county, it's a little less than 300,000. so putting that into perspective, it is a good amount of people here and homes without power. now we do know that there are about eight shelters throughout the county that are open to the public. about 1,700 people are currently staying in those shelters. about 200 pets also. but it really does paint a picture in terms of all the power outages currently now and power restoration efforts that are going to take place starting tomorrow after it's safe for those crews to get out onto those roads. now, i'm not seeing anything drastic in terms of trees or power lines down. so that might make the work a little bit easier for those crews. who's tomorrow.

we know the city here in tallahassee was very prepared. they even tripled their workforce to get on power restoration early. laura, ivan rodriguez. >> thank you so much. there is a lot of head on that. let's go back to derek van dam. he's an apalachicola hello derek, what are you seeing right now conditions have largely quieted down here and we're thankful for that and we managed to escape the storm without the broad impacts that are being felt to my east for instance, you can hear just some penalty in on this top of this building flopping back-and-forth. >> but still intact. that's good news, but we can see that we have electricity were one of the few i would say here in franklin county that was under mandatory evacuation, but look, my heart breaks for the people who are enduring what is unfolding tonight. just to our east 60, 70 miles to our north and east as hurricane helene

races inland bringing its massive power of destruction along with it it's moving at quite a clip. 25 miles per hour inland. and why i bring that up is because it's going to take a lot of time before that storm could actually wind itself down, weakened enough to not pose a threat any longer. and so we have several hours of hurricane force winds certainly into central and southern portions of georgia. some of that might scape into the higher elevations of the southern appalachians as well. so that will make for a very difficult, challenging overnight, you combine that with the extremely heavy rain that they're experiencing right now. that's just a recipe. he, for disaster. laura, this storm came in powerful, more powerful than any other hurricane that's made landfall in the big bend area is no stranger to hurricanes and storms. we've had five landfalling hurricanes in the

state of florida at least since 2017 but this one eclipse many most, if not all, and even was stronger than hurricane ian in terms of the central pressure when it came on shore, we have a laundry list of superlatives describing them big extreme events out of the storm. there's still being written, but storm surge record values that cedar key, for instance, are off the charts, never been experienced before. and that is really a telltale sign of just how powerful the storm was. and it wasn't just there other locations as well experiencing similar their tide values derek, what what dawn will bring is anyone's guess, derek van dam. thank you so much, please stand by with millions without power. and some people stranded. what will rescues look like? good morning. we'll get into that with the one the only lieutenant general russel honore next

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come. >> power lines over roads that's going to be a big challenge in the morning is to get the assets in there to clear the roads so you can get the power trucks in as well as to get power generation into places like sewage systems and water systems. so people at an air can survive. laura i think about hospitals as well and everyone that would require the amounts of power to survive. and parts of florida, we understand general, are experiencing a 20 foot storm surge. that could be a state could actually be underwater. talk to me about how you even begin to navigate that yeah. >> what most of that cultural community there around florida where the storm hit from tampa know up, you gotta to the elevation of less than nine feet this is going to be a problem along those coastal communities. then when you go into cross it interstate ten,

the challenge is going to be with rain and wind and that's going to take more of the grid down. and this is happening at nighttime so it's going to be a rude awakening in the morning to get out and assess the damage. but i think thank the public officials have done a good job to tell people stay inside and i hope as it goes further north, that the abide by those rules i mean, just the scope of this thrown the width of it 400 miles, the idea that attacking now only florida but georgia and other places southeast region that must read philly complicate efforts to coordinate all these different entities to get recovery and solutions quickly absolutely. you talking about between the latter and tampa. that's a 500 mile run right there where normally these states do mutual-aid and they help each other. now they're having to call in assets from further across the country. this is going to be a major challenge to get the grid backup, get the roads cleared, and get the

infrastructure stood back up the good side of this is where the storm hit. there was a storm that last year, dare and that took probably the week trees out and probably infrastructure had been rebuilt sub, so that's the better side of that. but it's going to be a hell of a cleanup because interstate ten can be closed. highway 19 close highway 75, parts of it could be close, is going to be a nightmare to get them. they're not a national guard is on standby the department of defense's on standby. the coast guard. but the winds got to go down and you're going to have to fly stuff in there or come in by boat to get those areas that they can get to. but the garden is ready the stage is well organized. both georgia and florida to respond tenant general russell honore. >> thank you so much for joining us. >> good thank you all for watching our live coverage of