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

hurricane helene continues right now our viewers in the united states and all around the world for our special coverage of hurricane helene. i'm michael holmes. thanks for being with us tonight. now, hurricane helene is the strongest storm ever to make landfall. full in florida's big bend, sweeping across those less than two hours ago as an extremely dangerous category four with winds of 140 miles an hour. the national weather service describing it as unsurvivable up to 20 feet of storm surge expected in some areas. there have been at least two deaths reported in georgia and one in florida 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. we are going to see downed power lines. those are very 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 now. the storm has knocked out power to more than 1 million homes and businesses in florida, rescues to around the way and officials in one county told people who didn't evacuate to write their name and birth date on their arm or leg to be identified if needed later. severe flooding has reported up and down florida's west coast, far away from where the storm made landfall beyond florida, georgia, tennessee, and the carolinas. now, bracing for helene's impact, the deputy director of the national hurricane center says, this will likely be a historic

inland flooding ben and warned that a lot of people might not make it through the night people have got to be ready to take care of themselves, take care of themselves for several days without power. >> somehow we got to get people to realize that these aren't just to interesting phenomenon, they're very, very deadly, especially with this setup that we talked about with his preexisting rainfall. we're probably going to lose a lot of lives in this setup with this much flooding potential chad myers joins us now to bring us the very latest, where's the lane? where is she headed? what are you saying? >> it's valdosta, georgia. and what is special about valdosta? it is at right on the middle of an interstate, a north-south interstate where truckers roads are veers, all dry up and down north-south from florida all the way up to michigan. i hope no one is on the roadway right now because the winds are still 110 miles per hour, 17180

kilometers per hour right now, down to a category two michael from where it was, which was a category four. and we are still seeing those gusts now somewhere around 90 to 100 miles per hour around perry, we still have tornado watches in effect, which means a tornado could form overnight if you live in any of these red areas, make sure you have your phone on, that. it will alarm you whether there's a tornado in eurozone. now, these are not big tornadoes, these are not these things you see on movies, but there's still enough if you'd hit your house, it would do some damage. here is the rainfall that you talked about, how much rainfall is coming down here with this rain this is a front that kind of stopped in the appalachian mountains right here over the last couple of days and it rained a little bit. but now, now this moisture from the hurricane is just feeding into that front and it is raining it is just not going to stop. we are going to see likely 200 millimeters, eight inches of rainfall in some spots that is going to be a big deal on top of ground that it

has been raining on for 48 hours already. so every little red spot you see here, there's flash flood warnings are going on here's the saltwater flood. my goal. >> here's what we're really concerned about, because the water levels are still going up even though the storm is in georgia, the winds are out of the west blowing this water onto this, call it shore. >> i want to call it land the good news if there's any good news about where this landed, is that it's a national seashore area, not really a populated area, not like tampa or miami. it landed in where we see trees, shrubs, bushes, animals, plants. so if there's anything good about this, that's it. but if you're caught in a 20 foot six meter salt but water flood, it's going to be a long night all right. >> chad, thanks so much. we'll check in later. chad myers there with the very latest on helene. now, before helene made

landfall tallahassee's mayor told cnn, this could be the most powerful storm ever to hit florida's capital. he said his mind i'm concerned power outages, structural damage. and of course down trees. cnn's ivan rodriguez is live in tallahassee, florida year you've been out there for hours now, what what is the situation there now? what have you been saying? >> well, michael, it really feels like in the last 30 minutes, maybe even less than that. we've started feeling a lot stronger rain and wind. and that's interesting because we've now really aren't close to that. all we know that eyewall was east of where tallahassee is, especially where we are here in downtown tallahassee, but maybe that back those back bands, outer bands coming back again, giving us a little bit more of that heavy rain fall, a little bit stronger winds here where i am here elevated a bit of a hilltop area, get a great backer background of the city

here, of tallahassee still see some areas for years with power that are on here where i am just on this street couple of minutes ago, these street lights went all out a couple of minutes later, we saw them come back gone, but it's sort of been like that throughout the evening now, it's been a lot calmer earlier now it's getting a little bit stronger. and you mentioned that the mayor mentioned that as well. the big threat that they were facing also was the when and how strong that was going to be if we were going to see trees toppled over power lines down and then the whole mess that it was going to make to then try and get power restoration back on because we know they can't start doing that until they clear all of these roadways. and then those crews are able to safely start that power restoration process? >> yeah. yeah. yeah. more than 1 million people without power in florida alone, there have been deaths reported. i know there's not storm surge where you are, but there are increasing reports of that being an impact as well.

>> yeah, i'm more than 1 million customers without power in the state of florida and he when we go down into leon county, where we are here in tallahassee, there's about 130,000 customers without power, which doesn't seem like a lot michael. but when you put it into perspective in this county, there's only about 300,000 people who live here. so you're almost looking at half of the population here in the county without power. it's going to be a big emphasis going into tomorrow. now you mentioned debts. we heard from governor ron desantis, who confirmed one death in the tampa area from a person who was driving a car on interstate four. he says after a sign fell on that car for killing the driver, we also are learning of two deaths in georgia, also related to hurricane helene. but because of a tornado and that happened about 75 miles south of macon, georgia, which is now in that trajectory of hurricane helene alright. >> ivan rodriguez in tallahassee, florida. appreciate the reporting there, ivan. thanks and joining me now

is vincent long, the administrator of leon county in florida? he oversees part of the so-called panhandle region that includes the state capital, tallahassee, and seeing some major universities as well. thanks for taking time out. by crazy busy night. you i was reading before i came on air and local town of tallahassee newspaper which wrote that helene is, is quote, a storm who's fury has never been seen in this area what's it like where you are now? how the last few hours being well, thanks for having me, michael. yeah. we would certainly grip a lot of experience with with storms here since 2016, we have had we felt the impact of five hurricanes here in our community. helene would be number six and is number six as you reported, just within a couple of hours, helene made landfall here just about 30 miles east of us as a cat four.

so certainly that is never happened here before and we're riding it out. now, that it's that it's nighttime and the winds are expected it's good to continue for the next couple of hours and we truly won't know the extent of the damages in our community until first light when we have an opportunity to do our damage assessments. and to respond to the needs of our community and to begin the work, the hard work of getting our community back together. but we know that even when the winds do begin to die down, that we're not out of the woods where we ask our citizens to be as vigilant as ever in especially when navigating around the community with downed trees and downed power lines, as you mentioned and certainly again, we asked them to exercise extreme caution in those cases. it's going to take some time to get

our community back up and shape, but i can assure them that the county government is going to be working with the city, working with the state, working with our local partners to get the community back up as quickly and as safely as possible. >> yeah. as you said, you no stranger to big storms? >> what do you expect to see when the sun comes up? >> what do you fear? you might say how bad could it be well we expect to see what we have been saying now for a few days to our community and advising our citizens that we expect thousands of trees down, we expect hundreds of roads to be blocked and we expect prolonged power outages and again, so those are those are real issues that we're going to face. >> it takes a enormous manpower to clear roads and to get power lines restored and so again, we

just asked the community to have patients with us. we know that we will be responding to emergencies. we may very well be responding to critical infrastructure failures and so getting back to the conveniences that we all enjoyed pre storm, it's going want to take some time, but we'll get to get there as a community and really we look forward to having that happen just as soon as we possibly can and importantly to as just as soon as we can begin to help our neighbors too, are east and even to our north. as you've been reporting, yeah. >> yeah you mentioned power and things like that. florida now up to more than 1 million customers without power you're a seasoned administrator. i've been dealing with the hurricane itself is one thing. how will prepared is the steak to deal with the aftermath that that damage done and the recovery well, i can't say enough about the coordination that we have enjoyed with our state. while

under the leadership of our governor. and with our municipal utility provider the resources that they have brought to the community are extensive, not not everybody realizes that those contracts are in place. those mutual aid agreements are in place all year long. and so when a disaster strikes those resources can be made available very quickly. the work still takes time, but those those, those contracts are in place again so that we can effectuate that just as soon as, as soon as it safe to do so. >> yeah. yeah. i think it's pretty well organized. i mean, i when it comes to the people and the people of most important things in these situations, do you think people took the warnings seriously enough early enough? >> well, i think we've got some indications here that they that they certainly have. we have about 1,600 people shelter tonight and about well, in 09 shelters that we opened throughout the community and so we've we've

heard that we've we know that we had a large number of people evacuated from the community who perhaps felt like the homes that they were living and whether it was a manufactured home or mobile homes, whether they were not safe enough to withstand a storm like this so again, we've received a lot of good feedback. we haven't received the number of emergency calls that perhaps might have otherwise, if people didn't do. as we advise them to do and as, as they're prepared to do, which is to effectuate those those family plans early and we certainly hope they did so and again, will truly understand the impact to our community and what the needs of our citizens are at first light as i a busy night for you, but you're a seasoned administrator all the best and good luck with that vincent long in tallahassee, florida. >> appreciate you making the time all right well in.

steinhatchee, florida, joules call is hunkering down with her husband three kids, and their pets, and she's done this before while pregnant joules college, joining me now jewels you were on cnn earlier. i watched that interview was a few hours ago. one of conditions been like in the last few hours since then now to be honest, as far as the wind and the rain goes, it's pretty wild died off with can get some pretty heavy guests right now, the major concern is that we are definitely having flooding. this town is seeing more flooding than it's ever seen. it's about halfway up the pillars on our house and we've heard reports around town of people needing rescue that they're in chest height water. some of our friends so it's not it's not looking so good here. >> yeah. you were moment, but not everybody is. yeah. yeah. you you were a storm chaser. you and your husband? i think

you've experienced that tornadoes when you lived in kansas, you gone through several hurricanes since moving to florida compare what you've seen in the past with this and what you're going through is undoubtedly the worst i've seen either tornadoes or hurricane just the sheer amount of water that is pouring into this town it's unlike anything we've ever seen, anything. >> even we had record flood i think like 56 years ago. and it's well past that. well i think even past storm of the century back in 93 but it's the worst i've seen yeah. >> way you are steen hatchie. it is a flood floodplain. it is susceptible to flooding did you think about leaving do you do you now wish that you had rather than

don't i still feel like having known, you know, my my elevation in my house i still feel like we're probably safe for a lot of people, especially like i was saying on cnn earlier tonight, not knowing if further inland houses are built to withstand kinds of wind that they are around the coast. >> as far as that goes, i think we're a lot safer than that. it's just the water that coming in but i don't think that it's going to reach inside our house. it's already just slowed down a little bit. and of course, the hurricane's almost passed as at that point. >> yeah. yeah. and i don't want to point out to you and also our view as it is now a category two hurricane officially now that it is crossed onto land it's still significant and dangerous, just they're link people know that you wrote out hurricane idalia's while you were 34 weeks pregnant last year. and

now that baby kai is with you for another one house he and the kids doing what what are they doing? >> that was doing pretty good right now they're all just kind of hunkered down and we've got them in the closet. so there an interior room, just like you would with the tornado they'll kind of sitting here with daddy plan, plan around and he got a little bit asleep, but it's definitely not sleeping super well tonight just quickly, if i may, when i saw you on a few hours ago, you were a lot more chill that you sound now, you more worried than you were a few hours ago? i'm not as worried as i am part sick especially on that i've got friends out there that are that are currently underwater and needing help it's just it's hard to read comments from people saying, hey, on water, plan on on helping her neighbors because

we're spent her house sdk you read that kind of thing and there's nothing you can do it's just heartbreaking. yeah. first school nurse. >> are you worried? it's kind of rise higher when it comes house? >> no not so much we've still got i'd say three or four more seeks the before it's actually into our house. >> it's more my concern of her over the very lower than us. >> yeah. yeah. close knit community. i know jewels colin in steen steinhatchee, florida appreciate it. good luck and we'll hopefully talk to you when the sun's up and things are looking a bit better right. >> sounds good. thank you all right. >> well, please stay with us. our breaking news coverage of the monster hurricane. helene continues right after the break we'll also have a report from asheville, north carolina where residents are fleeing their homes in expectation of what

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now ripping through the southeast us after slamming into florida's big bend coastal area with 140 miles file an hour winds. it is the strongest hurricane to hit the, this particular region on record. more than 1 million customers in florida without power at the moment that number seems to grow every hour. currently a category two storm now, elaine will maintain hurricane strength as it pushed she's into southern georgia before gradually weakening at least 60 million people under some type of watch or warning related to the storm in at least 12 states, it is a massive storm and residents in asheville, north carolina are being urged to evacuate ahead of what is expected to be historic it flooding in the area video over there it is there showing a torrent of water rushing down the swannanoa river on thursday, the ground around asheville is already soaked after more than

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michael holmes. we are closely tracking that hurricane deadly extremely dangerous category two. that is now battering the south eastern united states. helene made landfall earlier in florida's big bend area along the gulf coast, bringing torrential rain, destructive winds, and a life-threatening storm surge. at least three deaths reported across georgia and florida so far, millions of people still remain in the storm's path. now, look at this nasa capturing the view from space. just have a look at that and lean one of the largest hurricanes to pass through the gulf of mexico in the modern era even eclipsing hurricane katrina is wind field let's bring in chad myers, our meteorologist again, because it it's the size of this thing isn't a chad. i mean, it's category two, but it's still got a lot of steam left and watching the map behind you, it's huge. >> it is huge. and even if you only have, let's say, 100 kilometer per hour wind and you

look at that to 200 kilometers across. that's a lot of people that are being affected you know, it may not be 200 kph, but it is still a very large event for so very many people. so, yes, now is losing some intensity. it was 140 miles per hour. now it's 120. we're seeing some gusts around 99, the highest per that i've seen so far, so 160 kilometers per hour. but there will be some minor little tornado plus today, every little storm that comes on shore here could produce a tornado. in fact, to tornado warnings going on right now that far from charleston just kind of moving on upstate. so the wind at the surface, 99, the wind aloft. we had a wind aloft of 160 miles per hour from the airplane i'm not sure how you get the courage to fly an airplane threw 160 mile per hour hurricane, but they do it all the time. here's a surge now approaching ten feet in many spots and the wind is still blowing it right on shore. so this water is going to continue to go up. so that

lady that you just talked to mike a little bit ago, she's going to see that water come up. she said she's got through good more steps. she may need those three more steps because that water is still coming up. and then the rainfall. this is the fresh water because the salt flood were talking about that surge that's all salt. this is freshwater. we've now seen in some spots, ten inches, 250 millimeters of rain, and possibly another to 50 to go could you imagine any mountainous area, at least a hilly area, a half a meter of rain in just four days. that's not going to end well for some people, there you go. here's still the severe weather over the next couple of days. it's still going to be possible not over, but close. yeah and handing out why now before i let you go to one of the things that because we're talking about asheville and we had a lot of rain here a day or so ago. they've had ten inches how does that play into the effects of this storm when it comes to a soaked ground while there's a name for it is called the pre. >> the pre that predecessor

rain event that is a rain event that is north of a northward moving hurricane that is kind of taking some of the moisture from the hurricane pushing it into a frontal system that was already there. and then squeezing that moisture out. if you have saturated ground, and then you take a wind and make it yeah. i don't know, 100 kilometers per hour. and you're to knock those trees or because those trees are just in mud and then you put another ten inches of rain on top of that you have more problems? >> yeah. >> they're waiting. chad always great to have you on the forest. >> she was earlier in the day. yeah. once you get a new shift, it's what we do we are the overnight good to see you. >> thank you. all right. now, as we've been reporting the western coast of florida getting the worst of the hurricane lose albert is the mayor of sarasota, florida thanks so much for making the time you've had a busy night to the storm, that moving on from where you are, but give us a sense i'll what your area has gone through

still looking very bad. >> actually, i it's too dark for me to see whether the surge from the gulf of mexico has started receding at all. but this is the worst probably we've seen in our area and 100 years, i know. i've been in sarasota for 22 years and i've never seen anything like that i'm getting reports of our barrier islands agree three to four feet of water haven't though, more look really, really bad. lot of people i've got to have lost their homes, their cars, just everything yeah. >> i you know, you afraid of what? daylight will bring

absolutely. >> absolutely. as i just there's just been nothing like this here and with our barrier islands being completely underwater, it's not going to be good how fragile are those barrier islands give people a sense of what they're like and how exposed well, they're very low of them really are not that big. >> you know, they're not very far across and so and very flat and so a lot of it is sand. so it's easy for things to wash or what we probably have had a lot of our beaches wash away and who knows how many homes possibly have done the same? >> yeah, i covered hurricane sandy and remember damage down

to similar areas? there what sort of preparations were you able to put into place ahead of time? and do you have any indication on how they've held up well we started preparing on tuesdays, so just, you know, with extra personnel and getting everyone stage so that they would be ready for whatever we faced but once the wind starts getting past a certain mile per hour and once the water starts rising we can't even get to people anymore. >> so even those preparations don't help with if people don't evacuate like we've asked them to do, i think well, did but some people just decided to stay and ride out the storm because we've been warned many times with hurricanes that there would be

a storm surge, but never happened this time it happened. >> yeah. yeah. yeah it's risky when people think it's not going to happen again and then they get, they get whacked madeline said in sarasota, florida thanks so much. good luck with the hours all right thanks so much let's go back now to cnn's ivan rodriguez to get the latest on the situation in tallahassee, florida. >> i mean, tallahassee, where you i was the bullseye, but it did make landfall a little bit north. hopefully that made a little bit of difference. but it was the first cat cat-4 tatler paesie has ever seen lay out what what what's been going on in the conditions now it definitely made a big difference, just the fact that it was several miles off of being a direct hit. >> tallahassee, we were west of that eyewall and you really see a big difference, especially now, michael the parents up 30 minutes ago last time that we

spoke the rain is even calmed down substantially. winds are still coming and going, but in terms of that rain being continuously strong, this is the first break that we've had now in several, several hours one thing we are taking a look at right now, we're rescues and pascoe county, which is accounted right above tampa, florida. we're learning that 40 people were rescued from rising waters because of hurricane helene. it's sheriff's office there says that rescue boats are continuing to be loaded into the water. they're making sure that anyone who's still needs help is able to get it. that's the big the biggest news that we've gotten so far. in terms of rescues at a larger scale across the state here in tallahassee, where we are we haven't gotten any sort of information on any rescues and needed so far from where i can see and from where i'm standing. we also haven't seen any trees that have been toppled over any power lines that have fallen. power here is really hit or miss as well.

michael. a lot large part of the county here still remains without power. >> yeah. yeah. >> a lot of i don't know the area myself, but there's a lot of trees there to what one of the fears when it comes to that and the damage they can do, let alone the loss of ob trees we heard earlier, even today, from the mayor of tallahassee saying that the biggest threat was going to be that wind and possibly up to 110 miles per hour here in tallahassee, which brings us reroute to read around of a category two, a kind of wind. >> but if those trees began to topple over which many of them do for regular storms here in tallahassee, it would make a mess. we were expecting thousands of trees, possibly even hundreds of thousands in rhodes down power lines and from where i'm standing, we're not seeing that which is great news but power restoration is still going to be something that they're going to be efforting. when the sun does come up. like i mentioned here in leon county, but 100 130,000

customers are without power. the population in this county is only about 300,000. so really putting that into perspective, just how many people are without power across state of florida. we're looking at more than 1 million customers without power. florida's you've used to this, right? they they know how to handle it to recover from those hurricanes. but we knew early on that it was going to be a marathon recovery for a lot of these communities. >> yeah. yeah. yeah. what daylight brings? we do not know ivan rodriguez in tallahassee, florida appreciate your reporting through the night. thanks so much. well, most people tried to get out of the path of a huge storm like hurricane helene, but some go towards the danger will talk to a storm chaser who is in the city where helene made landfall people are watching in our world changed tv on the edge sunday at nine on cnn meet the

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>> it made landfall in florida's big bend as a category four storm, at least three deaths have been reported in florida and also georgia. in the key florida rescue services have been suspended until the storm passes. it's just too dangerous. one resident describing the situation just ahead of landfall the gulf is rising up to swallow the island. i don't know that cedar key, as we know, it will exist in the morning tampa bay, but the massive size and strong winds created a powerful surge in that city. >> just look at those images their vehicles driving across the bridge as it is getting pounded by the water more than 1 million customers without power in florida and across the south east has been riding out the storm at his home in tampa, florida is with us now thanks so much

for doing so. you spoke with cnn last hour about the rising waters how quickly did it all happen? what was it like watching it rise like that and has it come up further yeah. >> i mean, within two hours, i had four feet of water in the house. i'm a lifelong born floridian and i survived hurricane andrew in 1992, down in south florida. so i don't get to apprehensive when they announced the storm. we didn't even think this one was going to be that big, but holy cow, that storm surge. the whole lower level of my home is still with water. i ended up hopping on to one of my little kayaks to float around in my living room. i went live on tiktok and now here we are talking to you guys. >> yeah. yeah. that now thank you also said that that was that was a potential you said that was a potential means of escape. he's it's still there. do you think you're going to have to use it at some point to get out. what what's the situation?

>> yeah it's still down there. >> we lost power about an hour-and-a-half ago. >> i was able to shower and get some of that nasty water off matthew. hello. or is he he's lost power. he's talking to his by flashlight i you there matthew audio. >> i mean, you can just imagine what the situation is like no power. he's got the kayak in the living room. he says that he might have to use it to get out, but seems to be in good spirits, remarkably, that water rose very quickly. he was saying he's been through storms before, but nothing like this in terms of the water rise matthew, you back here, me. okay. yeah. yeah. i was i was just saying to people because the audio went in and out. i'm not surprised. you don't have power. you're in the middle of

the storm the storm who's aren't uncommon way you are. >> how does this one compare with what you've seen before we didn't think this one was going to be strong at all. >> so we kind of took it, took the warnings for granted we knew we have the second level of our house here and that we're up high and dry but this has been just a heck of a storm surge. it's wiped out all my neighbors first, i see just the destruction going on down the road. one of my best friends, shane, his house got wiped out so i don't know. i can't wait to see what the morning will bring and i hope everyone makes it through the storm. okay. it's just been a lot of destruction. >> do you think you through the worst of it in terms of the water rising and so on. >> the tides are going to be rising until 130 tomorrow afternoon we're about halfway through the tide cycle. the wind is slowing down and that's what's pushing all that water up into the bay and overflowing all the streets and the rivers here. so we're just

trying stay positive, keeping our fingers crossed and we'll see well, well, good luck mate. >> i'm telling you that crazy images of the kayak, but not funny if you're going to have to use it to get out of there. were thinking of you, good luck, keeps smiling. i got a great attitude. i take. i don't think i'd be smiling like you right now. i'll pick good on you. >> it is what it is. we have our health that's all it's concerned. i don't have insurance or anything, so it is what it is, but we will rebuild typical florida before you got the drywall down downstairs in that video, looked like it was pretty new, isn't it? >> yeah. i've been recovering from hurricane in that happened about a year ago. so i've been going through all the stuff, flip the city of tampa and open permits and everything to fix the electrical. this time we raised all the electrical up higher, but the storm surge that we got today, it went even above those outlets. now so we're just going to have a lot of wet insulation and wet

drywall. again but the cleanup process, we've got a lot of practices seems looked pretty well mattered. so, you know what you're doing thanks been watching a lot of youtube videos to watch a youtube video earlier about how to secure my boat properly, because i don't want that to blow away their love your attitude day. >> you look like a good guide to have a beer with one day, matthew. hello, thanks so much cheers. >> thinks that's going to lead do god, i love that attitude. don't you? now a house boat owner in florida has secured his lines andes on board trying to ride out the storm, will hear from him when we come back your, skin is ever changing. take care of it with gold ponds, age renew formula of seven moisturizers and three vitamins. >> for all your skin's cold.

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dangerous hurricane >> just last year at a major hurricane through here and now here we are again in the parking lot dalia. last. year but it's now starting to cost power flickers evidence. >> we're only away from losing power. kamala here transferred significantly great. >> the big bend power flash >> now despite evacuation warnings, there are people battening down the hatches and trying to ride out the storm boat captain bobby whitt in cedar key, florida, one of them, cnn's laura coates spoke

to him a little earlier is rough ride. real rough ride how am i talking my god? >> to hell little hard to stand up in the boat. it's rockin and rollin so bad but the wind is east 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 further 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 and 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, 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. is 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 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 thanks for spending part of your day with me watching cnn newsroom. i'm michael holmes, my friend and colleague kim brunhuber will have the latest on hurricane helene when our special coverage continues after quick break i've been saying publicly people are say under turns out, i have enough money, i could just shut up and back i can carve saturday, october 5 on cnn. if you're living with moderate to severe plaque

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