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is cnn newsroom. we begin with breaking news as we track hurricane helene, it's now the strongest storm to ever make landfall in florida's big bend, sweeping across the coast hours ago as an extremely dangerous category four hurricane with winds of 140 miles per hour. now the effects have been felt far from the center of the storm. the mayor of clearwater told me his community has been inundated despite being 100 miles from the center now, helene is weakening now but has knocked out power to more than 1,000,000.5 homes and businesses in florida, georgia, and the carolinas. at least three people have been killed as the storm continues to pummel the southeast to end georgia. and one in florida we have had a report of a fatality on the roadway. car driving on i4 near your ybor city and tampa, was hit when a sign fell onto onto the highway.

>> so that just shows you that it's very dangerous. chris conditions out there you need to be right now. just hunkering down now's not the time to be going out. we know that travel on the roads 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, know your surroundings in terms of trees, you are going to see trees that are going to get knocked down now, we're getting word about 40 people who've been rescued from rising water in pasco county, just north of tampa. >> and rescues are still underway. officials in another florida county told people who didn't evacuate to write their name and birth date on their arm or leg to be identified if

needed. all right, i want to go to cnn's ivan rodriguez, who's live in tallahassee, florida. so i haven't even though the eye has passed where you are, it looks like still plenty of wind and rain take us through the latest that eyewall has passed, but we're still feeling some of those back wins, their outer bands from the hurricane. the rain has calmed down since the last time that we spoke. we always knew that was going to happen. it was anticipated that right around that 3:00 hour, the rain would get a little bit less. the win, however, is going to stick with us here possibly for the next couple of hours until continues its trajectory. a little bit more north in terms of power outages, you mentioned that across the state of florida alone, 1.3 million customers are without power here we are in leon and county. it's very around 72,000 customers without power. now the population here in this county has about

300,000, so it's a good amount of people here who are experiencing a power outages from where i'm standing, a bit of a hill here. good vantage point behind me of the city here of tallahassee. and he can still see on a building's with their lights still on here on this street, we're in the street lights have flickered on and off now for a few times as well but at this point, some good news here for the people of tallahassee, we were expecting a direct hit in the hours leading up to that historic landfall as a category four hurricane in a moved a little bit east. so we were on that west side of hurricane helene. >> great news here for a lot of folks. >> but as the sun begins to come up, we're going to see some of the damage that was left behind here specifically in tallahassee, a big effort moving forward will be power restoration and we know crews aren't going to be able well to do that until all those roadways are clear then there'll be able to get to that important work.

>> yeah. so i guess plenty of folks they're breathing a sigh of relief that they weren't directly hit as bad as they thought, but still plenty of worries, i imagine, especially for young people who might be out of state students, for example, i know tallahassee it's a huge college city. how did students see out the storm absolutely. >> you're talking about a college town here in tallahassee, florida state university of pham. you also here in the tallahassee area and you look at all those students right from out-of-state, as you mentioned, may be experiencing a hurricane and for the first time, scary situations fsu specifically we know that the students who remained on campus, they actually went to a conference center that was equipped to withstand a hurricane conditions. they have hurricane shutters in that conference center for example, also generators to be able to power air conditioning make sure the students or at least comfortable when they are sheltering in place. throughout this storms. so good news there for the students as well.

parents across the country probably also very worried for their children who are here in this tallahassee area but even though it is passed, we heard from gov. governor desantis there earlier they still officials aren't wanting people to be out and about until it really is saved, until that sunlight comes out. and we are able to see the full extent of what was left behind here by the hurricane all right. >> i appreciate those updates. ivan rodriguez in tallahassee, florida. thank you so much. want to bring in cnn meteorologist allison chinchar. allison before we went on air we're showing some pictures of flooding here in atlanta and that was before the hurricane proper is hitting, is that where it's headed right now? are we going to be here? >> yes. so it's really headed up towards say, like macon, georgia and then eventually into atlanta. and again, you have to have some perspective for people who don't know, these are hundreds of miles away from the water. these are not beach communities. so again, just to note, well, how far away they are, we've just got the hourly update now down to 80 miles per hour. that's still a category one hurricane. again, this is what we expected

as it continues to make its way inland, it's going to weaken the interesting thing though, is just how far inland it's been able to maintain its hurricane status again, you can see here is that center of the storm will continue to slide. it's going to start to make its way a little bit more on a westerly direction here in the next 24 hours. but by the time it gets to make an atlanta, it will still be a very high end tropical storm with those wind gusts up around 60 to 80 miles per hour, then it will stretch up into tennessee and kentucky. there's going to be the problem is it just sits that means it's going to have a long period of time where it can drop a tremendous amount of rain. here's a look at the radar and you can see a lot of that really heavy rain is on the northern side of this. so a lot of the areas south and florida finally starting to see things dry out. now that this thing has really taken off in speed. >> but the worst is really yet to come. >> for portions of georgia and the carolinas, tennessee, as well as kentucky, especially in terms of wind and rain. we also still have the potential for

tornadoes. you're talking cities like charlotte, charleston, savannah, columbia, even down through jacksonville, florida, a lot of these still go for at least another three hours before they expire. but some of them may be send it beyond that, especially as we continue to get some tornado warnings. here's a look at the rain that has already fallen. you can see from this map, again this widespread area here that's the yellow color at least about four inches of rain that's 100 millimeters has fallen. but when you look at some of the orange and the red colors there, now you're talking six to eight inches has fallen and we're going to be adding more on top of it, the green color right through here. these are all areas under a flood watch. meeting conditions are capable of seeing some of those flooding. the red color indicates active flooding that is ongoing camps. so we've got the flooding components the tornado component, and still the wind component, even though it's made landfall, we are still expecting impacts the next 24 hours alright, we'll stay on top of it. >> thanks so much, allison chinchar. appreciate that for us. >> we'll call a county is on the coast just south of

tallahassee, miles of hurricane helene's impact predicted a storm surge up to 20 feet in the area. now, even though the strongest part of helene has now passed and weaken people are still being advised to shelter in place. and one county official told cnn, there were fears that storm surge could push water 20 miles from the coast and joining me now is captain jeffrey yarbrough from the wakulla county, florida sheriff's office. thank you so much for being here with us. so just take us through how bank ad was it when it passed through thankfully, we actually were able to skirt kind of the worst of it in the most dire predictions that were given for our community, given the fact that the storm shifted eastward as it came in the storm surge, predictions that we were giving yesterday or the day before yesterday, never really play materialized because of the side of the storm that we ended up on. all right. so that is good news. i understand for you guys the plan was to hunker

down there on the sheriff's office is it still too dangerous for first responders to move around outside or because you kind of missed the worst of it, are people doing rescues and risk? bonding and so on yes. >> in the last 30 to 45 minutes, our deputies and first responders and started going out because we didn't really deal that we know over the a lot of flooding or storm surge issues. we're dealing with a lot of downed trees, trees, and power lines and we're currently working on kind of marking all that and flying it so that we can get began to get the roadways opened up and get people back, moving and coming home as they see fit? yeah. how how far away is that? because a lot of people must have left to underline how serious you guys were taking this. i understand this was the first time in more than 30 years that you ordered county-wide evacuation, right yeah, it does appear that that the evacuation order was heated by the majority of the citizens here, and we certainly appreciate that.

>> we're not going to know the full extent of property damage and or even the full extent of the downed trees in our community till the sun comes up. but we're, we're working to get that taken care of as quickly as possible. >> yeah. so what are your priorities then? once the weather really relents and i assume things are easier to see getting the main thoroughfares through our community opened up so that other assistance can come in such as the power companies, national guard, or the third party organizations that may, that can come in and offer assistance. >> the main goal is to get those main arteries opened up and then we'll work into residential areas, working to clear those areas. next, with all those trees it's down and so on. are there lots of folks without power right now yeah, large force of our community is without power currently but thankfully, that appears to be some of the worst effects that we're seeing county-wide i made aware to this point of any large scale property damage or any injuries and anything that

proceeded with the storm so far yeah. i mean, just looking at what was predicted and sort of what actually happened. obviously, you're not fully out of the woods yet. and as you said, you'll have to see once day breaks the full extent, but you must be really sort of breathing a sigh of relief that you weren't hit as bad as you thought yeah, very much so you know, we're very thankful that the community heated our warnings, but we're also extremely thankful that it turned out the way it did unfortunately, our neighbors to the east of us took the brunt of the storm. and this is their third major storm. and unless they a calendar year and that it's unfortunate, but our community is largely skirted the worst of it. >> yeah. >> it's still good to know that so many people were listing and sort of getting people out of harm's way is probably going to help things come daybreak when you need to get the first responders and all the power companies in there and everything. certainly hoping that you get a rapid

return to normalcy as fast as possible, really appreciate you taking the time this morning is speak to us with so much going on, captain jeffrey yarbrough in we'll call a florida. thank you so much. >> thank you paul. >> cameras capture the extreme effects as hurricane helene makes landfall in florida will have more of the dramatic footage when we come back, stay with us losing weight and keeping same, discover the power of week-old what we go i lost 35 pounds and some lost over 46 pounds. >> we go and i'm keeping the weight off. >> we go via helps you lose weight and keep it off i'm reducing my risk. >> we gouvia is the only fda approved weight management medicine that's proven to reduce risk of major cardiovascular events dealt with no disease and with either

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surge from hurricane helene is causing hazardous conditions across the state desantis also says florida has resources in place to immediately respond to the aftermath of the hurricane. areas the state is ready as soon as this storm passes and it's safe to do so to commence search and rescue operations, we have 3,500 national guardsman standing by. >> we have our state guard standing by. we have state troopers standing by and they will be active if need be i know we have a lot of our local first responders are going to be ready to be able to be on scene as well as needed helene made landfall a few hours ago as a category four hurricane in florida's big bend region and storm chaser, logan parham joins us now on line from perry, florida. >> thanks so much for being here with us. so i understand stand that the hurricane made landfall around where you were near perry, so what was that like yes. so it came in right

here on the gulf coast we actually ended up in the dead center of the eye. so we actually had a temporary calm. you can see the skies a you know a little couple of stars, but a clear skies. it was pretty intense. honestly, the bakaj wall was a little bit on the less intense side. nonetheless gusty, but a lot drier. however, that first eyewall was really, really ripon, definitely some pretty intense gust through there so a couple of moments. yeah, it was it was a little bit dicey, but nonetheless, we'd gotten to that. i and we got through it in terms of you're talking about the wind and gusts and so on. >> i mean, did you see any damage? >> oh, yeah. yeah. we so unfortunately, the taylor county sheriff's office here, they're not not really too fond a storm chasers for whatever reason or anybody for that matter, it doesn't seem

like so we're just kind of hanging out in the same spot that we've been at. however, i did drive around just a little bit right during the eye and right after the back eyewall calm down and there's a lot of damage. there was a tool fed in the middle of a road just flipped over signs laid out. lots and lots of tree damage, power lines all over the place. so just you kind of standard hurricane damage. >> i think maybe daily flight might reveal more it's just too dark right now without power to determine anything else. yeah. you can understand how the authorities wouldn't want civilians sort of driving around in these conditions you were talking about sort of standard hurricane damage. obviously you've been through a bunch of them. how bad? was this compare to what you've seen before yeah, quite a number. >> quite a number the wind wise, i think wind wise, this definitely was closing in on two type of weapon that we saw

with hurricane ian, for example maybe not quite to that extent, but definitely nearing those types of speeds, especially in that first eyewall that was just quite the blast definitely worse than a dahlia in my opinion, dahlia was a pretty rough storm, but this will be the benchmark storm for this region. >> the big bend for probably quite a long time and nonetheless, a very historic impact for this area, especially. >> yeah, and we can only hope that there won't be a huge financial impact. we know that say idalia caused a lot of damage and recovery will take a long time. what do you expect in trouble? just how long it'll take to get everything back, including power and so on so florida than amazing state. >> we always make sure here that we wouldn't get going back to normal as soon as possible. and, you know, usually they do a pretty good job of that around these areas.

so i don't think it'll take too too long. >> power outage wise. i think that may be a wild just because this storm at such a large wind field and it also was moving very quickly. so those winds were spread out over a huge area and they had the ability to move farther than just coastal or near coastal areas. so these winds moved deeper into the state of florida even. into the state of georgia and causing some serious power outage issues i have no clue yet on the condition of towns out there toward the coast like steen hatchie horse beach, those types of areas. but i do know the surge was really bad out there. so tomorrow we'll be doing helping with recovery every efforts and getting to the bottom of what exactly these areas will need. >> yeah. just before you came on, we were showing some pictures from steinhatchee looked pretty hectic with stuff flying around everywhere there and we're seeing pictures of storm surge and so on. just as a storm chaser, i mean, i

imagine you must we used to use sort of ride through these as a matter, of course, but i mean, do you ever get worried as the we're seeing the pictures of just how bad the winds were and so on. i mean, it just as a visceral experience, i mean, it would just must be awesome to experience that the power of nature. but frightening as well it is, it is, it can be a little bit frightening. >> i think honestly a big part of it is just the nerves. the nerves of going into it. that's the main thing but once you get there, usually you want to have a good game plan. a vehicle loaded with supplies anytime you chasing hurricane especially you want to have at least 33 days to a full week's worth of supplies with you just having a good game plan, having a spot that you can shelter a plan a and plan b all the way down to z. that way you're ensuring that you're protecting yourself and others around you all the way through the journey

of a hurricane. but it is a very crazy experience. however, definitely, definitely had quite the number of them now, so the one thing i can say that i can't stress enough and i think hopefully a lot of the united states now and hopefully the world understands about these storms especially after what helene is done, is that no storm is the same as another yeah. >> exactly. right. listen, there's still plenty of after effects, flooding and down power lines and so on. so do stay safe out there. storm chaser, logan, parham. thank you so much. >> absolutely. thank you, guys helene is moving north after landfall now, rolling through southern georgia and officials say helene has already turned deadly, killing two people here in georgia caught in a tornado related to the storm another. >> person was killed in florida. i want to assign crashed down on their car in the tampa area. officials in

georgia's loudness county are urging residents to shelter in place for now as power outages skyrocket in the area forecasters say helene is still dangerous even though it has weakened to a category one storm earlier, a top of it official from the national hurricane center explain what people could face in the coming hours and days you gotta be ready to go for long periods of time without power this part of the country has a really dense, beautiful tree canopy. >> those trees are like sales if you will, they catch the wind when they come down really easily. and then with all this rain, especially this pre-existing rain, that makes the roots sort of softens the soil and the roots of the trees can't hold as well as they would normally. so we're just going to have widespread tree, tree out at trees down and power outages who people have got to be ready to take he 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 an 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 alright, still ahead. >> hurricane helene maybe weakening, but it's still poses life-threatening danger and its aftermath will be felt for a long time. our coverage continues next, stay with us i'm nfl hall of famer, dan marino. you know, i used to be afraid of things like defensive lines losing games. but what's insane is that years later by biggest fear became trying to fall asleep. but the insanity stop. ryan learned about relaxing them sleep. i started sleeping again first night while i might not be worried about winning games anymore, i still want to perform at the top of my game. relax him sleep completely changed how i live my life, and it will change yours to join the hundreds of

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danger to millions of people in the southeastern us storm is moving quickly northeast over the state of georgia and towards the carolinas resonance faced torrential rain, rapid flooding, and possible tornadoes in the coming hours ahead the storm is blamed for at least three deaths in georgia and florida, and rescues are ongoing officials are bracing for unprecedented flooding and catastrophic damage in some areas from the sunrises in just a few hours. helene made a historic landfall late thursday night, hitting florida's big bend region as a massive category four hurricane, larger than country now in 2005 nasa captured this view from space cnn's ivan rodriguez is live in tallahassee. so listen, i understand that you're getting some updates now about damage there. what more can you tell us? >> we'll look, kim, right now, damage here where we are in leon county doesn't seem to be a very extensive not when we're

comparing it to other hard-hit counties throughout the state of florida. here, specifically, conditions in terms of whether they've really calmed down a lot, the wind is the only thing that's left behind. but at this point, it just comes in in terms of waves. it might be a little strong and then it might calm down for the next several minutes. the rain has been gone now for at least 30. but when i am looking around into other counties throughout florida, there are beginning to report some early it damages and those early assessments coming in to highlight a few, for example, suwanee county sheriff officials there say quote, were fearing for the worst when the sun comes up there in that county there saying that there is extreme destruction reported in the area extensive damage. they say reported along the western side of the county trees falling on homes also causing 100% outages throughout

that county. is in sarasota county as well. we're talking about bridges that are not passable because of severe flooding. the mayor of sarasota, we heard heard from them and they say that they haven't seen anything like this since they've lived in sarasota for the last more than 20 years. so really when the sun comes up, we're going to see the full picture here of all the damage that was caused throughout the state of florida. and we know it is going to be very extensive seeing the images of storm surge in some communities, very high flooding homes. so it's going to be a very hard situation for many families and these communities throughout florida in all of this is what we're talking about as the hurricane continues its path northward heading in to georgia and all the destruction we could possibly see in that area as well. >> appreciate that update. ivan rodriguez in tallahassee, florida. thank you so much. i

want to bring in cnn meteorologist allison chinchar listen, we knew that the number of people without power throughout the hours would be going up and i just saw update on the numbers. what more can you tell us? >> right? yeah. and that's gonna be one thing. it's made landfall. it's not over yet. we're going to start to see certain things actually get worse before they get better and power outages is one of them so this is the recap of the actual event. again, you can see the landfall for this particular storm is along the big bend region at 11:10 p.m. local time. there the wind speed at landfall was 140 miles per hour. so a category four storm there, it has since weakened to a category one storm. power outages are going to continue to expand this. so again, as we mentioned, even though it's made landfall, some of these numbers are actually going to get worse, were out to 1.8 million customers without power. and i wanted to keep note too notice states like tennessee, kentucky have yet to really see an increase in those are going to cut a later into the day to day. yet a lot of the numbers in florida are not necessarily going to go down very quickly.

it could be days before some of these folks end up getting their power restored. so here's a look at where the storm is right now. sustained winds of 80 miles per hour, still gusting a little bit higher than that again, you can see the storm continuing to slide up into portions of georgia taking with it those hurricane force winds, you're still going to see a lot of these very gusty winds, not just there, but say like making augusta, even atlanta, going to look at some of those wind gusts around 60 to 80 miles per hour before it finally slides up into tennessee and kentucky he when it does, it's expected to just meander there for a little while. that means it could have a lot of time to dump a tremendous amount of water. we talked about the wins because it's so strong so far inland, look at some of these numbers. now, obviously the highest was at landfall the town of perry picking up a wind gust of 99 miles per hour, but others states not just florida, but also georgia, looking at some of these, at least hurricane strength, wind gusts, 75 miles per hour, or even higher. but keeping know that some of these are several miles

inland, these aren't all right. there on the water, rainfall totals have also been pretty significant so far in florida, georgia, north carolina, south carolina, all all of these areas looking at pretty intense for most of these areas, it's at least a month's worth of rain. some communities have had two months of rain, including a city like asheville, north carolina, which has also picked up a tremendous amount of rain in just the last 48 hours. here's a look at the radar. we also have a tornado warning in effect across one portion of south carolina that has been the pattern over the last 24 to 48 hours. it's going to continue to be the pattern for the next 24 hours. that's why you have a tornado watch in effect for portions of florida, georgia, and the carolinas. this includes cities like charlotte, charleston, all the way down into jacksonville, florida. most of these are still in effect for another 2.5 hours, but some of them are likely to be extended. it would not surprise me if some of these continued to go out several more hours through the morning because the potential is there. this is the risk for severe weather going forward

today, especially after say about seven or 8:00 in the morning charleston, charlotte, raleigh, norfolk, virginia. all of these areas have the potential for some tornadoes as we go go through the rest of the day. so certainly something to keep a close eye on. >> yeah, absolutely. now, listen talking to various officials throughout florida, some were saying listen, we're breathing a sigh of relief. it wasn't as bad as we thought others saying, this is literally the worst we've ever seen. it's tough to say now because we haven't seen the full extent of the damage but just what's your sense of how this compares to other recent hurricanes, right? >> and so one thing to note too, is that you get these wobbles with the hurricanes and sometimes even if it wobbles, say a good 20 or 30 miles, that can make a huge difference. one community may say, oh, we got lucky. it wobbles a little bit farther east, but the community he then that it was doubled closer to ends up taking a little bit of harder hit. so you're going to see that and i really don't think we're going to get the scope of that damage in which cities were hit

hardest until we get into daylight hours and we can really get a better understanding of this, but yes, some of these areas kim were hit last year by idalia and the year before by ai so again, you've got some of these areas that it's been back-to-back storms year after year? yeah. >> really unfortunate. alright. we'll have to leave it there. thank you so much, allison chinchar. i really appreciate it joining me now with more. >> i want to bring in coal washco public information officer for sarasota county, florida emergency management thank you so much for being here. with us so as we were just hearing there from allison, it's passing through florida now coming up here to georgia. so where you were at its worst how bad was it are short and will firsthand. >> thank you very much for having me on this storm. obviously, it was predicted by the national weather service to really just be a gigantic storm that really was going to bring a lot of wind and a lot of rain. and we're still seeing that as the storm is moving northeast. but once we saw well, the predictions from the

national weather service, we knew that it was time to strap in and we immediately activated our jack or joint information center, as well as our emergency operations center and we immediately started staging emergency response equipment public works and our public utilities departments started making their ways to different spots throughout the county to really prep. they're different operations. there are different procedures and really just make sure that we were prepared for this storm, but it really did dump a lot of rain. and throughout the county and we're seeing at a minimum of six feet of storm surge, which is exactly what was predicted by the national weather service. >> well, so six feet of storm surge we're talking about the wind, the rain. what is the biggest threat are concern right now sure. >> sure. we'll obviously i think what's most important is first is lifesaving operations, right? it's we, we care about our community members. we care about the residence of florida, and that's always going to be the most in playing. so really right now that's our focus at

this point, is lifesaving operations. but obviously, once we get into tomorrow morning and we get some more daylight and that water recedes. we can really start to get our hands on. what are we dealing with? what is this damage look like? and how can we best help our community get back up on their feet yeah, you'll have to wait for daybreak to it's a really do that damage assessment, but so far this with what you've seen, how does it compare to other storms? >> say to hurricane idalia or ian? >> sure. sure. >> well, you know, obviously we live in florida and we are no strangers to these hurricanes unfortunately, it's just the price for paradise. they say. but all of these storms, every storm is different. some storms or rainmakers some storms have a lot of storms from surge or they have heavy winds. so this storm really, it's a lot of people are saying reminds them of irma and hurricane michael. so we really just tried to take

as much precaution as we could as soon as we saw these predictions come in. and we started putting out messaging for evacuation centers and evacuating certain levels throughout our county. just to make sure that our residents really understood what we were going to be up against adding to the difficulties of course, there's something like 1 million customers without power in the state what is the power situation there where you are? >> sure. sure. so we still do have some community members throughout the county that are without without power, just like in many other counties throughout florida on fortunately. but again, as tomorrow comes around, as that daylight perfect presents itself and those water levels proceed recede rather there we can really get are team members out there? >> members of our public utilities some of these different utility companies can come out as well. and i know that we have different volunteers and such from even out of out of out-of-state, as

well as some of our other local resources and federal resources that are really all going to ban together as one team in one community. and help get this power back online and help build our community backup. >> so still a long way to go, even though the storm itself might be passing by, what is your message? finally, to folks out there right now in your community? unity >> sure. we'll my my main message would be, even though we're not we still have this storm around, but you got to stay where you're at a shelter in place, do not go walking through those floodwaters there's reports of downed trees, downed power lines, et cetera. >> and when you're walking around in these waters, you may not know what's in them. and we really just want our community members and all of florida to stay safe, stay vigilant, and stay updated. there's a plethora of information, both from sarasota county in many of the other great counties in florida. and i just highly recommend that community members keep that

knowledge and stay safe and i'll just echo that message to your community members end to you, yourself cold washco, stay safe. really appreciate you joining us. thank you so much. >> yes thank you so much, kim, really appreciate it. >> all right and we'll be right back, please do stay with cnn newsroom walz and j.d. vance in their first and only faced please debate. and cnn has covered with the best political team in the business a cnn special event. but vice presidential debate, tuesday at nine on cnn do you have a policy, you no longer need now, you can sell your policy even a term policy for an immediate cash payment, call coventry direct to learn more. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement but we quickly realized we needed a way to supplement her income our friends sold their policy to help pay their medical bills that it got me thinking it'd be selling our policy could help with all retirement. >> i'm skeptical so i did some

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following developments from abu dhabi. paula, lots of confusion here. so do we know where things stand a ceasefire proposal that the u.s. >> just announced and there's ten countries across the world behind this proposal as well. and the way that senior us officials were putting this to us was that this had been seen by both sides. so by hezbollah and by israel thrilled that's that it was an optimistic reception that this was going to be publicized but then we did see the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu throwing cold water on it. there were reports that there was an imminent ceasefire to be signed and he rejected those through the prime minister's office saying that they are simply incorrect also pointing out that he's pushing the idf, the israeli military, to continue what they are doing is southern lebanon fighting with

full force. now, there was some confusion among the biden administration at these comments. there was somewhat of an assumption that it may have been more for a domestic audience. the fact that the far right elements of netanyahu's coalition, did not want this ceasefire to go ahead, that he has in the past that to make sudden announcements and decisions, it's believed to try and keep that coalition together and the more far right elements could potentially walk if this ceasefire were to go ahead and that would collapse his coalition. but there has been clarification from the prime minister's office saying that there are discussions that this is an ongoing process. so it doesn't appear to be as imminent as we may have believed it to be about 24 hours ago. we do hear from the prime minister's office that netanyahu appreciates the us led efforts, and we also know that netanyahu is currently in new york. he postponed his trip

because of what is happening in the region. but he is now in new york. he will be speaking at the united nations general assembly on friday is one of the first speakers. so friday morning in new york, we will hear from him and we are likely to hear more about what is happening in lebanon against hezbollah. we are likely to hear from the prime minister about what is happening in gaza as well so these discussions are still ongoing behind the scenes. but what we are hearing from the israeli military side is that they are preparing potentially for a ground offensive. we have heard it from numerous military officials the defense minister, the chief of staff of the idf, the head of the air force that this but we have seen in over the past few days and the past week, in fact, as being an aerial bombardment preparing for a potential ground offensive can or hancocks

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grounds here that was jules carl was hunkering down with her husband and three kids in steinhatchee, florida. >> she says this is the seventh hurricane she has written out since moving to the state a decade ago, including one last year when she was pressed helene is moving through the southeastern us now a category one storm, it slammed into florida's big bend coastal area with 140 miles per hour winds, the strongest hurricane on record to hit the region officials in at least one county of asked residents who didn't evacuate to write their name and date of birth on their leg in order to identify them we just need to ensure that in unlikely event that fatalities happen, that we can do the job that we need to do when we begin our you saw operations. >> we sent out information on social media for folks to send us an email that they are not evacuating to. let us know where they're at.

>> how many people are in the home that sort of information. >> and it's just very disconcerting that so many people have not heeded the warnings currently, helene has winds of 90 miles per hour. it's expected to continue causing damage as it passes through central and north georgia in the coming hours officials in lee county in southwest florida posted this dramatic video on social media it shows marine deputies performing a boat rescue in fort myers beach on thursday, sheriff calls a resident resin. the chef's the sheriff rather says a resident called emergency services, asking to be saved from rising waters at his home and marine deputies were able to get them using the rescue boats resident is said to be doing well and helene is creating travel nightmares for some airline passengers close to 1,300 flights coming into or originating in the u.s. were canceled yesterday or more than 5,800 were delayed according to the tracking website,

flightaware, the most affected airports courts are in the southeastern us website says close to 600 flights so far have been canceled today with over 300 delayed alright. i'm kim brunhuber in atlanta max foster will have more of cnn's breaking news coverage of hurricane helene, right after a break, statements watching in then are world changed. tv on the edge sunday at nine on cnn if you have chronic kidney disease, you can reduce the risk of kidney failure with parsi because they are places you'd like to be for secret can cause serious side effects, including

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