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warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the u.s. >> and around the world. i'm max foster. it is friday, september the 27th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in the florida big bend region where hurricane helene has made landfall overnight sweeping across the coast as an extremely dangerous category four hurricane, with winds of 100 140 miles per hour. it's now weakened, but continues to unleash life-threatening storm surge, flooding, rains, and destructive winds across the southeast helene out power to more than 2 million homes and businesses in florida, georgia, and the carolinas won florida sheriff says they're fearing the worst when the sun comes up and tallahassee's mayor says his city has never seen a storm like it none of us have experienced a category four hurricane this close to tallahassee this is a historic storm for us right now, everyone stay safe. shelter in place, stay home about 40

people have been rescued from rising water in pasco county, just north of tampa. and rescues are still underway at the hotel in manatee county, were also evacuated. big deteriorating conditions class at least three people have been killed as the storm continues to pummel the southeast too, in georgia ban in florida not only do are we seeing it hit landfall here in northern florida, you are still seeing surge and water rising in parts of florida, far south from the big bend area so you look at southwest florida, you look at the tampa bay area you're seeing really significant 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're covering the storm from all angles. cnn's ivan rodriguez is live in tallahassee, florida. but first, we're going to go to cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is tracking helene. and where it's heading. >> yeah, that's right. i think the key component here is that just because it has made landfall does not mean this storm is over. in fact, we are still yet to seen some of the worst impacts for a few states. in particular, right now, you can see the center of the storm is located just over portions of south central georgia, sustained winds of 80 miles per hour, still gusting higher than that. the storm has already knocked out a tremendous amount of power. we're talking 1.8 million customers so far, some of those in florida, it will be dating he's before they get their power back. other states like tennessee and kentucky have yet to really see their numbers tick up because the worst of those conditions is not get there. you can see here the storm is expected to go back down to a tropical storm likely cover between augusta and atlanta. this morning and then continuing its trek up into tennessee and kentucky, were then it will hover over

the states and that's unfortunate because it means it will have a lot of time to dump a tremendous amount of rain for some of these areas and some places have had plenty of rain so far. look at this florida, georgia, north carolina, all of them having at least some spots pick up at least a foot of rain so far and more rain may be exception to that would be florida, but for georgia, the carolinas, more rain is still yet to come. the other thing has been the wind gusts. perry, florida, where it was very close to where the landfall took place wind gust of 99 miles per hour, douglas, georgia, which for reference is more than 90 miles away from the coast. this is well inland having a wind speed of 92 miles per hour. again, this is not on the water. this is well inland here you can see we've got that rotation still of the storm, the bulk of the heavy rain really over spreading, making augusta atlanta right now, we also have several tornado warnings right there along the coast, just south of charleston, south carolina, and

tornado warnings are going to continue. in fact, you can see the tornado watches in effect for portions of florida, georgia, and the carolinas. many of these do not expire for at least another two hours, which would be 6:00 a.m. local time. but some of them might actually be extended into further hours just because the potential is really going to be there in some of the he's communities throughout the day today, especially for the carolinas and even portions of virginia, norfolk, all the way down to charleston, looking at the potential there for some tornadoes today. and that's going to last through the afternoon hours. rain is also going to continue because it's not just going to end quickly. this is a look of the scope of how much rain in his already fallen. again, you can see here that yellow and orange color indicating at least widespread four to six inches. but we have had numerous places that have pickup 1012, even 14 inches of rain. the green color indicates a flood watch, meaning flooding is the og, the potential is there for flooding today, the red areas indicate were flooding is already ongoing,

max. so again, this is going to be a two-fold here. so yes, even though the storm itself has made landfall, it's not over yet in the worst is yet to come for some of these communities allison. >> thank you so much. let's go to one of those communities. cnn's ivan rodriguez is live in tallahassee in florida. whether extremely concerned, are they ivan about this surge max. good morning surge was a massive conversation for so many communities across the state of florida here in tallahassee, also a big conversation was also how damaging the wind was going to be we were expecting early are today direct hit possible? here in tallahassee wind speeds up to 110 miles per hour and the damage we could see because of that, i can tell you though umax, we haven't seen any extensive damage so far. so a lot of people waking up this morning here in tallahassee are very thankful that that trajectory shifted a little bit more eastward and tallahassee

was able to stay a little west from the eyewall of helene. so not seeing many downed trees or power lines here, but again, this is just one county many other counties are reporting early assessments of damage. we know in suwanee county, you mentioned earlier sheriff office, there is hoping that they don't see too much damage when the sun does come out, there already asking for people and folks to prepare for what could be extensive damage. we know that they've already reported trees that have fallen on top of homes also extensive damage to people's property operating in other counties in sarasota county, for example, there are some pieces of land, some islands that are no longer accessible because the waters have risen so much, bridges are no longer accessible to many emergency crews. people are going to have to wait for that water to recede sarasota's mayor says that this she bullies thieves, is the worst

storm that the city has seen in more than a century. so again, a lot of these communities are going to be waking up to a lot of destruction and devastation and all of this is what we're talking about as helene continues making its way northward. and max here where we are in tallahassee, many students with university campuses also were sheltering in place. we know that they sheltered in place in a conference centers specifically here at florida state university that they said was prepared to handle and withstand these hurricane force winds across leon county where we are more than 1,700 people sheltered here as well tallahassee, it is good news, but we are waiting to see those images are this morning and other areas okay. >> and that's good news, at least. thank you so much, ivan. more than 2 million customers are without power across florida, georgia, and the carolinas. but i think as according to poweroutage.us, an organization that collects live data from the utilities a local news station caught the moment

the power went out in a neighborhood in northern florida. residents in southern georgia are being asked to shelter in place as trees and power lines are down from hurricane helene, georgia is taking the brunt of the storm now that it's center is out of florida forecasters say helene sustained winds are down to 80 miles, but they say dangerous winds, rain, flooding, and tornadoes because still, of course, plenty of damage. this thready blame for two deaths in georgia and one in florida. we're joined now on the phone by bill mcintosh, the mare mulderry, georgia or the town is located about 14 miles 64 kilometers from florida's border. and as ivan was describing, you don't quite know where the eye of this storm is going to end up. how are you doing where you are? >> we are was settled down now the storm has passed us and we had prepared very well for a big storm unfortunately i know

there's damage and a lot of different places, but we have about thousand people in our community without power williams are down some trees, some trees are streets are blocked, but fortunately, we seem to have missed the big, the big blow that we were expecting that we were preparing for. so we feel like we've been very fortunate yeah, that's good news. what are you hearing from your counterparts in other areas well, it looks like we can sit other areas around us were hit much harder than we were to the east of us. >> valdosta, places like that, who have unfortunately, who recently had gone through the same thing and but so we feel like we've been very blessed that we were prepared, but we didn't have what we thought we were going to get. >> so still gusty here in and raining.

>> we had six inches of rain last night. and the problem is that we are extremely agricultural. that's the backbone of america economy and wednesday night, we had a six inches of rain in which the trees, tremendous pine trees in our area. and that's what we really afraid to. >> the roots of these trees were so we're going to have a lot of downed trees, but it doesn't look like that happened. >> but it is the harvest season. it is a time for that's we depend on cotton, peanuts, things like that. and we were the farmers were really going to be devastating is there and i'm sure there's some damage now. even even now yes. the economic damage really is only going to become a parent, isn't it? when the sun is up and those farmers get out there and look at their fields right? >> that's going to be able to really tell was happening because hand seeing anything now, but when we get up in the morning, i'm sure we're going to clash and some real

surprises as far as it seems like we missed it to the worst agree. but i'm sure there's a lot of a lot of damage. it's going to be a parent in the morning. >> i know that in some areas, people were advised to write their names and dates of birth on their arms, which is frightening advice but this is sort of where you've got to, isn't that you can only prepare people so much. and i guess it pushes the message home that this is a very serious situation. you should not go out well, i think that people i think the news, especially it was very imperative about that. i think people really were paraded this front storm and we're duly prepared to undergo a really bad situation, worse than we did so we it could have been a whole lot worse and cause i really don't know. we get out in the morning to see really how bad it was using

these storms get worse every year where is safe to be, you know, in the past, we've we've had a hurricane michael which was extremely devastating to area and it could have been a lot worse in our county, but it and especially to the agriculture that was a real disaster. but and it just seems like they get bigger. >> and they were when i was growing up i grew up here in moultrie and we hardly ever had a hurricane when it seemed like the last few years that's been the norm. but we've been very fortunate not to have been really blasted by any any particular hurricane to this point okay. >> bill mcintosh of moultrie, georgia, really appreciate your time. thank you. and good luck with your work as the sun comes up there. >> thank you very much now, in north carolina, the popular tourist city of asheville was inundated by torrential downpours even before hurricane helene's landfall

torrent of water rushing down the swannanoa river on thursday five, department made several water rescues overnight potholes have also opened up due to the heavy rainfall posing a danger to both evacuees and first responders. >> the ground around asheville is already soaked after more than ten inches, 250 millimeters of rain in the previous storm that has officials worried about landslides and buildings collapsing due to compromised foundations. will have much more on hurricane helene after a quick break, our climate expert will explain how a storm builds a such a massive size and strength heartburn, how do you spell relief or aids? >> rolaids do active formula begins to neutralize acid on congress rolle's spills relief i won't let my moderate to

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the storm surge could push water 20 miles from the coast due to helene's massive size and powerful winds water levels have reached record-breaking levels in areas that are not even close to the storm's so-called eyewall and the national hurricane center is warning people not to go outside when they're inside the eyewall and it depends. while it becomes relatively calm in the eyewall and it can be deceptive. they say dangerous winds will increase very quickly once the eye passes. chris gloninger is a meteorologist and climate scientists and he's new york for climate week. thank you so much for joining us. we can emphasize too much, can't we the size of the storm where it actually hits because it's often the after effects that have the true impact that's right now x. >> and if you look at the storm when it was about 150 miles away from a fort myers in leake county, for example, there were parts of captiva fort myers,

santa bell, st. james city that had three feet of water over normally dry ground? so that just shows the magnitude and the scope and size of this storm. you go up to cedar key, they had about a nine foot storm surge and even there that was far removed from the eyewall as it came ashore. know we transition from a storm surge and wind impact to a flash flooding impact with nearly three 30 inches rather of rain across parts of the carolinas and all the way through tennessee, max i'll speak to a sheriff earlier in a rural area of georgia. >> he says they weren't hit as badly as they thought, but they do have a lot of fear about the crops in that area because they're all going to be a flooded. he also described how he grew up in that area and he couldn't really remember any hurricanes as a kid, but he's getting them all the time now that's what you really have to look at when you look at the

bigger picture of all of this, the gulf of mexico is warmer, not just the surface, but all the way down to the ocean floor. >> that's called the ocean heat content. and typically storms turn the ocean into a washing machine and the cold air mixes up to the surface it weakens the hurricane before it makes landfall. but this just isn't happening anymore because of climate change. those ocean water temperatures are warm all the way down to the ocean floor. so these storms intensify right up until landfall, and they maintain at least hurricane status. well, inland, this is our new normal. >> the gulf of mexico, the warmth that we're currently seeing, 300 times more likely because of climate change and that is using attribution science and for every one degree of warming, we see max, the atmosphere holds 7% more moisture. it manifests in 30 inches of rain when you have a storm come ashore sure. it was moving fast, but then it stalls out across tennessee they don't have to do they don't have to be huge.

>> to those, of course, a lot of damage because when you talk about that increasing number of storms coming in, the ground becomes waterlogged and when you're talking about these rural areas, the crops can't just don't get a chance and if you think back to hurricane florence, which was supposed to be a major hurricane at landfall the weekend too, about a category one north carolina. and then it just jumped feet of rain in the upstate. so to your point, it doesn't have to do at that point with hurricane intensity. just an atmosphere that's a lot warmer, holds a lot more moisture comes out in the form of very heavy rain. so again, another sign of a changing climate is that we have these storms, not even that are very strong, but produce a whole lot of water but just take us through this warning that they put out to people they find themselves in the eye of the storm because people who haven't experienced this would assume it would be pretty frightening. >> it's actually not at all, is it? that's probably the campus place you can be. we still need to stay indoors it is.

>> and now again, on the east coast, we are in the overnight and you may not see the sun's sunshine, which you typically see during the eye of a strong hurricane. but it will get eerily quiet. >> but know that you're only halfway through that storm. >> and then the backend usually catches people off guard because there's the slow buildup when you see a hurricane moving ashore. but when you are on the backside of the eye, it goes from zero to 60 within seconds, you don't have that buildup and that is why max, it is incredibly dangerous to venture outside during that brief law that intermission in in-between the two acts, so to speak. >> okay. chris gloninger really appreciate your time and your insights this morning. thank you for that more than 2 million customers are without power across florida, georgia, and the carolinas. that's a figure we got from power outage us, an organization that collects live data from utilities retired army lieutenant general russel un already says it's going to be a difficult task. restoring

power to those affected states are you talking about between the latter and tampa as 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 back up get the roads cleared and get the infrastructure stood back up ryan young, keeping an eye on conditions in atlanta where the storm is heading, what's the atmosphere like there because it's about to hit, isn't it? absolutely is. and now it's about a watch and wait. we already know about five inches of rain has already been in the atlanta area that was from an earlier front that moved through this week. so the ground is already saturated and for those folks who live in in georgia, it's been very dry here. in fact, it's always been 30 days since there has been a substantial rain in this area. now with all this extra rain has been put on the ground,

people are concerned about all the trees that are in this area because people forget atlanta is a city built with inside before. so we have this much rain in a short given time. trees start to fall over and over again. we know the next four hours will be critical in this area. we're already starting to see some rescues of people in apartment complexes across the city because the flooding has already started. that's something that's obviously going to get worse as the hours go on. and in this city in particular, it's not built for heavy amounts rain to come in in a short period of time. we've seen flash flooding events in the last few years because of sudden rain. so when you talk about a slow moving hurricane, are something that could leave rain dropping hour after hour. that is a concern that even happens on the highway here in atlanta, where we have a heavy downpour of rain that just kinda pops out of the blue. so that's the concern right now when he turned in terms of trees falling, ponding, they're asking people to stay off the road. i've bolivia. the emergency channels so far

outside of that one apartment complex rescue, there hasn't been any big calls, right now and no large amounts of power outages in the metro atlanta area, but that could change very suddenly. >> people heaving advice and staying home, or are they taking the risk and going out? do you expect well, that's a great question. anybody who's been in atlanta before knows there's a place called the connector were a lot of traffic merging it is into one area. it's like three highways, basically burj together that area is basically shut down right now. we have not seen a lot of cars moving through the connector as we speak. we know there have been massive but amounts of cancellations at the airport. so it seems like people are saying inside, but as you know, is called the 7:00 a.m. hour when first light pops up, that's where people venture out. normally, hopefully they will heed the warning to stay inside because that's when the heavy parts of wind is expected to be in that area, you at the heavy wind plus all these large trees and the saturated ground that's when the issues could start. so

i'm hopefully will move through this time period without having massive amount of power outages. looking at the power company, they say they are ready to stand up crews to go out and take care of the trees and to get things back up and running obviously they wait to almost first daylight before putting their crews and danger that way. and even the mayor of the city of atlanta to talk about how they have a special operations center that's ready to go at a moment's notice when it comes to trying to save citizens who might be involved in a weather event ron young, thinking of you all there as the song comes in, thank you so much for joining us. >> hurricane helene may weaken, but it's not done yet. deadly conditions persist in many areas north ori is still don't know the full scope of the damage in the dark later, israel's prime i mean, is said will address the un general assembly amid the escalating conflict with hezbollah. i will have the latest on us led efforts to reach a ceasefire did you know taking xyz all at

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and stay safe 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 what we're going to bring in, cnn meteorologist allison chinchar, because obviously it's moving rapidly and we need to consider the aftermath and the storm surge as much as the storm itself. that's right. yeah. and the one thing to note is just because it has made landfall does not mean the storm is over. in fact, for some of these communities he's the worst is yet to come. we take a look at the current statistics with now 75 miles per hour sustained winds still

a category one hurricane, but we're continuing to see that gradual decrease in the wind speed as it continues to make its way inland, still moving north at about 30 miles per hour, that is incredibly fast for tropical cyclones, especially play this a low in latitude. again, you can see we are, we're going to start to see that westward curve back and that's going to then take a lot of the bulk of the rain with it back into states like tennessee and into kentucky. in the short term, however, still going to be producing wind gusts of 60 to 80 miles per hour for cities like macon, atlanta in augusta, georgia, as it continues to weaken off to the north. and when we talk about rainfall totals, there have been some substantial rainfall amounts already and it's not done yet. florida picking up over 15 inches of rain, portions of georgia and north carolina have had over a foot keeping in mind that those two states still have more rain that they are expecting for the day today, winds have also been very potent. take a look this perry, florida, that's near

the landfall location, wind gust of 99 miles per hour. other thing, douglas, georgia, that is 90 miles away from the coast, 90 miles. this is not a beachfront community they still had a wind gust of 90 miles per hour. here's a look at the storm again, you can see a lot of the bulk of that rain is really on the northern half of the storm. you've also got several tornado warnings as those little pink boxes you see there across south carolina, those are going to continue the throughout the day today, it's why we have a tornado watch in effect for portions of florida, georgia, as well as the carolinas. this includes cities like jacksonville, charlotte, and even charleston. all of these areas are still looking at this particular watch to stay valid for at least another hour-and-a-half, but it's very likely we're going to see additional tornado watches come out and extend that timeline. because the threat for tornadoes from virginia all the way down through south carolina exists through the day today. so that is not a threat that is going to go away anytime soon in terms of rainfall, we mentioned some of those totals,

but you can see here the mat version to show you how widespread some of this rain is. asheville, north carolina, which is in the western portion of the state. what hill away from the ocean has had a substantial amount of rain so far now we're going to be adding more rain on to it. that's why you can see all of these areas that are in green. that is a flood watch, meaning conditions. >> are there for potential flooding as we go through the day today, the red color that indicates flooding that is ongoing right now. >> so that's something we're going to have to keep a close eye on in the coming hours. max, allison. >> thank you. soon as ivan rodriguez is with us live from tallahassee, florida and it's not as bad as you thought there. but the areas surrounding you are really suffering here and tallahassee, you're breathing a sigh of relief. wee hours ago were expecting possibly a direct hit from the hurricane here in tallahassee and we were able to hear in this area stay a little bit west of the eyewall as a

trajectory continue to eastward here we still see some rain. we saw some wind throughout the last several hours. now you can see it's pretty much died down now, just a remnants of some when that still exist here throughout the city. but in terms of outages, we know as you mentioned, more than 1 million just in florida, a customer cameras are without power here in leon county. that number is right around 72,000 customers without power population size here in this counties, right around 300,000. so still a good amount of people here who are without power. but one thing that's going to make the restoration process easier is that the roads aren't massively blocked off because of fallen trees or down power lines. so crews, at least in this county will be able to get up here in the next couple of hours and get that power restoration of going. but we are getting more reports of rescues didn't other counties here in florida as well for

example, 65 people were learning have been rescued and more than 100 water rescue calls have come in in pass-go county. that's just north of tampa. the sheriff's office there a sheriff's office there says that rescue efforts remain ongoing so really the news that we're getting from a lot of these other communities and counties is not the best we all getting also reports from other counties in terms of the destruction and we're expecting it to be extensive once that sun is out, we're going to be able to really get that full extent of exactly what these communities are going to be dealing with in the hours to come here in tallahassee, were also big student population here is in place. they sheltered in place that university campuses across the city here as well for many of these students, it was their first time going through a hurricane. for example, max. so a very scary experience for them, but one, that they're happy now to be. on the other

side of okay. >> ivan in tallahassee. thank you so much for the update hurricane helene, freshwater surges and the terrier to levels never seen or experienced since records started being kept in 1950, at least five local areas had water levels almost two meters higher than normal high tide, sending water over bridges and roadways causing damage and closures tampa general hospital battles the flooding with an aquafence designed to hold back surges of up to 50 in feet. the massive size of the storm that levels were still rising as of late thursday evening northeast, some petersburg residents can't shower, flush toilets, or drain sinks for at least 48 hours. this after the city announced that power was cut, your water treatment facility cnn's carlos suarez reports from st. pete on the unprecedented storm surge pinellas county was hit hard by flooding here in st. petersburg. >> as you can see around me,

parts of the bay pushed out onto the street late thursday, a part of a dock and a seawall was damaged by the storm here and the power has been knocked out for parts of the county now, to the southwest of us in the city of gulfport four to eight feet of storm surge hit that part of the county as a result of the strong winds and some flooding several bridges that connect pinellas county to hillsborough and manatee county have closed. now, authorities tell us that they will reopen once the roads are deemed safe. again, the flooding we're told is not expected to recede until friday morning, and that's when we'll get a better look at the damage and the recovery for that lies ahead carlos suarez, cnn, st. petersburg, florida from about is the. >> sound of an evacuation alarm in manatee county, florida hotel guests that had to clear out when rising water threatening ramada inn where

they were staying, manatee county is located on florida's west coast between sarasota and hillsborough county counties. the local sheriff's office says the number of road closures across the county is rising due to flooding and storm damage but hurricane helene is barreling through georgia as it makes its way north. we'll have the latest on its record, landfall. and the damage along the florida the because donald trump has the best things to say about ukraine's president this week. but they're set to meet today in new york. details just ahead the wait is over. >> tim walz and j.d. vance in their first and only face-to-face to beat and cnn has covered with the best political team in the a cnn special event, the vice presidential debate. tuesday at nine on cnn

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across those two states. and the carolinas helene is expected to keep weakening but can still bring deadly winds, rain, flooding, and tornadoes israel's prime minister is brushing aside calls for a ceasefire in lebanon, as we've been discussing, vowing to fight hezbollah with full force israeli attacks on the group if killed more than 600 people, including many civilians, benjamin netanyahu is due to speak today at the united nations general assembly the us says it's still committed to achieving a ceasefire. mr. netanyahu's office says it's open to discussion police arrested several pro-palestinian protesters outside his hotel in new york. mr. netanyahu has delayed his trip a day to deal with the conflict with hezbollah the lebanese foreign minister use his platform and the general assembly to call for a ceasefire warning. the situation could soon spiral out-of-control cross-border fighting continues following the announcement of the u.s led proposal lebanese officials say

more than 100,000 people have been displaced, but the actual number is thought to be much closer to half 1 million hezbollah is now confirmed. the death of another senior commander video released by the israeli military purports to show the strike on southern beirut that killed him ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is expected to meet with former president donald trump today at trump tower. that comes on the back of the ukrainian leader's meeting with president biden, where the two men focus on new allowances for weapons on the battlefield to achieve victory today, we have in new us support package seven 7.9 billion. this will be a great help and i raised with and president biden plan of victory. today we are preparing to discard the details to strengthen the plan would be clear, russia will not prevail war russia will not prevail in ukraine and will continue to stand by you every step of the

way zelenskyy also met separately with vice president harris. >> they're meeting they're sick meetings since the war began harris spoke after the meeting about the importance of supporting ukraine history has shown us, if we allow aggressors like putin to take land with impunity they keep going and putin could set its sights on poland, the baltic states and other nato allies we also know that other there wouldn't be aggressors around the world are watching to see what happens in ukraine the more we're joined by melissa bell in paris, you could argue, couldn't you, melissa, but the meeting with donald trump is almost more important than the one with harris because we know how harris is going to deal with ukraine if she gets elected, but it's not very clare how donald trump well clearly a great deal of uncertainty about what would happen if donald trump takes the presidency for ukraine for

its continued funding has been one of the points of tension that we've seen over the last few months, pretty the republican party making it increasingly difficult for democrats to get the continued funding through. >> and of course, the barbed remarks that have been made at from donald trump these last few days towards president zelenskyy describing him as the greatest salesman on earth, even as he came to washington to get that latest bunch of funding, $7.9 billion that you heard just there. now it wasn't clear whether president zelenskyy would be meeting with donald trump. in fact, for awhile, present for the former president's campaign team and suggested that a meeting between the two men was highly unlikely. now we know that they will meet later today at trump tower. and even as he announced, donald trump explained once again that he believed he would bring a swift end to the war in ukraine i believe i will be able to make a deal between president putin and president zelenskyy quite

quickly but what does that look like what does that? >> i don't want to tell you what that looks like little on the specifics of what he mean, but he said he's made that claim of scope before of course max, as one european senior european diplomat, told me recently though he believes that there is no who deal in which moscow wins in the united states with things that he believed that reality would also catch up with donald trump should he come back to office. >> but again, a stark contrast between the position of the former president. i don't want to you heard just outlined by president biden and kamala harris. so this meeting tim, really interesting to see what comes out of it for the last few days we've heard donald trump criticizing president zelenskyy repeatedly and president zelenskyy saying that he doesn't believe in an interview that donald trump really has any idea of how he would bring the war to a swift end. so interesting to see what emerges, max okay, melissa, in paris. >> thank you so much. we'll be watching that one that's, been

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in with a kayak after hurricane helene hit. this is heller he's paddling inside his home with objects floating around him earlier, he spoke to cnn's laura coates about his experience amid rising water 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 stone 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 still

coming into your 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 watching it's it's not for some reason your house is flooded, right now 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 wonder i my heart is going out to you until many people, this must be representative of who we're 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 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 loss of power for now, but we're still kicking so good. why did you things and ride this out? you didn't think it was going to hit going to be this typical famous last words and they told us, we thought it was going to go west then stay out in the golf and we just didn't expect this much storm surge, but it was kind of like i really perfect storm, pardon my upon 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 still getting blasted here what a great attitude he's got to all, despite all that destruction. and we can now say that helene is now a tropical storm rather than a hurricane. so that's some good news, but it doesn't get rid of the concerns about storm surge and the like is creating a travel nightmares for some airline passengers close to 1,300 flights coming into or originating in the u.s. were canceled yesterday by more than

5,800 were delayed according to the tracking website, flightaware, the most affected airports are in the southeastern us, as you'd expect, the website says close to 600 flights so far have been canceled today with more than 300 delayed thanks for joining me here on cnn newsroom. i'm max foster, our coverage of tropical storm. now helene will continue on cnn this morning after the break watching and then are world change tv on the edge sunday at nine on cnn i'm interested in trying these new weight loss shots, but i made it to be more affordable because my insurance doesn't alvarez. i'm not sure which online providers to trust

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