we just spoke to the mayor, andre dickens a few minutes ago. he wants everyone to stay off the roads. there. eight inches of rain in atlanta, already several more inches of rain could fall, and that the flooding could continue even pass that that the ground is simply saturated. the mayor told me a tree fell in his yard as he was leaving this morning. you can see right there that car just covered in water up to its windshield, a dangerous situation in atlanta from helene, which is now a tropical storm, it's a storm that made landfall as a category four hurricane in the big bend of florida. but it has had hundreds and hundreds of miles of impact from southern florida where there was record breaking storm surge causing some beach and inland flooding. all the way up to now, asheville, north carolina, where we are seeing the banks of the pigeon river overflowing surging water there this morning. and we got an update just minutes ago from affiliate reporter rex hodge from w los water was coming up so quickly and rising and we did what we've been sayi

gathering additional information as is everyone else and then in a statement from atlanta mayor andre dickens, if you look at the middle of the state, he says the atlanta police department has been working with the atlantic public schools police department to bolster patrols around the schools for the rest of the day out of an abundance of caution. apd has also been on standby in case law enforcement agencies need assistance with this incident. it just gives you an idea that even though this is a shooting incident that took place in this small community of barrow county just outside the town of winder georgia, it is affecting the entire state of georgia and you have atlanta, this big urban center offering assistance but also responding, bolstering patrols around their own public, of course, is worried about copy caps and parents all over this nation are worried whenever anything horrible like this happens. back to you guys. >> john: it's john here. just a quick couple of things. school has been back since august 1st. they go back very early in the state of georgia. school has been marinating

place for atlanta, eight inches of rain there so far, several inches more expected the mayor, andre dickens told us moments ago, stay inside, do not go out on the road boats in atlanta right now because those pictures right there, that is what you will face rising dangerous waters you know what we're going to check in with florida governor ron desantis to get an update on what the storm did in this state. listen which took a similar track. it was similar strength, maybe a little bit weaker. but you are seeing significantly more stern storm surge in places like tampa bay. we're also saw major storm surge, of course, in the big bend region. we did report that there was a traffic fatality last night we also this morning can report that there's been another fatality reported in dixie county due to a tree falling on the home during the storm overnight, as soon as the storm as soon as it was safe to do and even in many cases probably wasn't perfectly safe to do. search and rescue operations were conducted to help people that were in distress and transport them to safety. these missions continue.