we have seen some pictures from clearwater in the clearwater beach area. you had some real surge. tell us what happened? >> there was records surge, our previous record for storm surge was for feet and last night we had about 7.5 feet until this morning. so double what had ever been recorded in clearwater? and that caught a lot of folks old-timers who have lived on clearwater beach by surprise, really throughout our tampa bay regions are island our islands along tampa bay and so it was historic and being you know, over 100 miles away from the center of the storm, that was kind of unbelievable that we'd have the kind of impact we did hear last night isn't that what is so extraordinary about this storm 100 miles away from the center, it made impact. >> well up the coast from you, yet you still saw record storm surge seven feet. reports. are you getting this morning of maybe injuries or people who may need to be rescued where are. >> we. had we had a lot of people who decided to stay i would say a lot. we had people who decided to stay last night and they regretted that because i was

bring record water levels to clearwater. what is the record that exists right now, do you know? >> you go way way back to, you know, the 1920s when we've been fortunate in tampa bay do not have a major hurricane for a long time. so i'm sure nothing today would exceed that, but this is definitely in larger than in recent history. i got to call just a minute ago from somebody who's been here in clearwater for well over ten years and they they chose to stay out on the beach and water is threatening their homes. so they stayed because they just never have seen this kind of water come onto the beach. >> so what do you say to somebody at that stage? i mean, it's too late to leave now, right? >> to light to leave now you stayed side, you get a pi as high as you can. you protect yourself and but for folks out there that are stranded, if they let us know, then as soon as our first responders can get out there to check on them, they will do that. we have to wait for to sustain wins to drop down to make sure our first responders were s

>>soa mp ealtura, en cle clearwater rompe el record establecido en 1993 en cl clearwater san petersburgoi en tampa, de seis pies de altura. >> lo que te puedo contar es que hace tan solo, ¿que sera? >> media hora, nosotros ya estabamos parados en la esquina de alla en ese momento, ya no nos es posible por el avance del agua y hemos escuchado camiones de bomberos, patrullas pasar por aqui. >> aqui sera una noche muy larga para los servicios de emergencia. >> sabemos ya tambien, como mencionabas, que de desafortunadamente por este se dio en la interestatal 4 cuando una senal de transito cayo sobre el automovil de una persona que desafortunadamente perdio la vida. >> hemos visto rescates en el condado lee, sus servicios de emergencia trabajando en las e sueroatpas sajando en las para condiciones ya no le permiten a los rescatistas hacer ese trabajo. >> las autoridades le han dicho a las personas que se se mantengan mantengan ahi y que esperen a que pase esta tormenta. >> definitivamente ya se cerro esa ventana para evacuar l lourdes, vemos la intensidad de los vientos, de las rafagas en tu

mayor bruce rector, in clearwater, florida. thank you so much for speaking with us. >> thank you alright. >> still ahead. hurricane helene is moving fast and leaving a trail of destruction across the southeast are coverage of this extremely dangerous record-breaking storm continues say what month my favorite hats. >> it's written out so many i'll get that later. all right. guys. >> it looks down at his queen and says, our wire, monamore, albion to, let's work on that french, shall we in heavy into wow we move into why i'll be on top now search ais system in the hotels.com app meet the jennifer's gen x, gen y, and gen z. >> each planning their future for the chase mobile app gen x is planning a summer in portugal, some help from jpmorgan, well-planned let's go whiskers. >> and why is working with the banker budget for her birthday? >> you only turned 30 months and gen z, her credits golden. hello, new apartment three jens getting ahead with chase solutions that grow with you. >> one bank for now, for leader, for life chase make

pasamos con mi colega en clearwater. adelante. [no audio] reportera: buenas tardes.ilias alrededor de 84 familias han perdido sus pertenencias y han sufrido muchos daÑos en estas casas debido a este inundaciÓn. muchas de ellas se enteraron de eso esta maÑana cuando llegaron, luego de que este huracÁn paso. justamente hoy nos acompaÑa la seÑora berenice, ella es una de las familias afectadas ya perdimos la cama, todo por nuestras pertenencias, vamos en llegando ahorita, y si sÍ se siente feo, reportera: quÉ pertenencias perdiÓ su hija pequeÑa? hasta la cocina la perdieron. >> nosotros como tenemos todo allÍ cerca, entonces, lo que es en la sala, la cocina, todo se nos echÓ a perder. reportera: me cuenta que tiene 9 aÑos viviendo en esta zona y es la primera vez que esto le sucede, tambiÉn hablamos con otras familias de este parque, quienes tambiÉn tienen aÑos viviendo acÁ y nos dicen que esta sido la inundaciÓn mÁs fuerte, hay quienes no se han podido recuperar, acÁ el servicio elÉctrico no se ha establecido, pero ya un camiÓn, un vehÍculo de emergencia estÁ en el lug

y sabemos ya que esta marejada ciclÓnica estÁ ya alcanzando en clearwater, en saint petersburg y aquÍra se rompe un rÉcord que se habÍa establecido en 1993 en clearwater beach. estas serÁn momentos crÍticos para esta Área de florida. golpea ya la costa oeste de florida con potentes rÁfagas de viento e intensos aguaceros tras cobrar fuerza en las cÁlidas aguas del golfo de mÉxico. el huracÁn elÍn amenaza al sureste del paÍs con daÑos catastrÓficos y tiene calles bajo el agua en naples, treasure island y saint petersburg. allÍ la patrulla de caminos de florida cerrÓ el icÓnico puente sunshine skyway para evitar accidentes. horas antes de tocar tierra, helen causÓ estragos en el tendido elÉctrico de crawford ville al sur de talahasi, donde los equipos de restauraciÓn trabajaron a contrarreloj. >> nobody in recent memory has seen a storm of this magnitude. that is it. >> nadie memoria reciente ha visto el impacto de una tormenta de esta magnitud en el Área. dijo el gobernador de florida. pero su advertencia no ha convencido a todos los floridanos en zonas de riesgo. aquÍ en el condado pin

out on clearwater beach, along all of our beaches here in tampa bay. i know from our fire and our police that we had some homes burn to the ground down on the island. there was some folks that we just couldn't get to because the high water rescues. so when the sun comes up this morning, we will see what the damage is, but we believe it's devastating. >> mr. mayor, you have an elderly population there in clear water. some people didn't want to evacuate, couldn't evacuate, didn't have time, yet, they're trying to find their way to folks safety. we saw some of those rescues. tell us about that operation. >> it's always the toughest, you know? i personally tried to encourage folks to evacuate, but folks, you know, last night was -- it was a historic storm surge that we saw things out there and the flooding that people who have lived out there their entire lives have never seen. so we did our best, and it breaks the heart of our first responders when they can't get through the high waters to rescue those folks. as far as i know, they got to everyone eventua

saint petersburg clearwater area. and you know, there's also a lot of concern about rising water.the storm surge is what they call it. what this means is there is just so much energy out there in the gulf. water levels are so high that when high tide comes and this surge is pushed in, that 5 to 8ft of water could roll into communities like saint petersburg and clearwater. and then you move up the coast toward places like crystal river. you're going to get a 15 foot storm surge, and then to a 20 foot storm surge. this is something we haven't seen forecast in all my time that i've been reporting here, a 20 foot storm surge. as this thing comes ashore just south of tallahassee, probably in the next couple of hours here, then into the state capital where there are many, many oak trees. they're not used to getting a hurricane in the state capital. usually they weaken before they get that far. but we're likely to see many, many more power outages in north florida. and then this thing will move into atlanta, where there will be a tropical storm force winds in atlanta. so lots of people a

ante la inminente llegada de los aeropuertos de tampa, clearwater y saint petersburg, han anunciado queabriela de jean, meteorÓloga de las estaciones de telemundo para hablarnos de este huracÁn y de hacia dÓnde se dirige. muy buenas noches gabriela, muy buenas noches. vanessa, de verdad, una situaciÓn preocupante durante las prÓximas horas. fÍjese lo que estamos viendo en esta imagen. este es un huracÁn categorÍa uno que promete convertirse en un huracÁn categorÍa cuatro. asÍ que esta imagen que estaremos observando durante las prÓximas horas nos mostrarÁ un sistema mucho mÁs grande y potente en este momento, con vientos de 85 millas por hora, rÁfagas de 105 millas por hora. continÚa avanzando con esa direcciÓn sobre florida. el big ben de florida, donde pudiese entrar como un huracÁn categorÍa cuatro. todos los ingredientes en ese golfo estÁn presentes, esas aguas cÁlidas para favorecer ese proceso de intensificaciÓn rÁpida. luego la historia no termina en florida. vamos a ver esos impactos sobre georgia, sobre el valle de tennessee, donde estamos observando fuertes lluvias, vientos, i

unprecedented flooding in clearwater, florida record storm surges and so so many coastal communities, let's get to cnn's carlos suarez, who is in gulfport, florida this morning, carlos. you add a remarkable day and night yesterday as the storm surge pushed inland in ways that i don't think a lot of people were expecting even where you are, what are you seeing this morning? >> yeah, john. so that storm surge yesterday at its peak was about six feet. and in fact we were at this very location yesterday afternoon when it just became unsafe for us to stay here. and so we had to evacuate. we made our way inland. we are back out at the same location where we are we're yesterday and to give you a sense of just how high the water was yesterday for our live location. my photographer george, was perched up just a top that stopped the top of the stairs there by the time we left yesterday and nightfall had fallen, hear the water was well above that line and so that's why all of this area here has been damaged. the national guard is already here on the scene in gulfport. you can see there's at leas

now before we move on, let's take a look at a dramatic video from the clearwater coast guard.s the rescue of a man and his dog who were sailing off the coast of florida's sanibel island as the storm was approaching on thursday. you can see just how choppy the water was. after the rescue, emergency services say the pair were in a good medical condition. now, one of britain's best, well loved actresses, dame maggie smith has died at the age of 89. in a statement, her son said she died peacefully on friday morning known for her roles in harry potter and downton abbey, her six decade career on stage and screen saw her win two oscars and five bafta's. today, king charles paid tribute to her, remembering what he called her warmth and wit both on and off stage. our culture editor takes a look back at her life and legacy. >> that was bloody brilliant. >> thank you for that assessment. >> her professor mcgonagle introduced dame maggie smith to a whole new generation. >> little girls, i'm in the business of putting all heads -- >> it was another teacher role that won her first oscar. th

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estas bolsas proteger sus hogares ante la inminente llegada de jelin, ya los aeropuertos de tampa, clearwaterpetersburg han anunciado que el dia de manana estaran cerrados. >> vanessa. >> importantes recomendaciones. >> muchas gracias, lourdes. >> lourdes. >> ahora vamos a pasar con nuestro jefe de meteorologia, carlos robles, quien se e encuentra en sidaqui, una pequena isla en el golfo de mexico que se espera que sea una de las zonas mas golpeadas por jailin cuando toque tierra en la florida. >> adelante, carlos, buenas tardes. >> buenas tardes, vanessa. >> lo cierto es que donde yo me encuentro la manejada ciclonica pueda ser una catastrofica. >> para que tengas una idea, edificios como estos pueden quedar totalmente bajo agua, ya que aqui se espera que el nivel del mar pueda aumentar hasta 18 pies de altura, asi de elevado pudiera estar adentrandose el mar en este litoral. >> pero vamos al pronostico porque realmente no hay buenas noticias en terminos de jalin. >> actualmente es un huracan categoria 1 con vientos de 85 millas por hora. >> vean la magnitud de esta perturbacion y a su alcan

overnight, desperate residents hosting previews of what daylight would bring and in clearwater fire departments battling flash floods and flames, searching for those stranded. >> anybody in your house? >> reporter: with that massive hurricane now comes the massive response. local, state, and federal resources all allocated towards florida and the full power, of course, of the u.s. military. here in keaton beach, devastation as far as you can see. >> a lot of memories here. a lot. >> reporter: boats tossed onto land and homes completely flattened. >> it's just sad. >> reporter: janine mcmullen raised her family in keaton beach. her house is still standing, but half of it is underwater. >> i told my oldest grandson this morning that i was pretty sure my house was gone. he said it'd be all right and that as long as we were all safe, and we are. >> reporter: after crushing the gulf coast, helene moved north. in north carolina, cars submerged and roads vanished amid extreme flooding not seen in almost a century. nbc news' george solis is there. >> here in asheville, the flooding is catastrophic. hom

estan experimentando los efectos de este huracan, hemos visto fotografias de calles inundadas en clearwateras autoridades estan adv advirtiendo que el huracan no es un huracan, sino un fotografias de calles y en sobre los mayores riesgos que enfrenta la poblacion, no solo durante la tormenta, sino despues de que esta pasa. >> dicen que los mayores peligros son manejar sobre las carreteras y que caigan arboles sobre sus casas. >> ademas, la lluvia puede traer inundaciones repentinas, los vientos pueden causar danos catastroficos y hay multiples alertas por tornados. >> asi lo dijo el gobernador de florida, ron desantis. >> eso no eso no significa que no veras impacto no vas a ver impactos significativos. >> hemos tenido 14 alertas de florida, ron desantis. >> we have overnight had 14 different tornado warnings, there's likely to be more of those throughout asociado con uve para que ofrezca transporte gratuito a las personas que se encuentran en condados que estan en estado de emergencia, que son la mayoria de los condados de florida, para que los puedan llevar albergues si necesitan refugio.

meanwhile, airports in tampa and saint pete clearwater international airport are set to close tonightresidents and tourists race to evacuate. we visited sfo this evening to see if travelers here are being affected. so far, we've heard of at least one canceled flight to florida, but no major impacts so far. this comes after governor newsom announced yesterday that california deployed a specialized team of firefighters to florida to help assist where needed. at least one team member is with contra costa fire audrey asistio. nbc bay area news. and i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. here's a live look right now at hurricane helene. i'm going to show you where this is headed. and the latest update we just got in. plus, of course, our own weather. it's cooling off. i'll show you how long that lasts. coming up in a few minutes. thank you. jeff. also focusing on the swing states. the road trip to reno, some local democrats are planning, as we count down to election day, and why republicans say they're not worried. and take a look. it happened in the blink of an eye. a dog snatched by a coy

the clearwater county sheriff's office says they believe two people were inside the building and are presumed dead. another two suffered severe burns and were taken to a hospital burn center in seattle. officials gave no other details on the victims. and you can hear about the west coast top stories every weekday right here on ktvu. west coast wrap with alex savage airs at 7:00 monday through friday or around the clock coverage at west coast rap.com. >> well, the 40 niners held their last practice today before before heading to minnesota to take on the vikings on sunday. >> we learned this afternoon the team will be without superstar running back christian mccaffrey and his ktvu bailey o'carroll tells us he could end up being sidelined for weeks. >> it is surprising christian mccaffrey still dealing with that achilles injury, the same one that kept him out of the week one matchup against the new york jets. but not only will he sit out against the minnesota vikings, there is a possibility that the niners will place him on ir, which would force him to sit out a minimum of four games if

of saint petersburg, on that side where they're getting the onshore flow, treasure island up to clearwater, that's where we're going to see that big damage happening here as the winds stay with us. then we'll start to dwindle, because by the time we wake up five, 6 a.m, the center of the storm is up in northeast georgia, western south carolina already. so it's moving really fast, screaming across the state. it's going to impact so many people. >> juju ginger thank you. joining me now is abc meteorologist somara theodore. samara give us the latest. all right. >> so this storm juju has made landfall in perry florida about ten miles southwest south of perry, florida. and it came in as a category four storm. extremely strong. one thing i do want to note is it's moving. so quickly to about 24mph to the north northeast. that's very fast for a hurricane. it's zooming in to southern georgia, and by early morning before daybreak, places like macon, middle georgia, bibb county, they're going to be seeing hurricane force winds as it continues on its trajectory towards places like atlanta. >> you've b

this is clearwater, florida, one of the harder hit areas. you can see trees down, sand covering tennis courts. storm has killed 116 people. flooding has been a huge problem in north carolina. 2 million people are still without power in several states. the storm has passed, but still some areas are expecting more rainfall. well, turning now to our climate in crisis, temperatures are on the rise this week in our area. extreme weather is becoming more frequent and intense in our warming climate. and according to climate central, there is a rise in weather related power outages across the united states. and meteorologist vianey arana is here now to tell us more. yeah. you know, time and time again. one thing that we have seen, unfortunately, is any time that we're seeing a boost in temperatures, of course people want to kick up their ac, right, to find some relief. but then that could put a strain on the power grids. and we've seen that happen previously. and now of course this is different from planned power outages which are mostly due to elev

before i go, let's bring you to these live pictures coming into was from clearwater in florida wherey but the governor has warned there could be many more vitality is. a storm surges hi is a two story building is expected. it's a category 4 storm. authorities warning a could bring catastrophic and un— survival storm surges. there is more the website stay with you on bbc news. hello there. the month of september can often be quite a turbulent one. the transition from summer into autumn and the final full week of september has been just that. look at thursday's rain. a lot of heavy rain drifting out of northern england and northern ireland. this darker blue here, a line of torrential thundery showers with some hail in there as well. already still with days to spare, woburn in bedfordshire has had its wettest september on record, but it's also had its wettest month ever on record, and we've got an amber weather warning which will remain in force for the next few hours. and so we are just going to continue to add to those rainfall totals. so a line of heavy rain will move its way south o

>> reporter: from clearwater beach to manatee county further south, first responders carrying seniors to safety. hundreds of people rescued. tonight, residents are returning home across florida's big bend. the homeowners here finding this massive roof in their backyard. some are beginning to clean up. others realizing they'll have to rebuild from the ground up. david? >> david: we want to applaud all those first responders, too, helping to get those people to safety overnight. chief meteorologist ginger zee has flown back from the storm region, back in new york tonight. >> moving fast. david, more than 400 miles from where it made landfall, we see flash flood emergencies still in place in the southern appalachians. johnson city, tennessee, is still seeing it at this hour. but the actual low pressure system is back over central kentucky, and it's twisting around all that moisture. tornado watches in parts of virginia and north carolina, and we'll watch that rain kind of dwindle the next two days. but it's going to come with a lot of wind tonight still. the high wind alerts go from sout

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the road for the leg of my everybody calm down to her which are take me to palm beach florida, clearwaterda a minimum but it's wrong new york. [laughter] tickets on sale right now. the real comedy show here in new york city tuesday night and the vice presidential debate between j.d. vance and tim walsh kicks off on cbs for the simulcast here on the fox news channel. one thing you need to know, there's a rule change, they will keep the mike's open. no mute button so they can talk over each other in a way they couldn't which sounds chaotic but nice to see the republican interrupted by somebody's besides the moderators. when you look at the rally, are you excited, will move the needle? >> i'm interested to see how many times temples planes off because the mike's will be open but his arms might be off tonight need medical care. >> you are going provides. jumping it. they will have a military credential but one doesn't have any experience despite his claims. walsh spent the week this week with alex sorrels on the 85th for. like they shot out. [laughter] you know the terms, the campai campaign.

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from clearwater, florida. >> terry. >> jeff. from illinois. >> janice: come up here. from? >> illinois. >> janice: look at the map in new york city, okay day, cloudy skies. gulf coast, i'm concerned with flooding from southeast texas through louisiana, mississippi, alabama and florida panhandle. this is not a tropical named storm, it is tropical moisture and we're concerned with flash flood risk. very hot with temperatures over 100 degrees. have a great weekend. you celebrating anything? >> just life. >> janice: love it. steve doocy, over to you. >> steve: thank you. straight ahead special performance from lakewood music, you will see exclusively on "fox and friends," you are next. let's check in with dana perino, preview of what is happening in nine minutes and 28 seconds. >> dana: thank you, steve. alleged georgia high school shooter and his father will be in court this morning, what we could hear and what is next in the case. economic tea leaf reading, what jobs numbers mean for the election, views from both sides and x banned in brazil, we will be there live and b

then you have the extraordinary areas of pinellas county, tampa, clearwater, st. peter, down the gulf coast, got storm surge that were not anticipated but this storm was as big as the state of florida. there's going to be a lot of flooding. there wasn't as much windstorm damage in this part of the state but a lot of rebuilding here but the loss of life in the state of florida is just one, somebody hit by a road sign on the interstate. neil: one thing i noticed, i'm no meteorologist, is how big it was. 275 miles of at least tropical force winds. i am curious what you make of that? a lot of people who opted not to evacuate doing this thinking it wouldn't be a big deal or they had nowhere to go? what can you tell us? >> exactly right. complacency set in from two previous storms. and i wrote out, i stayed for debbie and it was fine and here comes helene. we had 1300 search and rescue first responders, pre-stage, they went out moments underneath the storm. identified the hardest hit areas, high watercraft to go out and save lives all through the night. you can't hold t

this is at 2:30 p.m., and that's where the hurricane will put clearwater beach, tampa, in the hurricanericane winds are not expected but will be a close call. this is the big story. water -- you run from water and hide from the wind is the saying, and this is when you get to the scary levels of the storm surge, 10 to 15 feet, that's just to the right. it's prone to storm surge, and that includes the tampa area, too. this assumes it happens at high tide. that could knock off two feet to the numbers. still, that's very high. josÉ, if you are standing at the beach and the water is six feet above your head, i would be under deep water. this is going to be taken seriously. tomorrow we expect the rapid intensification. it will be nervous times for people in florida. >> it's time to prepare. this is the time to prepare in that whole area. bill, quickly, are all the models kind of an agreement on this? >> have not seen anything in disagreement with it. it's in the big bend area, and it would be between panama city and cedar key. nothing has changed but that doesn't mean by tomorrow we would hav

now, we are at 6.5 feet in clearwater beach. what these numbers mean is that if you are on the edge of the water with your toes, this is how much higher than the water should be. we are 6 feet now all through the bay areas here along the coast. we are seeing water going into businesses, into homes, and in coastal areas we have wave action on top of that, too. these are the latest wind gust. we just hit 76 and perry. we're going to disengage what will likely break here and still gusting 50 to 60 around it but that is where the eye is, in the center of it. as far as the hurricane center goes, this is the new update we just got in. landfall will be officially at 140-mile-per-hour winds, strong category four and the storm is flying. 20 mph is extremely fast for the speed that the storm is moving. as we go throughout the night, the storm races up through georgia. by 8:00 tomorrow morning, it is over atlanta or maybe just east of atlanta still was 65-mile- per-hour winds. the we are focusing now on where the most extreme damage will b

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and so this is an area that connects tampa outside of spotlight, clearwater and saint pete.ving on this. i would be white knuckling the the steering wheel there, to say the least. tampa has seen historic records of storm surge in certain spots now topping over seven feet. not even major hurricane dalia or ian brought this type of weather towards the tampa bay area. i'm sure all of you know of that one spot in your hometown or areas you used to live in where you thought, oh, the weather always moved around me. back in mississippi, we had the starkville bubble. weather didn't come in to starkville. tampa bay, some kind of way has that similar thought process. they think, oh, they typically go around, but unfortunately even if a system does move in, in jolene's case, well towards the the east or the west, rather, of a tampa bay area, it's the wind field that makes tampa, especially vulnerable to something like storm surge. cedar key is a spot that now has had the highest record number of storm surge at 9.2 feet. just take a second and think about what 9.2 feet is. think about t

in tampa, the water continues to rise, we are 6 1/2 feet in clearwater. if you are on the edge of the water with your toes, this is how much higher than the water should be. so we are six feet now all through this region, so all through the bay area, along the coast, we are seeing water go into businesses and homes and in the coastal areas, we have wave action on top of that. we just hit 76 in perry, and we are still gusting 50 to 60 around it, that's where the eye is in the center of it, as far as the hurricane center goes, we just got this update in. looks like landfall will be at 140 miles per hour, a strong category 4 and the storm is flying, 24 miles per hour, that's extremely fast for the speed that the storm is moving. it'll be in and out, and as we go throughout the night, this storm races up through georgia, but it:00 tomorrow morning, it's over the top of atlanta or just east of atlanta, still with 65 mile-per-hour winds. so we are focusing on where the most extreme damage will be, all in might people will be losing power across the state of geo

a record surge in places like clearwater and st. that, unfortunately, what a surge like that does for most of the places on this barrier island, it's flooded 3, 4 feet into the first level of folks' homes. and in this situation, there a marina across the situation, they had pulled these boats in advance of hurricane helene. these came from across the causeway. that's toward the gulf of mexico liking -- looking west. the surge came up 6, 7 feet as i mentioned from over on this side of the road, lifted the boats off the trailers, and then they came right across the causeway. some of them got caught on that stone wall which took a lot of damage. that center conceal, look at thatting, it's up on stilts like you were going to the sand the bottom and paint it. unfortunately, a lot of the pontoon boats and some of these larger boats made it up and over the wall and into the front yard of people's homes. pinellas county had to perform more than 500 tohigh water rescues last night, saving a lot of folks that made the decision to stay. there

in clearwater junction.hey skidded down there and then you take those to the riverside and this was often done in winter because it's easier to move logsr that way. they would wait for the spring runoff in rivers or their highest level and flowing really high and really fast and really cold also. you push those logs into the riverf and plug them down. if you are a worker working on that you float down the river with them. workers are shepherding thosein logs into the river and follow them down. you can imagine those kind of logs mas log jams as a log jam on the blackfoot river. imagine being in the middle of something like that having to deal with it with hand tools or maybe dynamite is one of the ways they used to try to break up the logjams. incredibly hard and incredibly dangerous work. ultimately those of make it down some blackfoot river here coming out of the mountains and flowing down to the bigoo blackfoot mill were those logs would be milled up and cut into smaller pieces. miller was hard itself as

joining me now from clearwater, florida, is marissa. what is it like there? where you are? >> reporter: i will point just one thing out but you may be wondering why inside a carpet we are trying to get access to the barrier islands. if you know anything about the geography of this area this is the tampa bay region, if you will. pinellas county is a peninsula that is west of tampa. on the side of it, the gulf of mexico, the string of islands. this chain of islands. they are cut off from the rest of the peninsula. there is no way onto these islands. we are trying to get permission to go with the local sheriff's office. it is a dire situation on these islands still. we are talking about a situation where this has been several days. people trying to make the best of the situation and cleaning the debris from flooded homes. we have had a chance to go and tour with rescuers in hillsborough county. this is the same county that tampa is in a. and there is a lot of flooded homes but the water has receded in those areas. i keep talking about the barrier islands because

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the tampa area, this water continues to pile up, now we are approaching high tide. 6.5 feet in clearwater bay, lawrence, there's a lot of damage being done. these totals are just as bad as was advertised and we were hoping the storm would underperform but if anything, it's over performing. >> thank you for that report and joining us now is nbc news correspondent kathy park in tallahassee. what is the situation like now? >> reporter: conditions have worsened over the past hour. we have been anticipating the storm and people have heeded the warnings. a lot of people decided to leave the area altogether. a lot of the hotels in the area, completely booked. here in tallahassee, what is unique is there are a lot of trees, roughly 55% of the city is under a tree canopy so the headline is wind damage, and officials are worried what could happen when you have 100 mile-per-hour winds, for an extended period of time, we're talking toppled trees, toppled power lines and power outages and earlier today, i had a chance to visit one of these emergency shelters that opened up. a lot of people are utilizi

ford and fire reports share that almost the entire island of clearwater beach was underwater. the buildings weren't but all of the streets and roads were completely submerged in downtown lake city, florida, a roof blew off a building wjxt is aaron farrar was at the scene there we've seen a lot of trees down, but within the last five minutes, we saw even something more significant. >> this is downtown lake city what's behind me is a roof from a building. they abandoned building that standing to him by left right here, but then it's all crumbled out onto the street even damaged. this blue pickup truck that's partly brought us out of what was an old theater. there's a couple of blocks from city hall as well. you see, just as we get a little bit closer to all of the damage here, you see all of the folded sheets from the roof that was here and it's covering a good portion of the street and then off to the left, you see some of the effects of that as well. the cinder blocks that concrete as well, lake city police say, thankfully no one was hurt in all of this, but this tree is going

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a live look at clearwater, florida as hurricane helene is making its way through the gulf of mexico gaining strength before it's set to hit american soil. tonight all right good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us time is running short for residents along florida's gulf coast to get ready for hurricane helene powerful storm expected to make landfall later tonight, potentially as a major category four hurricane. meaning they're just hours left to fill sandbags, board up your windows tampa general hospital is preparing with a flood barrier to help protect against storm surge. some places along florida's big bend are forecast to get up to 20 feet of storm surge. that threat prompting evacuation orders up and down florida's gulf coast local officials are urging residents to take these orders seriously because of this surge and you need to have a plan and he needs to get out now if you don't have a plan, you need to get one and you need to get out now let's get to our meteorologist, allison chinchar with the latest she is tracking the storm for us all morning. a

a live look at clearwater, florida on the west coast of florida as hurricane helene barrels through the gulf of mexico, gaining more and more strength through the day today. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. the latest update from the national hurricane center, just a short time ago shows helene is getting stronger now with 90 mile an hour winds the storm though, expected to get much stronger than that. helene is forecast to arrive as a major hurricane along florida's big bend later this evening, bringing life-threatening storm surge and catastrophic winds widespread power outages are also expected. recovery teams already mobilizing across the state to get the lights back on once the storm passes many people will lose power depending on where you are in the state. so just prepare, be prepared for that understand that that's something that could happen and have a plan in place. so you're able to whether that alright, let's get to our meteorologist, allison chinchar, who is tracking all of it and has the latest allison. good morning. what are we s

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