really appreciate it all right i want to go now to cnn's ivan rodriguez, who is live in tallahassee, florida so ivan, what do conditions look like right now where you are? all right hurricane helene has already passed, especially that eyewall we're starting to feel some of that outer band come back around and i really have phil some strong winds here in the last couple of minutes. >> the rain itself, which has been continuous for several hours, has begin to die down a little bit. we were expecting that to happen right around this hour. the wind we know is going to carry around and stick around here in the tallahassee area for a little bit longer and that's currently what we're experiencing here. what we are also keeping a close eye on our power outages just here on this street where i'm standing these streetlights have flickered on and off. now, at least three times power outages across leon county holding steady now for about 130,000 customers, which doesn't sound like that many customers without power. but when you put it into perspective there's only about 300,000 people who live i

ivan rodriguez in tallahassee, florida. thank you so much.ng 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

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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

the vast majority of home, if we're just it's droid all because a massive storm surge, cnn's ivan rodriguez is there tonight. what are you seeing just 24 hours ago, communities like this one prolonged florida's big ben, we're getting hit by hurricane helene feeling those impacts and now we're here standing in this field of debris to my left used to be a gas station and to my right here behind i'm market. >> now you can see parts of shelving a cash register or microwave refrigerator, and really just destruction here all across this area of keaton beach. i want to show you a bird's eye view to get a better sense of where we are this actually also used to be a neighborhood in anderson. i spoke with one person who lives here in this area and they told me that there's one home still standing the couple who live there was able to evacuate early, but the rest of the homes that were surrounding the home still standing. they are now gone and it's hard to even picture exactly where those homes used to stand because it just now a field of debris and on top of all this devastation, a lot of florida's b

cnn's ivan rodriguez has more on the storm's aftermath helene made landfall in florida's big bend region thursday night as a monstrous category four hurricane leaving coastal communities like keaton beach, florida, nearly unrecognizable. clearly, you saw a storm surge in excess of 15 feet. >> i mean, there was just houses everywhere and now there's nothing most of the communities in big bend still don't have power recovery from this historic storm will be long especially for people still waiting on insurance claims from the last hurricane we are still fighting with our insurance for my store and my house down here we were damaged in idalia's last year. >> so i'm still i mean, we're months away from an end of that situation in north carolina, more than 400 roads in the western part of the state were closed as of saturday morning since thursday, buncombe county received over 5050911 calls and conducted more than 130 swift water rescues parts of asheville, north carolina, haven't left under several feet of water. >> a lot of the businesses are absolutely wrecked. i've never seen anything li

cnn's ivan rodriguez has more on helene's widespread destruction communities in the southeast are grappling with widespread devastation after helene made landfall as a category four hurricane on thursday asheville, north carolina is experiencing the worst of it as entire communities have been trapped by floodwaters. but we've lost communications capabilities. we it's very difficult for us to move around the community any many, many of the roads are closed, trees are down, were clearing knows it as quick as we can and a lot of the critical infrastructure that we've become used to every day in normal times is now gone and we have to work around it. >> hundreds of roads remain closed in western north carolina's sunday, crews are working to reach people who are trapped with limited supplies our biggest need right now is to take care of the people that live in this community would need water desperately, we have yet to receive any water. >> millions of people remain without power across several states, including tennessee, were dozens had to be rescued from floodwaters on a rooftop of a hospital

i want to go now to cnn correspondent, ivan rodriguez, who is in tallahassee. itions there right now laura here in tallahassee, it's been raining consistently for the last several hours now, i'd say within the last hour, we are seeing a little bit stronger rain, but also looking at that trajectory from helene, we were really on that west side of that hurricane eye. >> so a lot of good news here for people in tallahassee, but as you mentioned there with derek as well, we're not necessarily in the clear just yet where i'm standing right now is a bit of an elevated hill. i have a good vantage point of the entire city in terms of power outages here in leon county, we know there's about 130,000 customers without power. that's pretty low when you compare it to the entire state of florida with more than than 1 million customers without power. but i say that because looking out, i still see a lot of buildings in the surroundings. you're in the background with power on these streetlights here behind me, for example, they did flashed on and off very quickly. we do have so

ivan rodriguez is in keaton beach, florida, where much of the town was leveled. >> reporter: 24 hours ago, communities like this one in florida's big bend will begin to feel impacts of hurricane helene. now we're standing here in this field of debris. to my left, it used to be a gas station. to my right, a market. and this used to also be a neighborhood where only one home, we could tell, is still standing. the recovery process here will be very long. and her home, all the neighbors homes, gone. >> there was one, two, three, four, five, six homes just gone. >> man, i just lost my house. i have nothing else to go. >> reporter: aaron's husband says like so many others, they were not expecting helene to pack such a powerful punch. >> reporter: helene devastated entire structures, toppled trees, and crushed vehicles. a deluge so overwhelming on friday. in tennessee, 54 people were stranded on the hospital roof awaiting rescue. in north carolina where helene claimed at least two lives. the governor said helene is one of the worst storms in history. >> reporter: causing entire homes to floa

the storm is expected to make land i'm fall later today cnn's ivan rodriguez is joining us now live from morgan city in louisiana. what's it like? where you are there, ivan wolf conditions here are deteriorating. >> this is the heaviest we felt this rain so far we've been out here in this lakeside park now for several hours francine, we know is going to remain a category one hurricane. it's not going to convert into that category two status, which we had initially thought, but that doesn't change the fact that the day dangerous flooding, storm surge, and wind damage is off the table, that still remains unchanged behind me, you can see some of these waves here. a lot of whitecaps beginning moving in, those strong winds are picking up a little bit more right now francine has about 150 miles away from where we are packing sustained winds around that i of 90 miles per hour. so that's a big concern i'd coming in here, even though we're still talking about that category one status and wolf behind me, there's a small marina, several boats right there over my right shoulder. we've seen people co

. >> cnn's ivan rodriguez has more now on the story storm's aftermath helene made landfall in florida'sus category four hurricane leaving coastal communities like keaton beach, florida, nearly unrecognizable clearly, you saw a storm surge, in excess of 15 feet. >> i mean, there was just houses everywhere and now there's nothing most of the communities in big bend still don't have power recovery from this historic storm will be long especially for people still waiting on insurance claims from the last hurricane, we are still fighting with our insurance for my store and mine house down here that were damaged in idalia's last year. so i'm still i mean, we're months away from an end of that situation in north carolina, more than 400 roads in the western part of the state were closed as of saturday morning since thursday, buncombe county received over 5050911 and conducted more than 130 swift water rescue us parts of asheville, north carolina have been left under several feet of water. >> a lot of the businesses are absolutely wrecked. i've never seen anything like that since i've lived here

it seems hard to believe that right now that is cnn reporter ivan rodriguez in morgan city, louisiana this was just a few minutes ago. the body of water behind him is a lake that's usually pretty calm. >> it's well, the waves really rough behind him. >> he says more than 70,000 customers without power right now in southern louisiana are dealing with that. and power outages are one of the major concerns with this storm. >> don't know how many hours they'll be pounded for, but let's turn to spencer and find out what it's looking like. >> we are looking at the hurricane right now here. let me give you a view of the or. here's the graphic right here. so, as you know, the storm made landfall as a category two, as larry just reported. it's weakening now to a category one, but still a very powerful and potentially dangerous storm, likely to take a pretty much a due northward path over the next day or two. as it weakens into a tropical storm. but this will be a major rain producer and likely to produce widespread flooding. as well. now back to a look at our weather. here's the satellite radar