It states Hurricane Helene was just upgraded. A powerful category three storm. Its already wreaking havoc on bridges and roadways such as this one youre looking at in Southwest Florida for those in the Big Bend, thats where the Florida Panhandle meets the peninsula. The storms Outer Bands all already have brought extensive flooding. And were told that works is yet to come. Listen to what federal and state officials are saying right now, it looks like its dead on hit to tallahassee. This is an unusually dangerous storm that threatens to bring Heavy Rain and potentially catastrophic flooding. This will be a statewide event. We expect strong winds throughout date with hurricaneforce Winds Wind Gust up to 8,200 miles an hour you just heard from the North Carolina Governor and the Georgia Governor we are standing by to hear from florida governor Ron Desantis in the next hour. And as you heard, it is not just florida in helenes pam, georgia, south carolina, North Carolina, are all all facing historic flooding. Some 60 Million people across 12 Southeastern United States are under some sort of Watch Or Warning related to this hurricane. Lets get right to cnns John Berman is on the ground in talent paesie, the capital of florida, and john, the Fema Administrator says, this is looking like a dead on hit where you are dead on hit on tallahassee, jake as a hurricane in that significant even historic for all the storms that have passed over tallahassee the last even 14 months, two of them, this would be the first at crossed with her Hurricane Force Strength winds. And thats a real Problem South of here is where it will make landfall about 20 miles. Thats where youll see the dangerous Storm Surge as much as 20 feet. If it crosses with windspeeds, a Hurricane Category three, category four of 120 miles per hour our wins there. It could pass over tallahassee with 100, 110 mile per hour winds. And that is just treacherous. The County Commissioner told me a short time ago, they expect thousands of trees to come down. They have all kinds of beautiful big trees here, including those huge live oaks thousands of trees could come down. Thats a serious threat to homes, cars, anything On The Roads. And of course, how were as well they expect hundreds of road closures, which could mean the Tallahassee Suffering for days and days. You see people out walking now, theyre looking around like coming whether it coming over the next several hours, that conditions will progressively get worse with those winds picking up the rain is beginning to fall. A total of ten inches of rain could fall here in tallahassee population some 200,000, the public Transportation Shutdown a 2 00 p. M. So the only way to get around is by walking or by car and they dont want people driving right now. The tallahassee democrat reporting that even Waffle House has shut all its locations in tallahassee, which is assigned because anyone whos been in a hurricane knows the Waffle House tries to stay they opened no matter what is the last thing to close, the first thing to open unless conditions are really bad, those really bad conditions or what theyre expecting here, jake and one more thing, ill add, florida governor Ron Desantis and the Disaster Management from florida. They run their operations at a tallahassee because normally tallahassee is safe place for the hurricanes that hit further South And Peninsula not this time tallahassee right in the direct path in could feel it starting around 8 00 tonight, j. John berman, thanks so much. Cnn meteorologist Elisa Rafah is tracking Hurricane Lee for us, at least to tell us what to expect in these critical hours that are coming out. Were expecting it to intensify even more. Its still sitting over very warm ocean waters with very little Wind Energy in its way. So that could allow it to continue the organized and Gain Strength. This i was a little bit clear in the last couple of scans shown us that it isnt densifying hundred and 20 miles per hour in the center of the storm. Those are the wind speeds still sitting hundred and 65 miles south of apalachicola. So again, still some time to Gain Strength here, weve already found some Wind Gusts up to 50 miles per hour for Key West at Fort Myers as well. Some of the Outer Bands have already been lashing florida today. Weve already had multiple Tornado Warnings as well because as the Outer Bands come on shore, youve got a Turning And Twisting tropical system. The threat of tornadoes continues through the night as well. Heres a look at the track. Were looking at it, maintaining this major category three strength as it makes landfall somewhere in that Big Bend of florida, apalachicola, tallahassee, the Hurricane Warnings stretch up to make in the storm is very wide about 400 miles wide. So again, not just a Florida Problem will get how far stretching the warnings stretch into georgia. All that blue tropical Storm Warnings that are in effect worried about widespread Power Outages, even in atlanta from the damaging winds. This is the unsurvivable part the Storm Surge up to 20 feet. Look at this in the Big Bend of florida, you have to escape this unique he to evacuate some Storm Surge like that. Again, the Outer Bands come in. Theres that i coming in by tonight, still 70 mile per hour winds overnight even in macon, georgia with all of that Heavy Rain, we are also worried about historic catastrophic flooding in the western carolinas. This high risk of Heavy Rain from asheville down to tallahassee is incredibly rare, only issued 4 of the time, but is responsible for 80 of the damage that we see from flooding because we are looking at up to a foot or more or of rain possible in this area here in the carolinas. And this is a mountainous area. This is this southern appalachian chain. So where were worried about is landslides that could be catastrophic for people in the carolinas and north georgia, jake. Alright meteorologist Elisa Rafah. Thanks so much. Well be back with you in a second. Lets turn now to florida State Fire Marshal jimmy patronas. Jimmy, do you feel as though florida is prepared for this massive hurricane . We are, this is the second largest Deployment Weve had an urban Search And Rescue in the State History only second to Hurricane Ian. Weve got about 1,100 men and women prestaged, Ready To Go. We brought resources in from outofstate as a precaution simply because of the magnet the two to this storm and the uncertainty and how fast it was moving your also floridas Chief Financial Officer and thus, you worked closely with Insurance Company and companies youve worn floridians, quote, do not sign anything. What kind of scans should people be looking out for . The wake of the storm jake, thank you for asking that question. What will happen is therell be predators there almost like locus. They will be canvassing the neighborhoods prestaged better than the utility companies. And they will go from Door To door because youre vulnerable. Maybe dont have electricity, maybe you have limited access to the internet but they will essentially get you to sign a document, whether its called an assignment of benefits, are directional of paint they will essentially take over your Insurance Claim because youre in a vulnerable place. Maybe you have a tree on your house. Maybe you got damaged to your roof and youre panicking because you want to get as much service to save your house as much as possible. And these predators know that if their first Phone Call is to their agent, my office at 1877, my fl cfo. Are their insurance carrier. Theres zero chance for them to be taken advantage of what do you worry about most right now what im worried most about an hour, those that are going to be too stubborn to evacuate. This storm has created some complacency in the big Bend Area of florida, this storm this Storm Area has been hit by Dahlia And Debby in the last year or two storms then the last year, this storm is very different from the two previous storms that hit the same vicinity of the state. So there are going to be those individuals that said i survived debbie. I survived i delia im just not going to leave this time. And unfortunately, thats where we have the loss of life. Thats where were going to put our first responders at the greatest risk, trying to save peoples lives. That were to reluctant to evacuate to higher ground. This storm is going quite a Storm Event stores or bet that others didnt have obviously, loss of life is the worst possible results, but billions of Dollars Worth of Storm Damage and shes also of concern because Thats Money that would normally be spent on other things, Food And Shelter for individuals, Et Cetera how is the state of florida working to minimize the cost of damage to homes and to businesses sure. So its crazy its hard to want to believe this the state of florida makes money off for hurricanes. When you have billions of dollars, theyre being paid out. An Insurance Claim, things you could take, for example, Hurricane Ian generated about 1. 5 billion dollars and non typical revenue for the state. We didnt plan for it. So those dollars or something, we are very aggressive about pushing back out to offset expenses with insurance through programs like the Moss Florida Home program, which literally helps you harden your home to buy down your insurance premiums. So weve got some programs in place. Floridas iq place, and Mother Nature loves to pay his visit. All right. And your last question im just going to say talk to the people in the path of the storm right now, talk to your fellow floridians. What should they be doing right now . Thank you. Please hunker down. You cant leave now. Its too late understand it. You have decided to stay home and youre in a low lying areas, please call a Loved One, Call Somebody else. That knows and cares about you and let them know you did not evacuate as are many and women go out and tried to rescue and try to find you. It would be great if we have a Pointer Reference to know that, hey, my sister did not ruback you. Wait, this is her address. We will take that information and it helps us pinpoint where we should look when it comes to those lifesaving recoveries that will happen in the next 20 were hours. All right. Florida State Fire Marshal at jimmy patronas. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Just moments ago, we saw the Situation Inland in tallahassee, but next were Gonna Go to the coast, cnn, his Teams Position there as this hurricane moves in, were also standing by to hear from florida governor Ron Desantis in a press conference, plus Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is going to join us live here on the latest, his State Braces for whats to come. Were going to squeeze in a quick break. Well be right back cnn special event. The Place President ial debate. Tuesday at nine love your phone, but not the cost of your current plan no problem with straight Talk Phone you love and get one line for 25 a month. When you sweat, which the straight talk. 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The national Weather Service coming out of tallahassee using very strong wording, talking about this increasing likelihood of catastrophic, if not unsurvivable Storm Surge of ten to even upwards of 20 feet right around the Apalachee Bay Region just to my east where were standing roughly ten to 15 foot Storm Surge is predicted at the height of the storm as major Hurricane Helene moves in. Now we have an opportunity to speak to one of the Sheriffs Deputy of Franklin County where were located which is under a mandatory evacuation. And they talked about how the bridge behind me which connects Apalachee Ev electric cola to the eastern side of this epa electrically river of this has not closed down just yet, we actually need these sustained tropical Storm Force winds. And why i mentioned this is because tallahassee is just to my east and this bridge really connects us that lifeline of tallahassee. We want to talk about the threats that are posed to this area, not just the Storm Surge, but it is the potential for catastrophic winds. Read along that immediate the coastline. A major hurricane approaching. We know that this can cause so much damage, especially considering the Tree Coverage thats in this area and the already saturated environment, just looking at this Radar And Satellite it is. Just pushed up so much water. In terms of rainfall, just here alone and apalachicola, weve had over seven inches of rain since yesterday. So the ground is pretty saturated and the main Event Hasnt even begun yet. So we anticipate the worst of this system finally move in with that Heavy Rainfall, Flash Flooding, the threat of tornadoes, the Storm Surgeon catastrophic winds that are all typical with a landfall in hurricane of this magnitude. But im going to highlight this because this is so important. This, catastrophic, and theyre using words like unprecedented coming out of western North Carolina. This Rainfall Event that is going to shape up as this Storm System slides with a cold front thats moving through the area its going to allow this over spreading of extremely Heavy Rainfall that has allowed the national Weather Service issued this high risk of extreme rain that could lead to Flash Flooding but in them they dont take that lightly. Thats only a course for 4 of those instances, jake. And thats when we have actually 40 of fatalities and 80 of damage within those highrisk areas. So we need to watch out all right. Derek Van Dam and apalachicola, florida. Thanks so much lets bring back meteorologist so that rafah and always i want to play something from Georgia Governor Brian Kemp today as he warned people in his state to get ready for the storm. Take a listen unfortunately were going to be on the State Of Georgia and its dark counties are going to be on the dirty side of the storm, are the East Side of this storm . So Thats Something else people need to be prepared for. Be listening to your local Media Outlets for potential Tornado Watches and warnings so at least he mentioned georgia expected to be on the quote, dirty side of the storm. Explain for us what that means. Yeah, i want to show you where it is right now. You can see here so clearly when you look at the Wind Gusts, hurricane in the northern hemisphere, kind of spins itself counterclockwise plus its got this forward speed thats going north, right . So with the forwards be coming this way and the winds also coming this way, you get some of the fastest winds, right here on the northEast Side of the storm. And you can see that in the colors, how destructive these winds are right offshore here of Tampa Fort myers gusts up to 44 miles per hour right now in tampa. So as this center continues its trek towards the Big Ben where you get this cluster of it strongest winds again, sits on the East Side. So when you look at the maximum wind threat, if we get this landfall somewhere along the Big Bend here of florida, thats going to take the most destructive winds up to tallahassee, possibly albany, georgia, and then even up towards atlanta. Weve been watching this very closely to see where the strongest winds, if they come straight through atlanta or if they go just to the east or to the West Uptick to watch very closely what those wins will do is close widespread Power Outages. Its also where you find the heaviest footprint of rain as well. Thats where the moisture gets knocked him, jake, Elisa Rafah, thanks so much. Were going to come back at your way at the top of the hour when the new Hurricane Forecast comes in. Another big story, were filing following the forest is the federal charges against the mayor of New York, Eric Adams. 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Again, thats when 871 to 3,800 this is cnn the Worlds News Network our Law And Justice lead new York City mayor Eric Adams is defiant. Hes refusing to step down as he faces new federal charges. Because of bribery, fraud, and Campaign Finance offenses. This is all part of an alleged multiyear scheme to solicit illegal Campaign Contributions and lavish gifts from foreign donors, which prosecutors say he lead illegally hid specifically, mayor adams allegedly received Luxury Travel and other benefits from a turkish official, including multiple firstclass fights, flights, and hotel stays worth Tens Of Thousands of dollars. Cnns Gloria Pazmino reports for us now on what officials say, adams gave up in return a look to defend in myself, new York City mayor Eric Adams, once a Rising Star in the democratic party, now faces of five count federal indictment. The conduct alleged in the indictment the foreign money, the corporate money that brian every the years of concealment is a Grave Breach of the publics trust. Prosecutors say atoms are sold his office in Exchange Board thousands of dollars in illegal donations from foreign nationals along with gifts Luxury Travel and Premium Hotel rooms. Adams forcefully denied the allegations the leaks the commentary the demonizes, and i asked New York is to wait to hear our defense before making any judgments. The indictment lays out a decade long scheme by Adams Stretching back to his time as Brooklyn Borough president. Since then, prosecutors say adams solicited donations from turkish nationals in violation of Campaign Finance laws the indictment lays out a number of alleged instances like one where staffer is communicating around a potential 100,000 donation, writing i think he wouldnt get involved in such games. They might cause a big stink later on the Atom Staffer allegedly responded ill ask anyways adams knew that these wealthy individuals could not legally donate in a us election prosecutors allege adams tried to hide the donations by funneling them through Straw Donors the money multiplied by thousands of dollars in taxpayer funded matching funds. Once he took Office Prosecutors say adams used his power to pressure agencies to take favorable action to benefit turkish officials in one instance, the mayor directed the Fire Department to facilitate the opening of the new turkish consulate. Wed had failed to pass safety inspections. This building was important to the turkish official and it was important to Turkey Turkish officials under pressure from an impending visit by the turkish president allegedly asked adams to intervene the building opened without incident. Prosecutors allege adams took multiple trips to india, france, china, hungary, and ghana, making critical stops in turkey at one Point Texting his partner. You know, first stop is always, is symbol during the trips. Adam stayed in luxury accommodations for free or at a steep discount according to prosecutors, he asked to pay a nominal fee for all of this in order to disguise what we alleged were in fact bribes. The indictment also lays out how atoms would keep cash with an email that quote suggested that he left at a minimum well over 10,000 in cash in the atoms. Schedulers Desk Drawer to quote, send to Turkish Airlines when he learned federal prosecutors investigating adams allegedly tried to conceal the evidence directing staff first to delete messages. Federal agents spend more than three hours inside adamss residents this morning only adams was named in the indictment. But since news of the investigations and impending charges broke into the open several officials have tender their resignations, leaving critical agencies without steady leaders. From here, my attorneys would take care of the case so i can take care of the city he has a taking a first step to address that exact concern, jake, whether or not hes going to be able to run the city just a few minutes ago, he sent an email two City Workers telling them that he is innocent and that he wants them to focus on the job of running the city. That thats what hes going to be doing in the next several weeks. We also heard from his lawyer outside of Gracie Mansion here just a short time ago, Alex Spiro was standing with the mayor who remain silent while he was standing next to him. Spiro said that some of these Airline Upgrades and these Travel Tickets were simply Airline Upgrades, something that all vips get very often. Another important detail in all of this, jake, if he is convicted of all hes charges to five counts, he could be facing up to 45 years in prison. We have also reached out to the turkish consulate. We have not heard back drake. All right. Gloria. Pazmino. Thank you so much. Lets break this all down with cnn senior legal analyst Elie Honig. Hes the former assistant us attorney for the Southern District of New York park. Thats the same office that charged mayor adams. So elie, youve read the indictment now. Its pretty juicy stuff. I have to say as an Indictment Reader and isnt your view as a former prosecutor from the Southern District and how strong is it, do you think well, jake, you know, sometimes ill look at an indictment as a former prosecutor and just think game over. They have no the defense has nowhere to run. I actually did did not have that reaction to this indictment. I dont think its a slam dunk, but but i do think the prosecution is proceeding from a solid foundation of evidence. Now, two things jumped out at me. First of all, its clear that prosecutors have someone or more than one people cooperating from the inside. Theres conversations that are relayed in this indictment that are clearly inside conversations. So they do seem to have key cooperation. And second of all, the Text Messages are really valuable. You saw some of them in Glorias Piece right there. One that jumped out at me. Theres an incident where adams learns about a foreign businessman who wants to donate to his campaign, but thats illegal. You cannot accept Campaign Contributions from a foreign national. And so adams one of his Campaign Staffers essentially find a way to make this happen. We dont want to waste this guys potential donation. So to me, its a pretty incriminating text, so i think the evidence is good, but i wouldnt declare this over and done just yet. Where do you see mayor Adams Defense go . So here yeah, a couple of things. First of all, Eric Adams remains a popular figure in this town. Remember, its going to require a unanimous new York Jury to find him guilty. Thats never easy to do. The other thing is the Corruption Laws have become more difficult for prosecutors in recent years, the Supreme Court in a series of decisions has narrowed the scope of these Corruption Laws doesnt one of the things theyve held is its not a quoteunquote official act under the law to set up meetings or to make Phone Calls. There has to be something more tangible, like a vote given. So i think Eric Adams and hes already hinted at this will argue i was doing my job as mayor. I was doing Constituent Service and thats not a crime how likely is it . Do you think that this case ends up at trial as opposed to a guilty plea . And if it goes to trial, how quickly might that happen . So if you look at the data, jake, over 95 of all federal cases in the Southern District of New York plead guilty without a trial. That said, this one seems like its headed to trial to me. I dont see us neriah where Eric Adams, who is famously headstrong, whos obviously dugin, is going to admit criminal culpability and take a plea. Now timingwise ordinarily a case like this would take at least a year to get to trial, maybe 18 months, maybe two years. However, were going to have a situation where our Sitting Mayor is under indictment and i think that will lead all parties, judge, prosecutor and defense, to understand the need to get this thing to trial as soon as humanly possible, because to have a Sitting Mayor laboring under federal indictment is i think a problem for everybody. All right. Elie honig, thanks so much. Lets go to this. Now with maya wiley, shes a civil rights attorney. She ran against Eric Adams in new York City is 2021 mayoral democratic Primary Merci finished third. Her memoir. Remember you are a wildly is out now. First of all, i saw your eyebrows go up when Elie Honig referred to mayor adams says as popular, i dont know what the current polling is. I know last december, we had historically low Approval Ratings in New York. Maybe, you know, something more recent than that yeah, another the his his Approval Ratings at the end of 23 were the lowest of any mayor since 1996 and i think part of what elie may be referring to is that certainly he had not lost full support from the black community i think at that time, he was still polling at about 48 but less than half. And it had plummeted with latinos who was down to 20 and anyone who knows politics in New York knows that thats actually key constituencies. And those are not the best numbers and certainly dont indicate kate popularity, right . And he was perhaps going to fend are still may fend off a challenge. And when he runs for reelection in the primary slander, right. And hes being challenged already by for announced candidates. All of whom are current elected officials and certainly Scott Springer ran also in the race for the City Hall that eric one. So lets talk about what you read in the indictment because im sure you read the indictment what did you think and do you find it compelling . I was so deeply saddened. I dont think theres any other way to describe it that we have these kinds of allegations against a sitting new York City mayor. I think Elie Honig has an excellent lawyer and certainly a seasoned prosecutor i think these are very serious allegations and sitting as someone who is a brooklynite who had Eric Adams is a Borough President for a decade in addition to running against him, i can say this. It is very telling that certain people have not been implicated or indicted, that we know of. And when we look at those allegations and its not its both the significant allegations i that i see in terms of Eric Adams being directly engaged in approving or agreeing to the plan . That is for unlawful Campaign Contributions. And then his direct engagement in exactly the kind of thing that his donors wanted from turkey, for example, in terms of a building, theres another one over new York City real estate developer, whos permits were not being approved by the buildings department. And the suggestion and him personally thinking Eric Adams, after an asked for him to get directly involved. In other words, these arent the kind of things where we dont see a Quid Pro Quo or that we dont see the bees are also season prosecutors in the u. S. Attorneys office for the Southern District, who understand what legally they have to demonstrate. And it looks like they may have some very knowledgeable Kholod Collaborators who are also working and speaking directly to us attorneys office. He mayor adams says hes not going to resign do you think he should oh, i think any any elected official facing these kinds of charges should resign. Theyre serious, they directly implicate the Publics Ability to trust that they are doing the job and the best interests of the residence. And it is extremely difficult to make real progress on the problems that people face. I mean, the affordable Housing Crisis in the city, homelessness, the fact that we still have way too high rates a black women dying, just trying to have a child and i say that because these are very real issues for New Yorkers, there, the things they want the city to solve were actually trying to figure out how to make sure people with disabilities can actually access public transportation. So these are serious issues New Yorkers care about them and it is extremely difficult to understand how this mare can actually move the policy necessary to change peoples lives for the better if he resigns, if the Governor Hochul removes him from office, which he actually has the power to do. There could theoretically be a special election would you run now . But heres the thing. Whats so critically important here is that every single New Yorker really have the opportunity to know and understand what their choices are and have someone who is absolutely going to put their best interests first and not those of the powerful yeah. New yorkers certainly deserve that. Thank you so much. Its good to see you in person. Thanks for being here. New video shows Hurricane Hunters at work flying. Theyre playing to Hurricane Helene trying to get a better sense of this Storm Strength coming up. 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The bucks got your back feels like and were back with our breaking News Coverage of Hurricane Helene and this brand New Video flooding in asheville, North Carolina where authorities urged residents to evacuate or the hurricane gets there. Thats because eight inches of rain painful a separate system have already fallen in the last 24 hours and helene is expected to tip that way over the edge making it up to 20 inches of rain, which would be historic. But not in a good way. Right now, Hurricane Helene is barreling toward the u. S. With 60 Million people across 12 states in the united states. Bracing for some sort of impact and joining us now from atlanta is Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, Governor Camp Helene is threatening your entire state. Cnn extreme Weather Center will be monitoring intense winds in the southern part of georgia, while to the north, officials worry about the mountainous areas already prone to flooding. And of course, theres the Metro Atlanta Area home to millions of people in the path of all of it how worried are you about helenes impact in georgia and what are you most worried about . Well, a couple of things jake is its a big storm thats really even though its a category three its its so wide is four to 500 miles wide, which is one of the biggest hurricanes ever in the atlantic it certainly has this concerned most of the State Of Georgia is going to be on the quote, dirty side of the storm, which is going to have Hurricane Force winds going all the way up to middle georgia, places like macon and then still having tropical Storm Type weapons up in Northeast Georgia in places like athens and up into the mountains and courts, you got a lot of rain thats already fallen up. There has fallen right now is going to continue falling when the hurricane comes through. So were looking up to a foot of rain in some places. So were worried about Flash Flooding obviously saturating Ground Trees falling Power Outages and the thing is this is going to be happening all over the state. Its not just, you know, in one area of the state like debbie was just a few weeks ago. It is going to be a statewide event so were deploying resources literally statewide as we speak, you have enough resources. Do you have enough people in equipment to get georgia through this well, were deploying to react on the initial blow. And if theres dependent on how bad it is, well call up more national guard. We already got 250 that are deployed right now. We have a lot more resources there. Weve got a lot of state assets. We obviously have private contractors. Weve got Georgia Power has literally 10,000 linemen stationed and Ready To Go the amcs have 8,000 and so were done were throwing everything we got this thing because we know its going to be a big event and we know its going to be statewide but well have other available resources. Ive had a lot of texts from fellow governors offered assistance from other states and certainly appreciate that. And then the locals are doing a lot as well. So well be ready its just going to be it may take us a few days after this one hits. Obviously, a lot of the deaths happen in the wake of the storm when there are downed Power Lines and other other threats talk about some of the biggest concerns here. I mean, theres also the fact that hurricanesrnadoes when they mov land which should georgians be preparing for well, the bad thing about the storm for us, jake, is this going to be coming at night . The event in South Georgia is going to happen about dusk or is as the suns going down, its going to continue until the sun comes up and then move throughout the night. The State Of Georgia, so people are going to happy Weather Alert really all night in the State Of Georgia, as you said, for spin up tornadoes especially on the East Side of the storm or the dirty side of the storm, which most of the state will be the other thing is fallen trees. If youre out driving theres a potential for having a Tree Fall on you. We had a fatality in our last norm, unfortunately in a tragic incident with that happening. And then you also have the potential for fallen on houses. So people need to be prepared for that. Move to the center of the house if the winds start getting bad throughout the night i just like you would for a tornado, those are really my biggest worries. And then obviously staying away from downed Power Lines, there havent been any Evacuation Orders in georgia yet. Do you expect that to change . Well, people in our state are prepared for whether theyre used to these kind of things. We just had a storm. We were hosting a little over 200 folks from florida that moved up our way. We have facilities that weve noticed that are that are open for people if they need a place to shelter or move. But jordans know how to deal with this and even when you order evacuations, sometimes people dont leave. So were expecting people to be weather aware whether smart and hunker down, let this Thing Pass and just asking people to try to stay now off the roads once it does so we can get the roads clear, get power trucks, and get power back on as quickly as we can after the storm. And then also be able to do rescues if we do have injured people you know, swift water rescues if we got a lot of Flash Flooding and other things, were were prepared for all of those. Weve got teams deployed all over the state to be able to move quickly. All right. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp. Thank you so much prayers to the people of georgia. Hope you guys dont get too much of a hurricane. Helene is barreling closer to landfall, is expected in just hours. Youre taking a live look right now in gulfport, florida. Thats near that Tampa St. Pete area. Thats where conditions are worsening or teams are live on the ground will go there next the wait is over. Tim Walz And J. D vance in their first and only based these debates, and cnn has covered with the best political team in the Business A Cnn special event, the Vice President ial debate, tuesday at nine On Cnn hes coming in the driveway treated for leukemia i hope that she lives a Long Gray had to life and that she will never forget how moment eddie lover, st. Jude. I mean, this is whats keeping my Baby Girl this september. You can join the battle to save lives during Childhood Cancer Awareness month by supporting st. 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So this is the worst of the weather that we have seen and weve been here since about 6 00 this morning. We are in Pinellas County in the city both ford. So where just last of the Tampa Area in as you can see behind me here with the storm about southwest of where we are this is kind of what this part of Pinellas County is going to see considering that this hurricane hes going to remain offshore and continue going north. And my photographer could go ahead and pan out. You can see some of the flooding thats associated with this storm. What youre taking a look at here its a combination of the rain that we have seen the entire day. A part of High Tide and that came in this morning and through the afternoon and actually a good part of this is coming from the bay itself. What were seeing in the last hour or so is that a lot of this water . Hes now breaching the seawall here because it really has nowhere else to go as this war continues, its passable in the north. Its pushing all of this water, this way this is the main concern that emergency officials had in Pinellas County going into today in fact, jake earlier this morning of a City Officials were quite concerned with the fact that a lot of residents did not take their advice and are Evacuation Orders is seriously. They gave everyone that lives in this part of Pinellas County one until noon to go ahead and make their way inland after that Noon Hour passed by because the weather was so bad because the winds were so strong because all this rain started moving in sioux bridges that connect Pinellas County to tampa, as well as grading in those two bridges . Close because the Highway Patrol says that those sustained winds on these bridges were north of 60 miles per hour. And so for folks that are trying perhaps trying to leave now, its probably a bit too late considering that what were experiencing now it should last for another couple of hours as this hurricane continues with its way north. Stage, just off the coast of where we are here in gulfport. Jake Carlos Suarez, stay safe. Were going to be keeping track of conditions there in the Tampa St. Pete area throughout the evening. As Hurricane Helene moves in and were standing by to hear from florida governor Ron Desantis. Were expecting that at the top of the hour. Were also expecting a brand new Hurricane Forecast from the national hurricane center. Were going to bring all that to you right after we squeeze in this quick break. Thank you enough amelia, On The Navarro takes a very personal journey across the nation to explore the latino Vote Nobody should take the latino vote was one wide brush. The whole story with anderson cooper, sunday at 8 00 On Cnn we all Know Costs are too high, but while corporations are gouging Families Trump is focused on giving them tax cuts. But Kamala Harris is focused on, you building up the Middle Class will be a defining goal of my presidency. 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But Hurricane Helene, which is now expected to slam into the u. S. As a quote extremely dangerous category four Hurricane Helene is still gaining strength as it barrels towards florida. Its among the largest storms in the gulf of mexico. In the last hundred years. Any moment were going to get an update on Storm Preparations and the early impact in florida governor Ron Desantis, were going to bring that to you. Live were going to start with cnns Elisa Raffa in the hurricane headquarters, at least a walking us through the new fore