Benchmark Storm News Today

Is Cnn Newsroom. We begin with Breaking News as we track Hurricane Helene, its now the strongest storm to ever make landfall in floridas Big Bend, sweeping across the coast hours ago as an extremely dangerous category four hurricane with winds of 140 miles per hour. Now the effects have been felt far from the center of the storm. The mayor of clearwater told me his community has been inundated despite being 100 miles from the center now, helene is weakening now but has knocked out power to more ...

plus -- >> that is the road, but check this out, it is washed out just over here. >> more destruction as relentless rain pounds parts of the northeast. and for the first time today, u.s. senators get a classified briefing on artificial intelligence. what they could learn about bots and national security. good morning. im rahel solomon in for christine romans. we begin with president biden preparing to address fellow alliance leaders as the two day that nato summit gets under way. bid...

trumps mar-a-lago estate. a u.s. federal judge has finally appointed a special master to review the confidential and top secret documents seized by the fbi from donald trumps mar-a-lago estate. it could be a while before we hear much more about the investigation. a judge has set a november 30th deadline to complete the review and the justice department is expected to appeal a key part of the justices order. cnns sarah murray has details. >> reporter: special master chosen to sift thr...

That brought nearly 5.5 inches of rain to montpelier, vermont. and keep in mind vermont has a lot of mountainous terrain, so the water needs to seek its own level. it will rush down into the valleys below. and unfortunately it is impacting the communities at the base of these mountains. now, we have considerable river flooding as well. in fact the second highest crest within the past couple of hours. it is on its way down. but the benchmark storm was hurricane irene back in 2011 that brought flo...

Interstate, i-40 a major artery for this location. i will double check to make sure no one is in this house doors are locked. hopefully they have been evacuated. obviously, a dire situation here. flood waters rose very quickly last night. you can see homes behind me here that are also flooded out, residents telling me they have never seen flooding this bad even with their benchmark storm, hurricane floyd back in 99. this is going to be one for the record books. florence already setting state rec...

Too. hazel was a storm that was a record storm surge, 17, 18 feet on the north carolina coast. but then as it raced inland, it attained a forward speed of almost 50 miles per hour as it passed through central virginia. went on to break all kinds of records, 100 mile-per-hour gusts in seven states. and as i recall, the highest wind ever recorded at the top of the empire state building 113 mile-per-hour gusts. hazel wasnt even done then, because by the time it got into toronto and in to canada. it...