Outer Band News Today

You watching us here in the united states, canada, and Around The World. Im Kim Brunhuber we begin with Breaking News as we track Hurricane Helene, at least three people have been killed in Florida And Georgia as the storm continues to pummel the southeast national Weather Service is telling residents to stay in their safe place. Helene is now moving over South Georgia as a category one storm with 90 mile per Hour Winds. Officials say its still an extremely dangerous and lifethreatening situatio...

100 miles per hour. the storm is moving into probably its most favorable environment for strengthening. it is a category 1 now, but notice how it strengthens very quickly as it moves into this very warm water. and i want to emphasize, this is not bath water. youre talking jacuzzi bawater here, which is fuel for these storms. we anticipate it to be a category 2 a few hours from now, category 3 likely today, and a category 4 right before it makes landfall tomorrow likely into the afternoon hours i...

Five confirmed deaths from the storm. thousands and thousands of homes and structures damaged and destroyed. and the threat is not over as folks there are still needing rescue. my colleague john berman is on the florida coast and hes going to be joining us throughout the hour to give us perspective. john, one moment, relative calm and then a band come rolling through. what have you been seeing? >> this is sort of outer band central here on the florida coast. were about 100 miles from the center ...

Through the rain and fog behind me, but thats going to produce a lot of damage. >> chris, i want to drive the point home to people, you are in a sheltered spot where you need to be. behind you not too far, we are seeing what these localized rain and wind bands are doing to palm trees. it is going to keep going and intensify throughout the day. now the wind has reached your back. >> reporter: yeah. an hour before we had jacob soboroff a few miles west. as you get further west to the water, you ge...

Outer band shrinks up and the storm increases again. it takes about 10 to 12 hours to complete one of these cycles, but by the time its over with, the outer band comes back into the center, it can be just as strong as it was before it began or even stronger so thats why its really been defying the rules here of nature. so, again, if it continues at that strength with the waters getting warmer, it could go through this eye wall replacement cycle time and time again sustaining that strength which ...

Panes of glass fall from high-rise buildings as well. not a safe place. >> tom, quickly, a few minutes ago i talked to a scientist flying through the middle of the storm to gauge its strength, above the storm, he said its actually getting stronger. im wondering your reaction to that. >> yeah, what he is talking about, we mentioned this the other night, ale lealluded to ie a top and spin it on the teenage, aftteenagable, the force will start to wobble. notice the eye in the center where the winds...

Winds, the counterclockwise wins and we see tornadoes out of the houston area, reports of at least 60 tornadoes that the made landfall. thats why you need your weather radio. so far over 14 and 15 inches of rainfall and on top of that reports of 30 or 40 inches are yet to come. flood advisories for a huge chunk of texas for the houston area. we have an outer band right now moving through houston. within those bands we could see several inches per hour. rainfall totals, a staggering, weve never s...

Monster storm. >> i know gretchen. just when everybody especially here in florida thought hurricane season was basically gone hurricane sandy still about 200 miles that direction offshore. that would be the entire coast land of florida right now remains in a tropical storm warning. check it out. that snow drift sand drifts. the sand overnight with the wind and the rain and high tied has now covered famous a 1 a boulevard here with sand all over it creepy crawly traffic heading in. the wind has d...

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To baton rouge as well. notice the bright colors here. the outer band will have a good potential of tornados. gulf shore had tornado warnings. this band moving into the region, it is a precursor thing to come, most of the rainfalls are on the northern end of the center core. now, let me show you quickly, a visual image and this is a ghost 16 visual imagery, visual satellite and what you are going to see here and i am going to point out to you, notice the high ridge here, maybe hard to see on thi...