Wind Pickup News Today

Tallahassee within the next few hours. Now, right now, helene is an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. So, for more than 545,000 households in florida, they are reportedly without power and thousands have been ordered to evacuate from their homes. As you can see from these satellite images, helene is huge and is expected to affect nearly the entire state of florida with damaging winds and heavy rain. So, what may bring the most danger are...

Wilmington. we will every once in a while get a wind pickup from one of the bands. the rain has died down, and its allowing some of the officials to start getting mobilized to start get out on the streets. about 13 miles from where i am on the coast in carolina beach, for example, authorities will be out at 5:00 in the morning to assess the damage, to look at some of the floofding. keep in mind wilmington is a city that easily floods. it flooded very badly a year ago during hurricane florence. i...

Electronic devices and brace for these power outages that they expect in just a short time. local officials, emergency management officials are set to hold a briefing within the next hour or so. what i can tell you, the current conditions, weve seen intermittent rain over the last few hours as we get outer rain bands of hurricane matthew. right now in between one of them. well see the wind pick up every few minutes or so. i think im feeling a bit of a wind pickup right now. behind me is the st. ...

Flashlights and other storm supplies. now, my colleague, michelle macaluso is just to my west in mobile, alabama. whats going on there, michelle? >> reporter: hi, jonathan. mobile is pretty much the same as what youre describing out there. the slight wind pickup, the water is busy. not too much. theres still people here. ths directly behind us is the gulf of mexico where were expecting thunderstorm karen to come up. this is a container yard behind me here. not only just off to the side, right by...