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But the destruction is mounting and later, assessing the damage, former Fema Administrator Brock Long joins me live to talk talk about whats next for these communities washington. A live look at atlanta, georgia, where they are bracing for what is now tropical Storm Helene. Is heading their way. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us devastation across florida, a deadly tornado in georgia, and historic flooding in the carolinas. Tropical Storm Helene now moving north after making Landfall Late Last Night as a category four hurricane heres comes the big one. The big one. With winds of 140 miles an hour. Helene was the strongest storm ever to hit floridas Big Bend region, at least three people have died of stormrelated injuries and officials fear that number will grow somehow we got to get people to realize that these arent just to interesting phenomenon, theyre very, very deadly. Were probably going to lose a lot of lives in this setup with this much flooding potential weve got this video coming to us from lee county, florida showing police venturing out into the floodwaters to rescue residents trapped by the lifethreatening Storm Surge. And this from steinhatchee, florida, you see entire homes floating away in the water carried by that Record Setting Storm Surge fortunately, the Storm Chaser who provided cnn with this video said, those homes appear to have been previously evacuated in florida alone more than 1 Million people are without power this morning. In other states, including gia, the carolinas, and virginia, Hundreds Of Thousands have lost power. That number only rising the sheer Power And Size of this storm is difficult to comprehend. The plaintiffs see in these images captured from the international Space Station this is the worst probably weve seen in our area and 100 years, i know. Ive been in sarasota for 22 years and ive never seen anything like this all right. Cnn has Team Coverage throughout the morning as helene moves up the east coast, are ryan young is In Atlanta, but lets begin with Cnn Meteorologist Allison chinchar. Allison, what is the latest . I cannot emphasize enough to people just because this has made landfall does not mean this is over and the worst is yet to come for some of these communities, especially the areas where were still going to see the bulk of this rain. It is a tropical storm, sustained winds of 70 miles per hour. That alone can do a significant amount of damage in terms of bringing trees and Power Lines down, but flopped flooding is going to be the biggest concern, especially scope wise. The green indicates a Flood Watch for flooding is potentially going to happen today. The red is where we have active, ongoing flooding as we speak. And these three white little outlined areas, these are Flash Flood emergencies. We have three separate ones in Western North Carolina. One of which includes the city of asheville so North Carolina, this area has had over 11 inches of rain in just the last about 48 hours. And again, you also have some of these other areas to that have picked up about a foot of rain and a lot of that rain, you also have a high terrain here. So a lot of that is flowing down. Theyve had reports of landslides, excuse me. Theyve also had Water Rescues save had to do and a lot of the roadways are just completely underwater as we speak, the unfortunate part is the rain is not done. You have a lot more rain that is really surging into Western North Carolina and well continue to do so for hours. Hours, where theyre going to continue to see more of that rain. And its not just North Carolina, south carolina, georgia tennessee, alabama, kentucky, all of these areas are going to continue to see that rainfall for the next at least six hours. We also have Tornado Warnings several of them active as we speak across the state of south carolina, there is watches in effect for portions of georgia, south carolina, and North Carolina. It is very likely that well get expanded farther north to include northern North Carolina why not even into portions of virginia because this is where the Threat Area is going to be for today in terms of the potential for tornadoes. Again, kasie, were talking tornadoes, but were also talking the greater threat here of rain throughout the rest of the Day Today all right. Allison chinchar for us this morning, allison will be checking in with you throughout the morning. Thank you. And tropical Storm Helene now charging through georgia, these are live pictures In Atlanta of rescuers. Theyre at work as a state braces for widespread Power Outages. And you could see a dog there in that picture as well. And cnns ryan young joins us live now from atlanta with the latest ryan, what else are you seeing out there . Really thats the real concern right now. All this extra water that were getting kasie, i can tell you for weeks its been very dry here that weve had rain for the last 48 hours, more than seven inches of rain has fallen. The metro atlanta area. And like he said, theres an active Water Rescues that are happening right now. Were still trying to get the numbers of how many people havent rescue. Do we know of several different Apartment Complexes that have been impacted . Of course, we havent even gotten close to first light yet. And this rain continues to fall on Power Outages throughout South Georgia have made things pretty difficult for people in terms of being home, but this storm is really impacting georgia in a different way. Its not often that the City Of Atlanta deals with its Africans Storm Warning now were seeing the impact of some gusty winds, Power Outages, and the heavy rainfall and the real concern here is the large trees because theyre all over the city. You dont want them falling on Power Lines or into homes. We know several. Ryan, let me pause for one second. Brian, because were looking live here. What appears . This will be the rescue of i think a dog here and maybe a baby as well. Were going to maybe rerack that tape and Take A Look at it. But these again are live rescuers in In Atlanta. Here you know, boots on the ground in these stormwater is trying to help folks who are trapped. Theres the dog very is very grateful to them and ryan, im so sorry that i interrupted you again. I think its important to tell our viewers that this is this is ongoing. This is just the beginning of this for atlanta and were already seeing this level of work out there if you think about the infrastructure wise, this is not like a coastal city, so its not really built to handle heavy amounts of water like seeing right now and especially in a 48 hour period. So were probably going to see more rescues just like this one as somebody whos lived in this area for quite some time. We know there are several creeks that sort of overflow every time theres a heavy rain. Well, then you have to triple that right now and then you add on the fact that the Storm Water drains have to be cleared because theres always debris in that area. So the rescues weve been told of an ongoing. We know Emergency Management was ready and prepared for some of these areas. But right now, this is an active situation where they are trying to get some of those folks out of those apartments and some homes across the Metro Area yeah. So ryan how long do we anticipate this to be ongoing for the Atlanta Region . I mean, are people going to be looking at staying in their homes all day because i know this is the storm has been very fast moving well. Thats the only good news so far as that storm is very fast moving but were wondering behind the storm, will there be more rainfall so there have been some estimates by 12 00 this afternoon that we could see some clearer skies. Theyre already predicting a nice weekend here. But, you just never know. We know cancellations at the airport already above 100. And it looks like maybe this afternoon things will start to clear up. But at this point honored be interesting to see if that storm continues to move at the Fast Pace of over 40 miles per hour as it moves closer to North Georgia yeah. Alright ryan young for us. Thank you. And of course great to see those heroic rescue efforts, those people putting their lives on the line to save people in this case, we think who sell some pets being saved . As well. So many americans are so much to all the first responders who are working on this storm throughout the night and into this morning, ryan, thank you very much. Well be back with you later on and coming up here on cnn this morning. New York City mayor accused of accepting bribes, the corruption charges that Eric Adams now faces as he maintains hes innocent. Plus today, Vice President Harris Heads to The Border where she hopes to show toughness on immigration well talk about that and we will of course, continue to track tropical Storm Helene. Helene as it moves northward with unsurvivable Storm Surges, florida preparing for a daunting day ahead . The state is ready as soon as this storm passes and its safe to do so to commence a Search And Rescue operations. 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Adams is accused of accepting bribes from turkish officials in exchange for pressuring the Fire Department to give a permit to the turkish consulate, even though theyre building had failed to pass inspection this is an unfortunate day and its a painful day but his side of all of that day when were finally reveal why for ten months, i have gone through this and i look forward to defending myself and defending the people of this city as ive done throughout my entire professional career alright, according to the indictment, Adams Planned A Trip To Turkiye in 2021 and allegedly directed his staff to coordinate with Turkish Airlines to get him a massive discount on to Business Class flights but should have cost more than 15,000. A manager for the Airline Total an Atom Staffer, this quote, i am going to charge 50. The Atom Staffer replied, know the manager that would work wouldnt it . No deer, the staffer replied 50 will quote, a proper price the manager then asked how much should i charge an added a Smiling Emoji the Atom Staffer said this quote is every step is being watched right now, 1,000 or so, let it be somewhat real. We dont want them to say hes flying for free at the moment, the Medias Attention is on Eric Adams ended up paying 1,100 each for two tickets, both of which were immediately upgraded to Business Class. Our panelists here, isaac dovere, cnn senior reporter sarah longwell, executive director of the republican accountability project. Kate bedingfield, cnn Political Commentator, former biden White House Communications Director and brad todd, republican Strategist Partner at the public Strategy Firm on message. Welcome to all of you. Isaac dovere, you have known Eric Adams for decades. This is grand theft ottoman. I you know, i was excited to see what the new York Post might do with this. This morning. Theyd, they didnt fail to deliver we were talking in the break in language that quite frankly is not family friendly, especially not great for six in the morning. But can you give us the family friendly version of what is up with this . I mean, there has been a long history of Eric Adams having associations with people who have ended up in legal trouble and lightweight has from when he was in the state senate, Brooklyn Borough President , mayor this has been just part of the story of Eric Adams, along with the rest of the story of Eric Adams Police Officer and a successful politician, obviously he has also been known as mayor for one, hes running for mayor for aid, not being clear where he lives, where he works, who hes dating who he is having romantic liaison. Its beyond dating where he spent his evening all of this, just all these questions about atoms, whether hes a vegetarian or not and you see in this indictment some of that Behavior Kind of slipping into more elicit behavior, obviously. And whats charged here. The other thing that i think is clear from this indictment is that there is likely more coming. We knew earlier in the week that this is all about his relationship with turkey and the turkish government but that there is reporting that it has expanded to five other countries that theyre looking at, including South Korea and israel, and a number of others this is, this is not going away and adams, his way of dealing with it. One of the i would say to me the most notable part of the indictment is a moment where when we might remember that last fall, the fbi sees his phones, they stopped his motorcade and they went and they grabbed his phones. And what they the diamonds has happened. Is that a couple of days before that adams changed the password on his iphone to have a six Digit Code instead of four Digit Code. And he told the investigators that he he did that so that none of his staff would go into his phone and delete any emails that might be pertinent to the investigation and the faa said, okay, so whats your code . He said i forgot it you forget your own iphone codes. They can open it. But the point is that, right . Yeah, keep any field this guy was like you know, democrats were thrilled when he got elected. They thought hes a