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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 situation. Now, it made landfall a few hours ago as a Monster Category four hurricane with winds of 140 mile...

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. you're 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 in louisiana. now, one of the biggest concerns from this storm is going to be storm surge. the pink ...

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 he's 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. we're about 100 miles from the center of the storm but over the last 30 hours we've had winds that have been tropical storm force for so...

Through the rain and fog behind me, but that's 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 get stronger winds. we're only dealing with essentially tropical storm gusts. what you see behind me ...

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 it's 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 that's why it's 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 is not the best of news as it gets into the warm waters closer to florida. >> just incredible the...