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Now i'll see you tomorrow evening. I'm kaitlan collins. This is the source hurricane helene is about to slam into florida and i expected to make landfall and just a couple of hours from now, it's now an extremely dangerous category four storm and winds are now up to 140 miles per hour. If it stays this strong, it'll be the strongest storm to ever make landfall in florida's big bend region. That's the area that we're keeping a close eye on. This hour, more than half 1 million people there have already lost power. And forecasters are predicting tonight that the storm surge in some areas could be...

Turn towards the coast there. so that's the latest with the run there. we're going to go out and take it out live. we do have is it we're going to will nunley. okay, thank you. okay, so we're going to take it out to fort myers are well, nunley braving the elements throughout the day? well, i am in awe of all of our correspondents. you started out the day with whipping rain, torrential rain and now a calmer scene in terms of what mother nature has been throwing at you. >> now, compared to what we've been through for hours today, we still have a little bit of rain element. you can detect that be...

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Case, one thing to tell from the live shot is, just sheets and sheets of water, and we have been watching this come down for hours, the new orleans is a bowl. as they developed there they drained a lot of wetlands they settled, the earth settled there, if you will, bringing city below sea level, and the levee system protects it the levee system has been fortified since katrina. the authorities here expresses confidence in the levee system that is now being tested to a great extent. but that levee system is getting tested but you still have rain from the top, they have a pump system to get the ...

-- it was dry, i was wondering now, tobin talked about the fact that pump system in new orleans it can eradicate an inch of water per hour, the rain is coming down faster. you walk around robert, are you seeing localized flooding? what are you seeing water-wise. reporter: 45 minutes ago when we left mississippi river to come here, probably almost a mile we drove back in, i started to see, main drag in downtown was water coming up about 4 inches, here in the quarter, depends on where you are, right now you see puddling and pooling on the side, and debris in the background. stuff ripped apartmen...