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🗓️ 27 September 2024
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0:00.0 | breaking these out of Florida as Hurricane Helene speeds through the Gulf of Mexico. |
0:04.5 | The storm is expected to make landfall just south of Tallahassee within the next few hours. |
0:10.3 | Now right now Helene is an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane with maximum |
0:15.7 | sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. So far more than 545,000 households in Florida are reportedly without power and |
0:25.8 | thousands have been ordered to evacuate from their homes. As you can see from |
0:29.3 | these satellite images, Helene is huge and is expected to affect nearly the entire state of Florida |
0:35.8 | with damaging winds and heavy rain. Still what may bring the most danger are the |
0:40.9 | storm surges. Earlier today residents experience flooding in |
0:45.1 | places like Pine Island which is just outside of Fort Myers. But flooding |
0:49.6 | will likely get much worse across the state as the night continues. A storm surge warning is in place for almost |
0:56.0 | the entirety of Florida's West Coast. This video is a simulation of what could happen if the storm surge rises to approximately 10 feet. |
1:06.8 | But in some parts of Florida, officials warned that Hurricane Helene could cause storm |
1:10.8 | surges of up to 20 feet, |
1:13.7 | around double the amount shown in this simulation. |
1:16.8 | And those officials are calling that level of storm surge |
1:20.0 | potentially unservivable. |
1:23.0 | Earlier today, the first bands of wind and rain lashed the Tampa Bay Area, giving us just |
1:28.5 | a taste of the strength of the storm, a strength that is not expected to weaken once it makes landfall. |
1:35.2 | Five states, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina have all declared states of emergency. |
1:41.6 | And more than 40 million people are either under a hurricane |
1:45.2 | or tropical storm warnings. For more on all of this joining me now is NBC |
1:49.3 | news correspondent Kathy Park. She is live from Tallahassee, Florida. |
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