2024-09-27
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Today's Friday, September 27.
Here's what we're covering.
Overnight, Hurricane Helene smashed into Florida's Gulf coast, making landfall as a category four storm with wind speeds of 140 mph.
We're going to be waking up to a state where very likely there's been additional loss of life and certainly there's going to be loss of property.
Governor Ron DeSantis said there had been at least one death so far in the state and that residents should be prepared for serious damage from the hurricane, which was the most powerful to ever strike that part of Florida.
The vast storm weakened as it came ashore, but it's causing havoc across the wider region.
In the Tampa area, water levels surge to 2ft above record highs.
Millions of people are without power and the storm is still on the move.
It's caused at least three other deaths across the south.
Authorities are predicting that for the western part of the Carolinas, it could be one of the most significant weather events in the modern era, with catastrophic flooding and significant landslides.