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Thank you for being here. Welcome to a Friday. So I'm looking here at the

latest weather map. Oh by the way it's now tropical storm

Hilling 70 mile an hour winds maximum sustained winds moving now at 30 miles an hour.

Yeah, one of the largest and by largest footprint in terms of its width storms to hit the

U.S. they had expected that when it was coming in it could

have been even larger, which some were saying at that time it was the largest hitting the

Florida coast.

Actually, two others were wider than Helene,

but Helene 420 miles wide.

A couple of others were four hundred and sixty miles wide, not the strongest, but certainly one of the

widest storms. In terms of its footprint, you look now even as a tropical storm looking at the radar right

now, how heavy rain and wind are affecting so many people here.

You talk about pretty much all of Tennessee,

seeing some rain, you get into Kentucky,

parts of Ohio, Southern Ohio, Illinois,

seeing some of this, then over into Missouri.

I mean the reach of this storm incredible but the

damage the damaging winds and water of course they're done in Florida and in Georgia with coming in as a category for a

140 mile an hour sustained winds which is mind-boggling to think of but also

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