Helene wreaks havoc across Southeast, leaving at least 39 dead
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🗓️ 28 September 2024
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Helene has weakened to a post-tropical cyclone after killing dozens and leaving millions in the dark.
Israel's military says it has killed Hezbollah's leader.
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Saturday September 28th, |
| 0:16.5 | 2024. This is the excerpt. Today Helene weekends but leaves behind a deadly wake. Plus Israel says it has |
| 0:26.9 | killed Hezbollah's leader and we discuss how the Trump campaign is approaching |
| 0:31.3 | Get Out the Vote Efforts. is approaching get out the vote efforts. |
| 0:33.0 | A lean weekend to a post tropical cyclone as it moved through the southeast yesterday, |
| 0:39.0 | but not before leaving historic flooding across multiple states causing 39 deaths and millions of power |
| 0:45.0 | outages. |
| 0:46.0 | Alina's tide is the 14th most powerful hurricane to hit anywhere in the U.S. |
| 0:50.0 | Since records have been kept and the seventh most powerful to hit Florida |
| 0:53.9 | according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm made landfall on the state's Big Ben |
| 0:58.0 | coast with 140 mile an hour winds making it the first known category four storm to hit Florida's Big Ben region |
| 1:05.0 | since records began in 1851. |
| 1:08.0 | Helene wrecked dozens of homes in Horseshoe Beach, Florida, and Georgia Governor, Brian Kemp said some 115 structures in the southern |
| 1:15.8 | Georgia city of Valdosta had been heavily damaged by the storm's high winds. |
| 1:21.0 | Federal Emergency Management Agency teams were on the ground in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, |
| 1:26.2 | and the Carolinas yesterday. |
| 1:28.3 | President Joe Biden approved emergency declarations for all five states ahead of |
| 1:32.8 | a lien's landfill in anticipation of the storm's impact. |
| 1:36.4 | You can read more on USA Today.com. |
| 1:39.7 | The Israeli military said earlier today that it had killed Hezbollah leader |
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