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Hurricane Helene is here.

After forming in the Northwestern Caribbean Sea Tuesday, it escalated into a powerful storm.

We are bracing for the worst. We know that there's going to be a lot of damage.

We know there's going to be a lot of destruction.

At a category 4, it's a major hurricane and the largest

and most intense to ever hit Tallahassee, the capital Florida. In an

interview with NBC, Mayor John Daly said the city has been preparing for days.

We have called in our mutual aid agreements and we have crews that are driving through the night

as far away as Oklahoma to come help out.

Upon landfall, Hurricane Helene brought a storm surge of as much

as 20 feet to the Florida panhandle before traveling up towards Georgia and

Tennessee. And when we called up Jill Chirpanyer Thursday, she reminded us the

ratings of tropical cyclones from tropical depressions to category 5 hurricanes

is all about the wind

which are sustained winds within a system so not just a gust we hit tropical storm

then category one two three up to five on the Safier Simpson scale.

When you hit category three, your major category levels,

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