Hurricane Helene Makes Landfall, Netanyahu Addresses UN, Sudan Civil War
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🗓️ 27 September 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Hurricane Helene has been downgraded to a tropical storm this morning. |
| 0:05.8 | When it made landfall late last night as a category 4 storm, it packed a dangerous one-two punch of high winds and a storm surge was the situation on the ground. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Michelle Martin with Leila Foddle and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:21.0 | This morning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the UN General Assembly in New York. |
| 0:26.0 | World leaders at the annual gathering have made repeated calls for seas fires in Gaza and Lebanon. |
| 0:31.0 | The question on everybody's mind is how are we going to get this to stop? |
| 0:35.4 | How will Israel respond? |
| 0:36.9 | And the Sudanese army has launched a major offensive to take back the capital. |
| 0:41.2 | It's the latest turn in a civil war that's caused the worst |
| 0:44.0 | hunger and displacement crisis in the world. Will this offensive change anything? |
| 0:48.3 | Stay with us. We'll give you the news you need to start your day. Hurricane Helene has weakened to a tropical storm as it traveled north from Florida to Georgia. |
| 1:04.3 | The storm which had developed into a powerful category 4 hurricane made landfall in |
| 1:08.7 | northwestern Florida last night shortly after 11 p.m. with winds up to 140 miles per hour and a storm |
| 1:15.0 | surge of 20 feet. Early reports say there have been three storm-related deaths. |
| 1:19.9 | And PR's at Frank Morris has been following the storm and joins us now from St. Peter'sburg. |
| 1:24.6 | Hi Frank. |
| 1:25.6 | Hi, how you doing? |
| 1:26.6 | Good, how are you? |
| 1:27.6 | What more do we know about the damage? |
| 1:30.1 | Well, we do know at least three people are dead. |
| 1:32.3 | One person was killed by a falling sign in Florida, |
| 1:34.8 | two people in Georgia, reportedly died, an impossible tornado ahead of the hurricane. |
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