Hurricane Helene moves to Georgia after historic Florida landfall
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🗓️ 27 September 2024
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Hurricane Helene made landfall on Florida's Big Bend coast as a Category 4 storm Thursday.
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Friday September 27th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.4 | excerpt. Today Hurricane Helene makes landfall. |
| 0:25.0 | Landfall. |
| 0:26.0 | Plus we break down exclusive new polling from Arizona and we put the charges surrounding |
| 0:30.5 | New York City Mayor Eric Adams in context. |
| 0:35.1 | Hurricane Helene made landfall last night as the first known category four storm |
| 0:39.4 | to hit Florida's Big Ben region since records began in 1851. |
| 0:44.0 | After carrying 140 mile an hour winds at one point, |
| 0:47.5 | the National Hurricane Center set in a 3 a.m. |
| 0:50.0 | Eastern time update that it had sustained winds of 80 miles per hour. |
| 0:53.7 | Helene is moving into Georgia early this morning as a category one. |
| 0:57.8 | The storm forced closures of schools, airports, and roadways across Florida |
| 1:02.3 | after Helene rapidly intensified within hours |
| 1:05.0 | Thursday as it moved through the Gulf of Mexico and more than 70,000 people across |
| 1:09.9 | four counties fled under mandatory evacuations. |
| 1:13.7 | President Joe Biden approved emergency declarations ahead of Helene's |
| 1:17.2 | landfall for Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, |
| 1:20.5 | South Carolina, and Alabama to mobilize federal emergency management resources. |
| 1:26.0 | Alene is expected to turn northwestward and slow down over the Tennessee Valley later today and tomorrow. You can find all the latest on |
| 1:34.7 | USA Today.com. |
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