I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley.

It's Wednesday, August 30th, and this is your morning wire afternoon update.

Hurricane Adalia made landfall at Category 3 strength in Florida's Big Bend at 7.45am

this morning, smashing into the town of Keaton Beach with 125-mile per hour winds.

Called an unprecedented event by the National Weather Service in Tallahassee, Adalia is

the most powerful storm to hit Florida's Big Bend in over 125 years.

It triggered evacuation orders affecting tens of thousands of people.

But FEMA Administrator Diane Criswell told CNN that the state's response has helped

restore power rapidly.

The amount of mutual aid that the state of Florida brought in to support power restoration

is significant.

And what we saw during Hurricane Ian is they were able to restore the power rather quickly.

I expect the same to happen here as soon as the storm passes and it's safer these mutual

aid resources to come in and support that power restoration.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gave updates on the storm midday.

The eye of Hurricane Adalia has left the state of Florida.

The state is still being impacted by the storm's bans and we're seeing that particularly

in the northern part of the state.

So far there have been 262,000 accounts that had lost power have been restored and there

are more than 250,000 accounts that are currently out of power and in need of restoration.

In the midst of the Biden administration's chaotic military withdrawal from Afghanistan,

top Pentagon officials were working to get the Secretary of Defense to sign a major climate

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