Good evening I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm on the Navas on the news hour tonight

Floridians brace for impact as Hurricane Helene takes aim at the state's Big Bend region.

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But Israel's prime minister vows to keep fighting with full force.

As President Volodomir Zilinsky visits Washington to lay out his plan for victory, we report

from the front lines in Ukraine where drones are transforming how the war

is being waged. And former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton

on how she feels about Vice President Kamala Harris's barrier breaking bid for the presidency.

Honestly, I was not sure to myself what I would feel when another woman would be so close to finally breaking that big hard glass ceiling.

And I found myself absolutely exhilarated. Welcome to the news hour. Tonight Florida is bracing for a direct hit from Hurricane

Helene, a powerful storm that strengthened to a category 3 with winds up to 120 miles an hour.

Helene is expected to make landfall tonight in just a matter of hours,

but many across Florida have been feeling its effects all day and preparing for the worst.

As early as this morning the outer bands of Helene were already lashing the state of Florida from Tampa to the Keys with

high winds and swamping streets with heavy rain. Florida Governor Ron

Desantis today stressed that the effects of the massive 400 mile storm will be felt far and

wide. Just because you're outside the cone and I think a lot of those parts on the

west coast of Florida are probably outside the cone that does not mean that you're not going to see significant impacts.

Strengthening today to a category 3 major hurricane with 120 mile an hour winds.

Helene could even reach category four strength by the time it makes

landfall on Florida's northern Gulf coast in just a matter of hours.

The director of FEMA speaking at the White House today

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