Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navas is away. On the news hour tonight. Millions

are without power in the southeast as residents begin the long arduous recovery from Hurricane Helene.

Ukraine's president meets with Donald Trump as competing political visions for

USA to Ukraine cast doubt on the future of the war effort and we go inside a Georgia

election center to get an up close look at the voting protections at the

center of a critical swing state.

Fundamentally it's a problem any time that you're going to put

potentially vulnerable computer between the voter and the only records of their vote. Welcome to the news hour. The devastating impact of Hurricane Helene is being felt far and wide across the south tonight.

At least 40 people are dead in four states.

Millions are without power and there have been harrowing air rescues from Florida to Tennessee.

And although the category 4 hurricane is now a tropical depression,

the threat is not over yet.

Christopher Booker has the latest.

Helene's Fury unleashed on the Florida Gulf Coast.

Coming ashore last night just east of Tallahassee as a category four hurricane, the storm brought sheets of blinding rain and whipping winds of 140 miles an hour. Storm surge threatened to wash cars off

roads. Ocean swells grew so high that it carried these

boats from the water and smashed them into homes. Oh my goodness, oh my goodness.

Flooded streets resembled rivers,

entire neighborhoods looked more like lakes.

This man in Cedar Key tried to check on family.

It's I was trying to make it to my mama's house,

but it's neck deep here.

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