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00:00A raging ocean and violent winds as Hurricane Helene hit the coastal city of Tampa hard
00:08overnight. By the early hours of the morning, the city's streets were underwater and boats
00:13had capsized. Several people have been killed since the hurricane made landfall on the west
00:19coast of Florida Thursday night.
00:23The storm has since weakened, but remains extremely dangerous according to the authorities.
00:28A state of emergency has been imposed across almost the entire state.
00:33You need to be right now just hunkering down. Now is not the time to be going out. Not only
00:40are we seeing it hit landfall here in northern Florida, you're still seeing a surge in water
00:46rising in parts of Florida far south.
00:51Amid winds of over 140 kilometers an hour, the storm has swept across Florida to neighboring
00:57Georgia and is moving north through the Carolinas. At least 2.7 million homes and businesses
01:03are without power in these four states.
01:07Helene is particularly widespread and more than 55 million Americans are under some form
01:12of weather alert or warning.
01:15The U.S. National Hurricane Center has warned of potentially life-threatening flooding and
01:21numerous landslides in the Appalachians.