Hurricane Helene slamming, of course, into Florida's Big Bend region,
ripping homes right off their foundations, Downing trees and leaving
very little standing where it hit.
AB CS Victor Kendo tonight in Perry, FL Tonight, the
catastrophic scenes along Florida's Gulf Coast.
Hurricane Helene destroying entire blocks in Keaton Beach.
New drone video revealing the utter devastation.
Keaton Beach took a hard hit.
Home after home severely damaged or completely leveled.
This entire canal not littered with debris.
And these boats behind me looks like they were tossed
around like toys.
These boats and everything were sitting over in the canal
and they got pushed this far over.
Oh, yeah.
This is a supposed to be a street.
It is a street.
Fonda Neal lives in Keaton Beach, her home, what she
calls her happy place, gone.
It's devastating.
It is.
It's hard to think further South, a 10 foot storm
surge or apart sections of Cedar Key.
A dramatic rescue off Sanibel Island.
The Coast Guard pulling a man and his dog to
safety after their boat capsized, giving the thumbs up.
Our ginger Zee was on Treasure Island when Helene hit,
showing us the devastation right after.
The ocean pushed all of these boats for more than
200 yards that way across A4 Lane Causeway, putting them
right in front of all these people's homes.
This is the moment Helene blasted the town of Perry.
AccuWeather capturing sparks raining down in the dark.
Scott Bembry regrets not evacuating.
I wouldn't advise anybody to stick around for one of
these storms.
Evacuate when it's time to evacuate.
Homes on fire in South Pasadena surrounded by storm surge.
Anybody in your head From Clearwater Beach to Manatee County
further South, 123 first responders carrying seniors to safety.
Hundreds of people rescued and tonight, residents are returning home
across Florida's Big Bend.
The home owners here finding this massive roof in their
backyard.
Some are beginning to clean up, others realizing they'll have
to rebuild from the ground up.
David, we have to applaud all those first responders to
helping get those people to safety overnight.
Victor, thank you.
Let's get right to chief meteorologist Ginger Zee.
She's just flown back from the storm region, back in
New York now.
And Ginger, what's left of the system is still on
the move tonight and moving fast.
You know, David, more than 400 miles from where it
made landfall, we see flash flood emergency still in place
in the southern Appalachians.
So like a Johnson City, TN is still seeing it
at this hour.
But the actual low pressure system back over central Kentucky
and it's twisting around all that moisture.
Tornado watches in parts of Virginia and North Carolina.
And we'll watch that rain kind of dwindle the next
two days, but it's going to come with a lot
of wind tonight still.
So we wanted to warn you, the highwind alerts go
from South Carolina back to Indianapolis, parts Illinois, even Arkansas,
and they're in Tennessee.
Look at some of those numbers like Paducah, 40, Indianapolis,
close to 55 mile per hour gusts yet tonight.
They'll slow down tomorrow.
But you see how that twist just keeps going and
going.
We're going to see the remnants not move much over
the weekend.
And then finally, we'll Kick It Out by early next
week.
We'll even get a few of those showers mixing into
a front by the end of the weekend early next
week right here in the Northeast.
And David, we can assure you that the name Helene
will be retired, no question about that.
And Ginger, we thank you for your coverage right through
the storm.
Welcome back to New York.
We'll see you next week.