Millions without power as Helene lashes the South of the USA with wind and sheets of rain

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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.

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