LIVE: Hurricane Helene makes landfall as category 4 storm

Helene -- which has strengthened to a major Category 3 hurricane -- is taking aim at Florida, where it's forecast to make landfall along the Big Bend area on Thursday night.

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[jacobkopa-nathan]

Take care our peoples ❤️ 💜 our prayers go out the survivors, guardians parents providers. 🙏 all feeling the storm. Protect each others, come together and remain strong. Oh this is massive oh be strong everyone

[chloewangensteen]

I’m fine in my area other than power outage but it’s absurd bc my uni didn’t close for Friday until 5pm Thursday so now most of us were stuck riding it out and couldn’t leave at all :(

[OlafScholz-djmn]

It's good that the Democrats allocated money to Ukraine, otherwise they would have had to be spent on reconstruction after the hurricane.

[jacobkopa-nathan]

And i dont understand the like option either. Its stupid to push i like this? A killer storm. Wtf nah i dont like this at all. But thanks for the news. Thats all

[outlawbillionairez]

Trump says other countries are sending us their hurricanes from insane asylums!! He will put a tariff on all hurricanes! Trump 2024

[namjahs]

I WILL GIVE A DOLLAR BOUNTY TO WHOEVER CAN PENETRATE THE EYE OF THE STORM! IT IS UP TO YOU MY FELLOW AMERICANS!

[scottmoyer]

Shouldn't Trump be OUT ON A LEDGE somewhere?

[georgewashington-yy]

god save Florida 😭😭😭!!!! Every one pray 📿📿 god to save Florida

[zamiadams]

My heart goes out to all the poor people suffering this storm.

[jacobkopa-nathan]

And this technology peoples suck support. All confortable and ignorant. Everyones watching netflix tik tok facebook. Not one real footstep towards helping instead of ignoring. Working smarter not harder.

[scottmoyer]

There is rain in Tallahassee and the Mayor is being arraigned. Can somebody rein in on these rains. The rains seem to never stop cos when it rains, it pours.

[scottmoyer]

It's pronounced Hel-Lean not Hel-Laina