Weatherman Bob Van Dillen likely knew it was going to be an eventful night covering Hurricane Helene for Fox as the Category 4 storm made landfall, but he couldn’t have imagined just how eventful it would get.
Van Dillen was doing a live national standup in Atlanta early this morning with a flooded roadway as a backdrop.
“You can see right here we’ve got this lady that drove into the area that’s flooded out and she’s screaming right now,” he told the Fox & Friends studio hosts. After describing the scene for a few more seconds with the sound of the woman’s voice in the background, Van Dillen told the audience, “I just called 911. The fire department is coming.”
He then turned to try and comfort the woman assuring her help is on the way before cutting his live shot short, telling the studio, “It’s a situation. We’ll get back to you in a bit. I’m going to see if I can help this lady out.”
Cut to video of Van Dillen carrying the woman on his back through chest deep floodwaters before literally giving her the shirt off his back so she could get warm.
Van Dillen wasn’t the only hero who braved the storm.
A U.S. Coastguard rescue helicopter flew out into the hurricane to save a man and his dog on a disabled sailboat.
Elsewhere, on Atlanta resident was caught on video using a sleeping air mattress as a life raft as rescue workers patrolled the chest-high floodwaters saving people.
Viewers demand ‘jail time’ after streamer crashes McLaren whilst filming leaving his friend bleeding inside
The content creator was streaming at the time of the crash
observers have been left affrighted and demanding’ jail time’ after watching footage of banderole
and influencer Jack Doherty crashing his McLaren.
The 20- time-old YouTuber and happy creator has made captions after footage surfaced of him crashing his high- powered McLaren supercar into the rail on a binary expressway.
It would appear that Doherty had been live- streaming on Kick at the time of the crash, with footage from the incident latterly appearing online.
In the vids which have been participated on X- the content creator appears to be driving down a trace in heavy rain while putatively detracted by his phone. It’s unclear what exactly causes Doherty to lose control of his vehicle, as he begins to swerve to the right and smashes into the rail.
The videotape also cuts to the fate of the crash, where a shocked Doherty can be seen standing outside the auto blurting ‘ Holy s ** t’ before turning the camera towards his cameraman Michael, who’s bleeding from the face, and asking” Are you okay?”
” Oh my god bro, my whole f**king auto bro,” he adds, showing the auto rammed under the hedge with corridor of the bonnet bestrew across the road. He also hands the phone to his injured friend and asks him to continue recording.
Another videotape depicts the moment bystanders pulled Doherty and his friend from the auto.
substantiations saved the content creator and his friend from the auto while they continue rephotographing, with Doherty heard saying” My f**king auto, holy s ** t no.”
Doherty latterly participated updates on the fate of the crash on his social media accounts, attesting that both he and his cameraman Michael were n’t seriously injured in the incident, still, Michael did bear aches to his face.
The videotape creator has also posted an update on his own account, thanking everyone who reached out to check if he was okay after seeing the videotape.
While Doherty’s followers were relieved to see that he and Michael were safe a lot of people online were n’t impressed by the videotape and have called for the content creator to face impacts for his conduct.
” License suspended, jail time,” one person wrote on X.” This is well proved reckless driving. At a minimum he should be banned on all platforms for this.”
” reckless driving,” a alternate person reflected, while a fourth added” So your telling me he started recording the moment the crash happed yeah wtf.”
It would also appear that Doherty’s Kick channel has been removed in the wake of the incident, with a link to his runner now coming up with an error communication.
It’s unclear where exactly Doherty had crashed, a road sign spotted in his videotape suggests he was in Florida, still, it’s worth noting that all of the US countries( with the exception of Montana) have restrictions on using your phone while driving.
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