Live updates: Tropical Storm Helene forms, expected to hit Florida as major hurricane

Tropical Storm Helene, the eighth named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, formed on Tuesday morning over the northwestern Caribbean Sea, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. It is expected to rapidly intensify into a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall somewhere over Florida this week, according to the latest track and projections from the NHC.