WATCH LIVE: Gov. DeSantis holds storm preps news conference at 9:30 a.m.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference Tuesday to address a soon-to-be tropical storm.

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The next named storm will be Helene and it’s expected to impact Florida in the coming days.

DeSantis declared a state of emergency on Monday for most of Florida’s counties.

The governor will speak at the State Emergency Operations Center at 9:30 a.m.

He’ll be joined by Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie.

The tropical system in the western Caribbean is expected to become a major hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.

Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine is forecast to become a tropical storm on Tuesday and a hurricane on Wednesday.

The storm is likely to make landfall somewhere along Florida’s Gulf Coast later this week.

When the governor’s speaks this morning, you can watch it live by clicking here.

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