Cat 5s News Today

Everyone. Im judge jeanine pirro along with jessica tarlov, jesse watters, dana perino, and greg gutfeld. Its 5:00 in new york city, and this is the five. ♪ ♪ fox news alert. Officials say time is running out for millions as the onceinalifetime hurricane milton ferociously charges towards florida, and is expected to make landfall as soon as tonight. Lets go right to steve harrigan. He is out in tampa, florida. Steve? judge, it is really pounding now, the heaviest rain we have seen so far. Ex...

its now too late. hello, everyone. this is "outnumbered." im kayleigh mcenany here with my cohosts, emily compagno and harris faulkner. also joining us, fox news meteorologist amy freeze, and todd piro. we are tracking hurricane speed 11 to make them x11 paid its tracking winds with a just shy of a category 510 hurricane, making it one of the most powerful storms to hit this country. its expected to make landfall in the next few hours and forecasters are warning a life threatening stor...

Sharing the video. i know you sent it to our team. i want people to see the receding water so they know what to look for and the danger in that, but well wait for that video. what we mentioned with category 5 history in the united states is really interesting and important for people to understand. it is rare. out of 38 tropical cyclones that have become a cat 5s, only four have hit the united states. but when they do hit, they dont always hold together, but they were once at category 5, which m...

Though the storm, the worst of the storm may remain offshore, the back side passing over land is still going to cause a lot of problems across the east. ainsley: hey, jay, alexandria ocasio-cortez and bernie sanders are saying that this -- the hurricanes are caused by climate change. i know that hurricanes have been happening since the beginning of the atmosphere. what do you think the reason is? >> well, thats a complex question to try to answer quickly. but i will say from my historical perspe...

-- with a category 5. >> fema is used to doing this. weve had three or four cat 5s. were great as staging. even though we dont know where it is going to go, florida, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, fema is positioning assets and personnel. fema believes in a local response, a state-coordinated and federally-supported model. in that model, most of your assets that are pushed forward is done on a local level, will means the emergency personnel, the coast guard, the national guard and then...

Outside world to help people recover from this. >> do you have concerns that a storm surge is still in your future? >> yeah. i mean, we stayed up well past hours we really were able to stay awake because we were waiting for high tide. to see if the storm surge was coming, again, the wind picked up again just so people can see, so the water is lashing against the seawalls where we are but it hasnt yet risen too high. were still very much paying attention to that. this is completely unprecedented....

Communities, energized by lech tris. the first wave of 300 linemen out with the water and power authority rebuilding the distribution system. so you know, we need help. we -- were recovering from two cat 5s, but were making progress, and the strength and resiliency of the people in the territory, as you witnessed, when you were here. >> and you know, governor mapp, i asked about fema. we reached out to fema as we do each week trying to update our viewers whats going on in the u.s. virgin islands...

Is it maintaining or getting stronger? >> the storm has actually, sadly -- sad to say the storm is actually getting stronger. the latest aircraft in the center measured a pressure of 914 millibars which is the lowest its been and were continuing to see winds measured directly by the aircraft in the range of 150 to 160 knots at the surface in the eye wall which is over 180 miles per hour. so this is a legitimate category 5 hurricane. theres -- you really cant over-hype this storm. its the stronge...

The 914 millibars which is the lowest its been and were continuing to see winds measured directly by the aircraft in the range of 150 to 160 knots at the surface in the eye wall which is over 180 miles per hour. so this is a legitimate category 5 hurricane. theres -- you really cant overhype this storm. its the strongest storm that has ever formed in this part of the atlantic. weve had cat 5s that have formed further to the west, closer to miami. of course, we had andrew then we have had storms ...

>> in terms of what the storm is doing right now, can it getting weaker, maintaining, getting stronger? >> the storm is actually, sadly, sad to say, the storm is actually getting stronger. the latest aircraft in the center measured a pressure of 914 millibars, which is the lowest its been. and were continue sting to see winds measured directly by the aircraft in the range of 150 to 160 knots at the surface in the eyewall, which is over 180 miles per hour. so this is a legitimate category 5 hurri...