Kilometres south west of cape canaveral. Making its way across florida. The new leader has delivered his national address since he became leader injanuary. He called on the people of taiwan to be courageous and brave amid escalating tensions with china. He pledged to defend the island s sovereignty. It makes most of the well s advanced chips. Let s speak to a political scientist and assistant professor at taiwan university, and a nonresident fellow. Thank you forjoining me. First of all, the speech, what have you made of it, what do you see is the most important top lines? what we have often important top lines? what we have often heard important top lines? what we have often heard from important top lines? what we | have often heard from william lai since he came into office was a bit more of a snarky tone and how he addressed china and relations. We saw a tone change in the speech today where we saw far more pragmatic level headed language in regards to cross trade relat
Anderson cooper in braden florida, where the winds have really picked up significantly just in the last ten minutes or so, they are really starting to whip here in downtown by, by the river. I just want to get a sense of sort of the wins. It s sort of hard to tell when you re actually in it you get a sense in the light over there. There s just been a steady downpour of rain and you can see it there. It reflected in the light as i was talking to erin in the last hour, there is a lot of along the river here. There s a lot of palm trees, a lot of these really large branches of these palm trees are just ripping off flying through the air and there are sort of littered all over the ground. I want to walk if i can t over here a little bit and show you the manatee river is over here. And nellis, is that way. About ten minutes ago, we could see lights over in pinellas obscures me in palmetto, we don t see the lights over there anymore. I don t know if they re still there and just the visibilit
Barreling down the gulf coast straight into florida s west coast. 120mileanhour winds and violent water pummeling the bridge. And this is santa bell island where floodwaters appear to be swallowing a house. And in fort myers, a tornado rips through neighbourhoods, obliterating properties. The winds are ferocious, the storm churches unstoppable and floridians are worried. Let s go to her senior correspondent in tampa. Steve? jesse, we see rain come down in sheets. The wind is starting to pick up as well, we could see anywhere from 616 inches of rain here that has been going steady for the past six hours. The storm surge is another concern here in the tampa area. This could be a worstcase scenario depending on where the storm actually makes landfall. We could see up to 10 feet of storm surge here, anywhere from 15 feet along other parts and along the coast. When it gets over 40 miles per hour, they cannot come out and rescue and right now it seems to be hovering right about that range. T
This is going to be a catastrophic storm, it is going to be a potentially deadly storm. Florida prepares for landfall. This is going to be a punch to the base. Face. The fema administrator will join me live. Then it they give the money to illegal immigrants. The expresident using the disaster to spread his lies. What are they talking about? stop it. The dangerous consequences of using a tragedy to get yourself elected. Don t listen to anything or anybody who is trying to make you more afraid than you already are. All in starts right now. It evening from new york, at this moment, hurricane milton s landfall is imminent the hurricane is currently coming ashore, the eyewall is over tampa bay, florida s west coast has already seen the impacts of milton which already ranks among the strongest alanna storms ever recorded and threatens to bring widespread discussion. Even before making landfall we are seeing dangerous records with over 100, one of those tornadoes in fort myers has already ca
Biggest storm of the century could make landfall within the hour. Live images from st. Petersburg on your screen right now, you see our bill weir there in that picture. He ll be with us in a moment hurricane milton now on a much faster track toward land, expected to hit florida with 150 mile an hour wind gusts and a destructive storm surge. Conditions deteriorating by the minute officials now saying it is no longer safe to be outside. And let s show you what it looks like on the roads already flooded right now, the monster storm, one of the most powerful on records still growing after nearly doubling in size in just 24 hours absolutely incredible new satellite images here on your screen. The lightning strikes from a storm that officials warn james the coastline of florida forever. And right now, tropical storm winds now stretch it s more than 300 miles from that. I and let s just show you some of the pictures of what it looks like about 40 miles from the eye in the gulf. Some of these