Five hurricane just about a day right now, which stands at eight category four, and it is promising 40 plus called an hour winds for this region, as well as a deadly, deadly storm surge. I want to show you what he started to happen in tampa bay right now. The water has started to recede. These are easterly wave that is dragging water out typically the water line is much closer but through this spot right here the seawall in front of me, this recession is something you typically see was storms at some point, this will come flying back as a potential 15 foot storm surge in some parts it s estimated to be somewhere between eight to 12 feet here in tampa bay. And that is what has officials very, very concerned this may be a category four storm, a very powerful one, but the storm surge is a category five and it is set to shatter records set by hurricane helene wait only about two weeks ago at some of the debris from hurricane helene is still out in this area. You see here in this pier, a po
Begin only two hours from now conditions in the hurricane strike zone are growing much more dangerous by the minute. As milton unleashes ferocious winds torrential rains, and a slew of destructive tornadoes. Welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world i m wolf blitzer a you re in the situation room were following every angle of the major breaking news in florida right now hurricane milton taking aim at the tampa bay region and now on a faster track toward a devastating landfall, this monster storm is posing a grave and urgent danger and residents who haven t escaped milton s path are being warned. It s not too late to get out cnn teams are fanned out all along florida s gulf coast and areas bracing for the worst of this storm our chief climate correspondent, bill weir is on the scene in st. Petersburg, florida. Bill, what s the latest from where you are of the pier here in st. Pete. As you can see, these waves are just starting to breach the seawall we ve been
Following breaking news as a monster hurricane. Milton is just just hours away from making landfall on florida s west coast. It s already making its presence known through winds and rain and bringing florida, it s most tornado watch morning s in a day on record, 90 tornado warnings and counting, you re looking at one of them. One of those tornadoes crossing and i75, here s a tower cam that was airing i m on cnn affiliate woio and kay as a reported tornado tore through matlab shaye. If you want to understand how truly devastating the storm could be, just listen to how president joe biden described it in a briefing, just this afternoon looking like the storm of the century, many communities in hurricane milton s path do not have a moment to catch their breath between helene and milton two historic stern storms in two weeks the storm of the century, possibly vice president kamala harris just called in to cnn s dana bash and echoed those stark terms. This is unlike anything we have seen be
Yes, i get it. Yes, i it. I get it. I get it. You love me. What can you do? happy tuesday, everyone. So kamala harris is in the middle of a media blitz. She s the view, 60 minutes,a me stephen colbert, howard stern. She s been in front of more old than brian stelter s. Boxers. Last night she made o a disastrous, painful appearance on 60 minutes. It was so bad joe biden turned over in his grave. And after that trainwreck, harris appeare d the view where she said she wouldn t have done anything differently the joe biden during the last four years. Well, except pick a better vice president. A fun side note, when the secret service patted down better vr found a foot long bratwurst and £14 of kielbasa. S ecre but be remiss if we didnt wish joy a happy birthday. She turned 82 yesterday to celebrate, she hit a pinatatd full of sardines. Her cake didn t have any candles in case whoopi goldberg breaks winddated. Meanwhile, tim walz visited jimmy kimmel show last night, revealed he saved carmel
New information tonight on multiple phone calls between vladimir putin and former president trump s since he left office. The details well, from bob woodward in his latest book good evening. We start tonight with hurricane milton gaining strength at this moment and headed toward tampa, florida region still reeling from hurricane helene and that tonight for the second time in nearly as many weeks is expecting record storm surge, roads are jammed, gas running low in the area are not available in some places i want to show you something you don t see too often in florida. Take a look that treasure island near tampa and st. Petersburg. And your ghost town after people evacuated, one person who is there are boris sanchez will check in with him shortly an astronaut aboard the space spacex capsule published this timelapse video today, giving some idea of the sheer size of this storm and the like lifethreatening trouble at represents president biden today warned that this could be one of the w