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
Set to make landfall in florida roughly 24 hours from now, we ve just gotten a new advisory this very hour milton is currently moving towards florida s gulf coast, tracking towards the sarasota area and potentially inching even further south and it s going to get a lot bigger before it gets there. That means a life lifethreatening storm surge potentially reaching up to 15 feet but this hurricane is going to impact the entire state. Everyone on edge because any wobble in its trajectory could actually impact which part gets hit the hardest, and to make matters worse, the area, as you know, is still recovering from hurricane helene. Just to show you how strong this storm is, take a look at this video showing no current and hunters that are flying inside of milton, the turbulence is so severe their belongings are actually being tossed all across the airplane. And here s the view from even higher up in space in space itself a nasa astronaut sharing this time lapse that captures the growing
Hello, i m kasie hunt. Welcome to cnn this morning, the breaking news, the national hurricane center out with a brand new update it on hurricane milton. Milton continues to be a dangerous category five hurricane, expected to bring lifethreatening storm surge and dangerous winds along florida s gulf coast practically all of central florida remains under a hurricane warning with landfall expected as early as tonight with evacuation orders clogging florida s major interstates, a new problem growing fuel outages as of late last night, 21% of gas stations in florida are out of gas. This storm coming right on the heels of hurricane helene that brought record storm surge flooding to the tampa area where debris from that storm now poses a whole new threat. There s still a lot of debris out there that could become really dangerous in these wind conditions. We didn t have the wind conditions with helene just the storm surge. So this is going to be both things potential threat to us all right, le
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Long time and have experienced these storms many times, power you talking with them about how this is going to be different. And what and so the difference between what they re used to and what this will be as a way to hopefully give them more encouragement to know that they need to get out you thank you, madam vice president. Yes, we ve been emphasizing the size and the intensity of the storm and the direction in which it s approaching, which is unusual and really raises that storm surge risk for the west coast of florida we typically see hurricanes approach the west coast of florida from the south or southeast, moving parallel to the coast. This track more perpendicular to the coast really raises the storm surge risk. And the size of the storm is going to produce hazardous impacts across much of the peninsula. So we ve been hitting the surge risk on both coasts. Actually, the hurricane force winds, the flooding, rainfall all threat to tornadoes and trying to reemphasize the scale and