News night begins right now Abby Philip alongside my colleague, Anderson Cooper, who is in the middle of Hurricane Milton, right now in florida, this Monster Storm making Landfall Tonight and it is right now rocking cities on floridas West Coast. Weve got our reporters fanned out at areas all across the state that are being hit the hardest tonight. But first, were going to go to anderson in braden town. Anderson anderson take it away. You are now seeing so much wind, so much rain. Tell us what youre experiencing bradenton this is a community that than was expecting a bad head and its certainly that is what we have been seeing over the last hour. Were right by The River and the water has really dropped i it started about an hour ago, right when Kaitlans Program started really, the water just started pouring over over the banks onto The Riverwalk. We moved off from that location this basically our crew is inside ive basically using this tree to block any of the branches and stuff that ha
Kamala and i will be there for as long as it takes to rescue, recover and rebuild. President biden sending a message of support to floridians as Hurricane Milton barrels towards the state with landfall expected in just the next few hours. Plus, biden condemned the un the quote unquote, unamerican misinformation about the federal Storm Response calling out Trump And Marjorie Taylor Greene by name for dispensing those lies. And trumps attempt to deny the Bomb Shell reporting that he sent Covid Tests to putin was unbelievably thwarted by the friends and the kremlin himself who said, yep, he did that. We begin tonight with Hurricane Milton barrelling towards the West Coast of Florida And Set to make landfall in the next few hours. This is a Nightmare Scenario for more than 3 Million people who live in the Tampa Bay area. Which could see widespread destruction. 15 florida counties that are home to more than 7 Million people are under mandatory evacuation orders. Local officials have been pr
A bit of Mist And Fog possible across some western areas early in the morning. Those temperatures not changing a great deal again, typically a cool 11 or 12. This is Bbc News. The latest headlines Hurricane Milton, the biggest storm to hit florida in a century, heads towards the coast. President biden warns residents to leave for safety. Already, dangerous tornadoes are developing over florida as the storm continues to approach. Deaths following Air Strikes on both sides of the border, as Israel And Hezbollah continue to exchange fire. And then there were two James Cleverly is knocked out of the tory leadership race. Kemi Badenoch And Robertjenrick remain. The end of the Linejudge Why Modern Technology is bringing to an end nearly 150 years of tradition is bringing to an end nearly 150 Years Landfall on is bringing to an end nearly 150 Years Landfall to where we expect landfall to happen. Somewhere between Fort Myers and sarasota. They are about 77 miles apart, and just south of tampa,
Need to watch that very carefully. Yeah, secretary buttigieg, 63, Address Fishing just said that is a major focus of his today and will be tomorrow. Matt egan. Thank you. Thank you, john. Great to see you. Brand new era of Cnn News central starts now about it. Were going to get hit and its going to be hard everybody out from milton. And were trying to get all the debris up from helene you cant take no chance at all. I know that this storm is the storm. What are you guys doing . Were actually saw about actually until friday, we were able to come out and do some rescues for families with kids that decided to try and hunker down and that was not a good idea. I hope that people learned from that and decided to leave. Once we leave, therell be no first responder here. If you dont take heed youre on your own update on Hurricane Milton is now out of this hour. The Monster Storm is a category four storm thats downgraded slightly from where it was as a cat five Wind Speeds are now up 100 now at
This is not survivorable the urgent warning we got from Central Florida officials to all the people living in Hurricane Miltons path. The Evacuation Zone involves Six Million people. And this storm is hours away now from colliding with floridas gulf coast. The impact has the potential to change the coastline. Our Meteorologist Janice Dean was saying it will do that. President biden and Vicepresident Kamala Harris are getting briefed were told on preparations. Officials are bracing for extreme winds and the windshield on this has grown exponentially so its going to affect far many more people than we thought at first. The winds could cause widespread power outages, like we just saw less than two weeks ago across six states in the southeast, including florida. Helene hit florida first. This is the second punch. 15 feet of lifethreatening Storm Surge expected, and time is running short for people who actually want to get out of the way. And you might have to go a little bit farther away t