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You can see this time lapse here shared by american astronaut matthew dominick showing how this storm looks from space. Milton comes just days after hurricane helene tore through the southeastern us 225 people were killed by the natural disaster across six states. The back to back storms are expected to leave historic levels of damage that could take years to recover from. Unlike helene, milton will only pass through florida on its way to the atlantic ocean. President biden has postponed a trip to germany to oversee preparations and prepare a federal response. He urged those in milton s path to evacuate, calling it a matter of life and death also warning this could be one of the worst storms to hit florida in a century. Melanie bevan is the chief of police in bradentown a town that is right in the path of hurrican milton and experienced a lot of damage during the recent hurricane helene. She spoke about what a forecast like this means for law enforcement in the area. We have
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suffering now. this morning when we woke up with the pictures and videos of what was happening, wejust pictures and videos of what was happening, we just start crying because we have been there many times and we know that this fire would do the whole island. the only place that the people could go to save themselves was the ocean. it has been really, i think, the worst that they have gone through because even with the hurricane s, they had shelters, they could move up to the mountain to the hills but with the fire, it was just. i think the worst. people were running in panic. us here on the mainland, wejust didn t know what to do. length for food for the port that we