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Thank you all for being here this morning. Thanks to all of you for joining us as well. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere. Cnn news central starts right now hurricane milton is now a category five storm closing in on on floridas gulf coast hours away from landfall, possibly one of the most destructive hurricanes to ever hit that west central coast. One official warning residents in the evacuation zone this is not survivable. We have the latest up to the minute storm track as some gas stations are ...

Hello, im mathew amroliwala. The israeli military says, its expanding its Ground Offensive against hezbollah by moving into a new zone, in south western lebanon. It says it now has some 15,000 soldiers deployed in the south of the country. Hezbollah has fired more than 100 rockets at northern israeli cities and while israel says it shot most of them down, there has been some damage in the Port City of haifa. Amid the fighting, the Deputy Leader of hezbollah has said he supports a call from leban...

got, less than a thousand power outages, but also just be prepared in case something turns or something happens this afternoon. >> ainsley: down in florida, desperate search and rescue efforts are underway this morning. at least ten are confirmed dead. but officials warn that number will likely be higher. >> the damage i saw was on fort myers beach. but they have been more than 700 confirmed rescues and is likely many more than that. >> ainsley: floridas governor will give a press conf...

>> todd: hurricane ian plowing through western cuba yesterday knocking out power to the entire country and devastating the most important tobacco farms in the country used to produce cubas iconic cigars. you are watching "fox and friends first," im todd piro. >> carley: im carley shimkus, our reporters are live across florida this morning, we begin with senior meteorologist, janice dean who is tracking it from our studio. >> janice: they just upped the winds, that is a strong category ...

But you are also, you have a family and im sure you are concerned about them. so how are you personally handling this? >> yeah. i was at the eoc when the governor came down yesterday here in sarasota county and literally came back to my house and cut down four dead pine trees i knew if they went a certain direction would take out a fence and power pole. i made preps. my family is good. we have prepared over the years since erma. we have a backup generator. we have hurricane windows and shutters....

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Worry about, this pink box right there, thats a tornado warning. remember, talking about katrina, katrina had 59 tornadoes associated with it. this is just coming onshore. keep an eye out for tornadoes. >> lets not forget more than 1,800 people died during katrina. chad, well get back to you. thank you very much. were already getting stunning video captured by a surveillance camera earlier today. take a look at this. this is the storm surge in grand isle, louisiana, expected to rise to as much a...

Two stories, concrete, hurricane windows. we have a few friends sheltering with us, a few windows. my friend and colleague joe is here as well. were waiting until 11:00 because thats when high tide is supposed to come. thats going to be a key moment. at this point we definitely have been some of the luckier people in grand bahama. weve had some pretty strong winds but havent been dealing with things like sarah, whos a friend of ours. weve been seeing videos of people fleeing into attics, people ...

They have hurricane windows that can within stand 200-mile-per-hour winds. here on the harbor its mostly a title event. so worst case scenario it comes through with the right side of the storm and a surge at high tide and the water comes flooding in. but if it does, the buildings are built to have the but totto blow out, the garage blows out and it goes out with the tide. flooding here is a common event but were hoping itness not going to be so bad this year. >> hoping for the best. thank you ve...

Sam, this is kind of incredible how long this storm has been hanging around. above the bahamas. youre in freeport. youre a little away from the center of it. but what are the -- what are the -- whats it like outside of you where you are now? >> well, your last guest talked about the wait of waiting for the storm to come and weve been waiting for this storm to leave. its incredible that -- >> really. >> -- were still getting 140 mile an hour wind in some places. i know folks on the west end of th...