Keep it here on msnbc. Well be here throughout the storm for you and ill see you here tomorrow, same time, same place. For now, im Ana Cabrera reporting from New York. Jose diazbalart picks up our coverage right now. Good morning. 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart. We begin with breaking news. Hurricane Milton Closing in on floridas gulf coast, expected to make landfall early tomorrow as a devastating major hurricane. Right now, milton is a category 4 storm, churning 100 Miles Southwest of tampa, set to bring damaging winds and a dangerous and potentially historic Storm Surge. Schools, airports and many businesses are already closed in florida as People scramble to evacuate in the final hours before the storm hits. And take a look at this, miltons powerful winds shaking up a team of Hurricane Hunters flying through the storm. Meantime, right now, in South Florida, a tornado has broken out near i75. Joining us now from tampa, nbcs Marissa Parra. And also with u
Jose diazbalart picks up our coverage right now. Hurricane milton is Bearing Barreling toward florida as one of the recent hurricanes in recent history and dangerous category 4 storm is churning north of mexicos yucatan peninsula. Milton is set to make landfall in florida late wednesday in to thursday and its expected to trigger a Lifethreatening Storm Surge and it could be the worst storm to hit the Tampa Area in more than a century. The mayor saying if you choose to stay, youre going to die. Joining us is our meteorologist. How are people preparing there . You can probably see some of those Preparation Efforts happening as we speak. This is outside of this is normally a busy wharf and completely shut down. Flood protection barriers are outside of these businesses. People bracing so that they can protect the businesses that are here. We are seeing these kinds of efforts all around tampa. I want to take you to some of what we saw in Treasure Island that is outside of pinellas county. W
Right now on Ana Cabrera reports, one year later israel honoring those killed a year ago today in the Hamas Terror attacks. A day that finds hostages still in captivity and their families living in limbo. This as the Middle East sits on the brichk of a wider war. Israel launching new strikes in lebanon. We are live in a region consumed by conflict. And breaking news, Hurricane And Storm surge watches in effect in florida this morning as a rapidly intensifying Hurricane Milton hits cat 4 status with Floridas Gulf Coast in its sights. Plus the race for the White House less than a month ago and both sides amping up their presence on the airwaves and on the trail. Hello on this busy Monday Morning it is 10 00 a. M. Eastern, 7 00 a. M. Pacific, im Ana Cabrera reporting from new york. Today marks one year since the October 7th attacks on israel and this morning the Middle East is a region on the brink. Commemorations held across Israel Today to mark the deadliest attack on jews since the hol
The deadly attack struck a devastating war in gaza where more than 40,000 people have been killed and more than 97,000 have been injured according to the hamasrun palestinian ministry of health. Joining us now, Nbcs Raf Sanchez in tel aviv. Raf, how has this day been memorialized . Jose, memorials began at 6 29 a. M. , one year to the minute that the Hamas Terror Attack began at the Nova Music Festival site down in southern israel, some two miles from the Gaza Border and that site is now just a vast memorial to the roughly 350 people who were killed there. We were there as the sun came up this morning. There was a Memorial Ceremony attended by israeli president isaac herzog, and they played the last track that festival goers heard on October 7th before the music stopped and the shooting started, and you can really tell, jose, this is grief that remains very, very raw one year on as people came to the site where their brothers, sister, friends, husbands, wives were killed and of course,
Strong before it reaches florida. That wraps up the hour for me. Im jose diazbalart. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Andrea mitchell picks up with nor news right now. Right now, one year later. Israel and the United States mourning the victim of the massacre by hamas on October 7th. Starting at dawn on the site of the Music Festival. Reporter there was a Memorial Ceremony at sunrise here attended by the israeli president and they played the last track that festivalgoers heard on October 7th before the music stopped and the shooting started. There are no memorial ceremonies in gaza. Just another day of palestinian families trying to survive as this war drags on. The Middle East remaining a Flash Point with the Battle In Gaza Evolving and expanding into lebanon, yemen, and potentially iran. Ill be joined this hour by the father of an american israeli hostage also, during his return to butler, pennsylvania, former President Trump and other speakers expanding on the false accusat