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Anderson cooper in braden florida, where the winds have really picked up significantly just in the last ten minutes or so, they are really starting to whip here in downtown by, by the river. I just want to get a sense of sort of the wins. Its sort of hard to tell when youre actually in it you get a sense in the light over there. Theres just been a steady downpour of rain and you can see it there. It reflected in the light as i was talking to erin in the last hour, there is a lot of along the riv...

Being felt everywhere. It has come in as a category three storm with 120 mile per hour sustained it went even higher gusts according to the national hurricane center, we are talking to rental rain extremely dangerous wind. What is being described is lifethreatening storm surges that are now pounding portions of the state. At this hour, a lifethreatening flash flood warning has just been issued for nearly 2 million people. That includes tampa, saint petersburg, and clearwater. You just saw bill w...

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 y...

This is going to be a catastrophic storm, it is going to be a potentially deadly storm. Florida prepares for landfall. This is going to be a punch to the base. Face. The fema administrator will join me live. Then it they give the money to illegal immigrants. The expresident using the disaster to spread his lies. What are they talking about? stop it. The dangerous consequences of using a tragedy to get yourself elected. Dont listen to anything or anybody who is trying to make you more afraid tha...

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. Hell 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 lets show you what it looks like on the roads already floo...

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 tes...

That time to get out is now maybe helene was just a rehearsal for whats to come. A helene was a surge, but milton is a monster this case is not about regulating the content that is shown to tiktok users. Its about tiktoks, old bad conduct, the damage being done to young people could be permanent donald trump has this. Desire to be a dictator. He admires strongmen and he gets played by them because he thinks that theyre his friends shares. They go yeah just like the beautiful city of milwaukee ne...

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 ...

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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 theyre 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, weve been emphasizing the size and the intensity of the storm and the direction in which its approaching, which is unusual and really raises that storm surge risk for ...