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Im Chris Jansing live at Msnbc Headquarters in new york city. A day of terror, fear, and pain continues to multiply. As we speak, the war that began with the hamas Attacks On Israel One year ago today shows no sign of ending, with thousands dead, millions more suffering. Among them, the parents of an israeliamerican hostage still being held, Omar Nutra. They will join me later this hour. Plus, the shockingly Powerful Storm Bearing down on western florida. Hurricane milton surging from a tropical...

just moments ago, governor ron desantis revealed that all of lee county is out of water. and here in fort myers with the sun now up, you can see the level of wreckage residents are gramming with in the wake of this brutal storm. im just going to give you a piture of a random sm of the brutality of this storm. here on the marina, there was a couple shops a little b and b getting ready to set up shop above it. the wine bottles that were stored in here are perfect. none of them broke. and...

Several tornadoes touched down in the San Antonio area 7 years ago, creating significant damage

Those hurricane conditions all the way up into georgia. so here is the latest. this is the midnight advisory, typically they only come out every three hours but when the center is easily tracked by doppler radar we can thank the adad the national weather service novembers tampa bay, we get these hourly updates. so its motion is off to the north at 17 miles per hour. look at the minimum central pressure, that has been dipping fast over the last several hours. after that well-formed inner core was...

Now. its not at charleston anymore. were towards georgetown and myrtle beach. but the max winds, 96 mile an hour wind gust is going to cause damage. theres a lot of beautiful trees in this area of the coastal plain here. we will see problems with trees down and its raining so much now that loosens the soil up. that makes it easier for the trees to tip over. this is probably worse than if it was dry 96-mile-per-hour wind. so well see how that plays out even farther to the north, well have scatter...

But you talk about the tropical storm force winds right now. how much do you see windows boarded up, doorways and the like? >> reporter: you know, on canal street, which is just down the block, there are a lot of windows boarded up. and in and around these streets on dauphin weve seen a number of places boarded up. i can see one down the street here. looks like a small hotel, a boutique hotel. thats all boarded up. folks are taking precautions. not as much as i would have thought. but, look, wit...

Morgan, southwest of new orleans. give me a sense of how things are there. >> reporter: to hear bill say the eye may not arrive for another three or four hours, the winds significantly stronger, the gusts feel like theyre tropical storm status and we know its only going to get stronger in the hours ahead. right now a mandatory evacuation that went into effect about 48 hours ago. i spoke to the fire chief. he tells me he believes about 60% of the people got out of town, but that still leaves an a...

People feel this will be the strongest storm to hit the area since then. one gentleman who grew up in houma told me when he returned to town following that hurricane it looked like a bomb had gone off. they hope thats not the case again. the consistent power ida is bringing, well find out soon enough. again, i cannot overstate the potential threat that it brings to this community as the eye could be passing directly over us here within just a few hours as we approach this live shot, alex. we saw...

Going into that eye. to get landfall it has to go through the center of the storm. we may get that. we may not. if we dont at that location the storm has to cross over the bay and then come onshore here on the west side of the bay and heading up to homa and that will be about three to four hours from now. we may get one landfall and a second after it crosses the bay. in grand isle, we had 146-mile-per-hour wind gusts reported. its amazing the instrument even held up. the gauge just told us its u...

Take on some of the storm surge but when you have sustained winds that strong theyre anticipating a significant loss of power and we know firefighters themselves will be hunkering down for hours on end before even they feel its safe to get out and try to help people who may be in need. i had a chance to speak to one gentleman who was trying to leave town, had family members that were working and couldnt leave, so he chose to stay behind. and here is what he had to say about idas approach. take a...