1877866 8555. Good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We are following Breaking News. Hurricane milton is quickly getting more intense, even more intense in the Gulf Of Mexico at this hour. And taking aim directly at central florida. Its at category four strength right now but is expected to be a cat five again later today. Were also getting this new Exclusive Video from madeira beach florida, a Town Standing right in miltons path. This is debris piled up from the Hurricane Helene cleanup, still posing a danger as miltons winds could pick all of this up and shoot it in all sorts of directions as the storm pummels this area. Something to be on the lookout for if you live in that area. Got to clean that up. Lets begin our coverage in Fort Myers florida. Flood waters there could reach ten feet in some areas. Thats where we find cnns Carlos Juarez and carlos thats a big part of the story, right . The Storm Surge. And it could just really come up through
We are still in crisis mode, still in search and rescue mode still in search and rescue mode. Norah: battleground blitz liz cheney hits the campaign trail with vice president harris while donald trump is in michigan. Plus our interview with a top justice department official tasked with protecting the u. S. From foreign election interference. Iran, russia and china are trying to strike at the heart of democracy. I think that s a very fair statement. Norah: and tonight s eye on america. The major city that has seen an unprecedented drop in homelessness, how the mayor is combating the crisis with an unprecedented solution. Cbs evening news starts now. Good evening i m norah o donnell and thank you for joining us. We have some breaking news tonight out of memphis. There are verdicts in the federal trial of three police officers accused in the fatal beating death of tyre nichols during a traffic stop last year. Elise preston was in the courtroom, what can you tell us? reporter: norah, all t
Resource tonight and angry president biden responds to donald trump accusing him of lying about the government s response to hurricane helene. Politics colliding with a natural disaster. As officials are still searching for survivors tonight. Meanwhile, israel has just launched a ground offensive into lebanon where airstrikes are lighting up the skies from beirut to damascus, or sit in teams are live in the middle east and as trump is calling for the police to get violent and calling his opponent. And i m quoting him now, mentally disabled holds a big name republican will join me as he is endorsing vice president harris. I m kaitlan collins, and this is the source tonight one of the deadliest storms and are nascent nation s history is colliding with the closest election in modern history. But we cannot let that a clubs what is happening tonight inside these states, inside north carolina and georgia is a hundreds of people who are still missing or unaccounted for this evening. The death