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Alert as devastating wind and rains and tornado and storm surge ripping through my free state of florida tonight and its rough as many people in the state our prayers are with them at the worst yet to come. The hurricane made landfall on the gulf coast as we take you live on the ground. We will check in with kamala harris who is pretending to care about hurricanes for the first time ever. With 27 days until an inflection point in the country be an election day after two weeks of being missing in...

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...

That storm surge could be the worst part of this storm. So we will be on that during this hour. Ill be watching. Thanks alex. Thank you. We are going straight to bill karins. Msnbcs meteorologist. Nbc news meteorologist for the latest on the situation there. Bill, what can we expect now in florida? this is when all the damage is happening. We cant show you where the worst storm surge is. But we know it is moving in. We have had reports of a ten foot storm surge in sarasota. As we go down the coa...

Out of florida, millions of people under threat from monster size hurricane milton. That powerful category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 120 miles an hour has come ashore. The eyewall made landfall half an hour ago in siesta key, which is a barrier island off of the coast of sarasota. Right now, the storm with a diameter of 450 miles, is bringing lifethreatening winds and potentially devastating storm surge up to 13 feet. Earlier today, the national oceanic and atmospheric administrati...

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...

Would you have done something differentl y thanbiden du president biden during the past four years? there is, donna, the thing that comes to mind, kamalas is media blitz goes off the rails. Why is she trying to politicize this? i dont have time for political games. Ive got people whose live games. Speople are on the line. People are dying and the democrat a ands are lying. Theyre going to die. Hopefully, were going to be able to accommodate the voters and somewhat take voting to the voters. They...

It is a category for trans storm aunt storm surge head up to 15 feet and heavy rainfall and devastating winds will make it a lifethreatening event. Milton makes landfall and that is expected tonight. John: that we hours of the morning and we are awaiting an update from the white house on that old government response and warning people get out now before it is also so late. We lead tonight around 11:00, midnight, early thursday morning and has picked up speed so just know they are less than 24 ho...

Being taken care of. And it really is its unamerican, it really is. People are scared to death. People know their lives are at stake, all that theyve worked for, all that they own, all that they value. President joe biden yesterday addressing misinformation on helene recovery efforts spread by donald trump and his allies. And that comes as hurricane milton is gaining strengthen in the gulf and expected to make landfall in the next 24 hours. Well have the latest storm track and a live report from...

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 10...

Coast in a few hours. Tonight, milton expected to bring a mix of storm surge, high winds and power outages to communities across florida. More than 1 million people are under evacuation orders with local officials urging people in vulnerable zones to get to safety now. If you were as blunt as we have seen a public official be. If people stay in the evacuation zones and try to ride it out, they will die. Is that still your message this morning? wherever that storm surge comes, if its 10 to 15 fee...