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To bring high water to coastal communities, and several tornadoes have been sighted. There are also concerns that debris from hurricane helene — which struck the same region less than two weeks ago — may become airborne due to high winds, creating added danger. As weve mentioned, hurricane milton is now a category three storm as it collides with the coastline in sarasota county. The city of tampa is also in the path of the storm. Floridas governor ron desantis gave this update on the storm a...

Alastair cooks tally surpassing the previous best of sir alastair cook. And finally, he now stands alone as englands most prolific test batter, ending day three in multan on 12,578 runs. Now, at 33 years of age, root is now fifth on the all—time run scorers�* list. He is 3,348 runs behind the indian legend sachin tendulkar, who is top of the pile there. So after passing that english record with an impressive knock, how was he feeling? tired, more than anything. Its been a long day. But, yeah...

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...

Thank you for having me again, stephen. Ambassador danny danon in new york, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me again, stephen. Its a pleasure to have you on hardtalk. Now, israel is currently fighting a multi—front war. How much pressure, both military and diplomatic, would you say israel is under right now? stephen, a year after october 7th and israel is still under attack, not only from hamas in gaza, but also from lebanon, yemen, iraq, iran. We have seven fronts, and unfortunately...

People are being urged to leave coastal and low—lying areas of florida as hurricane milton, expected to be the biggest storm to hit the area in a century, moves closer to the states west coast. President biden has warned evacuating is a matter of life and death. These pictures are coming into us live from the state of florida. This is the sunshine skyway bridge, the gateway to tampa bay, normally a very busy road even early in the day but pretty much deserted now, clearly very exposed and cert...

Saying that it should be restarted. He also discussed the imperative of getting people back to the north of gaza. We told you in the last hour theres a huge operation on the ja palyer refugee camp. They agreed to remain in close contact over the coming days. Most directly through their national security teams. That was interesting because were waiting for that response to the iranian ballistic missile attack. Note mentioned that in the readout from the white house. Youre up to speed with that. I...

Taking aim at the state of florida. Residents are now being urged by authorities to shelter in place. Milton is projected to be a category three storm when it makes landfall. Forecasters say its currently on track for the city of sarasota. The city of tampa is also near the path of the storm. Heres a live look now. This is fort myers beach in florida, you can see those powerful winds and lots of rain already striking the close there, and very large waves as well napping across the beach, you can...

Strength. Lets have a look at fort myers. You can see the sea level warnings of the storm surge that will come as a result of the high winds as a result of the heavy rainfall that is expected, and you can see already just rainfall that is expected, and you can see alreadyjust how wild of those conditions look right there. It is on course to strike just out of the of sarasota. You can see it here beneath tampa bay on floridas west coast. Milton has the potential to be one of the most destructive ...