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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...

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...

Federal response to these lifethreatening hurricanes political yet again despite officials saying misinformation has made the disaster relief all the more difficult. Plus new information tonight on multiple phone calls between vladimir putin and former president trumps since he left office. The detail from bob woodward in his latest book. Good evening. We start tonight with hurricane milton gaining strength at this moment and headed toward tampa, florida a region still reeling from hurricane hel...

Strength and makes landfall also tonight. Former president making the federal response to these lifethreatening hurricanes, political yet again, despite officials saying misinformation has made the disaster relief all the more difficult plus new information tonight on multiple phone calls between vladimir putin and former president trump since he left office. The details from bob woodward in his latest book. Good evening. We start tonight with hurricane milton gaining strength at this moment and...

Hello, im kasie hunt. Welcome to cnn this morning, the breaking news, the national hurricane center out with a brand new update it on hurricane milton. Milton continues to be a dangerous category five hurricane, expected to bring lifethreatening storm surge and dangerous winds along floridas gulf coast practically all of central florida remains under a hurricane warning with landfall expected as early as tonight with evacuation orders clogging floridas major interstates, a new problem growing fu...

Need to watch that very carefully. Yeah, secretary buttigieg, 63, address fishing just said that is a major focus of his today and will be tomorrow. Matt egan. Thank you. Thank you, john. Great to see you. Brand new era of cnn news central starts now about it. Were going to get hit and its going to be hard everybody out from milton. And were trying to get all the debris up from helene you cant take no chance at all. I know that this storm is the storm. What are you guys doing? were actually saw ...

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 ...

The tampa bay powerful category four storm is barreling toward the state officials are warning of lifethreatening storm surge and heavy landfall and unleashed its fury overnight, we are awaiting a press conference. At any moment from florida governor ron desantis. Well bring that to you live in the meantime, we have team coverage of hurricane milton. We have seen as randi kaye and isabel rosales standing by in florida. But first lets go to cnn meteorologist derek van dam. Derek, this is still a ...

Begin only two hours from now conditions in the hurricane strike zone are growing much more dangerous by the minute. As milton unleashes ferocious winds torrential rains, and a slew of destructive tornadoes. Welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world im wolf blitzer a youre in the situation room were following every angle of the major breaking news in florida right now hurricane milton taking aim at the tampa bay region and now on a faster track toward a devastating la...