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 administration, noaa, took steal drones on the gulf of mexico. They showed 40 nautical miles away from meltons eye, the winds were gusting 76 miles an hour and waves were cresting up at 28 feet high. That powerful storm is hitting land. For those not in the eyewalls direct path, there is reason to be vigilant as much of florida is under a tropical Storm Watch or warning. The national Weather Service also issued warnings in parts of south and central florida, where milton has spawned 10 tornadoes. Airports,
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 Tests to putin was unbelievably thwarted by the friends and the kremlin himself who said, yep, he did that. We begin tonight with Hurricane Milton barrelling towards the West Coast of Florida And Set to make landfall in the next few hours. This is a Nightmare Scenario for more than 3 Million people who live in the Tampa Bay area. Which could see widespread destruction. 15 florida counties that are home to more than 7 Million people are under mandatory evacuation orders. Local officials have been pr
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 Helene. And that tonight for the second time in nearly as many weeks is expecting Record Storm Surge roads are jammed, Gas Running low in the area are not available in some places. I want to show you something that you dont see too often in florida. Take a look that Treasure Island near tampa and st. Petersburg and your Ghost Town after people evacuated, one person who is there, our Boris Sanchez will check in with him shortly. An astronaut aboard the Spacex Capsule publish this time last video tod
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 about actually until friday, we were able to come out and do some rescues for families with kids that decided to try and hunker down and that was not a good idea. I hope that people learned from that and decided to leave. Once we leave, therell be no first responder here. If you dont take heed youre on your own update on Hurricane Milton is now out of this hour. The Monster Storm is a category four storm thats downgraded slightly from where it was as a cat five Wind Speeds are now up 100 now at
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