Can with hurricane milton. Now cat five storm heading straight for tampa, florida, which hasn't taken a direct hit since 1921. Also live the latest from hardhit north carolina and the lies the former president continues to tell about the relief efforts. And later on the oneyear anniversary of the october 7 terror attack would check back in with a woman still waiting for her family being held hostage to come home good evening. Thanks for joining us. It took hurricane milton less than 24 hours to go from an 80 mile an hour storm to 100 names 80 mile an hour monster, one of the fastestgrowing hurricanes ever. And on the path that its on, it could also be the first in more than 100 years to directly hit tampa, florida, a city largely at sea level, or even a smaller storm could do serious damage and which is still cleaning up from his brush with hurricane helene, which may be why people began leaving today and why as many as 6600 ambulances today began evacuating patients from area hospitals and nursing facilities. Tampa's airport closes tomorrow morning, 51 florida counties have now declared emergencies evacuation orders have also gone out for some barrier islands. The national hurricane center, just out with a new bulletin and i want to go right now to cnn media urologists, chad myers. So how did this storm intensifies so rapidly? and what are the coming hours look like absolutely no shear for it to be torn apart and extremely warm record, warm water down there. And now we're into this thing called a loop current. The loop current is the water that comes out of the caribbean just to the east it's of canned, which is the warmest water yet so 180 miles per hour, this thing will hit the west coast of florida. Is it going to be on the south side of the cone to the north? i don't know yet. We're still probably 36 hours away from really getting an idea of where this goes. But hurricane hunters are in it right now and they found the winds still at 100 80 miles per hour and intense storm. I can't imagine being in that aircraft and flying around, seeing what's going there and getting bounced around because what was a 50 mile per hour storm? just 36 hours ago, is now 180 and yes, we will get what's called an eyewall replacement cycle when that and her iowa right now, it's only four miles around. If you were inside the eye it's two miles to that side of the eyewall and to miles to that side of the eyewall that will eventually collapse. And a larger eyewall will form around the outside and the pressure will go up and the wind speed will go down. We expect that when you get a big storm like that, that just happens all the time but look, what's going to happen here. Major hurricane winds in this entire purple area, hurricane winds all the way past the east coast. There will be 1 million or more people without power guess where the power men are, guess with a line. People are there up in the carolinas trying to get their power back on. This take a very long time. Power could be out for weeks, if not longer. Now, you talked about the storm surge in tampa with helene was about seven feet. The forecast right now is ten to 15 feet. So double the surge that they had from helene. And how much damage was done there. There will be homes that no longer exists, especially along the coast. That's just obviously going to happen when you get a ten foot surge and homes are right on the beach there going to be missing. We can't have people in those houses that are missing this is the problem that's why you need to go to date. The great news about this. And unlike what we were in charlie years ago, this did the rapid intensification days ahead of time. So we have the knowledge that it's going to be a big storm charlie was down here, it just went boom and all of a sudden, 12 hours later, it was onshore this at least is giving us a little bit of time to get out of the way. All the models here, obviously on the west coast of florida some though much farther to the south, if you remember, we were waiting for charlie and tampa and it was weighed down here in punta gorda. And so that can happen. It can turn they still do when they get close to land, they can turn flood watch in effect, obviously four to eight inches of rainfall. Some models now predicting probably in the neighborhood of about 15 inches of rainfall. And that's it's just a freshwater flooding that's possible from alberto to barrel, the very earliest category five in the atlantic, to milton, the very latest category five ever in the atlantic ocean. Chege, it's unclear, just unclear. When do you expect it to make landfall? midnight, wednesday night, thursday morning. Okay. So it will be it will be making significant damage by our time on wednesday night show that you and i will beyond alright. Chad myers. Thank you very much. We'll have more on hurricane milton later in the program, as well as reporting from the areas worst hit by helene in north carolina where the death toll it is still climbing and to that point, fema today said the agency has enough funding to handle the response to hurricanes milton and helene. The fact that it has to reassure people about that speaks not just to the weather lately, but also the political climate. That's because in spite of republican mayors and governors and senators and hurricane affected states saying otherwise, don't trump has been lying again about disaster relief this weekend, he falsely suggested $750 was all storm victims can expect to get from the government they send hundreds of billions of dollars to foreign nations. And you know what bucks. They're offering them $750 to people whose homes homes have been washed away only for immediate needs and only one form of aid, among others, that the government offers. As we reported on friday, fema now has a webpage setup dedicated to addressing false information and rumors, many of which are being amplified by the former president, who has a much bigger you're megaphone they've given over 1 billion to illegal migrants that came in and now they have no money for north carolina, for georgia, for south carolina, and alabama, tennessee, and florida, they saw the fema money just like they stole it from a bank kamala's spent all her fema money billions of dollars on housing for illegal migrants, almost no money because they spent it all on illegal migrants migrants coming into our country. The federal government is not being respected kamala wined and dined in san francisco and all of the people in north carolina, no helicopters, no rescue so again, both democratic and republican elected officials where helene struck have openly pushed back against these lies. Here's north carolina republican senator thom tillis on sunday we get to have a discussion about the failure of this administration's border policies and the billions of dollars that's causing. But right now, not yet. Is it affecting the flow of resources to western north carolina? it is not an a factor to be clear. Okay not at this time there's also new reporting that florida governor ron desantis refused to take multiple stormrelated phone calls from vice versa and harris, he said today he didn't know that you'd called she had this to say when asked about it late today? separately, the support right now and playing political games with this moment in this crisis situations and, it is about political gamesmanship that is doing the job that you took people first. Because the vice president late today joining us now republican strategist, north carolinian doug heye, also a cnn political commentator, alyssa farah griffin, who will be making the case against the foreign president, pennsylvania this week, but did not endorse either candidate and cnn's kristen holmes he's in miami where he is holding the form person holding an october 7 commemoration. Alyssa, your reaction to what trump has been saying it's gross, but it's dangerous. Listen, donald trump work directly with fema and i would actually argue that if all the government agencies, i've ever worked with fema may be the most effective at executing their job. Pete gainer, the former administrator under donald trump, was one of the core response efforts behind the covid response, but also many natural disasters that donald trump had to oversee. He knows this information isn't true and it has real life consequences on the ground, volunteer volunteers have been depressed because they think that there's not a need or they're not able to get to where they need to be famous, spending resources, as you said, to knock down these lot hi, and then you have people who desperately need help who are being told there's no help to get when in fact, there are quite a lot of federal resources out there. And i would just know america's adversaries love this. This is a field day for russia and china who are going to amplify on social media ahead of the election to just okay. Fair and terrorist apart, this is listen, everything becomes politicized and month out from an election. But this is a step further that i've never really seen something like this when you're dealing with multiple horrible national natural disasters at the same time. And it just shows donald trump is willing to go solo. Yeah i mean, doug, you're from north carolina. A lot of your families still there. I'm wondering what you're hearing from people hello on the ground about i mean, are people hearing these lies? is it impacting things at all they sure are in anderson. I got a call on thursday from congresswoman virginia foxx, who represents one of the districts most affected by the hurricane, made it very clear to me that fema assured her and other north carolina members on a call that they have more than enough how funds for helene that they're good, they're and look clearly some of the media attention wasn't where it should have been last weekend and certainly we didn't know the direction of the storm, so some of the resources weren't on the ground there. But when you're spreading disinformation, it means all sorts of agencies. It's not just female, right? it's state agencies, it's the small business administration is not just joe biden or donald trump in this matter. It's a comprehensive federal and state and state's effort what they have to do is then take their eye off the ball to tell people these things are false. And then these things are true. This is the news you can rely on. And this is what you can. It takes they're eye off the ball and makes it that much harder. And there's also brass politics in this, as alyssa mentioned, but it's also stupid politics. The reality is the area of north carolina that was hit is overwhelmingly republican. Donald trump of the, of the 25 counties that are under emergency declaration, donald trump won all of them, but to there are about 185,000 more republicans. There are democrats in this issue, are in that area. So by spreading this misinformation, you're hurting your own voters first and we know donald trump takes his people sort of as a special, special case. He's damaging them for his own political goods. That's malicious christian, i mean, does the trump campaign have any explanation for why they why the former president continues to lie about this response. I mean, it's obvious why he does, and there's obviously a shamelessness obviously that he's used to, but i mean, do they did they have any explanation room here, but what is absolutely no change in posture and that they would disagree with what doug just said about how this impacts hello. Says he is trying to speak to people to use to figure tactic that we have seen him for one or leeming bidenharris administration are false that are happening on the ground. And knighted states of this case, the storm response and to blaming migrants. And in this case, you can actually merge the two he was saying, the bidenharris administration is using money that was supposed to go towards his supporters in order to pay for migrants. Obviously, we know this is not true. Ghana's analysts have are allies. They are not the way things are playing out on the ground who you've heard from republicans who have said that as well. However, this is something that they plan to continue running on and just keep in mind, we are now facing a another hurricane. Expect to hear this narrative going forward listen something that desantis is saying. I didn't know vice president harris had called i guess you could say there's politics that divides version. Harris wants to be seen as being sort of in command and therefore, it's calling desantis. I don't know if there's a role for her that she needs to be calling him, what do you make of that? playing out? i think everyone still being afraid of having that chris christie hugging obama moment of embracing, you a different political partisan. But the reality is it's like i worked for vice president pence and anytime there was a major natural disaster, he would also be calling governors, members of congress in the areas that were affected. It's not just the president, so yes, she's a candidate, but it's also an entirely appropriate thing for the vice president of the united states to be doing it's a moment for him to rise to the occasion of leadership and show hurricanes don't choose republicans or democrats. This is going to be a whole of government effort. And i would just also note that the especially north carolina and we don't even know what damage milton is going to cause. There's going to be years of rebuilding, there's going to need to be congressional supplementals to pay for this. Those are things that are done on a bipartisan basis. This in donald trump stoking fear lying about it now doesn't exactly bode well for if he is to be reelected, that he's going to assist those areas that he's not going to let politics affect it and he's going to work across the aisle to get people with just a bummer because i mean, disasters, wars, it usually bring people together bring the country together, brings leaders together. And two, in the midst of this, in this most painful moment to use people's pain and to try to manipulate it just seems particularly egregious. I understand, doug, that you're also hearing kind of new threads. Miss information, they're starting to circulate related to the storm yeah. We're