New information tonight on multiple phone calls between vladimir putin and former president trump's since he left office. The details well, 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 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 you don't 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 are boris sanchez will check in with him shortly an astronaut aboard the space spacex capsule published this timelapse video today, giving some idea of the sheer size of this storm and the like lifethreatening trouble at represents president biden today warned that this could be one of the worst storms in 100 years and florida, in fact, the national weather service has storm prediction center says we could see major impacts from the storm as early as tonight warning of possible tornadoes and waterspouts so let's start with chad myers in the cnn weather center in atlanta. What is the latest jud brandnew 8:00 advisory anderson just out now, still 165 miles per hour hurricane hunter aircraft are in the eye and they can confirm those numbers. 440 miles southwest of tampa, moving at ten you can't do the division there and get 44 hours because the storm is expected to pick up speed, pick up speed, turn to the north and then eventually turned to the east. And that's the forecast at this point in time, right through the middle of the treasure coast, anywhere here on the other side of florida as well. So anywhere from tampa all the way down to naples, those you are really in this cone. The cone is the key here, because a lot of this, wherever this makes landfall the southern part is where that ten to 15 foot storm surge is going to take out barrier islands, take out homes, and hopefully you're not there chad, i mean, how likely is it that this is going to drop down to a lesser category storm and any idea exactly what time it would make really start to hit it probably makes tropical storm force winds over the entire state other than the panhandle around 8:00 tomorrow night. So right now, this will be 24 hours show. Everybody will see tropical storm force winds and hurricane force winds will just be now coming on shore. Why is it so hard for us to call where it's going to be? because we can't tell you that there's going to be a wobble out here by about 30 miles to the south earlier today. And now it's kind of wobbled backup to the north. It's those wobbles that are so concerning. Where does it actually go? well, the center now is likely sarasota. If you're sarasota south, that's where that big surge is going to be. Tampa bay maybe a little bit of less surge, but still you're going to get the wind of 125 to 130. So to answer your question, yes, the forecast is still for the wind speed to come down, but the surge will not come down. The surge is already built, its already built in and it's coming here to western florida that's interesting. The surge. It's the surge has already been created by this cat five, and that's going to be the same surge yes. Absolutely. That is exactly what happened in katrina when katrina went from five to three and we thought, oh, maybe 15, 30 feet leno somewhere. It was 26 feet of storm surge and bay st. Louis, even though it was only a category we three borderline for when it made landfall, it had a category five surge and that's what we're seeing here. This is the area that we're seeing in tampa you are not out of the search. One little turn to the left and you're completely back in it. So ten to 15 though from fort myers, even naples, you could get a tenfoot search that will wash over some of your barrier islands. And then we talk about where's it going to hit? well, the answer is everywhere because look, 110 miles per hour all the way from north of tampa, all the way down to fort myers. And then hurricane force all the way completely offshore through daytona through cape canaveral so many people, orlando without power. I can see there'll be millions of customers without power in so many crews are up in the carolinas trying to put those power lines backup gen. Myers, we'll check in with you again. Boris sanchez joins us from treasure island, florida. Again, you're tampa and st. Petersburg. That area, obviously still recovering from helene. What are people you've talked to? there are preparations anderson eerily quiet today on treasure island. This is an area with about 10,000 residents, roughly usually a big tourist destination, but many of the beach front beach front hotels are shut down because of hurricane helene hitting about two weeks ago and there's trash strewn everywhere. This is one of the giant piles that we've seen in pinellas county. This thing is about 20 to 25 feet high, a couple of hundred feet long, and it is full of just random stuff. There's a bag of golf clubs here's a ton of pieces of wood just like this. Imagine this thing coming toward you at 120 miles an hour on top of that, you've got space heaters, you've got all kinds of scrap metal the other issue with this barrier island, like so many others on the other side of the ocean, there's a bay, so you're talking about a ten to 15 and foot storm surge coming in here with a foot of rain more or less estimated to be on top of that. Where is this stuff going to go so in speaking to neighbors that live in the community that have debris lined up outside of their homes. And by the way, we've been seeing this block to block to block across treasure island that's one of their chief concerns. I spoke to a couple of different residents today. One of them, a gentleman named matt who lives in a condo. We lived on the first floor of a condo and he wrote out helene here. He said the water got up to his chest and he panicked and he got out. He was fortunate to get out. This time. It wasn't taking any chances. He saw all this stuff and thought that this what essentially turn into projectiles headed his way. There was another lady who lived in the building next to his. She had some mobility issues. She was contemplating trying to ride out the storm. Fortunately, earlier this afternoon, i saw her family common and ask them and she decided that it was the right decision to leave remember, this island, 7:00 p. M. About an hour forgo access was shut off to everyone anderson. So access was shut off. I mean, has anyone do you know do your knowledge refuse to evacuate link, boris. Oh, check in with him again, joining us now is chief barbara tripp of tampa fire rescue, who is also with us last night. Last night, chief tripp. What's your message to people right now in the evacuation zones in tampa who have not yet evacuated well, good evening. First of all, a lot of people have definitely evacuated the area. They have been listened to the local and state rules as far as the different evacuation zones. So i must say that we might have made the one or two law enforcement has been going door to door and making communication with all the residents and a lot of what taking heat to it the tampa mayor jane castor told cnn, quote, if you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you're going to die do agree with her? well, i don't think she mean it like that. You're going to die. She's pretty much just in the chances of us surviving, especially it all depends on what kind of surge come in. If you end up drowning. And basically to take yourself at a harm, you don't want to contain to keep yourself in harm's so we seen from hurricane helene all of the water that came in and we had to so a lot of rescue. So we don't want to put the first responders at risk trying to save some one. So that's why we telling everybody, please get out because we don't want this to turn into a casualty. I mean, i've covered a lot of hurricanes and men out there a lot in one, they come in, there's a lot of debris flying around in the air, even in just a place where there hasn't been a hurricane that he had recently looking all these pictures, all the debris left from helene. What is this going to be like out on the streets has been working 24/7 ever since helene came through and made a lot of damage and the two areas are the three areas that has been affected we have clear two of them, 100% and one of the areas would probably about ten to 20% that we wasn't able to cover. And we're going to try that first thing tomorrow morning. That's good. What's the plan for tampa fire and rescue once the storm hits tomorrow, obviously traditionally, you fire rescue has to suspend operations until it's safe to go out yes, that is true. So that's why we want everyone to make sure that he too the evacuation because once the wind gets sustained, about 40 miles per hour, we have to cut services and we wouldn't be able to respond once the storm is over and it's safe for us so go and first responders going to go out and evaluate and assess and definitely respond to all the now won one calls with that being said, we urge everyone wants the storm is over, don't do not go outside, do not try to go out and see what's going on. Let the city come in and do an evaluation. And so we can make sure it's safe and clear for people to come out. Well, i wish you the best. Barbara tripp. Thank thank you. Will check in with you throughout the next several days. They say for next guest, dr. Megan martin is a pediatric emergency physician and st. Petersburg, florida. She posted on instagram about she and her kids will be living in the hospital the next few days as she helps with the response it's a cot that i keep in my office about it a couple of years ago during the normal times, anybody can sleep on it, but during hurricanes, i call dibs dr. Megan martin joins us now from st. Petersburg. Thanks for taking the time just talk to us. So you're going to be riding out a hurricane in the hospital where you work with your four kids? i think you're gonna be working tomorrow. How are you feeling about everything with about 24 hours until this begins to really hit you know, i'll be honest, i'm nervous. We're still in the recovery for helene. This is a pretty big storm. It could wobble and come a little bit closer to our direction. The storm surge could just be devastated stating for this area. So i'm honestly i'm a little nervous, but we're going to we're going to keep working. We're going to keep hospitals functioning. We're going to be taking care of the kiddos that come in and just kinda doing our best here. How are your kids how are how are they doing? are they nervous? how old are they the other way? my kids are 6912 and 14. Okay. And they have unlimited screen time right now, so they are living the dream, they are living it up. The older ones kind of understand the younger ones. Just think this is an adventure have you been in a hurricane like i mean, anything similar hurricane. I've lived in florida basically my whole life. We've had a lot of threats in the tampa area, but a lot of times it'll just wobble south and we get really, really lucky in this area. I think it was charlie. I was down there think it was for charlie that it was supposed to hit tampa. It hit punta gorda. I think it was just really devastated when the border charlie, ian, irma. We've been looking at five in the past, but they end up going south and we've just really lucked out. You were working at the hospital during hurricane helene and watched your flood? in real time on cameras posted around your home are showing some of those pictures first of all, how much damage did it sustained, but also what is that like? seeing that in real time happening to your house while you are at work? you know it's not fun, but there's nothing that i can do about it. We knew that this was going to be a big storm with big storm surge. And we did our best to prepare ahead of time, we hired movers, we had stuff in trucks obviously, we couldn't get everything out as you can see, it kind of floating around the living room but it was it was tough i wasn't a biggest i'm not a big fan of watching that kind of damage to our house. We ended up with close to four feet of water throughout the house and we've had to gut it in all the drywall cabinets, bathroom sinks, everything out and we're waiting to fix everything back up until the season passes just because of everything being so busy right now. Yeah. Well and what's your message to people who may not have heated evacuation orders stay safe and be really thoughtful. I posted a video earlier because once the water starts getting too high, you can't open your doors and if your windows are boarded up, you've got some problems so be really thoughtful about what you're doing. And if you have the availability to get out now, the time i also keep coming back to the all this debris from helene i mean, the the we're talking to the fire department. They were saying, would that a lot of it has been picked up? i hope so in treasure island, it looks like there's a lot of it's still still out there. People don't realize that those things get picked up. Though. There's missiles neighborhood really hasn't been addressed yet. I'm in pinellas county, so a different county from hillsborough. We still have a lot of trash on roads and it will all become projectiles, making the situation out there even more dangerous yeah. Well, dr. Megan morgan, i wish you the best and i hope you're of your kids and troye, the screen time thanks so much. Thank you very much. All right. You take care of still ahead tonight before hurricane milton has even made landfall, the foreign president it's already in for the second time in almost as many weeks politicize the federal response will take a look at that. Plus what vice president harris said also night reporting from the new bob woodward book on the long distance relationship between foreign president trump and vladimir putin. That's continued. 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The poll you already know brow the, source with kaitlin collins. Tonight at nine announced he would be postponing and international trip to oversee the hurricane response and about the time florida's governor was telling evacuating residents at a news conference to get out the former president delivered a more political message on his social media site. And i quote, the worst response to a storm or hurricane disaster in us history with another one coming, our country cannot withstand four more years in these competent fools, the whole world is laughing at us. Now, keeping them honest, the federal response to hurricane helene was applauded, actually by republicans and democrats alike. By republican governors and states affected by that massive storm has been superb. We're getting, getting assistance and we're asking for you everything we need i've can credibly appreciate it racket response in the cooperation from the medical team at viva, response was quick from the federal government. We got what we need. He offered that if there's other things we need just to call him directly. Now, the last comment was from georgia governor brian kemp days after the storm made landfall, trump said that camp hadn't been able to get president biden on the phone. Camp earlier that day. He told reporters he had spoken to biden actually, the day before. Today, vice president harris appeared on abc's the view before trump had posted this message, she was asked, why does trump do this? he puts himself before the needs of other i fear that he really lacks empathy on a very basic level to care about the suffering of other people and then understand the role of a leader is it not to beat people down. It's to lift people up especially in a time now, former trump campaign adviser david urban, also jasmine wright, politics reporter for the new side. Notice, and jamal simmons, former communications director for vice president harris i mean, jamal is trump's calculation that this rallies more people than offense if he's making that calculation, is the wrong calculation. The answer comes out the wrong way. It's just so tricky to do this in the midst of a stormy, we just sat here and watched you go through a variety of things with folks were on the ground who are showing what's happening, the devastation, how they're preparing. This isn't a time for politics. I think that's the thing that vice president, the president have both been trying to say to time for for the country to pull together and everybody to pay attention. It's interesting that there was this little backandforth between the vice president and governor desantis in florida, that perhaps you didn't call her back the he thinks he was calling for epcot tick i mean, she was calling because they have a job to do. I'm sure there are lots of things she'd rather do than take to governor desantis on the phone. So they're neglecting the job you're supposed to do in order to play politics. And i think that's a dangerous calculation because most people would