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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 we've 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. Florida's governor ron desantis gave this update on the storm a few hours ago. At this point, it's too dangerous to evacuate safely, so you have to shelter in pl...

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. It's sort of hard to tell when you're actually in it you get a sense in the light over there. There's 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 river here. There's a lot of palm trees, a lot of these really large branches of these palm trees ar...

Barreling down the gulf coast straight into florida's west coast. 120mileanhour winds and violent water pummeling the bridge. And this is santa bell island where floodwaters appear to be swallowing a house. And in fort myers, a tornado rips through neighbourhoods, obliterating properties. The winds are ferocious, the storm churches unstoppable and floridians are worried. Let's go to her senior correspondent in tampa. Steve? jesse, we see rain come down in sheets. The wind is starting to pick up as well, we could see anywhere from 616 inches of rain here that has been going steady for the past ...

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 weir in st. Petersburg. You could see all of that developing there right now, over half 1 million hom...

That storm surge could be the worst part of this storm. So we will be on that during this hour. I'll be watching. Thanks alex. Thank you. We are going straight to bill karins. Msnbc's 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 can't 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 coast, all the way to naples, it's been at least five to six foot storm surge. That is higher than h...