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Damaging winds, and up to 13 feet of lifethreatening storm surge. President biden warning, it looks like the storm of the century. Officials fearing the impact could reshape florida's coastline. Millions urged or ordered to evacuate. The highways jammed. Many gas stations running out. The national weather service warning now is the time to shelter in place. Our full team coverage here in florida and al roker with a new track as we come on the air. Also tonight, the storm impacting the race for the white house. Fema racing to reassure those in milton's path on the heels of the devastation from ...

Keep it here on msnbc. We'll be here throughout the storm for you and i'll see you here tomorrow, same time, same place. For now, i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. Jose diazbalart picks up our coverage right now. Good morning. 11:00 a. M. Eastern, 8:00 a. M. Pacific. I'm jose diazbalart. We begin with breaking news. Hurricane milton closing in on florida's gulf coast, expected to make landfall early tomorrow as a devastating major hurricane. Right now, milton is a category 4 storm, churning 100 miles southwest of tampa, set to bring damaging winds and a dangerous and potentially histori...

Coast in a few hours. Tonight, milton expected to bring a mix of storm surge, high winds and power outages to communities across florida. More than 1 million people are under evacuation orders with local officials urging people in vulnerable zones to get to safety now. If you were as blunt as we have seen a public official be. If people stay in the evacuation zones and try to ride it out, they will die. Is that still your message this morning? wherever that storm surge comes, if it's 10 to 15 feet and people are trying to ride this out in singlestory structures, there's no place to go. At any ...

Going to be different? and so the difference between what they're used to and what this will be, as a way to, hopefully, give them more encouragement to know that they need to get out? thank you, madam vice president. Yes, we are emphasizing the size and intensity of the storm and the direction at which it's approaching which is unusual and really raises that storm surge risk for the west coast of florida. We typically see hurricanes approach the west coast of florida from the south or southeast parallel to the coast. This track, more perpendicular to the coast raises the storm surge risk. And...

Developments, but we begin at the weather map with al roker. As if the threat of this potentially historic storm isn't enough, we're already seeing tornadoes. That's right. And this was kind of the worst case scenario, chris, because we were talking about this for the last two days. We were going to see these tornadoes, especially as it approached, and sure enough that's what happened. Let's show you what we've got going on right now. As far as our map is concerned, we are looking at a category 4 storm. 150 miles now southwest of tampa. It's got 130 miles per hour winds. It's moving northeast ...