Hi there, everyone. Its 4 00 in New York. At this hour, millions of people along Floridas Gulf Coast are bracing for one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded in The Atlantic basin. The outer bands of Hurricane Milton are already hitting parts of the state. It is forecast to make landfall some time tonight between 10 00 p. M. Eastern and 2 00 a. M. And is expected to double in size before making landfall. This is the scene right now in ft. Myers, florida, being battered by high winds and rain. The top concern for officials at this moment is making sure that residents get to safety. The window for evacuating is now rapidly closing. Even as the storm is already complicating those efforts. This video shows a tornado touching down near i75 in south florida, thats hundreds of miles from Hurricane Miltons core. Just a few hours ago, president Joe Biden called Hurricane Milton, quote, the storm of the century. And made a plea to people in the Storms Path to please evacuate. First, man
The deadly attack struck a devastating war in gaza where more than 40,000 people have been killed and more than 97,000 have been injured according to the hamasrun palestinian ministry of health. Joining us now, Nbcs Raf Sanchez in tel aviv. Raf, how has this day been memorialized . Jose, memorials began at 6 29 a. M. , one year to the minute that the Hamas Terror Attack began at the Nova Music Festival site down in southern israel, some two miles from the Gaza Border and that site is now just a vast memorial to the roughly 350 people who were killed there. We were there as the sun came up this morning. There was a Memorial Ceremony attended by israeli president isaac herzog, and they played the last track that festival goers heard on October 7th before the music stopped and the shooting started, and you can really tell, jose, this is grief that remains very, very raw one year on as people came to the site where their brothers, sister, friends, husbands, wives were killed and of course,
Nhs checks in school. Welcome to the programme. The mosque was next to hospital, the humanitarian situation is worsening, at least four hospitals closed in Southern Lebanon because of israeli Air Strikes. Officials say they have had to turn away emergency patients. The World Health Organization says at least 37 Health Care facilities have now closed since israel began its Air Bombardment of lebanon two weeks ago. In the northern part of tripoli and israeli strike on an Apartment Building is reported to have killed a Hamas Commander and three members of his family. Israel has yet to comment on strikes in Northern Israel this morning. Lebanons capital, pummelled by explosions yet again. This was the scene overnight, one week on since the leader of hezbollah was killed, this conflict is escalating. And the suffering of the lebanese people is intensifying. The United Nations says that most of the 900 shelters that have appeared across the country are now full. Hundreds of men, women and ch