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Forecasters are warning this will be a catastrophiclevel storm when it makes landfall overnight along florida's west coast. Welcome to a new hour of america's newsroom, i'm dana perino and hi to you, bill. Bill: good morning to you. Bill hemmer live in orlando 100 miles due east of tampa, florida. The entire part of this state will get whacked starting later tonight. As we track this storm, right now 155 mileperhour winds, category 4 storm. A track we're watching between clear water near tampa and down to fort myers. At some point somebody will feel the effects of this monster out there that i...

More than 5 1/2 million people are under voluntary or mandatory evacuation orders in florida tonight as the state braces for the impact of hurricane milton. Tolls were waived, highway shoulders were open to try to ease clogging as florida residents took to the roads to get out of this storm's way. Hurricane milton is expected to make landfall in florida late tomorrow night or early thursday morning. And, well, anything could change in the next 24 hours, milton is expected to drive straight through central florida. The first direct strike by a hurricane in areas of tampa in more than a century....

Hurried preparations, there's also a new worry. Limited resources. Gas stations literally running on empty, and grocery store shelves picked clean. Nbc's marisa is joining us from tampa. Jay gray is standing by in ft. Myers. And meteorologist michelle grossman is tracking the storm for us. The track of this storm has shifted slightly since yesterday. Where do we expect landfall now? yeah, this has kind of wobbled back and forth, ten miles north or south. As we go throughout time, we are anticipating that westcentral u. S. Coast impact on the state of florida. We are looking at a category 4 sto...

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...