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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...

Bill: thank you sean we are live here as milton is a major storm here in central and western and eastern florida tonight. Hurricane milton battering florida moving on shore making landfall as a category three storm 90 minutes ago downgraded earlier from a category five in the gulf of mexico. Lifethreatening storm with a surge upwards of 10 feet expected in several areas of the west coast. And it's a very fierce. We've got live coverage we will get to it right now. Steve has been in tampa all day adam is live in the weather centre. What are you seeing right now tonight cree. A sideways rain wit...

This is going to be a catastrophic storm, it is going to be a potentially deadly storm. Florida prepares for landfall. This is going to be a punch to the base. Face. The fema administrator will join me live. Then it they give the money to illegal immigrants. The expresident using the disaster to spread his lies. What are they talking about? stop it. The dangerous consequences of using a tragedy to get yourself elected. Don't listen to anything or anybody who is trying to make you more afraid than you already are. All in starts right now. It evening from new york, at this moment, hurricane mil...

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...