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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...

Hello and welcome to today's verified. We start in florida, bracing itself for what could be the worst storm in 100 years. There are huge traffic jams across the state as more than 5 million people respond to evacuation orders ahead of hurricane milton. We will be live on the ground in just a moment but i can show you first are the pictures from space. It gives you an idea of the size of this monster storm, officials think it could still double in size before making landfall. This is the live tracking shot from the national hurricane center. The category four storm is due to make landfall toni...

Because it comes about this time every day, 11:00 a. M. Eastern, we get an update from the national hurricane center. And we'll wait to see what they say about the massive hurricane milton that caused 6 million people to evacuate in its path in the state of florida. The life threatening storm is now moving toward florida's gulf coast. Forecasters say it will slam into that peninsula. Late tonight or into the early hours of tomorrow. What they are looking at is exactly where it will hit. They aren't saying it is not going to hit. Some forecasters are saying is storm surge could be higher than w...

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...

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...