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♪ brian: 7:00 a. M. On the east coast, wednesday, october 9th, this is fox & friends. Steve: it is. We start this hour of fox & friends with a fox weather alert. Look at those live images right now from tampa and fort myers. Rain and wind picking up in florida as a category 5 hurricane named milton is barreling toward the state. Florida congressman byron donalds is standing by with an urgent warning. He is with us in two minutes. Lawrence: while americans are scrambling to find safety, the white house is brushing off criticism of their emergency response as misinformation. A lot of misinform...

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...

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...

Stores are closed. A lot of velocity, it will bring a lot of hazards, a lot of damage. They conditions are getting worse by the minute. This is already happening. Here it is, it is on the ground. We need to prepare for catastrophic impacts. Neil: get ready because it is almost on, tampa and fort myers, as florida braces for impact. Hurricane milton becoming category three storm ours away from making landfall. The outer bands are already hitting, dropping from airports and military bases, schools and colleges and theme parks are closed as this monster moves in. Millions in its path or heading o...

It is a category for trans storm aunt storm surge head up to 15 feet and heavy rainfall and devastating winds will make it a lifethreatening event. Milton makes landfall and that is expected tonight. John: that we hours of the morning and we are awaiting an update from the white house on that old government response and warning people get out now before it is also so late. We lead tonight around 11:00, midnight, early thursday morning and has picked up speed so just know they are less than 24 hours out from actually less than 12 hours out. That will happen south of the eye wall will likely lea...