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Set to make landfall in florida roughly 24 hours from now, we've just gotten a new advisory this very hour milton is currently moving towards florida's gulf coast, tracking towards the sarasota area and potentially inching even further south and it's going to get a lot bigger before it gets there. That means a life lifethreatening storm surge potentially reaching up to 15 feet but this hurricane is going to impact the entire state. Everyone on edge because any wobble in its trajectory could actually impact which part gets hit the hardest, and to make matters worse, the area, as you know, is st...

Following breaking news as a monster hurricane. Milton is just just hours away from making landfall on florida's west coast. It's already making its presence known through winds and rain and bringing florida, it's most tornado watch morning's in a day on record, 90 tornado warnings and counting, you're looking at one of them. One of those tornadoes crossing and i75, here's a tower cam that was airing i'm on cnn affiliate woio and kay as a reported tornado tore through matlab shaye. If you want to understand how truly devastating the storm could be, just listen to how president joe biden descri...

ripped through the state as a powerful category 4 storm. almost a category 5. the highest, most powerful kind of you hurricane there is. sheriffs deputies in sarasota county are going door-to-door right now in the hidden river community warning neighbors about the potential for flooding because of a possible levee break. days after the storm, the effects still being felt across the sunshine state. meantime, more than 1.2 million floridians are without power. officials say it's unclear when electricity will be restored to the hardest hit areas in the western part of florida. ian is be...

southwest florida as a category 4 hurricane, making it the most powerful storm to ever hit that area of the state. the death toll now standing at 45, but that number could rise as crews reach areas cut off by flooding. people who chose to ride out the storm describe their harrowing experiences. >> the water was up to my balcony here. it was just you could dive off the balcony. just water everywhere, stuff floating on it. i never stay again. they say evacuate, go. >> right now the remnants of ian are moving along the country's northeast after the storm hit georgetown county, south car...

miles per hour. those winds caused storm surges. a major hazard for this low-lying region. at this hour, more than 1.2 million people across florida remain without electricity. as of late yesterday, parts of the county, where i am now, where it made landfall, they did not have access to clean drinking water. many people have no running water whatsoever. it is hard to know exactly how many people are displaced right now. officials estimate that it is in the tens of thousands. at least 34 people have been confirmed dead so far. 12 of them right here in lee county. after barreling throu...