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Begin only two hours from now conditions in the Hurricane Strike Zone are growing much more dangerous by the minute. As milton unleashes ferocious winds torrential rains, and a slew of destructive tornadoes. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world im Wolf Blitzer a youre in the Situation Room were following every angle of the major Breaking News in florida right now Hurricane Milton taking aim at the Tampa Bay Region and now on a faster track toward a devastating landfall, this Monster Storm is posing a grave a ....
Need to leave, certainly, we would encourage that. now, one of the questions that had a lot, in situations like this, last year, the state suffered through hurricane laura and delta, both striking within a month of one another. how is this taking a toll on the city? has the city even recovered from last year s storms? i mean, we have, we had hurricane theta which was a category 3, on landfall, it came through very quickly. but it did cause significant power issue which is is something i inspect from this storm. within a few days we were able to restore power and have secondary power which we had a national election at all of our precincts which is impressive. we are a resilient city. covid has taken a toll on everybody. he had a recordingbreaking hurricane season last year. ....
And that is part of the issue that we ve got. miami is in a situation where it is surrounded by rising waters, and there are waters that flood streets in moderate rains. they have a lot more than moderate rains now, they have a storm surge pushing in. important to remember while the storm is much more serious on the west coast of florida, the pattern of wind is that the wind is coming off the ocean from the east to the west, which is why miami, ft. lauderdale, hollywood, hallandale, all those places are getting water. they re going to get a lot less storm surge than anticipated. no serious storm surge anticipated in areas north of miami but this thing is about to get pretty serious, if it hasn t already, more than three quarter million people are without power in florida. so for the next several hours, brian, you re going to have a lot of work on your hands. thank you, my friend. thanks for hours of coverage leading up to this. you ve gotten us on landfall. ....