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Anderson cooper in braden florida, where the winds have really picked up significantly just in the last ten minutes or so, they are really starting to whip here in downtown by, by the river. I just want to get a sense of sort of the wins. It's sort of hard to tell when you're actually in it you get a sense in the light over there. There's just been a steady downpour of rain and you can see it there. It reflected in the light as i was talking to erin in the last hour, there is a lot of along the river here. There's a lot of palm trees, a lot of these really large branches of these palm trees ar...

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...

Out of florida, millions of people under threat from monster size hurricane milton. That powerful category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 120 miles an hour has come ashore. The eyewall made landfall half an hour ago in siesta key, which is a barrier island off of the coast of sarasota. Right now, the storm with a diameter of 450 miles, is bringing lifethreatening winds and potentially devastating storm surge up to 13 feet. Earlier today, the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa, took steal drones on the gulf of mexico. They showed 40 nautical miles away from melton's ...

Biggest storm of the century could make landfall within the hour. Live images from st. Petersburg on your screen right now, you see our bill weir there in that picture. He'll be with us in a moment hurricane milton now on a much faster track toward land, expected to hit florida with 150 mile an hour wind gusts and a destructive storm surge. Conditions deteriorating by the minute officials now saying it is no longer safe to be outside. And let's show you what it looks like on the roads already flooded right now, the monster storm, one of the most powerful on records still growing after nearly d...

Washington. A fox news alert. A massive hurricane that could be the most destructive in the history of the country is about to slam into florida. Hurricane milton could make landfall as early as 8:00 p. M. Eastern, exactly one hour from now. Now, the national weather service says the window to evacuate has closed. Shelter in place now. Tampa, fort myers and orlando are all expected to face lifethreatening impacts. Tornadoes have already been seen and many of florida's west coast beaches are at risk as well of being wiped out. Now, first responders in st. Petersburg have paused all operations. ...