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This tuesday night. Good evening once again, i'm stephanie ruhle. Tonight we're tracking hurricane milton, the extremely dangerous category 5 storm that's likely to make landfall in florida in just about 24 hours. We'll have much more on the storm in a moment. But we are also just four weeks out from election day as they say game on. If you have not registered to vote yet, you're running out of time. Today is the deadline to register in new mexico. Tomorrow is the deadline in missouri. A new poll from the new york times in sienna has good news for vice president harris, showing her leading don...

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...

Coast in a few hours. Tonight, milton expected to bring a mix of storm surge, high winds and power outages to communities across florida. More than 1 million people are under evacuation orders with local officials urging people in vulnerable zones to get to safety now. If you were as blunt as we have seen a public official be. If people stay in the evacuation zones and try to ride it out, they will die. Is that still your message this morning? wherever that storm surge comes, if it's 10 to 15 feet and people are trying to ride this out in singlestory structures, there's no place to go. At any ...

Going to be different? and so the difference between what they're used to and what this will be, as a way to, hopefully, give them more encouragement to know that they need to get out? thank you, madam vice president. Yes, we are emphasizing the size and intensity of the storm and the direction at which it's approaching which is unusual and really raises that storm surge risk for the west coast of florida. We typically see hurricanes approach the west coast of florida from the south or southeast parallel to the coast. This track, more perpendicular to the coast raises the storm surge risk. And...

Before making landfall earlier than expected tonight in florida. Forecast to bring up to 15 feet of lifethreatening storm surge to some regions, up to 18 inches of rain in areas like tampa, and catastrophic, sustained winds. At this hour, parts of florida are already feeling the effects as milton grows in size and moves closer to the west coast. More than 1 million people are under mandatory evacuation orders. Thousands are still fleeing the state in search of higher ground, as the window to get out starts to close, and resources dwindle. As of this morning, 60% of tampa bay's service stations...