Hello and welcome to todays verified. We start in florida, bracing itself for what could be the worst storm in 100 years. There are huge Traffic Jams across the state as more than 5 Million people respond to Evacuation Orders ahead of Hurricane Milton. We will be live on the ground in just a moment but i can show you first are the pictures from space. It gives you an idea of the size of this monster storm, officials think it could still double in size before making landfall. This is the live Tracking Shot from the national hurricane center. The category four storm is due to make landfall tonight. It is only brushed past mexico, causing flooding. On the florida peninsula, relative calm but they expect wind speeds of up to 160 mph and 3 4 Metre Storm surges. The pictures from tallahassee, where in the next few minutes we expect to get the latest briefing from the florida governor Ron Desantis and other emergency officials. We will carry that live when it starts. We can start this hour by
1877866 8555. Good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We are following Breaking News. Hurricane milton is quickly getting more intense, even more intense in the Gulf Of Mexico at this hour. And taking aim directly at central florida. Its at category four strength right now but is expected to be a cat five again later today. Were also getting this new Exclusive Video from madeira beach florida, a Town Standing right in miltons path. This is debris piled up from the Hurricane Helene cleanup, still posing a danger as miltons winds could pick all of this up and shoot it in all sorts of directions as the storm pummels this area. Something to be on the lookout for if you live in that area. Got to clean that up. Lets begin our coverage in Fort Myers florida. Flood waters there could reach ten feet in some areas. Thats where we find cnns Carlos Juarez and carlos thats a big part of the story, right . The Storm Surge. And it could just really come up through
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More on this potentially devastating path toward florida. Melted rapidly intensifying as officials are pleading Big Time with middle helenes of residents in the Tampa Area to get out and to get out. Now, also breaking Kamala Harris is warning that Donald Trump needs to stop Playing Politics with hurricanes. Shes slamming the Misinformation Trump has been spreading about the Biden Ministration Storm relief efforts calling him trump extraordinarily irresponsible, plus grief, anger, and Protests Israel marks a year since the deadly hamas its Terror Attack and the brutal capture of hostages that triggered a multi front war that is ongoing and escalating this Hour Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im Wolf Blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room lets get straight Hurricane Milton. Now, the strongest storm on the planet, this year after reaching category five status with winds because of a get the latest forecast right away from our meteorologist, chad myers.
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