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Keep it here on msnbc. We'll be here throughout the storm for you and i'll see you here tomorrow, same time, same place. For now, i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. Jose diazbalart picks up our coverage right now. Good morning. 11:00 a. M. Eastern, 8:00 a. M. Pacific. I'm jose diazbalart. We begin with breaking news. Hurricane milton closing in on florida's gulf coast, expected to make landfall early tomorrow as a devastating major hurricane. Right now, milton is a category 4 storm, churning 100 miles southwest of tampa, set to bring damaging winds and a dangerous and potentially histori...

down, you have trees that are down, you have a lot of hazards right now. we do anticipate a lot of the water will subside in some of the barrier islands, in some of the coasts, but some of those inland places off rivers and off these inlets, you know, you're likely to have standing water there throughout all of today and even in the days ahead. so that is a hazard and just please be aware that that is something that you -- if you weathered the storm to this point, going and doing and getting involved in that is just totally not worth it, and we want to minimize any harm to anybody as...

morning. >> we're probably still another three to four days left in search and rescue and recovery, so that's a rough time frame that could go in either direction. these are not numbers. this is family members, people didn't just lose their homes. we can rebuild a home. we can get another boat, but when you lose a loved one, there's just no words that can describe how we feel for that family. so we hope and pray those numbers stay as low as possible. >> more than 430,000 people remain without power across florida, and some in places like fort myers beach and sanibel island could be w...

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Do, we have a Customer Service hot line that we turned into a nonemergency call center, and weve asked the residents if they need to be rescued and its not an emergency, or if they think they might need to be rescued, that they call that 311. Most of the people unless they get hit later or are near the river. W we are prioritizing those, the residents that can get out of their homes, like i said, were prioritizing them. And also we they do know that we will wait until daybreak. Because of the standing water, so many of the streets and the typically shelter in beaumont. We have three shelters o...