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
The Tampa Bay powerful category four storm is barreling toward the state officials are warning of lifethreatening Storm Surge and heavy landfall and unleashed its fury overnight, we are awaiting a Press Conference. At any moment from Florida Governor Ron Desantis. Well bring that to you live in the meantime, we have Team Coverage of Hurricane Milton. We have seen as Randi Kaye and Isabel Rosales Standing by in florida. But first lets go to Cnn Meteorologist derek van dam. Derek, this is still a very powerful monster sure, a storm. Whats the latest yeah, indeed, jim, in fact, were getting hourly updates now and will continue to do so through landfall, which we anticipate sometime late tonight and into the early morning hours of thursday still 155 mile per hour wind, that is a powerful category four. Note that i did not say category five at one has earlier this morning, didnt lose much intensity overnight like we had hoped it would, but lets not split hairs here. The amount of energy tha
Hurried preparations, theres also a new worry. Limited resources. Gas stations literally running on empty, and Grocery Store shelves picked clean. Nbcs 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 storm. This is catastrophic. People are going to lose homes. Theres a threat to life and property. So were going to watch this very closely, we are about 16 hours away from landfall. Were looking at winds of 155 miles per hour. Yes, it weakened to a category 4, but keep in mind a Category 5 is 157 miles per hour, so this is a very strong category 4 strong. Its heading northeast at 6 miles per hour, no
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