Breaking this hour a monster once in a lifetime hurricane with winds now up to 180 miles an hour. Were going to take you inside the category five storm because there is no higher category thats headed straight for florida. Lets go out front. And good evening. Im erin burnett, live from Tel Aviv out front tonight. The Breaking News under attack in israel. The israeli military saying 190 projectiles have been fired at israel today, many at the very city that were standing in right now. The most missiles fired at Tel Aviv by iranian backed militias since the very earliest days of this war, an air raid, sirens blaring while we were on the air just a short time ago. There. Thats going up. Yeah, those interceptors are going up. I dont know if you guys can see those. Those interceptors are going up right now behind us. One, two, two different areas, three, three. These look like the high altitude for ballistic missiles. There you g. Yeah okay. So that was must have been very high. So now they
Accusation areas you probably need to write your name in permanent marker on your arm you know, now a murderer, he couldnt their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our judges right . That type of language is hateful. Its disgusting, its inappropriate, and has no place in our country i dont know what this is but its an size of used to be with Max Foster and christian Stay Macfarlane and around The World. Im Max Foster and im christina macfarlane. Its tuesday, october 8, 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 4 00 a. M. In tampa, florida, where residents are preparing for the strongest storm The World has seen so far this year. Heres what we know. Milton is already one of the pope ten strongest atlantic hurricanes of all time, right now, the storm is at a category four strength, but is expected to crash into florida as a slightly weaker category three storm sometime on wednesday, several of floridas international airports will close today and wait until the storm passes to reopen. An Emergency
It has dropped 50 millibars in ten hours. Um i apologize, this is just horrific all right. Joining us now with the latest on the ground in tampa. Cnn News News Source correspondent Ivan Rodriguez. Ivan, good morning to you. What are you seeing down there trying to get out of the Tampa Bay Area and weve been hearing it all morning long. And also yesterday, officials pleading with millions of people that now is the time to evacuate and do so before conditions begin to deteriorate. We want to show you these live images here of Traffic Bumper to bumper, getting out of this Tampa Bay Area. We know that across the state of florida tolls have been suspended on these major highways as well to assist with the evacuations and also the state is allowing for Hurricane Evacuees to drive on the shoulder in order to keep that traffic moving all day yesterday. Casey, we saw traffic also backed up on several highways here in the Tampa Bay Area, and it really seems like people are taking this seriously
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
The breaking news. Florida bracing for what could be one of the most powerful and destructive storms on record. The state trying to keep Gas Stations supplied as people rushed to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton. All right. Just in to cnn. Donald trump had, quote maybe as many as seven calls with russian president Vladimir Putin since he left office the Bombshell New reporting by Bob Woodward and two of the countrys biggest music Stars Country Music stars joining forces to help with Hurricane Recovery efforts. Sara is out today. Im John Berman with Kate Baldwin. This is cnn News Central that is what officials in florida tell us that they are doing right now as Hurricane Milton takes direct aim this hour nearly the entire West Coast Line of florida has been tampa are warning that miltons extremely dangerous strike could bring impacts not seen in over 100 years. Orders to evacuate. They seem to be working. Officials on the ground seem to be happy with what theyve seen so far. Because t