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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
Closer and closer to Floridas Gulf Coast. Were breaking down a Brand New forecast of bidens potentially catastrophic Power And Pam more than 1 Million floridians have now been ordered to evacuate. And the governor is warning residents theres little if any time left to get out safely. This hour, ill speak with local and federal officials about the devastating Toll Milton could take on a region still reeling from Hurricane Helene, plus new revelations about Donald Trumps secret talks with russias Vladimir Putin while trump was president and after standby for details from a new book by The Legendary Journalists Bob Woodward, that also describes President Bidens private complaints about Israels Benjamin going to turn you and much more welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im Wolf Blitzer youre in the Situation Room News on Hurricane Milton regaining strength and growing in Size Hi big time, this Monster Storm is bearing down on florida with landfall expecte
Headed for floridas West Coast. The lead starts right now miltons intensity has exploded. Its gone from a tropical storm to a powerful category five hurricane in less than 24 hours and right on the heels of the deadly hurricane, helene, from a new Storm Track to Evacuation Orders were covering everything you need to know a republican effort pushed by Donald Trump Junior to cut ties with one of the federal governments biggest contractors. How criticism . Of trump from Jd Vance before he became trumps running mate, led to this effort in retribution but first one year since the deadly October 7 Terrorist attacks somber ceremonies around the globe Painful Screams Interrupting A Moment Of Silence at the nova festival memorial. Were standing by to see a commemoration from Vice President Kamala Harris Tapper and were going to start in israel. Its been one year since the October 7 massacre, the single deadliest day for jews since the holocaust, 1,200 israelis were ambushed and murdered by hama
Fund. Com Have I Got News For You saturday at nine on cnn im Jessica Dean in New York and tonight, florida is preparing for what could be another Major Hurricane Second One to make landfall in that state in just two weeks. Meteorologists Elisa Raffa is monitoring where and when milton will hit potentially as a category three storm, at least. So what is the latest . It continues to intensify. It is sitting in such Warm Ocean temperatures every update from the Hurricane Center says it is still rapidly intensifying a category one hurricane right now but 85 mile per hour winds, sitting 800 miles west and southwest of tampa, florida. Now as it continues its trek, its going to cut across the Gulf Of Mexico here, which will allow it to rapidly intensify. Again possibly category four hurricane with 145 mile per hour winds as it gets closer to florida, some of that intensity could wane a little bit, gets shaved off and take it down to kind of worried three as it hits landfall. But at that point