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
finding the flooding that you have been talking about, we re finding that that is the biggest concern and we re starting to deploy our high water vehicles out into the areas. we ve had some calls from a mobile home park that is flooded. we re going to have to go as these people wake up and find that they are kind of stranded by the water, we ll be going out and effecting the rescues throughout the morning. that is what we anticipate. the this morning storm has been different than earlier. it is way past us but yet we re getting this push, we re on the bad side of the storm and we re getting this push into the bay area. it is you know, you ve shown scenes of bay shore boulevard in tampa and we re eseeing the sam thing here in the low areas and some of the mobile home parks. we have bridges closed. so we re limited on access right now.