Out of florida, millions of people under threat from Monster Size Hurricane milton. That powerful Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 120 miles an hour has come ashore. The eyewall made landfall half an hour ago in siesta key, which is a Barrier Island off of the coast of sarasota. Right now, the storm with a diameter of 450 miles, is bringing lifethreatening winds and potentially devastating Storm Surge up to 13 feet. Earlier today, the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa, took steal drones on the gulf of mexico. They showed 40 nautical miles away from meltons eye, the winds were gusting 76 miles an hour and waves were cresting up at 28 feet high. That powerful storm is hitting land. For those not in the eyewalls direct path, there is reason to be vigilant as much of florida is under a tropical Storm Watch or warning. The national Weather Service also issued warnings in parts of south and central florida, where milton has spawned 10 tornadoes. Airports,
Morning, everyone, im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us. Hurricane milton is racing toward Floridas Gulf Coast and is expected to make landfall as a dangerous category four storm. According to the latest update from the national hurt Hurricane Center, more than 12 Million residents across Central Florida are under Hurricane Alerts with parts of 14 counties issuing mandatory evacuations ahead of the storm. A storm that could become one of the most destructive in state history. You want to pick a fight with mother nature. She is winning 100 of the time. And individuals that are in these say youre in a singlestory home, 12 feet. Is above that house. So if youre in it basically thats the coffin that youre in . For the most part, people do seem to be taking these orders seriously as major highways are filled, bumper to bumper with traffic, one of the largest evacuations in state history. But those evacuations are leading to another issue as Gas Stations run low on fuel, more tha
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Social media. Hello, well come everyone, sandra smith in new york. We have made it to wednesday, rich. Rich we have indeed, im rich in for john roberts. According to documents, white house officials asked facebook if it could provide special access to tools that would target users hesitant to take vaccines and spreading misinformation. Sandra also show Biden Administration officials berated facebook employees for not sharing enough data and alluded to the site being more difficult to deal with than other social media platforms. Rich Hillary Vaughn is live on capitol hill. Hillary, did the white house try to have more control on covid content on facebook than it originally claimed. Thats the big take away from the documents that we obtained. Really publicly the white house was claiming they were just trying to help facebook combat misinformation on their platform. Behind closed doors, it is clear that white house officials were trying to have much more influence on the platform and get
weaponizing its attack line on donald trump, but he appeared to have given them plenty of ammunition. let s get the latest from rich edson in washington. rich? good afternoon, neil. much of the respect presidential field has criticized the department of justice over this. they re also taking issue with the former president s alleged behavior. his campaign says it raised roughly $2 million last night at a fund raiser in bedminster, new jersey just hours after the former president appeared at his arraignment in a courthouse in miami. as his federal indictment dominates the gop race for president. i don t think that most republicans support the conduct that is detailed in that indictment. it s reckless, it s harmful to the american national security and it doesn t show the judgment that you need to be an effective president during difficult times. former vice president mike pence told the wall street journal, these are very serious allegations and i can t defend what is