Potentially one of the most destructive storms on record, thats the new warning from the national Hurricane Center about Hurricane Milton headed for floridas West Coast. Tampas mayor also not mincing words, saying, if you dont leave the evacuation zones, youre going to die. Breaking this morning, a Brand New poll shows good news for Kamala Harris as we are learning of a new plan, she is set to unveil today that could revolutionize Home Health Care for seniors and hope of a Ceasefire And Hostage deal fading new cnn reporting that the u. S. Is not actively trying to revive the deal. What u. S. Officials are focusing on instead now, im Kate Baldwin with john berman. Sara sidner is out today this is Cnn News Central in a lifetime storm. Hurricane milton is churning right now and headed directly towards the states densely populated West Coast. Do you see it right there . Millions of people could be in its path. Every official that is tracking this thing is using language that should scare y
4th of july. i want to thank the mayor for hosting us here at the county eoc. also want to thank wilton simpson and chris sprowls, our legislative leaders in the house and senate for coming. we re going to be able to take them to the site later today to be able to see that they have been very helpful in supporting everything the state s doing. we re of course continuing to monitor tropical storm elsa. it is located just north of jamaica with maximum sustained winds of 65 miles per hour. it is heading towards cuba. it will cross cuba, and end up approaching florida likely sometime monday afternoon or evening. tropical storm watches are in effect for parts of the florida keys but more watches and warnings may be issued later today. impacts will move northward up the peninsula, into northeast florida, the big bend, through wednesday morning. it looks like it will be in the gulf coast and southwest florida into tampa bay, then probably
rescue them. do you have any teams that are working on situations like that right now? is that the case? so at this point we don t have any active rescues that are working within the community. our county eoc has upgraded to a level 2 activation. we re starting to get resources and different agencies together, liaison officers with the national guard for any potential mission requests that we have within that community out there. we also are going to be looking at any needs or potential requests within our neighboring agency or kern county and ridgecrest. but at this point, our personnel are heading out to the region. they just started arriving. and we will be working on those estimates and start releasing information as it becomes available and it is confirmed. you mentioned water supplies. are there areas, do you have pockets of population that currently really are in trouble on that front, do not have access to water? i know some of the power lines, i know some of the water line
administrator will be representing mexico beach at the county eoc because we, they have supplies put there. but mexico beach represented all of the time and so she s just stepping in and saying i m going to go there and fight for what we need. that s the emergency operations center for people who don t know. a personal question, if i may. do you even know how your home is tonight? not officially. i have been asking and asking. i live on the east side of town on 98th and i m watching your film right now and i recognize, i think it s hard when you look at these homes, because they re in such disarray, it s hard to say yes i recognize this, but up until just now, i have never found a video on the east side of town on 98.
a lot of people on the boardwalk for the past several hours saying hello to us and walking their dogs and getting in a jog. these people are staying put. they are. that s a personal decision to make. i recommend everyone to get inland. we are going to see epic rainfall here and sustained winds for two or three days. something we don t normally see in hurricanes. this will weaken structures and weaken our trees and we ll have power outages probably for a week is what we re planning on right now. bill: what is the plan for after the storm? that s when the work starts? how do you get a strategy ready for that? we ll get a damage assessment as soon as the winds calm down as soon as we can get air assets and visual assets on the ground to look at the damage and we have our city/county eoc, national guard