Before making landfall earlier Than expecTed TonighT in florida. ForecasT To bring up To 15 feeT of lifeThreaTening STorm Surge To some regions, up To 18 inches of rain in areas like Tampa, and caTasTrophic, susTained winds. AT This hour, parTs of florida are already feeling The effecTs as milTon grows in size and moves closer To The WesT CoasT. More Than 1 Million people are under mandaTory evacuaTion orders. Thousands are sTill fleeing The sTaTe in search of higher ground, as The window To geT ouT sTarTs To close, and resources dwindle. As of This morning, 60 of Tampa Bays Service sTaTions reporTed They are compleTely, compleTely ouT of gas. And now Tornadoes like This one in broward counTy, hundreds of miles from milTons core. This is new video of IT Crossing i75 Today. Ill speak wiTh one of floridas mayors, The One who has rode ouT a whole loT of sTorms since The mid70s in a momenT. WhaT he says milTon could do. FirsT, leT us geT To our reporTers. Joining us now, nbc News Correspon
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
Per hour. And its barreling straight toward florida as a Cat Category four storm. People have across the state are trying to evacuate before it makes Landfall Tomorrow Night the city of tampa is in the storms bull bullseye. And later this hour we will get an update from the mayor. Shes already issued a blunt warning. If you stay in the Evacuation Zones, you who are going to die President Biden echoed that sentiment from the White House moments ago a potential for this storm to both enter florida as hurricane and leave Florida Hurricane on the atlantic coast this could be the worst Storm Hit Florida in over a century. And god willing, it wont be, but thats what its looking like right now. If youre under Evacuation Orders, you should evacuated. Now. Now now i should have already evacuated. Its a matter of Life And Death, and thats not hyperbole. Its a matter Life And Death the president just canceled his planned foreign trip this week so he can oversee the response to the second hurrican
It is good to be back with you on this second hour of Chris Jansing reports. No rest for the storm weary. We are live in florida as Crews Race to clear the damage from Hurricane Helene before the other Monster Storm named milton rolls ashore. Forecasters say the intensity is building again. Plus, get out now or die. Dire Evacuation Orders set off a scramble with highways clogged and things flying off the shelves. The latest on the storm that could be the worst to hit florida in a century. And when Disaster Relief turns political. Growing spat between Kamala Harris and Floridas Governor Ron Desantis after he reportedly dodged her call. What both sides are saying. And Donald Trumps predictions for the stormravaged south. Theyll still turn out for him even if they have to crawl to the voting booth. We start in tampa, florida, where people trying to evacuate face long lines for gas, standstill traffic, hundreds of cancelled flights. Sam brock is there live. What can you tell us about whats