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,
Good day from msnbc in washington. Welcome. I am Allie Vitali in for alex. We begin, as you can hear the Election Music with decision 2024. 31 days until Election Day. Theres a lot going on this afternoon across the Campaign Trail, across the map. Vice president harris will speak in North Carolina, governor Tim Walz will be in ohio, former President Trump and senator Jd Vance returned to pennsylvania. This comes as Mailin Voting and Absentee Voting is underway in two dozen states. Vice president harris is coming up a week that included endorsements from Bruce Springsteen to former Congresswoman Lissa Cheney and Basketball Legend Magic johnson. We have one reaction from one michigan senator to the Vice President s message focused on jobs. It is close. We have Donald Trump and Jd Vance coming in every day and just plain saying lies. The reality is, michigan was not better off under Donald Trump. We did lose jobs, we had plants close, forget covid, this was before covid. We got 44 new pla
Continues. Host joining us for his first visit to the washington journal is illinois Democrat Eric sorensen a freshman serving on the Agricultural Science Committee in 118th congress congress. Job prepare you for this job on capitol hill . Guest i realize that i has spent nearly 20 years of my career in the district i now serve. My hometown of rockford illinois. When my congresswoman announced that she was not going to run for reelection it was the news anchors on the others to the studio and they pointed to me is that you need to do that. I said, no, i am not a politician. But what happened after that were many sleepless nights where i would toss and turn and i talk to myself wait a minute, maybe my hometown does not need a politician, they may be meet someone theyve already been able to trust. I think i took that for granted being on local news for so long was what was the value of the trusts i had gained with the viewers . There 99 of the days but 1 of the days when there were lifet
Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The ambassador discussed ways russia could be brought to justice and accusations the pentagon withheld evidence of war crimes. This is an hour andn 15 minutes. The. [background noises] the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Il for well over a year noticing the horror of putins illegal unprovoked invasion and the brutality he has inflicted on the people of ukraine. Russian airstrikes have destroyed schools, flattened apartment buildings, killed mothers and babies in maternity wards. We have witnessed bombs on children and caregivers of Government Protection attacks on civilian Nuclear Facilities and a systematic targeting of civilian infrastructure but it is a night here it does not let the current human rights organizations Russian Forces occupied village schools, airport hangers whatever they them find and converted into makeshift torture chambers with a beat, electrocute and threaten to mutilate ukrainian detainees. T
And infrastructure, which were my top two picks, so i am happy to be a part of that. I look forward to working with both sides of the aisle. Democrat Eric Sorensen is no stranger to caras. He used to work as a local meteorologist near his home in moline illinois. He told cspan about that work helping him as a congressman and how he first got into television. Rep. Sorensen i was the chief meteorologist at the tv station, might family was growing up, then i moved to the next town over and i put writz down in the community, became a meteorologist, and was known not only to track tornadoes to chase tornadoes but also to tell the kids when they did not have school because it was snowing. Little did i know through all of this time as a broadcast meteorologist that i was working in the same congressional district. What did you like about being a meteorologist . Rep. Sorensen it changes every day. And a lot of times when i went and talked to schoolkids about meteorology, we live in different w