The breaking news. Florida bracing for what could be one of the most powerful and destructive storms on record. The state trying to keep Gas Stations supplied as people rushed to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton. All right. Just in to cnn. Donald trump had, quote maybe as many as seven calls with russian president Vladimir Putin since he left office the Bombshell New reporting by Bob Woodward and two of the countrys biggest music Stars Country Music stars joining forces to help with Hurricane Recovery efforts. Sara is out today. Im John Berman with Kate Baldwin. This is cnn News Central that is what officials in florida tell us that they are doing right now as Hurricane Milton takes direct aim this hour nearly the entire West Coast Line of florida has been tampa are warning that miltons extremely dangerous strike could bring impacts not seen in over 100 years. Orders to evacuate. They seem to be working. Officials on the ground seem to be happy with what theyve seen so far. Because t
of rainfall for those up the east coast, up the peninsula of florida and on into georgia and the carolinas. we re going to see extreme southern florida be spared the brunt of this storm which is good news because they ve dealt with a ton of rainfall over the last several days. we now have two tropical storms in the atlantic basin. tropical storm number two is grace. grace is going to push to the west and we expect it and its 40 mile per hour winds to impact the leeward islands tonight and then eventually it will impact the u.s. virgin islands and, robyn, also puerto rico tomorrow. that s where we have tropical storm warnings in effect because of grace. okay. we will keep monitoring that. thanks so much, tyler mauldin there. appreciate it. that wraps this hour of cnn. thanks for joining me, i m robyn curnow, follow me on twitter and instagram @robyn curnow cnn. my colleague kim brunhuber is up next with more cnn in just a moment.
more and more it s looking like extreme southern florida, the keys, places that were in play a few days ago, you are in the clear. but we are adding new places you have to pay attention to. it s taking its time getting up the coast of florida before running up through georgia and the carolinas. only slowly weakening running right along the coastline. we are sure this will and powerful storm because the water is so warm. the problem is we don t know where this will turn. this uncertainty here. models running us up inland. obviously the farther out to sea we are the better it is for everyone involved in this system. the final tropical model here. everything in agreement as you
operations at islands. royal caribbean and disney have already charged the stops their ships will make. speaking of disney, dorian could crash the opening of star wars in orlando. if a hurricane warning is issues, the resort will allow cancellations. if you re thinking about buying travel insurance, it s probably too late. some require it 24 hours prior to the storm being named and some sooner. neil: a little late for that. thanks very much. how is female preparing for this and the potential with it? right now, the fema deputy administrator. administrator, what are we looking at here? well, what we know now, neil, dorian is a potentially life threatening storm if the forecast holds and that folks from the carolinas down through extreme southern florida need to be paying attention to this storm. need to be taking action now to