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
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
That reality means for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Now im Kate Bolduan with John Berman, Sara Sidner is out today. Erin burnett joins us from Tel Aviv. This is Cnn News Central from the national Hurricane Center Hurricane milton is getting stronger and fast now a powerful category three storm, as it is churning in the gulf of mexico, the storm is forecast to take an incredibly dangerous path headed for highly populated areas of the West Coast of florida. Evacuation orders are now in place in three counties. There. Tampa mayor is telling residents to get out now please heed the warnings if you can go now, go. You cannot wait and see you have been told whats going to happen. Were fortunate if it wobbles one way or the other and we dont take the direct impact but lets plan on that absolutely. Lets get to cnns derek Van Dam for the very latest, weve had a lot of updates, just this morning. Derek, whats the latest . People in florida are waking up to a completely different storm than 24
You watching us here in the united states, canada, and Around The World. Im Kim Brunhuber we begin with Breaking News as we track Hurricane Helene, at least three people have been killed in Florida And Georgia as the storm continues to pummel the southeast national Weather Service is telling residents to stay in their safe place. Helene is now moving over South Georgia as a category one storm with 90 mile per Hour Winds. Officials say its still an extremely dangerous and lifethreatening situation. Now, it made landfall a few hours ago as a Monster Category four hurricane with winds of 140 miles per hour, its the strongest storm to ever make landfall in floridas Big Bend. National Weather Service is describing it as unsurvivable with up to 20 feet of Storm Surge expected in some areas, helene in his knocked out power to more than a millionandahalf homes and businesses in florida, georgia, and the carolinas you need to be right now. Just to ring down. Now is not the time to be going out.
We want to extends a special welcome to our Fox News viewers. Im meteorologist are arti from our studios here in new York City and weve been covering helene over the last several hours over the last several days. This has been an extremely well forecast storm, before it even formed down in the western caribbean. It looked like something like this was going to happen, so again, we still have technically a Hurricane Storm and Hurricane Center will probably see it downgraded slowly throughout the night, but one unique thing about helene, this particular storm is that it was very large, right . So large storms take a longer time to lose their strength as they move inland so you look up here to the north. Not only do we have a long Wind Damage to get, were going to see some hikely catastrophic rain, and i want to bring Ian Oliver. He started out in st. Petersburg beach and hes now made the trek over to tampa, so kind of on the other side of town, and ian, whether you started on the of other