The Tampa Bay powerful category four storm is barreling toward the state officials are warning of lifethreatening Storm Surge and heavy landfall and unleashed its fury overnight, we are awaiting a Press Conference. At any moment from Florida Governor Ron Desantis. Well bring that to you live in the meantime, we have Team Coverage of Hurricane Milton. We have seen as Randi Kaye and Isabel Rosales Standing by in florida. But first lets go to Cnn Meteorologist derek van dam. Derek, this is still a very powerful monster sure, a storm. Whats the latest yeah, indeed, jim, in fact, were getting hourly updates now and will continue to do so through landfall, which we anticipate sometime late tonight and into the early morning hours of thursday still 155 mile per hour wind, that is a powerful category four. Note that i did not say category five at one has earlier this morning, didnt lose much intensity overnight like we had hoped it would, but lets not split hairs here. The amount of energy tha
And unsurvivable about Helene Making Landfall Last Night in florida. Cat 4 hurricane. Big storm and really moving like a clipper, too. Im bill hemmer, welcome to our program. Dana im dana perino. This is americas newsroom. Another fast week. It was good that it moved fast but still means there is a lot of damage. Ron desantis was right on time yesterday and we expect to see him any moment. Lets get to Steve Harrigan outside of tampa. This is the scene a lot of people in florida and even georgia are waking up to today. Two feet of water on the ground. Gets deeper the closer you get to the water. Many houses under water. The challenge now for people is getting out of their homes. Getting to their cars trying to make sure theyre safe. Weve seen a number of Air Boats and water rescues, 80 in this county just overnight. We see people really just stumbling around. More than A Million people in florida without Electric Power right now. More than 800,000 in georgia. So it will be a tough day a
Already begun in Southwest Florida. The impacts were not that significant, where the storm has already passed, fdot crews have already driven and cleared more than 2000 miles of roadway in Southwest Florida so weve already started working once the initial initial response is through our cut and tell us crews were transition to Debris Removal. And undergoing are two sentences, leadership, we will stand ready just like with the Dahlia And Debbie to support fiscally constrained counties with the Debris Removal operation please leave dr. Please do not drive on them water over a road can be very dangerous, especially around culverts and bridges. Every storm season, we see people tried to navigate through water. You have no idea whats Going On underneath the water, please do not drive through but were going to stay in touch with our airports and Seaports Sea ports are closed, Water Side right now airports are going to reopen just as soon as practically feasible and thank again, governor. Tha
Lockdown we are watching where the 28th named storm is on the move. Well tell you where its headed. Plus, an exciting weekend in the nfl filled with twists and turns. The first monday of the month in november early today starts right now glad to have you with us im frances rivera. Im phillip mena. On the eve of the election, both candidates are launching one last blitz joe biden is Holding Events in ohio and pennsylvania. A tremendous amount of americans have already voted casting a record breaking 93 million ballots and it could cross the 100 million mark once this weekends numbers are tallied up the president is trailing his democratic rival by 10 points according to the latest nbc news wall street Journal National poll nbcs tracie potts is joining us from bidens hometown of wilmington, delaware busy day for both candidates reporter a really busy day, phillip. Good morning, everyone biden is staying close by. President trump, all over the place today. He will be in michigan, in wisco
City is agreeing to pay out the families of 32 of the victims and one man who survived that fire. 23. 5 million will go specifically to the families of the fire victims who died and 9. 2 Million Dollars for sam maxwell who barely made it out alive, but now has to live with that awful memory and permanent injuries as well as a medical expenses despite the payout oakland city leaders do not agree that the city is liable for the tragic loss that she marry alexander represents the families of some victims and instead said that more could have been done to prevent that deadly fire. Im sorry usually see warm summer months, not the defendant does not liability. But we feel that we proved our case against the city that they knew what they were police know that were in there and saw the People Living there. And one policeman said that when they saw party going on so we dont have a way to put it in one batch. As Police Report nothing was done. The firemen went to a party there. And so the. Turne