Being felt everywhere. It has come in as a category three storm with 120 mile per hour sustained it went even higher gusts according to the national hurricane center, we are talking to Rental Rain extremely dangerous wind. What is being described is lifethreatening Storm Surges that are now pounding portions of the state. At this hour, a Lifethreatening Flash Flood warning has just been issued for nearly 2 Million people. That includes tampa, saint petersburg, and clearwater. You just saw Bill Weir in st. Petersburg. You could see all of that developing there right now, over half 1 Million homes and businesses have lost power with conditions deteriorating by the minute this storm has also spawned a Record Number of tornadoes, all across the state of florida, far beyond where the storm has actually making direct hit tonight, there have been 19 confirmed tornadoes. So far, the sheriff Of St. Lucie county has just confirmed that there have been multiple fatalities after an outbreak of tor
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,
Strength and makes landfall also tonight. Former president making the federal response to these lifethreatening hurricanes, political yet again, despite officials saying misinformation has made the Disaster Relief all the more difficult plus new Information Tonight on multiple Phone Calls between Vladimir Putin and former President Trump since he left office. The details from Bob Woodward in his latest book. Good evening. We start tonight with Hurricane Milton gaining strength at this moment and headed toward tampa, Florida Region still reeling from Hurricane Helene and that tonight for the second time in early as many weeks is expecting record Storm Surge, roads are jammed, Gas Running low in the area are not available in some places. I want to show you something that you dont see too often in florida. Take a look that Treasure Island near tampa and st. Petersburg and your Ghost Town after people evacuated, one person who is there, our Boris Sanchez will check in with him shortly. An
Well, the following Breaking News here on cnn, im Boris Sanchez live near Tampa Bay alongside my coanchor, Brianna Keeler in the Nations Capital and Hurricane Milton is inching closer and closer to sata, to west florida, Gulf Coast of florida right now, youre attempt they were watching low tide its start to set in the water began to recede. And that water is coming back with a dangerous Storm Surge anticipated between up to eight to 15 feet along the Gulf Coast, 15 feet in sarasota would prove devastating. Here in Tampa Bay. As you can see behind me, it is coming down the Water Fuel previously, we are starting to get to the point of maximum rainfall. And this will be sustained throughout the evening hours into tomorrow Hurricane Milton is proving to be an unprecedented storm yesterday, strengthening to a category five. And as it gets closer to florida, though it does begin to change and expand those Wind Speeds have started to slowly come down. That doesnt mean that the danger is any l
Begin only two hours from now conditions in the Hurricane Strike Zone are growing much more dangerous by the minute. As milton unleashes ferocious winds torrential rains, and a slew of destructive tornadoes. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world im Wolf Blitzer a youre in the Situation Room were following every angle of the major Breaking News in florida right now Hurricane Milton taking aim at the Tampa Bay Region and now on a faster track toward a devastating landfall, this Monster Storm is posing a grave and urgent danger and residents who havent escaped Miltons Path are being warned. Its not too late to get out cnn teams are fanned out all along Floridas Gulf Coast and areas bracing for the worst of this storm our chief climate correspondent, Bill Weir is on the scene in st. Petersburg, florida. Bill, whats the latest from where you are of the pier here in st. Pete. As you can see, these waves are just starting to breach the Seawall Weve been watchin