News night begins right now Abby Philip alongside my colleague, Anderson Cooper, who is in the middle of Hurricane Milton, right now in florida, this Monster Storm making Landfall Tonight and it is right now rocking cities on floridas West Coast. Weve got our reporters fanned out at areas all across the state that are being hit the hardest tonight. But first, were going to go to anderson in braden town. Anderson anderson take it away. You are now seeing so much wind, so much rain. Tell us what youre experiencing bradenton this is a community that than was expecting a bad head and its certainly that is what we have been seeing over the last hour. Were right by The River and the water has really dropped i it started about an hour ago, right when Kaitlans Program started really, the water just started pouring over over the banks onto The Riverwalk. We moved off from that location this basically our crew is inside ive basically using this tree to block any of the branches and stuff that ha
Less lonely In your grIef. The news contInues rIght here on cnn tonIght, a Monster Storm Is closIng In on florIda. HurrIcane mIlton, back to a category fIve now as weve got the latest track and well take you InsIde thIs storm wIth a HurrIcane Hunter also, secret calls and specIal delIverIes. What Donald Trump was reportedly sneakIng to volodymyr as a pandemIc was ravagIng the UnIted States. And how many calls theyve had sInce trump left offIce. Cnn has the new detaIls from Bob Woodwards new Book And VIce presIdent HarrIs TonIght InItIally drawIng a blank when she was asked what she would do dIfferently than PresIdent BIden. And then one notable change came to mInd Im KaItlan CollIns and thIs Is the source battered for the second tIme In about as many weeks, that much we know for sure tonIght as forecast are sayIng that thIs storm could weaken, but It Is expected to double In some eyes. What we dont know for sure tonIght Is exactly where thIs Monster Storm Is goIng to make a dIrect hIt
Have shared as many as seven secret calls after trump left the White House. And that trump gave putin peculiar gifts. Kamala harris tonight, seizing on this new reporting and kfile how striking again on Earth Thing and interviewed Jd Vance did not want trump to see, but hell see it tonight. Lets go outfront im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. We are following several breaking stories, including bombshell, new details about Donald Trumps secret calls. After he left office. And his peculiar gifts to vladimir putin, details on that in just a moment, i want to begin though first with what is shaping up to be the worst hurricane to hit florida in 100 years . This hour, Hurricane Milton gaining strength now back to category five, which simply is the highest rating that exists. Dire warnings from officials tonight. At some saying this is not survivable and weve got new video with the category five monster from space, right now, heading straight towards tampa for a possible direct hit anticipate
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
An hour ago to a category 4 but a serious and deadly storm that will have the target of the West Coast of florida in its sights sometime later tonight and early tomorrow morning. Im Bill Hemmer in orlando. We do a split show today. Dana you are missed but glad youre there. This is americas newsroom, im dana perino. You have covered many of these hurricanes, bill. I think that even you are saying wow, this one is big and monster by comparison even. Bill you know, i think it is storm 21. Im back at a hotel where i was five years ago. Florida will take a wallop here. They were predicting earlier today there will be a part of the West Coast of florida that will have a Storm Surge of eight to ten feet. Think about that now. Those low lying Barrier Islands that have been so built up over the past 50 years. The Population Increase on the West Coast of florida. This is going to be a doozy. Experts describe milton as a once in a Century Storm and folks in tampa are taking heed. Very tough. We r