Im Jessica Dean in new york. We are following breaking News Tonight as florida is bracing for another major hurricane hurricane, and we have new information about that intensifying storm Hurricane Milton. Now forecast to become a category four. And is expected to make landfall later. For this week as a major hurricane, 51 counties across florida now under a State Of Emergency and mandatory evacuations have already been ordered in some areas. Governor Ron Desantis is expected to hold a briefing just moments from now, well continue to monitor that. And of course, all of this is happening just ten days after many of these same communities were devastated by Hurricane Helene Meteorologist Elisa Raffa is in the cnn extreme Weather Center tracking this storm for us and at least i know were getting all this new information. What are you what are you seeing . Jessica, i was literally just reading the latest update moments moments ago. The latest right now from the Hurricane Centers, we still h
we are talking about images that are astounding with vehicles that are totally submerged. looks like they re floating in a bathtub at this point. talk about how some of the residents there have been riding this out. talk about the ones who have evacuated and, about their experiences. so many people were focused on where it s gonna make landfall, and where it s going to go after that. a lot of the meteorologists were saying wherever makes landfall and as you know this hurricane was moving quite a bit and that s when it is so serious, but in the end when it comes to storm surge it went into the most vulnerable position for a very dangerous storm surge and that s exactly what we had. what a lot of the meteorologists were saying wherever it makes landfall, whoever is just south of that eye is going to be what they call the dirty part of the storm, the worst part.