Washington. A fox news alert. A massive hurricane that could be the most destructive in the history of the country is about to slam into florida. Hurricane milton could make landfall as early as 8 00 p. M. Eastern, exactly one hour from now. Now, the national Weather Service says the window to evacuate has closed. Shelter in place now. Tampa, Fort Myers and orlando are all expected to face lifethreatening impacts. Tornadoes have already been seen and many of floridas West Coast beaches are at risk as well of being wiped out. Now, first responders in st. Petersburg have paused all operations. Not responding to any emergencies until it is safe to do so. We will bring you conch from across the state but, first, we start in Brayden Ton Florida where Fox Weather Robert ray is standing by, robert . Yeah. Laura, good evening to you. And you see the Manatee River behind me that is raging with up to 80 mileperhour winds that have occurred here in this part of the Gulf Coast. We are not too far
It has dropped 50 millibars in ten hours. Um i apologize, this is just horrific all right. Joining us now with the latest on the ground in tampa. Cnn News News Source correspondent Ivan Rodriguez. Ivan, good morning to you. What are you seeing down there trying to get out of the Tampa Bay Area and weve been hearing it all morning long. And also yesterday, officials pleading with millions of people that now is the time to evacuate and do so before conditions begin to deteriorate. We want to show you these live images here of Traffic Bumper to bumper, getting out of this Tampa Bay Area. We know that across the state of florida tolls have been suspended on these major highways as well to assist with the evacuations and also the state is allowing for Hurricane Evacuees to drive on the shoulder in order to keep that traffic moving all day yesterday. Casey, we saw traffic also backed up on several highways here in the Tampa Bay Area, and it really seems like people are taking this seriously
Network Closed Captioning is brought to you by Sokoloff Law Mesothelial more victims call now 30 Billion in Trust Money has been set aside. You may be entitled to a portion of that money all when 8085920400. Thats when 800 fivenine, 2,400 sustained winds of 175 miles an hour. Hurricane milton is inching closer to florida. Officials are not taking in any chances telling residents along the coast a time to leave is now before its too late. Plus israel taking stock one year later sure. Mourning the victims of the devastating October 7 attacks by hamas also considering whats next in its war against the terror group. And its newly expanded conflict with hezbollah, the Prime Minister saying his country is locked in a quote, sevenfront War And Media blitz with less than a month ago, Vice President Kamala Harris pulling out all the stops with interviews ranging from 60 minutes to a popular and historically raunch she podcast. Were following these major developing stories and many more all comi
We will take a listen to when Kamala Harris speaks to this room of elected officials. This has been an unprecedented disaster for our state. What you are seeing, thanks to you, the Biden Harris Administration, state and local officials, volunteers, private organizations, this has been a massive unprecedented response. We are deeply grateful for the federal resources that we have. Fema has been on the ground with us since the very beginning of this. We look forward to briefing and giving you details about the significant progress that is happening and all that we have to do. Unfortunate, we have 68 people who have lost their lives. People are still working hard in Search And Rescue to save people and to surge resources into western North Carolina. Thank you for being here. A thank you, governor. I thank you all, everyone here. I have talked with many of you with and hours and days of helene hitting this beautiful state. I thank you all for the work you been doing around the clock. Admin
Any moment and we did just see some explosions here over Tel Aviv. A President Biden Tonight warning israel, also breaking quote, make them riot. Neverbeforeseen evidence against trump when Hes Campaign in the special counsels election case, breaking this hour. And giuliani endorsing harris. Rudy Giulianis Daughter Backing Vice President harris. And tonight she has a dire warning about the former president shes my guest. Lets go outfront im erin burnett. Welcome to a Special Edition of outfront live from Tel Aviv, where there is Breaking News at this hour as israel vows to retaliate against the largest Scale Attack ever from iran a response that could come at any moment. Our crew in beirut witnessing a number of massive blast. So im gonna show you those new images of explosions lighting up the sky thats over beirut, those coming after israel said it was conducting a precise strike there, and our team here, we were just standing here and capturing two more blasts. Near where were standi