Welcome, everyone. Thanks for joining me. Im Omar Jimenez in for fredricka whitfield. We start this hour with breaking News Hurricane Milton is now a category one hurricane threatening floridas West Coast with devastating Storm Surge, flooding, and damaging winds. Its forecast to intensify into at least a category three storm before making landfall in just a few days the team covering this dangerous storm, Cnn Correspondent Rafael Romo And Cnn meteorologist Elisa Raffa are here. I want to start with you, rafael, though what are we learning as far as preparations and other things go . Hey omar, this is a very serious situation in addition to the clearing of State Of Emergency and 51 counties, florida governor Ron Desantis has ordered Management Sites to remain open 24 7, so that many areas covered by debris after Hurricane Helene can be cleared before the arrival of milton, which became a hurricane this afternoon more than 800 guardsmen are currently deployed for debris removal, but the
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