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New information tonight on multiple phone calls between vladimir putin and former president trump s since he left office. The details well, 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 nearly 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 you don t 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 are boris sanchez will check in with him shortly an astronaut aboard the space spacex capsule published this timelapse video today, giving some idea of the sheer size of this storm and the like lifethreatening trouble at represents president biden today warned that this could be one of the w
to a neighbor s house, 15, 20 miles, any kind of a relative, do it. that way you re ahead of the traffic that s going to come out tomorrow. but here s your 8 to 12-foot storm surge north of apalachicola and north of tampa. if this slides just a little bit because the storm turns a little bit to the right, like we saw in charlie, when charlie was supposed to hit tampa, it hit punta gorda. tampa s just on the wrong side of this turn if it happens. then all of this rainfall. more people now die from freshwater rainfall flooding than from storm surge because people know how to get away from the surge. but then they evacuate and they evacuate to here where it flash floods. so you have to really put all of these things together if you re going to get away from this storm. think about all of your options, when it arrives, probably the first tropical storm tomorrow night.
for days now. from the standpoint of fema, trying to muster some kind of response for this, to be prepared for contingencies, how do you handle that uncertainty. fema has had folks in florida, they ve got foelks in georgia, north carolina, south carolina. the way they approach this is they assume the worse case. they didn t just immediately shut down florida and move north. they have resources in florida. they are moving resources to other states. the real focus is on the evacuations. go back to this error of uncertainty. in 2004, hurricane charlie, everybody thought it was going to tampa. it hit punta gorda south. people were surprised. they were in a hurricane warned areas. the hurricane warnings are the things people should be focussing on. less about the cone of the track. if you re in those evacuation zones, you re in a warrant area. that means the possibility can occur, and you can t discount that this storm may wobble a
might be worse news for people in the direction of orlando, but it could have hit tampa. the worst has not come to pass as of yet. a category 3 storm hitting tampa would have been completely unprecedented. you d have to go back to 1921 when it decimated this area. thankfully at that point, it wasn t a big population center, as it is now with millions of people. there was only one fatality in 1921. but the structures as they were were badly damage. a lot of people, including the mayor, who have been raising red flags about what a major storm with a direct hit on tampa would do. they faced this back in hurricane charley in 2004. there they dodged a bullet. unfortunately, for the people of punta gorda, the storm tracked at the last minute, turned and hit punta gorda and decimated that town. it was supposed to hit tampa. we were here in tampa, waiting for that, and ended up driving
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