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
Through the region in what has become the deadliest u. S. Mainland hurricane since katrina. Well take you live to North Carolina in just moments. Welcome to Fox News live, im Jacqui Heinrich. Griff im griff jenkins. Meanwhile, former President Trump is returning to butler, pennsylvania, today at the same field where he was nearly assassinated less than three months ago. Elon musk will be among the notable guests there. Alexis mcat also, who covered that event in july, is there again in butler with more. Hey, alexis. Reporter hey, griff. Yeah, things are going to look much different than they did 12 the weeks ago, last time former President Donald Trump was up on that stage here. Were 30 days away from the election, so thats his message again today, he will do what it takes the fight for america. But this time hes going to be standing behind bulletproof glass as people say theyve noticed much more security. What looks different Today Security wise when youre back . Theres a lot more, it
Voted for a democrat to topple trump casting my vote for vice president kamala harris republican liz cheney takes to the campaign trail to tell voters why kamala harris is the only choice in november plus what he said that dying and what they re getting no help from our federal government. He actually did donald trump s record of withholding help to disaster stricken communities desperate for it no reading between the lines. There is no room for compromise. Melania trump makes clear what does my body my choice really mean, what she believes about abortion is wildly different than her maga husband s party live at the table madison, jesse auto, van jones, ramesh ponnuru and now euro hop with 32 days to go? americans with different perspectives aren t talking to each other. But here they do in new york. Let s get right to what america is talking about. Maybe the strangest political pairing ever while tonight, liz cheney standing sidebyside with kamala harris in wisconsin, and officially e
Breaking news from The Middle East, new and growing tension following confirmation from lebanon, the leader of hezbollah was killed friday in an israeli airstrike on an apartment complex. We dont have that sound. We will get that for you. You can see the effect of the airstrikes that continue today and plumes of smoke can be seen rising over Southern Lebanon. Protesters have gathered on The Streets Of Tehran today. Officials in iran say one of its military generals was also killed friday adding they expect to soon deploy troops to lebanon. The biden administration says it has no advanced warning of the israeli strikes. President biden in a statement moments ago said hassan Nasrallahs Death is a measure of justice for his many victims including thousands of americans, israelis and lebanese civilians. We have reporters and analysts in place across the world ready to go over these developments for us. We will go to Matt Bradley who joined us from beirut. Welcome. I know you heard a lot of
Is Cnn Newsroom. We begin with Breaking News as we track Hurricane Helene, its now the strongest storm to ever make landfall in floridas Big Bend, sweeping across the coast hours ago as an extremely dangerous category four hurricane with winds of 140 miles per hour. Now the effects have been felt far from the center of the storm. The mayor of clearwater told me his community has been inundated despite being 100 miles from the center now, helene is weakening now but has knocked out power to more than 1,000,000. 5 homes and businesses in florida, georgia, and the carolinas. At least three people have been killed as the storm continues to pummel the southeast to end georgia. And one in florida we have had a report of a fatality on the roadway. Car driving on i4 near your Ybor City and tampa, was hit when a sign fell onto onto the highway. So that just shows you that its very dangerous. Chris conditions out there you need to be right now. Just hunkering down nows not the time to be going o