Sandra all right, your Fox Weather Alert the top of a brandnew hour. Hurricane milton im barreling down on florida with Lifethreatening Storm surges and Flash Flooding in area saturated with water from Hurricane Helene. It is headed that way and we are watching it Tampa Bay in the bullseye for where the storm could make Landfall Bed effects felt across the entire state. Florida meteorologist breaking down while discussing this sheer intensity of the storm. It is an incredible, incredible, incredible hurricane. It has dropped it has dropped 50 millibars in ten hours. I apologize, this is just horrific. Speed to emotional response there to what we are all seeing, John This is a big line and anticipated the worst to hit florida over 100 years and welcome back to america reports. And Sandra Smith in new york. s been winwin in Meteorologist File it can be a bad one. Washington being called the storm of the century and other storms have gotten that moniker at this one will be huge. Millions
hello and thank you for being with us. i m ana cabrera in new york. hurricane ian is taking aim and florida is bracing. the powerful storm is expected to get stronger over the next few hours. a cat 4 before the end of the day. the track is shifting a bit, but it is still expected to be a major hurricane when it slams into florida tomorrow night. tampa s mayor says that area is expecting a, quote, devastating amount of water. evacuations are under way. people are boarding up homes and businesses. schools are closing, flights canceled. let s begin our coverage with john cangelosi from the national hurricane center in miami. thanks so much for joining us. update us on where the storm is right now and the latest forecast? sure, ana, here is the latest. hurricane ian starting to pull away from western cuba, max mim winds 115 miles an hour. the storm is wobbling around but generally moving to the north-northeast at about 10 miles an hour. let me show you the latest forecast. as y
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