Hi there, everyone. Its 4 00 in New York. At this hour, millions of people along Floridas Gulf Coast are bracing for one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded in The Atlantic basin. The outer bands of Hurricane Milton are already hitting parts of the state. It is forecast to make landfall some time tonight between 10 00 p. M. Eastern and 2 00 a. M. And is expected to double in size before making landfall. This is the scene right now in ft. Myers, florida, being battered by high winds and rain. The top concern for officials at this moment is making sure that residents get to safety. The window for evacuating is now rapidly closing. Even as the storm is already complicating those efforts. This video shows a tornado touching down near i75 in south florida, thats hundreds of miles from Hurricane Miltons core. Just a few hours ago, president Joe Biden called Hurricane Milton, quote, the storm of the century. And made a plea to people in the Storms Path to please evacuate. First, man
Potentially one of the most destructive storms on record, thats the new warning from the national Hurricane Center about Hurricane Milton headed for floridas West Coast. Tampas mayor also not mincing words, saying, if you dont leave the evacuation zones, youre going to die. Breaking this morning, a Brand New poll shows good news for Kamala Harris as we are learning of a new plan, she is set to unveil today that could revolutionize Home Health Care for seniors and hope of a Ceasefire And Hostage deal fading new cnn reporting that the u. S. Is not actively trying to revive the deal. What u. S. Officials are focusing on instead now, im Kate Baldwin with john berman. Sara sidner is out today this is Cnn News Central in a lifetime storm. Hurricane milton is churning right now and headed directly towards the states densely populated West Coast. Do you see it right there . Millions of people could be in its path. Every official that is tracking this thing is using language that should scare y
Hurricane milton is intensifying. Is it that biden warning that following Evacuation Orders as a matter of life and death. According to Tampas Mayor, if you choose to stay, you are going to die. Meteorologists are calling the Storm Nothing short of astronomical. Hello, everyone. This is outnumbered. I am Emily Compagno with My Cohost Kaylee Mecca Money and harris faulkner. Also joining us today, kennedy saves the World Podcast Post and cohost of the verdict with ted Cruz Podcast and host of the Ben Ferguson Podcast ben ferguson. They began with Adam Klotz who has been tracking Hurricane Milton from the fox weather center. What is the latest . Unfortunately, this is a big scary storm. Category four hurricane. The track, when will you need to be prepared for this . Its gonna take Place Tomorrow Afternoon making landfall late Tomorrow Evening into the wee hours of thursday morning. You will notice the Wind Speeds died down a little bit. That is positive. Lower Wind Speeds are good. When a
Any questions . Yeah. Reporter when it comes to the number of people in your people are apparently choosing to stay behind, do you know how many people seem to be trying to ride this out . We dont. That comes up all of the time. You know, that kind of talk is so foolish. Said so many times do you want to pick a fight with Mother Nature and shes when he 100 of the time. And individuals and these say you are in a singlestory home, 12 feet is about that house. If you are in it, basically that is the coffin you are in. It is just of this magnitude, what we can hope for is that the storm goes a bit south. We dont want to wish anything on our neighbors. But if it went a little bit south, that would prevent Storm Surge from coming into Tampa Bay where it has no place to go. Bit is just a Storm Surge. It gets pushed into the bay and it is coming into the neighborhoods. Does it seem like most people are respecting that . Oh, yes, you can look at the traffic and it is incredible. I spoke with my
With Afternoon Everyone and Michael Michael Mccallum and this is The Story and we what a story it is we expect an update any moment now, we will take you live to florida governor Ron Desantis as he and his team are preparing for what is shaping up to be a once in a century epic hurricane. Milton is growing stronger, you can see training out to sea. Just north of cancun right now barreling towards florida over the next 24 hours and a little more than that among a live look at the packed roads as people tried to escape the state of Florida Or Move farther north or south to get out of this past, very tricky to determine what that will look like though. More than A Million people under Evacuation Orders in the state and today, Vice President harris is here in new York And Friendly Media territory with exactly four weeks to go from today is the election. She has been doing a number of interviews, among them shall sit down with Stephen Colbert tonight. Howard stern earlier today. And in the