People are being urged to leave coastal and low lying areas of florida as Hurricane Milton, expected to be the biggest storm to hit the area in a century, moves closer to the states West Coast. President biden has warned evacuating is a matter of life and death. These pictures are coming into us live from the state of florida. This is the sunshine skyway bridge, the gateway to Tampa Bay, normally a very busy road even early in the day but pretty much deserted now, clearly very exposed and certainly not somewhere anyone would want to be as the hurricane approaches. Although those winds and rain not being really fully felt yet, if we look at this picture of some Palm Trees you can see they are moving a little bit in the breeze but those winds will get stronger and stronger. The national Hurricane Center saying that milton is bringing sustained winds of around 155 miles per hour, as we look at this track. It was downgraded a short while ago to a Category Fourfrom Category short while ago
At what the papers are saying about tomorrows news. Good evening. This is what Hurricane Milton looks like from space. It is gathering strength as it heads towards the West Coast of florida tonight. The worst storm there in a century is how President Biden is describing it. And it comes less than two weeks after another Storm Hurricane Helene brought terrible devastation to the area, leaving more than 200 people dead. The mayor of tampa said Hurricane Helene was a wake up Call Milton is literally catastrophic. Scientists say Climate Change and warmer seas are fuelling these increasingly dangerous storms. Our correspondent Gordon Corera reports from tampa in florida. An exodus from tampa. Long lines of Traffic Snaking out of the city tell you that the warnings are being taken seriously here. Florida is used to hurricanes, but the message has been that this time is different. The city is still recovering from the last hurricane, helene, which hitjust two weeks ago and killed more than 20
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City Of Haifa. Several people were injured. Will vernon has the latest. One year on since the Middle East was set ablaze, beirut burns again. Explosions pierce the night sky. Israel had issued new Evacuation Orders shortly before launching Air Strikes on the city. The Israeli Military released this footage, saying it had targeted hezbollah Weapons Storage and command centres hidden beneath residential buildings, which hezbollah denies. The strikes on beirut are intensifying. The lebanese government says more than moo people have been killed so far. Over the border in israel, hezbollahs response. The city Of Haifa was attacked by five rockets. Ten people were injured by shrapnel. Hezbollah claimed it had targeted a Military Base in the area. Earlier on sunday, an Evacuation Flight for british nationals left beirut. The Uk Government says no more are planned. Those On Board described the terrifying ordeal of their escape. Oh, its been devastating. Its like a nightmare, nightmare. Its lik