The Tampa Bay powerful category four storm is barreling toward the state officials are warning of lifethreatening Storm Surge and heavy landfall and unleashed its fury overnight, we are awaiting a Press Conference. At any moment from Florida Governor Ron Desantis. Well bring that to you live in the meantime, we have Team Coverage of Hurricane Milton. We have seen as Randi Kaye and Isabel Rosales Standing by in florida. But first lets go to Cnn Meteorologist derek van dam. Derek, this is still a very powerful monster sure, a storm. Whats the latest yeah, indeed, jim, in fact, were getting hourly updates now and will continue to do so through landfall, which we anticipate sometime late tonight and into the early morning hours of thursday still 155 mile per hour wind, that is a powerful category four. Note that i did not say category five at one has earlier this morning, didnt lose much intensity overnight like we had hoped it would, but lets not split hairs here. The amount of energy tha
This is not survivorable the urgent warning we got from Central Florida officials to all the people living in Hurricane Miltons path. The Evacuation Zone involves Six Million people. And this storm is hours away now from colliding with floridas gulf coast. The impact has the potential to change the coastline. Our Meteorologist Janice Dean was saying it will do that. President biden and Vicepresident Kamala Harris are getting briefed were told on preparations. Officials are bracing for extreme winds and the windshield on this has grown exponentially so its going to affect far many more people than we thought at first. The winds could cause widespread power outages, like we just saw less than two weeks ago across six states in the southeast, including florida. Helene hit florida first. This is the second punch. 15 feet of lifethreatening Storm Surge expected, and time is running short for people who actually want to get out of the way. And you might have to go a little bit farther away t
Accusation areas you probably need to write your name in permanent marker on your arm you know, now a murderer, he couldnt their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our judges right . That type of language is hateful. Its disgusting, its inappropriate, and has no place in our country i dont know what this is but its an size of used to be with Max Foster and christian Stay Macfarlane and around The World. Im Max Foster and im christina macfarlane. Its tuesday, october 8, 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 4 00 a. M. In tampa, florida, where residents are preparing for the strongest storm The World has seen so far this year. Heres what we know. Milton is already one of the pope ten strongest atlantic hurricanes of all time, right now, the storm is at a category four strength, but is expected to crash into florida as a slightly weaker category three storm sometime on wednesday, several of floridas international airports will close today and wait until the storm passes to reopen. An Emergency
Understand and fully comprehended, but were going to cover it to the best of our ability and shine a spotlight on whats going on, jim. Thanks very much. You got it hadnt morning to All Of You. You are live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Pamela Brown in washington. We begin this hour with this breaking News Hurricane Milton its is barreling toward the western shores of florida, the national Hurricane Center just issued the latest advisory saying the storm remains a category four, but it could pick up speed and go back to category five meanwhile, floridians heading out of state could be facing a number of obstacles. Some Gas Statiounning and officials see to expect Hours Worth of traffic. And this morning, Tampa International Airport suspended all operations. We begin this Hours Coverage with Meteorologist Derek Van dam. Derek, we just got an update on the storm tell us the latest alright. So pamela, since 5 00 a. M. Weve seen an increase in the Wind Speeds were at 150 miles per hour, sustained
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