This is going to be a catastrophic storm, it is going to be a potentially deadly storm. Florida prepares for landfall. This is going to be a punch to the base. Face. The Fema Administrator will join me live. Then it they give the money to illegal immigrants. The expresident using the disaster to spread his lies. What are they talking about . Stop it. The dangerous consequences of using a tragedy to get yourself elected. Dont listen to Anything Or Anybody who is trying to make you more afraid than you already are. All in starts right now. It evening from New York, at this moment, hurricane Miltons Landfall is imminent the hurricane is currently coming ashore, the eyewall is over Tampa Bay, floridas West Coast has already seen the impacts of milton which already ranks among the strongest alanna storms ever recorded and threatens to bring widespread discussion. Even before making landfall we are seeing dangerous records with over 100, one of those tornadoes in Fort Myers has already cause
That Storm Surge could be the worst part of this storm. So we will be on that during this hour. Ill be watching. Thanks alex. Thank you. We are going straight to bill karins. Msnbcs meteorologist. Nbc News Meteorologist for the latest on the situation there. Bill, what can we expect now in florida . This is when all the damage is happening. We cant show you where the worst Storm Surge is. But we know it is moving in. We have had reports of a ten foot Storm Surge in sarasota. As we go down the coast, all the way to naples, its been at least five to six foot Storm Surge. That is higher than helene in most cases so we have new significant damage that is being done tonight. As the storm is moving inland. The winds are still pushing that water against the coast. It is still rushing in. The other thing you will notice, the black line is the center. Just north of the center which has been the past five hours over tampa, torrential rain. We are talking two to three inches per hour. Now that is
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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
Fund. Com Have I Got News For You saturday at nine on cnn im Jessica Dean in New York and tonight, florida is preparing for what could be another Major Hurricane Second One to make landfall in that state in just two weeks. Meteorologists Elisa Raffa is monitoring where and when milton will hit potentially as a category three storm, at least. So what is the latest . It continues to intensify. It is sitting in such Warm Ocean temperatures every update from the Hurricane Center says it is still rapidly intensifying a category one hurricane right now but 85 mile per hour winds, sitting 800 miles west and southwest of tampa, florida. Now as it continues its trek, its going to cut across the Gulf Of Mexico here, which will allow it to rapidly intensify. Again possibly category four hurricane with 145 mile per hour winds as it gets closer to florida, some of that intensity could wane a little bit, gets shaved off and take it down to kind of worried three as it hits landfall. But at that point