Furniture, they could be telling you theyre stressed to help them feel more calm try feel away optimum tonight on 360 people getting out while they can with Hurricane Milton. Now cat five, storm heading straight for tampa, florida, which hasnt taken a direct hit since 1921. Also tonight, the latest from Hardhit North Carolina and the lies the former president continues to tell about the Relief Effort and later on the Oneyear Anniversary of the October 7 Terror Attack would check back in with a woman still waiting for her family being held hostage to come home. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. It took Hurricane Milton less than 24 hours to go from an 80 mile an Hour Storm to 180 mile an hour munster. One of the fastestgrowing hurricanes ever on the path that its on it could so be the first in more than 100 years to directly hit tampa, florida, a city largely at sea level, or even a smaller storm could do serious damage and which is still cleaning up from its brush with Hurricane Hel
Two down here and penta gordon. And so that can happen. It can get close to land. They can turn Flood Watch in effect, obviously four to eight inches of rainfall. Some models now predicting probably in the neighborhood of about 15 inches of rainfall. And thats just the freshwater flooding thats possible from alberto two barrel, the very hi, im on Wednesday Night show that you and i will be on. Alright. Chad myers. Thank you very much. Well have more on Hurricane Milton later in the program, as well as reporting from the error is worst hit by helene in North Carolina where the Death Toll is still a climbing and to that point, Fema Today said the agency has enough funding to handle the response to Hurricanes Milton and helene. The fact that it has to reassure people about that not just to the weather lately, but also the political climate. Thats because in spite of republican mayors and governors and senators and Hurricane Affected States thing, otherwise dont. Trump has been lying again
Im jake tapper. Were going to start this hour with the Breaking News moments ago, we got an update on her Hurricane Milton, which once again is im not happy to tell you, has strengthened to a category five storm. Was category for now its back to five and has 165 165 mile an ho sustained winds. It is expected to double in size before making landfall in florida. Nearly 20 Million people in the United States are currently in the path of Hurricane Milton. Its effects or already being felt. Parts of the Tampa Bay Area are gonna lose access to running water starting today, Gas Stations are running out of fuel as evacuees fill up their cars and tried to flee. Those riding out the storm are stocking Up To power their generators. Lets get straight to cnn Meteorologist Chad myers in a hurricane headquarters. Chad, it doesnt sound like this forecast is what we wanted it is not, it is. We saw all day and i talked to you about this at 4 00 this afternoon that the last plane left about three hours a
Jose diazbalart picks up our coverage right now. Hurricane milton is Bearing Barreling toward florida as one of the recent hurricanes in recent history and dangerous category 4 storm is churning north of mexicos yucatan peninsula. Milton is set to make landfall in florida late wednesday in to thursday and its expected to trigger a Lifethreatening Storm Surge and it could be the worst storm to hit the Tampa Area in more than a century. The mayor saying if you choose to stay, youre going to die. Joining us is our meteorologist. How are people preparing there . You can probably see some of those Preparation Efforts happening as we speak. This is outside of this is normally a busy wharf and completely shut down. Flood protection barriers are outside of these businesses. People bracing so that they can protect the businesses that are here. We are seeing these kinds of efforts all around tampa. I want to take you to some of what we saw in Treasure Island that is outside of pinellas county. W
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