Thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. Were grateful. Please stay safe. The beat with Ari Melber starts right now. Hi, ari. Hi nicolle. Welcome to The Beat. Warning against maga disinformation. Both candidates have been speaking out. We have more on the intersection of this humanitarian damager and the campaigns later this hour. While the latest reports indicate this volatile category 3 will double in size and make landfall in florida within hours. Experts caution it could end up being the worst such Weather Event in possibly a generation. I can give you a couple of factoids before we bring in our experts. Sustained Wind Speeds up to 130 miles per hour, projected 15foot Storm Surges in the worse spots, a foot and a half of rain in the densely populated Tampa Area is expected. And you can see fort myers, sarasota, tampa, all in the path, as it will barrel across the West Coast. You see that on your screen with the map of florida. Authorities h
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We start in the united states, where hurricane milton has re strengthened to a category five storm, as it barrels straight towards florida. People there are evacuating en masse, ahead of wednesday s projected landfall. The national hurricane center says the storm has doubled in size since tuesday. Local authorities and weather experts say milton will bring you a destructive storm surge, and some areas will not be survivable. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled. It s expected to bring strong winds of up to 165 mph or 270 kph. Milton comes just days after hurricane helene tore through the south eastern us; 225 people were killed across six states. The back to back storms are expected to leave historic levels of damage that could take years to recover from. Unlike helene, milton will only pass through florida on its way to the atlantic ocean. President biden has postponed a trip to germany to oversee preparations and prepare a federal response. He urged those in milton s path to evacu
You can see this time lapse here shared by american astronaut matthew dominick showing how this storm looks from space. Milton comes just days after hurricane helene tore through the southeastern us 225 people were killed by the natural disaster across six states. The back to back storms are expected to leave historic levels of damage that could take years to recover from. Unlike helene, milton will only pass through florida on its way to the atlantic ocean. President biden has postponed a trip to germany to oversee preparations and prepare a federal response. He urged those in milton s path to evacuate, calling it a matter of life and death also warning this could be one of the worst storms to hit florida in a century. Melanie bevan is the chief of police in bradentown a town that is right in the path of hurrican milton and experienced a lot of damage during the recent hurricane helene. She spoke about what a forecast like this means for law enforcement in the area. We have
New information tonight on multiple phone calls between vladimir putin and former president trump s since he left office. The details well, from bob woodward in his latest book good evening. We start tonight with hurricane milton gaining strength at this moment and headed toward tampa, florida region still reeling from hurricane helene and that tonight for the second time in nearly as many weeks is expecting record storm surge, roads are jammed, gas running low in the area are not available in some places i want to show you something you don t see too often in florida. Take a look that treasure island near tampa and st. Petersburg. And your ghost town after people evacuated, one person who is there are boris sanchez will check in with him shortly an astronaut aboard the space spacex capsule published this timelapse video today, giving some idea of the sheer size of this storm and the like lifethreatening trouble at represents president biden today warned that this could be one of the w