Reason. Hurricane Milton Closing in on florida. That storm shaping up to be catastrophic. President biden will give an update in our next hour. Tampa hasnt seen a storm like this in 100 years as we say good morning. Our coverage begins live in New York. Im Bill Hemmer back together today. Here we go. Good to be with you. Dana im Dana Perino and this is americas newsroom. This is dramatic and a big news story. Milton is poised to make landfall Wednesday Night, tomorrow night. Currently holding strong as a Cat Category 4 hurricane. Bill it could be one of the most powerful storms to hit the coast from this angle heading straight for the Population Centers of Tampa And Orlando further inland. Dana here is where things stand at this hour. Mandatory Evacuation Orders are in effect along the Gulf Coast. 15 Million people are under flood watch. Schools and colleges are closed and Tampa International Airport has shut its doors. Bill all this in a region after Hurricane Helene. The mayor says i
Any questions . Yeah. Reporter when it comes to the number of people in your people are apparently choosing to stay behind, do you know how many people seem to be trying to ride this out . We dont. That comes up all of the time. You know, that kind of talk is so foolish. Said so many times do you want to pick a fight with Mother Nature and shes when he 100 of the time. And individuals and these say you are in a singlestory home, 12 feet is about that house. If you are in it, basically that is the coffin you are in. It is just of this magnitude, what we can hope for is that the storm goes a bit south. We dont want to wish anything on our neighbors. But if it went a little bit south, that would prevent Storm Surge from coming into Tampa Bay where it has no place to go. Bit is just a Storm Surge. It gets pushed into the bay and it is coming into the neighborhoods. Does it seem like most people are respecting that . Oh, yes, you can look at the traffic and it is incredible. I spoke with my
Rachel welcome back. Pump is making heroic return to butler, pennsylvania. People lining up to get a spot in line. Will survivors of helene and many without power say they feel forgotten by the government. The leadership of the Biden Harris Admin vagues is under scrutiny and revealing they have to ask congress for more money after pima spent more than a bill on relocated immigrants. Hider hour of fox Friends Weekend starts right now. Reporter good morning. This is a heck of a scene. Will sounds like it. Reporter its a sea of humanity as far as you can see. Around the corner in front of us and the cranes and the flag you remember from July 13th, theres a lot of memory in the crowd from July 13th in the 6 00 hour we talked to the gentleman first in line since 11 00 a. M. Yesterday. Last hour we were talking about cars coming in and seemingly coming in and barely 8 00 a. M. In butler, pennsylvania. You keep hearing from folks is resolve, spirit, the miracle of what happened on July 13th a
He had an explosive Reverberation Tv On The Edge sunday at nine on Cnn Cnn Breaking News good morning. You are live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Pamela Brown in washington, and we begin with Breaking News out of the middle east. Israel has just announced that seven more lets soldiers have been killed and Ground Operations in Southern Lebanon, bringing the total number to at cnn, Chief National Security analyst Jim Sciutto is in Tel Aviv and jim, this comes as israel is sending thousands more troops to take part in the ground fight. And lebanon this is a significant loss for the israeli Military Aid just in the first couple of days of this Ground Incursion into Southern Lebanon, which we should note, its its the first time in 18 years you have to go back to the 2006 war for when israel last send significant numbers of Ground Forces into Southern Lebanon. And to have this Death Toll, this early in those operations is a measure of the danger, the danger on the ground there as israel confirms f
With me. I will see you again tomorrow. Thank you for joining us is our and this is one of those news days where everything is busting out all over. There is a lot going on. And a lot of the big news in the country in the world right now is still developing tonight. I have to tell you, tonight, we are keeping our eyes trained on the Middle East with a significant Escalation And Expansion in the conflict between Israel And Hezbollah in Lebanon And Hezbollah is the iran backed Militia Group based in lebanon who are a key ally of hamas and Hezbollah And Israel have been Trading Fire for months across the border of those two countries since the Hamas Attack in israel last october. You will also recall earlier this Month Israel Sort of opened a new area launching attacks in lebanon that killed people including civilians in israel ramped up airstrikes across lebanon which killed hundreds of people and displaced hundreds of thousands. They then killed the leader of hezbollah. Earlier today th