Welcome, everyone. Thanks for joining me. Im Omar Jimenez in for fredricka whitfield. We start this hour with breaking News Hurricane Milton is now a category one hurricane threatening floridas West Coast with devastating Storm Surge, flooding, and damaging winds. Its forecast to intensify into at least a category three storm before making landfall in just a few days the team covering this dangerous storm, Cnn Correspondent Rafael Romo And Cnn meteorologist Elisa Raffa are here. I want to start with you, rafael, though what are we learning as far as preparations and other things go . Hey omar, this is a very serious situation in addition to the clearing of State Of Emergency and 51 counties, florida governor Ron Desantis has ordered Management Sites to remain open 24 7, so that many areas covered by debris after Hurricane Helene can be cleared before the arrival of milton, which became a hurricane this afternoon more than 800 guardsmen are currently deployed for debris removal, but the
Im Jessica Dean in new york. We are following breaking News Tonight as florida is bracing for another major hurricane hurricane, and we have new information about that intensifying storm Hurricane Milton. Now forecast to become a category four. And is expected to make landfall later. For this week as a major hurricane, 51 counties across florida now under a State Of Emergency and mandatory evacuations have already been ordered in some areas. Governor Ron Desantis is expected to hold a briefing just moments from now, well continue to monitor that. And of course, all of this is happening just ten days after many of these same communities were devastated by Hurricane Helene Meteorologist Elisa Raffa is in the cnn extreme Weather Center tracking this storm for us and at least i know were getting all this new information. What are you what are you seeing . Jessica, i was literally just reading the latest update moments moments ago. The latest right now from the Hurricane Centers, we still h
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Welcome to Bbc News. There have been more israeli Air Strikes on southern beirut, after the israeli military warned people there to leave their homes. These are live pictures overlooking beirut. Bbc teams there have reported overhearing another strike in the city. It is close to the airport. Well be live with our colleagues in beirut shortly. Elsewhere in lebanon, israel has bombed a mosque In The Southern part of the country. Israel says the mosque was being used as a Command Centre by hezbollah fighters. The building was next to a hospital. The humanitarian situation in lebanon is worsening, with at least four hospitals now closed In The South because of israeli Air Strikes. The World Health Organization says at least 37 Health Care facilities have closed since israel began its Air Bombardment of lebanon two weeks ago. The un says more than 200,000 people have fled lebanon into neighbouring syria. Hezbollah says its fired rockets at the Ramat David Airbase near the city of haifa in n