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
Whats going on. It is how i keep informed and have a great week. Thank you, too. Speed to see you soon. Fox news alert, came under fire for a response of leaving victims in hard area Cut Off from the world then for themselves and this is amidst catastrophic disaster. Welcome to a Brandnew Hour of Americas Newsroom and Bill Hemmer is off to dave and julian, think you. Gillian im Gillian Turner and blaming inadequate response to disaster of leadership at the white house. This is across the southeast and republicans raising the questions about the Bidenharris Administration to handle largescale emergencies like this one. As Hurricane Milton taking aim at florida as we just heard from governor Ron Desantis just two weeks after helene. Cofounder Tim Kennedy on the ground in North Carolina. He is coordinating private Rescue And Relief operations there. Here is what he says about the governments response. It was absolutely broken. Fema and the land in mn on the ground doing the best they can
Hezbollah facilities. The idf continuing to launch what they call it targeted strikes against the iranbacked Paramilitary Group are cnn teams are witnessing one of those strikes and they did so earlier today following what was a punishing overnight barrage in the lebanese Capital City of beirut. This latest strike happening just hours after his balah confirmed its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed by an israeli attack on friday the israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issuing a statement saying that israel will continue its policies. And he also says he gave the order to assassinate his strava to ensure he could not rebuild the Terror Group was referring to mr. Alla earlier, i spoke with an Idf Spokesperson about what nasrallah is death potentially could mean for a potential conflict with iran. Listen to his answer i would suggest that iran look very closely how weve dealt with hamas, the leadership of hamas, and how in the last weekandahalf, weve effectively decapitated hezbol
Youre a parent. Im a parent. Our hearts go out to that community there in all those kids and what theyve been through. So for The Rock to do something like this to me, i mean, just what an injection of Kindness And Empathy on his part, got to love them unification, we know just humanity. Yeah, absolutely. All right. Thanks, jim, ill take it sounds good. Thanks. Im Pamela Brown in washington and you are in the Cnn Newsroom morning, republican Mark Robinson, fiery and defiance here to talk about 15 or 20 yearolds, a licensed false lot we are here to talk about how the state to boot the candidate for North Carolina Governor is back on the Campaign Trail Today after several of his top Campaign Officials have stepped down in the wake of Cnns Investigation into his past incendiary comments and any minute now, the suspect in the second Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump, ryan ruth will be back in court. As were learning these new details about a letter detailing his alleged Assassination P
September 22nd, im Lisa Menendez with Michael Steele and symone sanders tounsened. Harris anticipates a Debate Round two but trump is running scared. Putting the courts Immunity Ruling under the microscope. And breaking overnight, new escalations between Israel And Hezbollah as iran says the region is on the brink of war. A lot to get to this sunday morning. Grab your coffee, settle en, and welcome to the weekend. Just 44 days until the Election And Donald trump is making up new excuses to avoid a second debate. Heres what he said after harris accepted a debate proposed for october 23rd. The problem with another debate is that it is just too late. Voting has already started. Now she wants to do a debate right before the election with cnn because she is losing badly. She has done one debate, i have done two. Its too late to do another. I would love to in many ways but it is too late, the voters are out there. Well, it was not too late for Donald Trump to debate in late october in 2016 a