The Tampa Bay powerful category four storm is barreling toward the state officials are warning of lifethreatening Storm Surge and heavy landfall and unleashed its fury overnight, we are awaiting a Press Conference. At any moment from Florida Governor Ron Desantis. Well bring that to you live in the meantime, we have Team Coverage of Hurricane Milton. We have seen as Randi Kaye and Isabel Rosales Standing by in florida. But first lets go to Cnn Meteorologist derek van dam. Derek, this is still a very powerful monster sure, a storm. Whats the latest yeah, indeed, jim, in fact, were getting hourly updates now and will continue to do so through landfall, which we anticipate sometime late tonight and into the early morning hours of thursday still 155 mile per hour wind, that is a powerful category four. Note that i did not say category five at one has earlier this morning, didnt lose much intensity overnight like we had hoped it would, but lets not split hairs here. The amount of energy tha
Following Breaking News as a monster hurricane. Milton is just just hours away from making landfall on floridas west coast. Its already making its presence known through winds and rain and bringing florida, its most Tornado Watch mornings in a day on record, 90 Tornado Warnings and counting, youre looking at one of them. One of those tornadoes crossing and i75, heres a Tower Cam that was airing im on Cnn Affiliate Woio And Kay as a reported tornado tore through matlab shaye. If you want to understand how truly devastating the storm could be, just listen to how president Joe Biden described it in a briefing, just this afternoon looking like the storm of the century, many communities in hurricane Miltons Path do not have a moment to catch their breath between Helene And Milton two historic stern storms in two weeks the storm of the century, possibly Vice President Kamala Harris just called in To Cnns Dana Bash and echoed those stark terms. This is unlike anything we have seen before. We
Cnns elisa raffa, elisa, whats the latest track for Hurricane Milton . So we still have a category three hurricane on our hands right now. The track, still again, focusing on the West Coast. There are florida where weve been watching. So closely with this, is that Center Line Right where here it is. Heres a Category Three Hurricane Rights to 120 Mile Perhour winds. The warnings with the trial this was the graphic that i wanted to get you to where were looking at the Center Line of this. Where we were worried about some Storm Surge coming into Tampa Bay, right . That eight to 12 feet of Storm Surge with this Center Line of that core of the a. I. Going just to the south there of Tampa Bay, there will be more offshore wins in Tampa Bay, more of those seating winds and the worst that Storm Surge would be sarasota and areas to the south so it does look like that we have updated that Storm Surge forecast here from the Hurricane Center. You could see we didnt get a chance to update the boxes
1877866 8555. Good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We are following Breaking News. Hurricane milton is quickly getting more intense, even more intense in the Gulf Of Mexico at this hour. And taking aim directly at central florida. Its at category four strength right now but is expected to be a cat five again later today. Were also getting this new Exclusive Video from madeira beach florida, a Town Standing right in miltons path. This is debris piled up from the Hurricane Helene cleanup, still posing a danger as miltons winds could pick all of this up and shoot it in all sorts of directions as the storm pummels this area. Something to be on the lookout for if you live in that area. Got to clean that up. Lets begin our coverage in Fort Myers florida. Flood waters there could reach ten feet in some areas. Thats where we find cnns Carlos Juarez and carlos thats a big part of the story, right . The Storm Surge. And it could just really come up through
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