An hour ago to a category 4 but a serious and deadly storm that will have the target of the West Coast of florida in its sights sometime later tonight and early tomorrow morning. Im Bill Hemmer in orlando. We do a split show today. Dana you are missed but glad youre there. This is americas newsroom, im dana perino. You have covered many of these hurricanes, bill. I think that even you are saying wow, this one is big and monster by comparison even. Bill you know, i think it is storm 21. Im back at a hotel where i was five years ago. Florida will take a wallop here. They were predicting earlier today there will be a part of the West Coast of florida that will have a Storm Surge of eight to ten feet. Think about that now. Those low lying Barrier Islands that have been so built up over the past 50 years. The Population Increase on the West Coast of florida. This is going to be a doozy. Experts describe milton as a once in a Century Storm and folks in tampa are taking heed. Very tough. We r
Do the investigation they say it is doing, as he will report to us. That is an expensive report and explosive reporting. Im so glad you are covering it with the person at the center of all of it, everyone who cares about the integrity of our democracy and the High Court and the decisions it is making should be watching tonight. Im going to save you some time because Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey is joining us and he is this programs pennsylvania political expert. We are going to get it settled at The End of the hour with Senator Casey who is going to win pennsylvania. That wont be a question anymore. By 11 00 p. M. , alex, theres going to be, thats not going to be a question. Hes going to tell us. If anybody knows it, it is Bob Casey. He has encyclopedic knowledge of every single county in the state. I know this from spending time with him in 2020. It is a must watch hour of television for you tonight. Alex, well, this is for Monday Night. This is getting way ahead of ourselves but it
It has dropped 50 millibars in ten hours. Um i apologize, this is just horrific all right. Joining us now with the latest on the ground in tampa. Cnn News News Source correspondent Ivan Rodriguez. Ivan, good morning to you. What are you seeing down there trying to get out of the Tampa Bay Area and weve been hearing it all morning long. And also yesterday, officials pleading with millions of people that now is the time to evacuate and do so before conditions begin to deteriorate. We want to show you these live images here of Traffic Bumper to bumper, getting out of this Tampa Bay Area. We know that across the state of florida tolls have been suspended on these major highways as well to assist with the evacuations and also the state is allowing for Hurricane Evacuees to drive on the shoulder in order to keep that traffic moving all day yesterday. Casey, we saw traffic also backed up on several highways here in the Tampa Bay Area, and it really seems like people are taking this seriously
Information. Millions of americans need now to brace for Hurricane Milton. This is round two during a suddenly violent hurricane season. Tampa, florida is facing unsurvivable conditions. We know from 12 days ago with helene the forecasters mean it. Now we pray that it is going to go off course but you have to be ready. The storm remains a category 4. It has been a 5 along the way and likely return to some 160 to 180 mileperhour winds being carried by the cat 5. President biden is set to speak at every moment after a briefing he is receiving by fema officials. That is critical. There is all sorts of talk about what fema can do and what it hasnt done for Hurricane Helene victims and potentially could be facing more people to help by the end of this week. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Officials have ordered mandatory evacuations now for people in a Dozen Florida counties, 5 1 2 Million people in florida living along the Gulf Coast must leave the area immediately. L
Highways jammed with vehicles trying to get out. Theme parks shutting down. Tampa in the potential bullseye. Were with first responders bracing for impact. Tropicana field where the Tampa Bay rays play transformed into a base camp. President biden warning this could be the worst storm to hit florida in over a century as the southeast is still reeling from helene. Al roker with a shifting new Storm Track tonight. Also tonight, four weeks until the election. Kamala harris on a media blitz. And asked what she would have done differently than President Biden. How she answered. And the new book claiming Donald Trump secretly sent Covid Testing machines to Vladimir Putin during the shortage in 2020. How his campaign is responding. And just in, the afghan national under arrest in oklahoma. The Terror Attack he is accused of plotting for Election Day. The new legal battle over children using tiktok. Why more than a dozen states are suing the popular app. And for fans still pining for Game Of T