Fund. Com Have I Got News For You saturday at nine on cnn im Jessica Dean in New York and tonight, florida is preparing for what could be another Major Hurricane Second One to make landfall in that state in just two weeks. Meteorologists Elisa Raffa is monitoring where and when milton will hit potentially as a category three storm, at least. So what is the latest . It continues to intensify. It is sitting in such Warm Ocean temperatures every update from the Hurricane Center says it is still rapidly intensifying a category one hurricane right now but 85 mile per hour winds, sitting 800 miles west and southwest of tampa, florida. Now as it continues its trek, its going to cut across the Gulf Of Mexico here, which will allow it to rapidly intensify. Again possibly category four hurricane with 145 mile per hour winds as it gets closer to florida, some of that intensity could wane a little bit, gets shaved off and take it down to kind of worried three as it hits landfall. But at that point
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
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Tremendous reporting. Should read their deeply sourced reporting about all of that. It is fascinating and devastating at the same time. Yes, exactly those two things, yes. Have a good weekend. You too. In august of 2020, donald trump was campaigning for reelection. We were in the throes of the covid19 pandemic. The summer saw a wave of protests and up risings over the murders of george floyd. To top it all off, the state of california was experiencing its largest wildfire season in recorded history. And it was that last crisis that prompted donald trump to say this during a campaign rally in pennsylvania. I see again the forest fires are starting. They re starting again in california. I said you have to clean your floors, you have to clean your floors. Many many years of leaves and broken trees. And they re like, like so flammable. You touch them and it goes up. I ve been telling them this now for three years. But they don t want to listen. The environment, the environment but they hav
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