Local authorities and Weather Experts say milton will bring a destructive Storm Surge in which some areas will not be survivable. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled ahead of its landfall, which is expected to bring strong winds of up to 155mph or 250kph. Milton comes just days after Hurricane Helene tore through the Southeastern Us 225 people were killed by the Natural Disaster across six states. The back to back storms are expected to leave historic levels of damage that could take years to recover from. Unlike helene, milton will only pass through florida on its way to the atlantic ocean, making the Sunshine State the only one to be affected twice. President biden has postponed a trip to germany to oversee preparations and prepare a federal response. He urged those in Miltons Path to evacuate, calling it a matter of life and death. We can show you just how huge Hurricane Milton is. Nasa Astronaut Matthew dominick has shared this time Lapse Video filmed as the international Space
Is set to hit Floridas Gulf Coast late Wednesday Night tampa, potentially in the bullseye in the Citys Mayor is not mincing words. She is warning people who dont evacuate, quote you are going to die it appears some are taking her very seriously with those foreboding words, hitting the roads and streaming out of the area before it gets too late. The storm described as extremely dangerous with sustained winds of 100 and 65 miles per hour. Milton, now the strongest storm to occur anywhere on the planet. This year. I want to bring in Cnn Meteorologist Chad myers. Chad, weve heard the strong words in the tampa mayor. What is this new advisory show . It shows that we lost a little bit of pressure. The pressure went up. Thats good news. Weve lost a little bit of Wind Speed from one at 165. Thats still category five okay. Were not were not bringing this down. Do cat two or one or tropical storm a very dangerous storm, but hurricane hunters, both noah and also Air Force have flown in the ai ove
Breaking this hour a monster once in a lifetime hurricane with winds now up to 180 miles an hour. Were going to take you inside the category five storm because there is no higher category thats headed straight for florida. Lets go out front. And good evening. Im erin burnett, live from Tel Aviv out front tonight. The Breaking News under attack in israel. The israeli military saying 190 projectiles have been fired at israel today, many at the very city that were standing in right now. The most missiles fired at Tel Aviv by iranian backed militias since the very earliest days of this war, an air raid, sirens blaring while we were on the air just a short time ago. There. Thats going up. Yeah, those interceptors are going up. I dont know if you guys can see those. Those interceptors are going up right now behind us. One, two, two different areas, three, three. These look like the high altitude for ballistic missiles. There you g. Yeah okay. So that was must have been very high. So now they
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
Potentially one of the most destructive storms on record, thats the new warning from the national Hurricane Center about Hurricane Milton headed for floridas West Coast. Tampas mayor also not mincing words, saying, if you dont leave the evacuation zones, youre going to die. Breaking this morning, a Brand New poll shows good news for Kamala Harris as we are learning of a new plan, she is set to unveil today that could revolutionize Home Health Care for seniors and hope of a Ceasefire And Hostage deal fading new cnn reporting that the u. S. Is not actively trying to revive the deal. What u. S. Officials are focusing on instead now, im Kate Baldwin with john berman. Sara sidner is out today this is Cnn News Central in a lifetime storm. Hurricane milton is churning right now and headed directly towards the states densely populated West Coast. Do you see it right there . Millions of people could be in its path. Every official that is tracking this thing is using language that should scare y