Were a Dark Blue suit nixon, who had a real 5 00 shadow, didnt wear makeup. He was ten, pounds underway because hed suffered a serious illness if you see if they if they show a picture of it, he wearing a gray suit and blends into the background. So there was a lot of Showmanship And Kennedy was always a step or two or three ahead of nixon throughout that entire election. One of the amazing things is when you talk about health no one, no prison its an actual canada additionally, unheld more unhealthy than john f. Kennedy, but still the perception was the opposite. Chris wallace it sounds like just an incredible look at an incredible election. Thanks so much for being with us. Thank you for having me all right. A brand new hour of Cnn News central starts now and truly all throughout the day, Hurricane Milton now an extremely powerful cat four Storm Category four Storm And Closing in on floridas gulf coast. Conditions have already started to deteriorate weve seen that with our correspond
city are you okay? rescuers, helping guide residents through submerged intersection, since, having been turned into a lake. then, there is this. the electricity crisis. the storm, knocking out power lines, in more than 2 million homes, and businesses, which have been plunged into darkness, across the state. meteorologist, pedram javaheri, tracking ian. he joins me. pedram, ian may have weekend, but is unleashing very dangerous conditions. where does it stand right now? kristie, we ve got the latest update from the national hurricane center. 11 hours overland, since it made landfall. you will notice, still, a category one. a drop from 90 miles per hour, to 75 miles per hour, leaving this as a low-end, category one hurricane. notice, on the back side of the storm system, the cloud field, beginning to break. as far as clearing skies, around portions of marco island, around areas up towards tampa. all of these areas, finally, seeing drier weather persist. just east of i
is almost 10% of the population of florida. that means over 90% of people in florida to have electrical power. the number of people without electrical power is expected to rise as these slow-moving storm cuts across florida with hurricane-force winds. a major concern right now and overnight would be flash flooding caused by the heavy rains. more than two feet of rain is predicted in some areas, officials are warning residents to shelter in place if they have not evacuated. as many cities today are suspending rescue efforts until the storm passes. we begin with nbc news meteorologist bill for the latest. bill, what is the situation now? we are watching a storm that is weakening overland, but we still have areas that are losing power at this hour. we know we have people who need rescuing, need help from us. what happened during the day today, that is the situation as we go throughout these overnight hours. the center of the storm is over sebring, florida. it is about halfway
Residents and officials have always known: It does not take much to flood Tampa Bay. The region experienced severe storm surges and widespread flooding in the wake of Hurricane Idalia this week, despite being more than 100 miles from the eye of the storm. Preliminary water measurements suggest a possible surge record: The East Bay gauge in Tampa recorded surge levels at nearly 5.7 feet. It’s .
eastern gulf of mexico, which is record temperatures, by the way, that s how it s fueling itself to rapidly intensify. but i just want to set the scene here, because what we ve seen is a brick wall on bay shore boulevard, a major artery for tampa, over my right shoulder being completely inundated by waves. any local will tell you this place floods given any rainy day. this is different. this is storm surge inundation, made worse by the fact that the inland flooding is helping make the problem even more challenging. ellison, i did a calculation earlier, googling and fact checking, and we re setting record surge levels in old port tampa, which is very close to us, right about four feet right now, and there s about 1,700 pounds per cubic yard of water. that s a lot of force, and we re setting record surge levels, you can imagine what this means for the six to nine feet of surge up