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
Tonight on the reidout watch his rallies. He spends full time engaged in grievance about what has happened to him. He spends full time perpetuating lies and misinformation. He spends full time talking about fictional characters, you know, i mean name calling. And name calling and demeaning people, belittling people. What he does not talk about is you. Vice president kamala harris on the view today with a strong rebuke for donald trump. Part of a wideranging media blitz that included 60 minutes last night and howard stern and stephen colbert today. Meanwhile, donald trump skipping 60 minutes because he didn t want to be fact checked. Plus, stunning revelations in bob woodward s new book including details on how trump secretly sent covid tests to vladimir putin when those tests were still so hard for americans to obtain. And then trump secretly stayed in touch with putin after leaving office. And the texas senate race is surprisingly close. We re going to talk to ted cruz s opponent, c
Reason. Hurricane Milton Closing in on florida. That storm shaping up to be catastrophic. President biden will give an update in our next hour. Tampa hasnt seen a storm like this in 100 years as we say good morning. Our coverage begins live in New York. Im Bill Hemmer back together today. Here we go. Good to be with you. Dana im Dana Perino and this is americas newsroom. This is dramatic and a big news story. Milton is poised to make landfall Wednesday Night, tomorrow night. Currently holding strong as a Cat Category 4 hurricane. Bill it could be one of the most powerful storms to hit the coast from this angle heading straight for the Population Centers of Tampa And Orlando further inland. Dana here is where things stand at this hour. Mandatory Evacuation Orders are in effect along the Gulf Coast. 15 Million people are under flood watch. Schools and colleges are closed and Tampa International Airport has shut its doors. Bill all this in a region after Hurricane Helene. The mayor says i
it s now too late. hello, everyone. this is outnumbered. i m kayleigh mcenany here with my cohosts, emily compagno and harris faulkner. also joining us, fox news meteorologist amy freeze, and todd piro. we are tracking hurricane speed 11 to make them x11 paid its tracking winds with a just shy of a category 510 hurricane, making it one of the most powerful storms to hit this country. it s expected to make landfall in the next few hours and forecasters are warning a life threatening storm surge, devastating wind damage, and massive flooding. there are more than a quarter of a million now in florida without power. the international airport has stopped passenger frights. let s go to nicole valdes, the hurricane headquarters. nicole? good afternoon. winds are strengthening. we are seeing more rainfall. you mentioned this, conditions are quickly deteriorating across the tampa bay area. i want to show you a quick image as we look over the bay. you will see the ripples in the wa
do you see any signs that putin is moving towards using those nuclear weapons? and, america s fentanyl crisis. the rainbow pills, made to look like candy, infiltrating u.s. streets. jeff pegues on the front lines of the battle to combat the deadly opioid. combat t this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting tonight from tampa, florida. o donnell: good evening and thank you for joining us. florida is a state on the edge tonight, as it prepares for what could be the biggest storm in years. the major news tonight is that the path of the hurricane has shifted, pushing the storm to an earlier landfall, and further south than where we are tonight. 2.5 million residents are under mandatory or voluntary evacuation orders, as the outer bands of hurricane ian reach the southern parts of the state. florida s director of emergency management said more than 100 nursing homes and hospitals in the tampa area have been evacuated. grocery stores up and down the coas