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
Horrific thing that ive seen in my life. The wheel thing came down. It looks like a bomb went off but were sure a bomb didnt go off. A brief moment of hope that youre looking at from earlier this morning before the sun came up, that is rescuers pulling a young boy from the rubble alive. Hes one of two people that Authorities Say they have been able to rescue from the debris so far. Take a look at this. This is what the highrise ocean front looked like before the collapse this morning and here it is after the collapse in the aftermath, what is left of the building. Our Layla Santiago is on the scene in surfside, florida, with the latest. So youve been there since right after this happened. What are people telling you . Reporter we learned new numbers. We learned that 35 people were rescued. Two were pulled from the rubble. But when i asked the key question of how many are still missing, officials couldnt give me that answer. They are asking families and friends who have not been able to
Gov. Edwards how are you doing today . Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for being here. This press conference is going to serve as a briefing both on the Severe Weather experienced across louisiana yesterday and also my Daily Briefing on covid19. I want to thank all of our local officials that have joined us today. Mayore mayor jamie mayo, mitchell and other elected officials including senators Katrina Jackson and senator j kathy and senator stewart and representative ackles. We also have representative jones, i think. We do. Right there. Good to see you. Can hear from you congressman Ralph Abraham and we also have here today with us as i have had every day in baton rouge, the doctor from the department of health you can answer specific questions related to covid19 testing. And other things related to the coronavirus. We just completed a tour of some of the tornado damage across north louisiana. Tornadoese two confirmed in this parish though the main one was an ef to that had win
Questions. What is the plan for testing people who have had or believe they have had covid19 and recovered . Is a test being developed to determine immunity . The doctor mentioned that a little bit ago. The test that determines, not if you are infected but if you have been infected and you have what they call antibodies against the virus, which is a sign that you have been exposed and infected, but it could be in indication that you are now immune and essentially protected from being infected again. Are still a lot of unknowns that we need to be careful of because we still do not know the relationship between the level of antibody and the degree of protection. Total not sure what the immunity is. Many of these antibody tests that are out there have not been completely and totally validated. Telling us that they are butistent and reproducible, the answer to the question, when we do get an antibiotic that can be widely distributed, we can get an idea of the degree of exposure of the gene
China this is a situation which is inconsistent with all of the modeling is inconsistent with the reporting that were getting from inside the car and i dont really and certainly it is not consistent with the way this virus has acted around the world so i think that we can say with confidence that china is not telling us the truth about the crime of virus infections why why would they not one of a high and low why would they not tell us the truth. You know thats a great question larry and i think it has to do with beijing trying to give the impression that china has recovered and because of that they may want businesses to return to china they Want Congress inside the country to go back to normal levels theyre just trying get back to where it was before the virus hit and that is the only explanation i can come up with you know the other thing of course is that they want to show that their system is subpoena or to our us a so they want to be able to demonstrate that they were able to lif