Hello and welcome to todays verified. We start in florida, bracing itself for what could be the worst storm in 100 years. There are huge Traffic Jams across the state as more than 5 Million people respond to Evacuation Orders ahead of Hurricane Milton. We will be live on the ground in just a moment but i can show you first are the pictures from space. It gives you an idea of the size of this monster storm, officials think it could still double in size before making landfall. This is the live Tracking Shot from the national hurricane center. The category four storm is due to make landfall tonight. It is only brushed past mexico, causing flooding. On the florida peninsula, relative calm but they expect wind speeds of up to 160 mph and 3 4 Metre Storm surges. The pictures from tallahassee, where in the next few minutes we expect to get the latest briefing from the florida governor Ron Desantis and other emergency officials. We will carry that live when it starts. We can start this hour by
Welcome back to bbc news. Lets get more on our top story. Hurricane milton which is making its way towards the West Coast of florida. Five million people have been told to get out of its way. President biden says leaving was a matter of life and death. Nicole maul is the national spokesperson for the American Red Cross. Nicole is in tallahassee, florida and told us how theyve been preparing for something of this magnitude. Ican i can tell you that the American Red Cross has been on the ground in florida and the South East for more than two weeks in response first to Hurricane Helene and now milton. We need to understand what the impacts will be across florida. There are shelters across the state for folks who are evacuating and i cannot stress enough how important it is, if you are being told to evacuate you absolutely need to follow his orders. We do not know what the storm can bring, we know it will be dangerous and they want folks to stay safe as possible. I5 and they want folks to
Hello and welcome. Lets start in florida, which is bracing itself for what could be the worst storm in 100 years. They have been huge trafficjams across the state over the last 24 across the state over the last 2a Hours is more than 5 Million people respond to Evacuation Orders ahead of Hurricane Milton. We will be live on the ground in a moment. I can show you the pictures from space to give you an idea of the size of this monster storm. Officials think it could still double in size before it makes landfall. This is the live Tracking Shot we are seeing from the national hurricane center. The category four storm is due to hit tonight. It has already brushed past mexico where it caused large scale flooding. Lets show you pictures from the Florida Peninsula where there is relative calm but they are expecting Wind Speeds of 155 mph and 3 4 Metre Storm surges. I can speak to my Colleague Sumi Somaskanda in miami in florida. Take us through the preparations you are seeing and hearing about
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