The Tampa Bay powerful category four storm is barreling toward the state officials are warning of lifethreatening Storm Surge and heavy landfall and unleashed its fury overnight, we are awaiting a Press Conference. At any moment from Florida Governor Ron Desantis. Well bring that to you live in the meantime, we have Team Coverage of Hurricane Milton. We have seen as Randi Kaye and Isabel Rosales Standing by in florida. But first lets go to Cnn Meteorologist derek van dam. Derek, this is still a very powerful monster sure, a storm. Whats the latest yeah, indeed, jim, in fact, were getting hourly updates now and will continue to do so through landfall, which we anticipate sometime late tonight and into the early morning hours of thursday still 155 mile per hour wind, that is a powerful category four. Note that i did not say category five at one has earlier this morning, didnt lose much intensity overnight like we had hoped it would, but lets not split hairs here. The amount of energy tha
Being taken care of. And it really is its unamerican, it really is. People are scared to death. People know their lives are at stake, all that theyve worked for, all that they own, all that they value. President Joe Biden Yesterday addressing misinformation on Helene Recovery efforts spread by Donald Trump and his allies. And that comes as Hurricane Milton is gaining strengthen in the gulf and expected to make landfall in the next 24 hours. Well have the latest Storm Track and a live report from florida straight ahead. Plus, a new book by longtime journalist, Bob Woodward, is putting Donald Trumps relationship with russian president vladimir putin back in the spotlight. And meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris continues her media blitz, making more high profile appearances with now less than four weeks until election day. Good Morning And Welcome to way too early on this wednesday, october 9th. We are now 27 days until the president ial election. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for start
Hurried preparations, theres also a new worry. Limited resources. Gas stations literally running on empty, and Grocery Store shelves picked clean. Nbcs marisa is joining us from tampa. Jay gray is standing by in ft. Myers. And Meteorologist Michelle Grossman is tracking the storm for us. The track of this storm has shifted slightly since yesterday. Where do we expect landfall now . Yeah, this has kind of wobbled back and forth, ten miles north or south. As we go throughout time, we are anticipating that westcentral u. S. Coast impact on The State Of Florida. We are looking at a category 4 storm. This is catastrophic. People are going to lose homes. Theres a threat to life and property. So were going to watch this very closely, we are about 16 hours away from landfall. Were looking at winds of 155 miles per hour. Yes, it weakened to a category 4, but keep in mind a Category 5 is 157 miles per hour, so this is a very strong category 4 strong. Its heading northeast at 6 miles per hour, no
Special event, the Vice President ial debate tuesday at nine story. Im Anderson Cooper. There are five weeks left until the election and the race remains extremely tight, especially in the critical Swing States, winning some of these states could come down to one key demographic, the Latino Vote. Latinos are the second largest and fastestgrowing group of voters in the United States. The majority of them have historically voted for democrats thats but a growing number of latinos have become republicans. And many now support former president Donald Trump. Cnn political contributor, Ana Navarro is a republican whos now supporting Vice President harris in this race. Recently spoke at the Democratic National Convention shes been one of trumps harshest and most outspoken critics in the next hour, she travels across us to see for herself while trump appeals to Latino Voters, in which issues matter the most to them in this election much maam we keep hearing about the Latino Vote. This mythical
Welcome to the whole story. Im Anderson Cooper. There are five weeks left until the election and the race remains extremely tight, especially in the critical Swing States winning some of these states could come down to one key demographic, the Latino Vote. Latinos are the second largest and fastestgrowing group of voters in the United States. The majority of them have historically voted for democrats, but a growing number of latinos have become republicans. And many now support former President Donald Trump cnn political contributor, and navarro is a republican whos now supporting Vice President harris in this race. And recently spoke at the democratic national convention. Shes been one of trumps harshest and most outspoken what can critics, and in the next hour, she travels across the us to see for herself while trump appeals to Latino Voters, in which issues matter the most to them in this election much chatter we keep hearing about the Latino Vote, this mythical Latino Vote . Rico m