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Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News central news. The planets strongest storm of the year there is now barreling toward florida. Hurricane milton is the name here. Its a monster category, five wins exploding to a mindboggling 175 miles per hour and right now, milton is churning in the Gulf Of Mexico where it is set to make landfall by midweek and its taking direct aim at the Tampa Bay Area with 51 counties in florida are under a State Of Emergency as the storm approaches, officials are warning residents to leave with Evacuation Orders in place for several counties along floridas West Coast, and many of those communities are actually still reeling from Hurricane Helene, which battered the area roughly 101112 days ago. Lets turn now to meteorologist elisa raffa, Who Is tracking the storm in the Cnn Weather Center elisa, what can we expect over the next few days while were watching this intensity very closely. It will eventually wayne some in the intensity we could be looking at the peak right now, but i mean just mindboggling 175 mile per hour winds in that perfectly symmetrical eye hes got that bus or donutshaped classic textbook on satellites sitting 700 Miles Southwest of tampa the rapid Intensification Today has been one for the record books intensifying among one of the fastest on record, it was a tropical storm yesterday, i went to sleep. It was a category one hurricane and now were dealing going with one of the strongest storms on record. Top ten when it comes to that wind speed, we are looking at It Scraping the Yucatan Peninsula as that category five hurricane, it heads towards florida. Notice again, the intensity wanes a little bit. Theres some dry air, there are some wind entered the energy things that will kind of chip away way at the intensity, some as it heads towards florida. But were still looking at a major Hurricane Making Landfall A category three or four, you have Hurricane Watches in effect on the pink for that Gulf Coast area. We were looking at devastating damaging winds, 110 miles per hour or greater from tampa down to Sarasota And Fort myers but its the entire peninsula are getting in on tropical Tropicalstormforce And Hurricaneforce winds. Now, the tampa area, were watching that Storm Surge Forecast very closely right now. The forecast is for eight to 12 feet if that ai goes just to the north of tampa bay, that will bring in some of the biggest Storm Surge that the bay has ever seen if it goes just to the south well alleviate some of that Storm Surge for them. But again, just still looking at Storm Surge up and down the West Coast of florida when it comes to history for tampa, they have missed a major hurricane passes in the last one here is this could be the closest call for them since 1921. So again, really worried about that Storm Surge that could be unprecedented boris, brianna. All right. Elisa raffa. Thank you so much. Our next guest is right in the path of Milton Truce also in the path of helene, and is now going viral after she shared some videos on Social Media that showed how helene ravaged the Tampa Bay Area. A doctor, Meghan Martins House flooded. Shes now trying to repair the damage. Hes also preparing now for hurricane milton. And does now already urging floridians to get ready all right. Florida West Coast, especially this is going to be at least a significant storm, if not a major storm, and it is time that we take it seriously and get ready. If you havent gotten your water and your batteries in your nonperishables . Its time to go now now. She is a pediatric Emergency Room Surgeon in florida docx. A lot of people paying attention hopefully to what youre saying. You unfortunately have a lot of Flood Cleanup Experience and as were bracing for miltons landfall, whats your advice for people . My advice at this point is to really take this seriously. I think theres a lot of people that think i did find with helene, but this is a completely different storm than helene. Were going to have really dangerous winds, really dangerous Storm Surge. Theres a lot of Evacuation Orders and i would highly recommend people heed those orders and get out into a safe place. Its a lot to just put this into context because i think some people say, oh, why dont people just leave but leaving is difficult sometimes for people, it really is. And put this into context for us to storms in two weeks yeah. A lot of people lost their vehicles and its a lot of other Transportation And Infrastructure challenges that are happening this area right now, there is debris all over the roads. Everyone tearing out their house, getting all the wet stuff out their house and putting it at the curb. All of this is going to potentially become flying debris with you know, 90 mile an hour winds. I think if you are able to get out, if youre able to evacuate to a local shelter they closed Schools Yesterday so that they could open them up for people who need a place to stay. I would highly recommend getting out if you are able to get out you know, this area, theres some issues. Weve not even close to recovered from helene and now trying to evacuate and make preparations for milton has been challenging. What would you say to someone on the fence . What is the thing that you think might tip them over to be on the more conservative side of this . You know, once, once the storms here you cant get out and No One can come help you. Ambulances and fire trucks. Theyre not able to leave once the winds hit 45 or 50 miles an hour, youre on your own. And so i think the safest thing is just to bite the bullet and get out, get to somewhere thats safe where if theres a problem that you can get help and a lot of the people that passed away in Pinellas County where people that didnt leave the Storm Surge and maybe they had issues with evacuatiOn And my heart goes out to them and their families, but this is another very different storm are very dangerous storm. And i would highly recommend everyone get out of through april what is your biggest tip after the fact for cleanup i think one of the most important things, especially for insurance purposes, just document everything, pictures of everything, and then you need to keep yourself safe because if theres floodwater, if theres debris, that stuff can all be dangerous. So keeping yourself safe, make sure you document everything, and then just getting all the way that stuff out of your house all right. Dr. Martin, we appreciate your input. A lot of people are listening, so thank you so much thank you. While the storm may weaken as it gets closer to florida, its growth in size could more than make up for that. Yeah. Lets discuss with the Deputy Director of the national Hurricane Center, jamie rhome. Thank you so much for being with us. Jamie. What will that growth mean for the West Coast of florida and what theyll see over the next few days yeah, great question. So a lot of people are going to misinterpret this forecast. They see it now as a category five and then forecast is category four and think and think, that is good news because it appears like its a reduction. Its a reduction in the traditional peak wind speed. But at the same time, the storm is going to grow in size. Its going to get larger and we saw this in helene, these big storms, these large size storms produced more impacts. So this growth in size is going to more than compensate for the reduction in intensity. And its going to cause problems because youre gonna get a broader swath of impacts and then things like Storm Surge are actually made much worse by bigger size the last Hurricane Center update said that milton is explosively intensifying. This is so unusual. Why should people be paying a lot of attention to this . Well, this part of the Florida Peninsula, this West Coast of Florida Peninsula is incredibly, incredibly susceptible to Storm Surge we saw in helene, even though Helene Sort of passed to the west, you still got this catastrophic Storm Surge along portions of the Florida West Coast this case, its going to be a direct impact of direct shot and more powerful it that were going to have potentially catastrophic Wind Damage over a densely populated portion of the Florida Peninsula. This is the i4 corridor, heavily heavily populated area plus the Storm Surge is going to be worse than we saw in helene in some cases. So, you know, this is a big, weve got a lot of Evacuation Orders that are in place along the Florida West Coast. Im hoping im hoping people are heeding those warnings. Jimmy, when it comes to the Compound Effect of having Hurricane Helene, as you noted with that Storm Surge rise up the West Coast. And now this category four supposedly when it makes landfall, it will be category for what does that do . Major Hurricane Force winds occur and theyre Storm Surge, its, its crippling to the two if that area if any area receives both of those at the same time they pack a onetwo punch and leave utter destruction in the Wake Power is out for days or weeks, roads are impassable, stores are not open. Its impossible to get out and move around. Its impossible to get goods and services, fuel can be next to impossible to obtain and so this is why evacuations are often ordered. So some people will say, well, i live on high ground, i dont need to evacuate. But what theyre not thinking about is what happens to the community after the fact and the living conditions that can ensue after a storm passes all right. Jamie rhome. Thank you so much for the very latest. We do appreciate it will be playing, paying such close attention to it. Still to come families and Survivors Year since the October 7 hamas attack. As Israels War rages on vegetable. Youre actually both, right . But botanically speaking, the Us Supreme Court ruled that a tomato is a vegetable because of how its used in cooking i didnt know that now, you do dry, tired, he burning my dry. I symptoms got worse over overtime. My Eye Doctor explained the route was inflammation. Sidner, it was made for that. So relief is lasting. Sides are treats, the signs and symptoms of dry Eye Disease dont use of allergic Design Dre and seek medical help if needed. Common Side Effects include in rotation, discomfort, blurred vision, and unusual taste sensation. 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