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Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News central Washington Clinton and my colleague and cohost, Boris Sanchez is live in florida following the very latest on Hurricane Milton, which is where we begin this hour, we are watching is this powerful category four storm is barreling through the Gulf Of Mexico with florida directly in its sights right now, mass evacuations are underway across the state and were seeing this long lines, traffic jams, and also many Gas Stations that are running out of fuel the mayor of tampa says tankers are on their way to refill Gas Stations in the area and heres a look at milton from space. This storm. It is just huge as you can see here on the impacts, could be catastrophic with potentially lifethreatening Storm Surge and damaging winds heres how tampas without any drama to station whatsoever, if you choose to stay and what are those Evacuation Areas you are going to die. But this is something that i have never seen In My Life, and i can tell you that anyone who was born and raised in the Tampa Bay Area has never seen anything like this before people need to get out the stark warning boris, youre there in Treasure Island, which of course is in the Tampa Bay Area. What are folks preparing for there its hard to imagine seeing the state of this community in Treasure Island a Barrier Island on the Gulf Coast of florida. And imagining that anyone could survive what they are about to witness from Hurricane Milton what you see here around me is the result of Hurricane Helene. This is debris from a category four storm that made Landfall Hundreds Of Miles from here. And this debris were talking about mattresses, water heaters, scrap metal, glass its just out for blocks and blocks and blocks. One of the first things that you notice when you come into Treasure Island is the smell, because the trash is everywhere and when youre looking at a potential 15 foot Storm Surge on top of about a foot of water in rainfall Plus 125 mile an hour winds. This as one neighbor told me, has the potential to become a countless number of missiles. And its not just this pile here or further down this block. I want you to look at a scene that weve seen multiple times across pinellas county. There is trash everywhere and this former us pile, nearly 20 feet high is roughly a few hundred yards from the beach. The beaches actually just behind those buildings over there and on The Other Side, theres a bay. So you can imagine the water is going to come into this community if the forecast stands as it is and essentially make an enormous mess of things i spoke to one neighbor named matt, who was here for Hurricane Helene. He said that he had to get out from his first floor apartment. He got into chest highwater. He made it to the second floor and survived. This time he says hes not taking any chances. Heres more of what he shared with me we dont know where its going to hit at might hit here, might hit south, might hit north. And it looks like its Gonna Be devastating, particularly for buildings like this, because hes are not Hurricane Proof buildings still out there. It has been picked up hes going to turn to the missiles are Gonna Be, theyre gonna blow this way below that way we dont know whats going to happen. These things, sorry so yeah, its not good people around here. They need to get out of here. Well someplace else is silly to stick around here its not worth it me, i did speak though. Brianna to a Bus Driver whos stationed outside of City Hall here on Treasure Island. Shes been designated to help evacuated folks that want to get out she says that people here have until 4 00 p. M. Two register to evacuated, but so far today, only about 40 hours from that deadline her buses completely empty. Nobody has come at this point to evacuate yet. I want to get the latest on the forecast now and see exactly where milton stands. Lets go live to Elisa Raffa, whos in the Weather Center for us at least aware for is the hurricane now and in terms of strength, what are we seeing . I know there was some speculation that it might be reinvigorated to a category five, i guess the latest word is that its Gonna Stay at a strong category four yes, right now, it is teetering on that category five strength. Thats got 150 mile per hour winds, 156 miles per hour makes it a category five so again, Risk Kind of Splitting Hairs. Harris kind of teetering along that border, but that ai is wakening up. It looks clear and symmetrical. So its still keeping its intensity and its strength still Effect Category four storm 500 miles south and west of Tampa Bay we still have it waning a little bit in that intention. Nice still though, a major hurricane as it makes landfall on the problem with the kind of wobbling that its doing in the intensity is what that will do is make the storm wider. Its going to doable in size, becoming fat or so it will have a much greater reach for those damaging winds thats why we now have Hurricane Warnings in effect from coasttocoast, from the East Coast all The Way to the atlantic coast. We could see a category two Hurricane Swiping through orlando. Thats helped far wide reaching this thing could have and i was incredibly troubled to see that huge mountain of debris behind you because were looking at 110 mile per hour winds from Tampa Down To Sarasota, that all of those things behind you will absolutely be Projectiles Hurricane Force winds, going towards the East Coast. Heres what im talking about. The storm again, getting wider, dropped it will Storm Force winds, taking over much of the peninsula. The Hurricane Force winds from Coast To coast, that means widespread power outages. And this is the unsurvivable part. This is why youre hearing the officials use such grave wording because ten to 15 feet of Storm Surge, you have to escape that. You have that from Tampa Down To Sarasota Storm Surge, even still up to ten feet, even as far south as Fort Myers, the entire close, well have that ocean sloshing inland. Plus you have the Heavy Rain coming down from the sky up to a foot possible. So multiple Hazards Boris Number of hazards. And as you noted, elisa very, very widespread. I was talking earlier about the debris that we saw from Hurricane Helene, again, that made Landfall Hundreds Of Miles from here. Its not hard to imagine that further south and further north from where this Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall. People will be feeling the effects actually want to take you now live to Fort Myers with cnns carlos suarez, who has been spending the day there observing preparations carlos, what are you seeing where you are well, boris, the folks here in Fort Myers are getting ready for this hurricane. Weve been here for a good part of the Day And Business owners are putting up plywood. They are getting ready for whats expected to be some severe flooding to give you a sense of exactly what im talking about here. And i almost felt because theyre laying out this tarp here. You can see these folks have laid out as much as they can. These bags that they believe can absorb some of this water. And were told that just two years ago during Hurricane Ian the water out here, it got to about four feet and with the forecast for the Storm Surge with this hurricane is expected to be about six to ten feet and so were looking at more flooding in a storm that is hitting right now to the north of here this place here was actually supposed to open in october of 2024, were told that they were just weeks away from hopefully opening their doors, but now theyre getting ready for the storm the concern as we move throughout the week, of course, is this thing. And one of the reasons why for part of Fort Myers to be evacuated in an Evacuation Zone is because there is a river just The Other Side of this street. Its called the Kaluza Hatchie and it goes out into the Gulf Of Mexico and it also goes into Lake Okeechobee in the central part of florida. As that Storm Surge moves through, again, anywhere between 16 to ten feet as the six to a foot of Rain Falls and has all of that wind moves through that river is going to crash, that is going to overflow. And so what youre going to see is all of that water well, rushing to where we are right now. And that is the big concern for the folks in this part of Fort Myers, boris much for that update. I want to go back to a moment ago when we were describing how difficult it is for community to recover from two major hurricanes so close to each other. And the amount of debris that there is scattered, not only here on Treasure Island, but across the western coast of florida im joined now by dan whelan. Hes the Vice President of operations for college honks. You folks help to remove debris and move around the sort of stuff that comes loose after hurricanes. Im wondering what you make of what weve seen around the community with so many piles like this. And then the potential for that to become a projectile. Yeah. No, its been bizarre. I mean, ive been doing this for close to ten years and say nothing like it. Weve been Go Bell The bell ever since Helene Touchdown and then obviously when milton was forecast to be arrival, i mean, it was just an Emergency Mode for all of us. So roundtheclock, the greater Tampa Bay Area, Weve Weve really banded together to do the best we can to prepare for this. But ultimately, theres still a lot left to do and to that point, is there much time to do Anything Else . But evacuated i think thats really it. You know, a lot of the orders had been placed as far as based on certain zones where you live. So if you do live in those its probably in your best city needs that. They need our help. Everybody was like, hey, what can i do to help . What have you heard from officials that have been working with College Hunks to get stuff out. Do they have confidence that enough has been done to move the stuff that needs to be moved. I think weve made a really, really large dance so the city of tampa actually called us over the weekend, was like hey, theres still a lot of stuff still outstanding on from the last hurricane. Can you guys help . And so we were fortunate enough to be able to answer that call. Weve hauled over 100 tons of debris just in the past two days alone. So the streets look a lot better than they did a couple of days before. But again, to your point, theres still a lot but still obviously is left over. That still needs to be done. Yeah. For folks that are in communities like that, it is important important, as dan said, to heed the warnings and get out while you still can Dan Whale and with College Monks were very much appreciate the time, thanks for joining us so briana, there is and the important thing for folks to keep in mind, again, is that time that are still in the western part of Florida Vet are thinking about evacuating, you better make that decision very soon. Yeah. Lets hope some people get on that bus that you were talking about there, boris and a head still to come this, our Vice President harris saying that former President Trump lacks empathy on a basic level, four for spreading misinformation about the response to Hurricane Helene will have war on her interview on The View today. And what she says she do differently than president expanding its Military Operation in Southern Lebanon is more hezbollah rockets hit haifa. Youre watching cnn, new Central Culture over the edge. 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And she just wrapped up an appearance on The View where she heavily criticized former President Trump for spreading disinformation in the wake of Hurricane Helene, watch i mean, were talking about real Human Beings and their lives and then losing everything free. Think the idea that somebody would been playing political games for the sake of himself. But this is so consistent about Donald Trump. He puts himself before the needs of other, i feared that he really lacks empathy on a very basic level to care about the suffering of other people and then understand the role of a leader its not to beat people down, its to lift people up and national politics correspondent, Eva Mckend is covering the Vice President s events today. She kept coming back to that refrain that trump is selfish and thinks more about himself than the people hes supposed to be serving. What else stood out to you . Well, she used the platform its audience of women, brianna, to outline a new policy proposal. She has talked for a long time about the sandwich generation. Those are adults that have to take care of their kids and their parents at the same time. Geez, credibility in this space with organizers here like karen action. So she leaned into this again today, essentially arguing that medicare needs to be expanded in order to meet peoples basic needs. So lets listen what im proposing is that basically what we will do is allow medicare to cover in home health care. And its about dignity for that individual or mitigates about independence for that individual. I mean, what people are declining skills to some extent. But their dignity has their pride is not decline. They want, they want to stay in their home. They dont want to go somewhere else. Plus for the family to send them to a residential Care Facility to hire somebody. So expensive now, another part of that interview that the former president is seizing on brianna is when sonny asked her how she would differentiate herself from President Biden, how she was different in the moment she said nothing immediately comes to mind. Now, she later added that she would have a republican in her cabinet and that would be different it was already too late because the former president and his allies are arguing that voting for her would be an extension of President Bidens policies. But listen, this is always going to be a persistent challenge for the Vice President trying to characterize herself as a change candidate. Even though she is in fact in the administration certainly a difficult task. Eva mckend. Thank you so much for that. Lets talk now with cnn senior political Commentator And Cohost of The View ana navarro. Lets talk about that moment that eva was just discussing. This was a key question to answering the interview here it is. Would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years there is done a thing that comes to mind in terms of and ive been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact all right. Anna Nauta Thing comes to mind, does she need a better answer on that question because there are voters who are looking for an alternative to biden rather than a continuation of him you very difficult balance to navigate, right. Because shes been the Vice President joe biden. Shes got great Loyalty And Affection for him, and respect for him they had a very good the administration in terms of achievements. And i think she did come back to later in the show and talked about how she would appoint a republican to the catalog. That to me as a republican, a disgruntled republican who is voting for Kamala Harris and actively supporting is very important. Because what i have worked for many, many decades now being american, is that big problems in america require bipartisan so i think its important that we not live and govern can an Echo Chamber where everybody agrees and everybody is a yes man. Yes, Bowman And Everybody comes from the