Im jake tapper. Were going to start this hour with the Breaking News moments ago, we got an update on her Hurricane Milton, which once again is im not happy to tell you, has strengthened to a category five storm. Was category for now its back to five and has 165 165 mile an ho sustained winds. It is expected to double in size before making landfall in florida. Nearly 20 Million people in the United States are currently in the path of Hurricane Milton. Its effects or already being felt. Parts of the Tampa Bay Area are gonna lose access to running water starting today, Gas Stations are running out of fuel as evacuees fill up their cars and tried to flee. Those riding out the storm are stocking Up To power their generators. Lets get straight to cnn Meteorologist Chad myers in a hurricane headquarters. Chad, it doesnt sound like this forecast is what we wanted it is not, it is. We saw all day and i talked to you about this at 4 00 this afternoon that the last plane left about three hours ago at 1 55. There hadnt been a new plane in it yet, but now the Satellite Presentation is even better than it was at 1 55. So the Hurricane Center went to 165. There is a plane on the way it should arrive probably within the hour, but still, it doesnt matter. 165 here and still very close. And i heard you say double in size. That doesnt mean double in speed. I mean, its double in size of how big this thing is. So when it does get to florida, is going to impact a larger area. So still likely a Cat Figari three, making landfall, losing some steam here for a while as it makes its way. And probably somewhere around 35, 36 hours from now is when this thing actually makes landfall. And people would ask all day wheres it going to hit . Its going to hit everywhere. Look, this is the size of the category three or higher wind speeds all the way from well, north of tampa, all the way south of fort myers. And then the rest of the state gets Hurricane Force. Theres your Hurricane Force ball all the way across to the east side. So daytona orlando, youre all going to see power outages. Youre all going to see Wind Gusts likely between 9,100 miles per hour but then the surge, this is what all the mayors are talking about. Get away from this surge, the surge from helene was six feet, seven feet. This is going to be 15. If youve got wet at all in helene, youre going to get overtopped in this storm and then its going to rain and there are gonna be places across the Florida Peninsula that could get ten inches of rainfall and make Flash Flooding when it comes to the rain event, fresh water flooding, not the Saltwater Flooding so here it comes. It is kind of come right into the Tampa Bay Area. Now, the latest advisory, the latest forecast has nudged a little bit farther to the south than it was. But all the way from port richey, all the way down to basically almost naples. Youre still very close to the cone. You cannot take your eyes off this because they do wobble. And when they wobble, they catch people by surprise. Please do not be caught by surprise. We got this rapid intensification two days before its going to hit, please pay attention because when they rapidly intensify six hours before they hit thats when you get really caught off guard. Jake. Alright. Chad myers. Thank you so much. Cnns Isabel Rosales is tampa directly in the path of the hurricane isabel, the Storm Surge from this hurricane could smash the record which was set by helene less than two weeks ago. How is the city preparing . My being extremely blunt when we heard tampa Mayor Jane Castor telling people, if you decide to stay in an Evacuation Zone, thats a mandatory Evacuation Zone against what were asking you to do youre going to die i worder i lived here for several years in the Tampa Bay Area. I have never heard such blunt language from tampa mayor ever before, and ive covered many storms theyre telling people to get out, please heed our warnings. Debris. Thats also a huge concern. Getting it out of the neighborhoods. Youre looking at gusts Up To 115 miles per hour here in tampa. Those are become flying projectiles extremely dangerous. But then you have Tampa General Hospital where im at right now, davis islands. Thats a neighborhood of tampa. This is the regions only level one trauma center. They cannot evacuate their too big, too specialized the patients that they have are too sick. So what do they do they put millions of dollars and tools like this. This is the Opil Fence that they have bolted down to the ground. It can withstand Storm Surge in different parts different heights Up To 15 feet high, or anticipating ten to 15 feet here in the Tampa Bay. But look at this. This is why its so serious. Theyre on an manmade island will get this. I could throw a Rock Right over to the Hillsborough Bay this is the first time this season by helene that the aquafence has been tested and waters did reach right up there in with student and kept the hospital dry, kept their patients their staff safe. Theyre hoping if it comes to this, that it will do it again. Jake. All right. Isabel rosales. Thank you. Please stay safe. Lets bring in the mayor of kenneth city, Florida Meghan is a Midas Madam Mayor for our viewers, who are not familiar. Kennedy city is just outside st. Pete. Its in the Tampa Bay Area. Were showing a map of it right now. How is your city preparing for the storm hey, jake, thanks for having me on our town has been working diligently with our Department Of Public Works. Weve had the Street Sweeper coming through last week. All of this week, weve been maintaining the roads, clearing up all the Brush Or Dbw has been out with the wood chipper, just making sure all debris is picked up from our community because as i heard previously, they are going to turn into projectiles. So ultimately we just want to protect our homes and our residents. So we did our best we could cleaning up all the debris, emptying the baskets from our Storm Drains and weve provided over 2000 sandbags to residents and for our small town thats a new record for us. The mayor of tampa has made it pretty clear. If you dont leave the Evacuation Zone, youre likely going to be killed. What is your message to the residents of your town . Absolutely. I agree with mayor castor. If you do live in an Evacuation Zone, i cannot urge you enough to get out. Luckily, for our community, we only have a few homes in Evacuation Zones. C. So the majority of Kenes City is safe. Were inland, we dont have to worry about the surge so much. But a lot of my primary concerns are about the debris, the projectiles, fallen trees, ripped off roofs and, damaged houses. So ultimately were just preparing our equipment, our personnel, our Police Department is ready for rescues if need be hopefully it doesnt come to that though because because if you are in an Evacuation Zone, i cannot urge do enough to get out and just protect yourself and your property. How are you handling the resonance of your town . Who are in the Evacuation Zone, who are not evacuating. What are you doing . We cannot urge them enough, unfortunately, we know we cant go in there and remove them, but our Police Department is being diligent driving around, checking these areas and speaking to our residents and just communicating the urgency behind this and just making sure theyre aware that if you need help during the hurricane, chances are we wont be able to get to you. Its only going to be like a Rescue Operation after it passes its just something else for them to consider that. Hey, if you need help and you are in Evacuation Zone, the odds are not in your favor, so you need to leave to protect you and your family. Is there anything that you made that youre not getting anything that President Biden or governor honestly, Governor Desantis this morning demanded that are dump be opened, so all of that debris can be picked up and actually have somewhere to go. I know our neighboring community, the city of st. Pete. They hired over 100 Dump Trucks from personal companies just to help clean up the Community And Help get this done. Luckily, we didnt need to allosaurus anything are owned Department Of Public Works was able to handle it yeah alright. Maerz vitaes. Thank you. Stay safe. Milton will be the second major hurricane to hit florida in just two weeks on today to clean up the debris left behind by Hurricane Helene as you just heard from the mayor, debris that could be thrown and a around by Hurricane Wins and become dangerous projectiles. An update on those efforts next plus a live update from the national Hurricane Center. As Hurricane Milton. Now a category five approaches florida week and asked questions like, what are the Comedy Show doing On Cnn thats too much i want donald now, can you slice that nobody got news for you saturday at nine On Cnn today. Lets paint with bare americas most trusted aide, brian. We dont have very well with bare you can paid a whole room for under 100. 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Com Breaking News this hour, Hurricane Milton has regained his strength, is now again a deadly category five hurricane as communities in florida prepare crews are racing to clean up potentially dangerous Debris Leftover from Hurricane Helene two weeks ago, he theres heres Cnns Bill Weir both physically and emotionally. They were all ready picking up the pace he says on floridas gulf coast, Flight Hysteric youd like it was what it is youve got to keep living now, Thats Caldwell must cut short her search for her mothers wedding ring. To evacuated for the second time in as many weeks, youre saying youre really worried about folks have made it through this one, but may not well, yeah, because the amount of debris on this tree and the winds, even if it slows down, Governor Desantis said this morning that even with 24 7 debris removal, they wouldnt have all of helenes damaged and time for milton to make landfall. And this is why there is one frontloader over here waiting to fill up a line of empty Dump Trucks . Thats approximately two miles long millions of dollars of fresh shan to try to protect this community which just got washed away. Thats right. What does that tell you about how we prepare and how we have to adjust . To this new earth the fact is, you cannot adapt your way out of the climate crisis. Susan glickman grew up around this bungalow or her husband and a dear 90yearold Friend called nanny survived. Helene but ironically, shes also a Community Climate Organizer in florida desperately trying the convince officials and neighbors that this is what scientists have been warning about for generations beyond criminal, if we do not dramatically address the root causes of the problem immediately. But if we keep putting Climate Pollution and burning fossil fuels, were just going to make a lot of this plan this done in st. Petersburg. A lot of boats there obviously, folks didnt have the means at the time to get them out, whereas the st. Petersburg Yacht Club all those boats are gone. Jake, heres the waterline from helene, less than two weeks ago that that Scar Mark on the side of the predictions now are twice as high as that. So a lot of the businesses, hotels, residents here worried ab