Florida latest track, and we'll take you inside this inter, also, secret calls and special deliveries. What donald trump was reportedly sneaking to vladimir putin as a pandemic was ravaging the united states. And how many calls they've had since trump left office. Cnn has the new details from bob woodward's new book and vice president harris tonight initially drawing a blue blank when she was asked what she would do differently than president biden and then one notable change came to mind. I'm kaitlan collins, and this is the source battered for the second time in about as many weeks that much we know for sure tonight as forecast are saying that this storm could weaken, but it is expected to double in size what we don't know for sure tonight is exactly where this monster storm is going to make a direct hit twice tonight, more than 1 million people have been ordered to evacuate forecasters. Florida's governor, mayors, up and down that state are pleading with people not to mess around with this one. The storm is now expected to hit as early as tomorrow night, but floridians are going to start to feel that way before then. And tonight you're seeing roads and highways jammed about a fifth of florida's gas stations are now with now gas. And fort myers up to 70% of the stations there have run out of fuel altogether. That's before the storm has even hit. So if you're watching right now and you're in an area that has been ordered to evacuate officials say that now is the time that if you try and wait until tomorrow, you may end up trapped with no power for days are long we're are your home or your car swept away by a storm surge? cnn's isabel rosales joins me now from tampa, florida, which obviously is what we've been talking about isabel, that it is expected to be one of the hardest hit ones we heard from the mayor last night people are still cleaning up from helene. There how concerned are they about? another bigger storm hitting this close behind that one and that's a major concern and a race against time to evacuate that window is narrowing kaitlan listen, this is a onetwo punch for the tampa bay area. Sure. Helene went forward up until the big bend area up north, and that was a wakeup? call for just how devastating that could be with landfall nowhere near this area. Now, with this storm, with milton some here in the tampa bay area are wondering, is this the storm that they have been dreading for decades? it could come right here to the tampa bay area, will know soon enough as those tracks can continued to shift. And that's normal as we get closer to this thing. But what we have seen is major concern about the figures of storm surge, right because with helene that was five to eight feet of storm surge around the tampa bay. Well, with milton, we're looking at double that potentially we're looking at ten to 15 feet that is unsurvivable conditions. This is why people have been so concerned. Let me also show you a hidden danger here. This house that looks totally charred, burned down. Well, neighbors pointed me to this house. They told me that an ev caught fire here and burn this to a crisp. We confirm with the tampa fire fire the rescue who told us here and davis island home did go down. They couldn't confirm the exact address because of an electric vehicle. So as people are evacuating, if they're leaving behind electric vehicles were there hunkering down. This is a big concern because saltwater and ev batteries do not mix. This can cause very dangerous and sudden battery the fires and we're seeing right here the impact somebody lost their home, kaitlan yeah. This was something i didn't even think about earlier until i saw the warning from officials in florida saying, if you have an electric vehicle, get it out of the way because of exactly that house behind you, isabel rosellas on the ground in tampa will check back in with you as we get dates throughout the hour. I want to also go to chad myers, who is in the cnn weather center and chad, the track of this storm has changed and shifted a little bit from when we spoke last night, i think a big question that people at home are watching is how much more could it change before it makes landfall? well, it's all about the wobbles at this point in time earlier today and wobbled about 20 miles farther to the south. That wobble, if you take it 20 miles farther to the south and then you take it on the same track. You've moved your landfall 20 miles farther to the south that could still happen to, again, to the north later on tonight, this is a very compact little storm i know we talked about it maybe is getting larger in size as it gets closer to the coast. But for now, this is 165 mile per hour, category five hurricane. That's getting more and more compact, but you still have to watch the cone its north of tampa. It's all the way down to naples. So that's the left on the right, that's still could happen by the time it makes landfall sometime tomorrow night. I mean, we're talking from now, we're talking 35, maybe 33 hours for landfall. We know that it's still very strong because an airplane has been flying through it. We've been talking to these pilots, these captains, these majors. Oh, night and then what a harrowing story phrase they talk about, man, it was really shaken. I bet it was shaken if you're looking at a wind speed of 135 miles an hour, and that's a crosswind because you're flying through the middle of the eye. Here is what we're going to worry about. We're talking about storm surge and it's not just a lake of water that rises in your house, gets wet. This is moved thing water moving with the surf, moving with the surge. And if you get it to eight feet above, what is normal sea level, you're going to start to lose all the houses that aren't built on stilts. And we're looking at ten to 15 feet and again, that's just not something calm body of water that's going to just kind of get your house wet it's going to push your house into the bay behind the island. And then we're going to see winds everywhere. That's purple, 110 miles per hour or greater. We're going to see winds all the way across the entire state of hurricane force, power lines gonna be down in many big cities and likely even cord kissimmee and in orlando. And then you have the potential for ten to 20 inches of freshwater flooding. Here with this rainfall to an already floods in tampa when it's just raining much less when it's a hurricane coming. And just to see it reaching across the whole state, i think that's what is so scary and why you're hearing things that from warnings from florida officials, they say they've never had this before. Myers thank you for keeping an eye on it. And my source tonight is the mayor of treasure island, florida, tyler pager. Thank you so much, mayor for being here. I know you're very busy and your entire community is under one of those mandatory evacuation orders that were talking about. I want people to just police are playing as they are driving through this streets of your community tonight that most people are listening to those warnings i'm i was out on an island just a couple hours ago and had an opportunity to drive around and it is a ghost town, so i was very happy to see that people are heeding the warnings because and as you guys have sent, this could be seriously life lifethreatening the storm surge our residents experienced it firsthand. And i think that that has gone along way as to really drive home the message that it is not safe to stay on ireland when we're considering or when we're looking at potential devastating storm surge like this, well, given given you just experienced a storm surge, i mean, what would you say to people who may be think maybe thinking, i can ride this out? i've dealt with this before. I mean, as someone who just went through it, what would you say to them? yeah, i'm walking into my parents house the next morning after the storm hit and seeing literally all of the furniture, it looked like a washing machine inside the house, nothing was where it was supposed to be and that was only what, two feet of water in the house. The house is completely destroyed i was receiving pictures and videos from friends that stay and friends and neighbors that stayed on the island and singlestory homes of them sitting at their kitchen counter with their knees up to our water, up to their knees and like we've discussed, if there's an electric vehicle or any sort of fire hazard in the foam. It's really extremely unsafe conditions. And if we're talking ten to 15 foot storm surge but they entire home would be underwater. There's nowhere safe to go. Yeah as chad was saying, the whole house could be pushed, you know, as a result of this onetwo punch that we're seeing between helene and now milton, the state i know florida has been surging resources to pinellas county to try and get rid of the debris from hurricane helene. I mean, you see the pictures of treasure island, these videos of drones it's flying overhead and the amount of debris still in the ground, is still remarkable right now, what is the latest in terms of how much you're worried about these debris becoming very potentially dangerous projectiles in the storm absolutely. That's the biggest threat right now and our city crews, as well as our contractor and the governor mobilize state resources to assist with debris cleanup, which was incredible seeing lines of dump trucks being escorted on the island by state highway patrol vehicles was really a sight to see, but there's just so much of it is impossible to clean it all up before can hit. And like you said, those are going to extremely dangerous and i've worked saying hundred mile an hour winds, that's why these evacuation orders are so important, not just for the eighth so treasure islands and by also b and c because those things can fly a very very far distances yeah. Mayor. Thank you so much for joining. I know that you and your team have to be so exhausted from still dealing with the aftermath of wants torme and now dealing with another. But i really do appreciate your time. I know your community does as well. Thank you so much, mayor thank you. Have a good night. And you heard chad mentioning people who were flying through the storm. My next source is one of the few people who has actually see the force of it up close because captain nate ortal was at the controls when the hurricane hunters flew into the heart of hurricane milton as it still off the coast of florida. And captain morial joins me now. Thank you so much because chad was saying essentially, you know, maybe you think you know what turbulence feels like and then you fly through our hurricane. Can you just tell us what it was like and what it felt like to actually be flying through the storm up close having me yeah, a lot of people will describe it as a roller coaster going through a car wash it. Can be extremely jarring. Everything is strapped down and we can have severe turbulence, severe updrafts, downdrafts. And you really just fighting to maintain control of the aircraft as you go through the eyewall one is you're flying through this storm. How did it compare to the other ones that you've gone through before violent intensity very fast. And we saw some incredible wind speeds out there today, 148 miles an hour. I believe we saw some storms are not so bad and some are just worse than others in this just happened to be one that was pretty violent on us and a few other crews that have flown into it so far. So were taking a lot of precautions when we go through and ask them along that info to everyone else, falling behind us yeah. And you can see right now, we're showing video from the flight that you can see the lightning inside the store of i mean, was that would you say that was it was increased. Was there more of that than what you're used to seeing? what was that like i would say that the amount of lightning was probably on par with what we've seen in most storms but lighting can be very serious if it does hit the aircraft, we can lose our weather radar and then we have a serious problem not knowing exactly where the strongest part of the cells within the storm are and really how to get out of it safely. So it can be quite a problem, but so far what i saw today wasn't anything beyond out of the ordinary given what you saw and talking about how violent this was, if you live somewhere where you are in an evacuation zone would you evacuate very real killer. A lot of people just focus on the wind and the rain and really thinking about the shingles on their, on their roof when in reality it's a waves coming through their door, not only through their front door, maybe their windows as well for talking nine 15 feet, whatever it may be, it's absolutely critical to get out of that area if you need to. I highly suggest anyone that staying line evacuated captain nate wardle. Thank you so much thank you up next, vice president harris is on a media tour cracking a beer with stephen cold bear, as he says, he believes this election will be won on vibes will take you to that. Also tonight, there's some mustsee reporting from bob woodward's new book, including what donald trump alleged totally gave vladimir putin at the height of the pandemic black people had an explosive reverberation they after kanye said it, this was a lot of people's faces because it felt like he said the quiet part out loud. That moment. 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Com, newsnight with abby phillip tonight at ten eastern on cnn just in tonight with exactly four weeks to go before one of the craziest elections and many of our lifetimes, vice president harris is out doing a media blitz tonight late show with stephen colbert are cracking open a cold one or at the vibesession everywhere, all the vibes were all good. But elections i think are won on vibes because one of the old saw is, is i they just want somebody they can have a beer with so would you like to have a beer with me so i can tell people what that's like time because i can't just be dealing a drink to the vice president. I'd states but asking you asked for miller i was at a baseball game with doug shares. There you go city of milwaukee and beers tonight side. Have any beer for you guys, but karen, i mean mean, we're watching here as doing this, you know, she was criticized for not doing a lot of media. Chitlin traditional media, but she's out, she's doing these interviews. You did howard stern earlier she did the view. We'll talk about that appearance in a moment. Alyssa. But but to see her in that moment tonight, what what do you think that there if you're a her adviser, what's that strategy look like behind the scenes? it's in impound the fact that we live in a very fractured media environment where people are choosing where and how they get their information unfortunately, it's not always from cnn, although i wish it was there watching, there, on tiktok, they're watching late night, they're listening to podcasts that they loved their religiously, right? they're doing all kinds of player watching the view so you really got to be everywhere. And i will say as a communications professional, my job has changed dramatically over the last 1020 years because you really have to say to candidates know really you do have to go on this podcast. Yes, really we're going to take this real for instagram and yes, i promise you it's going to matter because that's where voters are and you have to be where the voters are. Yeah. Well, i mean, brian, just as the chief media analyst, what's your view? two of the strategy and what it does look like in 2024, it's an all of the above strategy, right? a little bit of this, a little bit of that. I just must alyssa, you had brought beer this morning on the view is it too early to drink on the view? i guess it's too early maybe not really collins. It's actually interesting the beers interesting because has biden doesn't drink right? because trump does not drink very famously, does not drink. So in a weird way, we're back to the george w bush test about who you want to have a beer with the old adage. And she was at the table with y'all this morning. First, what stood out to you during your conversation and listen, we say not to regret the view, but the road to the white house, sr the view every president since george bush has come on the show, that's gone on to be elected, including donald trump. I mean, we've invited trump officials on. Listen. It's your reaching a different audience were in more than 3 million households are audience skews heavily toward women and it's women who don't necessarily follow politics day in and day out, but they want to know the key stories people are talking about. It's about reaching voters who maybe aren't glued to every detail of this election. I thought it was brilliant. She went on call her daddy. That's that's 5 million downloads a week i think what they're realizing is they have to flood the zone and they're going for broke at this point. I think she should have deployed this strategy over a month ago to be reaching more voters. It feels like it's a little bit late, but i expect she's going to keep doing that it's sort of interesting. It's like they're almost running what would be a yearlong campaign in the man of weeks we have because normally, first off you are it's all about the vibe and the feeling and the row, row ron, you get momentum rig