Biggest storm of the century could make landfall within the hour. Live images from st. Petersburg on your screen right now, you see our Bill Weir there in that picture. Hell be with us in a Moment Hurricane Milton now on a much faster track toward land, expected to hit florida with 150 mile an Hour Wind gusts and a destructive Storm Surge. Conditions deteriorating by the minute officials now saying it is no longer safe to be outside. And lets show you what it looks like On The Roads already flooded right now, the Monster Storm, one of the most powerful on records still growing after nearly doubling in size in just 24 hours absolutely incredible new Satellite Images here on your screen. The Lightning Strikes from a storm that officials warn james the coastline of florida forever. And right now, Tropical Storm Winds now stretch its more than 300 miles from that. I and lets just show you some of the pictures of what it looks like about 40 miles from the eye in the gulf. Some of these waves is just taken by a drone. But again, 40 miles from the eye, 30 foot waves and as you can see from these pictures in naples, these are live Images Milner already pushing a massive Storm Surge on shore will cast her stake could get as high as 13 feet in places on top of High Tide historic for Tampa Funding entire neighborhoods and districts under water and changing Floridas Coastline forever right now, making things worse, the storm is creating a number of destructive tornadoes, a record 100 warnings posted already today, weve got new video in of just one of them. Just to see the sheer size of that. And then already 100 of those warnings around that i already im around on land already a major concern tonight. The millions along floridas is the debris not just from those tornadoes and the winds now, but Hurricane Helene 13 days ago, concrete chunks, cars, mattresses everywhere now, just lot flying around, becoming a deadly missile picked up by miltons wins. We have a Team Up and down the coast here. I want to start with anderson cooper, who is outfront live in bradenton, florida, and anderson, what is the latest that youre seeing . Hey, where you are right now yeah. Well, conditions are definitely getting worse. Weve been seeing a lot of heavy rain, obviously, a lot of wins for for several hours now, the storm is going to be coming from that, from the west, from that direction. Tampa is north in that direction of greater than is south of tampa. And were north of sarasota about 13 miles or so. We expect the eye to make landfall in to pass over greater, didnt im not exactly sure where its going to be making land and fall, but were on the manatee river. This is the riverwalk is completely deserted. We havent seen a lot of people as you sometimes seeing hurricanes out trying to get photographs to things like that. This place has been pretty deserted now for many hours, people have taken this very, very seriously here. The river is definitely, i mean, theres whitecaps on the river. The water is lapping over onto onto the river. Walk. One of the Problems Erin is to The Rain has just been pouring down. So this ground is already saturated with inches of rain now, for hours, Theres Rain literally running down The Street here going into the river, just walking to this location through grass. I mean, usually your Heat Sink in the grass, the bridges have been closed a number of shelters have been set up officials here are just hoping for the best they have warned people. Theyve tried to impress on people the importance of getting out, getting to safety. But at this point, obviously the storm is here and theres nothing more that people can do. Theyve just got to stay where they are and just try to ride this out. Erin anderson. And youre talking about how you are. Theres No One there on that on that walk us. Sometimes there might be and many people seem to have heated the Evacuation Warnings behind you in the distance . I did still see some lights and i know powers already started to go out over these next hours. All of that likely to completely descend into darkness, right . I mean, You Know, just with them with all of this kind of a loss. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, one of the things as You Know, from covering her hurricanes is it is very common in the midst of a hurricane to start to see flashes of Blue Light which has transformers transformers, stations exploding its a very eerie thing to witness. There is still electricity that you see across the location where were saying a hotel that they still have electricity hes still have wifi they are confident they have in there and generated, theyre confident that the power may stay on, but already the wifi has been flickering on and off. The televisions that were on in that hotel. They have they have shut down. You can no longer Access Information Chin from television, which is obviously for people who are saying in their homes, it just makes it all the more scary when you Cant Get immediate information if your wifi has out, if your Tv Isnt working king but theres a lot of people who have gone to shelters, a number of shelters have opened here and well see what happens in the coming hours. Anderson, were going to be checking in with you and of course, anderson will be there throughout the night, but such an important point, people rely on this instantaneous information, their phones, their wifi that has changed in these past 1015 years. And now, people truly descended into being alone and how afraid that can make you Bill Weir is outfront in st. Petersburg so building what are you seeing where you are right now . Obviously can see just these massive waves coming ashore behind you already yeah, just about an hour ago, we were marveling when the first wave breached. Whoa, this deck that were standing on, were nearing You Know, a little Rum Bar here on the st. Petes peer out in the distance. I know if you could see that erie lights thats another restaurant of Power Ceylon but as you can see, the waves im just kidding higher and higher. It seems by the minute this will probably our last live shot in this location, Storm Surge here, if it gets up to the predicted, i dont know 1012 feet could be a huge problem for downtown st. Petersburg and especially for all the folks who are still reeling after Hurricane Helene, it came through here less than two weeks ago and in addition to the tornados you talked about, thats why this storm scientists are warning about these multiple threats multipliers, a peaceful so quickly after the other its so hard for people to brace even in a good day after coming out of something like that. And then with these tornadoes, theres never a good time to lose a hostile tornado, but the absolute worst time just, hours before a hurricane like this one makes landfall. Now, years ago, hurricane charlie, they studied it, Disaster Managers and less than half of the people cool within the a category one to three evacuation zones, dan evacuated all so so much of this storm is going to come down to how many people heeded itd be a advice of officials, aaron all right. Bell. Thank you very much. And please go get somewhere safe there as those waves are coming out, i want to go to brian, todd, and tampa brian, i know things are deteriorating where you are right now. Why Elon Deteriorating is putting it mildly. We just got slapped with some of the strongest Wind Gusts that weve experienced. Getting another one right now You Know, when winston The Rain starts to hit, you horizontally, that youre really input was a chance i might have to go and grab onto this Light Pole and a second here just to kind of get my bearings. But what i can show you is that the water is starting to kind of build up here on Bayshore Boulevard along Tampa Bay good Question Tonight is, is this Storm Surge and its getting stronger he is going to push the water up from Tampa Bay and start to flood these areas here. Now the Storm Surge is now not predictably to be quite as strong as they thought it would be for here in tampa. However, The Rain and the wind are going to be huge issues here. This could get up to 12 inches of rainfall well, that means that drains are going to overflow a canals are going to overflow. Sewers are going to overblow. Weve already seen this. Here on bayshore and another huge problem here. As weve been talking about this all day of mr. Mayor of tampa told us that the contractor that was supposed to pick up all the grief and Hurricane Helene never showed up. So with kicking up in on this deal and its really getting stronger. Where we are that debris flying around is going to be a huge hazard doing a live shot like this, even In The Dark, You Know, i find myself, youve got to kind of look around and make sure looks like brian to know your shot. Obviously was taking a couple of hits. Their bryan just because obviously with the winds and everything that youre experiencing, your and your team You Know, as those wins come through, can you just tell us what its like . I mean, youre out there. Obviously you have for journalists out there at what exactly is it like when those when you get hit with a gust . Well, the first thing you do is you try to look around to see if theres like a light post around you or maybe a Stop Sign like that one that you can grab onto when you toss to me a few minutes ago, i thought it might have to grab onto something yeah, because we were getting hit by some of the strongest Wind Gusts that weve gotten hit by all day long. Thats an issue, of course, for first responders to aaron because what were told by officials is once the wind gets 45 miles longer, go out and take 911 calls and respond. Were about at that point now, i think it might be the point of no return. So if youre out there and youre prices, he called 911 what all right. Were going to were going to let Brian Go there, obviously been asked to move as well to just to try to, You Know, theyre trying to give you this shot to understand whats really happening. So everyone can understand whats happening, but also as brian said, just to try to be safe here, at least a raft but is with me now at least, You Know, when you look at whats happening to brian, you logos having to Bill Weir anderson, all of them, theyre starting to really use these waves coming up one knocking bill the win there. What when, when, when mountains going to make landfall, obviously that that could happen here in these next moments in our, what does that going to look like . But yeah, the odd Wall Pieces of the eyewall is coming on shore, right now. Thats why theyre shots look like that. You see this box here. This is the extreme Wind Warning. Its a very rare warning for extreme winds up to 115 miles per hour or greater. This is for the its tough part of the eyewall includes St Petersburg and includes tampa. It includes bradenton. When you have this extreme Wind Warning, you need to treat it like a Tornado Warning getting into an Interior Room away from windows in a basement because those wins will just be so vicious and you can see the rukare on the radar where weve got this piece of the a. I. That came through saturday so it is up your Brain Eaton and then swinging through some of that Tampa Bay area, the Wind Gusts weve already seen Wind Gusts above 77 miles per hour in parts of venice and sarasota, as well as st. Petersburg right now, gusting to 66 miles per hour, tampa wins getting over 40 miles per hour. So again, the winds picking up because we have the corps that is the most dangerous park. This is also its going to pack the biggest surge thats coming on shore, pretty much as we speak. It is still a category three hurricane with 120 mile per Hour Winds. And again, its sitting that i that center of the eye is just swirling onshore right now, we are looking at these 110 mile per hour he wins in this purple here. And Hurricane Force winds will extend through the entire peninsula. So thats why were worried about these widespread power outages, because this wont just be a West Coast problem. This will stretch even to the east side of the state. The wins that what youre seeing right now and all of those live shots, again, thats the pieces of the eyewall coming on sure. And thats whats going to drag in the nine to 13 feet of Storm Surge from sarasota to venice. Thats whats going to take the biggest push of The Ocean were looking at six to nine feet up in the st. Petersburg and Tampa Bay area era. Alyssa, thank you very much. And were going to get back to you here as little saying portions that eyewall now coming on shore in florida in. These moments, its good to the mayor of st. Petersburg, can welch man, we just saw Bill Weir out on your peer just a few moments ago when those waves gusting over the Edge And Alyssa reporting that that eyewall now portions of it are already at this moment now, striking the coast of florida. So what are you expecting over these next few hours . So we expecting extreme winds for us. It wont be as much as a Surge Event if it stays on the same track but these are catastrophic winds that we havent experienced in the eye of this storm and we are thankful that we think most of the folks in our Evacuation Areas responded to that. Weve got a high census in our shelters. And of course, a lot of folks who are on our interstates and highways over the last day or so exiting. So we think people heeded the call and now we just have to hunker down or the next a similar hours and get through this wind event. And i know your Emergency Responders, you have to take care of them. They have to stay safe and alive. I know youve paused all emergency operations, but thats not something you do lightly. And we talk about an eyewall starting pieces coming on shore. We see these images to give people a sense of just how dire it is amir, what do you say to anybody who . Has not yet evacuated . What should they do right now if theyre there if you havent evacuated by now, you just need to find a safe place where you are and try to protect yourself for the last two days weve been asking folks if you are in those areas please evacuate to a safe place. Weve got plenty of shelter room transportation. No excuse, no reason for someone to stay in an evacuation zone. We think most folks have heeded that call and i think particularly because just You Know two weeks ago, we had Hurricane Helene and oblast 11 or 12 lives in st. Pete in pinellas county. All in Evacuation Areas. So i think folks saw what happened in our understand how important it is. We dont have to lose a life if folks just follow the instructions, know it. Brian todd was just reporting a moment ago about, you the area that he was in, that there had been a contractor that was supposed to pick up some of the major major pieces of debris from Hurricane HeleneYou Know, mattresses, chunks of concrete massive stuff. It doesnt even have to be a chunk of concrete to be a missile in a situation like youre ran right now because something light, but you have all of that, that contractor in that particular case actually didnt even pick that up, but even if they had right, you are looking at months of pickup from helene. Its all now out there. Its going to get blown around. How worried are you about that were concerned about it. Th