Sandra all right, your Fox Weather Alert the top of a brandnew hour. Hurricane milton im barreling down on florida with Lifethreatening Storm surges and Flash Flooding in area saturated with water from Hurricane Helene. It is headed that way and we are watching it Tampa Bay in the bullseye for where the storm could make Landfall Bed effects felt across the entire state. Florida meteorologist breaking down while discussing this sheer intensity of the storm. It is an incredible, incredible, incredible hurricane. It has dropped it has dropped 50 millibars in ten hours. I apologize, this is just horrific. Speed to emotional response there to what we are all seeing, John This is a big line and anticipated the worst to hit florida over 100 years and welcome back to america reports. And Sandra Smith in new york. s been winwin in Meteorologist File it can be a bad one. Washington being called the storm of the century and other storms have gotten that moniker at this one will be huge. Millions of people in Miltons Path to higher grounds and long lines at the Gas Station trying to fuel up with a journey with eastward and Florida GovernorRon Desantis sharing to everyone there are no Fuel Shortages. But he says Gas Stations are running out quickly than they normally would because of the traffic. The president s fling the Storms Path are not letting anything get in that way. We need to get the kids out and this is the whole state and it will be a direct Hit Wheriree are at. I was supposed to fly out tomorrow but shutting down the Tampa Airport at 9 00 a. M. Food is hard to find. s bay co, seems, crazy. But it is what it is. John Fox Weather StormMike Seidel on the Ground Madeira Beach florida and cleaning up after helene and now they have to get out again. Yes, look at this, they are getting to it as quickly as they can and 36 hours before landfall but they wont have all day tomorrow. They have the bulldozers and Dump Truck up and down both boulevard. They cleaned up to code blocks into cohours and slow and methodical. This damage in the piles of Debris Go for miles and miles out of here into the next town and the next town to Clearwater Beach Pier to the Dump Trucks rather lined up in the distance. Meanwhile we got the update national Hurricane Center 2 00 p. M. The hands have jumped up 155 category 5 but dont get hung up because the pressure is down and it will not strengthen much more, but it is expected to weaken and meaning will float him before landfall. But the search will be nasty. There is the track and the cone coming at ambleside Tampa Bay Area at. Could be the worst storm since 1911. Over 100 years ago. That is what we are watching. The surge could break the record set by helene. Dan thibault to come on, they are cleaning off Golf Boulevard that miles and miles as City Streets that look like this. They have cleaned the debris and remediated everything out of the houses and homes and it sitting here. And Tomorrow Night and Thursday Morning early, we have a surge coming and maybe 10 feet or more. Winds blowing 100 miles an hour and a Wind Gust so all of this will float around or start flying around and my vision Thursday Morning first light Golf Boulevard will be deep into Gulf Of Mexico like we saw two weeks ago. Debris scattered everywhere. That is why they are trying to get all of this off of the roadway and out of the way. The more debris out here that flies around and ends up on the streets, that will cause a problem Thursday Morning trying to get in and around dealing with the aftermath and the second hurricane to impact this area in 13 days, john. s me when people hear about Storm Surge and think a foot or two of water on the street behind you. But if the Storm Surges anything to what forecast to be which is 1215 feet, things like that behind you will be entirely underwater. I will show you where the water that for helene right now. I can tell you how high it got for helene. It was right up here. This is about 6 feet. They have already, by the way, put it in Vinyl Flooring since the floor, i could not believe it. It looks like Brandnew Stuff and they pulled everything out of the house. If it gets back out here, all of these places, the one positive note, and it is not positive which a but not else can get the image because it was damaged and ruined on the streets so basically more water coming into homes that have been cleaned out and spring cleaned. Just a very sad situation. We have never seen two major hurricanes hit the same Area Code Code you may be not direct landfall at the same area 13 days apart. The only other example in that hyperactive season of 04, Francis And Eugene around hutchison island. That was about 25 days apart. But here less than two weeks in a way to clean up this mess. It is massive and hopefully This Is It for the season. I can tell you personally if i never see another Florida Beach until next spring when im on vacation, that is fine with me. John Mike Seidel for us and madeira beach, florida, a lot of that cleaned up before it turns into a seafoam soup. Mike, thank you so much. Sandra, you can imagine up and down the West Coast of florida particularly north of sarasota, they got hit so hard by helene. This thing, we could take out a lot of those structures as well if it comes ashore because the wind is one thing but the water is quite another. Sandra we are dealing with what the path is now that obviously could change and move further to the north or south. What you are looking at right now, we are told, is the southbound traffic, Collier County naples under effectuation Orders Letter a and B Eddy of naples and all residents at that but these are the congested roads and some people are fleeing south and so they are coming in a direction they can to get out of the Storms Path. In fact, Michael Brennan owed to the director of national Hurricane Center and joins us now. Thank you for joining us. Okay, understandably you have been do we have the guest . Understandably, you have been busy but what update do you have this hour . With the latest update, and fortunately, a little more intensification. So it is starting to intensify a little bit. But we expect these fluctuations to occur up and down. Dont get hung up on the ups and downs. What is important in the takehome message, we expect a powerful hurricane to slice across the Florida Peninsula late wednesday and early thursday bringing with it a large swath of destructive winds with these wins, you are talking widespread Power Outages along densely populated portion of the Florida Peninsula or joe that is just the land. If we switched to the Storm Surge, somebody in this purple area but not Everybody But Somebody in the purple area potential to get 10 feet of Storm Surge. For some of these areas that could be roughly double what they experienced during helene. Speed to just be Clay Or Jamie room from the national Hurricane Center. This is the last chance those floridians who decided to wait it out have to get out. If there are some contemplating as we continue to watch the live traffic moving south, is there a risk to that as well and the storm could Beer South . That is why we have the entire area clean and from perspective. If we go to the Hurricane Warning Area to syria to to the south under Hurricane Warning to convey that risk. We Cant Pinpoint precisely the center is going to cross the Florida Peninsula and beyond the reach of predictability. But we can very narrowly say this area in red the highest risk of hurricaneforce winds. Similar to the south of where it makes landfall, you get 1015 feet of Storm Surge and many of the areas ordered to evacuate. If youve been ordered to evacuate those Evacuation Orders are serious and based coordinating with us at the Hurricane Center in the best information and the forecasts. Sandra im looking at new video for national Hurricane Center has posted showing a very bumpy ride into the center of the hurricane. I believe it was ms. Piggy was the name of the mission to collect data to help improve the forecast that we are getting right now. You have to imagine they were people in a dangerous journey to try to get us the best information on the Storms Path. Jamie, i was dealing with a couple of things so the storm is category what, and you expect the forecast to be what category when it makes landfall . Right now, it is a strong category 4. When it moves across Florida Peninsula, a major hurricane. It is going to be 3 over here and we can as it goes across. But that does not tell the full story, people can get lost in the numbers and almost be confused by what looks like weakening. What is going to happen is the storm will grow in size. So horizontal size. That will create more power. We saw this from helene, these big storms just create so much damage. In the damage can go farther inland. So people have to stop her to make start thinking about the categories and whether up or down and look at this broad swath of red that cuts across the entire Florida Peninsula. Sandra understand. That is like saying hurricaneforce winds to move and cro across the entire peninsula. Sandra before we go you heard the warnings you will not live through the storm if you wait it out. Table he somebody is and the Red Sox and deciding to wait the storm out, is it survivable . So, he effectuation for the Storm Surge and the peak Storm Surge, the purple areas and these red areas, more than likely ordered to evacuate. You have to heed those warnings and you will not outthink these warnings and not outthink these evacuations. If ordered to go, it is time to go. Sandra jamie, we appreciate the update. Thank you. Thank you. John and this aspect of the Storm Hospitals across the united states facing a shortage of critical Iv Fluids after flooding from Hurricane Helene. The Manufacturing Plant that provides more than half of America Supply of those fluids is located in hardhit part of North Carolina. Lydia hu is with us and what are the Hospitals Thing about the shortages . John, some say they are already getting less than half of that Idf Solution received in shipments and impacting already. Mass general in boston with Iv Fluids and Uva Hospital postponing elective and nonlifethreatening surgeries that were scheduled for yesterday and today. The company is Baxter International and it says, it is making progress to restore the Facility North of, North Carolina, but still no date for return of production and provided the state several of global plants are scaling and ramping up production to help meet u. S. Needs we expect to receive products from these sources throughout the month of no of november. So they are trying to oversee production while at home in american Hospital Association is sending a letter to President Biden yesterday urging the administration to take action and declare a shortage and use the Defense Production Act. Here is the associations chief officer. Watch. We know the Defense Production Act we can lean on fda, dod, to be able to not only Increase Production but ensure it is spread across the country. Again, wavered from hospitals across the coast and this impacts patients everywhere. John, the Fda Administration officials working with Baxter International and Idf Solutions to figure out how to restore Supply And Increase production. But it appears for now, john, the administration is not declaring shortage of critical Idf Solutions at the moment. John Lydia Hu for us, thank you. 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They show this incredible video of the obviously very bumpy ride into Hurricane Milton here until they are collecting data right now so that we can get this sort of accurate information on the Storms Path, john. It is incredible Hurricane Research in realtime. John you can imagine any airline or in a pilot themselves will try to did their best to avoid a storm like that. They screw up folks flies into the middle of it and its quite extraordinary. And we will get that footage as soon as we can earlier today. Speed to about 30 minutes ago and notably the first respondent to the video once posted, obviously, people pulling for accounts and some responded i am no longer nervous about commercial turbulence because wow is it a bumpy ride for the pilots. We will have that for The Viewers in just a moment. In the meantime Battleground Blitz and President Biden twos talk about infrastructure in wisconsin any moment now as a as a republican nominee j. D. 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