Jose diazbalart picks up our coverage right now. Hurricane milton is Bearing Barreling toward florida as one of the recent hurricanes in recent history and dangerous category 4 storm is churning north of mexicos yucatan peninsula. Milton is set to make landfall in florida late wednesday in to thursday and its expected to trigger a Lifethreatening Storm Surge and it could be the worst storm to hit the Tampa Area in more than a century. The mayor saying if you choose to stay, youre going to die. Joining us is our meteorologist. How are people preparing there . You can probably see some of those Preparation Efforts happening as we speak. This is outside of this is normally a busy wharf and completely shut down. Flood protection barriers are outside of these businesses. People bracing so that they can protect the businesses that are here. We are seeing these kinds of efforts all around tampa. I want to take you to some of what we saw in Treasure Island that is outside of pinellas county. We saw people picking up debris, homeowners shoveling their prized belongings and possessions, things once inside of their home are now pieces of trash that could become dangerous and could become lethal projectiles in wind so you dont want them surging in a Storm Surge. There are efforts around the area to get the debris and secure it so it doesnt become deadly during Hurricane Helene. One thing i noticed speaking to people on the ground is the fatigue and shock. It was under two weeks ago they were making all of these preparations for helene and here they are again. Here is what we heard from one resident. Just overwhelming. Yeah. Two hurricanes back to back. It will be a war zone. 160mileanhour winds hitting the shore, 12foot surgery, for me its come back and rebuild. Kind of sounds like youre in a state of shock. I am. We have been dealing with this for a week now. Right . We are still trying to clear out stuff. Its devastating. Reporter i am seeing that is different from what we were noticing right before Hurricane Helene versus what we are seeing right now are the evacuation efforts. We are seeing those clogged highways and interstates, slow moving traffic on the way out ironing further north, further south to safer and higher ground. We are hearing from first responders, the people that are doing the door knocking and those particularly those low lying areas, zone a, they are saying they are not getting the same pushback that they were before. Ive even reached out to people that i knew who were hunkering down during Hurricane Helene were sending me devastation inside their home and one woman decided to ride out helene from her mobile home. The last image she sent me was a couple of inches that made it to her elevated mobile home. She reached out to me two days later saying she was okay. I asked her are you staying for Hurricane Milton . She said, no, we learned our lesson from helene and we are making our way out and that is what im hearing on the ground. Thank you very much there in tampa. Lets go over where milton is right now and where its expected to go. We havent seen a lot of change and messaging the past couple of days with how dangerous and serious this storm is as it approaches the coast of florida. The latest update from the national hurricane center, category 4. A strong category 4, a weaker cat 5 is not really the same kind of impacts are going to ensue the next 48 hours. Its moving a little slower and northeast at 9 miles per hour but we are still talking about 500 miles from tampa. Here is the latest track. Notice keeping it a category 4 but i dont want you to focus so much on that category because the impacts are going to remain the same. Its going to go over some really warm water here in parts of the Gulf Of Mexico. We could see strengthening and see potentially maybe some weakening but that focus on the Weakening Isnt going to change the fact that we still got the Storm Surge and really strong winds and where exactly the center of that system is, is going to make a big difference on how impactful those kind of scenarios are for folks across parts of west florida. The timing stays the same. Wednesday, late into the day, we will start to see things deteriorating across the West Coast. Unfortunately, when we get after dark into the overnight hours is when we likely will see landfall somewhere on that Tampa Bay Area, maybe sarasota. A couple of things have changed the past 24 hours. We saw how rapidly The System intensified yesterday. It underwent an i wall replacement cycle. That means its taking a Breath And Restructuring and then it gets going again. When that happens, we see that Wind Field expand and this is why most of the state of florida is under these Hurricane Watches and warnings because we have the potential to see some really strong damaging winds. Yesterday 200 miles today, rather 200 miles wide. As we get closer to the approach to the coast, 375 miles for the Tropical Storm Winds and impact across the state of florida that that regard. When it comes to the center of The System goes onshore maybe a difference of 60, 70 miles who could see devastating historic Storm SurgeUp To 15 feet in some spots and some less than that. Still lifethreatening and the Tampa Bay Area and down towards sarasota. Whether its a cat 4 or 3, either way the Big Push Of Water will not change. We are still going to get historic Storm Surge and 10 to 15 feet some the highest there. The High Tide is peaking for Tampa Bay around 6 00 in the morning, 7 00 in the morning on thursday. That is not going to make a big difference when you see the landfall overall night but it makes some difference when it comes to that push of water adding on to the massive amounts of water shoved against the shore. Here is what we see as far as Storm Surge. This is our most concerning situation and what kills the most amount of people in situations like this. You can see the st. Petersburg area. If this track goes across the Sunshine Skyway Bridge along 275 from st. Pete to bradenton Up To 6 to 9 to 15 feet. If it takes a southern track and goes a little farther south where the right side, that right Front Quadrant of The System is impacting bradenton the worst of the Storm Surge will be there. We are splitting hairs and why we are not trying to restructure exactly where we are in this region. If you are in these Evacuation Zones, you essentially need to leave. The time is kind of ticking for that. When it comes to the inland flooding, its a little different than helene and not quite as significant as we saw with helene but 5, 10, 15 inches of Rain And Spread across this region and we will seal the potential for these strong winds as well. 90 to 100mileperhour winds and especially wherever the center of that system comes on Show System comes on show. Following the evacuation warns and impact will impact in across the state of florida and isolated tornadoes as The System works across the state is going to be impactful as well through your thursday. So very quickly. This looks like it could very well still be a hurricane as it crosses the entire state of florida Heading Out and passing near the orlando area. The I4 Corridor looks like its one of the areas that this storm could take. If you take to Uss A Little Bit about that. For the folks who dont know, angie has deep studies in hurricanes. She has been really focused on that in much of her career. And so what is it that you see in this hurricane, angie, that is different from all of the others . Then, if you would, refer to the whole I4 Corridor area. To be perfectly honest with everybody, i went to school in florida. I spent seven years at the Nbc Station in miami and i grew up going to a home i still have property on one of the barrier islands in pinellas county. To put it lightly, i have been very impacted by the situation that is unfolded with milton. Jose, youre exactly right. We do see those notice how these hurricaneforce winds are spread across the entirety of the state. Florida not that wide so its not hard to see some of those destructive winds but youre right with it maintaining that category 1 strength as it goes across the state of florida. So that means that, yes, the Storm Surge is a major concern along the coast for the West Coast of florida but if you live in orlando, the space coast, melbourne, satellite beach, all of those locations will likely see the potential for strong winds, at least hurricane force. 50 to 70mileperhour winds you see trees coming down and they can fall on homes, fall on cars. We dont want you to be On The Road at those points. Those are impacts. The tornadoes are something we have to deal with across the region and, jose, we saw some of those additional watches and warnings tropical storm watches and warnings issued for jacksonville and points north of that. On the Back Side of this system, once it goes over out over the water, we start to see those wraparound winds. That is going to make a major difference for the Storm Surge and the Flooding And Rainfall we see there on top of those strong winds. A multifaceted event and historic one at that and no signs of any improvements honestly with this forecast. Thank you very much. We appreciate it, angie. Joining us now is javon graham, Emergency Manager for clearwater, florida. Thank you very much for joining us. How are you preparing for milton . We are doing the best we can. This is a very large storm and it could have disastrous effects so we are trying to take every Mitigation Effort we can and clear the debris from the last event which is still on the ground and push the messaging of evacuation. We want people to get out of this area. It could be a Lifethreatening And Death dealing threat and want people to take it serious. How much of Helenes Aftermath are you still dealing with at this hour . Oh, a lot like we said earlier, there is a lot of Vegetaive Degree for our Beach Area and barrier islands. We have sand 6, 12, 15 feet high a ton of debris on the ground and we are afraid it can become projectiles that we are trying to clean and get rid of, however, its still there. A lot of sand and a lot of debris and items still on the curbs and on the streets that we are still trying to get out of the Way Today but its just an impossible task. I mean, when you say Up To 12 feet of sand still there, you know, talk to us about Storm Surge and the danger for the entire area. Well, that is a good point to make because we still have a lot of sand, even a lot of our Storm Water systems that were cleared are still blocked up. So if you went through helene and dealt with that Storm Surge, this is twice as bad so the flooding will be twice as bad. A lot of our systems are still compromised and are not ready in time. We want people to take this serious because this could be this will be worse than what we dealt with ever before. So, you know, what you all do and what you all have done for so long, your level of service and your level of concern and your level of even after effects is so extraordinary. What is your message to your residents at this hour . Heed the warnings. If you had damage during helene, dont stay. We have ordered evacuations a, b, and c. If you cant go to a shelter, leave the immediate storm. This storm is disastrous and will kim people and take it seriously and evacuate the area. So a lot of people are saying, oh, boy. You know, how far do i go . How, you know, i dont have gas. The Gas Stations have mile long lines and i dont have enough gas. They dont have to necessarily evacuate 400 miles. Correct. We are pushing tens of miles, not hundreds of miles. Get to an area that is out of the Evacuation Zone and get to a hard structure. Streets are blocking up. Gas stations are running out of fuel. You just need to get out of the Storm Surge because storm is the biggest thing that will kill you but we have the high winds. Get to a hardened structure definitely out of harms way. Thank you very much. I know you have not slept and you have not slept for many, many days now. I very much appreciate your being with us this morning. All of the best to you and all of the residents that you serve. Thank you very much. Coming up, as we continue to track milton and the Recovery Efforts from helene, Scientist Bill Nigh joins us to tell us why the storms are more intense and devastating. We are four weeks from the election. We got new revelations about the relationship between former President Trump and Vladimir Putin. What trump allegedly secretly said to Vladimir Putin at the height of the Covid Pandemic and what Vice President paris had to say on 60 minutes when asked about the border policy. We are back in 90 seconds. Youre watch Jose Diazbalart reports on msnbc. Ports on msn. 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