An hour ago to a category 4 but a serious and deadly storm that will have the target of the West Coast of florida in its sights sometime later tonight and early tomorrow morning. Im Bill Hemmer in orlando. We do a split show today. Dana you are missed but glad youre there. This is americas newsroom, im dana perino. You have covered many of these hurricanes, bill. I think that even you are saying wow, this one is big and monster by comparison even. Bill you know, i think it is storm 21. Im back at a hotel where i was five years ago. Florida will take a wallop here. They were predicting earlier today there will be a part of the West Coast of florida that will have a Storm Surge of eight to ten feet. Think about that now. Those low lying Barrier Islands that have been so built up over the past 50 years. The Population Increase on the West Coast of florida. This is going to be a doozy. Experts describe milton as a once in a Century Storm and folks in tampa are taking heed. Very tough. We r
This is not survivorable the urgent warning we got from Central Florida officials to all the people living in Hurricane Miltons path. The Evacuation Zone involves Six Million people. And this storm is hours away now from colliding with floridas gulf coast. The impact has the potential to change the coastline. Our Meteorologist Janice Dean was saying it will do that. President biden and Vicepresident Kamala Harris are getting briefed were told on preparations. Officials are bracing for extreme winds and the windshield on this has grown exponentially so its going to affect far many more people than we thought at first. The winds could cause widespread power outages, like we just saw less than two weeks ago across six states in the southeast, including florida. Helene hit florida first. This is the second punch. 15 feet of lifethreatening Storm Surge expected, and time is running short for people who actually want to get out of the way. And you might have to go a little bit farther away t
Furniture, they could be telling you theyre stressed to help them feel more calm try feel away optimum tonight on 360 people getting out while they can with Hurricane Milton. Now cat five, storm heading straight for tampa, florida, which hasnt taken a direct hit since 1921. Also tonight, the latest from Hardhit North Carolina and the lies the former president continues to tell about the Relief Effort and later on the Oneyear Anniversary of the October 7 Terror Attack would check back in with a woman still waiting for her family being held hostage to come home. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. It took Hurricane Milton less than 24 hours to go from an 80 mile an Hour Storm to 180 mile an hour munster. One of the fastestgrowing hurricanes ever on the path that its on it could so be the first in more than 100 years to directly hit tampa, florida, a city largely at sea level, or even a smaller storm could do serious damage and which is still cleaning up from its brush with Hurricane Hel
Two down here and penta gordon. And so that can happen. It can get close to land. They can turn Flood Watch in effect, obviously four to eight inches of rainfall. Some models now predicting probably in the neighborhood of about 15 inches of rainfall. And thats just the freshwater flooding thats possible from alberto two barrel, the very hi, im on Wednesday Night show that you and i will be on. Alright. Chad myers. Thank you very much. Well have more on Hurricane Milton later in the program, as well as reporting from the error is worst hit by helene in North Carolina where the Death Toll is still a climbing and to that point, Fema Today said the agency has enough funding to handle the response to Hurricanes Milton and helene. The fact that it has to reassure people about that not just to the weather lately, but also the political climate. Thats because in spite of republican mayors and governors and senators and Hurricane Affected States thing, otherwise dont. Trump has been lying again
Can with hurricane milton. Now cat five storm heading straight for tampa, florida, which hasn t taken a direct hit since 1921. Also live the latest from hardhit north carolina and the lies the former president continues to tell about the relief efforts. And later on the oneyear anniversary of the october 7 terror attack would check back in with a woman still waiting for her family being held hostage to come home good evening. Thanks for joining us. It took hurricane milton less than 24 hours to go from an 80 mile an hour storm to 100 names 80 mile an hour monster, one of the fastestgrowing hurricanes ever. And on the path that its on, it could also be the first in more than 100 years to directly hit tampa, florida, a city largely at sea level, or even a smaller storm could do serious damage and which is still cleaning up from his brush with hurricane helene, which may be why people began leaving today and why as many as 6600 ambulances today began evacuating patients from area hospital