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. W
It is good to be back with you on this second hour of Chris Jansing reports. No rest for the storm weary. We are live in florida as Crews Race to clear the damage from Hurricane Helene before the other Monster Storm named milton rolls ashore. Forecasters say the intensity is building again. Plus, get out now or die. Dire Evacuation Orders set off a scramble with highways clogged and things flying off the shelves. The latest on the storm that could be the worst to hit florida in a century. And when Disaster Relief turns political. Growing spat between Kamala Harris and Floridas Governor Ron Desantis after he reportedly dodged her call. What both sides are saying. And Donald Trumps predictions for the stormravaged south. Theyll still turn out for him even if they have to crawl to the voting booth. We start in tampa, florida, where people trying to evacuate face long lines for gas, standstill traffic, hundreds of cancelled flights. Sam brock is there live. What can you tell us about whats
Good to be with you. Im katy tur. Leave or die, thats the warning for hundreds of thousands across tampa and beyond this hour as Hurricane Milton, now a monstrous category 4, takes direct aim on floridas third largest city. Right now, almost all of floridas West Coast is under an Emergency Warning as Crews Race to clear the debris from last weeks hurricane, that one helene, before milton makes landfall sometime tomorrow night. It is dangerous eye is set to unleash a once in a Century Damage and record Storm Surge. The national Hurricane Center is warning of up to 15 feet of water in tampa alone. As we speak, thousands are still trying to get out, residents rushing to escape the storms path, have clogged highways, and interstates. And adding to all of that chaos, all of that concern is politics. And the rampant disinformation that is being peddled by Donald Trump and some republicans including false claims about Fema Funds and not so subtle Social Media posts that say they control the w
Actions. Peter, my friend, thank you so much. I always appreciate talking with you. That is tonight s reidout and inside with jen psaki starts now. Okay, so we are just 29 days out from the residential election. People are voting across the country and all of those key, swing states you hear about already, and vice president kamala harris and governor tim walz are on a media blitz right now. Tim walz was unleashed on fox news yesterday, it seemed to go pretty well. Harris was unleashed on the popular podcast, call her daddy. And both of them will sit down with a slew of daytime host and podcast holds hosts in the slew of the coming days. I would love to talk to you about my take on these media strategies, and we definitely will during the show me but we kind of have to start somewhere else tonight. Because right now, on a parallel track to all of the interviews and campaign events, early voting, pretty normal electionyear kind of stuff, we have a republican nominee, who will lie about
That s going to do it for our special vladimir putin birthday edition of the rachel maddow show tonight. Now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. I would not have known whose birthday it was today, rachel, if you didn t deliver that what do we call that? is that good news? i m not sure what that is. It s the opposite of me singing happy birthday. It s a fact, that s for sure, characterizing it yonder that is not easy. Thank you, lawrence. Thank you, rachel. Thank you. Thank you. We are separated by an entire country right now. I m in los angeles. She s on the east coast so our connection has a little bit of a gap in it when we are chatting , which explains our little pauses with each other right there. Now it is an election night in america and it will be election 19 america every night for the next 29 days. That s until november 5th, the final election nights of the season. Voting is already underway at early voting locations and with mailin ballots in this country. Ov