Washington. A fox news alert. A massive hurricane that could be the most destructive in the history of the country is about to slam into florida. Hurricane milton could make landfall as early as 8 00 p. M. Eastern, exactly one hour from now. Now, the national Weather Service says the window to evacuate has closed. Shelter in place now. Tampa, Fort Myers and orlando are all expected to face lifethreatening impacts. Tornadoes have already been seen and many of floridas West Coast beaches are at risk as well of being wiped out. Now, first responders in st. Petersburg have paused all operations. Not responding to any emergencies until it is safe to do so. We will bring you conch from across the state but, first, we start in Brayden Ton Florida where Fox Weather Robert ray is standing by, robert . Yeah. Laura, good evening to you. And you see the Manatee River behind me that is raging with up to 80 mileperhour winds that have occurred here in this part of the Gulf Coast. We are not too far
Hello and welcome to todays verified. We start in florida, bracing itself for what could be the worst storm in 100 years. There are huge Traffic Jams across the state as more than 5 Million people respond to Evacuation Orders ahead of Hurricane Milton. We will be live on the ground in just a moment but i can show you first are the pictures from space. It gives you an idea of the size of this monster storm, officials think it could still double in size before making landfall. This is the live Tracking Shot from the national hurricane center. The category four storm is due to make landfall tonight. It is only brushed past mexico, causing flooding. On the florida peninsula, relative calm but they expect wind speeds of up to 160 mph and 3 4 Metre Storm surges. The pictures from tallahassee, where in the next few minutes we expect to get the latest briefing from the florida governor Ron Desantis and other emergency officials. We will carry that live when it starts. We can start this hour by
Hello, im kasie hunt. Welcome to cnn this morning, the breaking news, the national Hurricane Center out with a brand new update it on Hurricane Milton. Milton continues to be a dangerous category five hurricane, expected to bring Lifethreatening Storm Surge and dangerous winds along Floridas Gulf Coast practically all of Central Florida remains under a Hurricane Warning with landfall expected as early as tonight with Evacuation Orders clogging floridas major interstates, a new problem growing Fuel Outages as of late last night, 21 of Gas Stations in florida are out of gas. This storm coming right on the heels of Hurricane Helene that brought record Storm Surge flooding to the Tampa Area where debris from that storm now poses a whole new threat. Theres still a lot of debris out there that could become really dangerous in these Wind Conditions. We didnt have the Wind Conditions with helene just the Storm Surge. So this is going to be both things potential threat to us all right, lets get
The Tampa Bay powerful category four storm is barreling toward the state officials are warning of lifethreatening Storm Surge and heavy landfall and unleashed its fury overnight, we are awaiting a Press Conference. At any moment from Florida Governor Ron Desantis. Well bring that to you live in the meantime, we have Team Coverage of Hurricane Milton. We have seen as Randi Kaye and Isabel Rosales Standing by in florida. But first lets go to Cnn Meteorologist derek van dam. Derek, this is still a very powerful monster sure, a storm. Whats the latest yeah, indeed, jim, in fact, were getting hourly updates now and will continue to do so through landfall, which we anticipate sometime late tonight and into the early morning hours of thursday still 155 mile per hour wind, that is a powerful category four. Note that i did not say category five at one has earlier this morning, didnt lose much intensity overnight like we had hoped it would, but lets not split hairs here. The amount of energy tha
You by meso mesobook. Com if you or a Loved One have Mesothelial Mac will send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now. And well come to you, 808 to 14000 the cnn newsroom. Im Pamela Brown in new york, major Breaking News this morning, we just got an update from the national Hurricane Center, Hurricane Milton is still a category four slumber were keeping a close eye on it because things are changing minute by minute. Outer bands have already reached florida and brought a Tornado Threat with them. This one right here, Take A Look. This was spotted and Alligator Alley near naples, as people are trying to fleece, see the roads, there are cars On The Road. Were just hours away from the massive category four Storm Making Landfall in the window for people to evacuate is closed closing fast, one official in tampa saying, quote, ive never seen anything of this magnitude we have Team Coverage with cnns randi kayes standing by in sarasota. But first lets go to Meteorologist Der