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
That reality means for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Now im Kate Bolduan with John Berman, Sara Sidner is out today. Erin burnett joins us from Tel Aviv. This is Cnn News Central from the national Hurricane Center Hurricane milton is getting stronger and fast now a powerful category three storm, as it is churning in the gulf of mexico, the storm is forecast to take an incredibly dangerous path headed for highly populated areas of the West Coast of florida. Evacuation orders are now in place in three counties. There. Tampa mayor is telling residents to get out now please heed the warnings if you can go now, go. You cannot wait and see you have been told whats going to happen. Were fortunate if it wobbles one way or the other and we dont take the direct impact but lets plan on that absolutely. Lets get to cnns derek Van Dam for the very latest, weve had a lot of updates, just this morning. Derek, whats the latest . People in florida are waking up to a completely different storm than 24
Location near you see llf bk. Com you are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We do begin the hour with Breaking News as yet another powerful Hurricane Barrels towards florida. There it is. Milton is now now a category four, and its getting stronger quickly. Its aiming directly at the Tampa Bay Area and could become a category five storm at some point, officials are warning of lifethreatening Storm Surge and damaging winds to communities still picking up the pieces from helene, florida governor Ron Desantis gave this warning just moments ago. We need as much of this debris picked up as possible. This creates a Safety Hazard and it also will increase the damage that milton could do with flying debris cnns derek Van Dam joins us now, derek the governor said it right there. You got to have another Path Powerful Hurricane Come in and slam the coast and lift up this Debris And Flight in 100 different directions. That that does sound like a scary situation for the resident
You already know Brow Tv on the edge sunday at nine On Cnn im jake tapper. This hour, the world marks one year since the horrific hamas Terrorist Attacks on israel. And amidst the moving tributes as a Renewed Push to bring home the dozens of hostages still being held by the terrorist group. Is there any hope of a deal on the horizon, any hope of relief for the innocent civilians in Gaza And Lebanon . On being subjected to the horrors of war. Im going to ask the israeli ambassador to the u. S. Coming up plus the Harriswalz Campaign tries out a new strategy with just over one month until the present its an actual election, but will it be enough to reach voters on the fence who have not decided which candidate to support or if theyll even get up off the couch and cast a ballot this november. But we start this hour with breaking news, a Brandnew Forecast just in moments ago for Hurricane Milton which is heading right towards florida as an extremely dangerous category five hurricane. Today,
The world as the annIversary of October 7 approaches. In other news. Tech BIllIonaIre Elon Musk joIns republIcan NomInee Donald Trump On Stage In butler, pennsylvanIa as he returns to the sIte of hIs attempted assassInatIon. You are watchIng Bbc News and you joIn us here In the kr boots not far from the Gaza Border In front of one of the homes as you can see was brutally attacked In the early hours of october seven a year ago. Everybody who lIved In the homes behInd us are dead. Some of the famIlIes that are gatherIng near to not farfrom where we are broadcastIng to commemorate the lIves that were taken and the hostages stIll beIng held In gaza. The communIty suffered terrIbly In the october seven attacks. A small communIty of 400 people saw 117 people kIlled or kIdnapped. That Is a quarter of thIs communIty. In a moment, we wIll speak to someone who saw sIx members of herfamIly taken and someone who lost Loved Ones In the attack. Lets look fIrst at the latest development, begInnIng wI