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
Kamala and i will be there for as long as it takes to rescue, recover and rebuild. President biden sending a message of support to floridians as Hurricane Milton barrels towards the state with landfall expected in just the next few hours. Plus, biden condemned the un the quote unquote, unamerican misinformation about the federal Storm Response calling out Trump And Marjorie Taylor Greene by name for dispensing those lies. And trumps attempt to deny the Bomb Shell reporting that he sent Covid Tests to putin was unbelievably thwarted by the friends and the kremlin himself who said, yep, he did that. We begin tonight with Hurricane Milton barrelling towards the West Coast of Florida And Set to make landfall in the next few hours. This is a Nightmare Scenario for more than 3 Million people who live in the Tampa Bay area. Which could see widespread destruction. 15 florida counties that are home to more than 7 Million people are under mandatory evacuation orders. Local officials have been pr
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
Thank you all for being here this morning. Thanks to All Of You for joining us as well. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere. Cnn news central starts right now Hurricane Milton is now a category five Storm Closing in on on Floridas Gulf Coast hours away from landfall, possibly one of the most destructive hurricanes to ever hit that west central coast. One official warning residents in the Evacuation Zone this is not survivable. We have the latest up to the Minute Storm Track as some Gas Stations are running out of fuel and exclusive cnn reporting the cia struggling behind the scenes, facing allegations of sexual Assault And Harassment at The Agency. Im Kate Bolduan with john berman, Sara Sidner is out today this is cnn new central breaking news Hurricane Milton is closing in on florida as a catastrophic category five storm. It is poised to be one of the most destructive Natural Disasters in florida is history. Officials at just forecast the storm will hit as a category four along the West C