Set to make landfall in florida roughly 24 hours from now, weve just gotten a new advisory this very Hour Milton is currently moving towards floridas gulf coast, tracking towards the Sarasota Area and potentially inching even further south and its going to get a lot bigger before it gets there. That means a life lifethreatening Storm Surge potentially reaching up to 15 feet but this hurricane is going to impact the entire state. Everyone on edge because any wobble in its trajectory could actually impact which part gets hit the hardest, and to make matters worse, the area, as you know, is still recovering from Hurricane Helene. Just to show you how strong this storm is, take a look at this video showing no current and hunters that are flying inside of milton, the turbulence is so severe their belongings are actually being tossed all across the airplane. And heres The View from even higher up in space in space itself a Nasa Astronaut sharing this time lapse that captures the growing size
Strength and makes landfall also tonight. Former president making the federal response to these lifethreatening hurricanes, political yet again, despite officials saying misinformation has made the Disaster Relief all the more difficult plus new Information Tonight on multiple Phone Calls between Vladimir Putin and former President Trump since he left office. The details from Bob Woodward in his latest book. Good evening. We start tonight with Hurricane Milton gaining strength at this moment and headed toward tampa, Florida Region still reeling from Hurricane Helene and that tonight for the second time in early as many weeks is expecting record Storm Surge, roads are jammed, Gas Running low in the area are not available in some places. I want to show you something that you dont see too often in florida. Take a look that Treasure Island near tampa and st. Petersburg and your Ghost Town after people evacuated, one person who is there, our Boris Sanchez will check in with him shortly. An
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
Need to watch that very carefully. Yeah, secretary buttigieg, 63, Address Fishing just said that is a major focus of his today and will be tomorrow. Matt egan. Thank you. Thank you, john. Great to see you. Brand new era of Cnn News central starts now about it. Were going to get hit and its going to be hard everybody out from milton. And were trying to get all the debris up from helene you cant take no chance at all. I know that this storm is the storm. What are you guys doing . Were actually saw about actually until friday, we were able to come out and do some rescues for families with kids that decided to try and hunker down and that was not a good idea. I hope that people learned from that and decided to leave. Once we leave, therell be no first responder here. If you dont take heed youre on your own update on Hurricane Milton is now out of this hour. The Monster Storm is a category four storm thats downgraded slightly from where it was as a cat five Wind Speeds are now up 100 now at
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