Bill thank you sean we are live here as milton is a major storm here in central and western and Eastern Florida tonight. Hurricane milton battering florida moving on shore making landfall as a category three storm 90 minutes ago downgraded earlier from a category five in the Gulf Of Mexico. Lifethreatening storm with a surge upwards of 10 feet expected in several areas of the West Coast. And its a very fierce. Weve got live coverage we will get to it right now. Steve has been in tampa all Day Adam is live in the Weather Centre. What are you seeing right now tonight cree. A sideways rain with heavy Wind Gust. The wind has been strong enough to snap small trees here with those being pushed down so you can imagine how difficult it will be for people to get around and rescuers to move around. With major distraction we arent seeing it in the buildings. We arent seeing Street Signs and is interesting to hear the mayor of Tampa Bay and Governor Desantis says going to be a few hours on your ow
hour over a large area for a long period of time, three, four, five hours. my producers rooms were shaking. we are in a heavily reinforced concrete building that was built post-katrina. it was about 13 years old. that is post-katrina. it can different hurricane specifications it was built to withstand and it was still shaking. at the moment we are hearing the hum of generators. we don t have electricity. helicopters are flying around the area. the only cars we have seen are emergency vehicles, and that has been very few. the emergency operations center completely down in st. charles failure. i know we have been discussing the levee failures but the
institute has created a brand new facility. aiming to help test and refine building designs that can withstand almost any hurricane. jonathan serrie with the news. he is live in chester county, south carolina. hello, jonathan. hey, shep. in fact right now i m in the middle of the wind tunnel. we started out the day with two seemingly identical homes. this one still standing behind me was built to hurricane specifications. but the other home, a conventional home, all that remains is a debris field. watch how it happened. as you can see behind me in the test chamber, the winds are starting to pick up right now. clocking 85 miles an hour. as you can see, the non-fortified house, the siding really isn t holding up very well. once the first pieces of it start ripping off. once there is a breach, the destruction just seems to accelerate. there it goes. there it goes. the entire house blowing off its