People are being urged to leave coastal and low lying areas of florida as Hurricane Milton, expected to be the biggest storm to hit the area in a century, moves closer to the states West Coast. President biden has warned evacuating is a matter of life and death. These pictures are coming into us live from the state of florida. This is the sunshine skyway bridge, the gateway to Tampa Bay, normally a very busy road even early in the day but pretty much deserted now, clearly very exposed and certainly not somewhere anyone would want to be as the hurricane approaches. Although those winds and rain not being really fully felt yet, if we look at this picture of some Palm Trees you can see they are moving a little bit in the breeze but those winds will get stronger and stronger. The national Hurricane Center saying that milton is bringing sustained winds of around 155 miles per hour, as we look at this track. It was downgraded a short while ago to a Category Fourfrom Category short while ago
We do continue the Breaking News this afternoon, good Afternoon Everybody i Martha Maccallum and in New York and we are willing for updates, expect them very soon. You see the two Podium Tear the pentagon and the State Department we will hear from both, we just heard from Dixilyn Van get you caught up to speed on what he said just moments ago. But the Breaking News today is that iran has bombarded israel with 200 missiles ballistic missile just heard the Secretary Of State Antony Blinken put that number on it and theyre calling It Payback for the killing of Hezbollahs Leader and a hamas official. Hassan nasrallah and also ismail haniyeh. These were two of the highest individuals in iran and both of them, excuse me, 111 and one in iran, have been taken out so in both lebanon excuse me. They have promised crushing attacks if israel strikes back. U. S. Officials have warns iran will face severe consequences. Watch this. Martha that was the skies over Tel Aviv earlier today and jerusalem.
Bret good evening. Welcome to washington. I am bret baier. The Bidenharris Administration is sending what it calls a small number of additional u. S. Troops to the Middle East. This comes as the israeli offensive against hezbollah terrorists in lebanon is expanding tonight. Hundreds of Air Strikes have been lost with Israel Warning residents of Southern Lebanon to stay away from hezbollahs Weapons Storage sites. Lebanons Health Ministry says more than 490 people have been killed so far and the most devastating barrage since the two fought 18 years ago. Fox Team Coverage Tonight with the Middle East on the brink. Jacqui heinrich at the White House with about the administration is saying about the growing conflict in the region good Mike Tobin live in tel aviv. Good evening, mike. After almost a year in which israel says 9, 9,000 Rockets E Air force responded striking at some 1300 targets in the south lebanon. As a Defense Minister booted, to demolish what has been built over the last 20
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