Jose diazbalart picks up our coverage right now. Hurricane milton is Bearing Barreling toward florida as one of the recent hurricanes in recent history and dangerous category 4 storm is churning north of mexicos yucatan peninsula. Milton is set to make landfall in florida late wednesday in to thursday and its expected to trigger a Lifethreatening Storm Surge and it could be the worst storm to hit the Tampa Area in more than a century. The mayor saying if you choose to stay, youre going to die. Joining us is our meteorologist. How are people preparing there . You can probably see some of those Preparation Efforts happening as we speak. This is outside of this is normally a busy wharf and completely shut down. Flood protection barriers are outside of these businesses. People bracing so that they can protect the businesses that are here. We are seeing these kinds of efforts all around tampa. I want to take you to some of what we saw in Treasure Island that is outside of pinellas county. W
in the next couple of seconds, it s going to be gone due to the storm s ferocious winds. you can see it bending there. those winds so high and so destructive and down it goes. i want to bring in javon graham, the emergency manager for clear water, florida, the police department there showing video of flooding in the name sake 3 mile stretch of sand beach. you can t see sand beach because it s completely under water. thank you so much for being with us. the pinellas county sheriff warned this has made landfall the greatest impact is going to be storm surge. what are you seeing and what are your concerns? they re 100% correct with that. good afternoon, by the way. storm surge was our biggest threat with this. the wind was not a big issue. but beginning at 3:00 a.m. this morning, we started having with the tide a lot of water come in. it pushed the beach sand, it covered the roads. north beach and south beach was completely inundated with water.
clears? again, with the storm surge brings a lot of sand, the environmental conditions. there s a lot of unknowns that actually just washed up. environmentally and cleaning the areas, getting it back to seminole is going to be very important. that s going to be one of our biggest concerns. separating the dirty sand from the debris and getting cleaned back up for the streets and making it safe again. javon graham, to you and the folks who work with you in emergency management, we really appreciate everything you do and we appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. good luck. thank you. nbc s marissa parra, meantime, is reporting live from tampa, which is seeing a king tide. that s some of the highest water levels of the year. about to go inside with this hurricane. so how are things there, marissa? reporter: i have good news to report. we have actually seen the water
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