Anderson cooper in braden florida, where the winds have really picked up significantly just in the last ten minutes or so, they are really starting to whip here in downtown by, by The River. I just want to get a sense of sort of the wins. Its sort of hard to tell when youre actually in it you get a sense in the light over there. Theres just been a steady downpour of rain and you can see it there. It reflected in the light as i was talking to erin in the last hour, there is a lot of along The River here. Theres a lot of Palm Trees, a lot of these really large branches of these Palm Trees are just ripping off flying through the air and there are sort of littered all over the ground. I want to walk if i cant over here a little bit and show you the Manatee River is over here. And nellis, is that way. About ten minutes ago, we could see lights over in pinellas obscures me in palmetto, we dont see the lights over there anymore. I dont know if theyre still there and just the visibilities. So
Biggest storm of the century could make landfall within the hour. Live images from st. Petersburg on your screen right now, you see our Bill Weir there in that picture. Hell be with us in a Moment Hurricane Milton now on a much faster track toward land, expected to hit florida with 150 mile an Hour Wind gusts and a destructive Storm Surge. Conditions deteriorating by the minute officials now saying it is no longer safe to be outside. And lets show you what it looks like On The Roads already flooded right now, the Monster Storm, one of the most powerful on records still growing after nearly doubling in size in just 24 hours absolutely incredible new Satellite Images here on your screen. The Lightning Strikes from a storm that officials warn james the coastline of florida forever. And right now, Tropical Storm Winds now stretch its more than 300 miles from that. I and lets just show you some of the pictures of what it looks like about 40 miles from the eye in the gulf. Some of these wave
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Long time and have experienced these storms many times, power you talking with them about how this is going to be different. And what and so the difference between what theyre used to and what this will be as a way to hopefully give them more encouragement to know that they need to get out you Thank You, Madam Vice President. Yes, weve been emphasizing the size and the intensity of the storm and the direction in which its approaching, which is unusual and really raises that Storm Surge Risk for the West Coast of florida we typically see hurricanes approach the West Coast of florida from the south or southeast, moving parallel to the coast. This track more perpendicular to the coast really raises the Storm Surge Risk. And the size of the storm is going to produce hazardous impacts across much of the peninsula. So weve been hitting the Surge Risk on both coasts. Actually, the Hurricane Force winds, the flooding, rainfall all threat to tornadoes and trying to reemphasize the Scale And Bre
Per hour. And its barreling straight toward florida as a Cat Category four storm. People have across the state are trying to evacuate before it makes Landfall Tomorrow Night the city of tampa is in the storms bull bullseye. And later this hour we will get an update from the mayor. Shes already issued a blunt warning. If you stay in the Evacuation Zones, you who are going to die President Biden echoed that sentiment from the White House moments ago a potential for this storm to both enter florida as hurricane and leave Florida Hurricane on the atlantic coast this could be the worst Storm Hit Florida in over a century. And god willing, it wont be, but thats what its looking like right now. If youre under Evacuation Orders, you should evacuated. Now. Now now i should have already evacuated. Its a matter of Life And Death, and thats not hyperbole. Its a matter Life And Death the president just canceled his planned foreign trip this week so he can oversee the response to the second hurrican