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
punta gorda. trees whipping, winds topping 130 miles an hour. across florida there are people trapped in their homes. entire homes being flooded out, people swimming inside. one city hit hard is bonita springs. part of that city are now completely underwater. the storm surge has knocked homes completely off their foundations as well. and to the south of there, the city of naples cat 4 winds there have completely demolished buildings. look at how high up that obviously you never know what s in these waters now. you ve got chemicals and everything in the middle of these towns. according to forecasters, the storm surge reached more than 6 feet, flooding cars and homes, even leaving rescue crews stranded. the water was so high that officials had to wade through it to rescue people who did not evacuate. and let us show you one astonishing image from just before ian came ashore. look at that. it s almost like a tsunami was coming. the winds and the storm actually sucked all the w
The issue a list of demands in a growing crisis. Welcome to World Leaders today. More than 800 hollings in tower blocks on a Council Estate in camden, north london are being evacuated because of safety concern. Camden council says residents in flat in five towers and the Chalcots Estate will be moved for urgent safety work. It follows the fire in last week in which 79 people died. The last few minutes, we have heard from georgia gould, leader of camden council. She explained why the decision has been made. Ever since the tragic fire at grenfell, we have done everything we can to check the safety of our blog. On wednesday we were first in the queue to check the cladding on our blocks. What we found was the installation was safe but the external cladding was not up to the standard that we wanted and was not fire retardant. Obviously this was very disappointed and we share that disappointment with our residents. Weve had a Public Meeting on thursday with residents were they concerned abou
there the east coast is preparing for the worst. our meteorologist janice dean is tracking dorian s path and joins us now. janice? janice: new advisory coming out in minutes. we will make sure have you that take a look at what we have right now. the storm is just offshore of florida about 90 miles due east of daytona beach. cacan you see tropical storm force winds already escaping the coast line. we have had wind gusts 50, 60 miles per hour. here is the future radar, we expect the storm to come very close to shore north florida into georgia and then as we get into thursday, south carolina needs to be watching this very closely as well as north carolina because we think this has the possibility to make a very close brush, if not a landfall on thursday into friday. forecast wind gust, here is another one of our forecast computer models, you can see the core of the strongest winds coming very close to south carolina on thursday afternoon and then up towards north carolina where, again, we
our meteorologist is tracking it all. original, when it originally made landfall on saturday evening or not 10:10 on the southeast coast of china, the strongest wind gusts were 133 kilometers per hour making it difficult for people to stand up. we broke some records with 24-hour rainfall totals. look at this. people trying to navigate those types of winds. wow. i don t know who gave them that idea. not great. nonetheless, people even trying to get outdoors on a motorcycle. i mean, you can see how the result of that. and look at this, i want to step to the side here. this is a building, just to put this wave into perspective. this is on the shores of southeast china. four to five-story high waves just crashing into that area and some horrific and incredible images coming out of taiwan of