Washington. A fox news alert. A massive hurricane that could be the most destructive in the history of the country is about to slam into florida. Hurricane milton could make landfall as early as 8 00 p. M. Eastern, exactly one hour from now. Now, the national Weather Service says the window to evacuate has closed. Shelter in place now. Tampa, Fort Myers and orlando are all expected to face lifethreatening impacts. Tornadoes have already been seen and many of floridas West Coast beaches are at risk as well of being wiped out. Now, first responders in st. Petersburg have paused all operations. Not responding to any emergencies until it is safe to do so. We will bring you conch from across the state but, first, we start in Brayden Ton Florida where Fox Weather Robert ray is standing by, robert . Yeah. Laura, good evening to you. And you see the Manatee River behind me that is raging with up to 80 mileperhour winds that have occurred here in this part of the Gulf Coast. We are not too far
Have shared as many as seven secret calls after trump left the White House. And that trump gave putin peculiar gifts. Kamala harris tonight, seizing on this new reporting and kfile how striking again on Earth Thing and interviewed Jd Vance did not want trump to see, but hell see it tonight. Lets go outfront im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. We are following several breaking stories, including bombshell, new details about Donald Trumps secret calls. After he left office. And his peculiar gifts to vladimir putin, details on that in just a moment, i want to begin though first with what is shaping up to be the worst hurricane to hit florida in 100 years . This hour, Hurricane Milton gaining strength now back to category five, which simply is the highest rating that exists. Dire warnings from officials tonight. At some saying this is not survivable and weve got new video with the category five monster from space, right now, heading straight towards tampa for a possible direct hit anticipate
The Tampa Bay powerful category four storm is barreling toward the state officials are warning of lifethreatening Storm Surge and heavy landfall and unleashed its fury overnight, we are awaiting a Press Conference. At any moment from Florida Governor Ron Desantis. Well bring that to you live in the meantime, we have Team Coverage of Hurricane Milton. We have seen as Randi Kaye and Isabel Rosales Standing by in florida. But first lets go to Cnn Meteorologist derek van dam. Derek, this is still a very powerful monster sure, a storm. Whats the latest yeah, indeed, jim, in fact, were getting hourly updates now and will continue to do so through landfall, which we anticipate sometime late tonight and into the early morning hours of thursday still 155 mile per hour wind, that is a powerful category four. Note that i did not say category five at one has earlier this morning, didnt lose much intensity overnight like we had hoped it would, but lets not split hairs here. The amount of energy tha
Five hurricane just about a day right now, which stands at eight category four, and it is promising 40 plus called an hour winds for this region, as well as a deadly, deadly Storm Surge. I want to show you what he started to happen in Tampa Bay right now. The water has started to recede. These are easterly wave that is dragging water out typically the Water Line is much closer but through this spot right here the seawall in front of me, this recession is something you typically see was storms at some point, this will come flying back as a potential 15 foot Storm Surge in some parts its estimated to be somewhere between eight to 12 feet here in Tampa Bay. And that is what has officials very, very concerned this may be a category four storm, a very powerful one, but the Storm Surge is a category five and it is set to Shatter Records Set by Hurricane Helene wait only about two weeks ago at some of the debris from Hurricane Helene is still out in this area. You see here in this pier, a Pol