Understand and fully comprehended, but were going to cover it to the best of our ability and shine a spotlight on whats going on, jim. Thanks very much. You got it hadnt morning to All Of You. You are live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Pamela Brown in washington. We begin this hour with this breaking News Hurricane Milton its is barreling toward the western shores of florida, the national Hurricane Center just issued the latest advisory saying the storm remains a category four, but it could pick up speed and go back to category five meanwhile, floridians heading out of state could be facing a number of obstacles. Some Gas Statiounning and officials see to expect Hours Worth of traffic. And this morning, Tampa International Airport suspended all operations. We begin this Hours Coverage with Meteorologist Derek Van dam. Derek, we just got an update on the storm tell us the latest alright. So pamela, since 5 00 a. M. Weve seen an increase in the Wind Speeds were at 150 miles per hour, sustained
Information. Millions of americans need now to brace for Hurricane Milton. This is round two during a suddenly violent hurricane season. Tampa, florida is facing unsurvivable conditions. We know from 12 days ago with helene the forecasters mean it. Now we pray that it is going to go off course but you have to be ready. The storm remains a category 4. It has been a 5 along the way and likely return to some 160 to 180 mileperhour winds being carried by the cat 5. President biden is set to speak at every moment after a briefing he is receiving by fema officials. That is critical. There is all sorts of talk about what fema can do and what it hasnt done for Hurricane Helene victims and potentially could be facing more people to help by the end of this week. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Officials have ordered mandatory evacuations now for people in a Dozen Florida counties, 5 1 2 Million people in florida living along the Gulf Coast must leave the area immediately. L
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
Takes over. Harris a somber memorial at the Music Festival in israel where one year ago today, hamas Terrorist Era Glided In and proceeded to slaughter hundreds of innocent israeli citizens. I can, October 7th. It has been one year. I am Harris Faulkner and you are into the 29. The savages who killed israelis and kidnapped 251. Committed countless acts of horrific violence including the rape and of the young women and so much more. Today is one more day in israels ongoing war to eradicate the Hamas Network responsible for those unimaginable atrocities last October 7th. I think on this year anniversary, what we should try to remember is they were true barbarism in the world. They were as true evil in the world went The Good Guys are against the bad guys, america should try as much as we can to support The Good Guys. It has been a year of intense fighting with no end in sight. Israel is battling enemies on multiple fronts and launching a new offense to crash hamas once and for all. From
Democratic leader to say Donald Trump is a threat. Did he lose the 2020 election . Tim im focused on the future. That is a damning non answer. You have a really good choice of who will honor that democracy and who will honor Donald Trump. Vances refusal to admit that trump lost. You would have seen him try to put a gloss of respectability as trump appears increasingly unhinged. That strategy to normalize the weird and Extreme Trump vance platform. That strategy fell apart. There was a lot of bad Data Points there. Today it feels like the News Gods watched last Months Debate and saw Jd Vances appalling answer and decided to highlight the whole issue. They unsealed a partially redacted filing from Special Council Jack Smith. Why he believes it is very much prosecutable. Smith lays out another new narrative of the case and that all 165 pages of that is what reporters and legal analysts have been pouring over all day today. Stuff like conversations with Touch And Vice president Mike Pence