News night begins right now Abby Philip alongside my colleague, Anderson Cooper, who is in the middle of Hurricane Milton, right now in florida, this Monster Storm making Landfall Tonight and it is right now rocking cities on floridas West Coast. Weve got our reporters fanned out at areas all across the state that are being hit the hardest tonight. But first, were going to go to anderson in braden town. Anderson anderson take it away. You are now seeing so much wind, so much rain. Tell us what youre experiencing bradenton this is a community that than was expecting a bad head and its certainly that is what we have been seeing over the last hour. Were right by The River and the water has really dropped i it started about an hour ago, right when Kaitlans Program started really, the water just started pouring over over the banks onto The Riverwalk. We moved off from that location this basically our crew is inside ive basically using this tree to block any of the branches and stuff that ha
Kamala and i will be there for as long as it takes to rescue, recover and rebuild. President biden sending a message of support to floridians as Hurricane Milton barrels towards the state with landfall expected in just the next few hours. Plus, biden condemned the un the quote unquote, unamerican misinformation about the federal Storm Response calling out Trump And Marjorie Taylor Greene by name for dispensing those lies. And trumps attempt to deny the Bomb Shell reporting that he sent Covid Tests to putin was unbelievably thwarted by the friends and the kremlin himself who said, yep, he did that. We begin tonight with Hurricane Milton barrelling towards the West Coast of Florida And Set to make landfall in the next few hours. This is a Nightmare Scenario for more than 3 Million people who live in the Tampa Bay area. Which could see widespread destruction. 15 florida counties that are home to more than 7 Million people are under mandatory evacuation orders. Local officials have been pr
Is going to be different here just so the difference what they are used to and what this will be as a way to hopefully give them more encouragement and know they need to get out there to speak with thank you, madame Vice President. We have been emphasizing Size And Intensity of the storm which is unusual and really raises that Storm Surge Risk for the West Coast of florida. We typically see hurricanes west Coast Florida South Southeast Parallel to the coach, coast and raises the Storm Surge Risk and size of the storm will produce hazardous impacts across much of the peninsula. But the Surge Risk on both coasts of hurricaneforce winds and Flooding Rain Fall threat and tornadoes to try to reemphasize the Scale And Breadth of the threat which is somewhat unusual for milton. Thank you and thank you for your work. For people listening, what is the width of the state of florida from Tampa Bay Area across to sebastian and in that area, Palm Beach . What kind of distance are we talking about .
Damaging winds, and up to 13 feet of lifethreatening Storm Surge. President biden warning, it looks like The Storm of the century. Officials fearing the impact could reshape floridas coastline. Millions urged or ordered to evacuate. The highways jammed. Many Gas Stations running out. The national Weather Service Warning now is the time to shelter in place. Our full Team Coverage here in florida and Al Roker with a new track as we come on the air. Also tonight, The Storm impacting the race for the white house. Fema racing to reassure those in Miltons Path on the heels of the devastation from Hurricane Helene. Kamala harris slamming Donald Trump over the misinformation hes spreading about The Storm response. Plus, going out with a bang. One of the oldest hotel casinos on the Vegas Strip brought tumbling down as the city makes way for a big, new gamble. Announcer this is nbc Nightly News reporting tonight from floridas gulf coast. Here is lester holt. Good evening from tampa. Hurricane mi
Hurried preparations, theres also a new worry. Limited resources. Gas stations literally running on empty, and Grocery Store shelves picked clean. Nbcs marisa is joining us from tampa. Jay gray is standing by in ft. Myers. And Meteorologist Michelle Grossman is tracking the storm for us. The track of this storm has shifted slightly since yesterday. Where do we expect landfall now . Yeah, this has kind of wobbled back and forth, ten miles north or south. As we go throughout time, we are anticipating that westcentral u. S. Coast impact on The State Of Florida. We are looking at a category 4 storm. This is catastrophic. People are going to lose homes. Theres a threat to life and property. So were going to watch this very closely, we are about 16 hours away from landfall. Were looking at winds of 155 miles per hour. Yes, it weakened to a category 4, but keep in mind a Category 5 is 157 miles per hour, so this is a very strong category 4 strong. Its heading northeast at 6 miles per hour, no