Being felt everywhere. It has come in as a category three storm with 120 mile per hour sustained it went even higher gusts according to the national hurricane center, we are talking to Rental Rain extremely dangerous wind. What is being described is lifethreatening Storm Surges that are now pounding portions of the state. At this hour, a Lifethreatening Flash Flood warning has just been issued for nearly 2 Million people. That includes tampa, saint petersburg, and clearwater. You just saw Bill Weir in st. Petersburg. You could see all of that developing there right now, over half 1 Million homes and businesses have lost power with conditions deteriorating by the minute this storm has also spawned a Record Number of tornadoes, all across the state of florida, far beyond where the storm has actually making direct hit tonight, there have been 19 confirmed tornadoes. So far, the sheriff Of St. Lucie county has just confirmed that there have been multiple fatalities after an outbreak of tor
Federal response to these lifethreatening hurricanes political yet again despite officials saying misinformation has made the Disaster Relief all the more difficult. Plus new Information Tonight on multiple Phone Calls between Vladimir Putin and former President Trumps since he left office. The detail from Bob Woodward in his latest book. Good evening. We start tonight with Hurricane Milton gaining strength at this moment and headed toward tampa, florida a region still reeling from Hurricane Helene. And that tonight for the second time in nearly as many weeks is expecting Record Storm Surge roads are jammed, Gas Running low in the area are not available in some places. I want to show you something that you dont see too often in florida. Take a look that Treasure Island near tampa and st. Petersburg and your Ghost Town after people evacuated, one person who is there, our Boris Sanchez will check in with him shortly. An astronaut aboard the Spacex Capsule publish this time last video tod
Strength and makes landfall also tonight. Former president making the federal response to these lifethreatening hurricanes, political yet again, despite officials saying misinformation has made the Disaster Relief all the more difficult plus new Information Tonight on multiple Phone Calls between Vladimir Putin and former President Trump since he left office. The details from Bob Woodward in his latest book. Good evening. We start tonight with Hurricane Milton gaining strength at this moment and headed toward tampa, Florida Region still reeling from Hurricane Helene and that tonight for the second time in early as many weeks is expecting record Storm Surge, roads are jammed, Gas Running low in the area are not available in some places. I want to show you something that you dont see too often in florida. Take a look that Treasure Island near tampa and st. Petersburg and your Ghost Town after people evacuated, one person who is there, our Boris Sanchez will check in with him shortly. An
Well, the following Breaking News here on cnn, im Boris Sanchez live near Tampa Bay alongside my coanchor, Brianna Keeler in the Nations Capital and Hurricane Milton is inching closer and closer to sata, to west florida, Gulf Coast of florida right now, youre attempt they were watching low tide its start to set in the water began to recede. And that water is coming back with a dangerous Storm Surge anticipated between up to eight to 15 feet along the Gulf Coast, 15 feet in sarasota would prove devastating. Here in Tampa Bay. As you can see behind me, it is coming down the Water Fuel previously, we are starting to get to the point of maximum rainfall. And this will be sustained throughout the evening hours into tomorrow Hurricane Milton is proving to be an unprecedented storm yesterday, strengthening to a category five. And as it gets closer to florida, though it does begin to change and expand those Wind Speeds have started to slowly come down. That doesnt mean that the danger is any l
Two down here and penta gordon. And so that can happen. It can get close to land. They can turn Flood Watch in effect, obviously four to eight inches of rainfall. Some models now predicting probably in the neighborhood of about 15 inches of rainfall. And thats just the freshwater flooding thats possible from alberto two barrel, the very hi, im on Wednesday Night show that you and i will be on. Alright. Chad myers. Thank you very much. Well have more on Hurricane Milton later in the program, as well as reporting from the error is worst hit by helene in North Carolina where the Death Toll is still a climbing and to that point, Fema Today said the agency has enough funding to handle the response to Hurricanes Milton and helene. The fact that it has to reassure people about that not just to the weather lately, but also the political climate. Thats because in spite of republican mayors and governors and senators and Hurricane Affected States thing, otherwise dont. Trump has been lying again