Before making landfall earlier Than expecTed TonighT in florida. ForecasT To bring up To 15 feeT of lifeThreaTening STorm Surge To some regions, up To 18 inches of rain in areas like Tampa, and caTasTrophic, susTained winds. AT This hour, parTs of florida are already feeling The effecTs as milTon grows in size and moves closer To The WesT CoasT. More Than 1 Million people are under mandaTory evacuaTion orders. Thousands are sTill fleeing The sTaTe in search of higher ground, as The window To geT ouT sTarTs To close, and resources dwindle. As of This morning, 60 of Tampa Bays Service sTaTions reporTed They are compleTely, compleTely ouT of gas. And now Tornadoes like This one in broward counTy, hundreds of miles from milTons core. This is new video of IT Crossing i75 Today. Ill speak wiTh one of floridas mayors, The One who has rode ouT a whole loT of sTorms since The mid70s in a momenT. WhaT he says milTon could do. FirsT, leT us geT To our reporTers. Joining us now, nbc News Correspon
edition of alex witt reports. also you tomorrow at one pm eastern. yasmin of us again continues the coverage. giving you a quick look at the stormy scene of the pier on juneau beach, florida. yasmin is next. florida. yasmin is next hey everybody, good to see, yasmin vossoughian. we are live on capitol hill this afternoon where there was actual work going on. senate negotiators trying to hammer out a deal on the border and ukraine aid right now. the fallout from the stunning verdict, rudy giuliani ordered to pay 150 million to two georgia poll workers. he defamed with lies. the flame that giuliani lit with those lies and passed to so many others to keep that flame blazing changed every aspect of our lives. money will never solve all of my problems. i can never move back into the house that i called home. i will always have to be careful about where i go and who i choose to share my name with. i miss my home, i miss my neighbors, and i miss my name. reporter: but rudy has
events, a long-term solution with a legislation that creates law that pertains to individuals such that they know what the setting will, not just for the term of the president but on a permanent basis. would you leave this in place while you worked out a long-term solution or nurepeal it? we ll look at it. i d come into office, we need to get it done 0 a long-term basis and not a stop gap measure. romney didn t offer specifics what long-term decision he has in mind. think of the primary season where romney wasn t hedges on specifics and took a hard line on immigration issues. take a look. if i were elected and congress were to pass the dream act would i veto it, the answer is yes. i think we have to follow the law and insist that those who come here illegally ultimately, return home, apply, get in line with everybody else. return home, get in the back of the line with everybody else that wants to come here. get in the same line, at the back of the line. immigrat