Hello and welcome to todays verified. We start in florida, bracing itself for what could be the worst storm in 100 years. There are huge Traffic Jams across the state as more than 5 Million people respond to Evacuation Orders ahead of Hurricane Milton. We will be live on the ground in just a moment but i can show you first are the pictures from space. It gives you an idea of the size of this monster storm, officials think it could still double in size before making landfall. This is the live Tracking Shot from the national hurricane center. The category four storm is due to make landfall tonight. It is only brushed past mexico, causing flooding. On the florida peninsula, relative calm but they expect wind speeds of up to 160 mph and 3 4 Metre Storm surges. The pictures from tallahassee, where in the next few minutes we expect to get the latest briefing from the florida governor Ron Desantis and other emergency officials. We will carry that live when it starts. We can start this hour by
Florida is braced, for what many have described as the storm of the century. Our correspondents are there. We will speak to one resident who has decided to stay. And will they ever fully recover . In the wake of Hurricane Ian, 95 of the damage assessments, were downgraded by the insurance companies. This could be a disastrous 12 hours, for Tens Of Thousands of american families. Welcome to the programme. There is driving wind and torrential rainfall that has already arrived in florida, several hours before Hurricane Milton is due to arrive. The national Weather Service has confirmed in the last hour there are at least ten active Tornado Warnings in the region. We have been tracking an extremely dangerous tornado heading north near fort myers. And thats not the half of it. Right now milton is 150 miles south west of tampa with sustained winds of 145 mph, and very soon it will be pushing water onto the coast, with a Storm Surge of 15 feet expected in the worst hit areas. That is likely t
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
Begin only two hours from now conditions in the Hurricane Strike Zone are growing much more dangerous by the minute. As milton unleashes ferocious winds torrential rains, and a slew of destructive tornadoes. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world im Wolf Blitzer a youre in the Situation Room were following every angle of the major Breaking News in florida right now Hurricane Milton taking aim at the Tampa Bay Region and now on a faster track toward a devastating landfall, this Monster Storm is posing a grave and urgent danger and residents who havent escaped Miltons Path are being warned. Its not too late to get out cnn teams are fanned out all along Floridas Gulf Coast and areas bracing for the worst of this storm our chief climate correspondent, Bill Weir is on the scene in st. Petersburg, florida. Bill, whats the latest from where you are of the pier here in st. Pete. As you can see, these waves are just starting to breach the Seawall Weve been watchin
Forecasters are warning this will be a Catastrophiclevel Storm when it makes landfall overnight along floridas West Coast. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im Dana Perino and hi to you, bill. Bill good morning to you. Bill hemmer live in orlando 100 miles due east of tampa, florida. The entire part of this state will get whacked starting later tonight. As we track this storm, right now 155 mileperhour winds, category 4 storm. A track were watching between clear water near tampa and down to fort myers. At some Point Somebody will feel the effects of this monster out there that is milton. Look at the size of this. Remember we were in Studio Yesterday and janice was with us and j. D. Was talking about the eye of the storm and how perfectly formed it was. Almost like a pin right there. Overnight it tended to change its shape a little bit. So the storm is shifting somewhat. Still moving east northeast but we wont know who is going to Take That wallop until milton makes up its min