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
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
Following Breaking News as a monster hurricane. Milton is just just hours away from making landfall on floridas west coast. Its already making its presence known through winds and rain and bringing florida, its most Tornado Watch mornings in a day on record, 90 Tornado Warnings and counting, youre looking at one of them. One of those tornadoes crossing and i75, heres a Tower Cam that was airing im on Cnn Affiliate Woio And Kay as a reported tornado tore through matlab shaye. If you want to understand how truly devastating the storm could be, just listen to how president Joe Biden described it in a briefing, just this afternoon looking like the storm of the century, many communities in hurricane Miltons Path do not have a moment to catch their breath between Helene And Milton two historic stern storms in two weeks the storm of the century, possibly Vice President Kamala Harris just called in To Cnns Dana Bash and echoed those stark terms. This is unlike anything we have seen before. We
Is set to hit Floridas Gulf Coast late Wednesday Night tampa, potentially in the bullseye in the Citys Mayor is not mincing words. She is warning people who dont evacuate, quote you are going to die it appears some are taking her very seriously with those foreboding words, hitting the roads and streaming out of the area before it gets too late. The storm described as extremely dangerous with sustained winds of 100 and 65 miles per hour. Milton, now the strongest storm to occur anywhere on the planet. This year. I want to bring in Cnn Meteorologist Chad myers. Chad, weve heard the strong words in the tampa mayor. What is this new advisory show . It shows that we lost a little bit of pressure. The pressure went up. Thats good news. Weve lost a little bit of Wind Speed from one at 165. Thats still category five okay. Were not were not bringing this down. Do cat two or one or tropical storm a very dangerous storm, but hurricane hunters, both noah and also Air Force have flown in the ai ove
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