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
Biggest storm of the century could make landfall within the hour. Live images from st. Petersburg on your screen right now, you see our Bill Weir there in that picture. Hell be with us in a Moment Hurricane Milton now on a much faster track toward land, expected to hit florida with 150 mile an Hour Wind gusts and a destructive Storm Surge. Conditions deteriorating by the minute officials now saying it is no longer safe to be outside. And lets show you what it looks like On The Roads already flooded right now, the Monster Storm, one of the most powerful on records still growing after nearly doubling in size in just 24 hours absolutely incredible new Satellite Images here on your screen. The Lightning Strikes from a storm that officials warn james the coastline of florida forever. And right now, Tropical Storm Winds now stretch its more than 300 miles from that. I and lets just show you some of the pictures of what it looks like about 40 miles from the eye in the gulf. Some of these wave
Long time and have experienced these storms many times, power you talking with them about how this is going to be different. And what and so the difference between what theyre used to and what this will be as a way to hopefully give them more encouragement to know that they need to get out you Thank You, Madam Vice President. Yes, weve been emphasizing the size and the intensity of the storm and the direction in which its approaching, which is unusual and really raises that Storm Surge Risk for the West Coast of florida we typically see hurricanes approach the West Coast of florida from the south or southeast, moving parallel to the coast. This track more perpendicular to the coast really raises the Storm Surge Risk. And the size of the storm is going to produce hazardous impacts across much of the peninsula. So weve been hitting the Surge Risk on both coasts. Actually, the Hurricane Force winds, the flooding, rainfall all threat to tornadoes and trying to reemphasize the Scale And Bre
Five hurricane just about a day right now, which stands at eight category four, and it is promising 40 plus called an hour winds for this region, as well as a deadly, deadly Storm Surge. I want to show you what he started to happen in Tampa Bay right now. The water has started to recede. These are easterly wave that is dragging water out typically the Water Line is much closer but through this spot right here the seawall in front of me, this recession is something you typically see was storms at some point, this will come flying back as a potential 15 foot Storm Surge in some parts its estimated to be somewhere between eight to 12 feet here in Tampa Bay. And that is what has officials very, very concerned this may be a category four storm, a very powerful one, but the Storm Surge is a category five and it is set to Shatter Records Set by Hurricane Helene wait only about two weeks ago at some of the debris from Hurricane Helene is still out in this area. You see here in this pier, a Pol
Cnns elisa raffa, elisa, whats the latest track for Hurricane Milton . So we still have a category three hurricane on our hands right now. The track, still again, focusing on the West Coast. There are florida where weve been watching. So closely with this, is that Center Line Right where here it is. Heres a Category Three Hurricane Rights to 120 Mile Perhour winds. The warnings with the trial this was the graphic that i wanted to get you to where were looking at the Center Line of this. Where we were worried about some Storm Surge coming into Tampa Bay, right . That eight to 12 feet of Storm Surge with this Center Line of that core of the a. I. Going just to the south there of Tampa Bay, there will be more offshore wins in Tampa Bay, more of those seating winds and the worst that Storm Surge would be sarasota and areas to the south so it does look like that we have updated that Storm Surge forecast here from the Hurricane Center. You could see we didnt get a chance to update the boxes