Storm of the century. Benjamin netanyahu speaks with President Biden as a senior Israeli Minister says this countrys response will be precise, deadly and surprising. And a record breaking Day Forjoe Root as he becomes englands top Test Match Run scorer ever. On newsnight at 10. 30pm tonight well bring you fresh insight on the stories of the day, with big interviews and our regular panel of newsnighters and of course, look at what the papers are saying about tomorrows news. Good evening, welcome to the Bbc News at ten. Hurricane milton is now only hours away from reaching the West Coast of florida, but ahead of it high winds and torrential rain have already caused damage and destruction. President biden s calling it the worst storm for 100 years and its forced more than 7 Million people out of their homes and into shelters or safer areas. From space, this is from space, this is what it looks like what it looks like as captured in these as captured in these images filmed from the images
Hurried preparations, theres also a new worry. Limited resources. Gas stations literally running on empty, and Grocery Store shelves picked clean. Nbcs marisa is joining us from tampa. Jay gray is standing by in ft. Myers. And Meteorologist Michelle Grossman is tracking the storm for us. The track of this storm has shifted slightly since yesterday. Where do we expect landfall now . Yeah, this has kind of wobbled back and forth, ten miles north or south. As we go throughout time, we are anticipating that westcentral u. S. Coast impact on The State Of Florida. We are looking at a category 4 storm. This is catastrophic. People are going to lose homes. Theres a threat to life and property. So were going to watch this very closely, we are about 16 hours away from landfall. Were looking at winds of 155 miles per hour. Yes, it weakened to a category 4, but keep in mind a Category 5 is 157 miles per hour, so this is a very strong category 4 strong. Its heading northeast at 6 miles per hour, no
hello, welcome to cnn newsroom. we begin with this monster winter storm. its core is hovering over the great lakes, and its trailing arctic air is causing power outages and dangerous travel conditions two days before christmas. life-threatening windchills have permeated all the way to the gulf coast, over 70 million americans are experiencing below freezing temperatures, that includes the entire state of texas. this video s from kentucky where the governor has just confirmed three people have died as a result of this storm. and this from our affiliate whbq in memphis, tennessee, their high today, 16 degrees. it s usually around 52 this time of year. the city s enforcing rolling blackouts to reduce the strain on their power fwrid. and damaging winds grid. and damaging winds have knocked out power to a million customers nationwide. and look at this the storm system causing heavy flooding in parts of new england. just a harrowing sight for a region expected to hit freezing
my coworkers grief. i think the fact that i didn t find out until the day before that i was working the morning show i knew i was going to do weather on thursday, but a guy called in the afternoon and i found out it was the morning show and i normally do the 10:00 show, get off work about 11:00 and go to bed. i didn t work on bwednesday, bu i didn t have that time to adjust my sleep schedule. i don t think i fell asleep until about 11:00 and i was running on about three hours of sleep at that time, and some things maybe i wouldn t have said if i had slept for eight hours, but, you know, it is what it is. we cover these things every single year. it s all the same, and i think sometimes viewers might tune it out, and i thought maybe if i bring attitude to it, people might pay attention. it s a serious storm. i took it very seriously. you re seeing 90 seconds out of 15 to 20 minutes over my time. the rest was serious, making sure people, you know, know that they need to do to be safe, b
in the state. teams are using trucks and boats to navigate flooded neighborhoods. some armed with chab chain saws to clear debris trapping people in their homes. 1 million people are without power right now as a result of incidents like this, where an electrical tower was left just utterly crumpled by the storm. now, it could take days or weeks even for power to be fully restored which is, obviously, ominous and terrible for a number of reasons. setting aside the massive inconvenience and the potential danger from the southern heat, which is very real. there is also the brutal reality of the coronavirus which has been ravaging louisiana. in one icu, doctors and nurses were forced to manually pump air into patients lungs after a generator failure caused their ventilators to shut off. reminder the virus does not pause for natural disasters. and so, medical professionals are left balancing a once-in-a-century pandemic on top of our changing climate, which makes extreme-weather events bot