Hi there, everyone. Its 4 00 in New York. At this hour, millions of people along Floridas Gulf Coast are bracing for one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded in The Atlantic basin. The outer bands of Hurricane Milton are already hitting parts of the state. It is forecast to make landfall some time tonight between 10 00 p. M. Eastern and 2 00 a. M. And is expected to double in size before making landfall. This is the scene right now in ft. Myers, florida, being battered by high winds and rain. The top concern for officials at this moment is making sure that residents get to safety. The window for evacuating is now rapidly closing. Even as the storm is already complicating those efforts. This video shows a tornado touching down near i75 in south florida, thats hundreds of miles from Hurricane Miltons core. Just a few hours ago, president Joe Biden called Hurricane Milton, quote, the storm of the century. And made a plea to people in the Storms Path to please evacuate. First, man
Damaged or destroyed. Tonight Benjamin Netanyahu threatened lebanon with the same unless it rejected hezbollah. The leadership of hezbollah is gone but the group is not incapacitated, more than 100 rockets came over the border today. The warring parties digging in. And for Palestinian Statehood . So what does it mean for the future of lebanon, and for Palestinian Statehood . We will talk tonight to the head of the palestinian mission to the uk, and also a former national Security Adviser to israel. Here in the uk, the threat from Islamic State has returned. But also a threat are the spies from iran and russia. The head of mi5 says his service is stretched to the limit. We will speak to the former foreign Secretary Sir Malcom rifkind. And we are keeping a close eye on Florida And Hurricane milton, a monster that is barrelling towards the gulf coast. Residents in tampa have been warned that if they stay, they will die. Good evening. The israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu says leba
Whats going on. It is how i keep informed and have a great week. Thank you, too. Speed to see you soon. Fox news alert, came under fire for a response of leaving victims in hard area Cut Off from the world then for themselves and this is amidst catastrophic disaster. Welcome to a Brandnew Hour of Americas Newsroom and Bill Hemmer is off to dave and julian, think you. Gillian im Gillian Turner and blaming inadequate response to disaster of leadership at the white house. This is across the southeast and republicans raising the questions about the Bidenharris Administration to handle largescale emergencies like this one. As Hurricane Milton taking aim at florida as we just heard from governor Ron Desantis just two weeks after helene. Cofounder Tim Kennedy on the ground in North Carolina. He is coordinating private Rescue And Relief operations there. Here is what he says about the governments response. It was absolutely broken. Fema and the land in mn on the ground doing the best they can
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Welcome to bbc news. There have been more israeli Air Strikes on southern beirut, after the israeli military warned people there to leave their homes. These are live pictures overlooking beirut where our bbc teams have reported hearing another strike in the south of the city. These are the live images. This would be the third strike in that area so far today. So lets cross over to Anna Foster in beirut now. Kasia, thanks. We have seen and heard as he sat there numerous strikes in beirut in the last few hours today. I was crossing the city and in the mountains upside earlier on today and we sought fresh plumes of dark smoke from new Air Strikes that had happened in the city around the southern suburbs. There was a strike visible earlier with the plume of smoke from the area near the airport earlier. We have had warnings for people to leave their homes in beirut, parts of beirut, but not for 14 hours now, it was last night when the idf last issued warnings. The last strikes have not come