Before making landfall earlier Than expecTed TonighT in florida. ForecasT To bring up To 15 feeT of lifeThreaTening STorm Surge To some regions, up To 18 inches of rain in areas like Tampa, and caTasTrophic, susTained winds. AT This hour, parTs of florida are already feeling The effecTs as milTon grows in size and moves closer To The WesT CoasT. More Than 1 Million people are under mandaTory evacuaTion orders. Thousands are sTill fleeing The sTaTe in search of higher ground, as The window To geT ouT sTarTs To close, and resources dwindle. As of This morning, 60 of Tampa Bays Service sTaTions reporTed They are compleTely, compleTely ouT of gas. And now Tornadoes like This one in broward counTy, hundreds of miles from milTons core. This is new video of IT Crossing i75 Today. Ill speak wiTh one of floridas mayors, The One who has rode ouT a whole loT of sTorms since The mid70s in a momenT. WhaT he says milTon could do. FirsT, leT us geT To our reporTers. Joining us now, nbc News Correspon
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
Furniture, they could be telling you theyre stressed to help them feel more calm try feel away optimum tonight on 360 people getting out while they can with Hurricane Milton. Now cat five, storm heading straight for tampa, florida, which hasnt taken a direct hit since 1921. Also tonight, the latest from Hardhit North Carolina and the lies the former president continues to tell about the Relief Effort and later on the Oneyear Anniversary of the October 7 Terror Attack would check back in with a woman still waiting for her family being held hostage to come home. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. It took Hurricane Milton less than 24 hours to go from an 80 mile an Hour Storm to 180 mile an hour munster. One of the fastestgrowing hurricanes ever on the path that its on it could so be the first in more than 100 years to directly hit tampa, florida, a city largely at sea level, or even a smaller storm could do serious damage and which is still cleaning up from its brush with Hurricane Hel
Accusation areas you probably need to write your name in permanent marker on your arm you know, now a murderer, he couldnt their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our judges right . That type of language is hateful. Its disgusting, its inappropriate, and has no place in our country i dont know what this is but its an size of used to be with Max Foster and christian Stay Macfarlane and around The World. Im Max Foster and im christina macfarlane. Its tuesday, october 8, 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 4 00 a. M. In tampa, florida, where residents are preparing for the strongest storm The World has seen so far this year. Heres what we know. Milton is already one of the pope ten strongest atlantic hurricanes of all time, right now, the storm is at a category four strength, but is expected to crash into florida as a slightly weaker category three storm sometime on wednesday, several of floridas international airports will close today and wait until the storm passes to reopen. An Emergency