Keep it here on msnbc. Well be here throughout the storm for you and ill see you here tomorrow, same time, same place. For now, im Ana Cabrera reporting from New York. Jose diazbalart picks up our coverage right now. Good morning. 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart. We begin with breaking news. Hurricane Milton Closing in on floridas gulf coast, expected to make landfall early tomorrow as a devastating major hurricane. Right now, milton is a category 4 storm, churning 100 Miles Southwest of tampa, set to bring damaging winds and a dangerous and potentially historic Storm Surge. Schools, airports and many businesses are already closed in florida as People scramble to evacuate in the final hours before the storm hits. And take a look at this, miltons powerful winds shaking up a team of Hurricane Hunters flying through the storm. Meantime, right now, in South Florida, a tornado has broken out near i75. Joining us now from tampa, nbcs Marissa Parra. And also with u
Developments, but we begin at the Weather Map with al roker. As if the threat of this potentially historic Storm Isnt enough, were already seeing tornadoes. Thats right. And this was kind of the worst case scenario, chris, because we were talking about this for the last two days. We were going to see these tornadoes, especially as it approached, and sure enough thats what happened. Lets show you what weve got going on right now. As far as our map is concerned, we are looking at a category 4 storm. 150 miles now southwest of tampa. Its got 130 miles per hour winds. Its moving northeast at 16 miles per hour. Now, as we look, you can see we have Tornado Watches now from Daytona Beach all the way down to key west. Weve had reports of 50 tornadoes so far in the last couple of hours. And now we have numerous, multiple Tornado Warnings going on to the west, i should say the east of tampa and sarasota, to the west of West Palm Beach, and right between West Palm Beach and Fort Myers. These are
Warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the u. S. And Around The World. Im max foster. It is friday, september the 27th, 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 4 00 a. M. In the florida big Bend Region where Hurricane Helene has made landfall overnight sweeping across the coast as an extremely dangerous category four hurricane, with winds of 100 140 miles per hour. Its now weakened, but continues to unleash lifethreatening Storm Surge, flooding, rains, and destructive winds across the Southeast Helene out power to more than 2 Million homes and businesses in florida, georgia, and the carolinas won florida sheriff says theyre fearing the worst when The Sun comes up and Tallahassees Mayor says his city has never seen a storm like It None of us have experienced a category four hurricane this close to tallahassee this is a historic storm for us right now, Everyone Stay safe. Shelter in place, stay home about 40 people have been rescued from rising water in pasco county, just north of tampa. And rescu
The sun will come up and we will see catastrophic damage in florida and toward georgia. Here are top Wind Gusts in georgia, 100 mile per hour in alma, valdasta, 96 miles per hour. Power outages will be a big deal, trees will be down for Florida And Georgia and could see Power Outages for days and even weeks. 5 a. M. Advisory, 75 mile per hour sustained winds, moving quickly. One good side to this storm , i is moving very fast, it is not lingering. It made Way Inland and now in central georgia. Carolinas, part two of the story, a system moved through earlier this Week And Rainfall on top of that will give us potential Flood Emergency for southern appalachians. They are warning of the worst flooding they have seen in recent memory. Made impact on florida as category 4, does not take much to cause Flooding And Damage and that is going to happen again. W widespread potential damage up and down the coastline for southeast to midatlantic and ohio and tennessee River Valley where rem Know Nan
We want to extends a special welcome to our Fox News viewers. Im meteorologist are arti from our studios here in new York City and weve been covering helene over the last several hours over the last several days. This has been an extremely well forecast storm, before it even formed down in the western caribbean. It looked like something like this was going to happen, so again, we still have technically a Hurricane Storm and Hurricane Center will probably see it downgraded slowly throughout the night, but one unique thing about helene, this particular storm is that it was very large, right . So large storms take a longer time to lose their strength as they move inland so you look up here to the north. Not only do we have a long Wind Damage to get, were going to see some hikely catastrophic rain, and i want to bring Ian Oliver. He started out in st. Petersburg beach and hes now made the trek over to tampa, so kind of on the other side of town, and ian, whether you started on the of other