This is going to be a catastrophic storm, it is going to be a potentially deadly storm. Florida prepares for landfall. This is going to be a punch to the base. Face. The Fema Administrator will join me live. Then it they give the money to illegal immigrants. The expresident using the disaster to spread his lies. What are they talking about . Stop it. The dangerous consequences of using a tragedy to get yourself elected. Dont listen to Anything Or Anybody who is trying to make you more afraid than you already are. All in starts right now. It evening from New York, at this moment, hurricane Miltons Landfall is imminent the hurricane is currently coming ashore, the eyewall is over Tampa Bay, floridas West Coast has already seen the impacts of milton which already ranks among the strongest alanna storms ever recorded and threatens to bring widespread discussion. Even before making landfall we are seeing dangerous records with over 100, one of those tornadoes in Fort Myers has already cause
still safe. but also, in that same speech, he said that his administration is already receiving tons of accolades for their efforts ahead of hurricane florence. of course, that reminds you of what he said just yesterday about hurricane maria when he was talking about what an incredible success it was for his administration for the way that they responded to that. that s typically not how you hear these leaders respond to something, some kind of tragedy like that, but that s what president trump was saying today. now, right now, he s over at his trump hotel just down here from the white house at a fund-raiser tonight for republicans, but the question over the next few days was how does he fill that consoler in chief role. does he display empathy for those people that are going to be affected by a storm that even president trump is saying is going to be better than anticipated because he struggled with that before, with tossing paper towels in puerto rico or saying it was a lovely trip w
maria hit the island. more than 3 million american citizens live there. the official death toll had been 64. tonight, that death toll now 2,975 lives lost. abc s victor oquendo again tonight. reporter: tonight, nearly one year after hurricane maria slammed into puerto rico, a staggering new number. a death toll vastly underestimated. the independent report from researchers at george washington university reveals 2,975 people lost their lives due to maria. the official government death toll had been 64. the power out for months, medicine in short supply. president trump visiting puerto rico, tossing paper towels to those affected. and then declaring maria s destruction was far short of katrina. if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died. reporter: the president, at the time, speaking of the
tweets yesterday morning. we filtered out the mayor a long time ago. we don t have time for the political noise. the bottom line is that we are making progress every day in conjunction with the governor. and in regards to the power failure, we re restringing a very fragile system every day. as we make progress, simple thunderstorms pass through, knock the progress out. meanwhile in a new interview, president trump is defending tossing paper towels to hurricane victims last week during his visit to puerto rico. we did a great job, and we weren t treated fairly by the media, because we really did a good job. i mean, one example, they had these beautiful, soft towels, very good towels. and i came in, and there was a crowd of a lot of people, and they were screaming and they were loving everything, and we were having i was having fun. they were having fun. they said, throw them to me! throw them to me, mrmr. president! so i m doing the and the next
as we make progress, simple thunderstorms pass through, knock the progress out. meanwhile, in a new interview, president trump is defending tossing paper towels to hurricane victims last week during his visit to puerto rico. we did a great job, and we weren t treated fairly by the media because we really did a good job. i mean, one example. they had these beautiful, soft towels, very good towels, and i came in and there was a crowd of a lot of people, and they were screaming and they were loving everything, and i was having fun, they were having fun. they said, throw them to me, throw them to me, mr. president! so i m doing some of the so, the next day, they said, oh, it was so disrespectful to the people. it was just a made-up thing. and also, when i walked in, the cheering was incredible. okay. head-scratching there. still ahead, how vice president mike pence up staged indianapolis colts legend peyton manning yesterday. that story and more coming up next. this, but i foun