1877866 8555. Good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We are following Breaking News. Hurricane milton is quickly getting more intense, even more intense in the Gulf Of Mexico at this hour. And taking aim directly at central florida. Its at category four strength right now but is expected to be a cat five again later today. Were also getting this new Exclusive Video from madeira beach florida, a Town Standing right in miltons path. This is debris piled up from the Hurricane Helene cleanup, still posing a danger as miltons winds could pick all of this up and shoot it in all sorts of directions as the storm pummels this area. Something to be on the lookout for if you live in that area. Got to clean that up. Lets begin our coverage in Fort Myers florida. Flood waters there could reach ten feet in some areas. Thats where we find cnns Carlos Juarez and carlos thats a big part of the story, right . The Storm Surge. And it could just really come up through
Wide tornado has hit. Those are some of the descriptions used to talk about this heartbreaking toll of Hurricane Helene across the southeastern united states. Today, we learned the storm has killed at least 128 people. That number has increased since an hour ago when i reported on this hundreds of others have been reported missing. Towns, reduced to debris. We begin our coverage this hour with cnns Rafael Romo. Hes in Western North Carolina with a closeup look at this horrific destruction here for sara tim co, this freshly brewed coffee is a luxury made possible by the love of her father. I asked my daughter, are you okay. Youve just texted her and she sent me back these horrifying pictures. I mean, it looked like armageddon. Thats when theyve Tim Cook decided to travel hundreds of miles to come to the rescue of his daughter and her family, bringing food, water, gas, and supplies, buildings down, houses, washed away im like, oh, my god, my dollars in the middle of this and shes 7. 5 mo
We expect any moment that we will hear from Attorney General Merrick Garland and Rule Weve heard them quite a bit lately after we didnt hear a lot for quite some time but he is expected to also take questions after this announcement of a Doj Being Action against visa but what is going to happen in the Question And Answer period we expect are some questions about the dojs handling of now the second Assassination Attempt on former President Trumps life. Trump this blasted justice and the fbi and says that the florida investigators should take the lead on this so well see what Aji Garland has to say in Response Or David spunt is in the room at the Justice Department that will bring you that of course live as that played out but first former President Trump Today in georgia speaking about his plan to make America Rich again cutting inflation, cutting taxes and rewarding cant companies who make their products here in the united states. Watch. Mr. Trump under my leadership we are going to ta
The media as well as there are growing questions and concerns about whether the island was prepared for this fire, whether the warning sirens went off on time and with the residents of the area were given enough time to try to make their way to safety, because these fires spread very rapidly. We know they might have been fed at least in part by a hurricane that was taking place in the area, so some very terrifying scenes of residents having to flee to the ocean. It might be ready to get under way here, so lets see if we can get to listen if we can get the hawaiian governor to take the podium momentarily it looks like, about to get under way. 0k. Thank you forjoining us today during this most difficult time, especially for the people of maui. We are here to provide you with the latest updates and information from the county, the state and our federal partners as it relates to the wildfires throughout maui. At this time, i would like to invite governorjosh green to share his remarks. Alo
Partners we have six fire units embedded with them to do their searches in case there are any Fire Suppression needs. The cooler fire, Fire Suppression needs. The coolerfire, the Fire Suppression needs. The cooler fire, the fire that went into another area, it still has many hot spots and fire does have a long perimeter and it is in a lot of inaccessible areas and forests as well as cultures. We have had Fire Resources on that nearly every day, since day one including the last several days multiple helicopters. In the evenings we will patrol the area with resources, at least one resources, at least one resource to be out at that fire at all times as well as two stations in the communities and ready to respond. The fire In The Valley has no active fire right now and is contained, we have no resources on that file as it provides the least amount of threat to our community at this time. We have Additional Fire resources that may become available soon with a team from the National Guard re