Begin only two hours from now conditions in the Hurricane Strike Zone are growing much more dangerous by the minute. As milton unleashes ferocious winds torrential rains, and a slew of destructive tornadoes. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world im Wolf Blitzer a youre in the Situation Room were following every angle of the major Breaking News in florida right now Hurricane Milton taking aim at the Tampa Bay Region and now on a faster track toward a devastating landfall, this Monster Storm is posing a grave and urgent danger and residents who havent escaped Miltons Path are being warned. Its not too late to get out cnn teams are fanned out all along Floridas Gulf Coast and areas bracing for the worst of this storm our chief climate correspondent, Bill Weir is on the scene in st. Petersburg, florida. Bill, whats the latest from where you are of the pier here in st. Pete. As you can see, these waves are just starting to breach the Seawall Weve been watchin
The breaking news. Florida bracing for what could be one of the most powerful and destructive storms on record. The state trying to keep Gas Stations supplied as people rushed to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton. All right. Just in to cnn. Donald trump had, quote maybe as many as seven calls with russian president Vladimir Putin since he left office the Bombshell New reporting by Bob Woodward and two of the countrys biggest music Stars Country Music stars joining forces to help with Hurricane Recovery efforts. Sara is out today. Im John Berman with Kate Baldwin. This is cnn News Central that is what officials in florida tell us that they are doing right now as Hurricane Milton takes direct aim this hour nearly the entire West Coast Line of florida has been tampa are warning that miltons extremely dangerous strike could bring impacts not seen in over 100 years. Orders to evacuate. They seem to be working. Officials on the ground seem to be happy with what theyve seen so far. Because t
Returning to the site of the first Assassination Attempt on his life but butler, pennsylvania, lets go straight to Cnns Alayna Treene and alayna, i know you were also there during that initial Assassination Attempt. We know security has been increased for tonight. What else do we know about this event . Yeah. Well, jessica, it is a little weird. I remember speaking with you when all of that went down, but despite being at the exact same day new today here in butler, pennsylvania, a lot is actually very different and security is one of the main things ive noticed. One is that there are far more secret Service Agents and local Law Enforcement here on the ground in butler. There also so working together now under one Command Center that is different from what was going on back in july on july 13. Another Thing Weve noticed, they have drone joining a much stronger drone Control System here right now in butler, again, increase from july and then the other thing ive noticed just the amount o
Liz cheney, a staunch conservative, joins Kamala Harris in the Swing State, Wisconsin Town where the Republican Party was born, fellow Conservative Harris joins us. So does Cassidy Hutchinson and one of the three former trump White House staffers will make their own case against their old boss next week in pennsylvania. And tonight, Melania Trump selling her book and staking out a far different position on abortion from her husband especially his party good evening. Thanks for joining us if politics makes Strange Bedfellows tonight, that same notion also makes news just a short time ago in ripon, wisconsin, home of the Republican Party, one of the grandest names, the grand old Party Campaign for the democratic candidate for president. Former wyoming republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, who like her father Dick Cheney is both a staunch conservative and now a Harris Supporter 1984 for Ronald Reagan i served in the State Department in both bush administrations, and i served in the united
Fico kids without their shoes, running around without their parents. We have had officials tried to kick you out. They are asking for authorizations to be here. The most insane Thing Youll ever see. They werent marshaled well, but the lesson people should take from this is one we learned long ago. We dont rely on fema. We feel like we are being forgotten we havent received any response from fema. So many survivors venting their frustrations as they are left to fend for themselves instead of waiting for fema to take action. Hello and welcome. Good to have you here today. Great to be working with you. This is america reports. Search and rescue efforts are ongoing. The Death Toll continues to climb. At least 224 have lost their lives across six states. Hundreds of thousands are still in the dark as crews worked to restore power even still at this hour. We will speak with the Operations Manager of an Energy Company on what they are doing now to get the lights back on. Brian has a preview o