triangle involving jack kennedy. and ahead of the chicago outfit, sam giancana, and a woman, judith campbell but it also has real parallels till today, because that was an election that i think may really have been stolen and nixon, of all people decided not to contest it because he felt that he needed to engage in the peaceful transfer of power. now, fast forward to 2020 and even 2024, no evidence of election fraud. and you got a president who has refused to acknowledge that he lost and that the winter is the real president for the last four years any connection between the showmanship that you say in a way kennedy invented and what we see now in electoral politics? well, he was the first to really use television very well. and then that first debate, you see him. he had a real town, even black and white. you can see how good a look there was a grace that he

were a dark blue suit nixon, who had a real 5:00 shadow, didn't wear makeup. he was ten, pounds underway because he'd suffered a serious illness if you see if they if they show a picture of it, he wearing a gray suit and blends into the background. so there was a lot of showmanship and kennedy was always a step or two or three ahead of nixon throughout that entire election. >> one of the amazing things is when you talk about health no one, no prison it's an actual canada additionally, unheld more unhealthy than john f. kennedy, but still the perception was the opposite. chris wallace it sounds like just an incredible look at an incredible election. thanks so much for being with us. thank you for having me all right. a brand new hour of cnn news central starts now and truly all throughout the day, hurricane milton now an extremely powerful cat four storm category four storm and closing in on florida's gulf

coast. >> conditions have already started to deteriorate we've seen that with our correspondents that are on the ground, the national weather national hurricane center is now warning people are going to be in for a very rough 12 to 18 hours. >> one this hits despite the dangers though some people are choosing to ride out the storm why some residents say they've decided they just can't and won't evacuated also new this morning election day, just 27 days off. early voting is already happening in multiple states. >> and some democrats say they're having flashbacks 2016. >> what's behind a growing sense that kamala harris's campaign is stuck in the mud. the reporting on that, i'm kate bolduan with john berman, sara sidner is out today hey, this is cnn new central news. >> the outer bands from hurricane milton are now hitting florida. the national

weather service warns all evacuation this storm preparations should be rushed to completion. this morning. this could be one of the most destructive storms ever in just minutes, florida governor ron desantis will give an update and we are getting a sense of just how powerful this storm is from again some of the outer bands that are, are ready. >> cnn is stationed all along the coast for you this morning. our correspondents will be there through it all. let's start with cnn's derek van dam, our meteorologist on the very latest of the track. the timing of landfall, and the intensity. what are you seeing? >> or i drawn a kid even though this is no longer a category five, the storm surge that will come from this storm will be consistent with a landfall and category five storm because of the amount of energy that it is enacted on the eastern sections of the gulf of mexico is going to push up all of that water into the very vulnerable coastline. look, we're 18

hours or so away from a societal and economic devastation that i'd like to say, we haven't seen in decades. but if we go back two weeks ago, we saw it in the state of florida and into north carolina. so here we go again, brace for impact we do have an explicit category four landfalling hurricane again late tonight into the early morning hours of thursday. so that's going to complicate things because it will be an overnight landfall over the western and central coastline of florida. and we have been paying very close attention to the eye, the center of the storm, because these little wobbles with this powerful of a storm system mean all the difference on who will get that right front quadrant. the most powerful storm surge enacted downstream from this storm so what we're picking up from the national hurricane center's latest 8:00 a.m. update is that they've actually decreased the values in tampa bay eight to 12 feet still eclipses the record setting storm surge from hurricane helene two weeks ago, but ten to 15 feet. look at

that sarasota, some of our computer model show a direct hit for sarasota with more of a reverse surge as the storm works inland for tampa bay, we will get surge in tampa bay, no doubt about it. but what happens? so on the backside of that storm will be very crucial for who gets the worst. now, we'll see periods thursday morning where a large swath of the central peninsula will experience hurricane-force gusts in excess of 100 miles per hour. the eye is visible on our radar there are tornadoes already spinning up. a new tornado watch a blanket tornado watch lasting right through 9:00 p.m. tonight and look at this some current tornado warnings already spinning. some of these could be strong today. so we want to look out for those quick spin-ups and then you just got to talk about this consequential rainfall two to three months falling from the sky over the next 36 hours, that will flood inland communities. john kate. >> all right. derek, thank you very much. let's get right to isabel rosales in tampa again tampa bay so vulnerable to

storm surge, was six feet two weeks ago could be doubled at this time >> and we just heard from derek that even though the storm surge forecast for tampa bay has decreased eight to 12 feet, that is still monumental. that is still huge impacts. this is the hillsborough bay, which is connected to the tampa bay. this is tampa general hospital right here. the region's only level one trauma center during helene, the waters from the bay got all the way up to the wall with eight to 12 feet. i mean, this is exactly why so many officials have been urging people to evacuate zone where we're at right now. this is a huge huge, huge matter of concern. now, we heard from the hillsborough county sheriff, chad chronister that this is the 11th hour. the window to evacuate here is tightening just, check the traffic cameras. i for i75, they're in the clear, so no backups to still get out of this area. and there's going to be a point where you just have to bunker

down the other matter of concern here is the wind the rainfall the winds in particular, once they reach 40 miles per hour, we're all of the bridges are going to shut down the skyway. sunshine skyway, the courtney campbell causeway, howard franklin, all of these bridges will stop running and also means john first responders, the sheriff told me they will not get out there. they will not be able to help people. he said he fears for the individual who chose not to evacuate, making that call and then learning help will not be coming. >> people need to know at a certain point they're on their own, isabel, thank you very much. >> all right. let's go to randi kaye, who has been standing by and watching how things are looking. preps are happening and how it's deteriorating and sarasota, what are you seeing? >> yeah. good morning, kate and john. we've seen a mix of weather here already this morning. we've seen a fair amount of lightning and thunder and heavy bands of rain coming through right now, it's a little bit quieter, but we are expecting this storm surge that derek was talking about about ten to 15 feet here in sarasota

where at south shore drive? in the backyard of a home that is the smart owner has evacuated, but you can see left his boat behind and he's very concerned about what might happen to his boat, of course, given this ten to 15 foot potential storm surge and then across the water over there, there's a group of homes that have clearly evacuated. they have their storm shutters up and they're very, very quiet. we've been driving around sarasota for the last day or so and it has been very, very quiet here. it's pretty much a ghost town. the restaurants have shut down. people were boarding up. there was a run on plywood, the gas stations are all closed and so it does seem as though people did heed the warnings to get out of town. there's of course, the barriers islands here like siesta key, were they closed the bridges latin the bridge last night at about 7:00 p.m. to those barrier islands. so if those people didn't evacuate they are there now through the storm and i will tell you that i talked to one woman and she told me that she and her husband for hurricane helene, which saw seven foot storm surge bridge they decided

to watch the weather. they thought they were in the clear. they've been living on siesta key for 25 years, never had any flooding they watch the weather, the husband stayed behind. he ended up with water up to his chest, five feet of water had a swim to safety in the dark to higher ground he wrote out hurricane helene that way. this time they are staying but they're staying in a condo building in downtown sarasota, which is built to withstand a cat five hurricane back to you guys randi. >> thank you so much. derek van dam is going to take israel is going to be in tampa for us and you spoke to someone who is sticking who's who's never evacuated as well and she and her husband are sticking through it again. yeah. they are on sanibel island just off fort myers, which was cut off from hurricane ian, which may not which may be much less than the storm surges are going to see this time, big risks yeah. >> let's talk more about another person who is sticking around, but they do this professionally. joining us right now is storm chaser jordan hall. he's are you still in sarasota city right now? tell me what you're planning for and tell me what

jordan, from your experience? with you're talking ten to 15 foot storm surge what's that going to mean yes. >> i'm still sitting here in sarasota and the plan is to kind of just adjust with the a.i the eye is going to do those wobbles in this little goofy twists and turns. but when you're talking about ten to 15 feet of storm surge that's a lot of water that's going to be pushed inland. and it's hard to fathom just how much water and water until you physically see it with your own eyes and what i've noticed in sarasota as there's still a lot of boats that are in some of those marinas that could very likely float away with that storm surge that verifies not far away, float in. i mean, you're going to see boats that could end up a mile inland, which is not something you ever want to see we call you a storm chaser jordan. i mean, how one it's a storm surge. can you chase that? i mean or do you want to run away from that? >> so the way you would do it

as a storm chaser, you gotta you got to get here days in advance and we kind of scope the area out and we look for high ground, for example qanon create the parking garages in places if you need to bail and be safe, you can. >> and if that storm surge is something i'm trying to dock document, i'll look for high ground just like those parking garages was found quite a few there and sarasota and like you said, those votes are me falling inland all that extra debris on top of it that was left in siesta key that got surged out from helene, all that extra to breeze is going to be floating there in those surge waters. >> so even those windows and stuff that are boarded up it still see damage from what's in the water and drowned. >> you think i saw that you were there for hurricane helene as well, which was already a horrific and deadly hurricane. and you describe the damage from helene as staggering and the way this is the milton is now coming at the gulf coast. it could be something media could be double that in terms of the levels, the threat, the

levels in the damage what is your biggest concern with that? >> yes. so i was up near perry and horseshoe beach for helene and as we all saw, it was catastrophic damage of the storm surge there in keaton beach, horseshoe beach, and even cedar key. so when i made it down here in the last few days, the seed, the damage from helene this far south really eye-opening considering the a.i for milton is going to be making landfall basically here, which means they're going to see double that, maybe even triple the amount of water they did just two weeks ago and we have already seen the amount of damage that that much water can do to a community like this? >> all right. listen, jordan hall, we know you do this for a living, but please nevertheless, stay safe. this one feels different from really any storm that i think you've chased before. so the best to you. thank you very much. and we are standing by to hear from florida governor ron desantis. he will update in just minutes as milton makes its approach, the outer bands already being

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give you an idea of what that really means, what those numbers really mean and will look like. take a look and keep an eye on this wall. let's start at a surge of two feet. that's right off the floor at two we'll feed low-lying coastal areas will be inundated with water you take it to the next stage that some are projected to have five to eight feet that is enough to submerge a car. but look at this, milton is expected to be much worse storm surge levels of ten plus feet. this is taller than a city bus normal convert average commercial buildings that have a ceiling height of 14 feet and milton is expected to be in some places, the storm surge, a foot higher than that it is impossible to know with certainty at this point which places are going to face the worst of it. they are talking though, basically from tampa on south they need to be concerned and they are in the thick of what could get this when you see this surge level in relation to just an average

human, you can see very clearly why forecasters and local officials are so worried today john, i got to say that's incredible, kate, that's the top of our stairs beyond the top of our terrifying to see it in relation to us like to relation to where i am. i mean, this is really high. >> it is why people need to be so careful pay such close attention to this we do have our first live looks from key west. this is a fixed camera that'll be familiar to you. i think we do at least well, i can describe it to you there you go there is a famous point on key west right there. the southernmost point in the united states. and you can see already getting hit by the rain and the waves lapping up. and this will only continue over the next several hours. let's go up. now, let's go north from there. cnn's carlos suarez is in fort myers, which is very vulnerable to storm surge. carlos. what are you seeing right there?

>> john good morning. so that scenario that kate described is exactly what we believe and we fear may play out here in fort myers to give you a sense of where everyone is right now, two years ago, hurricane ian made a direct landfall here in lee county and the area behind me here along the kaluza hatchie river, the storm surge was about ten feet and so everything that you're looking at here behind me was flooded, was damaged or destroyed by hurricane ian with current with milton's current forecast, we're still looking at anywhere between eight to 12 feet of storm surge. and that storm is feel right now, track to go a little bit north of where we are. so the folks here in fort myers and down in fort myers beach and over in sanibel, they're getting ready essentially for the possibility of a repeat in terms of the storm surge and the flooding that we are going to see we spent the day yesterday over in the downtown part here of the city folks there put up plywood, they had sandbags. they were trying to do everything as much as they can

in an effort to try to keep a lot of this water out. a one final note, john, for me over on fort myers beach. i was there yesterday. it is a ghost town. the folks there were told to evacuate earlier this week and the city, the town there is now under a 24 hour curfew is ladd that the people appear to get out from fort myers beach because that is so vulnerable. there was so much destruction. there are a couple of years ago carlos suarez, thank you. from being in fort myers, stay safe, keep us posted. >> and with us right now for some more, chief barbara tripp, fire chief of tampa fire and rescue chief. thank you very much for taking the time. these are really the final moments to get the message out. talk to me about what your message is right now for everyone in tampa my message is to make sure everyone pay attention to the local guidelines and to follow the rules. if you're in an evacuation area, please please take key to that and definitely evacuated they have that cone of uncertainty, so if you

anywhere into that cone, you must take so i'm seriously, this is one of the major storm said, i've been in florida all my life, tampa, and i've never seen nothing to this magnitude the director of the national hurricane center, we've been shown graphics all morning talking to us about the real concern of storm surge and how high that could be even if it's short, even if tampa doesn't get worst of it, it's still cataclysmic. >> it could be storm lows, storm surge of ten feet, and also, we've heard from the national hurricane center that people could be facing and will be facing 12, 121518 hours of a real rough go when this all starts heading in, when it is at its worst what are you all able to do we're not able to do anything, you know, once this, sustained when you get too dangerous out there, i cannot put first responders out there in the field. >> that's why we're pushing a message out there to tell everyone that even though we're 911 and we want to be there to

help you, but you need to help us by evacuating so we won't be able to go out. we weren't able to do anything for people that have medical conditions that need oxygen and stuff they need to go to the shelters so they can be in a safe haven. because once again, we won't be able to go on into the roles are clare and were given the okay. through the mayor to be able to go out and assess. we want everyone to take kate. this is definitely going to be serious and when you talk about storm surge hurricane helene presented tamper with a lot of challenges that we've never seen and we will additions was good five to eight and we had almost seven feet of water which damaged a lot of homes. and we have to do a lot of rescues and you could see more than that this time tampa general hospital is making i'm so sorry, chief so so so sorry to you've championed tampa general hospital is says it's making preparations to stay open and they're putting up a special barrier to try to try to help them do that.

>> it says it can withstand this barrier that we're showing pictures of right here. hurricane with withstand of 15 foot storm surge. it withstood hurt hurricane hurricane helene. but are their concerns that milton could be different here for the most vulnerable who would be at that hospital? >> most definitely. and of course, we've been working with our local partners like temperature old, we'd have some additional fire suppression over there on the day of the silences system for any kind of emergencies. and as you say, this storm is different. each storm is different you know, that awful fits that they have up did help out with hurricane helene. and we don't know what kind of water surge he's got. milton is going to present. so we been working with them again, emergency management to make sure that we take care of tampa general as well. >> have you gotten a sense i was speaking to the haros hillsborough county sheriff earlier. he said he was really proud of the evacuations, the level of evacuations that he's seen. do you have a sense yet of how many people have decided

to stay, how versus how many how many residents have heeded the warnings and have evacuated to safer ground? do you have a sense of that yet because that gives a read of what you all could be facing in terms of rescues and help you're going to need to provide on the backside of the storm so the city of tampa has about 400,000 residents and if i had to say, it would definitely less than 5%, we law enforcement have been going door to door, door to door encouraging individuals to make sure they need he goes evacuation zones. >> we provide any type of transport for them to go to different shelters. and i'm say has been a positive results. a lot of residents or ed the advice that we've been giving him. so which has been great if i had to save 5% you know, you have some people that say, you know, i'm not going no matter what. so we let's get them, you know, some of, that dangerous that could take place. and of course we can force you, but we do everything we can to try to assist you and it's all about to happen.

>> chief barbara tripp. thank you for for your work here and for the whole team behind you that looks very busy getting ready for what's going to be a long, long, long day in this immediate storm coming up. thank you very much. so we're also standing by to hear from florida governor ron desantis as hurricane milton is making its approach. the latest update from the governor, what he sees, what, what preparations are underway. we're gonna bring that to you live. >> plus, why more democrats? say they're growing anxious as election day nears the new cnn report for you are pretty odd. >> about what are the kinds we could run on the news? >> more than that would never happen if i got news for you saturday at nine on cnn and streaming next day on max they walk, hold the risk she used exploded and hoover widen

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communications director you've both been in the white house when there are events like this beyond one's control scott, let me just start with you. i just have to imagine and ron desantis said speak any minute, we'll go there when he does the campaign's can't operate separately from this. they have to be aware of this. i don't know if they pause for today or tomorrow and let this land, but what do you do? >> well i think you in all of your public communications, no matter what you're doing, you have to always show the american people that you have their fellow citizens in your heart. i mean, this is the kind of historic storm that some people aren't going to survive it. there's going to be wide-spread property devastation and you have to just show the empathy that people would expect out of the american presence. so that's, i think campaign communications number one. number two, what you can't do is try to insert politics into this. and i think honestly this week when kamala harris attack ron desantis as he was preparing for this hurricane. that was a huge campaign mistake for her. she

should not have done that. biden came out now and corrected the record, said he and desantis are working well together. that was the proper response. well, the flip side of that, of course, is what the trump team and donald trump himself have done in terms of information surrounding hurricane helene misinformation, and it did seem that vice president harris was trying to point that out with stephen colbert. >> we have that clip. i think we can play they, that right here you know, empathy man other people have you no sense of purpose if you purport to be a leader, to understand that being a leader means lifting people up in a time of need and not manipulated how do you navigate this moment? you can't just not campaign with 27 days left right. >> you put empathy front and

center. i think if we're talking about not inserting politics into this conversation, i mean, that has unfortunately been what donald trump has done from the start here and spreading all of this misinformation, disinformation confusing people who were on the ground in these areas who need assistance, need help for harris, i think the key here is to allow the government allow the biden administration to run the response which they have been incredibly aggressive about, despite what donald trump has, has tried to say, you know, you've had republicans from governor kemp two, congressman edwards, who represents western north carolina. you've had republicans come out and debunk some of the lies that trump has told and say that they've been working effectively with the federal government so i think you take a step back today. you don't do the hyper political campaigning if you're the harris campaign, you let the government respond, get people the help that they need. and then you reinforce that in your

administration moving forward, governments always going to be there to support people in this time of crisis, but absolutely politics should take a backseat over the next couple of days. >> just occurred to me that this also does inject two figures who were not supposed to be at this point, at least a few weeks ago, central to this campaign, right into the middle of it president joe biden and florida governor ron desantis. i am curious. kate about the dynamics there. i'm not sure the harris campaign once many of these weeks to be about president biden. but who knows well, so i would actually disagree with that because i think in these moments where you have government responding to crisis, people working across the aisle that is actually what people want to see their government do, you know i worked for president biden when he went to florida in 2020 two in the wake of the hurricane, there went to sanibel island are nearby. >> met with governor desantis. they stood together behind a podium and talked about the support for that community

president biden said, we'll be there, you know, the federal government will be there to help you rebuild. these are actually moments where people see their leaders doing the right i think working across the aisle, responding effectively to a catastrophic potentially, we're looking at a catastrophic situation over the next 24, 36 hours and i do think that's what people want to see their elected leaders doing. >> the desantis angle of it, ron, i mean, scott is that i mean republican voters didn't you chose the other guy? they chose the older guy who has a different type of record with natural disasters than ron desantis does. i know during his whole hurricane a period i've heard so many republicans praising ron desantis, even donald trump, has been out there doing that as well. >> i mean, he is an emergency management boss. no nonsense, takes no craft from anybody that tells people exactly what they need to know when they need to know it across the political spectrum, there is widespread agreement. they, ron desantis is the best emergency

management government executive in the country. thank god. he is the governor of florida right now, doing a terrific job and we're praying for him and his people run republican voters didn't choose him though in the primaries. they did not, but he's a young man and i suspect will be around for a long time. >> right? >> scott jennings. thank you very much. kate bedingfield. thanks to both of you. it's nice to tap into your experience, both in the political sphere, but you've both been in the white house for tuition's like this. and we are waiting to get a live update any moment now from florida governor ron desantis hurricane milton, obviously bearing down on, on florida. and we did just get a warning this morning from officials in pinellas county. listen we expect the tropical storm force winds to start midafternoon. >> and it'll keep picking up hour after hour if you're not out by then you will be on your own. i cannot stress enough to you that your options are quickly diminishing for what you can do to get out of

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conditions are deteriorating. officials say that is going to start up. can that's going to continue throughout the day. and it is going to get worse very quickly. this afternoon into this evening, forecasters fear that this could be one of the strongest storms strongest hurricanes to ever hit florida record and potentially deadly storm surge is expected. people have been evacuating four days derek van dam standby with me right now, but i'll let some people are still sticking around the county sheriff that i spoke to earlier today was pleading with them to get out. you might be uncomfortable, but you'll at least be alive is what he said and safe. what are you seeing right now? >> i saw i saw your interviews with somebody from sandoval county or sanibel island? i mean, you know, i really hope that they have all the walk in the world with the storm because it is going to be so impactful. kate look, we've got

hurricane hunters flying into the eye of the storm as we speak here, as their path. and they're getting this critical information for us and what they're finding is that there has been a slow weakening trend. so the pressure's have risen a few millibars in the past hour or so. and this is good. the eye has clouded over so even though we're not a cat, five, i do want to stress that this will the storm surge will move onshore consistent with a landfall and category five hurricane and the reason i say that is because the amount of energy that this storm has an acted on the eastern gulf of mexico so so far, will only unfold in the form of water moving well inland from the coastline here in a matter of 18 hours. i mean, we're roughly 18 hours away from this. most impactful part of the storm, a societal and economic impact of across central and western portions of florida now, in terms of

timing, we still have a landfall, the most powerful part of the storm late tonight and into early thursday morning. but tropical storm force winds are starting to be felt or will be felt here in the coming hour or two we still have an explicit category four hurricane that is a noted with the national hurricane center track, but this path, it's so important to keep in mind, kate, that's when we focus on the last few frames of the satellite imagery. this is the forecast path from the national hurricane center. we've noted a few last frames have done just two the south and east. so that has great downstream impacts on who will receive the most powerful right-hand quadrant of the storm, where it makes landfall on sarasota county to tampa bay. that's kind of where we're honing in on right now. >> let's hone in right there. actually, derek, that's great. thank you so much. you see those storm surge levels of what's could be forecasts from tampa on down how dangerous and threatening they are. let's go right now to the emergency management chief of manatee county, florida, matt myers.

matt, thank you so much for jumping in. what's your biggest concern right now life-threatening surge ten to 15 feet ian, like surge in our community. >> so you're implored people. we've called for evacuations level a, b, and z. we currently have that evacuation in place. so there is still time to evacuate. we currently have about 6,000 people in our shelters and 147,000 residents and visitors have been asked to evacuate those areas. >> i was going to ask you, are people heading to shelters? what are you hearing in terms of if people are staying, if people are going so we're we're actually seeing a lot of movement you can see our interstate systems were a little heavy packed that is good sign when it comes to us knowing that people are leaving, we are seeing a heat of the warning we're not seeing very many if at all, anyone on our barrier island, and additionally our shelters have not been this fall and we have

plenty of capacity. so we're expected to see that increase that gives us hope that people are heeding this morning and getting out of that dangerous area but how much longer do people have to prepare? i heard from one we saw from one official an orange county by noon, you need to be hunkered down. i spoke to the sheriff in hillsborough county. he said by lunchtime, you need to be where you're going to be yeah. >> i mean, that's really are kind of our comment right now. is there is still time that when placement is anywhere from about 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. when we get those chopper storm-force winds. so we want people in a shelter in there, standby area no later than one could just make sure you're safe. be safe than sorry, because those winds can shift anytime in. additionally, those feeder bands, they have the capacity of tornadic activity. they can have gusts in them that are very dangerous as well. so now is the time to finalize and get everything done and just go ahead and make your final decision. get

yourself to say place hunker down and ride out this system. we will come out of it as long as you take the right precautions. >> one thing i saw we saw on gasbuddy that nearly one in four gas stations in the state are out of fuel. that's 1,700 gas stations, what does that mean for you guys so we are working very closely with our gas partners to make sure that fuel will be brought into the area when it's possible. >> they are still working on trying to fill gas stations throughout the state. and we have a close partnership with the seaport manatee that brings in most of the actual fuel for most of southwest florida and so we have an accounting major restocked plenty for any of the recovery activity, response activity. so again, that's where that issue lies as people trying to get on the road at the last minute, not being find gas now is the time to finalize, find out where you're going to stay and go there now matt myers, manatee county, thank you so much.

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very bad, but we are learning about some things that are happening that might help people stay safe. and iphone upgrade for those in the path of the storm seen as clare duffy is with us now to explain that, what's going on here? >> yes. so this is a really important safety alert for anybody in the path of the storm who has an iphone 14 or later, you need to make sure that you upgrade it to ios 18. >> that's going to we'll allow you to use this satellite messaging feature that will let you get messages out to your friends and family and emergency services if cell networks and internet networks go down make this people should make this part of their storm prep today. you've got to update your iphone and to ios 18, and then you can go into your settings and actually do a demo of this the white messaging feature so that you know how it works if and when you need to use it, to use the satellite messaging feature, you should just hold your iphone in your hand. you don't have to hold it up to the sky or anything. hold it in your hand, and you need to have a clear view of the sky and of the horizon. and it may take a

little bit longer for messages to go through, but they will go through and folks should also update their emergency contacts, things like that in their phone, so that those things can get through to emergency services if they end up meeting them. >> can you tell you this is the first i'm learning of this really big deal, having been hurricane zones just after the storm with a cell towers are down, you can't get a call out, even a text message would be huge we have satellite phones, the big clunky things where you can do so some of this stuff. but now you can do it on the iphone. >> yeah, it is really amazing technology. and as we learn just a few weeks ago with hurricane helene, this really was a lifesaving technology for folks looks, there were people, i mean, cell networks are still down in some places and this allowed people to let friends and family know about their location. but i want to give a really important, but here, folks who are in true emergencies should not use this satellite messaging feature. they should use the iphones emergency sos feature, which also it works via satellite, but it gives emergency services a bit more information to help

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