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new tropical storm watches and warnings for parts of georgia and south carolina. >> the effects from milton are already being felt a tornado outbreak ahead of this storm, one of those tornados that appeared to touch down near interstate 75 in broward county earlier today. emergency officials are making their final preparations for this storm, it's already being called catastrophic and life-threatening. the second major hurricane to hit the sunshine state in just the last two weeks, our nbc news team are fand out across the storm zone. let's go to nbc new york matt brickman. we're getting closer to landfall, though it's still hours away, what's the latest track? >> we're getting updates from the national hurricane center, you're going to see these little wobbles in the path of the storm, that's going make a big difference for these communities

this the peak storm surge they see the areas just to the south of the center of this storm are likely going to see that 12 to 15-foot storm surge on the high end. right now the storm is anchored southwest of tampa. it's moving northeast at 16 miles an hour, we've been seeing numerous tornadoes over ten confirmed tornadoes at this point and active tornado warnings spreading across much of southern half of the state, tornado watch for that part of florida, here's the latest track, you can see the center of that cone passing through sarasota, but if this goes farther to the north, tampa bay could see some of those higher storm surges, farther south is port charlotte, look at this, it stays as a hurricane clear across florida bringing with it these powerful winds. in addition to ocean water being pushed online we have these

high-end winds that can do damage to high-rise buildings that would otherwise avoid that heavy rain. you can see those strong storm surge numbers, this is still life-threatening catastrophic storm surge from this storm. let's go now to our correspondents in florida. starting with tom llamas in sarasota, tom, we just heard from matt, sarasota could see 8 to 12 feet of storm surge and some of the worst of the storm surge tonight, what are you experiencing on the ground? >> reporter: right now, it's still very quiet here in sarasota, lot of people have evacuated near the water, you know there's as ready as they can be for the 12 feet of storm surge. they expose vulnerabilities. we're talking about massive

hurricane, nothing like sarasota has seen in the last 100 years. around here, people have left, you don't see a lot of people coming around, three, four hours we saw families leaving the hotel, trying to drive further east to get away from this hurricane, places are boarded up, people have heed the warnings, we hope, some barrier islands, cut off the water send the signal you can't stay here, if you stay here you will not survive. there's a checkpoint to get to those barrier islands, but it's a barricade, police cars and officers, they won't let you get to those barrier islands. it comes in waves. right now it's calm. an hour and two, it was nonstop rain, a break in that, that's going to be the story over the next eight, ten hours, but as you've been reporting there's

the threat of tornado and hurricane. people have to be patient, if they're staying put they've got to be very careful because emergency responders told us they're not going to answer 91 calls until the conditions get to a point where they feel their officers are in the morning we should have a better sense of what happened in this area. >> i want to turn to stephanie gosk in tampa, i know tampa, it's big city, an urban environment with people in high-rise buildings, have people cleared out? >> reporter: well, you know kate, they do the evacuation zones, they have a number of different kind of zones, a and b right now in tampa have cleared out, we were in st. petersburg earlier today, all of the area in the flood zone was cleared out, it's interesting, you got tom, 16 miles south of where i am right now, we're getting heavy rain right now and some

pretty heavy wind gusts as well, but really what people here in this city are worried about, the wobbles, where is this storm going to go? the reason that matters so much here in tampa, that difference of ten miles this way or ten miles that way could mean the winds bring the water into tampa bay creating that historic event. if it shifts to the south, then they will get less surge, however there still be a lot of surges in this city, as much as 8 to 12 feet, on top of that as much of a foot of rain in tampa, and that's why officials have been warning and continue to warning residents of this area to pay attention and listen to the warnings and get out if they need to. listen to what the mayor had to say today. >> wherever that storm surge comes, if it's 10 to 15 feet and

people are trying to ridesingle there's nowhere to go. once the winds get up to hurricane speed there's no one to come and get you. >> reporter: that's right, because the emergency workers aren't going to be going out when conditions get too dangerous, we've heard that in number of the shelters people are arriving, some shelters are at capacity. the major bridges in tampa, the bridges are really the lifeline getting back to various parts of this region. all of the major bridges are shut down. it's very difficult to move around in this city. >> steph, it's sobering to hear these officials not mincing words, encouraging people to leave. i want to bring in dana griffin, you're in naples, storm surge also a major concern there, so what's the latest?

>> reporter: so right now, we're feeling the wind gusts pick up, up to 50 miles per hour, right now we're not experiencing rain, but earlier we were especially at the beach where guys, just hours ago you still had surfers in the water as these high waves were kicking up. i took a moment to chat with them about why they were in the water. listen to part of our conversation. ever a moment during a storm this is too dangerous i'm leave zblg not until we get kicked off, that's about it. >> this beach is technically cl closed. >> the beach patrol we figured we'd get by. just trying to enjoy the surf. >> reporter: they said they were going to stay out for a couple of hours, hopefully they have left the area. they say they're safe, they're in high rises or farther inland.

they're not concerned. like other cities, tampa, sarasota, coastal residents have been evacuated. most people have been heeding those warnings. it feels like this ghost town. not seeing too many cars on the roadway which is good sign, hopefully people have left the area, you talk about those tornadoes, we're in collier county, same county where those tornadoes touched down along i-75. we left that beach, came to a garage further inland to protect ourselves, we're watching, we can see the cloudy skies behind us, we're monitoring conditions as they come. ladies. >> dana griffin, thank you so much. be sure to tune into tom's story top story where coverage of hurricane is streaming on nbc

news now. public information officer, josh, thank you for being with us on an incredibly busy day. you have mandatory evacuation orders in place right now for a lot of zones in the county, we've been talking with our correspondents, it seems like most people have followed the orders, what are you seeing where you are? >> we have pretty high confidence that a lot of people are heeding the warnings, as you know we had a deadly brush with a hurricane just two weeks ago with helene. and so i think people here have a taste of how dangerous that storm surge can be. we're preparing for a wider range of dangers this time with both the storm surge and the wind, we have mandatory evacuations that are affecting about 500,000 of our residents in those zones, we're seeing a lot of the roads clear. and public shelters are well

attended at this point. a few shelters have reached capacity. >> josh, we talked about the landscape, high rises, single-story homes, but mobile homes, winds hitting 130 miles per hour, you've told people specifically to evacuate from all mobile homes, walk us through the risks there. >> there are huge risk there is. we haven't seen sustained hurricane-force winds like this, we've had a lot of storms brush near us, but not this close and, you know, obviously it's still not clear whether this storm will come right at us or maybe south of us, we'll get this hurricane-force winds u mobile homes aren't built to withstand those kinds of winds. they're very vulnerable to dee bree, to being picked up by high winds and there's the threat of

tornadoes being spawned. lot of our mobile home parks were being cleared out. we were glad to see that, because our residents in those places are especially vulnerable in a big storm like this. >> we're looking at st. petersburg, we've talked about debris from the last storm, from helene you mentioned it, it must be a major concern right now, have you been able to clear -- we're looking at video -- of lots of debris on streets in pinellas county. >> the amount of debris that was generated by helene is more than we've seen in decades and many for us in a lifetime, so this is the kind of debris effort that would take weeks and weeks and weeks to deal with, but we had an influx of state and federal partners coming in to get as

much of that off the streets as possible. there's too much of it out there. but there have been efforts all the way up until conditions got too dangerous to get as much of that out of the way as possible. >> josh boatright with us, stay safe, thank you so much. >> thank you. do stay with us. more special coverage of hurricane lt onbnemionn c ws daily right after this. i noticed things changed. breztri gave me better breathing starting within 5 minutes. it also reduced flare-ups. breztri won't replace a rescue inhaler... for sudden breathing problems. it is not for asthma. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. don't take breztri more than prescribed. breztri may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis. call your doctor if worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling ...problems urinating vision changes, or eye pain occur. ask your doctor about breztri. you'll love this! centrum silver is clinically proven

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we're staying on top of breaking news in florida today. hurricane milton's landfall is hours away now, expected to hit the west coast of florida some time after 10:00 p.m. eastern tonight. >> millions are bracing for life-threatening wind, rain and storm surge and earlier today, president biden and vice president harris got a public briefing on hurricane milton saying it's looking like the storm of the century. let's bring in monica alba this washington, d.c., what exactly is the white house saying about preparations and response to this storm? >> reporter: this is about as dire as a warning as you can give and it's coming from the president of the united states and the vice president, and all of their top officials about just how dangerous this storm could be and, again, trying to emphasize to everybody that you need to listen to your local officials when it comes to their own warnings. here's little bit more about what the president had to say on that message.

specifically. >> i know it's really tough leaving behind your home and belongings, but i urge everyone in hurricane milton's path to follow all safety instructions as we head into the next 24 hours. it's matter of life and death. >> reporter: now the president even postponed some overseas travel, he was going to be heading to germany and angola, he decided to move that trip so he could be here in washington overseeing the entirety of the preparations and the response and one thing he mentioned in this briefing today additionally he thoult was notable this idea there was a lot of misinformation and disinformation spread after the devastation of hurricane helene in recent days and weeks. he's warning about that and ensure there won't be a repeat case or scenario of that around hurricane milton. it's dangerous and irresponsible for those who are spreading it

calling former president trump out by name. >> thanks so much. let's bring in the emergency management chief for sarasota county, on the coast of florida, just south of tampa, sarasota is directly in the path of milton, talk about how you're bracing for that at this hour, as we're mid-afternoon, hours away from landfall. >> yeah, so we're getting pretty close and the winds are starting to pick up, not at sustained winds. so as soon as they get to that point, we'll pull off our first responders. these are the last few hours people have to make preparations, we're strongly, strongly encouraging people if you're in the zone a, b, or c, or live in a mobile home you don't want to weather this storm in your home.

this will be high winds. what we're watching most closely is that storm surge, we still have a 10 to 15-foot forecast for storm surge and that's going to be an incredibly catastrophic situation for our county, we're doing everything we can to put final plans in place, we have ten shelters open right now and people can still get there if they want to go. >> to the point of final plans, sandra, when is too late to evacuate, how much time do people have? >> right now, you're getting close to that tropical storm-force winds. it's getting close here. if it's very, very windy still better, if you're in zone a hedging your bet of driving a shelter. maybe another hour or two at the

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kane milton is just hours away from slamming into florida's west coast. the category four storm is expected to make landfall overnight. we have new drone video shows, a steady stream of cars you can see along i-75 as people continue to evacuate. meantime, help from the bay area is headed to that state. nbc bay area's bob redell is in the east bay with the latest on what the local red cross is doing to assist those in the storm's path. one of the red cross's main missions is to help people deal with disasters and the aftermath. and unfortunately, we do expect hurricane milton to be one of those disasters when it makes landfall later today, sometime tomorrow on the gulf coast of florida. according to its facebook page, the american red cross northern california coastal region has already deployed almost 70 people here from the bay area to the southeastern part of the united states, some already to deal

with hurricane helene, which hit the east coast a couple of weeks ago, and of course, to support future victims of hurricane milton on the peninsula. the menlo park fire protection district, which manages fema's urban search and rescue teams, which are by the way, made up of fire departments from san francisco down to san jose, has already sent one team a team of more than 40 members already left sunday and wrote to florida. and yesterday they got a call for another 40 people who will be leaving later today and tomorrow. their exact destination in florida to be determined. a lot of that's going to depend on you know, how hurricane milton hits and where there is damage and where there appears to be life that needs to be rescued. we were also at sfo yesterday where we spoke with a couple from san francisco, a husband and wife who were in miami. they decided to fly back home to the bay area earlier than planned to avoid any problems with milton bob redell.

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it's the bottom of the hour now on "nbc news daily." we're staying on top of that breaking news out of florida. >> hurricane milton's landfall is now just hours away. officials taking this storm seriously. all ambulances in sarasota county, getting in place at the moment. >> take a look at this other video that we have. this florida highway patrol in

tampa rescuing a dog that was left tied to a pole near interstate 75, obviously authorities want everyone to know not to do that. they were able to rescue that one. a check of the latest forecast and bring in nbc new york meteorologist matt brickman. >> the ongoing issue is the current tornado outbreak, we've now had 12 tornado reports and that will continue to grow in coming hours, here's storm right now, milton is a category 4, 130 mile an hour winds, southwest of florida, i mentioned the tornadoes here, here are ongoing tornado warnings now on the east side of florida, these very powerful winds out ahead of the center of that storm could continue to spawn tornadoes until that watch expires at 9:00 tonight. the other new update here for you is now a flash flood warning

that cuts right across the middle of the state from tampa to fort pierce, heavy rain is falling now, already beginning to see street flooding. that will continue as heavy rain comes down. some of these spots could see up to a foot and a half of rain. unclear to orlando as well. here are the winds. tropical storm-force winds for naples. starting to stretch to the east side of florida also. that line will continue to push through, you can see this is expected to make landfall late tonight, close to midnight as a major hurricane and maintain hurricane strength as it moves clear across the peninsula. now as far as storm surge, the peak storm surge 10 to 15 feet, exactly where that happens, still a little bit of a question, we could see a shift ten miles north or south and that could depend where the worst of that storm surge is

seen. sarasota, the forecast right now, that could shift farther south, closer to a spot like fort myers or north st. petersburg or tampa. we'll continue to monitor those little wobbles in the path of this storm as that will continue to change until landfall. >> matt, thanks for bringing us that big-picture view. jesse kirsch is in sarasota and marissa parra the tampa. jesse, is anything surprising you on the ground at this moment, of course, we're still hours out from landfall? >> reporter: yeah, no. it's been a mix of light rain, you know, mid speed wind and then it dies down, right now we're in those higher cycles. the trees are rustling and there's some wind and rain blowing around.

i'm checking the street below, i've been keeping an eye on, one thing that's notable to me, there's a side street below this parking garage that's flooded, receded, it's flooded paratiall. before we get an estimated 10 to 15 feet of storm surge in this area. beyond me you can see a tall building and then a shorter one over my shoulder here, beyond that shorter building that's sarasota bay, all that rain could be rushing in and we'll be looking to see what kind of destruction comes with that in the aftermath, beyond that are the barrier islands region. there's still debris out there. we spoke with the mayor yesterday, she said the cleanup operations for the city had wrapped up because the dump had been shut down before the storm.

there's still a lot out there, all of that is on lawns and it's not all been removed. what i'll be watching for, the biggest variable as we head toward landfall what that debris will exacerbate the consequences of this storm. how will that debris impact the storm surge effect, work like a battering ram? something i asked officials about, they haven't expressed any particular heightened concern about it, the impact in the aftermath, what that debris does to storm drains, when you clear debris in aftermath of a

hurricane the drains start working much more quickly and flooding in streets can disappear very, very soon after, if you have debris getting in faster, i wonder how that will impact the flooding situation and the overall question around this, who's left in these areas especially along the coastlines. my hope would. no one. there's always a possibility, officials have imploredpeople to get out while there's still time and marissa, is about 60 miles north, look at the difference between her shot and jesse's. you're in a band right now. hurricanes come in bands. you've been there for days. what are you seeing now? >> reporter: well, you can see some of sheets of rain and wind gusts, upwards of 40 miles an hour now and again we're still hours away from official landfall of milton. we're already starting to see

the streets pool with water here, that's just flooding. we're not even in zone a or b. we're in zone c. we've done so much reporting on those mandatory evacuations. they didn't face the same pushback they got with helene, probably because many of them saw firsthands unfortunately with their own homes the damage a storm can do even when it doesn't make landfall. that's major headline from helene, we saw those piles and piles of debris in our region, that was up and down the gulf coast. we're north of jesse kirsch, we still saw those same piles of debris. those workers had to evacuate themselves. i will tell you, another concern, to echo what jesse just

said, we've heard from pasco county sheriff's office, they would not, if it was too dangerous be doing the same overnight water rescues we saw during helene because of the debris risk. this is a concern here finally with those wind gusts even a 100 miles per hour could topple some -- those people out of the risk of storm surge and flooding still at risk of something quite dangerous if that does topple over, guys. >> thanks to you both. milton's rapid intensification over the last days has been nothing short of astonishing. it catapulted from a tropical storm to a category 5, went back, it's now at a category 4. >> milton comes just two weeks after helene devastated the southeast and scientists say its rapid evolution is being supercharged by climate change.

joining us now for a little science lesson is bill nye the science guy, always great to have you. let's jump in, because scientists are saying there's one specific ingredient that's been pushing this storm to new limits and they're talking about ocean heat. can you explain how that's playing a role in milton's quick evolution. >> the atmosphere has gotten warmer and warmer because we put more greenhouse gases in it. that keeps the sea surface warm. the fundamental idea -- you heard the expression -- hot air rises because there's cool air around it. so cool air is squeezing the warm air up. a hot air balloon actually has fewer molecules in it than an equal volume of the temperature around it. so, a warm, warm ocean is squeezing this water -- this air up very quickly and it's

happened very, very fast, and so people are talking about intensification, rapid intensification, extreme rapid intensification and there are numbers associated with it. when you increase the speed of the winds 30 knots, which is 35 miles an hour, in less than a day or 24-plus hours, then they call that rapid intensification. if you do twice that and get up to 80 knots in a day, then that's extreme rapid intensification. and that's what's happening and this is what scientists have been talking about for years, that this would happen because the gulf of mexico is not especially deep as oceans go, and so when you get heat, it gets warm more quickly than a very deep ocean and it stays warm because the atmosphere is warm and so this is just the beginning of hurricane season,

everybody. another couple months of this, and the expanse is just amazing and my heart goes out to everybody who's having to move, losing all their possessions and having to abandon, evacuate their houses over and over. it's serious business. but there's science behind it and we need to accept it. >> you wonder, bill, as we sit here and talk about these -- it's almost biblical, right, things that we have never seen before, do you think it will change life as we know it, do you think it will change how people live in the state of florida? >> yes. i'm not an expert on florida demographics or at least not yet, but it's very reasonable that people will make different decisions about where they're going to move, retire, take

advantage of work opportunities, when one has to evacuate and find a hotel or price gouging on airbnbs, this would be very serious, i wouldn't be surprised if people make different decisions. if not based on just having to evacuate but based on whether or not they can get insurance for their dwellings and their cars. storm surge, everybody's talking about, that's not just water it's saltwater. so it's a little bit corossive. >> right. >> it's not just an environmental impact but a fiscal impact, too, bill, climate change is expected to increase the frequency of powerful storms, some may see helene and milton happening, but that's it. will this prolong future hurricane seasons? >> one would think so, water has

the ability to hold a lot of heat and you know this if you can put your hand in a warm oven and the air is making your hand warm but you couldn't possibly put your hand in water that hot, because water conducts heat, you've probably seen an ice sculpture last for hours and hours and hours because it takes a long time for heat to work its way into all those water molecules. one would expect that with the ocean warmer than it's ever been in recorded history, with a couple of unusual exceptions, one would expect the hurricane season to go on and on and one would expect this rapid and extreme rapid intensification to occur over and over again in the next couple of months and

scientists have been saying this for decades and the reasons for our ignoring it are largely political, and so i encourage everybody, especially young people in your world, to encourage them to vote. if young people were to vote at the same fraction that people my age vote elections might go in a different direction. vote, everybody. my heart goes out to you in florida. let's all help out as these people move iowa during these extreme weather events. >> bill nye, we appreciate it. thank you very much. >> thank you, bill. >> thank you. stay with us for the latest on hurricane milton iast approaches. you're watching "nbc news daily".

we're back with our continuing coverage of hurricane milton, we're starting to see some streets flooding as it approaches the coast of florida. >> not only are first responders preparing for rescue and disaster efforts, so are organizations like the red cross. joining us now is the national spokesperson for the american red cross. walk us through how the red cross is preparing for when milton makes landfall in florida. you're doing your coverage work of helene around the country.

>> reporter: the red cross has been on the ground for about two weeks because we had landfall for hurricane helene and know across the southeast we have about 2,000 red cross -- about 1,000 just in florida alone, this is not an ideal situation for anyone who's been in path of either hurricane helene or milton. we got resources higher in florida with more on the way. tractor trailers full of supply. the impacts of milton and what this damage could look like the red cross is ready to go. >> what are you most concerned about and what is most needed in these coming hours? >> right now, our number one priority is safety, right, the images we're seeing on screen we can already see start of that impact from milton the most important thing that families can do right now is to stay focus on their safety and listen to their emergency management in their local county, they're sharing the right information at

the right time. stay plugged in social media. tune into your local news. keep your radio going, keep your devices charged. >> nicole, many outside the storm zone are paying attention and wondering how can i help, what do you recommend? >> this has been a hour rowing time for the whole country to see the impacts of helene and the potential impacts of milton. if you have heart for giving and supporting there's a place at the red cross for, you can become a volunteer, signing up, you can make a financial donation which helps mobilize our mission as quickly as it does. we've also moved a large number of blood products to florida ahead of this hurricane. >> you put out a press release earlier today talking about how blootd donation drives that were

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is firing back at san francisco. you remember earlier this year, the port voted to rename the oakland airport to the san francisco bay. oakland international airport. last month, san francisco's city attorney asked a federal judge to block that name change as part of a trademark infringement lawsuit. they say it's also confusing to passengers, but today, the port of oakland filed opposition to that injunction. the port believes the city and sfo don't have enough evidence to establish the renaming. is trademark infringement. the court is scheduled to consider both arguments next month. we are cruising into cooler weather this week. here's meteorologist vianey arana with a look ahead. it's the middle of the week, and i think today's cooling will be much more noticeable. getting even bigger heading into

tomorrow i should say greater. the cooldown is in the 60s for today for san francisco, but not just for today. we're finally settling into a more seasonable pattern around san francisco. we do have that marine layer that's going to stick around all day long, and you'll notice for friday and saturday, we do have a system that we've been monitoring that's going to bring a spotty shower chance into saturday. inland areas are going to be in the mid 80s today. so we've still got some warmth in through the interior. but by tomorrow we're going to notice an increase in the cloud cover. a mix of sun and clouds. and then notice the daytime highs start to cool off as we're expected to see maximum daytime highs in those 80s heading into saturday and sunday. we're going to monitor that system that's going to bring some 70s the city hall insiders spend record high budgets.

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