bradenton was hit very hard. what are you seeing there when the sun rises? >> reporter: -- helene where the storm surge came up to about three feet. now, we did not get the storm surge here that we were expecting, but we did get wind gusts up to 102 miles per hour at the bradenton airport. we're seeing a lot more wind damage this time around. you can see these big trees just toppled over right into the streets. the crews were just here to tag the fact that the power line has been impacted by this tree here. so, you know, they didn't cut down the tree and clear the road completely because it is actually protecting folks from running into that power line that is hanging low over the street here. but, it is part of the reason why it explains that we have 500,000 people without people here, because the toppled trees come down and the power lines and we're causing just that ripple effect of no power here across the area. so, this whole storm system, i think the fact that hurricane helene came first really protected the lives of a lot of folks in this area. becaus

right now, this is bradenton, which is near sarasota. we are expecting landfall near there later this evening. and you can just see we're talking about 120 mile per hour maximum sustained winds right now. category three hurricane. as it's only 83 miles away now from tampa. you can live stream abc's hurricane coverage throughout the night on abc seven, bay area app, or wherever you stream. so >>> tonight, a special edition of "world news tonight," bracing for hurricane milton. set to make landfall a short time from now. the dangerous hurricane, a major category 3 storm now, winds up to 125 miles per hour. they are warning of an historic storm surge. tonight, the first images now coming in. the conditions worsening here. the outer bands of the storm already slamming florida's gulf coast, with heavy rain and strong winds. a record storm surge, up to 13 feet possible. already tonight here, an outbreak of tornadoes. more than 20 reported tornadoes touching down already. a confirmed tornado crossing i-75. and the images of one tornado tonight

and we're looking at a landfall bradenton to sarasota. also venice as a category three winds right now at about 120mph. and those hurricane force winds, they extend out about 35 miles from the center of the storm. so it's a very compact hurricane force wind field. but most of the state right now feeling some tropical storm force winds. so we'll get you into the path here real quick. and you'll see as we head through tonight. it moves over central florida here with winds that likely will hit about 90mph over orlando and exit sometime tomorrow afternoon. again, storm surge is going to be the biggest threat there. right here in san francisco. we're looking at 69 on saturday and chance of a few spotty showers. looks like that chance would come in the morning. and we're down to 78 through the inland valleys. we're going to have a closer look at those rain chances for saturday. and of course, more looks at the hurricane. that's bearing down on the florida coastline coming up at 530 tonight. you have a lot to cover. okay. thank you jeff. coming

that would be happening in that sarasota bradenton area. we've got more looks of this. plus our local forecast and what could be some showers coming. our way. i'll have that for you in about 15 minutes. all right jeff, thank you. let's go and take a live look once again from florida. we can tell you nbc nightly news is going to have much more coverage of the storm from the ground. and that starts right here at 630. republican vice presidential candidate j.d. vance is back in the bay area with just weeks to go until election day. nbc bay area's robert honda joins us from woodside, and so has mr. vance arrived? no, he has not arrived. we understand he's coming from arizona and will be here around 7:00. so right now you can't really call this a rally anymore? a lot of people have been waiting. about a dozen people or so are here at a familiar spot on woodside road, in front of the pioneer barn hotel, where they have stuck it out to get a glimpse of the candidate. now, this is the spot where people gathered to see the gop presidential candidate, donald trump, as he headed t

we go to bradenton, florida, where the wind is very strong.ht beer lasted of the night you might need to get to safety after this thanks for staying with us. >> yeah, sean, thank you for staying with us on the technical issues we changed out microphones. wanted to give you news here. 1.2 million customers out of power in the state of florida as at these winds are raging in the sound is furious here. >> sean: with a heavy, heavy wind and rain it's obviously hard for robert to be able to fully communicate with the sound in and out. you can see the conditions out. robert if you can hear me i hope you can get to safety now. looks pretty dangerous out there. we will report throughout the evening maybe when things settle down where you are in bradenton, we appreciate you being with us. heading back to the election 27 days away. what's clear is donald trump is outperforming by far his poles from 2020 and 2016. at this point the rcmp average had trumped down by nine points to hillary clinton. then trump was down seven to joe biden now it's practically

he's in bradenton paul meadows is just right next to it. so there you get the idea and the wind blowing back into the bay by the time this goes far enough to the east, this wind will be pushing and notice how the wind, the rain is moving in that direction. that's the same way the wind is moving to so as it begins to push back into the bay later on tonight, that's when the bay will fill go back up with water, even though it's a low right now, it won't be for long. orlando just had a wind gusts to 60 to st. pete, still blowing hours after this thing went by at 87 miles per hour. last hour? >> here's where the rain has been the worst everywhere that you see purple has been ten inches of rain or more already on the ground and we know st. pete had 16 and that had a wash off that had a runoff that had to go someplace. we still have winds of 100 miles per hour. this is the latest from the hurricane center. it is still a category two hurricane, even though it's been onshore now for about 33.5 hours, it is still packing that type of wind punch and t

we go to fox weather correspondent robert ray in bradenton.pa on florida's west coast. robert. >> reporter: yeah, liz, national guard just rolling through here in bradenton beach. i was just talking to them, they can't do an interview, they were just telling me they're monitoring this area that's under mandatory advantage wakes. thank you to both of you and all the national guard here, i appreciate it. you guys stay safe, all right? if thank you very much. liz, i just want to show you just some of the activity on the ground here as national guard, you heard governor ron desantis talking about this is the largest essential deployment of the national guard. and look at this from hurricane helene, just less than two weeks ago, liz. all of the water came in, 5 feet of storm surge pushing up sand on top of this, lloyd's going to do his best to come on up here. and i stand here at the top of what normally i shouldn't be able to put my hands up to an ice cream shop here. you can imagine families here enjoying this beautiful barrier island just outsid

so right now we're starting to get in on some hurricane force winds in sarasota and bradenton. as the center of the storm is moving a bit south of tampa, tampa is still going to get hit hard, but we're already starting to see those 120 mile per hour winds. bradenton to sarasota and then tropical storm force winds extend out over 200 miles from the center. so that's why all of the state is under some of those, you know, flood watches, warnings and then we're getting a lot of rotation on that eastern side of the storm producing those tornadoes. so it's going to be an extremely tough, more than tough 12 hours to go of this storm. let me get you more details on this. we'll get you a closer view right now. and again, hurricane force winds now starting to be felt there along the florida coastline. as this is probably a technically about an hour to hour and a half here away from landfall. let me give you a wider perspective of this storm and some things that are happening right now with it. as we get a look at this loop, we don't really see a well-defined center of the storm that eye

. >> vecindarios de bradenton, florida, un area donde existen muchos vecindarios con casas moviles muyrasota y este ha sido el panorama en general, casas completamente destruidas por el paso de milton, por sus fuertes rafagas de viento que han desprendido techos, paredes, como en este caso que vemos que la pared con su ventana y todo quedo co completamente en el piso. >> esto es lo que queda de parte de la sala y la cocina de este hogar una de las imagenes que personalmente me ha impactado mas es que sobre la pared to todavia el reloj sigue andando, que es parte del mensaje que me han dado algunos de los re residentes con los que he conversado que se han mantenido optimistas, dicen que las perdidas materiales se recuperan, se reconstruye, pero el tiempo sigue, la vida sigue y eso es lo que importa. >> ese ha sido en general los residentes de aqui de bradenton. >> vamos a seguir con el recorrido, porque esto no para aqui, si vemos mas alla esa casa tambien, mas adelante su techo, por lo menos el techo del g garaje, de lo que podemos apreciar, tambien quedo des desplomado. >> y es que la

bradenton is right on the coast, forecast to get some of the highest levels, up to 15 feet.going through your mind with landfall now just hours away? >> well, thank you for having me. i think we saw two weeks ago we had a six plus foot storm surge, so our residents in the waterways know what that is. so, you know, most of their houses were damaged or destroyed. so you look at doubling or tripling it, it makes you say get out now. because if you're in it, most of ours are single stories, they would not survive it. as far as it went in a couple of blocks, another six to eight to ten feet would go a lot further. so we need people -- you still have time to evacuate, and there's plenty of shelters open. >> have you heard from any residents who haven't left? >> well, there's a few people that always want to ride it out. our police officers and firefighters have been going out. unfortunately, we're going to have to stop soon and we're not going to be able to get to you. as that model just showed, if you go up to 15 feet, it's above most houses. if you don't have a second story, you

it includes bradenton. when you have this extreme wind warning, you need to treat it like a tornado warning getting into an interior room away from windows in a basement because those wins will just be so vicious and you can see the rukare on the radar where we've got this piece of the a.i. that came through saturday so it is up your brain eaton and then swinging through some of that tampa bay area, the wind gusts we've already seen wind gusts above 77 miles per hour in parts of venice and sarasota, as well as st. petersburg right now, gusting to 66 miles per hour, tampa wins getting over 40 miles per hour. so again, the winds picking up because we have the corps that is the most dangerous park. this is also it's going to pack the biggest surge that's coming on shore, pretty much as we speak. it is still a category three hurricane with 120 mile per hour winds. and again, it's sitting that i that center of the eye is just swirling onshore right now, we are looking at these 110 mile per hour he wins in this p

all in our, what i will tell you is the city of bradenton is blessed. neil: we are not done with this, you know florida well, you know your community well. this is the sixth major golf storm or hurricane to hit the golf this year and they've all accelerated pretty quickly. what do you tell folks who think they are over the worst of it or laying back now, you always have to be on a state of watch. >> right. i will say again i think helene taught a hard lesson to a lot of folks in this region, when we speak of storm surge they need to get out of dodge, people paid attention but you know how that works, next time rolls around they forget it. we were driving up and down streets with significant damage to people's homes and yards. my question was did you just get back? no, we stayed for 40 years, we are not going to go anywhere. they were lucky. you never know when that luck is going to run out. that is unfortunate. people are not heating our warning to not show up into town until we have time to fix traffic lights, get officers posted. the traffic problem i

the latest to prepare for a storm that could hit big time tomorrow in bradenton, florida. reporter: bradenton beach on the gulf of mexico, look at this stand, the border for business, helenego away, less than two weeks ago. milton go away. that is right now. look at the sand piled up by 5 feet of storm surge two weeks ago from hurricane helene, bradenton beach. milton is in the gulf of mexico churning, it is a monster, it's getting wider and it is training to the tampa area but look at this. the debris piles here. look at this. cabinets from businesses, sand, sea shells, the insides of homes, mattresses over here. all of this that has been ripped out of this community as the water rushed in from helene and the wind field. right now we are expecting up to 15 feet potentially of storm surge here. five feet did this during helene two weeks ago, 15 feet is what we may see with a wind field of 125 miles per hour. what happens with 125 mile an hour winds? you see this? pieces of wood like this, this becomes a missile. a projectile. going through the air along with the storm surg

desde bradenton volvemos con ustedes. >> muchas gracias, vanessa.cuÓ cuando se lo indicaron. y es que en medio del azote de milton en florida, naciÓ el primer hijo de una pareja de port charlotte. ella comenzÓ a tener la labor de parto mientras su casa empezaba a inundarse. el principal temor era no poder llegar al hospital. el futuro. papÁ estaba muy nervioso porque perdiÓ a su propio padre durante el ciclÓn irma en el 2017. por fortuna, esta pareja emprendiÓ a tiempo el peligroso viaje y horas despuÉs naciÓ en el hospital este hermoso niÑo al que nombraron como su abuelo. quÉ historias que salen de estas tragedias. nicole muchas felicidades para ellos. >> nos vamos ahora hasta colorado, una antigua mina de oro. fue escenario de un complicado rescate en la mina. estÁ convertida en atracciÓn turÍstica y dentro de ella quedaron atrapadas mÁs de 20 personas durante horas. lamentablemente, una de ellas falleciÓ. un dÍa de diversiÓn se tornÓ en una pesadilla. shut down a road friendship with an elevator. un ascensor en el que descendÍan 11 turistas a la

we have reporters fanned out across the storm zone, across florida, anderson, you're in bradenton, florida. we were just looking at you and the manatee river as clearly you're just seeing how much this is developing nearly by the minute yeah. >> yeah. kaitlan, it is really changed. i mean, really two minutes or so that you've been speaking, it is it's changed a lot. i mean, again, it is the storms are just so so strange. it's so unpredictable when you're on the ground, you know, you think that the i made landfall down probably about 15 or so minutes ago south of sarasota. it seemed like things were calming down here a little bit, but boy, wow, the water is now is just slamming into the riverwalk here in braid it in this this i mean i don't know neal, if you can i don't know if you can see this. i mean, this is it's like the ocean here, this river now, all of a sudden, bill howard, things in st. petersburg do you what do you want? oh, it it's getting rough here. anderson is get has gotten so much more violent just in the last few minutes since i talked to you were sort of pinned down in the

>> bret: jonathan serrie in bradenton beach. thank you. are serious concerns in western north carolina as the clean up there from hurricane helene slowly progresses. much of the area depends on tourism and there are fears that revenue is in serious jeopardy for a long time. correspondent danamarie mcnicole is in ashville tonight. >> the shock is starting to wear off. i think some of the shock is starting to wear off. >> nearly three weeks after hurricane helene thousands remain without power and water in the river arts district. the heart and soul of asheville. >> we still have paintings on the ceiling we haven't gotten down. >> more than 300 artists have lost everything during peak hurricane season. one artist turned his into a kitchen fueling the hurricane efforts. >> people who come and get hugs and hangs out and talk to other artists going through the same thing. >> 26 counties in north carolina are still under a state of emergency today an update from roy cooper and fema officials revealed more than 170,000 north carolinians have appl

but sarasota bradenton also hit with those strongest winds. the wind field with this one is very compact. so we're only seeing the worst winds of that 110 to 120 stretch out about 35 miles from the center of the storm. so right now we're getting those hurricane force winds tampa, bradenton, sarasota, and siesta key. so is that good? just because it's more compact, more difficult obviously, for these areas, but not as widespread. excellent rain. that is more widespread. certainly. so those those compact eyewalls that's good in terms of mitigating some of the damage. still very ferocious where that moves. and then those tropical storm force winds stretch out over 150 miles from the center of the storm. so this one's going to do damage across a good part of the state. and so we're going to see a lot of rainfall. is this going to continue all the way when it gets up here. you know, all the way by you know as far as orlando and stuff, it really looks like it is going to be happening at this point. so latest view as you will see right now it does lo

>> bill good evening from the west bradenton area. past two hours have been the most intense wind we've experienced in our hurricane coverage this season and we've been around from bermuda to jamaica to hawaii to the mainland. this has been the most intense and matter-of-fact wind gust above 100 miles per hour in the bradenton area. earlier tonight we run the manatee river amount from where i was standing. we had a huge pine tree fall during a wind gusts collapse on her vehicle. everybody is okay and we are all good when we left that area we realized okay that also took out the power in the area. we've seen transformers pop into orange and purple hues in the area. there's also a funeral home to my left and to your right of the television screen. they have generators going but the problem and scary part of all of this in this pocket and over the peninsula is these nocturnal hurricanes. you don't know what's happening debris flying everywhere or if there is rain and tornadoes. many of those throughout the day and what we've been doing i

we are joined i in bradenton beach, florida. surveying the damage what shakes you the most here?o go through this before the storm and then during the storm and then now today, and you know, we walk here on bradenton beach, this is all fresh sand brought in by the surg yesterday from milton. about four feet of surg. e. they never got that 10-15 thankfully and that's the way it came into land but what strikes me the most is just the swath of the intensity, and the damage. i mean, you're talking about a coastline, all the way from naples up into the tampa area and even north and then the interior of florida, orlando and then the other side, the atlantic from jacksonville to daytona beach, to "coco" beach. all these areas having some sort of impacts and deterioration from milton. it's just remarkable, and then the death count continues to rise unfortunately and i want to show you something. look at these piles of debris. again, i can't understate this. you know, this all is from helene two weeks ago, okay? another storm surge and another hurricane that came in, but when you have to

pete to bradenton up to 6 to 9 to 15 feet. if it takes a southern track and goes a little farther south where the right side, that right front quadrant of the system is impacting bradenton the worst of the storm surge will be there. we are splitting hairs and why we are not trying to restructure exactly where we are in this region. if you are in these evacuation zones, you essentially need to leave. the time is kind of ticking for that. when it comes to the inland flooding, it's a little different than helene and not quite as significant as we saw with helene but 5, 10, 15 inches of rain and spread across this region and we will seal the potential for these strong winds as well. 90 to 100-mile-per-hour winds and especially wherever the center of that system comes on show system comes on show. following the evacuation warns and impact will impact in across the state of florida and isolated tornadoes as the system works across the state is going to be impactful as well through your thursday. >> so very quickly. this looks like i

cbs's rob marciano is about 45 miles down the coast from here, in bradenton, with new information juston milton's path. rob, what's the latest? >> reporter: well, vlad, i can tell you this, we are gusting to hurricane strength here and our phones just went off saying in this county emergency services have been suspended. i expect our phones to go off again in just an hour or so. they say extreme wind warning is going to be in effect. the latest on the storm is that it is less than 50 miles off the coast now and moving at about 15 miles an hour, so that means it is coming in before midnight and we are going to get hurricane-force winds and some of those extreme winds over 100 mile-per-hour in the next hour or two. so we have already seen over 100 reports or tornado warnings. several reported tornadoes. flooding rains, and more of that is all to come. the track itself is going to come right over bradenton, looks like, landfall around 9:00 or so, and then traverse the entire peninsula, be offshore tomorrow morning, but retain hurricane strength right off, right off the space coast. heavy

what will that do to the area of bradenton? >> we are along the river in parts of the city on the go all the way out and touch the barrier islands on parts of the city so the bridge just separates us. we do have both. we have a 6-foot storm surge with helena and everybody knows what that meant. we have homes, even one of our counsel people with 4 feet of water in her home from that storm surge. people to get a little bit more serious. if it doubles in size to 12 feet or even higher, the devastation is unbelievable. in if you stay in your home close to that, you could be underwater and obviously, if it is above your head, there is not good consequences there. >> john: the mayor of tampa, jean castor had this to say about people who choose to stay in their home at the storm surge coming in, listen here. >> i said many times that he went to pick a fight with mother nature. she is winning 100% of the time. that 12 feet is about that house so if you are in it, basically that is the coffin you are in. >> john: the mayor is basically

this is bradenton. this is south of the sarasota area. but you can see, even though it's probably a little south of where it's going to make landfall, the effects of the storm. >> let's go to abc seven news meteorologist sandhya patel. she is tracking milton very closely. sandhya? yeah. >> dan and kristin. this is from the national hurricane center. came down just seconds ago. the northern eye wall is starting to move in between tampa and saint petersburg. you can see the conditions just deteriorating with the rain going sideways. the winds blowing. they've already seen damage from wind, rain and tornadoes. here is milton live doppler seven showing you that eyewall moving on shore. we do have tornado watch boxes for parts of florid. right now it is packing 120 mile an hour winds. it is a category three moving to the northeast at 15 miles an hour. so let me show you its track as a category three, expected to continue to move on shore, making landfall, weakening to a one, and then eventually to a depression heading into thursday night and f

joining me live is melanie bevan, chief of police in bradenton, a town right in the path of hurricaneion like where you are? you're trying to evacuate people at the moment, how's that going? 50 people at the moment, how's that going?— that going? so back to us on the west _ that going? so back to us on the west coast _ that going? so back to us on the west coast of _ that going? so back to us on the west coast of florida, i that going? so back to us on | the west coast of florida, we are smack dab in the middle of the coastline, and currently in the coastline, and currently in the eye of the storm — should it come our way over the next two days. we have worked tirelessly over the last couple days doing evacuations, preparing our agency — this is on the heels of dealing with the aftermath of helene. a lot of our community members, thousands of homes were damaged with up to 3—5 feet of water — i've been in law enforcement, in this area my whole life — something i've never seen in my 40 something i've never seen in my a0 years in law enforcement, or evenin a0 years in law enforcement, or

me encuentro en bradenton muy, muy cerquita de sarasota.mbiÉn. mire como me lo echÓ a perder todo. todo tambiÉn eso ahÍ y pues eso es lo Único que les puedo mostrar. me entiende? y no, la verdad no, no me da ni ni mucho Ánimo de andarlo enseÑando, porque la verdad me siento muy, muy, muy agÜitado. >> no entiendo. lamento de verdad que estÉ pasando por esta situaciÓn y de parte del equipo de telemundo le agradecemos que nos cuente cÓmo se siente y su situaciÓn. no, bueno, espero que se pueda recuperar y de todo esto muy pronto y lo importante, seÑor francisco, es que usted y su hija estÁn bien, que pasaron un sitio en un refugio, no? sÍ, asÍ mero es ahÍ. >> como quiera. gracias. y a ver. quÉ? a ver quÉ? a ver cÓmo hacemos para recuperar esto? para arreglarlo? pues mÁs que todo. >> bueno, muchas gracias, seÑor francisco. esta es tan solo una de muchas situaciones similares en este vecindario de bradenton, una ciudad donde hay una gran poblaciÓn hispana. muchos de ellos viven en casas mÓviles como esta, que lamentablemente tras el paso de milt

nbc's stephanie gosk is in bradenton beach with more for us.hanie. >> reporter: good morning, ana. life in hard-hit places like this in bradenton beach is getting a little bit easier. that shock of being hit by back-to-back powerful hurricanes is fading. what's left is the enormity of the rebuild. but floridians have done this before. when we talk to people, overwhelmingly what we hear is determination. for many here in florida, the devastation is just now sinking in. >> i have never seen anything like this. most people living here that are alive have never seen anything like this either. >> reporter: president biden in st. petersburg toured the damage and announced $600 million in federal funds for recovery efforts, including $100 million for improving florida's power system. >> we'll not only restore power, but we'll make the region's power system stronger and more capable and reduce the frequency and duration of power outages while extreme weather events become more frequent. >> reporter: the death toll from milton has risen to 24. nearly ha

milton menacing, absolutely menacing right now, whipping through bradenton.arkable energy, painful to stand out here in this. >> and then a large part of the roof at tropicana field in saint petersburg has ripped off the ballpark is home to the tampa bay rays. this area near the ballpark did report three hours of wind gusts clocked at more than 70mph. tonight, the tropicana was being used as a temporary staging location for first responders. so far, no reports of any injuries at this scene. >> we have live team coverage of this intense hurricane. tonight we will have a live report from florida later on in this newscast. our zac sos has been monitoring updates from officials from our newsroom. but first, let's go to chief meteorologist bill martin. bill, this storm now pushing across the central part of the state. >> yeah, that's right betty. and it's just been dropped within the last ten minutes or so down to a category one hurricane. but it's over the peninsula, the central peninsula of florida. you can kind of see a little bit of the eye wall left. of cours

jonathan cerri in bradenton beach, florida. are they making good progress?e's still residents in the dark including the hardest hit areas and bradenton beach suffered severe damage during hurricane milton and heavy winds battering some of the older single story homes and smaller structures were watched away. >> unfortunately we don't know the fate of our beach tiki massage and known for that for 14 years and the tiki hut in the middle of gulf drive a few days ago. reporter: according to the tracking service poweroutage.u.s. and approximately 200,000 customers without power and mostly in the tampa bay area and utility crews hope to have power restored to nearly everyone by the end of the day. 80% of florida gas stations have fuel but in tampa and sarasota, about half of gas stations are still empty. and on the atlantic coast, the man that road the storm out at his mother-in-law's house returned to his own home in the town of stuart to find an unwelcomed visitor, a small alligator swimming in his pool. he called state wildlife officers to come and remove it. t

this is a live shot of bradenton beach, this got a heavy blow. if you think about it, this is the exact reverse of what we saw in the, the winds doing the damage, and in florida right now. costs are higher and higher. >> rivers are overtopping their banks. and active water rescues, and a number of pets as well. at this late date, still actively rescuing people from this storm. we've seen up and down on the road screens going through neighborhoods lifting debris, at the front of every house behind me. some of this is from a storm two weeks ago, some of it from milton, some a mix of two storms, this area was hit by a 1-2 punch, so much that some floridians say they could be ready to throw in the towel. >> i want to rebuild, get it finished and i think we are probably going to say goodbye to florida because we are getting too old to keep doing this. >> cleanup for many is underway, also without electric power, without running water, without air conditioning, no easy feat. back to you. stuart: thank you, for all your effort and your crew's effort by

robert ray is on the ground in bradenton beach with more. robert?yeah, laura, good evening and to everyone here, the sun has gone down and the darkness descending on bradenton beach. meanwhile piles of sand and debris line all of the roads. this problem is all from hurricane helene, which came in 11 days ago. five feet of storm surge and winds ravaging the tampa area and the barrier islands and then as we know, hurricane milton formed out in the gulf of mexico and is churning right now as a category 5, 165 mile-per-hour winds, and, laura, there was no time to get all of this debrief off of the streets. so what is going to happen? 24-plus hours from now, when this storm makes its way into the land and we don't know exactly where the landfall is, but it is expected to decrease as far as the category, maybe a 3, maybe a 4, but that doesn't matter. it's the impacts. the swath of the storm is massive. and all of this debris that you see right now as the dark of night is falling on us, all of this will become projectiles, missiles from the wind, 120-plus

extreme wind warning, wind gust 90 to 100 monon hours the last two or three are from tampa to bradenton to st. petersburg, a lot of population centers here. three-quarters of 1 million people without power and that number is growing quickly with extreme winds. there's the storm surge still going up, onshore flow continues, tampa bay had no storm surge at all, the winds are blowing out, these numbers are negative because the wind is taking the water from the bay and sending it out to sea. the current costco, 90 at st. petersburg, 82 at tampa, typically lose power when you hit 50 or 60, max power outages this is roof damage, trees falling on cars and homes, that sort of thing. we lost another 5 miles an hour but a category 3 hurricane tracking inland. overnight, we take it south of interstate 4 so the highest winds and heaviest rain will be from tampa going to the disney complex, universal studios to orlando and over to titusville, melbourne area, palm bay, that is to get the power outages to the middle of the night. 10:00 a.m., it is gone and heads out to sea. all of the wind and rain sh

jonathan serrie is on the ground and bradenton beach florida.e scenes have devastation behind you, jonathan and how long will it take for the communities to get back on their feet? >> very dramatic damage and power is being restored to the communities. some businesses are already be opening. as far as the queen up and as far as getting the communities to looking how they did prior to the storm, officials say it could take as long as a year. bradenton beach suffered some of the worst damage, heavy winds battered some of the older single-story homes and smaller structures are washed away completely. >> unfortunately, we don't know the fate of our beach keeping massage. we have been known for that for 14 years. aerial shots show the tiki hut in the middle of the drive a few days ago. >> according to the tracking service power outage .us approximately 80,000 customers are still without electricity most of them in the tampa bay area. utility crews hope to have power restored nearly everyone by the end of the day. according to gas but he, 80% of gas s

pete, sarasota here in bradenton. all of these pockets were unable to remove it, liz, because of the fact that this just happened two weeks ago and then now milton, churning, a mandatory evacuations there is no one on this barrier island. matter of fact it is an army national guard and also the sheriff's office and we've been talking to them throughout the day. they feel like most people have taken the warning seriously and gotten out and people are afraid of this storm. no doubt. liz, up to 10-15 feet of storm surge is expected here. let me just put that into perspective. so helene brought in five feet. okay? and you see the damage around me. well, this is about the size of a basketball hoop. 10 feet. this structure. imagine going five feet above that, and having the water rush in from the gulf of mexico taking all of this pushing it and a wind field of 100-125 miles per hour which is potentially what we're expecting. all of this debris, chairs, cabinets, mattresses will be like missiles being projected all through t

extreme wind warning, wind gusts 90 to 100 miles an hour the last two or three hours from tampa to bradenton to st. petersburg. a lot of population centers here, three-quarter million of people without power, that number is growing quickly with the extreme wins. there is the storm surge going up, onshore flow continues. tampa bay had no storm surge at all, the winds are blowing out, the numbers are negative because the wind is taking the water from the bay and sending it out to sea. going through the current gusts, 90th st. petersburg, 82 in tampa, typically lose power when you hit 50 or 60, having mass power outages. roof damage, trees falling on cars and homes, that sort of thing. we had a 95 mile an hour, category three hurricane tracking inland. overnight, take it just south of interstate 4, the highest wind and heaviest rain will be from tampa going to the disney complex, universal studios, into orlando and titusville, the melbourne area, palm bay, they will be getting power outages throughout the middle of the night. 10:00 a.m., it is gone and goes out to sea. all of the wind and rain

these are scenes all over bradenton beach. and according to the mayor, he says the community here will not play the victim card, that the will bounce back. we are seen neighbors come together. americans coming together and helping each other and being there for one another. as folks are just completely devastated. the scenes here of their community just completely destroyed by 2 hurricanes. and just look at this house right behind me as well. just completely destroyed. some of the homeowners say they when they return the phone notice 18 inches of flood water. other residents say they actually begin good in the inside of their homes after hurricane helene only to evacuate and then be hit by hurricane milton. so for residents further mainland, they're starting to get their power back in life is starting to get back to normal here. britain beach, as you clearly see, it's a long road ahead for recovery for the residents 82 beach. >> well, the national park service announced it killed a coyote officials say was responsible for 2 do

biggest surge right in that front right quadrant, or the eye wall, which currently goes right over bradenton, sarasota, down to venice, that big push of water. the biggest loss of life property, the storm surge. around here in tampa bay, that's clearwater, but all the way down, again, fort myers, in 6 to 10 feet. that is structurage, you could have homes wash away, cars wash away in that type of surge. you'll have 110-p 110-plus-mile-per-hour winds all the way to landland. so, power outages, trees on homes. and finally, david, up to 15 inches of rain, with some of those bands that could also produce tornadoes. >> david: we're going to be watching this very closely, ginger, i know you're going to have the very latest first thing in the morning on "gma." we'll be watching. of course, there are mandatory evacuations under way at this hour. homeowners trying to protect their homes before getting out of the path of this hurricane. our victor oquendo made his way to st. pete beach, right there in the evacuation zone, on this urgent effort now under way tonight. >> reporter: tonight, hurricane milt

. >> reporter: bradenton resident angie simararo and her family are riding out the storm at home, located outside of the evacuation zone. >> we knew that we wanted to stay. >> reporter: closer to the gulf coast, in new port richey, resident and pets took shelter in this o.j. simpson. >> we take this -- gym. >> we take this serious. >> reporter: in the days leading up to the storm, millions were urged to evacuate. last night florida's governor said it's too late for those who did not heed those earlier warnings. >> it's too dangerous to evacuate safely, so you have to shelter in place and just hunker down. >> reporter: already there are reports of deaths, injuries, and extensive property damage after tornadoes swept through the state ahead of milton's arrival. in tampa the storm struck as residents were still cleaning up from helene and dumped three to five inches of rain an hour. >> we've got your back. >> reporter: yesterday president joe biden said the federal government has millions of meals, water, and thousands of personnel on the ground for response. tropicana field had been set up

obviously we're here in bradenton in front of the hospital and i'll talk more about that in many a minute but just in terms of manatee county, i was just at two rivers mobile we walked the streets there, talked with some of the residen they're actually working really hard to fix up their places but i've given them information on some of the things that are going to be done. i know the city is going to be working on some stuff. fema has approved u individual assistance. we're also working on the transitional housing on the transitional housing, which hopefully will be approved very we have 100% power restored in manatee county for accounts tha can receive power. so if you don't have power, it may be because you had a lot of water damage, the underlying electrical infrastructure was damaged and it may not be safe to receive power. in fact, in that mobile home park at two rivers, people would try to crank a.c., smoke, this and tha so there are just going to be some issues with receiving powe but the availability of power i manatee county is now 100%. we also will, by the end of today, have a

bridges and roads, relatively speaking come up for a storm of this magnitude, but we were down in bradenton, longboat key area, and you had golf driver there that had damage and massive amounts of sand and that was going to be potentially a weeks long effort. we did an emergency repair and opened it within 48 hours, so that is open for that entire stretch. you had five feet of sand in some parts of that road, which was difficult. all 16 miles were cleared at the beginning of the week and i want to thank everybody at fdo t who was able to do that. in put ellis county, the florida department of transportation removed 50,000 cubic yards of sand. all that sand gets brought in with the storm surge and you still have some piles put on the side. a lot of that has been walled off. they will store that and if the communities want it for b-tree nourishment you can bring the sand in and do b-tree nurse meant. bottom line is that brought a lot so they did a good job to help with that. also, i was in been ellis county after the storm but driving around again and we went to a bunch of different spots. pe

if it is a little farther to maybe the north of bradenton, this is where the worst of the storm surge is going to be. places like longboat key, siesta key, anna maria island, those spots, those are in the evacuation zones for a reason. evacuation a. but notice here as we get into the later parts of thursday, this system is already out over parts of the atlantic, but we will see plenty of rainfall and big impacts for folks across that region here as we get into at least the later parts of wednesday night into the overnight hours and into thursday morning. here's where we're talking about the center line coming on shore. the winds, closest to the eyewall, we know this, strong. 190 miles per hour, somewhere along that range. and, again, where the center of it is going to make the biggest difference of where we see the most destructive winds. we'll start to get a better understanding here over the next 12 to 24 hours. >> angie lassman, thank you for that. >>> when hurricane milton storm surge hits, this is what it could look like in sarasota. everything in red means more than nine feet of

millones se encuentran sin electricidad y mÁs de 100 encontraron sus casas deshechas a su paso por bradentoncual su sala, su comedor y su cocina quedaron completamente expuestos a la intemperie. despuÉs de que los fuertes vientos tumbaran la pared, volaran todos los muebles a su paso y tambiÉn levantara este techo. la escena se repite a la vuelta de la esquina donde linda jimÉnez contempla con tristeza cÓmo quedÓ el hogar de sus familiares. >> pues es bien difÍcil, pero bueno, este lo material se recupera, pero las vidas no. aquÍ vemos alrededor que estÁn, pues muchas, muchas trailas igual en muy malas condiciones, pero pues vamos a salir de esta tambiÉn. >> el principal reto para los dueÑos de casas mÓviles es la falta de seguro y no lo exigen el seguro. ustedes tienen seguro, no? despuÉs de esto lo considerarÍa. >> lo que pasa es que es carÍsimo. >> muchos de los afectados necesitarÁn ayuda del gobierno para reconstruir y seguir adelante. el presidente joe biden le pidiÓ al congreso que regresara a sesiÓn cuanto antes para aprobar los fondos de emergencia. >> i think congress should move a

>> yeah, good afternoon from bradenton beach, white sands you see the gulf of mexico behind me and thatrricane milton is turning with a potential for catastrophic situations. but you see the debris field here is less than two weeks ago 5 feet of storage came in and let me just errors -- illustrate it, one, three, four and five it came we're ripping apart areas in his pocket of the sunshine state as lloyd offered will make his way across and you see the sand that got pushed all the way onto the street here, mandatory evacuations right now, robert. only people that are here our national guard and the sheriff's office patrolling. but look at the sand that got pushed and big vehicles move this to the side and pushed it up and you see -- look at the top of this ice cream shop that you're not supposed to be able to touch, they got a pylon holding up part of the building, all this from the surge in the ween from helene just two weeks ago and you look inside this ice cream shop. lloyd training his camera inside and you can see the chairs overturned in the mud and the smell of rotting dairy insi

we had a long stretch along the beach in sarasota, bradenton, 789 golf drive, and you have damage tohe roadway, you had five feet of sand, that got swept up in the storm surge. it was not possible. on saturday, we had negotiated an emergency repair as soon as the storm passed and we saw the damage but i said guys, we've got to get this done quick. some people were saying it was going to take a month or many weeks. i said that's fine, but you've got to do it quicker. so we were happy to have within 24 hours restored access to the longboat key section of golf drive and then last night i was able to announce that it took about 48 hours to complete all 16 miles of the roadway. is been cleared, it's been restored, the temporary emergency repairs have been completed, so now as of this morning, that is open for business for the residents and the businesses there. so we appreciate florida department of transportation doing that very quickly. that is certainly not the norm around the rest of the country. now since the storm has hit him of the state of florida has responded to request for a nu

miss the riverwalk here in bradenton and we have been out here now for several hours and this is really the first time. this looks similar to what bill weir was expected appearing saying in st. petersburg about an hour or two ago, water really coming up on the piers there. this is the first time now that we are seeing this here bill a bill, i want to bring you in here in st. petersburg because this reminds me of your live shot earlier in the day it's just fascinating that this is just started here northern side of this storm. >> we've got the slop, we've got so much more of the rain that was a monster that was thousand. >> take your breath away. watch out. watch out. now we see signs started to flood voice back up, back up. there's a construction sign that just is about to blow through this intersection i don't know if you saw bill. >> we just had a big transport. it looked like a transformer over it's going off. and again, the water is really coming up i'm so wet, it doesn't even matter what we've heard. >> hurting with fangs hearing percussive bangs in the last couple of seconds that

that bridge was damaged and is unable to pass so we're evaluating the north entrance through bradenton beach to see how we can access the island give us a little bit more about the severity of that damage? how much do you know? >> yes the only thing we know is that the westbound look to have either collapsed or have been significantly damaged on the ringling causeway, the lower bridge there it's an older bridge and really wasn't deemed safe for the team to take their vehicles over the eastbound lame and so treated. and are going to be talking what's a florida department of transportation about that bridge. but in the meantime looking at to go up through manatee county to see the bradenton beach access point and to see how that went? but otherwise, we have no other reports from the island. we have lost power and we really we think we were about 98% evacuated and so we don't really have any reports from the island communicate with any of those few who decided to ride the storm out town manager of all, which is really about 17 miles south of siesta key where hurricane milton came ashore a

. >> hurricane milton is going to be a deadly and catastrophic storm right over, say, bradenton, sarasota and tampa bay. >> those are the heart of where we'll see that landfall making impacts. >> tonight we are tracking hurricane milton as it gets ready to make landfall in florida. any minute now. good evening. i'm ama daetz, and i'm dan ashley. >> hurricane milton is a category three storm, and has already spawned at least nine confirmed tornadoes in and around miami. >> let's take a live look at that wind that is just gusting right now. you can see that camera bouncing around. we have abc seven news team coverage. >> suzanne phan is live at sfo, where evacuees from florida have now arrived. >> but let's begin with abc seven news meteorologist sandhya patel, who is tracking hurricane milton. sandhya. yeah. >> ama and dan. this is a potentially catastrophic situation. just look at how ferocious the winds are. the rain is pounding florida as we look at live doppler seven, the very latest from the national hurricane center. it is close to making landfall near the tampa area. now, as you wil

our team had to get indoors and we felt it start with the wind and then over at sarasota bradenton internationalport. they recorded a gust of wind at 102mph. and that's just across the street from where we're staying tonight. we are without power. i'm currently wearing a headlamp just to see inside my hotel room. storm surge. that's been a major concern all along, but milton also spawning dozens of tornadoes. more are still possible as we all brace for a long night ahead tonight. monster hurricane milton pounding the state of florida. the category three hurricane making landfall on the state's west coast. catastrophic winds reaching as high as 120mph. wind and rain pummeling the sunshine state. the storm spawning over 30 tornadoes ripping through neighborhoods, tearing the roofs off people's homes. >> and we all started going for the hallway. didn't even make it there in time, and we have lost some life. >> search and rescue teams are on their way. our deputies are out here. the fire district is out here. >> we're going through the rubble just north of palm beach on the east coast. officials con

nbc's stephanie gosk joins us from bradenton beach with the very latest. morning to you. >> good morning. bit by bit life in places like this in bradenton beach is getting easier. the shock of being hit by back-to-back powerful hurricanes is fading. what's left is the enormity of the rebuild. floridians have done this before. when we talk to people, we overwhelmingly hear determination. >> reporter: for many here in florida, the devastation is just now sinking in. >> i have never seen anything like this. most people living here that are alive have never seen anything like this either. >> reporter: president biden in st. petersburg toured the damage and announced 600 million in federal funds, including 100 million for improving florida's power system. >> will make the region's power system stronger and more capable and reduce the frequency and duration of power outages while extreme weather events become more frequent. >> reporter: the death toll from milton has risen to 24. nearly 1 million residents without power and flooding still a major concern in some

i'm going to go straight to anderson cooper, who is in bradenton anderson. you're back with us. how have things been there in bradenton over the last several minutes i mean, as you can tell, it's certainly the winds have died down significantly as certainly the rain is still raining. >> and it's still obviously windy, but it's really nothing compared to what it was rammed is still very saturated here. i haven't been able to go into the town itself on by the river, riverwalk. but as you can tell, even the there's not the waves crashing over onto the riverwalk that that we saw starting around around 8:45 or 9:00 and that was when there was really significant shift in the storm here in this area. so there's a lot it's still, it's really, it's it's not great out. but it's definitely died down to a great degree. i still want to learn more information about water on the ground here. but let's, let's, let's check in again. >> just walking back in with boris sanchez. >> boris, i just came in dealing of how much water he is on the ground where you more to get a specific number for you. >

there's sarasota bradenton palmetto. it's finally on the backside of that. it's finally done. but now here, over here on the tone of beach, you see some heavier rain showers still coming on shore the possibility isn't zero that some of these small little cells here couldn't rotate tonight as they moved on shore with a little bit of a waterspout that zero but not 100 either. so yes, kinda keep that in mind if you leave your radio on or your phone on, you will know whether there's actually a warning for you still not too late for that to happen, even though the storm has really wound down most of the guests are not about 60 or 70 miles per hour. so here's the storm itself on the satellite lost all of the purples, lost all of the pinks, lost all of the higher cloud tops. so we're not talking about a big storm anymore, but we're still going to talk about four to six months. more inches of rainfall in places that certainly don't need it. there you go. orlando, most of the rainfall is where the wind is because the rain brings the wing, the wind down from the clouds. if you don't hav