its workers are spending the night there in lakeland. east of the tampa bay area. and once the storm passes, it will then move to the areas most in need. >> we'll make a determination based on damage, how far we can get in with our big semi trucks. if roads are blocked, that sort of thing with flooding could be an issue. we'll go in as far as we can and on a location that is near the worst of the damage and a highly populated area, and that's where we'll set up shop. initially to begin distributing the supplies to people who need them. >> this nonprofit has some california ties. its distribution center is in sacramento. it will hand out tarps for roofs, ready to eat meals, baby supplies, and also mop up materials again, once hurricane milton moves out. well, the next several hours no doubt, will be intense in florida, especially with milton coming on the heels of hurricane helene just two weeks ago. former san rafael resident william heckler, now lives in the town of seminole. he was on his way home after being evacuated from hurricane helene, but had to stop in or

milton is in lakeland.re in fort myers along the coast at a temporary respite right now in terms of the wind speeds. but we have been getting clocked the last couple of hours with so much water on the ground. and i can't even see patches of street anymore. i'm looking down to set the stage for you, we are in a parking garage right now on the fourth floor, looking down. there is a river nearby, and you can see the sort of gaps of where they were coming up, the surge from the river onto the streets. now there is nothing, but it's just a river. so you're really looking again at five or so feet of water. we talked about the projected storm surge of eight to twelve feet. no way, that's not going to happen. it's literally playing out before our eyes right now. here is what worries me, steph. you're looking at the population centers affected. i'm in lee county, 800,000 people. and half of those are under mandatory evacuations. the tampa bay area is 2.5 million people. then you have sarasota, which also has 400,000

its workers are spending the night in lakeland. east of the tampa bay area. and once the storm passes, it will move to the areas most in need. >> we'll make a determination based on damage, how far we can get in with our big semi trucks. if roads are blocked, that sort of thing with flooding could be an issue. we'll go in as far as we can, and on a location that is near the worst of the damage and a highly populated area. and that's where we'll set up shop initially to begin distributing the supplies to people who need them. >> the nonprofit, with a distribution center in sacramento, will hand out tarps for roofs, ready to eat meals, baby supplies, and mop up materials. >> well, it has been a long night for so many hunkered down trying to stay safe in florida. this cat three coming on the heels of hurricane helene just two weeks ago. former san rafael resident william hechler now lives in the town of seminole, and he told us he was on his way home after being evacuated from helene, but then had to stop in orlando to wait this new hurricane out. >> you just ha

you'll have 110-plus-mile-per-hour winds all the way to lakeland.onville, you'll have onshore flow. 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 underway 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 underway tonight. >> reporter: tonight, hurricane milton taking aim at florida, just ten days after helene slammed the state with 140-mile-an-hour winds and record storm surge. >> we can't affect the track. we can't control how strong or how weak it gets. the only thing that you can affect is what you do and the decisions you make to protect yourself and your families. >> reporter: evacuation orders growing by the hour. hu

they're asking for your patients reporting in lakeland 3. so it on your side. >> all right, to 38 this afternoon live look outside at one of the warships docked along the embarcadero in san francisco. it's our photog. rest cuts moto taking that live shot for us at the moment. and just looking really gorgeous out there. it's san francisco at the moment. kyla. yeah, we have a pretty good day today. i think we'll have a pretty good day. tomorrow is looking across the country and you can see that we've got cool temperatures in the northeast. >> high pressure in the center of the country bringing a little bit of what's left of the heat this time of year. and then as we have to the west coast here, you can see that la is at 81 degrees. but we are certainly having a nice cool run of it here in san francisco getting a little breezy out there, too. as we take a live look from the golden gate bridge that mix of sun and clouds pretty nice afternoon. temperature wise. really nice right to my inland spots that have been dealing with so much. heat are jus

lakeland is in polk county. it's one of more than 50 florida counties that's been asked to evacuate the line of cars at several gas stations in this area throughout the day has been very long. people tell me grocery stores are crowded and shelves are empty. schools in this area have been canceled for the rest of the week, and city officials say shelters are opening today. they started opening at noon, and almost all of florida's counties in the west coast are under a hurricane warning right now. the hurricane is expected to make landfall in this area late wednesday night into early thursday morning. in lakeland, florida, kennedy, hayes ktvu, fox two news. >> kennedy. thank you for that live report. we want to get to some breaking news now, this time out of el cerrito, right? >> right. there was an incident here that resulted in gunfire. it was on elm street, not too far away from the main thoroughfare there. san pablo avenue. we brought you live pictures from sky fox a minute ago. we can. i believe we have the e

down just north of sarasota because of this while rotating into the lakeland area. where the core of the windows with tampa and st. petersburg pushing the water out of tampa bay. they aren't going to get the extreme surge like concerned about. but they are getting peak wind gusting up to now 120 miles per hour. damage will be done quite a lot in that metropolitan area right now. down to the south the windows coming in off the gulf gusting to around 72 here. little west towards fort myers. we aren't even getting complaint accurate ratings because we lost power there. the expectation is that the entire coast is flooding at this moment right now. naples 4.8 feet above normal high tide. that's higher than hurricane hellion. 3.9 feet in downtown fort myers and the peak is yet to come there later this evening. so there will be another flood event for all of southwest florida. tonight 90 mile-per-hour hurricane through orlando and the metropolitan area there in the dark tonight. after that it goes offshore. there is more as to the north of the storm that i wall structure c

milton is south of lakeland, florida. it's to the east of the tampa bay area.miles per hour for an inland storm. that's pretty impressive. what is happening is really impressive. this heavy rain develop on the north side impacting the i-4 corridor of florida. that's the interstate that extends from tampa to orlando. these red areas that are flashing on the screen indicate were flash flood emergencies in effect. >> thank you. now, let's turn to sam brock who's in ft. myers south of tampa. what are you seeing tonight ? >> reporter: i can't believe this system isn't lakeland were still feeling the effects we are in ft. myers along the coast. we are in a temporary respite in terms of the wind speeds. we've been getting clocked. there's so much storm surge. i can't see patches of street. i'm looking down. we are in a parking garage on the fourth floor. there is got to be five or six feet of water rushing through the streets. there was a river nearby and you could see the gaps where the water was coming up. now there's nothing. there's dumpsters where the water has r

spokesperson says they were forced to reposition several of their aircraft from their home base in lakelandida, to a facility that is not directly in the storm path storm zone. >> they are used to dealing with these types of storms. so incredible to hear even they had to move things around and next to the extreme lengths that some people are taking to protect their homes. yeah, you might have seen this because it's gone viral on social media. this is a home in tampa, and the homeowner, as you can see there, literally strapped the house to the ground. >> those are said to be concrete anchors in the ground. so not like a tent, if you will. still, opinions are divided on whether this would do anything to save the house or possibly even do more damage, but it's been getting quite a bit of reaction, with one guy tweeting this is the most florida thing i have ever seen. i didn't send that tweet, but i should have. and another saying florida man wins again. let's hope. >> what if it works? then he's a genius. >> what if it works? >> wait and see. >> i see that, but i see no hurricane shutters on t

lakeland is in polk county.0 florida counties that have been asked to evacuate the line of cars this morning at several gas stations in this area has been very long. people tell me grocery stores are crowded and shelves are emptying fast. schools in this area have been canceled for the rest of the week, and city officials say shelters are beginning to open today. almost all of florida's west coast is under a hurricane watch right now, and florida's west coast is expected to hit milton, and milton will make landfall here late wednesday or early thursday. in lakeland, florida, kennedy, hayes, ktvu, fox two news. >> kennedy, the first gentleman we heard from, said that he has an experiencing something he hasn't experienced, something like this. it's been more than 100 years since a storm. this size hit that area. it's fair to say no one there has experienced it. >> that's right. i've gotten a mixed bag. some people maybe this is their first hurricane. others they say this is their second or third. of course, with h

amna: that's our william brangham reporting tonight from lakeland, florida., thank you to you and the team. william: thanks, amna. geoff: for a closer look at the federal response to hurricanes milton and helene, we're joined now by keith turi, acting associate administrator for response and recovery at fema. thanks for being with us. milton is now the second major hurricane to make landfall over the past two weeks. what is needed most on the ground right now? keith: the storm did pass through overnight and most of the weather has cleared but there is still a range of hazards that are out there. we have downed power lines, floodwaters that are still rising, and of course issues like power outages and things like that. we are focused. primarily on keeping people safe. officials are out making sure the roads are clear and it is safe to be in the neighborhoods. they will let people know when they can come back. the key thing right now is making sure everyone follows the directions and stays safe the next couple days before we get into recovery mode. geoff: a que

still have flash flood emergencies anywhere from lakeland, almost almost all the way over towards orlando. we have a considerable flash flood for orlando, but this area this is larger than three or four counties combined and it is all in an area that had ten inches of rain or more since midnight. so there's not really like a small little neighborhood that got ten and it can run off. where's it going to run? because the next neighborhood also got ten here's the rainfall right now, still seeing the last bastion of wind and rain for all the way through sarasota back to bradenton and tampa. that's the last i think of the outer bands that will finally come through. but over here toward the east, we're still seeing the eastern side of the eyewall. and i know we don't have a tornado watch in effect right now, but there were so many tornadoes today and a few of them were devastatingly large. and we know that there are fatalities from them. we just don't have any type of numbers because the sheriff's department are not releasing those numbers have to us right now. there's the rain orlando all the

he's live for us in lakeland, florida. he's the incident come onto the salvation army florida does off the relief teams like good to get to on the shows. uh, uh, the, the, the how could milton, as we just had from president biden is likely to make landfall in just a few hours. a category 3, stone bivens and make no mistake. it may have been downgraded from casually 5 this time yesterday. but it is still going to be one of the most destructive, hurricanes, seen this century. can you tell us just a few hours out from landfill, what the situation is now? yeah, thank you for having me on. first of all, i really do appreciate it. yeah the, the salvation army is, is. ready already in a good stance, as far as positioning ourselves the very best we can to make sure that we can respond as aggressively insert capacity as possible. so even prior to the storm, you mentioned earlier, we're just off the hills of this other storm. so logistically we have things already in place. what we're doing in florida now is just kind of shifting ou

but there is significant flooding going on here in lakeland, especially farther inland because it doesn't have a chance to just wash back into the ocean. so it is going to be a flooded mess to the east of tampa and probably as far east as orlando to right now, the latest advisory just came in. we're down to 100. but you can see what one 100 just did to tampa and what it did to bradenton. and anderson cooper standing right there. >> let's actually go back to anderson right now who remains in bradenton anderson? the wind, the rain is now above it means that the water, what are you experiencing >> so we've moved from that location. that was just bananas. how much waters pouring over now so we moved about. i don't know, 200 feet or so, 300 feet up. so we're on higher ground but it is just i mean, that's yeah, there's a lot of water coming coming along the riverwalk i'm not sure how much longer that's going to continue for which obviously chad will be able to tell us in a little bit. but it is just the wind is coming from the north tampa's that's the north campus up that way as chad was saying

petersburg 18 inches of rain today alone, and then all the way over toward lakeland, we still have the flash flood emergency going on there. the rain continues just to the east of orlando as you saw with victor look at this stripe of purple. now there's no white in here. white would indicate more than 20 inches of rain, but i've large area here of greater than ten inches over the entire state from east to west, all the way across the state. and it's still raining in some places, the rain will continue. so will the wind that we've really kind of calm things down right now, here's the latest from hurricane center, haven't even seen it yet, 85 miles per hour updates every hour on the hour now, because we're on land not every three hours like it does when it's just out in the ocean. so we're down to 85. that's some good news that even seen a gust for 85 over anything, but it's not out of the question that that's still could happen today and into tonight. now, by morning, by the time the sun comes up, the center of this storm is in the ocean. it's long gone, but the damage will have already

lakeland. 65. 61 mile per hour wind gusts for orlando. the storm surges. right now. what we're looking at for tampa to saint petersburg, 6 to 9ft right now. 9 to 13ft. sarasota to fort myers. there it could be about 8 to 12ft. and when it comes to that rain, we are talking about a moderate risk of very heavy rain stretching from the eastern shore of florida through orlando, tampa, down to sarasota. we're talking about upwards of 18in of rain. lester. generally could be anywhere from 5 to 10in, but again, this is going to be a high impact storm. and of course, with all those winds and all that rain, we are going to be looking at major, major problems going for the next several days. lester. all right, al, thanks very much. as we look around, making sure we're not seeing any localized flooding here because the rain is coming down very heavily, we'll continue to monitor all this. it concludes this nbc news special report. we will have much more ahead all night long on our streaming network, nbc news now. and nbc. com i'm lester holt. thank you for watcng and good evenin

we're expecting upwards of 129-mile-per-hour wind gusts in sarasota, lakeland, orlando, 61 miles, captiva, 63, and then the storm surge, anywhere from 6 to 9 feet around tampa, sarasota, 9 to 13 feet, fort myers beach, 8 to 12 feet and on the other side, look right now, fort myers, 34.4-foot storm surge. naples bay, 4 1/2 feet, so it's start of 18 in before this is all over, so flooding beginning. the storm surge just starting and, again, with the heavy rain, we are going to be talking about upwards of 18 inches of rain before this is all over, so flooding is going to be a major problem. lester. >> all right, al, thanks very much. they are bracing for a major storm surge in fort myers. that's also south of where i am, and sam brock is there. sam, it's already been a very dangerous day there. >> reporter: it sure has, lester. tornadic activity, at least one reported tornado by the weather service here in fort myers, as you mentioned, but the storm surge and all eyes on the caloosahatchee river behind me, and it reached street level. there are images of damage from that tornado. there are a

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some reports as much as 16 inches of rain in along that path from tampa up the lakeland near orlando course. he's a very populated areas. and so we're talking about some catastrophic flooding possibly in those areas. see, as you can imagine, a flash flood warnings are in effect until early tomorrow morning may be extended as well as storm systems far from done. >> all right. let's take it back out to where we live and looking good out of sfo right now. partly cloudy skies out there tonight. some patchy fog, some cool temperatures around the bay area. and that's kind of nice thing to see this weekend. yeah. even a slight chance we could be talking about a couple of scattered light showers. all right. here's the cloud. moving moving through right now. just some mid to high level clouds and patchy fog down below overall. i think the pattern setting up very nice to see more of a westerly component to the wind. and that is that onshore breeze. so that cool those temperatures way down and makes things up much more comfortable around the bay area. so yeah, here's your 10 10 for you as we he

reporter: in lakeland, residents of a mobile home community cannot start picking up those pieces. they get rid of all the floodwater. one resident has lived here for seven years. but this store might be the end for. >> i am done with hurricanes. we are going to move out of state. we are going to see what fema will give us because these trailers are so old we cannot even get homeowners insurance. reporter: you have no insurance at all? >> no insurance. reporter: right behind her, he was rowing his 80-year-old mother to safety. they have lived here for six years. her health is not great. even as the water rose up in their trailer on the night of milton, she did not want to leave. the next day, she was finally persuaded. it is hard to push your mom to do things she does not want to do? >> yes. i have always had that problem. reporter: his truck is almost out of gas, as are many of the nearby stations, and he was not sure where they would sleep that night. >> the sea level is rising. florida is not a good place. real estate here is quite wet. reporter: they have been stuck in their ho

we're expecting upwards of 129-mile-per-hour wind gusts in sarasota, lakeland, orlando, 61 miles, captiva, 63, and then the storm surge, anywhere from 6 to 9 feet around tampa, sarasota, 9 to 13 feet, fort myers beach, 8 to 12 feet and on the other side, look right now, fort myers, 34.4-foot storm surge. naples bay, 4 1/2 feet, so it's start of 18 in before this is all over, so flooding beginning. the storm surge just starting and, again, with the heavy rain, we are going to be talking about upwards of 18 inches of rain before this is all over, so flooding is going to be a major problem. lester. >> all right, al, thanks very much. they are bracing for a major storm surge in fort myers. that's also south of where i am, and sam brock is there. sam, it's already been a very dangerous day there. >> reporter: it sure has, lester. tornadic activity, at least one reported tornado by the weather service here in fort myers, as you mentioned, but the storm surge and all eyes on the caloosahatchee river behind me, and it reached street level. there are images of damage from that tornado. there are a

our friends in lakeland, florida, where they had to wait for hours for sandbags, cars sneaking around the parking lot. it closed around 5:45 last night. some cars didn't make it to the front of the line in front. tampa grocery store shelves are empty. finding gas has been a challenge for so many. one couple went to six gas stations before they found anything. >> god help us all. i feel bad. people who already got destroyed, hopefully they didn't already redo stuff and it is going to happen again. >> florida has deployed over 300 dump trucks that they are continuing to work 24/seven picking up that debris already from hurricane helene. these are the largest evacuation numbers we've seen since hurricane irma where nearly 7 million people took to the roads. desantis urging people to evacuate today. >> he also said this morning there will be evacuation centers set up all along evacuation routes. we see tropicana field, have cots ready. florida is working with hotels to keep prices low to make sure they aren't price gouging. we know it is a difficult time for families and people here in fl

. >> in lakeland, residents of the buccaneer mobile home community can't start pick up those piece notil they get rid of all the flue water. laura montgomery has lived here for seven years. but this storm might be tend for her. >> i'm done. i'm done with hurricanes. we're going to move out of state. >> is that right? >> yeah. we're going to see what fema will give us because these trailers are so old, we can't even get homeowner's insurance on them. >> so you have no insurance at all? >> no. no insurance. >> right behind her, ken murray was rolling his 80 year-old mother to safety. they've lived here for six years. her health isn't great. and even as the water rose up in their trailer on the night of milton, she did not want to leave. the next day marie finally persuaded her. >> she didn't want. to >> it's hard to push your mom to do things your mom doesn't want to do. >> yes. i think we all have that problem. >> maurice's truck is almost out of gas as are many of the nearby station and he wasn't sure where they were going to sleep tonight. >> see water is rising. florida is not a good

life science logistics in lakeland. babcock ranch, sip -- the sports camp 3021 sports coast way and wesley chapel, florida. that site also has capabilities forservice special needs individuals and kevin is also working on setting up a seventh site. the state supported shelters have generators. you will have access to power. i think you have starlink at those. they have starlink internet. it is not the four seasons but there are things to make it tolerable to get through the next 24 to 36 hours. you can find shelter options at florida disaster.org/shelters. find your county's e.m. page. florida disaster.org/counties. people have time now to evacuate if they're in the area of an evacuation zone. we see the storm as a very strong category 4. i have said from the beginning the prognostications it will likely weaken before it gets and it may not. even if it weakens it will be a major, major impact. you have time to make decisions to protect yourself and your families. massive amounts of space at the shelters. roads are flowi

>> well, where i was, we ended up here in lakeland, it was pretty rough.eras where where people shouldn't be. that's why we set them there tampa to punt that gorda capturing the impacts of milton right in your face. some of it was just that that's what the technology allows to us do to get into these places where reporters and people like me and other storm chasers simply cannot be. we solved that problem with technology. >> brian: what was your path? what was your path last night? >> well, my path, after i got everything set up the last camera system was there in tampa. and by the way that flooding of course was from rainfall, not the storm surge. had an excessive amount of rain in tampa. my path coming from tampa over to like land on i 4, which why by the way i was the only one on the interstate there. i have never seen that before. i have been to florida allot either on vacation or work. literally from tampa all the way over to my hotel here in lake land empty as could be. >> lawrence: look at that boat. >> that's the boat the camera doing its work. tha

but in parts north of us like lakeland, florida, we have video of cars snaking around the parking lot. they were there from open to close 5:45 at night and cars even in the parking lot that couldn't get enough sandbags because they couldn't make it to the front of the line in time. now in tampa, grocery store shelves are empty as residents were told to evacuate yesterday and get on the road. finding gas has been a challenge for many. one couple went to six gas stations before they found any. >> they are down. crazy, wawa, crazy. it is what it is. >> everyone is out. >> governor desantis said florida is accumulating fuel reserves with 1.5 million gallons and says there is no fuel shortage now. the state is working quickly to resupply gas stations. evacuation orders are in effect for most of the west coast and up and down the gulf. the police chief in the city between than st. peter and sarasota with helene the water got between four and fiving feet in surge and expecting double that for milton. >> we will not be here. the wind alone causes us to have to leave the island. fire, police,

if you are trying tonight, you're on the road, traffic is bad, you say hey, there's a shelter in lakeland i can go to and be able to write out the storm and then go back. that is an absolutely safe option to do and we encourage, if that is necessary, for folks to be able to do it. you can find your counties emergency management page which will have this type of information and others at for sheltering florida dean nasr.org/shelters, alyssa shelter locations and for general including sheltering as well as other orders, florida disaster or/counties. so please keep an eye on alert and advice a advice ans as a storm approaches. this has been a very difficult time for a lot of people in the state of florida to have a major hurricane,, not even two weeks ago that we got hit with hurricane helene, a very difficult thing to go through it we do that people whose homes. people lose very found possessions and a partly and we did experience loss of life and so you never want to have to go through that again but you certainly don't want to have to go through it on the heels of less than two weeks afte

light science logistics, 310 north galloway road, lakeland. babcock ranch, cyprus parkway in punta guarda. the wire grass sports camp, in wesley, chapel florida. that site also has capabilities to service special needs individuals. and kevin is also working on setting up a seventh site. now, the state-supported shelters do have generators, so you will have access to power. they have star link internet. so it's not the four seasons. you can find the shelter options at floridadisaster.org/shelters and your county's em page at floridadisaster.org/counties. so people have time now to evacuate if they are in the area of an evacuation zone. we see the storm is very strong category 4. i've said from the beginning, it's likely going to weaken before it gets here, but it may not. but even if it does, it's still going to be a major impact. so you still have time now to make decisions to protect yourself and your family. massive amounts of space at these shelters. the roads are flowing. conditions are going to get bad, so you have to be very careful with

life science logistics, 310 north galloway road lakeland. 43281 cypress parkway in punta gorda. the wire grass ranch sports camp, 3021 sports coast way. wesley chapel florida. that site also has capability to service special-needs individuals. kevin is working setting up a separate site. state-supported shelters to have generators you want access to power. i think your star link at those. they have starley catered it. it's not the four seasons but there are some things there that will make it tolerable to get to the next 24-36 hours. you can find the shelter options at floridadisaster.org/shelters. you can also find your counties em page that floridadisaster.org/county, floridadisaster.org/counties. people have time now to evacuate if they are in the area of an evacuation zone. you see the storm as very strong category for back. i said from the beginning the prognostications are it's likely going to weaken before it hits but it may not. even if it does it still going to be a major, major impact pick you still have time now to make decisions to protect yourself and your family. m

. >> bianca crowe is an hour east of tampa in lakeland. also in milton's crosshairs. >> my friends that are in auburndale, which is like a town over, have already had two tornado warnings. and we have we don't have any here yet. that's pretty much what i'm most concerned with. >> she also has a vacation home on anna maria island, also in milton's crosshairs. it's an outer island which was just ravaged by hurricane helena. >> so everyone's furniture is on the side of the road. and now milton's coming, and that furniture is going to be literally floating in the road. like i can't even comprehend. like how dangerous it will be retired menlo park fire chief and legendary search and rescue pioneer howard chapel. >> holman also worries about working with local first responders who have a personal stake in the disaster. >> they were degraded because they were the local guys in their own homes were being impacted, their own families were being impacted. so we shed a lot of the team members and realized very quickly that that was not a good model.

. >> bianca crowe is an hour east of tampa in lakeland.o in milton's crosshairs. >> my friends that are in auburndale, which is like a town over, have already had two tornado warnings. and we have we don't have any here yet. that's pretty much what i'm most concerned with. >> she also has a vacation home on anna maria island, also in milton's crosshairs. it's an outer island which was just ravaged by hurricane helena. >> so everyone's furniture is on the side of the road. and now milton's coming. and that furniture is going to be literally floating in the road like i can't even comprehend. like how dangerous it will be. >> retired menlo park fire chief and legendary search and rescue pioneer howard chapel. holman also worries about working with local first responders who have a personal stake in the disaster. >> they were degraded because they were the local guys in their own homes were being impacted, their own families were being impacted. so we shed a lot of the team members and realized very quickly that that was not a good model. >> t

amber and her four children were trapped inside their home in lakeland 35 miles east of tampa. looking out a window and she was spotted by a news crew from wfla tv. a short time later, a good samaritan arrived and used headlights to help henry and her kids find a way to escape. henry described her situation to the news crew that helped her. >> when it got up the window, it got up the window and started coming in the house from the window. and the refrigeraor started floating. i turned out the power. me and my children hopped on the oven and once we hopped on the oven, i called my mom and told my mom, i think me and my children are about to drown to death. but i had to literally break into the neighbor's house to get higher level and thank god i looked out the window, i don't know what told me to look out the window, but i saw you guys, and you guys came to save us. >> family was taken to a shelter to dry out there. 155 shelters open throughout florida. >>> want to turn to john morales, veteran meteorologist and hurricane specialist at nbc station wtvj in miami who covered so ma

just amber henry and her 4 children who live in lakeland, florida, were rescued hours after her homeoded in the refrigerator started flow turn out the power. me and my children caught on in the evening. >> and once we have gone call my mom until the mom, i think mean, much as you know that about the death. >> at least 4 people died in the storm. and as of thursday morning, close to 50 people were rescued during the height of the hurricane. more than 3 million people lost power and the roof of tropicana field where the tampa bay rays baseball team plays was ripped to shreds after first responders removed from a staging area. there. >> they'll be a lot more that they don't need to be done to assess they the extent of the damage. but what i think that we can say is, you know, we have a lot of resources in play here in florida to be able to mitigating get people back on their feet and get the state moving again. while many are surrounded by water. numerous families are without fresh water to drink. right now. there are several water main breaks throughout pinellas county. >> different wa

. >> bianca crowe is an hour east of tampa in lakeland. also in milton's crosshairs. >> my friends that are in auburndale, which is like a town over, have already had two tornado warnings. and we don't have any here yet. that's pretty much what i'm most concerned with. >> she also has a vacation home on anna maria island, also in milton's crosshairs. it's an outer island which was just ravaged by hurricane helena. >> so everyone's furniture is on the side of the road. and now milton's coming. and that furniture is going to be literally floating in the road. like i can't even comprehend. like how dangerous it will be retired menlo park fire chief and legendary search and rescue pioneer howard chapel. >> holman also worries about working with local first responders who have a personal stake in the disaster. >> they were degraded because they were the local guys in their own homes, were being impacted, their own families were being impacted. so we shed a lot of the team members and realized very quickly that that was not a good model. >> let'

but you just had an 85 mile per hour gust at the airport and the people in orlando in lakeland and all the way up toward the northeast, they are going to feel the same he type of rain and the same type of wind in the coming hours that you felt this storm is not stopping because of that interaction yeah john, i thought genuinely i thought it was because my feet have been wet since like noon but it it has actually gotten significantly cold i think one of the big concerns for folks that as you were describing as the size of this storm and his strength as it was approaching the western part of florida, there were concerns as far away as orlando in the eastern part of the state. >> so obviously, as you noted, the wind is going to continue to be a concern even as it seems to slowly, slowly. i don't want i don't want to jinx it, but it's slowly is dying out in his area, or at least dying out compared to what it was even an hour ago. >> that, wind. will eventually translate over to orlando. you're 35 to 40 on up toward even i would say even probably cocoa beach could see 30 to 45 mile per hour

petersburg, they picked up 16 inches of rain today alone, up toward lakeland, more than ten inches of rain has already fallen. and look at this stripe of purple. i want you to notice that the purple is ten inches of rain or more there's orlando, maybe orlando executive right there all the way back to tampa. now, if we ever get a white part in there, that will be 20 inches of rain or more, just in 24 hours so far so good on that. but i mean, you know, i mean ten to 12 is plenty and the problem is, it's not ten to 12 in a neighborhood that it can run off its ten the 12 over an entire county. where is it going to go? just to the low spots. and that's where the problem is, and that's why we have those flash flood emergency is going on right now. the heaviest rain is according toward orlando, toward daytona toward new smyrna beach. that's where most of the heaviest rain is why we still have wind in tampa is because this is the backside of what was the secondary i big storms like this can have more than one eyewall. and when the inner one gets so small that the outer one takes over, you get

night on tnt the celtics get their championship rings and faced a new loop in the timberwolves in lakelandil father-son duo take the court. >> coverage begins tomorrow with six presented ikea on tnt breaking overnight. defense secretary lloyd austin is in kyiv to meet with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, secretary austin is also set to meet with ukraine's defense minister as the future of us aid to ukraine remains in the air with just weeks to go until election day. cnn's oren liebermann is at the pentagon for us what exactly is the secretary set to discuss today? >> sa'ar, a lot of the focus here will be on first, what ukraine is looking for in terms of weapons and its short-term knees and then in the more medium-term or long-term, how the u.s. can continue to supply ukraine over the course of the next year. of course, nobody can ignore the timing here. it's 15 days to a presidential election that will likely have a tremendous impact. on how and if the us is able to continue supplying kyiv and continue supply ukraine's military with weapons. in this video, you see lloyd austin, t

we know you are in lakeland, just east of the tampa bay area. obviously, the storm has not yet made landfall, but i imagine you're already sort of feeling some of the effects of this hurricane. what do things look like there? >> it is picking up substantially here. the wind has just started coming this direction as you started to speak and bring me in. you can see the trees behind. they get very gusty at times. this rain is just starting. within the last hour it was clear about an hour ago not clear. the sky was overcast and it was clear. very cloudy, but it was not raining at the time. that rain has really started in now and we're expecting that about three hours from now. it's going to get very, very hard and the wind will pick up intensely and that will be the brunt of the storm hitting this part of florida. >> okay, ethan, obviously you are there. you were already there to help people recover from hurricane helene. now you are potentially going to be responding to double disasters. talk about what you believe will be the biggest challenges.

people were coming from different areas into the city of lakeland. everybody deserves shelter.t in, and i just got home yesterday. the electric was out, the flooding. i understood what was happening in my neighborhood. the electric came on. they were trying to get to, you know, come out of the shelter. i wind it up in two. in fact, the first one flooded, and they got us to another shelter. but i want to state positive about this, because this was an experience that i never had to humble myself to. but on the way out, getting to fema, i started asking some questions. people had lost their properties come and i have not heard of any casualties, but some were being released with nowhere to go. the information was not there. i mean, families nationally host: well, shirley, have you received any assistance or are you applying for anything? caller: i asked for fema. there was a lot of miscommunication in there about fema. host: tim, what advice do you have for shirley and other folks like her who are just getting back to their homes and trying to figure out what to do next? guest: ye

people were coming from different areas into the city of lakeland. everybody deserves shelter.t in, and i just got home yesterday. the electric was out, the flooding. i understood what was happening in my neighborhood. the electric came on. they were trying to get to, you know, come out of the shelter. i wind it up in two. in fact, the first one flooded, and they got us to another shelter. but i want to state positive about this, because this was an experience that i never had to humble myself to. but on the way out, getting to fema, i started asking some questions. people had lost their properties come and i have not heard of any casualties, but some were being released with nowhere to go. the information was not there. i mean, families nationally host: well, shirley, have you received any assistance or are you applying for anything? caller: i asked for fema. there was a lot of miscommunication in there about fema. host: tim, what advice do you have for shirley and other folks like her who are just getting back to their homes and trying to figure out what to do next? guest: ye

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lakeland, brandon all have to watch for the wind out of this storm as it crosses the state.ednesday night/early thursday. that's the time you do not want to be on the roads. you want to make sure you don't have trees around your home. trees kill people when they fall into houses especially when folks are sleeping. center part of the state. look at that 10 to 15 feet of surge here. remember, we just had record surge around tampa bay. that was five to seven. now 10 to 15. i don't want anyone to sneeze at what's happening south of venice. englewood down to fort myers could have six to ten feet of surge which could rival records from ian. look at that. there's the wind speeds. all the way over, hurricane gusts to the space coast. we looked at one of the models. had a 94 mile an hour wind gust, guys, at cape canaveral. >> robin: we have to keep that in mind. you're right about that. we'll check back with ginger in a little bit. now the new report from wells fargo on the increase in candy prices that could be scary for your wallet as halloween approaches. elizabeth schulze is here

luego cruzar al centro de la florida manteniendo intensidad de categorÍa 1 pasando como orlando lakelanda las bahamas, este es un huracÁn que su campo de vientos a medida que se acerca a la florida sigue expandiÉndose vemos ciudades como tampa, orlando, cedar key estÁn bajo un aviso de huracÁn bajo vigilancia de tormenta tropical miami, sabana, los callos, vemos riesgo de inundaciones no sÓlo es un poderoso huracÁn que traerÁ lluvias torrenciales sino tambiÉn la marejada ciclÓnica con inundaciones aladas la bahÍa de tampa en mÁs de 100 aÑos, registrado el impacto de un huracÁn de esta magnitud. lluvias torrenciales que se esperan para el centro de florida vean esos colores rojos y rosados, en tampa, daytona beach, orlando, estarÁn bajo riesgo mÁs alto en la escala de inundaciones. este mismo riesgo lo vimos con helene, no obstante se espera el riesgo de tornados estamos viendo estos colores intensas hacia localidades como orlando sarasota pero esa Área de color rojo con estas rayas negras, alguien por charlotte pudiÉramos hablar de tornados in tensos ventas de hace mÁs de 111 mph. una ci

this is a lookout that's not in lakeland. that's actually down in in siesta key. we've been keeping an eye on that boat. i know it's blocked a little bit by the banner at the bottom of your screen. the railing has gotten beat up and that's been related to some of the storm surge. it actually spun the stern, the back of that boat all the way around. here's the latest on milton with that 1 a.m. advisory from the nhc winds down to 90mph. still a high end category one, but it's on. it's been on shore since 830. its motion east northeast at 16mph. i've been talking about it on on fox weather. this storm has unfortunately had a bit of a nose for these high population areas. tampa is up into the double digits for rain amounts. last 24 hours. we've had a flash flood emergency. pinellas, hillsborough, southern parts of pasco county down into manatee where bradenton is polk county. to look at these numbers, saint pete 18.3in clearwater beach 14in of rain. keep in mind less than two weeks ago we had hurricane helene. this was a big sprawling storm working its way up through