now, myers had more than he needed. mark myers: how are you doing, man? my name is mark myers.mark myers: now, specifically, what we're looking into is a homicide that occurred in august of 2003. did you ever know a girl named katie sepich? josh mankiewicz: the didn't do it. then, myers revealed he had dna evidence linking avila to katie's murder. and he had katie's ring. mark myers: he slumped down in his chair. and he just-- he gave up at that point and told us what happened. josh mankiewicz: it was, in the end, the most random of encounters. two lives colliding in the middle of the night. mark myers: he said he was up in the neighborhood buying coke. and as he was leaving the neighborhood to go home that he saw katie walking-- walking across the street. gabriel avila: she was very drunk. and i yelled at her, do you need help? and she was like, no. i'm not sure. i live a couple of blocks down here. i told her, i think you need a ride. i can give you a ride. she said, no, no, that's all right. josh mankiewicz: avila said he planned to head home, but then saw katie again in fro

we'll know a lot more about the damage, about what's happened here in fort myers, fort myers beach, ofsoon as the sun comes up. that will give us a better chance to really assess what's happened here. but power outages the big problem right now. flooding the big problem right now. and tornados. this has spawned two dozen or more tornados across the state, including one here in fort myers. one on the east side of the state that is obviously been blamed for a loss of life there. and so that's something that they are working through on the other side of the state. most every portion of florida right now under some type of emergency order, some type of emergency warning as this storm continues to push its way through. and still a category 1 hurricane. category 3 at landfall, and now losing some steam as it moves across the state but still causing some major problems. >> really tough especially when it comes to those anxious residents, jay, who have to wait until morning to see what the damage has left behind. all right. jay, thanks so much. >>> and coming up on "today", later this morning,

me encuentro en fort myers. la ciudad ha sido impactada por milton. se pueden ver en la pantalla. la playa estÁ cerrada. ya pudimos ver inundaciones. se experimentÓ un tornado que arrasÓ una comunidad, de destrozÓ techos y derribÓ tendidos elÉctricos. estamos en un Área donde no hay electricidad, el centro de la ciudad. tuvimos que desplazarnos, estÁbamos cerca del rÍo. el rÍo comenzÓ a aumentar el agua y fue inundando calles. es lo que tenemos por ahora. maity: gracias. son muchos videos que destacan en redes sociales por el impacto del huracÁn. vamos con detalles. reportera: el impacto de milton se ha sentido desde temprano. en florida se reportaron mÚltiples tornados y las imÁgenes son impactantes. este tornado fue captado por una cÁmara del departamento de transporte de florida, y descrito como grande y peligroso. el tornado estaba en una zona no muy poblada del condado de broward y atravesÓ la carretera i75. este otro tambiÉn fue registrado en florida. varias zonas han estado bajo vigilancia de tornado todo el dÍa. en este video vemos que un torn

in downtown fort myers. the flooding at this point really just has not stopped. according to our meteorology department, the storm surge here in fort myers at this hour is about five feet. that number we expect could possibly a double through the night and into tomorrow. this part of fort myers beach, we expected to flood. right now. >> you can may behind me a whole lot because there's no power and the winds and the rain, but the kaluza hatchie river runs parallel to where we're going live for right now. and that river really started a breaching hours ago. and so at this point as far as i can see from where i live right now, all of this water is being pulled wish to this way by the storm surge that's coming in from the gulf of mexico. and what's happening out here is we're seeing the rainfall, we're seeing the flooding, we're seeing the storm surge. it's all coming together ahead of high tide. and so the concern going into the storm was going to be the surge because of all of this out on fort myers beach and

he has south of me in fort myers, which was very badly hit. obviously in hurricane ian hundred and 50 people were killed in that storm wow, it is carlos. what is it like where you are not letting up at this point here in lee county across parts of fort myers where we are at this hour. >> we're looking at gaza i've anywhere between 15 to 60 miles per hour. and so what's happening right now is the flooding is really the big issue for parts of southwest florida. this storm, the hurricane, has made landfall, of course, to the north of me where you and boris and bill weir and everyone else and randi kaye is located what we're experiencing thank south of you guys is the storm surge. all of this water that is being pushed in from the gulf of mexico that has nowhere to go. the kaluza hatchie river, which is behind me here is pretty much at this point just blended into this street. there's really no way to know exactly where river kind of stands because the pier the beach area over there, that's at this point all of the water is just coming through on

in fort myers. i know we've been reporting all morning long about the impact of this hurricane outside of the gulf coast of florida, the west coast of florida, a particularly when we were talking about now these tornadoes. i mean, we had at least four that were confirmed. we know one out in the western part of broward county, another one up in clearest in which is right where lake okeechobee is. and then again, these two other tornadoes that the folks out here are pretty certain is what caused all of this damage. >> kate carlos. thank you very much, john. >> just for the record, i can hear you. fine. >> thank you very much as always, the mellifluous sounds of kafle that in my ear, right? so the very latest is that four people have been confirmed dead from the tornadoes. >> governor desantis suggested that number could rise as we get more information, cnn meteorologist derek van dam is with us now. derek, what are you learning? >> well, listen, i think it's something for people in south florida when

cho ginger zee is in fort myers. i know the track can still change, but as of right now, when and where is this expected to make landfall? >> yeah, david, it looks right over say, bradenton, sarasota, and tampa bay, those are the heart of where we'll see that landfall making impacts. let me show you what's happening already here in fort myers, though. the storm passed us already, but we are just now taking on some of this dangerous storm surge. the gulf of mexico just beyond the sanibel causeway is starting to push onshore with the onshore winds. so, this is just the beginning of the storm, even though it has passed. all of that is going to play into what happens tonight. let me take you through the maps, because that cat 3, we've been forecasting it for days as a major hurricane making landfall here tonight. and now, it's upon us. northeast at 15 miles per hour. the thing is kind of cruising, it got picked up with that wind shear we've been talking about for days, awell. and it's interacting with a front. so, what's

i want to check in with chad myers. chad, the last estimate i heard of some 500,000 people in florida maybe without power at this stage where's this storm? how strong is it? what should we expect? >> it is, not on land yet. the eyewall has made landfall, but the center of the eye has not. so we haven't even seen 50% of this storm. so that's where the reset all happens. and we're randi kaye, is that barrier island to her west is going to be over washed. she is going to get significant surge there. that's why they pulled back where you are you are up here in the eye-wall itself. you are not going to get the ai. you're not going to get real calm winds. you're going to get the backside of this where our bill weir is up here in st. pete. he's just going to be in wind heavy rain, hundred mile per hour winds basically for the next four hours, the problem is we've had so much rainfall in so many places and we've had the when the i wind warning treated like a small tornado is on the ground. we had a bunch of tornadoes on the eas

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 half dozen emergency services right now, the cities that control them, lester, that have suspended going out and trying to save people. the reason being, once you get to 45 miles an hour or faster of sustained winds, they to say it's just too fast, we cannot do it. in lee county where we are right now, deputies at last check are actually still out there on the streets. there are 800,000 people who live here. about 400,000 of them are under mandatory evacuations. that extends all the way west about ten miles to those barrier islands like fort myers beach and sanibel island. you'll r

think about fort myers, naples,well away from that center. we got to keep reminding people, you're not safe, even though you're not near the center of the storm. we'll continue to really message that as we can. the other part of this, flooding could last a while. unlike other areas with elevation, there's not much elevation in florida. so, some of these rivers are going to be slow to drain. some of these rivers could stay up for about a week after the storm. and the storm surge will act as a blocker to drain some of that rain on the inland areas. so that coo really be -- add some challenges with some communities with the flooding and recovery efforts, so some of the roads will be pretty impassible. so, i was looking at this, mr. president, madam vice president, yesterday, i said the clock is ticking and sounding alarm bells going off. people really need to start getting into their safe place. as always, the weather service remains on duty 24 by 7 to make sure decisionmakers have all of the information they need. >> ken, i'd like to focus on o

good news is we've been out on fort myers beach. we've been around fort myers. it looks like a lot of people did listen to those warnings did move to higher ground. let's talk about the psychological impact on the folks there when they've already been through. you know, saw colleen and now they have milton coming toward them. i mean, this is a deja vu. they didn't want to see so difficult. i mean, that was just two weeks ago. and now this storm, which is a much more powerful storm, is moving through. and consider that they've also gone through debby. and before that, two years ago, ian, there are people here still recovering from ian, still people trying to rebuild from that storm. and the others that followed. and now dealing with what is likely the strongest of all of those storms. and so, yeah, there's frustration here. there's obviously fatigue from all of this. and it is a very tough go. i talked to one of the families that was evacuating and they said, look, these next few hours may be the worst because we've worked so hard to get back on our feet here. no

little west towards fort myers.'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 comes across this part of florida 4-4 flash floods threat on top of the wind for and tornado threat over this corridor here. it's starting over here right now through tonight across the state has its own top of the record tornadoes that occurred earlier today. >> what we are seeing as it's hitting the west coast of florida in central florida with the high wind and potential flooding there and it should be off the eas

this is a security camera outside a house in fort myers, florida. it picked up the violent winds of an apparent tornado let's go straight to our meteorologist, elisa raffa and seen in turkey headquarters. lisa where is milton right now? just how widespread is the impact including these tornado warnings? >> yeah. i mean, jake, it's still sitting 100 miles south and west of tampa, but the winds are just so wide. we now had a category three hurricane. it's got winds at 125 miles per hour at its center. so it is still a major hurricane and doing what the category number fool you. we have these tropical storm-force winds that stretch 300 miles. this has more than doubled the size from what it was yesterday. like we were talking about when the intensity fluctuated. look at how much wider got a wider storm means more people will be impacted across the state because these winds are just far-reaching. you could see wind gusts are ready nearing 50 miles per hour in st. petersburg naples. am i ami as well, these outer bands that have been coming onshore old da

joining us now is mayor kevin anderson of fort myers, florida. morning. please speak to us about the preparations your city has undertaken as to what is to be expected to come over the next 24 hours, and what sort of warnings are you giving your own citizens? >> we've taken all the necessary preparations. you know, we've made sure our storm drains have been cleared. we picked up debris. we've opened up the parking garages for people to park in at higher elevation. we've issued a state of emergency. there's an evacuation order. police have gone through neighborhoods announcing to people, we've gone into some of the older -- the retirement homes and encouraged people to go to shelter. now it's up to the people, and what's left for us is to see what happens with the storm and then how we respond. >> so you've been -- two decades as a public servant including as a member of the fort myers police department. you, of course, responded to a number of major storms like this. as milton is so huge as it barrels towards florida, what is your level of concer

that correct. _ proved, in fort myers. that correct. yes- _ proved, in fort myers.fort myers. that correct, yes. iwill- proved, in fort myers. that correct, yes. iwilltell- proved, in fort myers. that correct, yes. i will tell youl correct, yes. i will tell you the message for days has been telling folks to get out of the area, not asking them to cross the state, even though that's what a lot of folks have been doing, folks trying to find shelter in areas like miami, fort lauderdale, 0rlando. a lot of folks travelling perhaps farther than they needed to. the message from emergency officials was you just need to go inland, evacuation centres across the state, and unfortunately in previous storms we've had people perish in rising waters on islands, low lying areas. they really didn't need to go very far, perhapsjust a few didn't need to go very far, perhaps just a few miles to find a safe place to be. in find a safe place to be. in our find a safe place to be. in your neighbourhood to have the sense most people have been listening to the instructions or do they feel t

chad myers was explaining now, normally were sweating. you don't have to worry about kill when you're when you're soaked covering a hurricane like this. >> but this is just add it's all the more discomfort for folks who don't have a roof for no shelter after helene maybe took it away from them as well. but here you go. >> it's really stunning there it is. it looks like it's like chad was explaining the wind just got under there and then once it's once one piece starts ripon and those 100 mile an hour winds are tearing at it no match for hurricane milton stadium roof like that one law it's unbelievable. >> and of course, then tells you the next time and obviously we continue to see hurricanes in this world that the new plans for this being a safe location are no more. i mean, thousands of cots that were supposed to be set up to be providing shelter and comfort. a city so now planned for the possibility that that no longer can be a contingency plan >> and of course, you there are shades of the superdome in katrina, which was a much more dis

fort myers businesses are boarded up, and sandbags piled on in preparation for the storm. still, some residents say they plan to stick it out. >> i'm in highrise downtown. so i feel pretty comfortable where i'm at. i got plenty of food and supplies. >> reporter: a traveler filmed this empty terminal before she departed tampa's international airport, now one of several in florida to suspend operations as milton approaches. now we know several areas here including fort myers beach and sanibel are under a curfew, as well. really those officials trying to make sure that people get out of town long before we start to feel this which could happen any time now. >> nicole, thanks and stay safe out there. >>> an afghan man living in oklahoma city has been arrested on charges of plotting an election day attack in the u.s. the suspect has been identified as nasir ahmad tawhedi. federal officials say he was motivated by isis and was attempting to stockpile firearms and had taken steps to liquidate his family's assets and relocate members overseas. the fbi said he worked with an unname

so the folks here in fort myers and down in fort myers beach and over in sanibel, they're getting ready essentially for the possibility of a repeat in terms of the storm surge and the flooding that we are going to see we spent the day yesterday over in the downtown part here of the city folks there put up plywood, they had sandbags. they were trying to do everything as much as they can in an effort to try to keep a lot of this water out. a one final note, john, for me over on fort myers beach. i was there yesterday. it is a ghost town. the folks there were told to evacuate earlier this week and the city, the town there is now under a 24 hour curfew is ladd that the people appear to get out from fort myers beach because that is so vulnerable. there was so much destruction. there are a couple of years ago carlos suarez, thank you. from being in fort myers, stay safe, keep us posted. >> and with us right now for some more, chief barbara tripp, fire chief of tampa fire and rescue chief. thank you very much for taking the time. these are really the final moments to get the message out. talk

petersburg, and fort myers right now as we speak. so 'ust myers right now as we speak. is it then, bearing all that in mind? ~ . . ~ it then, bearing all that in mind? ~ . ., ~ ., mind? we are talking about the otential mind? we are talking about the potential here _ mind? we are talking about the potential here for _ mind? we are talking about the potential here for 5-10 - mind? we are talking about the potential here for 5-10 feet - mind? we are talking about the potential here for 5-10 feet of l potential here for 5—10 feet of water above ground level along the coast — that certainly enough to inundate any structures near the coastal elevations. you can't survive something like that if you're in a building at sea level on the first story, and it'll easily demolish buildings. this is a pretty substantially populated swathe of coastline — just the counties alone, manatee and sarasota, or close to a million people. so even though the centre is moving in such a way that the worst surge will not be in tampa or st. petersburg, it'll really slam a populated corridor, and ev

regreso con ustedes. >> alejandro isturiz muchÍsimas gracias por este reporte desde fort myers.a de una cuestiÓn de vida o muerte, segÚn las autoridades. mi colega julio vaqueiro acompaÑÓ un oficial en este recorrido. >> julio buenas noches aranza, muy buenas noches a esta hora es ya muy peligroso para las autoridades, para los equipos de emergencia, poder atender a las personas que quieran salir de casa. hay sitios en donde ya es imposible acceder. mira la fuerza del viento, mira la fuerza de la lluvia, pero apenas esta tarde nosotros junto a la policÍa recorrimos algunas calles de tampa y estuvimos acompaÑÁndolos en ese Último esfuerzo por hacer que las personas llegaran a un refugio seguro. esto es lo que vimos. mandatory evacuation order, has been issued for this area es el Último esfuerzo antes de milton. >> nosotros vamos a ir a palmetto beach. es una Área que es la mayorÍa son hispanos. >> y ella es la sargento rose. recorre las calles de tampa en busca de personas que todavÍa no han evacuado. creen que todavÍa hay personas en sus casas que no han querido evacuar en esa z

, carlos myers are no stranger to powerful hurricanes. the plywood is up here in downtown of downtown fort myers and the folks are getting ready for the forecasted six to ten foot storm surge they've got their sandbags out and just to give you some perspective on some previous hurricanes, a hurricane, ian really destroyed a good part of fort myers and lee county. >> and the folks tell us that at that time about two years ago, the floodwaters reached about here with the expected storm surge to be that we're expecting rather, it's going to be well above this water lines so we're talking about a real concern when it comes to flooding mandatory evacuation orders are already in place for fort myers beach, as well as santa bell, and we're told that the town of fort myers is going to put into effect a curfew at 10:00 tonight. >> the concern with this storm surge is the kaluza hatchie river, which is just on the other side of where we are our behind that building. that river connects out into the gulf of mexico and legal cucho be in central flori

nora for fort myers directly hitting the sarasota area.ecovering from hellion and even hurricane ian two years later. looks like the governor has things ready with the national guard ready to go. at this point we can only pray that mother nature has mercy. ♪ ♪ >> sean:

myers beach, pine island. you're talking about folks who just went through something with ian where boats were hoisted above power lines, and for blocks and blocks and blocks homes just obliterated. now, many folks just trying to build those homes back as hurricane milton is hanging in the balance. back to you. >> yes, sam, folks going through a lot here. the coastal parts of florida are not the only ones that will be hit hard by the storm. farther inland, orlando could face more than a foot of rain and major flooding. priscilla thompson is there for us. priscilla, good evening. >> reporter: yeah, lester, here in orlando, the rain has been coming down like this for the past several hours. you can see here the water already starting to pool near this drain, and this isn't even the worst of it. across the city, businesses have closed including major theme parks like universal and disney, and you may remember during hurricane ian, orlando saw devastating flooding, and milton is expected to be far worse with up to

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 half dozen emergency services right now, the cities that control them, lester, that have suspended going out and trying to save people. the reason being, once you get to 45 miles an hour or faster of sustained winds, they to say it's just too fast, we cannot do it. in lee county where we are right now, deputies at last check are actually still out there on the streets. there are 800,000 people who live here. about 400,000 of them are under mandatory evacuations. that extends all the way west about ten miles to those barrier islands like fort myers beach and sanibel island. you'll r

robert murray in fort myers, florida, with the latest. robert?tha, all up and down the western seaboard of this pencil of florida and you can see fort myers beach behind me rain coming down already and you see some of the debris, that swept over from two years ago hurricane union. this is a category five storm and it is going to come in late wednesday evening they mix apm, 9:00 p.m. roughly but take a look at what fort myers beach has endured just in the past couple of months, tropical storm debbie flooding the beach out in early august unfortunately catching many people off guard and that less than two week six oh hurricane hilly making its way up the gulf coast and swamping parts of fort myers beach as well -- hey, in the meantime all across the gulf coast and those inside today mandatory evacuations are in play and there are literally thousands if not millions of people fleeing the coastline, sandbagging going on in my morning up windows on homes and businesses and people that are already frustrated and scared by what happened two years ago by

myers.their home and rebuild their homes in the last year after the hurricane. those the houses have they been built differently this time because so many of them were wiped out ? are the structures different now ? >> reporter: yes. the structures are different. it has to do with the foundational building pieces. when you see the winds penetrate the homes and lifts the roofs off. it is different. i've had conversations with engineers about that. the reality is you have so many homes that were damaged in the process of being rebuilt. a few weeks ago with six feet of storm surge. for those folks trying to build their lives again to build out there again they were even done. there's been like four hurricanes that have hit this part of florida in the last year and that's not counting hurricane ian. it's a great question to ask. the construction centers have to change. >> sam, we are done. i'm not leaving this shot until i see you walk inside. you are so close -- keep moving. i'm going to leave y

but five feet of water is in the streets in the building in fort myers.in tampa, the water is still low. this is incredible. in east bay, they actually had an anti-surge. it's the opposite of the water. it went out. it dropped five feet. people could see the bottom of an entire bay in this area by the shoreline. now that water is beginning to creep back up. they're warning people don't go walking around out there, don't go looking around. that water will return. current wind gusts, 79 in winter haven. orlando, 54. we saw some of our gauges broke here when sarasota hit 102 and the power went out, we lost this wind gauge. the backside still slapping pretty hard. by about midnight, tampa should be, you know, at least getting done with the hurricane gust. by the time we get to 2:00, 3:00 a.m., the tropical storm forced winds should be dying off too. mostly in orlando, probably about 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. and stephanie had, we're still getting these pictures in, hearing about reports of numerous fatalities earlier today. and so this storm has kind of done it all.

>> well pam much of the damage that we have seen across south fort myers was really brought on by the four to five foot storm surge as well as these two tornadoes that we believe hit parts of lee county. so this one neighborhood that we're in south of downtown fort myers has started the cleanup for the folks out here are now in the process of trying to just remove all of this debris, this neighborhood is one of the two neighborhoods that we believe these two tornadoes hit. and what you're looking at now our crews, as well as the owner of this house. so they were on the roof of that one home there and they're taking apart portion of the roof that was torn apart by. again, this one tornado that was believed hit this area yesterday. the owner of the house is in front of that forklift there. he was saying earlier today that him and his family were inside of the house when hurricane milton continued to make its way north and because of all of the plywood that they had up around their house, they could not really tell what was happening outside, but they knew that something quite powerful w

. >> we are in downtown fort myers in an area that is known to flood. and so what you're taking a look at is the biggest sure. had with this hurricane we're. >> seeing these kind of numbers. >> just to enable downing where it should be at this hour. >> again landfall here in lee county, it's a storm that i covered this part of fort myers flooded. it's a low-lying area. it is right next to the kaluza hatchie river which just about 20 minutes or so ago when i went over there to take a look at it, it has started breach that water is now starting to come in and a lot of this is happening because as this storm continues to make its way north, it is pushing that water from the gulf of mexico up into the kaluza hatchie river. and then you've got all of that rainfall. that's coming down from lake okeechobee coming down from central florida. and those two forces are coming together at this one and location. and in fact, just on the other side of the river out here, i can see the lights of transformers that are blowing and the two other things that have happened

lo otro que se ha experimentado es inundaciones en las playas de fort myers, donde pudimos estar un mÁs autoridades indicaron que debÍamos salir, tambiÉn los residentes habÍa toque de queda bordeaban el puente que va en camino hacia la playa algo que golpeÓ mucho los residentes y fue impactante ver a las personas devastadas cuando vieron sus casas que estaban deshechas por el tornado que ocurriÓ aquÍ en fort myers, fue realmente triste. una gasolinera quedÓ destrozada, techo colapsado y en el piso totalmente tambiÉn Árboles derribados, tendidos elÉctricos. aquÍ sabemos que 180.000 personas estÁn sin servicio de energÍa elÉctrico, es toda la informaciÓn que les tengo o hasta el momento les informo desde fort myers florida. o regresÓ con ustedes. paulina: muchÍsimas gracias seguimos atento todo lo que siga, nos enlazaremos mÁs adelante. carolina: nos preguntamos a esta hora donde esta milton esta con nosotros esta querida jessica delgado para que nos cuente un poco mÁs de lo que pasa con milton a esta hora. jessica: asÍ es chica, milton continÚa siendo huracÁn de categorÍa uno se encuentr

this home security camera captured a tornado roaring through a neighborhood in fort myers. everything suddenly going dark. another tornado spotted on a traffic camera crossing i-75 west of fort lauderdale. this shows just how far and wide the effects of this storm have been felt for hours. tonight here, my interview with the hurricane hunters from noaa flying into the hurricane, rocked by turbulence. what they witnessed inside the eye of the hurricane. and you're going to hear from the lieutenant commander just back on the ground tonight. president biden late today coming before the cameras warning of the dangers of this hurricane. and again, hurricane milton just making landfall as we the air here in the west ton tonight. the latest forecast from the national hurricane center. chief meteorologist ginger zee is live in fort myers with the very latest for us. >> now we have landfall at siesta key, about 75 miles to my north. look behind me. do you see that little shed and that door? the door handle is pretty apparent. and the surge has made it up there. we've had to climb up

mike myers reaction. and then it cut into chris tucker. >> please call. >> i don't know why for striker was standing next to a refrigerator and he was clearly like, didn't know he was going to be on camera all of a sudden and his mind is probably race. and so hard and i feel like that represented how the rest of the world felt when we're watching that moment, it is the complete embodiment of a viral moment. >> you can't look away because it's funny. you can't look away because it's important. you can't look away because it's awkward. >> he has awkward. >> it's comfortable >> and i was yelled at didn't you go over the script with him, but only momentarily first of all, to me hey, what's gone on? second of all, with high, this is not looking so good to wait a minute. this is pretty good too. >> mike myers eventually going up to rick and doing went well, didn't where do i go it was a funny moment. >> but wants to telethon was over nobody talked about how good it was all much money it made everybody was talki

en fort myers, un tornado arrancÓ el techo de esta casa, dejÁndola llena de escombros. >> this happenedpasÓ en cuestiÓn de minutos. >> otro imponente tornado danzÓ sobre la zona de los everglades sin causar lesiones o daÑos estructurales. cerca del lago okeechobee, en clewiston se vieron nubes en forma de embudo. la fuerza de los vientos y lluvias torrenciales ya han inundado parte de la costa oeste de la florida. en cayo hueso, el punto mÁs al sur del paÍs. fuertes lluvias y rÁfagas de viento ya azotan el malecÓn. el paso a las islas barrera desde sarasota hasta clearwater e icÓnicos puentes como el sky bridge en saint petersburg, esÁa cerrado. calles turÍsticas, comerciales y residenciales se ven completamente desoladas en zonas de evacuaciÓn con puertas y ventanas blindadas que le suplican piedad a milton. se anticipa que incluso quienes no estÉn en el trayecto del ojo de este poderoso huracÁn pueden sufrir las consecuencias de su fuerza. >> we can rule out fatalities, but we don't have any confirmed yet. >> hay quienes huyeron a Última hora, mientras los que se quedaron ya sienten e

i should want to go live to cnn's carlos suarez who's in fort myers, florida because he has an update right now on tornadic activity, carlos, what are you seeing where you are yeah. >> that's right, boris, just so about an hour ago, a strong line of thunderstorms have moved across downtown fort myers. here are some of the worst weather that we have seen associated with a hurricane milton and as you noted, there have been two confirmed at tornadoes by the national weather service out of miami that first tornado was in western broward county near i75, which is one of the primary evacuation routes for folks that are trying to get from the west coast of florida over to the east coast of florida. that second confirmed tornado go was out by clue austin? that is right near lake okeechobee and it is also along another road that connects the west coast to the east coast of florida. and now we're looking into the possibility here in fort myers that there may have been some damage about ten to 15 minutes from where we are to give you a sense of exactly are located shan earlier today, i was live

look at those live images right now from tampa and fort myers.ain and wind picking up in florida as a category 5 hurricane named milton is barreling toward the state. florida congressman byron donalds is standing by with an urgent warning. he is with us in two minutes. >> lawrence: while americans are scrambling to find safety, the white house is brushing off criticism of their emergency response as misinformation. >> a lot of misinformation. >> misleads people. >> i'm going to divorce the disinformation that is being spread. your whole premise of the question is misinformation. >> ainsley: fbi foils an afghan national's plot to launch an election day terror attack. how he got here under the biden-harris administration. >> brian: second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ hurricane milton expected to make landfall along florida's gulf coast. >> lawrence: communities are rushing to clean up debris from the other hurricane, hurricane helene and look at this, government researchers flying into the eye of the hurricane. listen. good god. >> l

i want to bring in former director of the florida division of emergency management, joe myers.mergency response plan after hurricane andrew. also with us, former fema administrator, craig fugate, together they designed and implemented florida's emergency management system, which is the foundation that is in use today. good to talk to both of you. you're both veterans of dealing with natural disaster. craig, you and i have spoken many times, but rarely in a situation like this. is it possible, even with all the work that's been done, to be ready for a storm of this magnitude? >> well, i think everything that can be done is being done, but the part of this we're not talking about yet is the immediate response after the storm, and this is where we've seen time and time again, we talk about first responders, but the thing that's going to save lives are neighbors checking on neighbors. this is over such a large area that the fastest response is going to be the public helping each other while the responders are trying to get back in these communities. >> you know, joe, governor ron d

let's get right to cnn's carlos suarez in fort myers, carlos, what do you see in this morning?well, john, good morning. so we are in downtown fort myers, live along the kaluza hatchie river where just two years ago, hurricane ian really made a mess of things out here. the concern at this hour for the folks that live across southwest florida is the storm surge that we're going to to see because of hurricane milton right now, we're looking at anywhere between eight to 12 feet of storm surge depending on exactly where this hurricane ends up tracking everything here behind me along the kaluza hatchie is going to flood if these forecasted storm surge a holds a large part of the reason that this takes place is because the kaluza hatchie river runs from lake okeechobee in central florida out into the gulf of mexico. and so that kind of topography really allows itself. it lends itself for the fact that when all of this water begins to rush in from the gulf of mexico, when you add in all of the rainfall that's expected to hit this part of southwest florida. and then you throw in a high

toque de queda para fort myers.e estamos en la parte del rÍo al lado y prÁcticamente la luz que se ha ido en muchas partes, y tuvimos durante el dÍa, y allÍ tuvimos que salir, media que fuimos aproximado, el agua, las inundaciones que llegaron hacia las casas, tambiÉn los negocios, los experto o le dijeron que serÍan oleajes de hasta cinco y 10 pies de altura, lo que hemos visto en las imÁgenes, pero una de las cosas y las personas que estÁn muy al armadas esos tornados que han experimentado los negocios, los Árboles y todo tras su paso, los fuertes vientos aquÍ son evidentes, nosotros estamos tratando de llevar la mejor noticia posible para que se informados, pero la madre naturaleza parece ensaÑarse con el Área de la florida, el nuevo tornado, el sol informaciÓn que les tengo por el momento, y ahora regreso al estudio. ilia: bueno, la gran amenaza del huracÁn milton una cosa esta la florida esta interrumpiendo las rutas de barcos de pasajeros. fÉlix: y los vuelos la carolina ya cancelaron mÁs de 1800 buenos, nos d

aquÍ en manasota, aquÍ, a 80 millas al norte de fort myers.nundaciÓn poder regresar a sus hogares en otras zonas como charlotte harbor, las filas para comprar gasolina son eternas. mientras en fort myers, una de las zonas tambiÉn devastadas, equipos de trabajadores, muchos de ellos hispanos, trabajan contra el reloj para limpiar las calles y permitir que los negocios puedan reabrir sus puertas. >> tratar de que se vuelva a reactivar el turismo. esta ciudad maneja o vive mucho del turismo? >> este domingo el presidente joe biden visitÓ tampa y san petersburg, florida, donde reafirmÓ el compromiso del gobierno federal con el estado. la reconstrucciÓn llevarÁ tiempo, pero trabajaremos juntos para restaurar la vida en florida, dijo el mandatario. pero para residentes como steven, el rehacer su vida tiene retos adicionales. >> no tenÍamos seguro porque la casa era muy vieja. el el lo que ellos estaban pidiendo era mucho, pero incluso aquellos con seguro enfrentan una recuperaciÓn desafiante. >> la industria de seguros estÁ categorizando las torment

dayan guerrero pudo conversar con algunos de estos residentes en fort myers.encias a irse. y si se van a otro lado donde piensan quedarse? >>anoche dormimos en el carro. dayan: su primo juan josÉ hernÁndez revisar por Última vez lo que hasta hace dÍas era su vivienda. >>nos quedamos sin residencia. nosotros dormÍamos en el trÁiler alquilado y ahora lo entregamos porque creemos evacuar de aquÍ porque es un riesgo que no queremos tomar. dayan: la preocupaciÓn mÁs grande dicen es la mÁs pequeÑa de la familia. >>el mayor miedo es por ella, de lo que vaya a pasar. por eso nos queremos ir, pero no tenemos para donde. dayan: hace menos de dos semanas el huracÁn helene dejÓ fuertes lluvias y vientos y aÚn se recupera. por eso les sÁnchez no tienen claro para donde ir con sus cuatro hijos. >>nosotros vimos en casa mÓvil, se llena de agua, por eso decidimos venir aquÍ para el refugio. dayan: uno de los tantos lugares habilitados para resguardar a los residentes del Área. >>aquÍ te ayudan, te pasan comida o agua. pero fuera va estar cerrado la tienda o si se nos va la lu

fort myers, a community that is very familiar with hurricanes.. ♪ ♪ ♪ you don't...you don't have to worry... ♪ ♪ be by your side... i'll be there... ♪ ♪ with my arms wrapped around... ♪ >> bret: fox weather alert now fort myers was devastated by hurricane ian two years ago and it is in the danger zone right now for hurricane milton. brandy campbell of fox weather is there tonight downtown. good evening, brandon. >> good evening, bret. very unfortunate to see this area of forfeiture myers under the gun again with another major hurricane. so milton, right now aiming for sarasota, landfall could happen as a category 3 between 8 and 10:30. we are in downtown forfeiture myers where i want to show you some of those impacts. one of the main ones being the storm surge. as you can see the river we can start to see the waves already making their way on to land. the high tide or the surge go up to 6 feet right now it's about 2 and a half feet above the normal high tide. on top of that, we have the winds, bret that, we also really have to worry about here. o

this is from a short time ago in fort myers. you can see the before and after of water coming up over this hotel pool. quite a dramatic amount of water there. and just to show how dangerous this storm is, even with the storm still offshore, it is already causing damage. it has spawned several tornadoes, which have been reported in the state, including in areas that are also seeing flooding. this is a home in fort myers that was hit by one of those tornadoes. you can see the roof is ripped off and the interior already destroyed, and the hurricane itself hasn't even arrived. these pictures from space give you a sense of the size of the monster storm. you can really see the scale of hurricane milton there, making its way towards the outline of the state of florida there, and just the vastness of that. winds gusts have been measured on land as high as 90 miles per hour — that's 144 kilometres per hour. some areas in florida are under an "extreme wind warning". very, very dangerous conditions there. and more than 250,000 residents ar

cuÁl es el saldo en fort myers? >> asÍ es. decÍa que sentÍan los vientos como entraban en sus hogares y a esa hora mucha gente perdiÓ electricidad. o sea que llevaban mÁs de 12 horas sin electricidad. >> por la escena que nos mostraste, andrea, se ve un daÑo considerable en esa zona. cuÁl es la mayor preocupaciÓn de las autoridades a esta hora en fort myers? >> la verdad que eso. los cables elÉctricos que se han caÍdo. como les digo, hubieron muchos tornados que no esperÁbamos que iban a ocurrir. esos vientos altos en la medianoche que tumbaron muchos de esos postes elÉctricos. entonces ahorita lo que queremos es que la gente no salga a conducir, porque al pasar encima de esos cables es un peligro. sabemos que puede comenzar un incendio, entonces eso es lo que ahorita estamos tratando de arreglar y le pedimos a la gente que se quede en sus hogares en estos momentos todavÍa si una persona que pueda estar en peligro, atrapada, quÉ tiene que hacer? >> cuÁl es la recomendaciÓn que estÁn dando? >> ya en estos momentos estamos ponie

alejandro iturri se encuentra en la playa de fort myers. alejandro. afectados por la trayectoria de milton. cuéntanos. buenas tardes. hola. qué tal? cómo están? con una incipiente lluvia sobre fort myers beach que no tiene relación directa todavía con el huracán. quiero contarles que 23 millones de personas en el estado van a recibir de una u otra manera los impactos del huracán milton. y aquí mismo en fort myers beach, la orden de evacuación se cumplió en un alto porcentaje. ayer lunes, a las 15:00 de la tarde, venció el tiempo para salir y ponerse a salvo, pero mucha gente se quedó aquí para ayudar. aquí se metió 12 pies la última vez. esperamos ver un search de 7 pies a 8 pies. vamos a ver lo que va a pasar, pero estamos preparando para lo peor. el tema de los desechos de la basura acumulada es otro gran problema. ustedes pueden ver lo que tenemos aquí, una montaña enorme. todo esto es producto. el huracán elín un verdadero problema, porque si esto sale disparado como proyectil, cuando llegue el huracán milton puede provocar un serio daño. tengo qu

sonia aparicio sÁnchez fue a fort myers y hablÓ con hispanos que luchan por recuperarse. >> nosotros su casa, su hogar por los pasados dos aÑos. >> quÉ tanto perdiste todo lo que estÁbamos acumulando toda la vida. >> memorias de la familia, televisiones, eso, lo otro material no importa. pero lo tira a nosotros como diez aÑos para atrÁs y ellos ya decidieron que no se quedarÁn aquÍ. >> aquÍ, a 80 millas al norte de fort myers. este fue el nivel que alcanzÓ el agua. por eso las autoridades hasta hoy domingo le permitieron a sus residentes debido a los daÑos de inundaciÓn, poder regresar a sus hogares en otras zonas como charlotte harbor, las filas para comprar gasolina son eterna. mientras en fort myers, una de las zonas tambiÉn devastadas, equipos de trabajadores, muchos de ellos hispanos, trabajan contra el reloj para limpiar las calles y permitir que los negocios puedan reabrir sus puertas. >> tratar de que se vuelva a reactivar el turismo a esta ciudad. maneja o vive mucho del turismo? >> este domingo el presidente joe biden visitÓ tampa y san petersburg, florida, donde reafirmÓ e

sarasota, mike seidel, fort myers beach mayor in fort myers where the word is out, get out of town while you still can and ian are lover, new york city looking at the storm's trajectory and what we are likely to see. welcome, i am neil cavuto. >> reporter: good morning. we have taken our viewers on a trip across the key. we showed up at 2:30 in the morning, started in the residential area, made it to the commercial section and now we are the gulf of mexico. big, huge condo behind me, storm shutters are shut. just half an hour ago, a big stack of chairs, 8 chairs hanging out on the front balcony. we mentioned it during our live report on fox weather, they opened up the shutters, pulled everything in and shut it. not sure if we are the ones that gave them the heads up but they are prepared and ready to go. that would have been a problem. we expect wind gusts of one hundred 25 miles an hour, the worst-case scenario for the wind. check these two cranes. they are building condos on the beachfront, those two cranes are going to be an issue, if they verify the peak potential of one hundred 25 m

is high tide, fort myers already above three feet, four feet for naples, some of these places saw 13eet. likely these barrier islands places that were essentially washed away two years ago, we are going to see a similar situation. the wind going out of the bay, it pulls the water out. we often times see people standing in tampa bay, this is happened with ian, with irma, you want to do that. we can see how fast things unfold. and then we are talking about water going back into the bay, when it comes to the wind, notice some of these wind speeds already, 93 miles per hour in sarasota, over cp, that's why we have that extreme wind warning, even as far inward, 59 miles per hour. this is going to be the destructive winds closer to the center of it. the power outages and destruction is going to be across the state here as the day goes on and as the night goes on and we can into tomorrow, this is going to be something that we will watch on top of the fact, we have a whole lot of rain and more on the way we have seen immense tornadoes, we are going to go through at least 12 hours or so. >> t

chad myers, other than that, i would have been yours.nk you so much. >> it's just another dad-joke you know well, tell you something. >> thank you for being here. stay with us. we need your expertise. i want to bring in right now former fema administrator for the obama administration, craig few gate. craig, thank you for being with us in this moment when we are seeing hurricane milton continued to batter florida. we don't actually yet know what the extent of the damage is going to be, but we know that more than 1 million homes and businesses fact more than 2 million are already without power. what do you expect to see as milton moves through well just will continue to increase as we get the heavy rain we're going to see more flooding inland. and as demeanor all just pointing out is this storm starts to pull out tomorrow we'll start getting a better idea of damages, but a lot of the rescue departments that have shut down as soon as they can and they won't wait until it's a clear day, will start getting out, start doing an initial search a

myers. this is still inland, jason.you go 8, 10 miles out, there's a cluster of barrier islands, exactly what people sort of think about in their mind's eye when they envision paradise in florida, long beaches, glistening water, thousands of people that live on these clusters of islands, ft. myers beach, tragically two years ago suffered a huge hit from hurricane ian. but there are so many others. right? the storm surge, you talk about the primary factor right now of concern, is 8 to 12 feet. that's the projections out there where there's some images right now we need to confirm them, from specifically ft. myers beach and times square the heart beat of that area, where you're already seeing the water, jason, come up to the point where, you know, there's buildings, coastal businesses that are sitting right there that have all been rebuilt, it's already rising and early reminiscent of what we saw a couple years ago. i'm not saying it will be to the same extent at all. the river other my shoulder right now, we were reporti

actually want to take you about two hours south to fort myers. that's where we find cnn's carlos suarez, who's been serving preparations throughout the day carlos, what does it look like? there are you hearing from folks who are eager to get out boris, storm preparations are well underway here in lee county. >> a business owners began and i'll boarding up their businesses earlier today. all in anticipation of hurricane milton as it continues on the path that it is currently on. this one business here, went the extra step, what they've done is they've put out an inflatable raft and they've a dam rather, and they've filled it with water. all of this is an effort to try to keep the floodwaters that are expected to hit hear from getting inside their business. they've also set up these bags that they think could absorb a lot of this water. i can tell you though that the forecasts right now is currently calling for anywhere between 16 to eight feet of a storm surge. so i gotta be honest with you. i'm not entirely sure if that number does hit whether an