we're already seeing reports that in st. petey've had some snicket problems with the water system looking at boil water order. >> so we already know that there are areas were infrastructure has been impacted that will be targets for a lot of these resources milton, this is coming. >> hurricane milton coming just two weeks after hurricane helene. i mean i do wonder from your experience how much more difficult does that make it for florida's recovery operations and frankly, not just the exhaustion, the first responders, but the exhaustion of resources responders well, in 2004, we were hit four times when i worked for governor and push is director of emergency management, florida it really comes down to you. >> just have to focus on a couple of really basic operations, lifesaving, life sustaining. and getting the infrastructure back up and try to get that done quickly. please say your reset before you get any more disasters so it's something that unfortunately, florida has had a lot of experience getting hit multiple storms as somet

there is so much stuff in st. pete that hasn't been cleaned up and it will hurt marine life and the entire area. >> bill: did you get lucky with helene? what kind of damage did your home take? >> we got really lucky. we're fortunate enough and live on the water in st. pete and the water came up to our front door. we're one of the higher houses in the neighborhood but i think there are ten other houses in the neighborhood that did not get water in the house. not water in their houses but every other house in the neighborhood was damaged. almost total. really, really not good for the neighborhood and this is just kind of -- it is just bad because we are all in it together but we're all trying to help each other fix our homes that were just destroyed and there is debris all over our front yards that will be projectiles now. >> bill: i don't know when you made the decision to clear out. 48 hours ago when the national hurricane center upped the intensity of this storm as it sped off the yucatan peninsula in mexico and it sh

st. pete, get ready, in the next two hours, you are going to see 100 to 110 miles per hour. st. pete beach could be 90-plus. we're going to see power outages all throughout orlando, over to daytona possible. trees down, and david, it's been incredibly wet. one of the wettest seasons on record in tampa. that's not going to help, with up to 18 inches of rain falling. >> david: ginger zee leading us off here tonight. gin ginger, we'll talk to you again shortly. even before land. the stunning power of this hurricane already clear. the tornadoes ripping through neighborhoods. more than 20 reported tornadoes already, and, of course, the real concern over this potentially historic storm surge. abc's victor oquendo is in sarasota, close to where this hurricane is expected to make landfall tonight, where they're already feeling this. >> reporter: tonight, monster hurricane milton unleashing a tornado outbreak across florida. more than 20 twisters reported already. terrifying home surveillance video capturing the moment this tornado roared through fort myers. the skies turning dark as it b

and then from st. pete all the way over toward tampa, they were just winds out of the east and then out of the north. but look at st. pete at 18 inches of rain since midnight last night. and for clearwater beach, 14. so we know 18s, not really an issue. it's not like something that's all that can't be right. that must be something wrong if you get another reporting station within a few miles that says something very similar we know that that data is really probably pretty bad. 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

st. pete, florida. talking to a business owner in that city, both stores were devastated by helene and how he did with milton right after this. (♪) (♪) voltaren... for long lasting arthritis pain relief. (♪) meet kandi technologies, where innovative, eco friendly design meets exceptional performance. with officially licensed nfl team edition golf carts exclusively available at lowe's. elevate your ride and explore electric investment opportunities. kandi technologies. stuart: a billboard ripped out of the ground in clear water, florida and landing on the roof of nearby restaurant. see that all over the place. get to fox edge reporter in tampa bay. what are you seeing, conner? reporter: stuart, good to be with you. we're learning we saw 10-15 inches of rainfall in the tampaway area and we saw the hurricane force wind and rain ripping through the downtown area and the huge tree limbs down here and tampa did not even get the worst of the storm like expected. further south into st. pete, we saw re

the fact that the tampa st. petea got so many inches of rain in just one hour, what are the after effects of that? >> all around town, the areas that were outside the flood zone a and b, they now have standing water near the university of south florida, plant city to the eastern part in eastern hillsborough county, significant flooding. we have a lot of creeks and rivers, the floodwaters because of the rain this time flooded out neighborhoods. and people don't have flood insurance -- after helene, i was glad to hear that aid was getting in to bank accounts for folks who needed it. >> yeah, so, what is it that you are asking of us? how can we help and what help is needed? >> right now, it is making sure folks understand that fema is available, aid is available through disasterassistance.gov. whether you have flood insurance or not, whether you have insurance or not, fema is there to help provide that immediate assistance. president biden has been very engaged. talk to your local first responders. take your time going

in addition to the storm surge, you can't even see downtown st. pete anymore because the bands have come in, but there are four big 30, 40 story the tower construction cranes that we were watching move like wind socks and 45 mile an hour, gusts. right now, we're probably hitting gusts around 60. are so it could get up to obviously over 100 miles an hour. and the city actually put out a warning specific to those towers if you're downtown being cognizant of those as well. but this is just the beginning. we're going to watch this water. we're going to keep an eye on the infrastructure here, wolf. but this is next level. we've covered a lot of these fact that. this is coming less than two weeks after helene, the fact that there are mountains of debris uncollected that are not turning into floating and flying projectiles in this monster category three blender were buckling down and really just hoping for the best. well, i just stay safe over there. bill weir in st. petersburg, florida for us, i want to go to cnn's randi kaye for some more right now. she's i

>> cristian benavides in st. pete beach, florida. >>> the hurricane is heading toward florida's west coast where it's expected to make landfall late tomorrow evening as a category 3 with winds near 125 miles an hour, and it will stay at hurricane strength while moving east across central florida thursday. forecasters are calling the expected storm surge extremely life-threatening with a height of 10 to 15 feet in tampa bay. torrential rain will also cause a risk of flash floods. >>> now, election day is just four weeks from today. vice president kamala harris is in the throes of a media tour, while former president donald trump is taking aim at the biden administration over one of the biggest global challenges to date. bs's jarred hill joins us here with the latest on the campaign. good morning. >> former president donald trump is positioning himself as a global leader on the one-year mark of the attack on israel. meanwhile vice president kamala harris is trying to expand her reach during appearances on podcasts, talk

residents in st. pete beach have been bringing their belo lolong ruined by helene here, this pile has grown. it is 20 feet tall, nearly a block long. the county is aware. crews will continue working to clear everything until tropical storm-force winds hit. david, they will need every minute. >> david: wow, look at that behind you. i know you reached out to local authorities to remind them that pile does exist. victor, and the team, our thanks to you, as well. and of course, this all comes with the tragedy already unfolding from hurricane helene. tonight, the death toll now at least 230. the national guard and fema on the ground for days now. tonight, they're now dealing with something else. the false claims and conspiracy theories about fema and the federal help being pushed by former president trump. north carolina's republican senator knocking down the false claims. and just moments ago, vice president harris before the cameras, calling the false claims by the former president irresponsible, saying ameri

we drove at 4:30 yesterday from st. pete, and we got here at 6:30, and then, you know, we've just been. but i just pray that everyone will be in a safe place for the storm. i think we just don't know what that wind is going to be like coming at like 1:30 or 1:25 when it actually hits, so that, just a lot of unknowns, you know, but, there's so many people in its path. >> reporter: and right now, the winds here are projected to be up to 80 miles per hour, but they're also looking at that up to 18 inches of rainfall, which could lead to devastating flooding here. we saw it during hurricane ian a couple of years ago, and milton is expected to be far worse for this area. a lot of people sandbagging, stocking up on water and food, and bracing for this to ride out, and hope it will not be as bad as currently projected. >> hoping against hope. priscilla thompson, thank you. >>> thousands have moved into shelters from homes surrounded by debris after hurricane helene. nbc's jesse kirsch is live in sarasota for us. walk us through wha

brian todd, cnn, st. pete beach, florida streets of madrid sunday to demand more affordable housing. >> many signs were at housing is a right, not a business tourism is a key driver of the spanish economy, but residents blame the housing crisis on land lourdes, who turned properties into expensive short-term vacation rentals probably it has been you live in abu them are really didn't we? spaniards cannot live in our cities. you're being driven out of the cities, not just out of the center. cities don't belong to us so we have to regulate it. the government has to regulate prices, to regulate housing smaller demonstrations also happen in barcelona on sunday, the spanish government has said it will start cracking down on short-term and vacation rentals i want to thank you for joining us. >> i'm rosemary church for our international viewers. world sport is coming up next. and for those of you here in the united states and canada, i'll be back with more cnn newsroom after a short break just in would choose only th

let's go to cnn's bill weir, who's in st. pete bill, what are conditions like there right now and st. petersburg ahead of landfall >> nasty and getting nastier downtown st. pete behind me, keeping an eye on those four big tower construction cranes, 34 stories are worried about those in 100 mile-an-hour winds so far we're sort of gusting less than 50 miles an hour. we're going to go down to the waterfront here on the st. pete pier to give you a sense of the difference depending on where you're standing of a violent physics of the storm. and this one feels different. jake. i got to say then to a few of these, not the least of which is that this is a second of a one-two punch for us from liam. i spent yesterday looking at these mountains of debris which are going to be turned into either floating are flying debris in this hundred mile an hour blender named milton. but we're just beginning to see the waves really kick up on the jetty here at the st. pete. hear often the distance that's a nice restaurant called tik really perilous posi

it's not as bad as it might have been in st. pete i think so. >> i mean, when you talk about what it was as a category 5180 mile per hour storm? yeah. we didn't get that that when that's the goodness. we didn't expect it the forecast was four to die. ideas think it lost an awful lot of power right offshore. and we could see the whole i just kind of fall apart, get an eyewall replacement cycle, which means that you lose the real big one and you get the larger one on the outside, you'd lose the big wind and you get lesser wind with the eyewall that is surrounding it and there's a moat in-between and it does look like we're still going to get 74 to 110 mile per hour gusts across the state tonight so this is still what we expected. i think the impact to the coast is certainly less than what it could have been without a doubt it jumps. >> what do you think that looks like as this storm cat two right now moves across florida. i mean, should people in the path of this they expect over the next 12 hours the real issue is the amount of rain t

. >> good evening and welcome from st. pete beach, where neighborhoods like this still bear the scars of the last hurricane to come through here, helene. now the area tonight bracing for what's about to come, hurricane milton, now barely 30 hours away from making a historic landfall here along florida's gulf coast. it could wind up being the strongest hurricane to hit the tampa bay area in a century. officials warning an extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation. as expected, milton's intensity has fluctuated, right now back to a category 5, which were we begin tonight with al roker and some new tracking updates. what's the latest, al? >> lester, we are watching this system intensifying now. 165-mile-per-hour winds, category 5, moving northeast at night. the track brings it a little south of tampa, so they may be spared the worst of that storm surge, but it's still going to be bad when we make landfall some time wean 12:00 and 3:00 a.m. maybe an hour or so on either side of that. now the storm surge is a big deal, 10 t

in st. peteach, we found the streets piles of mostly empty today, except for piles of debris from helene. this is amazing, these piles of debris everywhere. >> it's mountains of debris everywhere. and they seem to be growing.

in st. pete beach, we found the streets piles of mostly empty today, except for piles of debris from helene. this is amazing, these piles of debris everywhere. >> it's mountains of debris everywhere. and they seem to be growing. >> fire chief jim kilpatrick took me around to show me what they're up against. this ball field now a drop zone for debris. the piles of debris in stacks like this here along the barrier islands were actually created in the immediate aftermath of the last hurricane. officials thought they would have time to get rid of it, but then they found out about milton. trucks are staged all over the area to pick up as much as possible before milton barrels from the stree in. but chief kilpatrick says there's not enough time to clear it all. this is amazing. this is all collected from the streets of the barrier islands. >> that's right. these are all household items that were put to the curb for the first storm. >> i'm looking at -- the 12-inch-long stick here. this becomes a lethal

our victor oquendo made his way to st. petet 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. hundreds of thousands told in no certain terms to get out while there's still time. >> if they have called for your evacuation order, i beg you, i implore you, to evacuate. >> reporter: families frantically filling sandbags, shoring up what they can, stocking up, and getting out. >> i have a 1-year-old as of tomorrow, and my wife is expecting our second child, so we just want to take necessary precautions. >> reporter: interstates packed bumper to bumper. authorities waving tolls and opening the shoulders to crea

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brian todd, cnn, st. pete beach, florida after months of searing heat and record high temperatures, much of the u.s. >> is in store for an early blast of cold weather this week stretching from the northeast to the southern plains on meteorologist allison chinchar has the forecast now, much of going to get quite a shock of change of seasons as we go through the next few days and it's all thanks to this cold front now that it's going to pass through many of these areas, temperatures are going to be dropping pretty significantly. take washington dc, for example, those high temperatures on sundays in the low 80s by the time we get to tuesday, they may not even make it to a high temperature of 60 degrees and they're not alone. look at dallas going from a high in the mid 90s on sunday, dropping all the way back to the upper 60s by the time we get to wednesday, keep in mind the average is at so going from above average two below average, and just simply two to three days, atlanta also going to see a similar drop, but

notice st. pete, sarasota, over 60 miles per hour. we've even got brooksville over 60 miles per hour. tropical storm force winds happening now in tampa as well. and these are only going to increase. the hurricane force winds are centered about 35 miles from the center of that eye from this hurricane. that is where the worst of it is. those worse winds you're going to see on the northern side of the eye, the worst rain you're going to see on the northern side as well. notice sarasota peak winds, 127 miles per hour. that is destructive to structures. this is going to knock out power across a chunk of the area. we do of course also have a tornado threat. this has been something ongoing, specifically for the eastern portions of the state. we have seen just, kind of, a prolific tornado event unfolding across this region. the tornado watch is going to go through 9:00 p.m. tonight. there are still tornado warnings happening. we've seen damage in melbourne. unfortunately this is something we're going to have to watch with the outer bands spir

st. p pete petersburg.ot flooding on my first level, lost cars, boats, and all my siblings, some had flooding, some did fine. the second storm, which was supposed to be the killer storm, really we had no flooding, even on the beach. but we did inland in tampa as the water got pushed in the bay. every storm has a different impact. so the impact that we really were worried about is people. the first storm, we were able to contact over 5,000 people individually. they were all okay. in this storm, we've contacted 94%. we've gotten responses for. they've all been okay. but we still have about 6%, yeerks that we do man-on-man to make sure they're okay. certainly, they're physically okay, but a lot of people damaged their homes. some are going to struggle putting that back together. some have lost all their personal things. you know, it's going to be, for them, it is very, very tragic. but on the good news, we've already committed well over $11 million to help our associates and communities. advance the money, hav

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he's with the st. pete beach, fire department chief. >> thank you so much for being with us first and foremost. i want to ask you about folks that are doing what officials have been warning against for days. there there's like a family right now, not far from where i'm standing and they are with children watching this storm coming. if you could give a message to the folks at home watching this to warn them against this, what would you say to you those waters are dangerous, those windsor dangerous. there's a potential for missiles when the winds pick up, it is not safe to be outside right now, you should be structure that is able to withstand the storm and be hunkering down approach and not being out here in these conditions. >> chief, i'm wondering what your principal concern is for the community of st. pete's beach through another storm about 13 days ago. >> he structures have been hit by water and wind there are in a weakened state. i'm worried that this next storm make cause collapse and it may these wat

got until probably this week and next couple days when they measure the water line. 18 inches at st. pete, that will cause problems and we saw high water rescue in clearwater beach, over foot of rain. sun coming up, we will see scope of damage and someone will have catastrophic damage today. >> steve: indeed. thanks. >> brian: lieutenant governor nunes joins us. we were surprised to see damage in miami. did it catch you by surprise? >> no, actually we had seen this was going to be a far-reaching storm. the governor and his emergency order had 51 of 67 counties included, especially those far from direct impact supposed to be. the tornados were something of concern throughout yesterday. we were encouraging people to stay safe, stay indoors. we are waking up to devastation and damage. hurricane helene packed a punch, florida is ready under leadership of governor desantis and we'll continue to help people rebuild. >> steve: we see damage there, one problem for floridians is insurance. you can get flood insurance through federal government but problem is these days, there are a lot of insuranc

what can you tell us about what you're seeing in st. pete? >> well, alex, we were blessed this storm isn't hit 50 miles north of where it did. we werehe looking at 15 feet of storm surge, catastrophic winds, and looking down the barrel of that gun for 24 hours kind of wears a community down. we're not out of that yet. we still have really high winds, and of course we are coming off just two weeks ago hurricane helene and still trying to recover from that. but i think this storm opened a lot of eyes. we had much better response from our community, and we asked about st. pete and pinellas county to evacuate, and we think overall they were very responsive to that. this is just an example of our new normal as storms are becoming more powerful and moving more quickly and really testing our infrastructure. >> yeah, can we talk about that because of the one-two punch between helene and milton. and granted you're not in the direct path of this storm right now, but you're close to and dealing with it as you say the cleanup from the last monster storm.

. >> that is a big and expanding story, and it appears it's got tampa/st. pete right in their sights. >> our neighbors are staying there, god bless them. the flights are booked. those who haven't gotten out, they're not quite sure what to do. they're at a standstill. >> they're looking at a storm coming on the back of hurricane helene a week ago. it didn't do tremendous damage, but enough. >> when you have debris already it makes this one more dangerous because there's going to be more matter flying around. obviously the water damage can be as significant as well. also weighing on sentiment, our downgrade of three major tech companies. apple, amazon, and netflix. microsoft as well, ty. >> yeah, these downgrades, it has not been a great month for technology, but september is usually a bad month. we're going to talk in a minute with mike santoli and tom lee. september is not a good month for stocks, but this has not been bad at all. >> no. although, september was far better than the recent septembers we've had. october is off to a different start. >> we've talked

happy 1st birthday to bode from st. pete, floflorida.old she's a bit of a spit fire, full of sass and smiles. last but not least, happy 1st birthday to henry o'brien from cambridge, mass. a little foodie who has never met a snack that he doesn't like. i like that hair style. >> love it. >> guys, coming up in the fourth hour, we have emmy and golden globe winner ally wang with us. >> the third hour, talk to kit and rachel about playing romeo and jewel yet. >> more music from the fabulous marching cavaliers from pharrell williams' beloved princess annehigh school in virginia beach. we're back after your local news. ♪ ♪ ♪ good morning. 8:56 a.m. marcus washington, san jose mayor matt mahan today gets a firsthand look at the city's work to clear rv's and encampments surrounding three schools. council members in april approving a pilot program. advocates argue unfairly cracked down on rv dwellings and the unhoused. it bans vehicles and tents anywhere within 150ft of three east san jose schools. now, the city is still considering expanding the

rainfall has been prolific already in the st. pete area, pushing 10 inches of rain, it has been raining at 1-2 inches an hour since about dinnertime. and the wind so far has blown around a few things, some of these plastic highway markers going around but other than that, we have not seen a lot of things blowing around at this point. by the way, power outages in the state of florida now just over half a million statewide. here, the number has jumped up. we were at just about 10 percent, now 16% of the county, that includes clearwater beach and where we are here. 16% of customers are out. we're holding power here in this area, we will see how that lasts. we have another few hours of these wins until about midnight, then things should begin to ease off but the impacts will be moving east along the corridor and the last one they had was charlie back and 2013. and that was the first one in 40 years and they were also concerned with the east coast beaches. also that tornado threat continues. the chiney to watch until 9:00 for most of the p

through this morning, but nothing quite as impressive as what we were expecting in places like, say, st. pete as we went into the overnight hours last night. here's some of the totals already. over 18 inches of rain in st. petersburg. just ridiculous kind of rainfall hourly rates. over 5 inches of rain was falling at one point between 7:00 and 8:00 last night. the flooding concerns will be there. it'll take a little while for the water to recede, as well. of course, we can't forget about the wind. this has been impressive. we've seen gusts over 100 miles per hour for the west coast as the center of the storm came on shore. we're dealing with tropical storm force winds for the east coast of florida. we have hurricane winds, as well. orlando is seeing 72-mile-per-hour winds. we've got daytona beach at 78 miles per hour. the ongoing rain threat and wind threat is still there, and it'll take a little time, willie, for the storm surge also to recede. we have seen it peak with the high tide time coming around 6:00 for places like tampa and points out. >> we were talking to jay about tampa. there wa

we've gotten 66 miles per hour wind gusts already in st. pete.s is going to be something we see continue to worsen, jason, as the night goes on. 127 mile-per-hour winds are possible for sarasota. we'll know that wind damage will come with that and on top of that we have the flash flooding the heavy rainfall and, of course, those tornadoes that we'll be watching through the night as well. so multi-impact event. >> angie lassman, thank you for breaking down what the dangers are that people are facing in florida right now. thank you. >> of course. >>> i'm joined now by michaelman, presidential distinguished professor of earth and environmental sciences at the university of pennsylvania, director of the penn center for science and author of "our fragile moment" how lessons from earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis. professor mann, i'll start with this. i am not a meteorologist. i don't often watch the weather channel, but i know danger when i see it. i have been paying attention to the news. i have family and friends affected by this.

nbc's priya sridhar is joining us from st. pete beach, florida, a barrier island.does the cleanup stand there this morning? >> reporter: well, this neighborhood really got a 1-2 punch between helene and milton. it basically got completely destroyed after helene. they were just starting their recovery efforts when milton came and knocked out the power here. they just got back power a few hours ago. so now they're going to begin the long road to recovery. this morning, more and more people returning to destroyed homes and tattered communities. jay hager and his wife own time shares at the beach club in man soetia key. >> i've been coming here for four years and never seen anything close to this. >> reporter: the island permanently altered, parts split in two, by milton's wind and storm surge. further north, along the river, flooding persists. >> i need power and we don't have a roof and people don't have homes. >> reporter: milton has passed, but the water continues to rise. >> some areas, we're not going to see peaks for four weeks after the storm. >> reporter: thes

we are talking 100 plus for st. pete and sarasota, tampa.s will be a devastating kind of storm here as we unfold over the next 24 to 36 hours. >> wow. that's a tough forecast. the surge alone around tampa. thank you so much. sam, there you are, evacuation orders expanding. a major problem, drivers can't find gas. how do they get out? >> reporter: that's a great question. no one has the answer to that. i would say it bears repeating, it has been since 1921 the tampa bay area has taken a direct hit from a hurricane. a few hundred thousand people then. now, tampa bay is one of the largest growing areas in the country. 3 million plus people in the metro area. evacuations keep expanding. i'm at this gas station here. the boards behind me, some of the pumps do have plastic bags over them. i cannot tell you how many times in the last 30 minutes people have driven in and said, is there gas available? no, there's not. there's confusion over that. come over here, you see, you walk up to the pump. pay the clerk inside. okay. pay the clerk inside. pan o

same for st. pete, tampa as well. inland, orlando, peaking with wind gusts up to 80 miles per hour will be a possibility again as that storm maintains strength. power outages will be widespread. these likely just like what we saw with helene and with previous storms could last days, weeks, for these areas. one last note, we will see this tornado risk tomorrow as well with some of the outer bands wrapping around, katy. this is something that will be possible throughout the day. we already had one tornado warning near marco island and we will see more of those to come and this will be adding insult to injury when it comes to the multiple impacts that there will be with there storm system, but storm surge is going to be our main concern and especially if you live in those evacuation zones those barrier islands near st. pete. >> talk to me about the strength of the storm, last night was a category 5, overnight it became a category 4, your map says it could be a category 3 when it hits land. when you're watching that, i wo

here is the storm surge, from sarasota, tampa and st. pete, 10 to 15 feet. this will stay a hurricane across the central part of florida. on the back side of it, three to five-foot surge for the eastern coast of florida. the wind speeds, gusts going to cause power outages. 109 mile per hour wind gusts for sarasota. ft. myers, 55. orlando, 69. with that, power outages are a problem that will probably last for weeks from sarasota and tampa, orlando, all the way to the beach. we have seen a lot of rain this past week for central florida and northern florida. now we are going to be looking at 18 inches of rain or more in some parts. there's a high risk of flooding. as you can see, this is a catastrophic flash flooding for rivers and streets. as we showed you, tornadoes. this is going to be very, very volatile. in fact, over the next six hours, strong tornadoes possibly ef2 or stronger happening. we are talking about the storms that are rain wrapped, so harder to see. we have so many scenarios that are going on at the same time that makes this such a life-threate

remember we were just talking about the sunshine sky way bridge there, through tampa, st. pete was going to be closing. we're just being told right now that the sunshine sky way bridge has been shut down. it is closed. so, just take that into consideration. also happening now, president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu were speaking, the prime minister's office sharing this photo. joining us now from tel aviv is nbc's erin mclaughlin. what more can you tell us about this phone call? >> reporter: well, jose, according to israeli official, it was a call that was scheduled to have begun at 10:30 a.m. eastern. you see there the photo released by the israeli prime minister's office inside his office in jerusalem, you see the prime minister there with other israeli officials, they say speaking on the phone to president biden. also on that call, vice president harris. as you point out, this is the last time these two leaders have spoken since august 21st. it is staggering when you consider how many events that potentially could shape this region had transpired since

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we've got this short-term model showing a 115-mile-per-hour wind speed, david, at st. pete beach. we're going to see a lot of wind damage and up to 18 inches of rain could cause flash flooding. >> david: let's hope the wind shear knocks this down, but don't be fooled. category 5, category 3, it still does an enormous amount of damage. ginger zee, i'll see you right there in florida, ginger, tomorrow night. >>> tonight, with hurricane milton fast approaching, just days after hurricane helene slammed into the u.s., former president trump targeting fema again today, just as millions try to recover from this. vice president kamala harris blasting trump for spreading dangerous misinformation. and what she said about this today. here's rachel scott. >> reporter: tonight, with florida bracing for a monster storm, as georgia and north carolina reel from the effects of the last one, vice president kamala harris blasting donald trump for spreading falsehoods about fema, which has been on the ground for days. harris appearing today on abc's "the view." >> what do you think the effect of thes

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 east side of florida earlier at least that weather has moved off shore. we had a lot of sunshine earlier in the day that heated the ground that heat, and the hot weather there just made those tornadoes or even stronger than they should have been. and we're probably thinking some of them were ef-3s that typically doesn't happen in a hurricane, but it's certainly did. there is the eye almost ready to come on shore, but the winds are going to be won 15 in many spots for many, many hours. and the surge is still going to be another three to four hours before it gets to its highest spot. so just because you look out and say, the storms here, there's no surge. it's still coming. i promise you. it is still co

and st. pete beach over 100 miles per hour with gusts there and on top of the tropicana field i would suspect because the wind goes up with height in a hurricane, you it might have been talking about gust of 110 to 115. and think about why a plane flies. because the top of the wing is farther around the bottom of the wing and it gets faster because of that little foil there. well, that's probably what happened with that too. the winds on top of that tropicana field likely exceeded 120 miles per hour. st. 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 cont

brian todd is in st. pete beach, florida and arlette saenz's in wilmington, delaware. brian, i want to start with you because biden announced more than $600 million to strengthen the power grid in the southeast. what is the sense that you're getting there on the ground of what's impacting people to most on the gas shortages, omar, that are impacting people to most, the most interesting, you mentioned that $600,000,000 figure of that $600 more than 90 billion of it is going to to power utility companies here in the state of florida, not only to help themselves get online now, but also to help shore up their infrastructure to tech from future hurricanes. >> because frankly, these hurricanes that are hitting the state of florida are not getting any weaker. they are only getting stronger. now, a short time ago when he was here, president biden spoke about the entirety of government spots to the hurricane here in florida. here's what he had to say this is a whole of government effort from state and local to fema, to us coast guard army corps of engineers the energy departme

but as soon as you get into st. peteu could see it off in the distance as well, lit of course, a lot of power outages. so it really stood out and the roof is completely off. >> you can even see light displays they have inside going of the different color lights reflecting off of the white patterns of what was left of the roof me when i see these images, i just think where it all go is it a breccia scattered about in the area nearby? yes. scattered inside and out. so when you look down into the field, you know, you see the diamond, but the diamonds got a lot of folks, a lot of debris on enough. that's pieces of the roof and then course outside of the tropicana field in the parking lot, there's pieces of there as well. so it's just scattered all the way around. >> a lot of his hanging up in the rafters so in the beans or this for beings, for the roof. >> so it's, it's a just everywhere you look. >> and i understand after you shot this, you then turn south here you're south of sarasota now assessing the damage, there. what

petersburg and st. pete beach. so it was a very impactful storm in a way that people i don't think necessarily believed could ever happen here. just because it's been so long since this area has really seen a direct impact. and that was 100 miles was a way hurricane helene this one is directly impacting us. it's the first major hurricane we've had 103 years and it's going to be a shock to people system when they, when they do get back in an area of fortunately, i would say the vast majority of people in its abbott bay area that we're in the affected areas they left hurricane helene scared. i'm straight. and so they they listen to those evacuation orders. they didn't try to say, oh, i'm a floridian, i can stay and they did get out because they didn't see the reality of what storm surge could do and so i'm glad that that happened and i'm obviously henri to see what my home is going to look like tomorrow, not only just my personal home, but also the homes of my neighbors and my community. you don't want to see that ev

kennedy city is just outside st. pete. it's in the tampa bay area. we're showing a map of it right now. how is your city preparing for the storm hey, jake, thanks for having me on our town has been working diligently with our department of public works. >> we've had the street sweeper coming through last week. all of this week, we've been maintaining the roads, clearing up all the brush or dbw has been out with the wood chipper, just making sure all debris is picked up from our community because as i heard previously, they are going to turn into projectiles. so ultimately we just want to protect our homes and our residents. so we did our best we could cleaning up all the debris, emptying the baskets from our storm drains and we've provided over 2000 sandbags to residents and for our small town that's a new record for us. >> the mayor of tampa has made it pretty clear. if you don't leave the evacuation zone, you're likely going to be killed. what is your message to the residents of your town? >> absolutely. i agree with mayor castor. if you do live in

you just had a wind gust of 102 and the latest gusts, st. pete 84 miles per hour. >> anderson it should check out. >> can you just read? read did you say 16 inches of rain yes. >> since the storm started 16 inches of rain. and in the past two hours eight inches of rain? has fallen now? that's eight plus eight to 16, not on top of the 16, but just in two hours alone five inches, one hour and three inches the next unbelievable that's incredible i mean, is it too early to know about storm surge the storm surge is going to be south of siesta key and that's not where you are. you are up to the north of siesta key so now we're randi is and all the way down toward naples of venice. and nicole miss, that's where the surge is happening right now. we don't have any pictures there because we didn't send any one there because because we don't want them to be in 15 feet of water. so that's why we don't have images yet. but i'm assuming that that water is going over the barrier islands and into the bay behind it. this all the rainfalls to the north, this is al

st. pete all the way up through orlando and then over towards the east coast as while all of this on the north side of milton, it kind of got squeezed with a front and that pushed even heavier rain. so these again are the river levels. you can see a lot of them still at moderate and major flood stage not just on the west coast where milton made landfall, will also on the east coast because the watershed again needs to find somewhere to put 20 inches of rain. so we still have rivers that are going to be slow to fall on the west coast. you can see not really fallen going into monday, so still a problem through the weekend. and then rivers again on the east coast continuing to rise. you can see the rivers here getting above major flood stage stage and still rising even through wednesday of next week. so that will continue to be a problem. there's some light showers on radar for parts of south florida. will have some spotty showers as we go through the day today. again, a lot of it pretty light an

anything into or just north of st. petewinds that funnel an already high water up into the city. a track just a few miles south actually pulls the water out of the bay, leading to minimal storm surge. what's the one thing that, you know, may make you worry at night when you go to sleep? >> it's the storm surge on this one. ultimately, our first responders, we are going to be here, we are going to try to save lives, protect property first, and then we will go through that recovery process if that does happen to us. >> reporter: you know, norah, it's been over 100 years since a major hurricane has made a direct hit his now less than 50s away. the latest track does give it a chance of going just south of the bay area, but the approach of milton gives the bay area the highest risk i've ever seen of getting a direct hit. norah? >> norah: rob marciano and jonathan vigliotti in florida. thank you both for being there. and there's some breaking news that is just coming in from the justice department. a man from afghanistan living i

gas station in orlando, nbc's priscilla thompson met terry burke clutching her rosary, her home in st. pete was ripped apart by helene. >> we lost everything. >> in her home. her home was devastated. it's awful. >> reporter: now she's had to evacuate two hours away to stay with family. >> i think it's just cumulative, you know. it's just you start to get pretty overwhelmed. >> reporter: as we drove through tampa today, we found only a few people remaining stocking up on essentials. >> you're sticking around? >> no, i'm going to higher ground, a nice stable house that has a generator already installed. >> reporter: the mayor of nearby treasure island, tyler payne, says he's relieved so many in his community also heeded the warnings. >> properties can be replaced. we can rebuild, but saving people's lives is, of course, the most important thing. >> reporter: tonight, his is among the communities bracing for the worst. >> these are kind of anxious minutes and hours right now. what's going through your mind? >> yeah, i don't know. my mind is fried from just going through a huge storm and prepar

we are in st pete beach, a barrier island community part of the tampa bay area, and these are some ofhurricane milton gets here. just two weeks ago this area had hurricane helene make an impact here. you had storm surge across florida, the northern gulf coast of florida, and this is one of the areas most heavily impacted. you can see debris lines the streets across this community here. this is not the only barrier island community where there is a lot of clean—up that still needs to happen before milton arrives. one of the major concerns by officials is that all of this debris will become flying projectiles, they could potentially injure or kill someone. in addition to that, all of this could clog up some storm drains and that could potentially overwhelm an already overwhelmed system. the storm surge here, it is unclear what we could see but some of the projections are truly scary, upwards of 15 feet of storm surge, that is certainly unsurvivable. in this community you have had folks that have already been getting out while they can because we have about 48 hours before this starts to

st. pete's peer out in the distance. i know if you could see that erie lights that's another restaurant of power ceylon but as you can see, the waves i'm just kidding higher and higher. it seems by the minute this will probably our last live shot in this location, storm surge here, if it gets up to the predicted, i don't know 1012 feet could be a huge problem for downtown st. petersburg and especially for all the folks who are still reeling after hurricane helene, it came through here less than two weeks ago and in addition to the tornados you talked about, that's why this storm scientist's are warning about these multiple threats multipliers, a peaceful >> so quickly after the other it's so hard for people to brace even in a good day after coming out of something like that. >> and then with these tornadoes, there's never a good time to lose a hostile tornado, but the absolute worst time just, hours before a hurricane like this one makes landfall. now, years ago, hurricane charlie, they studied it, disaster managers and