00:00Authority has confirmed that Hurricane Milton that caught off estimated 3 million people
00:05from electricity in Florida in the United States of America, USA since Wednesday is
00:10still moving eastward at a low pace in the stealth on Thursday and the hurricane which
00:15is now considered as Category 1 tropical storm is expected to move towards northern Bahamas
00:20tonight.
00:21National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, NOAA's Hurricane Center stated this few hours
00:28ago in a statement.
00:30Several properties in Florida has been destroyed by the hurricane.
00:34A drone footage captures damage caused by Hurricane Milton to tropical fields roof.
00:40The stadium is the home of the Tampa Bay Rays in St. Petersburg, Florida.
00:47Photos made available by residents showed the hurricane's deadly onslaught in Florida
00:51after 100 mile per hour winds left a trail of destruction, as dangerous storm surge threatens
00:57the East Coast.
00:59CNN reported with footage of a crane seemed to have fallen into a building in St. Petersburg,
01:06Florida, as Hurricane Milton is making its way through the state, bringing dangerous
01:12flooding.
01:13St. Petersburg is experiencing a 1 in 1,000 year rainfall event, according to CNN.
01:22Photographs showed a Kelly Road in Pasco County was left in pieces after Hurricane Milton
01:26tore through Florida on wind and still ravaging at a low pace on Thursday.
01:31An official statement indicated that Hurricane Milton, now a Category 1 storm, is moving
01:38away from Florida, but the state faces severe flooding, strong winds, and widespread power
01:44outages.
01:45Over 3 million people are still without electricity as officials assess the damage.
01:52About two people were reportedly killed in fault piers and rooftops, including Tropicana
01:58Field, were ripped off by winds.
02:01A video had shown moment NOAA calls fly into Hurricane Milton for critical data collection
02:07as the extremely dangerous Category 5, which is now considered by many as Category 1 storm,
02:13was on course to slam into Florida on Wednesday.
02:17President Joe Biden had pressed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for being cooperative and doing
02:24a great job in his response to Hurricanes Helen and Milton, despite Vice President Kamala
02:31Harris slamming DeSantis for playing political games, instead of doing his job in response
02:37to the storms.
02:39NBC News had reported on Monday that DeSantis was denying phone calls from Harasser's team.
02:46People are in desperate need of support right now and playing political games with this
02:51moment.
02:52In these crisis situations, these are the height of emergency situations, it's just
02:57utterly irresponsible, and it is selfish, Harris told reporters Monday.
03:03Meanwhile, on Tuesday, President Joe Biden's opinion about the Florida Governor's response
03:09to Hurricane Helen and his preparation for Milton diverged substantially from that of
03:14his Vice Presidents.
03:16The Governor of Florida has been cooperative.
03:19He said he's gotten all that he needs.
03:22I talked to him again yesterday, and I said, no, you're doing a great job.
03:28It's all being done well and we thank you for it, Biden said at a press conference from
03:34the White House Tuesday.
03:36There was a rough start in some places, but every governor, every governor, from Florida
03:42to North Carolina, has been fully cooperative and supportive.
03:47Ahead of Wednesday, Florida authorities informed those who do not want to evacuate ahead of
03:53Hurricane Milton to mark themselves with their names and the phone number of a family member
03:57so their bodies can be identified and their loved ones notified when they are found.
04:03In comments highlighted by Midnight, CNN's Paul Murphy on Tuesday repeated the message
04:09of a police chief he spoke with, if you stay, they cannot get you.
04:14They were able to do some water rescues in Hurricane Helen that will not happen with
04:20Milton, Murphy said.
04:23Once the winds, which are forecasted to start here at tropical storm force gusts, once they
04:29start tomorrow at around 8 a.m., he expects that by noon, they are not going to be able,
04:36they are going to have to evacuate the island themselves.
04:40So starting at noon tomorrow, if you're here, there will not be help coming for you.
04:46You are on your own.
04:48It was unclear which island Murphy was referring to.
04:52It's that same message we're hearing from officials, write your name, write your number,
04:58write someone else's number, your date of birth on you, Murphy said.
05:04Because when they come looking for you, they want to know who to contact because you decided
05:09to stay.
05:10Tampa mayor Jane Castor issued a similar warning for Floridians on CNN on Monday night, saying
05:17she's never delivered such a dire message.
05:21This is literally catastrophic and I can say without any dramatization whatsoever, if you
05:26choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you're going to die, she said.
05:32This is something that I have never seen in my life, she continued.
05:38People need to get out.
05:40Storm battered Florida's breasts on Tuesday for a direct hit from massive Hurricane Milton,
05:45as people hurried to finish their storm preparations and flee from the second monster weather system
05:50in as many weeks.
05:52It's a matter of life and death, and that's not hyperbole, President Joe Biden said, urging
05:59those under evacuation orders to evacuate now, now, now.
06:05According to the National Hurricane Center, Milton was generating maximum sustained winds
06:10of 150 miles per hour and threatening up to 15 feet of storm surge as of Tuesday morning.
06:17The storm attained maximum Category 5 status overnight before weakening, and is expected
06:23to make landfall wednight as a Category 3 storm.
06:27At a press conference, Governor Ron DeSantis said that, basically the entire peninsular
06:33portion of Florida is under some type of either a watch or a warning.
06:38National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, NOAA Hurricane Center in Florida in a statement
06:44few hours ago stated that, at 8 a.m. Eastern Daylight 7 time, the center of Hurricane Milton
06:51was located near Latitude 28.9 North, Longitude 79.5 West.
06:59Milton is moving toward the east-northeast near 18 miles per hour, and this general motion
07:04is expected to continue today, followed by a turn toward the east tonight.
07:10On the forecast track, the center of Milton will continue to move away from Florida and
07:15pass to the north of the Bahamas today.
07:18Storm-sustained winds are near 85 miles per hour with higher gusts.
07:23Gradual weakening is expected, but Milton is forecast to become a powerful extratropical
07:29node tonight.
07:31Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 35 miles from the center and tropical storm-force
07:37winds extend outward up to 205 miles.
07:41A sustained wind of 58 miles per hour and a gust to 76 miles per hour was recently reported
07:48at a weather station in Maryland.
07:51A sustained wind of 46 miles per hour and a gust to 67 miles per hour was recently reported
07:58at the Cocoa-Patrick Air Force Base.
08:01The estimated minimum central pressure is 980 Mb.
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