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Winds up to 145 miles an hour and currently category 4, hurricane Milton is heading to Florida and being called "catastrophic."
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00:00We are just hours away from potentially catastrophic Hurricane Milton making landfall along Florida's
00:07West Coast.
00:08Deadly storm surge expected to climb as high as 10 to 15 feet.
00:14Winds are north of 145 miles per hour, making Milton the strongest storm seen in the Gulf
00:20in nearly 20 years, could make landfall as a Category 3 or 4 storm.
00:26Up to 18 inches of rain forecast from Tampa to Orlando.
00:31For those trying to evacuate, the task is made that much harder by gas shortages.
00:36GasBuddy reporting that 24 percent, more than 1,800 of Florida's stations are out of fuel.
00:43President Biden says evacuation warnings are, quote, a matter of life and death.
00:49And that's not hyperbole.
00:51Landfall expected in the overnight hours on Wednesday.

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