The storm is bringing deadly storm surges to much of Florida’s Gulf Coast, including densely populated areas such as Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota and Fort Myers.
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00:00Hurricane Milton has made landfall along Florida's Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm, bringing
00:07life-threatening storm surges, flooding, rainfall and extreme winds.
00:14Gusts travelling as fast as 100 miles per hour have been reported in the Tampa Bay area,
00:20and flash flood warnings have been issued for nearly 2 million people in Tampa, St.
00:25Petersburg and Clearwater.
00:28More than a million people have currently lost power and outages are expected to increase
00:34as Milton moves across the state.
00:38Shelters have been set up across the state for those who have had to evacuate their homes,
00:43and Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis has warned people to stay inside.
00:50Stay inside and stay off the roads. Floodwaters and rushing storm surge are very dangerous.
00:56Stay put until the storm has passed. If you are in Sarasota, Manatee, some of those areas
01:01where the eye of the storm is going, it may be where things calm down for a minute. Just
01:06understand that means you're in the eye, it's going to go back and get really nasty very
01:10soon, so don't go outdoors until it is confirmed safe.
01:14Search and rescue operations also continue after multiple tornadoes tore across Florida
01:20ahead of Milton's approach, destroying around 125 homes.
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