10 Oct 2024

Reports of fatalites as Hurricane Milton pounds Florida

From Checkpoint, 4:12 pm on 10 October 2024

The storm, which reduced from category 5 overnight, made landfall at category 3 this afternoon south of Tampa bringing wind speeds close to 200km/h, flash flooding and has left over one million homes without power. In the past hour, Milton has dropped to a category two meaning winds are still in the whopping 170km/hr zone. The Hurricane, deemed "the storm of the century" by president Joe Biden, is on course to batter areas still recovering from Helene, which just two weeks ago claimed over 230 lives and caused tens of billions of dollars worth of damage. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has warned the time to evacuate is over and anyone left in Milton's path needs to stay indoors and "hunker down," Unites Sates correspondent Todd Zwillich spoke to Lisa Owen.