The death toll from Hurricane Milton in Florida is currently sixteen. More than two million people in Florida are left without power. Rescuers are working as quickly as they can to get stranded residents out of their flood-ravaged homes. This already chaotic situation could get even worse. So those floodwaters are expected to rise tonight. Isabel of Solace of the News Channel in the Tampa area, where the danger left behind by Hurricane Milton is not over yet. I think maybe the same thing has happened to me. Am I hoping in Hebrew that the same thing will happen to me? She hopes the same thing happened to her when Hurricane Milton left Florida. Thursday morning, the Ralph and Edo teens thought they had escaped the worst, but late Thursday night, their daughter woke them up immediately. She told them to get out. We were ten thirty-five reporters out of the water last night.
So my daughter says it was going to come up even more torrential rain fools to hire militants ten to eighteen inches of rain fell around the Tampa Bay area. As a result, rivers and reservoirs have overflowed, and the danger is still not over, with forecasts to the contrary up to twenty-five feet high on Friday night should a major flood situation like this not come this year. It is not the last way to stop the flooding, but it is now beyond our solar way to live here. Not long after the storm had passed, Tina was unexpectedly forced to evacuate some, carrying whatever they could carry in garbage bags. It was a long way, everyone knows the News surveyed the devastation first-hand by an airboat with the Hillsborough County Sheriff. His message is very clear, please get out now. We have some people here who were in evacuation, they thought it was going to be fine, the water is not going to go down, the water is only going to rise, so if you are unsure on whether you should go, please keep everyone safe, now we go, so many people are now burdened with the idea of recovery, never anticipating that evacuation would be required after the war.
Florida Sen. Rick Scott is touring the badly affected area on Friday to make sure that local leaders in the community are doing everything they can to help with that recovery. I am here to make sure that federal resources are here, take you personally to get local, state, and federal working together, so I am here to make sure that we are going to do that. Jake told me I was somewhere in the Everglades, but this is a neighborhood. I mean, look, these houses are completely submerged, these are power lines up in the branch of this big tree. The power lines are unconventional here, we saw in. I mean, I want to get to that. Just I have seen mailboxes that have men in shifts Completely submerged in water. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has been out here all day loading people in, both exactly like this to help them get out, in some cases to get back and so that they can get their memories back.
Clothes and food to get them back to dry land, a lot of them do not know where they are going. The Sheriff’s Office is working to connect them to shelters to sleep tonight. Until they figure out the next steps. Of course, you heard in my interview with that couple that they were one of the lucky ones, they have loading insurance, so they are not going to be able to figure out the next steps. A lot of other people and the same circumstances that they are under, I spent the last thirty minutes with a man named John, who lives here. He really wanted to express to me how tired he is of years of politicization of everything, both sides being angry at each other. He is urging Congress to take action. Give supplemental funding to FEMA, something that Director Dan for a Small is asking for because he says they will definitely need it. His future storms will eat into it, and we are not out of the storm season changes.