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Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Monday, October 7, 2024.

And we begin with yet another major hurricane making a beeline for the storm-battered

west coast of Florida.

Milton is currently spinning over the warm waters of the

Gulf of Mexico picking up strength and steam as it grows into what meteorologists

fear could be a cat three with winds of up to 120 miles an hour

when it makes landfall somewhere between Cedar Key

and Naples on Wednesday.

It'll push another wall of water

into already saturated communities

and could dump up to a foot of rain. The forecast. into already and brought unprecedented flooding as far north as Ohio.

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