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Today is Wednesday, October 9, 2024.

And we begin with what looks like devastating deja vu in the sunshine state.

Hot on the heels of Helene, Milton is now just hours from making landfall,

potentially is one of the most powerful hurricanes to hit the Tampa Bay area of Florida

in more than 100 years. It ramped up from a cat 1 to a cat 5 in just 10 hours on

Monday, renewing calls by some climate change

activists for a new category six. At one point over the Gulf of Mexico

Milton's winds hit 180 miles an hour with gust topping 200.

According to Florida meteorologist Noah Bergen,

the system was nearing the mathematical limit

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