Life threatening flooding expected. I'm Carmen Roberts. Fox News. The National Hurricane

Center says Hurricane Milton may become one of the most destructive hurricanes on record. The category 5

storm with 160 mile an hour winds is churning across the Gulf of Mexico

aiming to strike the Tampa Bay region Wednesday night. Many people have left the Florida Gulf Coast for higher ground,

though first responders are staying behind

to get to work after.

We were hit by Ian, not hammered.

This is going to be a hammer hammer I feel like in this circumstance.

Charlie Thorpe is the police chief in Venice, Florida near Sarasota where the city water system

is turned off. In Bradenton, Mayor Jean Brown knows there are people who didn't leave.

It's been heartbreaking to go out there and dealing with people and especially at 85 year old

Joanne who wouldn't leave her trailer.

In Broward County Florida

Evan Brown Fox News.

Governor DeSantis says the states never had this many resources

prior to a storm.

So far you're looking at deploying hundreds of thousands of shelf-stabled meals, hundreds of thousands

of water bottles, hundreds of thousands of sandbags, a lot of tarps and a lot of generators,

and many other things.

He says resources are pouring into the state for the inevitable power outages and

rescue missions.

A flash study released Wednesday by the World Weather Attribution shows human-caused climate

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