How Florida Avoided the “Worst Case Scenario”
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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, October 11th. Entire towns are underwater and yet it could have been worse. We start here. |
| 0:10.0 | Florida residents return to the scene of the storm. |
| 0:13.0 | Thankfully, this was not the worst case scenario. |
| 0:16.4 | Did people flee a less deadly hurricane, |
| 0:19.0 | or was it less deadly because they fled? |
| 0:21.7 | Is not just the presidential race that has voters on edge. |
| 0:24.6 | There are about 10 highly competitive seats in just New York and California alone. |
| 0:29.8 | 538's congressional forecast sheds light on how the entire country is feeling. |
| 0:34.7 | And there were lots of risks on this mission, drowning wasn't supposed to be one of them. |
| 0:39.4 | How could two very elite highly trained Navy SEALs simply just disappear. |
| 0:44.8 | The new report out this morning on the death of two Navy SEALs. |
| 0:49.4 | From ABC News, this is start here. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm Brad Milkie. |
| 0:55.0 | As Milton began its final approach toward Florida on Wednesday night, |
| 1:03.7 | virtually the entire state was hunkered down. |
| 1:06.0 | Oh, there it was! |
| 1:08.9 | We've just seen one of the largest evacuations in Florida's history, |
| 1:12.1 | and anyone who was left was told, |
| 1:14.0 | please stay inside. |
| 1:15.5 | Stay inside and stay off the roads. |
| 1:17.5 | Flood waters and rushing storm surge are very dangerous. |
| 1:21.4 | That included emergency crews. It's just too dangerous for them to be driving around looking for people in the storm. |
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