Hurricane Milton and a Storm of Misinformation
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today, more than 3 million homes and businesses in Florida have been left without power after Hurricane Milton tore through the centre of the state.
Adam is joined by Americast hosts Justin, Marianna and Sarah to discuss what we know about the scale of damage and destruction from the storm. And beyond the impact the hurricane has had on Florida residents, they discuss how the hurricane could affect the presidential race, and how misinformation about the storm has spread on social media.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, Hurricane Milton has crossed Florida in the United States, |
| 0:10.6 | leaving a trail of destruction, although maybe not quite as much destruction as people had feared. |
| 0:16.5 | But there are lots of spin-offs from this. There's the story about the extreme weather itself. There's also a story about the political response and how the hurricane has been used, maybe abused by some people in this election period, and then because it's 2024 and loads of people are on |
| 0:34.8 | social media there's lots of misinformation and disinformation so this is so much |
| 0:40.0 | more than just a story about the weather. So we have joined forces with our |
| 0:44.6 | podcasting cousins at AmeriCast to bring you this episode of Newscast. |
| 0:48.8 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. I like landscapes landscapes you have a bright future behind you you think you just fell out of a coconut tree we're effectively run in this country by a bunch of childless cat ladies |
| 1:00.9 | you don't understand the essence of breath. |
| 1:02.6 | It's the fun police working overtime. |
| 1:04.8 | It's just getting silly now. |
| 1:06.4 | Take me down to Downey Street. |
| 1:08.0 | Let's go have a tour. |
| 1:09.9 | Blimey. |
| 1:11.7 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio, which also for in the next half hour is the |
| 1:15.6 | America studio. |
| 1:16.6 | It is me, Mariana, aka misinformation, also in the, whatever we're going to call it, the America |
| 1:24.2 | The Cast Studios. |
| 1:25.8 | What do you guys say when you normally call it the worldwide |
| 1:28.4 | headquarters of AmeriCast, but on this occasion, |
| 1:30.7 | since you've introduced it, I feel that would be overly |
| 1:34.3 | hubristic so I'm just glad to be here wherever we are it's just in Webb it's also |
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