Hurricane Milton and a storm of misinformation
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
More than 3 million homes and businesses in Florida have been left without power after Hurricane Milton tore through the center of the state. The Americast team have partnered with Newscast to bring you a special episode on the storm that arrived less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated the Gulf Coast.
Sarah is in Miami to survey the scale of the damage, and Justin, Marianna and Adam are in the studio to discuss Hurricane Milton’s potential impact on the upcoming election and the disinformation swirling online.
HOSTS: * Sarah Smith, North America editor * Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter * Adam Fleming, Newscast presenter * Marianna Spring, Disinformation and Social Media correspondent
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | It's just after half past two on Thursday, half-past two London time that is, and we've done a collaboration, |
| 0:09.9 | a special collaboration with newscast given the enormous interest that |
| 0:14.1 | there is in one particular piece of news and that is Harakan Milton which is |
| 0:18.0 | just crossed Florida we know that it's done a lot of damage There was no question that it was going to do that. |
| 0:24.0 | There is some joyous news, and that's probably the right word to use, because a lot of the |
| 0:30.4 | appalling damage that was expected and the huge loss of life that was also |
| 0:34.8 | threatened by it actually hasn't happened it would seem although it is still early days |
| 0:39.1 | and there's still a big clear-up operation to go on it's also a huge deal in American politics at the moment. |
| 0:45.7 | It has become a very complicated feature of responding to all disasters, but particularly, of course, |
| 0:51.0 | in the run-up to the election there is a lot of |
| 0:53.4 | misinformation there's a lot of political interference a lot of people trying to |
| 0:58.0 | get in on the act so what does it all mean for the people of Florida first of |
| 1:02.2 | all how could it potentially affect the election as well? |
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| 1:26.4 | by a bunch of childless cat ladies. |
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