Our breaking news coverage of Hurricane Milton continues on the last word with

Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence. Good evening Alex, we are going to

continue that coverage and we've been told all along that that storm surge could be

the worst part of this storm. so we'll be on that during this

hour I'll be watching thanks Alex thank you we're going to go straight to

Bill Karen's MS NBC's meteorologist NBC's meteor, NBC News Meteorologist for the latest on the situation there.

Bill, what can we expect now in Florida?

So this is when all the damage is happening, Lawrence,

and we can't show you where the worst

storm surge is because it wouldn't be safe for our crews or our correspondence but

we know it's moving in we've had reports of a 10-foot storm surge in Sarasota

and then as we go down the coast all the way to Naples it's been at least five to six foot storm surge that's higher than

Helene in most cases so we have new significant damage that's being done tonight as the

storm is moving inland,

the winds are still pushing that water

against the coast and it's still rushing in.

The other thing you'll notice, the black line is the center,

just north of the center, which has been for the last five hours over Tampa,

torrential rain.

I mean, we're talking two to three inches per hour,

and now that is starting to slide along I-4,

and that's gonna head towards Winterhaven

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