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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Wednesday October 9th

2024. This is the excerpt. Today Hurricane Milton nearest Florida, plus how health insurance rates are climbing, even

amid cooling inflation, and we discuss a new era of conservative comedy.

Hurricane Milton regained category 5 strength yesterday

as it moved through the Gulf toward the Florida Peninsula.

The National Hurricane Center said in an early morning update that the storm is expected to make landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast tonight.

Sustain winds reached 160 miles an hour overnight.

The Hurricane Center is warning about dangerous storm surge conditions in particular,

and that they bring an extremely life-threatening situation for the state's western coast.

Milton is forecast across the state in a northeasterly direction exiting the East

coast somewhere between Daytona Beach and Stewart tomorrow morning. Florida

Governor Ron DeSantis told residents yesterday that time was running out before the storm made

landfill.

Prepare for the worst and let's pray that we get a weakening and hope for

the least amount of damage is possible but we must be prepared for a major, major impact to the west coast of Florida.

At least a million people have been placed under evacuation orders in at least 16 counties.

For more on the atmosphere on the ground I caught up with USA Today

National Correspondent Trevor Hughes as the Tampa area prepared for the storm yesterday.

Trevor I appreciate you hopping on today. Absolutely, good to be here.

So Trevor Milton is still barreling toward the Florida coast.

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