If it's Thursday, rescue and recovery now underway after Hurricane Milton tears through Florida as a powerful category 3 storm killing at least 12 people and causing massive power outages, heavy

flooding and billions of dollars worth of destruction.

Plus former President Barack Obama hits the campaign trail for Harris for the first

time kicking off his

get out the vote efforts as both campaigns look to fire up their base and

rallying crucial voters to the polls with just 26 days to go. And former President Trump tells voters

he doesn't want to be nice to Vice President Harris

as he ramps up the personal attacks on her

and blast the White House for its disaster response. Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Kristen Welker. We begin with

breaking news out of Florida where we now are seeing the extent of the devastation caused by Hurricane Milton after it made

landfall yesterday near Siesta, Key, Florida, a barrier island of Sarasota.

At least 12 people were killed more than 3 million lost power and 11

million were at risk of flash flooding and river flooding. Governor

Ron DeSantis has been traveling through the state and assessing the damage.

As people know, we've had massive power outages,

which was expected.

I'd say this is probably similar to hurricanes Irma and Ian in terms of the number of outages.

I think we're up to, I think currently now it's about 3.4 million that are out. I think they've restored about 700,000 since the storm

started. This is something that the state has dealt with for its entire history.

And it's something that will continue to be to deal with. I think what's changed

is we've got 23 million people. A storm that hits is likely to hit more people

in property than it would have a hundred years ago.

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