Millions urged to leave Florida ahead of Hurricane Milton's landfall
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall on Wednesday night near Tampa Bay and evacuation orders are in place for millions of people in Florida. So how is climate change making hurricanes worse and how will the US pay for the damage?
Also in the programme: more than one million people have been forced to flee their houses in Lebanon because of the war and there are concerns about tens of thousands of mostly-female, live-in domestic workers being abandoned by their employers; and a new report into the global second-hand clothes market says it can play a role in driving sustainable growth both in Europe and in Africa.
(Photo: Florida prepares for landfall of hurricane Milton, Fort Myers, USA. Credit: Cristobal Herrera-Ulashkevich/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newsa from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.5 | We're coming to you live from London. I'm James Menendez. |
| 0:10.4 | Some of the images are startling. |
| 0:12.6 | Take this one, a dead straight highway at dusk. |
| 0:15.6 | The clouds looming ominously. |
| 0:17.6 | On one side, it's completely empty. |
| 0:20.0 | On the other, a long queue of cars, bumper bumper to bumper full of people in their |
| 0:24.2 | possessions trying to get out get out that is of the way of Hurricane Milton a powerful |
| 0:30.3 | storm that's barreling its way towards the US state of Florida. 28 |
| 0:34.8 | counties are under a hurricane warning is expected to make landfall tonight local |
| 0:40.5 | time close to Tampa Bay with its population of more than 3 million. |
| 0:45.0 | On Tuesday President Biden urged people who've been told to evacuate to leave immediately. |
| 0:51.0 | Most importantly |
| 0:54.4 | located in Hurricane Billon's path to listen to local officials and follow |
| 0:58.8 | safety instructions. You all have been reporting on the highways |
| 1:01.8 | shoulders being opened, everybody's heading out. |
| 1:05.2 | And if you're under evacuation orders, you should evacuate now, now, now, you should have |
| 1:10.7 | already evacuated. It's a matter of life and death, |
| 1:14.0 | and that's not hyperbole, it's a matter of life and death. |
| 1:17.4 | A message underlined in brutal fashion by the mayor of Tampa who said anyone who was |
| 1:21.6 | told to leave and didn't was going to die. It is a double |
| 1:26.0 | blow for this part of the US. Less than two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene hit the Gulf Coast |
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