Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst.

Utility crews are working to restore power in Florida

after Hurricane Milton struck Wednesday.

In St. Lucie County, residents are also assessing the damage after tornadoes touchdown hours

before Milton made landfall.

And Perisserio Martinez Beltron has more.

St Lucie County officials say more than 100 homes were damaged or destroyed by the tornadoes.

Shane Ostrander was one of the people who had to take cover in his Ford Pierce, Florida home.

The only place that the roof stayed was where we were in a closet in that back room.

Ostrander's home was destroyed but he and his wife Nicole were left unscathed.

In a neighboring senior living community called the Spanish Lakes Country Club Village, at least six people were killed by the tornadoes.

Recovery efforts for Hurricane Milton are along the way across the state, according to the Florida Division of Emergency Management.

Sergio Martinez-M-PR News, Fort Pierce, Florida.

The United Nations says efforts to evacuate patients from hospitals in northern Gaza were delayed again yesterday

because of heavy fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas militants.

Empiers Jackie Northern reports from Tel Aviv the fighting is also preventing critically needed

food from reaching the area. The UN says a convoy of ambulances dispatched from

the south of Gaza was blocked Friday by the Israeli military despite earlier being given the green light to enter the area.

The Israeli military ordered a mass evacuation of Northern Gaza a week ago,

including several hospitals, to root out Hamas militants, particularly around the

Jabalia refugee camp. The UN's World Food Program says that kitchens and bakeries in

North Gaza were forced to shut down because of Israeli airstrikes, ground operations, and

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