More than five and a half a million people are under voluntary or mandatory

evacuation orders in Florida tonight as the state braces for the impact

of Hurricane Milton. Tolls were waved and highway

shoulders were opened to try and ease clogging as Florida residents took to the

roads to get out of the storm's way. Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall in Florida

late tomorrow night or early Thursday morning and while anything could change in the

next 24 hours Milton is expected to drive straight through Central Florida, the first

direct strike by a hurricane for areas like Tampa and more than a century.

The mayor of Tampa issued this stark warning to his residence. If you choose to stay in one of these

evacuation areas, you are going to die. Now, even in less extreme circumstances preparing for a natural disaster is always a challenge.

The government has to coordinate between state and local and federal agencies.

Those agencies then not only have to prepare

for the physical impacts of the disaster,

they have to effectively communicate

to the media and to the public

how they should prepare and respond.

So coordinating all of that is a really, really challenging task.

And now, thanks to Donald Trump,

that task has gotten even harder. We are barely a week past

the destruction that Hurricane Helene wrought in six states across the country

destroying thousands of homes and killing at least 223 people.

And already Donald Trump is lying about it.

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