Tonight the rising death toll here in Florida after Hurricane Milton left a path of destruction and left millions without power tonight

The monster hurricane roaring ashore on Florida's West Coast as a major category 3 storm and unleashing a deadly

tornado outbreak at least 12 killed more than 3 million homes and businesses

without power the new images of devastation, homes destroyed, neighborhoods underwater. Boats

tossed onto land, the roof of Tropicana Field with a Tampa Bay

raised play shredded by the wind and a massive construction crane

collapsing onto the street. Also the dramatic water rescue still playing out

first responders using boats to reach families trapped in their homes.

A man clinging to a cooler 30 miles out to see rescued by a Coast Guard chopper.

The harrowing stories of survival, the man speaking out from his hospital bed after a tornado flipped over his truck

FEMA saying more than a thousand staffers are on the ground but after a year of relentless disasters

How thin is FEMA stretched

our full team coverage in the storm zone tonight.

Plus President Biden once again tearing into former President Trump

for spreading storm misinformation telling him to quote get a life

as Kamala Harris gets some high-powered help on the campaign trail.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Live from the site of Hurricane Milton's landfall in Siesta Key, Florida.

Good evening from Siesta Key, the impact point for Hurricane Milton where last night the

much feared storm made landfall as a category 3 hurricane. At the time it

was spinning winds of about 120 miles per hours. It hit the west coast of this state.

As of tonight it was attributed at least a dozen deaths to the storm which raced across and away from the Florida peninsula earlier today

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