(Miami, FL) -- The sun is revealing the storm battered Florida west coast. Milton made landfall last night as a powerful Category 3 hurricane just south of Sarasota, leaving at least four dead and millions without power. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says Hurricane Milton was significant but it's not a worst case scenario situation as it exited the state and headed out to the Atlantic. Search and rescue teams are going through the rubble.
DeSantis says there were 19 confirmed tornado touch downs due to the storm, but that number is expected to rise.
Onthe forecast track, the center of Milton will continue to move away from the east coast of Florida and pass north of the northwestern
Bahamas today.
Maximum sustained winds are near 80 mph (130 km/h) with higher gusts. Milton is forecast to become a powerful post-tropical storm
this afternoon or evening, with gradual weakening expected during the next several days.
WATCHES AND WARNINGS
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CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY:
The Hurricane Warning from Sebastian Inlet to the Flagler/Volusia
County Line has been changed to a Tropical Storm Warning.
The Tropical Storm Warning has been discontinued south of Sebastian
Inlet and for Lake Okeechobee.
The government of the Bahamas has discontinued the Tropical Storm
Warning for Bimini.
SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:
A Storm Surge Warning is in effect for...
* Sebastian Inlet Florida to Altamaha Sound Georgia, including the
St. Johns River
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for...
* Sebastian Inlet Florida northward to Edisto Beach South Carolina
* Extreme northwestern Bahamas, including Grand Bahama Island and
the Abacos