CNN: Hurricane Milton Makes Landfall, Tampa Area Is Being Hit with Worst Rain and Wind

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COOPER: "But we are really now in, I think, what is the worst that this has been thus far, certainly in this area, and we‘re checking in with our correspondents all throughout the region. Carlos Suarez is down in Fort Myers. Carlos, how is it — how is it there right now?"

SUAREZ: "Anderson, things have really not gotten a whole lot better since the last time I spoke to you in the last hour. As you can see behind me, we have lost power here in Fort Myers, in downtown fort Myers. The flooding at this point really just — has not stopped. According to our meteorology department, the storm surge here in Fort Myers at this hour is about five feet. That number, we expect, could possibly double through the night and into tomorrow. This part of Fort Myers Beach, we expect it to flood. Right now, you can't make up behind me a whole lot because there‘s no power and the winds and the rain, but the Caloosahatchee River runs parallel to where we‘re going live for right now, and that river really started breaching hours ago. And so at this point, as far as I can see from where I live right now, all of this water is being pushed this way by the storm surge that‘s coming in from the Gulf of Mexico. And what‘s happening out here is, we‘re seeing the rainfall, we‘re seeing the flooding, we‘re seeing the storm surge. It‘s all coming together ahead of high tide.”