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Speaker 1: International Correspondence with endsit Eye Insurance peace of mind for

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Speaker 1: New Zealand business. As Hurricane Milton inches its way closer

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Speaker 1: to land, we will take in out of US correspondent

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Speaker 1: Catherine Ferkin for the latest SCALTA.

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Speaker 2: Catherine, good afternoon, How are you very well?

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Speaker 1: Thank you and glad that I am not in Florida

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Speaker 1: right now. This Hurricane Milton looks like an absolute monster,

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Speaker 1: a behemoth. Are people heeding the evacuation warnings?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, well, generally people are.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it truly is a dire situation here for

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Speaker 3: millions of people in Milton's path, Jack, I mean, the

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Speaker 3: latest information we have is that this hurricane has re

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Speaker 3: intensified to a Category five, that is a monster storm.

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Speaker 3: It's currently whipping up winds of more than two hundred

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Speaker 3: and sixty five kilometers in the hour, and frighteningly, it

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Speaker 3: looks set to make a direct hit on Tampa sometime

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Speaker 3: in the next twenty four to thirty six hours. Now,

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Speaker 3: with the situation only getting worse, we have seen those

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Speaker 3: mandatory evacuations extended across much of Florida's west coast.

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Speaker 2: The thing that's just really truly tragic.

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Speaker 3: I think, is that so many of these communities are

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Speaker 3: only just starting the cleanup after Hurricane Helene hit only

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Speaker 3: a fortnight ago. I've been looking at places like Treasure Island,

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Speaker 3: where people's homes are literally strewn across their front yards,

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Speaker 3: and the concern there is that all that debris and

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Speaker 3: building rubble and bits of furniture that's been tossed around

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Speaker 3: will now act like projectiles when Hurricane Milton hits. So

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Speaker 3: there's a real race there for authorities and residents to

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Speaker 3: try and clear the debris, secure their homes, but then

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Speaker 3: also get well away from the town and from that

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Speaker 3: west coast altogether. The big risk for people who choose

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Speaker 3: to stay in any of these low lying areas is,

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Speaker 3: of course, the storm surge. They're predicting up to four

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Speaker 3: and a half meters of storm surge, and the message

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Speaker 3: from authorities is if that hits, it simply won't be survivable.

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Speaker 3: So people really need to be heating these evacuation messages.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting because hurricanes are so slow moving. It's this

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Speaker 1: really agonizing period where you are waiting for it to

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Speaker 1: make landfall. But what a forecast is saying is that

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Speaker 1: any possibility that this hurricane might actually move out to

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Speaker 1: seeing that the main land might be speared.

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Speaker 3: Look, there is a possibility, it's not looking very likely

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Speaker 3: at the moment. Unfortunately, things just seem to be getting

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Speaker 3: worse and worse and worse. I mean, we're not expecting

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Speaker 3: it to hit as a Category five. They're still hoping

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Speaker 3: it will de intensify down to probably a category three,

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Speaker 3: but the concern is that it's likely to double in size.

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Speaker 3: You know, they are slow moving, but they're also potentially

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Speaker 3: so deadly and so unpredictable. At the moment, we're even

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Speaker 3: expecting that areas further inland, like Orlando could be hit there.

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Speaker 2: Of course they're not going to get storm surge.

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Speaker 3: But they are at risk of potentially deadly flooding from rain.

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Speaker 2: They're expecting more than thirty cent meets.

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Speaker 3: In places like that, So we really are expecting this

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Speaker 3: is going to be chaotic. Hopefully there's a bit of

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Speaker 3: a miracle overnight here and it does, you know, potentially

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Speaker 3: go right off the coast, but it's unfortunately not looking

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Speaker 3: that way. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now Donald Trump's interesting relationship with Vladimir Putin is out

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Speaker 1: in the open even more than beforehand, thanks to once

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Speaker 1: again a new book by Bob Woodward.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, these are really quite extraordinary claims from Bob Woodwood.

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Speaker 3: I mean they suggest a much deeper and more close

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Speaker 3: relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Pusin. Then certainly the

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Speaker 3: former president would hope to present essentially in this new book.

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Speaker 3: Journalist Woodwood says that Trump and Prusin continue to interact

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Speaker 3: after the former president left office, and that the two

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Speaker 3: leaders had as many as seven phone calls since twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty one.

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Speaker 2: One of the other bombshell.

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Speaker 3: Allegations in this book that's interesting is that supposedly there

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Speaker 3: was this secret shipment of COVID supplies sent by Donald

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Speaker 3: Trump to Prutin during the early days of the pandemic

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty that Russia and the US were essentially

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Speaker 3: exchanging medical equipment, including ventilators.

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Speaker 2: Now, this new book titled.

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Speaker 3: War isn't officially released until October fifteen, but CNN managed

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Speaker 3: to get an early copy and they've released this information.

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Speaker 3: It's of course not made the Trump campaign particularly happy.

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Speaker 2: They have responded.

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Speaker 3: In fact, we've heard from Trump's communications director Stephen Shung.

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Speaker 3: He's gone as far as to say that the book

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Speaker 3: simply belongs in a bargain bin He's released an email

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Speaker 3: statement saying none of these made up stories by Bob

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Speaker 3: Woodwood are true and they are the work of a

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Speaker 3: truly demented and deranged man.

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Speaker 2: But of course Bob.

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Speaker 3: Woodwood is a veteran investigative journalist. He's probably best known

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Speaker 3: for his work on the Watergate scandal back in the

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Speaker 3: early nineteen seventies.

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Speaker 2: So certainly people are.

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Speaker 3: Not so quick to dismiss these allegations. But Jack, whether

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Speaker 3: or not this is going to be enough to shift

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Speaker 3: things in terms of the election, I think is probably

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Speaker 3: not particularly likely. I've found extraordinary this campaign is that

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Speaker 3: we've had such a chaotic race and yet the Neil

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Speaker 3: really hasn't moved too much as far as polling is concerned.

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Speaker 3: We're still on track for an incredibly tight race. And

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Speaker 3: I don't think these allegations, as interesting as they are,

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Speaker 3: are going to change people's minds just one month out

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Speaker 3: from the election.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I tend to agree with you on that one.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Catherine. That is US correspondent Katherine Ferkin.

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