1
00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,960
Speaker 1: Right outside Richard morning. What they seem to have done

2
00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,480
Speaker 1: all they can and they're just waiting. Well, we'll find

3
00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,000
Speaker 1: out whether they've done all they can. Certainly a lot

4
00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:11,559
Speaker 1: of people are heading out of town right now. But

5
00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,680
Speaker 1: let's start with this. Hurricanes are unpredictable, but this latest

6
00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:18,040
Speaker 1: Hurricane Milton is grabbing a lot of attention because last

7
00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:20,520
Speaker 1: night again strength so fast. It became one of the

8
00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:25,079
Speaker 1: strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded. That had some Florida weather

9
00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:28,639
Speaker 1: forecasters in tears on air, literally tearing up at what

10
00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:30,880
Speaker 1: they were seeing with the numbers coming through. Here's John

11
00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,040
Speaker 1: Morales of NBC Miami.

12
00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:33,960
Speaker 2: It has dropped.

13
00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:36,479
Speaker 1: He's choken up here.

14
00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:46,560
Speaker 2: He has dropped fifty millibars in ten hours. I apologize,

15
00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:47,400
Speaker 2: this is just.

16
00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,239
Speaker 1: Horrific. Yeah, what happened is that it went from a

17
00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,760
Speaker 1: Category one storm to a Cat five with top wind

18
00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,200
Speaker 1: speeds of get this, two hundred and ninety kilometers an

19
00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:02,640
Speaker 1: hour in just a short period, Morales warns, just gaining.

20
00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:04,600
Speaker 2: Strength in the Gulf of Mexico, where you can imagine

21
00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:09,160
Speaker 2: the winds, I mean, the seas are just so incredibly

22
00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:13,000
Speaker 2: incredibly hot, a record hot as you might imagine. You

23
00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:15,000
Speaker 2: know what's driving that I don't need to tell you

24
00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:16,600
Speaker 2: global warming climate change.

25
00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:18,920
Speaker 1: Well, since then, the storm has eased to a category

26
00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,919
Speaker 1: four and this is what typically happens. These hurricanes weaken

27
00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,520
Speaker 1: through what is called eyewall replacement. That's when the wall

28
00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,959
Speaker 1: of new thunderstorms forms right around the eye, so choking

29
00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,840
Speaker 1: off some of the new moisture coming in, but creating

30
00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:35,520
Speaker 1: in the process a much larger hurricane. As it nears land,

31
00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:38,399
Speaker 1: which is expected by early Thursday or time, it can

32
00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:40,560
Speaker 1: either strengthen again or week can we seen both in

33
00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,120
Speaker 1: the past. The other fact of this time is that

34
00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:45,680
Speaker 1: it seems to be headed towards Tampa Bay and Florida.

35
00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:49,800
Speaker 1: This place is specially vulnerable. It has a shallow seabed

36
00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,880
Speaker 1: which can send storm surges well on shore at maybe

37
00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:57,640
Speaker 1: four and a half meters high. Unsurvivable, warns Tampa's Mere

38
00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,240
Speaker 1: Jane Caster of this potential situation.

39
00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,080
Speaker 2: She says, if you choose to stay in one of

40
00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,040
Speaker 2: those evacuation areas, you're going to die.

41
00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:08,880
Speaker 1: That's the kind of warning that has more than a

42
00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,640
Speaker 1: million Floridians hitting the roads at the minute. Petrol stations

43
00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,440
Speaker 1: are running out of fuel. Traffic time surrendous, says one

44
00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,560
Speaker 1: driver who took eight hours, so doublely usual to get

45
00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:18,120
Speaker 1: out of town.

46
00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:20,400
Speaker 2: It is bumper to bumper to the point where we

47
00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:24,000
Speaker 2: were standstill, not moving for an hour at a time.

48
00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:26,480
Speaker 1: Of course, this is just two weeks since Hurricane Helene

49
00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,160
Speaker 1: hit in six states, especially North Carolina, one of the

50
00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,840
Speaker 1: least likely places, with more than two hundred people now

51
00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:35,200
Speaker 1: registered as killed and untold damages. The worst in recent

52
00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,519
Speaker 1: times because with Katrina in O five, thirteen hundred and

53
00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:41,880
Speaker 1: ninety two people died in that storm, damages of around

54
00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:46,079
Speaker 1: two hundred and four billion dollars New Zealand this time.

55
00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,639
Speaker 1: President Biden has canceled a foreign trip to Germany and Angolas,

56
00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:50,360
Speaker 1: saying this new storm could be the worst in the

57
00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,160
Speaker 1: region in a century. While the White House is unite

58
00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,760
Speaker 1: the slamming Trump for criticizing the Federal Emergency Services FEMA.

59
00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,560
Speaker 1: But we will see what happens. Where's the storm on Thursday?

60
00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,600
Speaker 1: Watching Wait meantime, Bob wood Wood's back. Yep, this country's

61
00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:05,640
Speaker 1: leading political reporter is about to come out with a

62
00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,120
Speaker 1: new book with some bomb shows right on the eve

63
00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:11,440
Speaker 1: of the elections. Folks talking about Woodward, who along with

64
00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,120
Speaker 1: Carl Bernstein, did the core reporting that forced Richard Nixon

65
00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,160
Speaker 1: from power during Watergoat. Of course, since then, Woodwoud has shown,

66
00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,800
Speaker 1: with a series of best selling political books and with

67
00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:21,680
Speaker 1: his time at The Washington Post that he has the

68
00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:24,640
Speaker 1: best high level political sources of anyone in the country.

69
00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:26,560
Speaker 1: His new book was called War and It comes out

70
00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,079
Speaker 1: next week. In it, he reveals that Trump secretly stayed

71
00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:34,040
Speaker 1: in touch with Russia's Putin after leaving office. It describes

72
00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,560
Speaker 1: a scene just this year at mare Lago, Trump's place

73
00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,520
Speaker 1: in Florida, when Trump ordered an eight out of his

74
00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,040
Speaker 1: office so he could speak with the Russian dictator. The

75
00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,640
Speaker 1: book indicates that these two have spoken at least seven times.

76
00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,720
Speaker 1: In one conversation during the height of COVID in twenty twenty,

77
00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,080
Speaker 1: when Trump still was in office, he agreed to send

78
00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:55,080
Speaker 1: Putin when they were rare Abbot COVID tests for the

79
00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,280
Speaker 1: Russian leader's personal use. Putin said to be particularly anxious

80
00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,080
Speaker 1: about being infected at the time. The book has part

81
00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,760
Speaker 1: of one conversation verbatim in it. Putin says, of the

82
00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,360
Speaker 1: COVID test quote, please don't tell anybody you sent these

83
00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,440
Speaker 1: to me. Trump replies, I don't care, fine, Putin, no, no,

84
00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,360
Speaker 1: I don't want you to tell anybody because people will

85
00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,400
Speaker 1: get mad at you, not me. They don't care about me,

86
00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:22,960
Speaker 1: so Putin, suggesting he cares what people think about Donald Trump.

87
00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:24,960
Speaker 1: Random ask good on you might't catch up soon. Rick

88
00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,279
Speaker 1: Judaranold's stateside, No, no, don't tell them.

89
00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:29,960
Speaker 2: These people run the world. Hard to believe, isn't it.

90
00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,279
Speaker 1: For more from The Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to

91
00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:33,960
Speaker 1: news talks.

92
00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:37,160
Speaker 2: It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast

93
00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:38,080
Speaker 2: on iHeartRadio.