Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida as a Category 3 hurricane, with sustained winds of more than 100 miles per hour. Milton landed near Sarasota, about 70 miles south of Tampa, at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday. St. Petersburg recorded more than 16 inches of rain, prompting the National Weather Service to warn of flash flooding there as well as in other parts of western and central Florida. More than 3 million homes and businesses were without power early Thursday, according to PowerOutage.us.
Two people were killed and a building was set ablaze in a northern Israeli city on Wednesday after the Hezbollah terrorist group fired a barrage of rockets from Lebanon. And in central Israel, six people were wounded when a terrorist went on a stabbing spree. Israel’s defense minister warned on Wednesday that his country’s retaliation for a recent Iranian missile attack will be “lethal” and “surprising.”
Former President Donald Trump is returning to New York City in the final stretch of the race for the White House. He has scheduled a rally at Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden at the end of October. Trump has also held rallies in the South Bronx and Uniondale, Long Island. He says that he can win New York, even though it has long been a Democratic stronghold.
