Hurricane Milton left a trail of destruction in Florida after making landfall on Wednesday evening as a Category 3 storm. The monster hurricane slammed into the state's west coast, near Siesta Key in Sarasota County,

After making landfall in Florida with a Category 3 status, Hurricane Milton had weakened to a Category 1 storm early Thursday morning. As of 4 a.m. Eastern Time, Milton had maximum sustained winds of 85 miles per hour and was "moving offshore" as it neared Cape Canaveral,

President Joe Biden warned that Milton could be one of the worst storms to hit Florida in a century and urged residents to leave “now, now, now.”