The Arkansas National Guard has dispatched a Black Hawk helicopter and crew to storm-ravaged Florida in advance of a still-bigger storm due to hit Wednesday.

Governor Tate Reeves (R-Miss.) announced he approved the deployment of 22 soldiers of the Mississippi National Guard (MSNG) to Tallahassee, Florida. The soldiers will support emergency response missions in Florida in the anticipated aftermath of Hurricane Milton.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, Governor Ron DeSantis is set to hold a news conference to give updates on the impacts of the storm.

About 3.1 million utility accounts in Florida are without power, and at least 48 people have been rescued by first responders since Hurricane Milton made landfall Wednesday evening. At a Thursday morning press conference at the state Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee,

Milton was a Category 4 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico Monday morning Eastern time, the National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory. The hurricane had sustained wind speeds of 155 miles per hour.

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