Hurricane Milton remains a ferocious storm that could land a once-in-a-century direct hit on Tampa and St. Petersburg, engulfing the populous region with towering storm surges and turning debris from Helene’s devastation two weeks ago into projectiles. NASA released footage of the view of Milton from the International Space Station on Tuesday, Oct. 8 as it approached as a Category 4 storm. The National Hurricane Center predicted Milton, which fluctuated between categories 4 and 5 as it approached, would be a major and extremely dangerous storm when its center makes landfall late Wednesday, Oct 9 or early Thursday, Oct 10. Milton looms in the Gulf less than two weeks after a catastrophic Hurricane Helene swamped the coastline and killed more than 230 people in several Southeast states. MORE: https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/hurricane-milton-from-space-nearing-florida/507-2357a8c2-8213-42b0-8f29-b42edf5534a1#:~:text=The%20National%20Hurricane,several%20Southeast%20states.