Hours after Hurricane Milton slammed Florida’s Gulf Coast, residents and officials in the region have headed to the streets, surveying the damage and cleaning up debris left by the major storm. Category 3 Milton,

Here's what's happening with Hurricane Milton in less than a minute. Almost 12 hours after making landfall, Hurricane Milton was in the Atlantic, still as a hurricane.

Milton caused at least four deaths and compounded the misery wrought by Helene while sparing Tampa a direct hit. The storm tracked to the south in the final hours and made landfall late Wednesday as a Category 3 storm in Siesta Key, about 70 miles south of Tampa.