A matter of life and death’: Florida braces for deadly Hurricane Milton to make landfall

The US state of Florida has seen its largest evacuation in at least a decade as Hurricane Milton edges closer to shore.

More than five million residents have been told to leave before the Category 4 system bears down on the state’s West Coast.

Milton is being labelled the worst storm to make landfall in more than a century.

“It’s literally a matter of life and death,” President Joe Biden said.