Monster storm could be most destructive hurricane to ever hit America, meteorologists warn

TAMPA – Forecasters say Hurricane Milton has the potential to become one of the most destructive hurricanes on record for west-central Florida, which includes the Tampa area, as millions of residents continue to prepare for life-threatening impacts and evacuate the coast and other low-lying areas ahead of the monster storm’s arrival on Wednesday night as Hurricane and Storm Surge Warnings expand to the state’s east coast.

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On Monday, Hurricane Milton underwent rapid intensification and strengthened from a Category 1 hurricane to a near-record-breaking Category 5 hurricane with winds of 180 mph and a minimum central pressure of 897 millibars. Milton has since weakened to a Category 4 hurricane as the storm skirts the coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and is expected to remain an “extremely dangerous hurricane” through landfall along Florida’s west coast.

“It’s worth emphasizing that this is a very serious situation, and residents in Florida should closely follow orders from their local emergency management officials,” the NHC warned on Tuesday. “Milton has the potential to be one of the most destructive hurricanes on record for west-central Florida.”

The NHC said the central pressure within Hurricane Milton fell to the second-lowest pressure on record in the Gulf of Mexico and the lowest pressure in the Atlantic Basin since 2005.

In terms of maximum sustained winds, Milton has also become the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic Basin since Hurricane Dorian in 2019 and tied for the fourth-strongest storm since recordkeeping began. Hurricane Allen holds the top spot with maximum sustained winds that reached 190 mph in 1980.

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Florida residents flee, recovery resources staged

Hurricane Milton is likely to bring life-threatening impacts to Florida, including a deadly storm surge, destructive hurricane-force winds and flooding rain that has millions of residents finalizing their emergency plans, while countless others are packing up and fleeing the coast and other low-lying areas as state and local officials plead with people to listen to officials and leave if evacuations are ordered.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a State of Emergency over the weekend for 51 of the state’s 67 counties, and on Monday, President Joe Biden approved the state’s pre-landfall emergency declaration request, which now authorizes the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate all disaster relief efforts and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures.

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Local officials began to issue voluntary and mandatory evacuations for residents up and down Florida’s Gulf Coast, including Hillsborough County and Pinellas County, ahead of the storm, and traffic has been building on roads and highways since those evacuation orders were issued.

“Of course, we suspended the tolls along evacuation routes and the Florida Department of Transportation has opened roadway shoulders as necessary to facilitate evacuations and ease congestion on both I-4 and I-75,” DeSantis said.

Shelters have started opening for the thousands of Florida residents who have been told to evacuate for safety, and the state has partnered with Uber to provide residents with free rides to and from shelters for those trying to escape Milton’s eventual wrath.

To the north, Atlanta Motor Speedway said it was opening its campgrounds for evacuated Florida residents free of charge.  

The National Weather Service office in Tampa is warning of catastrophic damage and some homes may be uninhabitable “for weeks or months.”

“Structural damage to study buildings, some with complete roof and wall failures,” the NWS warned. “Complete destruction of mobile homes. Damage greatly accentuated by large airborne projectiles.”

Schools and universities across the region have been closed and resources have been staged to be ready to go to assist in recovery efforts once the storm passes and it’s safe to do so.

Travel is also expected to be significantly impacted by Hurricane Milton, with airports across the region announcing they will cease operations as Milton approaches.

“We have been dispatching fuel over the past 24 hours as gas stations have run out,” DeSantis said on Tuesday. “So, we currently have 268,000 gallons of diesel, 110,000 gallons of gasoline. Those numbers are less than what they were 24 hours ago because we’ve put a lot in.”

DeSantis said an additional 1.2 million gallons of diesel and gas was headed to Florida, and stressed there was no fuel shortage.

Tampa International Airport (TPA) suspended operations on Tuesday morning, while Orlando International Airport (MCO), Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW) in Fort Myers, and Melbourne Orlando International Airport (MLB) in Melbourne will close to commercial flights starting on Wednesday.

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What alerts are in effect because of Hurricane Milton?

The first tropical alerts were issued for the U.S. on Monday when Hurricane, Tropical Storm and Storm Surge Watches were issued for Florida’s Gulf Coast.

Those alerts have since expanded and upgraded to warnings as the dangerous situation continues to unfold and Milton gets closer to the Sunshine State.

Hurricane Warnings stretch across the Florida Peninsula from Cedar Key, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota and Fort Myers on the state’s west coast to Orlando in Central Florida and Daytona Beach and Melbourne on the state’s east coast.

Tropical Storm Warnings have also been expanded to cover all of South Florida, including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and the Florida Keys.

Farther north, Tropical Storm Warnings were also issued for Jacksonville, Perry, which was hit hard by Hurricane Helene two weeks ago, and Port St. Joe.

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Storm Surge Warnings were issued for Florida’s west coast on Monday, and there is the potential for a record storm surge in places like Tampa Bay. The Storm Surge Warnings were expanded to Florida’s east coast on Tuesday, and those stretch from Port Canaveral north to the mouth of the St. Mary’s River, including the St. Johns River.

“If you are in the Storm Surge Warning area, this is an extremely life-threatening situation, and you should evacuate today if ordered by local officials,” the NHC warned. “There will likely not be enough time to wait and leave on Wednesday.”

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A storm surge of up to 15 feet is possible for Tampa Bay, as well as from the Anclote River to Englewood, Florida.

A storm surge of 6-10 feet is possible from Englewood to Bonita Beach, as well as for Charlotte Harbor. 

The current storm surge forecast for Tampa Bay is up to 15 feet if the peak surge coincides with high tide. This is notably higher than during Helene, when Tampa Bay saw 7-8 feet of storm surge.

What’s the latest with Hurricane Milton?

Hurricane Milton is located about 520 miles southwest of Tampa, Florida, and has maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, making it a strong Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

Milton is moving off to the east-northeast at 9 mph.

What is the forecast for Hurricane Milton?

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Milton is moving off to the east-northeast, and a turn to the northeast is expected on Tuesday and Wednesday. On that track, the center of Milton is expected to move north of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday and approach the west coast of Florida on Wednesday.

Milton is forecast to make landfall in Florida Wednesday night as a major hurricane (Category 3 or higher).

President Biden promotes press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to new top role

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre received a promotion to senior adviser to the president Monday.

“Karine has been a trusted advisor to the President and all of us here at the White House since day one. Her counsel will be critical to get as much done as possible for the American people in the coming months,” White House chief of staff Jeff Zients told ABC News.

ABC News reported Jean-Pierre would begin the role “effective immediately” while still maintaining her job as press secretary. This would be the first time in decades a press secretary has also served as a senior adviser.

A White House official also told ABC News how “her promotion shows the faith that Biden has in her, as well as his commitment to having diverse and inter-generational voices guiding him in his decisions.”

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Fox News Digital reached out to the White House.

Earlier this year, reports suggested there were inside efforts to remove Jean-Pierre as press secretary.

The New York Post reported in April that Biden insiders, including Zients and longtime senior adviser Anita Dunn, were recruiting prominent Democrats to convince Jean-Pierre to step down after what they considered to be a poor job.

Sources told the Post that the press secretary relied too much on her notes to be able to provide the quick-thinking pushback needed in the role, with one arguing that she “doesn’t have an understanding of the issues” despite Jean-Pierre thinking that she’s “doing an amazing job.”

Deputy White House press secretary Andrew Bates denied those allegations at the time.

“Not only are these claims wildly false, but the reality is the polar opposite. Karine was never approached by anyone with such a message. She spends four hours preparing every day. And neither Jeff nor Anita did any such thing; both have been unflinchingly supportive of her,” Bates told the Post.

Regarding Jean-Pierre’s reliance on notes, he added, “Every press secretary uses the binder. Why is she being singled out?”

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Jean-Pierre has also had several contentious moments with the press since taking on the job in May 2022. The press has repeatedly called her out for refusing to answer questions regarding controversial issues such as Biden’s age and health.

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Jean-Pierre got into a contentious exchange with Fox News’ Peter Doocy Monday over hurricane disaster funding, with the press secretary calling the premise of the senior White House correspondent’s question “misinformation.”

DeSantis fires back at Harris’ ‘selfish’ slam over ‘dodged’ call: ‘No role’ in hurricane response

Gov. Ron DeSantis hit back at Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday during an interview on Fox News’ “Hannity,” as the Florida governor prepares for another hurricane, Hurricane Milton, to hit the state. 

“For Kamala Harris to try to say my sole focus on the people of Florida is somehow selfish is delusional,” DeSantis said. “She has no role in this, in fact, she’s been vice president for three and a half years, I’ve dealt with a number of storms under this administration, she’s never contributed anything to any of these efforts.” 

NBC News, and later ABC News, reported on Monday that the Florida governor was not taking calls from Harris regarding storm recovery efforts, citing unnamed aides to the governor who said the calls seemed political in nature.

Asked by Fox News’ Sean Hannity if she has ever called before while preparing for hurricanes, DeSantis said, “no.”

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“She has no role in this process. I’m in contact with the President of the United States. I’m in contact with the FEMA director, I’m obviously managing all of our state agencies, we’re supporting all our local government,” he added. 

When Harris was asked about DeSantis reportedly dodging her phone calls on Monday, the vice president accused him of playing politics. 

“People are in desperate need of support right now and playing political games at this moment in these crisis situations … is just utterly irresponsible, and it is selfish,” Harris said to reporters on Monday. “It is about political gamesmanship, instead of doing the job that you took an oath to do, which is to put the people first.”

DeSantis said he worked well with both the Trump and the Biden administrations when it came to dealing with hurricane preparation and response efforts.

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“She’s the first one who’s trying to politicize the storm, and she’s doing that just because of her campaign,” DeSantis said. “I don’t have time for political games. I’ve got people whose lives are on the line, I’ve got people whose homes and possessions are on the line, and we are focused 100% on that mission.”

Regarding the White House response, spokesperson Andrew Bates told Fox News Digital, “A wide range of leaders in both parties and from every affected state have praised the bipartisan response to Hurricane Helene. The Republican governor of South Carolina, Henry McMaster, has called the response ‘superb.’ Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, a Republican, said, ‘They’re doing a great job.’ Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer said, ‘We are seeing incredible help from the Federal government to the state.’ The Republican governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, has said he ‘appreciated’ President’s Biden’s offer to ‘call him directly’ with any ‘other things we need.’”

Bates then listed other Republican officials, including the Republican governor of Virginia and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who offered praise for Biden. 

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Milton is looking to be the second powerful hurricane Florida and other states are preparing for, following deadly damage from Hurricane Helene.

Jets stun NFL, make head coaching move just 5 games into season

The New York Jets made the first stunning head-coaching decision of the 2024 season on Tuesday as they reportedly fired Robert Saleh after five games.

ESPN first reported the decision. Jeff Ulbrich will reportedly take over as the team’s interim head coach. He started the season as the Jets’ defensive coordinator.

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Jest chairman Woody Johnson confirmed the decision in a statement.

“This was not an easy decision, but we are not where we should be given our expectations, and I believe now is the best time for us to move in a different direction,” the statement read.

Saleh’s dismissal came more than a day after the Jets lost to the now-undefeated Minnesota Vikings in London. The offense has sputtered through the first games with a presumably healthy Aaron Rodgers under center for the team.

New York is 25th in points scored and 27th in yards gained while having a top five defense.

Rodgers has performed like a 40-year-old quarterback who is coming off of an Achilles tear. He has 1,093 passing yards, seven touchdown passes and four interceptions.

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It’s unclear what exactly sparked Saleh’s firing. But rumors of a rift between Rodgers and Saleh were sparked after an odd interaction during the team’s win over the New England Patriots in Week 3.

The noise got louder after the Jets lost to the Denver Broncos in Week 4. New York only scored nine points in the game. Rodgers and Saleh both did gymnastics trying to maintain the line that they had a good relationship.

Now, the focus is on the Buffalo Bills for a Monday night game.

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Saleh had been the Jets’ head coach since 2021 after spending four seasons as the San Francisco 49ers’ defensive coordinator. He was 20-36 as the Jets’ head coach and never won more than seven games while at the helm.

Vulnerable Dem turns on Biden over DEI after universities stripped of federal funds

FIRST ON FOX – Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., is calling on President Biden and his administration’s Department of Education to promptly reverse a grant rejection for Montana universities because of a failure to meet certain diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) hiring standards. 

In a statement exclusively to Fox News Digital, the senator said, “The Biden Administration’s decision to strip critical funding from local schools is just another example of one-size-fits-all policies from Washington bureaucrats who don’t understand Montana.”

“I’m calling on the Biden Administration and the Department of Education to immediately reverse this decision, because Montana’s students are more important than [made-up] D.C. hiring practices.”

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Tester, who is fighting for his political life in a competitive re-election match in a traditionally Republican state, first voiced his concerns about the grant rejection due to insufficiently diverse hiring practices in a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona last month.

“I am deeply troubled by indications that the Department rejected Montana’s application based primarily on an unfair scoring decision related to subjective diversity hiring requirements that failed to recognize the work already being done on this front,” he wrote.

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The senator’s office revealed that after 25 years of receiving the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) grant, Biden’s DOE rejected the Montana university systems’ federal funding because Montana supposedly did not include sufficient details about its hiring practices for “a diverse group of individuals.”

According to Tester, the denial was “embarrassing” for the DOE. 

The DOE told Fox News Digital it had received the letter and was in the process of reviewing it. Tester’s office confirmed that it had yet to receive a response despite reaching out on Sept. 9. 

The pointed criticism of the Biden administration’s implementation of DEI standards sets him apart from his party, which has been generally supportive of the initiatives. On the other hand, Republicans have criticized the continued efforts to prioritize diversity over merit in hiring. 

In less than a month, the Montana Democrat will face off in one of the most competitive races in the country against Republican candidate Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL. Recently, several political handicappers have indicated Sheehy has the advantage going into the election. 

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A spokesperson for Sheehy’s campaign criticized Tester’s stance against the Biden administration on DEI, telling Fox News Digital, “Jon Tester loved the radical Left’s Woke agenda when he voted to exclude white farmers from getting assistance just because they were white, supported AOC’s Green New Deal moving forward, and blamed Biden’s border crisis on Climate Change.”

“After voting 95% of the time with Biden and Harris, Two-Faced Tester is doing the Tester Two-Step just ahead of an election because he’s a desperate career politician making an all-out effort to save his political career that made him rich in Washington.”

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Tester voted in line with Biden 90% of the time in the last Congress, according to FiveThirtyEight. In the first half of the 118th Congress, he voted with the president roughly 95%. 

The three-term senator has held off explicitly endorsing Vice President Harris in the presidential election, repeatedly telling reporters he is focused on Montana and his own race. 

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However, critics have pushed back at this, pointing to reports that the senator was responsible for recruiting Harris to run for Senate in 2015 when he served as chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Tester’s campaign did not provide comment to Fox News Digital in time for publication.

‘The View’ co-host defends Harris with apparent Freudian slip about Biden

While defending Vice President Kamala Harris, “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg referred to President Biden as “our acting president” on Monday.

The ABC morning program commented on Harris’ appearance on the popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast last week and the start of what some are referring to as a “media blitz” by Harris, who has started making more stops on podcasts, radio shows and other programs. On Tuesday, she will do interviews with “The View,” Howard Stern and Stephen Colbert.

The panel praised Harris’ media tour for reaching out to voters, with Goldberg pointing out that she is still the vice president alongside the “acting president.”

“I think people should just know it is not easy to do what she’s doing. Because she’s still also the vice president, so she’s still got other things she’s supposed to be doing, as does our acting president Joe Biden,” Goldberg said, in an apparent Freudian slip.

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The term “acting president” historically refers to people who temporarily hold the position while the actual president is incapacitated, such as the vice president assuming the powers of the office while the president is having a medical procedure done. Biden stepped aside from seeking the 2024 Democratic nomination amid growing party concerns about his mental acuity and ability to defeat Donald Trump. 

Other women on the panel also complimented Harris’ upcoming media appearances, particularly her attention to podcasts.

“I’ve been saying for a while she should be doing these podcasts because one thing people are doing with their podcasts is everything else in their life. You can listen to a podcast and conquer life. So the amount in these audiences she’s reaching is fascinating, and she is hitting it all,” Sara Haines said.

Alyssa Farah Griffin added, “I think it’s incredibly smart. I would have done it two months ago, but I’m glad she did it.”

In a fiery rant, Ana Navarro complained how “[t]here’s been a lot of moaning and groaning for weeks now that Kamala Harris hasn’t been doing interviews.”

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She listed out Harris’ past media appearances, such as her online campaign rally with supporter Oprah Winfrey in September. Her interviews on Tuesday will all be with open Harris supporters.

“What more do you all want?” Navarro asked, leading to the audience cheering.

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Mayor found brutally murdered just days after taking office in city under cartel control

The mayor of a violence-plagued city in Mexico was killed on Sunday with his decapitated body left in a pickup truck and his severed head placed atop the vehicle’s roof. 

Alejandro Arcos, 43, was killed just six days after he took office as mayor of the city of Chilpancingo, a city of around 280,000 people in southwestern Mexico. 

The city, the capital of Guerrero state, is so violent that a drug gang openly staged a demonstration, hijacked a government armored car and took police hostage in 2023 to win the release of arrested suspects. 

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Images of what appeared to be Arcos’ severed head atop a white pick-up truck have been circulating on social media. In other images, his headless body partially covered with a blanket can be seen in the passenger side of the truck.

Arcos’ social media posts leading up to his death showed him supervising disaster relief efforts following the impact of Hurricane John last month, which caused severe flooding in beach resort Acapulco and surrounding towns.

Mourners, including Arcos’ wife, attended a funeral for the slain official on Monday.

“His loss mourns the entire Guerrero society and fills us with indignation,” Guerrero Governor Evelyn Salgado said in a statement shared on social media.

Alejandro Moreno, the national leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, lamented Arcos’ killing and said it came just three days after the new city government’s secretary, Francisco Tapia, was shot to death. 

“They had been in office less than a week,” Moreno wrote on his social media accounts. “They were young and honest public servants who were seeking progress for their community.”

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Moreno called on the federal attorney general’s office to lead the investigation into Arcos and Tapia’s murders, given “the situation of ungovernability in Guerrero.”

Guerrero has become one of the deadliest states for aspiring and elected public officials, as well as for journalists. At least six candidates for public office were killed in the state in the run-up to Mexico’s June 2 elections.

Bloody turf battles have raged between two drug gangs, the Ardillos and the Tlacos. The battle has resulted in dozens of gruesome killings and some high-profile scandals.

A previous mayor was caught on video apparently holding a meeting with leaders of one of the gangs at a restaurant. She was subsequently expelled from her party.

In July 2023, federal officials said a demonstration held by hundreds of people in Chilpancingo that month had been organized by the Ardillos gang to win the release of two gang leaders arrested for drugs and weapons possession.

The demonstrators largely blocked all traffic on the highway between Mexico City and Acapulco for two days, battled security forces and commandeered a police armored truck and used it to ram down the gates of the state legislature building.

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The demonstrators abducted 10 members of the state police and National Guard, as well as three state and federal officials, and held them hostage to enforce their demands before releasing them.

Last week, the Mexican army seized the weapons of local police in the cartel-dominated city of Culiacan in the country’s northwest Sinaloa state, as violence and gunfights have ravaged that city in recent weeks also. The Mexican army has been known to seize weapons from distrusted police forces it suspects of either being involved in aiding the cartel, or over concerns the units were carrying unregistered arms that made abuses harder to trace. 

FDA urges consumers to discard millions of eggs as recall reaches highest level

Officials are continuing to warn consumers about an ongoing egg recall that has now been upgraded to Class I, meaning that the eggs may cause “serious adverse health consequences or death.”

Milo’s Poultry Farms LLC, which is based in Bonduel, Wisconsin, has been recalling its eggs since September, when officials tied the eggs to a salmonella outbreak. The recall pertains to all eggs branded “Milo’s Poultry Farms” and “Tony’s Fresh Market” with all expiration dates.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed the recall’s latest Class I status to FOX Business on Monday.  The FDA’s website says that Class I recalls are “situation[s] in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.”

According to the FDA’s website, the recall impacts 345,417 dozen cartons of eggs – equaling more than four million eggs in total. The eggs were sold to stores and restaurants in Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan over the summer.

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The CDC says that 65 consumers fell ill from the eggs and 24 others were hospitalized, but there have been no deaths. Sicknesses were reported in Virginia, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Utah and California.

The recall began after the FDA found out the eggs tested positive for salmonella.

“The recall was initiated after the FDA informed the company that environmental samples tested positive for the bacteria,” a press release from the FDA read.  

“The FDA also conducted whole genome sequencing and found that the samples were related to an ongoing salmonella outbreak investigation.”

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Salmonella causes fever, vomiting and dehydration, and can be especially deadly to senior citizens and children.

Consumers are urged to throw away any eggs sold under the “Milo’s Poultry Farms” and “Tony’s Fresh Market” brands. The CDC also asks consumers to clean items and surfaces that may have touched the recalled eggs.

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Customers with any concerns or questions are encouraged to call Milo’s Poultry Farms at (715) 758-6709.