STORY: [9745 any of this footage of preparations until Tom Murphy]Florida is bracing for another major hurricane on the heels of Helene.The state was preparing for its largest evacuation since 2017 as Milton, which authorities say strengthened into a hurricane, bore down on western Florida.Milton is now classified as a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 85 miles per hour.[9745 00:14]Tom Murphy and his family were among Floridians filling up sandbags on Sunday:[9745 0:49 SOT]"Just in terms of preparation you have got to do what you can early, just get out there, it is what it is, right?"[9745 4:15 courtesy NOAA]The U.S. National Hurricane Center projected it will make landfall near the Tampa Bay area on Wednesday.The new hurricane was expected to affect areas already hit hard by Helene, which made landfall further north a little less than two weeks ago.[9781 1:12 SOT]Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warned of a potentially higher storm surge and more power outages from Milton compared to Helene, which the state is still reeling from."This is a 24/7 moment for the debris removal. You have a storm and then you have one less than two weeks later, two majors back to back. That is not something that is easy. That creates a lot of challenges. So what we have to do is just do it around the clock, until it is no longer safe to do it."[9103 0:13 drone]Helene left a wake of destruction across North Carolina, Florida and much of the South.That storm also killed more than 200 people across six states…[9103 0:50 car debris]…making it the deadliest named storm to hit the mainland U.S. since Hurricane Katrina killed nearly 1,400 people in 2005.[9138 2:00 Biden]Meanwhile, U.S. President Joe Biden has dispatched an additional 500 troops to North Carolina to assist with recovery efforts from Helene……part of a wider federal response that includes $137 million in approved aid as damages are projected to reach billions.