FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, who led New York City's Emergency Management Department before taking the top job at the federal agency, said FEMA’s role is to support the work of local emergency managers.

Another monster hurricane is set to strike the U.S. just two weeks after the last one. Hurricane Milton rapidly intensified to Category 5 strength on Monday, less than two days after it formed as a tropical storm over the Gulf of Mexico,

The Category 4 hurricane is expected to make landfall in Florida on Wednesday. More than a million people have been ordered to evacuate from its path - with a further six million put under hurricane-watch warning, The Sun reports.