Milton makes Florida landfall with warnings of life-threatening.

More than 1.8m homes and businesses are now without power across Florida, with whole neighbourhoods going dark.

Deaths have been confirmed in St Lucie County on the state’s east coast where officials said tornadoes had hit, although the number of fatalities is unclear.

Millions fled the state throughout Wednesday as dozens of flash flood, tornado and storm surge warnings were put in place.

The “extremely dangerous” and “life-threatening” Hurricane Milton made landfall in Siesta Key, Florida, the US National Hurricane Center says.