Hurricane Milton has left a trail of destruction in its wake after slamming into Siesta Key off Sarasota as a Category 3 storm, leaving 3 million without power or water before moving off the east

Hurricane Milton continued to weaken early Thursday as it made its way northeast across the Florida Peninsula after making landfall near Sarasota on the west coast Wednesday night as a Category 3 storm.

Hurricane Milton spared Florida the catastrophic devastation that many feared but left at least seven people dead and more than 3 million customers without power after it blazed a tornado-filled path across the state.