Hello, from CNN, I'm Ifeoma Dike with the 5 Things you need to know for Tuesday, October 8th.

Hurricane Milton is closing in on Florida as thousands flee. The Category five storm is forecast to make landfall as a Category three on the state's central Gulf Coast Wednesday night. The Weather Prediction Center says Tampa could see more than five months worth of rain through Thursday. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says fuel trucks are heading to gas stations along evacuation routes where some stations have run dry. CNN meteorologist Chad Myers is tracking the storm.

Ifeoma, that's exactly right. 165mph right now. That is the latest update. It had been a Category four for most of the day, but now we are back to Category five with its sights set really on the Tampa Bay area, maybe slightly south of there. But we have to keep watching it. Now, it won't make landfall as a Category five. It will lose some steam. That is all of the forecast everywhere that you look at the forecast. That is going to be the truth here. But this will have a significant storm surge, maybe 15ft of water overtopping some of these barrier islands. You need to be out of there if the authorities tell you to do so.

Palestinians evacuating northern Gaza say they're being shot at by the Israeli military. That's according to residents there and footage shared with CNN documenting their journey. One man says the bombardment has been nonstop. CNN has reached out to the Israeli military for comment. On Monday, Israeli forces warned residents in northern and southern Gaza to evacuate immediately due to heavy fighting with Hamas. Meanwhile, an Israeli attack on a residential building in Damascus, Syria, killed at least seven and injured 11 others today, according to the state news agency SANA. The broadcaster says women and children are among the dead and that people are being pulled from under the rubble. CNN has reached out to the Israeli military for comment.

'China has imposed temporary anti-dumping measures on brandy imports from the European Union, according to reporting from Reuters. China's Commerce Ministry said that preliminary findings of an investigation had determined that dumping or selling at an unfairly low price to its own brandy sector. France is seen as the target of Beijing's Brandy probe due to its support of tariffs on China made electric vehicles. That country's trade ministry said the measures violate free trade and promise to work with the EU to challenge them at the World Trade Organization. Hennessy and Remy Martin were among the brands hardest hit by the measures, with importers having to pay security deposits of 39% and 38.1%, respectively.

So a new CNN analysis shows that both presidential campaigns have shifted their TV ads in recent months to focus on key issues like abortion and immigration. That's based on data from the ad tracking firm Ad impact. CNN's David Wright explains.

Hi, Ifeoma. You can sort of see how the points of emphasis change based on how much the campaign spent on ads that referenced various issues. For example, the Harris campaign spent way less on ads responding to Republican attacks about crime. In August, about 47% of the Harris campaign's broadcast TV spending went to ads about crime in September. That was 0%. Meanwhile, Harris nearly doubled the share of her spending on ads about abortion from August or September. On the other hand, the Trump campaign also moved away from some pretty stark attack ads focused on immigration and crime to focus more on economic issues. Ads about immigration and crime fell from a 41% share of the Trump campaign's TV advertising in August to 0% in September. Meanwhile, his share of ads about housing, inflation and jobs all jumped.

Coming up, the CDC wants teens to touch grass.

'A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights just how significantly social media is linked to teens mental health. The data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that about 43% of high school students who use social media frequently said they felt persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. That's compared with 32% of those who used social media less often. The report suggests that while the scale of social media use and rates of negative mental health experiences varied based on factors like gender and sexual identity, the association between them was consistent across different student populations. The U.S. surgeon general called for a tobacco-style warning on social media this summer. And just today, a group of 14 state attorneys general sued TikTok for allegedly addicting young people.

That does it for us. Our next episode drops at 6 a.m. Eastern.