Fort Wayne family on cruise ship near Milton's path

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)— As Hurricane Milton churns in the Gulf of Mexico, nearly the entire state of Florida is on alert with mass evacuations underway.Milton restrengthened into a category 5 hurricane Tuesday afternoon about 500 miles southwest of Tampa. The storm is expected to make landfall late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning on Florida's west central coast. Then, later Thursday— still as a hurricane— Milton is expected to emerge off of Florida's e