The Latest: Hurricane Milton is weaker but still dangerous

More than 3 million homes and businesses without power around 4 a.m. Thursday , according to PowerOutages.us . Florida 's central Gulf Coast was hardest hit by the outages, including Hardee, Sarasota, Hillsborough and Manatee counties.

Milton was a Category 3 storm when it made landfall Wednesday evening .

The cyclone had maximum sustained winds of 120 mph ( 205 kph ) when it roared ashore in Siesta Key .

Tampa Bay Rays' Tropicana Field appears to be badly damaged by Hurricane Milton .

Search and rescue efforts are underway in Florida after dangerous tornadoes rip through the region.

About 125 homes were destroyed before the hurricane made landfall, many of them mobile homes.

Milton will continue to bring “devastating rains and damaging winds” across central Florida .

NEW: Pasco County on Florida 's west coast north of Tampa suspends all emergency services in response to Hurricane Milton’s impact.

NEW: Pinellas County , where St. Petersburg is located, issues shelter-in-place advisory for anyone who did not evacuate as Hurricane Milton approaches Florida .

President Joe Biden blasts his predecessor for spreading an “onslaught of lies” about how the federal government is handling the damage from Hurricane Helene .