SARASOTA, Florida — Hurricane Milton left a trail of destruction as it crashed into Florida's coast on Wednesday, its furious winds sparking tornadoes and flash floods across a southeastern American state reeling from another massive storm two weeks earlier.

Nearly 3 million homes and businesses in Florida were without power after the weather front made landfall as a Category 3 storm near Siesta Key on the state's western coast.

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