By: John Bacon, Trevor Hughes, Christopher Cann, Chris Kenning, Jorge L. Ortiz, Thao Nguyen
SIESTA KEY, Fla. − Hurricane Milton howled across the Florida Peninsula on Thursday, tearing a path of destruction from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic, killing at least nine people and knocking out power to millions yet averting the "worst-case scenario" meteorologists, officials and residents had feared.