Louisiana closed or closing early. We have meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joining us live in the cnn Weather Center with the latest. P. J. , whats in store . This system is going over warm waters over the next 12 hours. We think strengthening is possible. It is not very organized or impressive system. Thunderstorms on the western periphery of florida. 65 miles per hour. 5 00 a. M. Update talks about the storm system at 65. No changes made to the update. You notice 17mileanhour winds to the north northwest. That is the area we are watching. That is a rapidly moving system which gives it little time to intensify beyond category one if it makes it there at landfall. When you talk about slow moving systems. Harvey was five miles per hour. It produced 30 inches of rainfall in cases. When you speed the system up, chances of rainfall drop dramatically. That is the case with gordon with the rainfall amounts on the lesser end. Water temperatures in the upper 80s. All of this is conducive for development. We think it will develop for landfall at 7 00 across southern mississippi. This will pick up steam before landfall. This could be a quickly developing system. We talk about putting these systems over the gulf and keep it there for another day. This could be a major hurricane. We are fortunate it doesnt have enough time to develop beyond what we think might be a category one. The steering environment will push it to southern mississippi. The model guidance is confident where it will end up. Gulfport or biloxi. It will rain out over the midwest in the next couple days. We are looking at 4 to 6 inches of rainfall. Isolated areas over 10 inches. Notice the confidence in the models. You dont see this where just about every model pushes it to areas in central or western mississippi or eastern louisiana. Thats is the highest confidence with strong winds and heavy rainfall and storm surge threat to the east of that. As much as 5 feet for coastal mississippi. Thank you, p. J. Senate confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh begin this morning. Democrats will target four areas. Portraying him as misleading and evasive. A democratic source will take aim at kavanaughs candor. They will highlight his skepticism of the Affordable Care act and preexisting conditions. They will probe his opinions on executive power and the investigations of the sitting president. On the eve of the hearing, the Senate JudiciaryCommittee Received more confidential papers over his time in the george w. Bush white house. Deposition complain they cannot democrats complain they cannot review all of those documents in time, but Committee ChairmanChuck Grassley claims his staff has reviewed the documents. We have a preview of the confirmation fight ahead. Reporter christine and dave, expect the hearing to be bitter. Brett kavanaugh is up for the seat of Justice Anthony kennedy. He was the swing vote on hot button issues. 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First, we get to Tropical Storm gone doppler radar. Gordon. It strengthened overnight and expected to make it to hurricane status. Up to 2 Million People under hurricane watch for warnings. Officials in biloxi ordered the evacuation of harbors and marinas. People along the coast turning to sand bags to keep boats and property safe. In new orleans, the mayor declared a voluntary evacuation for areas outside the levee system. New orleans city hall now closed to non essential personnel. Gordon has lashed south florida with rain and Tropical Storm force winds. Many schools from louisiana to florida are closed or closing early. We have meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joining us live in the cnn Weather Center with the latest. We are watching here with the Tropical Storm with 65mileanhour winds. When you look, storms that move quickly, historically speaking, bring little rainfall. That is fantastic for this region. When storms move slowly like harvey at 5 miles an hour, they have the potential to produce a 15 to 20 inches of rainfall. Now we know the conditions across the gulf of mexico are conducive for further development. 80 degree temperatures in the waters there. You look at the system which is slated to strengthen over the waters here in the next 12 hours. If it were to remain over water for the next day, you would see this strengthen up to a category two or category three. It will have little time over the waters. The High Pressure is bringing it to move to mississippi. That is where we expect it to make landfall. Gulfport and biloxi, mississippi at 7 00 p. M. Tonight with the category one with 70mileanhour winds. Guys. Pedram, thank you. Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh begin this morning. Democrats plan to target four areas portraying him as misleading and evasive. Democrats will take aim at his candor painting him as untruthful and the Affordable Care act and preexisting conditions. Democrats will review his views on abortion and roe v. Wade. They will probe his opinions on executive power and investigations of sitting president. On the eve of the hearing, the Senate JudiciaryCommittee Received more confidential papers over his time in the george w. Bush white house. Democrats can democrats believe they cannot review all of the documents in time, but Committee ChairmanChuck Grassley claims his staff has reviewed the documents. We have a preview of the confirmation fight ahead. Reporter christine and dave, expect the hearing to be bitter. Brett kavanaugh is up for the seat of Justice Anthony kennedy. He was the swing vote on hot button issues. Abortion, affirmative action, lgbt rights. Kavanaugh is not only more conservative, but younger. He is poised to move the Supreme Court to the right for decades to come. Democrats have several lines of attack. They will press him hard on his views. They say they have been denied thousands of documents when he was serving in the days of the bush white house. And serving his views of a sitting president should not be indicted. They want kavanaugh to pledge to recuse himself if any of the current investigations concerning President Trump make it to the Supreme Court. Republicans are on the other hand confident he will be confirmed. Christine and dave. Joining us this morning is julian zelizer. Good morning. This is legacy making stuff. We hear from democrats who try to nail him on the four points. He will be confirmed, right . This is a legacy making endeavor. This is a transformative moment from the Trump Presidency. You take the court to the right and it sets the court on the legal path for decades to come. Some say it was like sandra day oconnor. You say this is a column on cnn. Com. The beginning of the midterms. We will see democrats vote for kavanaugh. Somewhere between three and five have to run in red states. Why is this the beginning of the midterms . Why is this a political issue beyondconfirmation . If the democrats lose the pick, the hearings are a way to tell voters what is at stake with the Trump Presidency and what is at stake without a check and balance. The Supreme Court pick is as important as it is for democrats and republicans as well. It is a way for republicans to say to republicans who dont love President Trump this is what you get in exchange for having united government. Both parties will highlight whats at stake here. I dont suspect we will hear from him until this afternoon. All of this starting with the this is what the usa today reports. Making speeches. Skip the speeches. Senators should ask questions if the nominee has a healthy respect for court precedent. I think everyone will make speeches. I dont think the nominee will say much. That is the reality of how these hearings work. You say as little as possible and you are evasive. It is more about the senators than the nominee at this point. And midterms. And midterms. Exactly. I, for one, would not be surprised if a trump tweet happens today. We should not normalize this one. This is about Jeff Sessions. Going after his a. G. He has done that for the entire presidency. Two long running investigations. A popular Congress Member brought to a charge ahead of the midterms by the Jeff SessionsJustice Department. Two easy wins in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job, jeff. The president says basically that Jeff SessionsJustice Department should overlook crimes by republicans because they are going to win the elections. There were statements from republicans. Ben sasse says the government is not a banana republic. I dont think they were obama era investigations. That is incorrect. They were not. 2017 is when the Chris Collins and we know both since he took over. The larger point is what he is doing here, can this be ignored by republican senators and Congress Member . Not if they are in favor of law and order. Can they ignore it . Yes. If they are serious about being a party that takes the law seriously and doesnt want a president interfering in investigations, it is hard for them not to say anything at this point. These tweets matter. These are his public statements. These are his addresses on television we used to see when we were younger. For a senator or senators to sit by, they concede they agree with the president. That is a big statement. They have the distraction of the kavanaugh hearings, but it will be brought up. Just the idea that the law enforcer in chief, the president of the United States, is saying this about the Justice Department and about two investigations by the way, they are indictments. Have not been found guilty yet. Subverting the law. For political reasons. Right. What he is doing in this tweet, he has attacked sessions many times for the investigation and witch hunt,es set hunt et cetera. He is warning he is going after the gop and risk to the party. This is President Trump playing to that partisan base that he depends on. This time, at the expense of being the president who will support the law. No matter where it goes. At a time that should be so good for him with the kavanaugh hearings. Julian, thank you. New yorker magazine is disinviting steve bannon as the headliner of the annual festival and the editor in chief does not like it. Rescinding the invitation after several threatened to boycott. He was prepared to interview bannon at the festival, but after the revelation he was participating, jim carrey and judd apatow tweeted i will not take part in the event that normalizes hate. And in a letter to the staff, he will interview bannon in a different setting in the future if the opportunity presents itself. 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No reports of casualties at this point. To put this in context over recent weeks, there is an intensification and increase in air strikes targeting idlib by the Syrian Regime according to activists on the ground there. The concern is the timing of these air strikes coming as you mentioned after the warning from President Trump in that tweet. Also after the statement we heard for example from the Iranian Foreign minister saying the terrorists in idlib must be cleared out and province must be returned to the syrian people. He said this is similar rhetoric from the russians in recent days all indicating an offensive by the Syrian Regime backed by its russian and iranian allies to recapture the last province under rebel control seems to be imminent at this point. The russians and iranians saying this is an operation to go after terrorists. That is a term that the regime and allies used to describe rebel groups. There are a few thousand jihadists in idlib. 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Reporter christine and dave, the election here in boston and people across the country will be watching because of the insurgency from the left. Long Time Congress member Michael Capuano who has been here for 20 years and ten terms in a deeply blue district. An area he represented here was actually represented by jfk way back when. Ayanna pressley is making a run here after being elected to city council. She doesnt fit the insurgent candidate. Although she has been involved in politics and doesnt fit, she is an africanamerican and the first africanamerican female elected to the boston city council. She is trying to capitalize on the energy. We caught up with both on the last day of campaigning. I believe there is a paradigm shift that is occurring. There are winds of change afoot. Democratic party like all party, is no different. We also have the issues internally. Thats what families do. It is always a struggle for the hearts and minds of the party. 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