customers in florida. and the other major concern at this hour, the tornado watches in effect into the night. airport closures, the ripple effect now, and this hurricane now headed inland. headed straight for orlando before then tracking north. alerts at this hour up across florida, georgia, and now the carolinas. our meteorologists ginger zee and rob marciano both on the ground again tonight with our team across florida. also, the acting deputy director of noaa s national hurricane center right here with us tonight. what concerns him most as we head into the evening hours. the other major news this wednesday night, the u.s. state department now urging americans to leave russia immediately. the american embassy warning russians may force americans with dual citizenship into military service. and the allegations involving potential russian sabotage of the pipeline that would deliver russian natural gas into europe. ian pannell inside ukraine tonight. in this country, the m
decides with another group of passengers to rent a car drive 20 hours to their destination together. that is exactly what some of our guests tonight did. in a little while, i will introduce you to this group of total travel total strangers, who had a quite an adventure when they decided to drive from tampa to cleveland together and they reported their trip and it went viral. meanwhile, ten billion people across the south are under freeze alerts. and the death toll from the storm is dry saying. at least 49 people have died across the country. 27 of those are in the buffalo area. authorities fear that they will find more bodies in cars as they begin to dig out from what is being called the worst storm in the region s history. you can see some of it there. while police have their hands full with rescues, stores are being looted. i will talk to a supermarket messenger who spent christmas eve washing his store who got broken into. i want to bring in now cnn s miguel marquez, he s
morning. that s how we we just say morning. morning. morning. i always say morn-ting. that s how he comes into the office every morning. good morning, everybody. i m don lemon alongside poppy harlow. i m not going to say her name today we re fighting today. we re fighting because there s a big thing happening, i m not talking about the election. i m talking about lsu versus alabama. did you notice she changed her mug? i noticed. i noticed. how could you not? we have to get to it, though. the candidates and their top surrogates are grinding on the campaign trail with four days left before the midterms. and cnn is with them every step of the way. this morning we ll be joined by new york governor kathy hochul locked with a republican in a tight race, lee zeldin, can you believe that? the justice department is seriously considering the appointment of a special council on multiple investigations if donald trump decides to run for president in 2024. and
democrats are getting destroyed. and what if i told you to america s major newspapers are endorsing 3-5 times as many democrats as are republicans. and that is on the biggest surprise of what fox news fox news @ night just uncovered. women voting for republicans is like roaches voting for raid. so why are women being drawn to the g.o.p. message? well, it s more than just the economy school board president mckay ali has answers. with five days the midterms we begin the coverage. having more on former president donald trump and whether he will or won t run, but first to jeff paul he s live in a studio of how president joe biden is struggling with his promise of student loan handouts. a good evening. here we are in the final stretch before the midterms and president joe biden is spending what his final pre-election days out here in the west. they landed in southern california to speak at an event in san diego for a congressional candidate. just before that he was in new mexi
hemmer. great to be with you. julie: he is my old office buddy but now in california. next time you come here. john: it is a lot nicer here in the west than the east. the pre-christmas blizzard paralyzed buffalo, 50 inches of snow falling and even more is on the way today. worsening road conditions that are already dangerous or nearly impossible. many people had to abandon their cars, others were stranded inside their homes. but the snow not the only problem, check out this restaurant. completely covered in ice. we won t know. it s heavy and that s what i m nervous about. nothing broke, no windows broke, no leaks. and none of that was touched. the only problem is the parking lot got beat up pretty bad. max gordon with fox weather is braving the conditions live in buffalo this morning. good morning, max. good morning. well, here in buffalo people woke up to several inches of additional snow, not what people want to see here after more than four feet piled up and mo