where dangerous hurricane ian is heading next. classrooms turned into bedrooms. we visit shelters and speak to families riding out the storm together. my main focus was getting them to safety. o donnell: and remembering legendary cbs newsman, bill plante, who covered more than half a century of history. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting tonight from tampa, florida. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. as we come on the air tonight, the state of florida is being pummeled by hurricane ian. the massive category 4 storm made landfall just hours ago with winds of 150 miles per h hour. ian slammed ashore north of fort myers with dangerous winds and catastrophic storm surge. the storm is moving inland and dumping tremendous amounts of rain along the i-4 corridor. and to get a better understanding of just how big ian is, this is what the storm looks like from space, the powerful hurricane covering almost the entire state of flori
daughter of a prominent russian national els. th there are fears tonight gas prices could once again surge. a key group of oil producing nations are set to slash output by 2 million barrel as day. the biggest cut since the pandemic. welcome to the viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf f bblitzer is off today. i m pamela brown and you re the situation room . let s get right to the top story this hour. florida still digging out from hurricane ian one week after the storm tore across the state. our chief white house correspondents are traveling and laeyla santiago and bill weir ae reporting live. kaitlin, what was the president s message for the people of florida? reporter: really, pam, that it s going to be a long road ahead to recovery and recovery is likely going to cost tens of billions of dollars potentially given the damage that the federal government saw here on the ground as they ve been on the ground since this happened with the fema administrat
first on this tuesday morning. i m currently tmorning.this situation looks like it s going to get much worse. opec set to meet to determine whether or not to buy $2 million of barrels per day per that s going to make inflation worse and drive prices up and would be a huge slap in the face to president biden who s been begging saudi arabia at increased output. voters, you really care about this but take a look at this recent fox news poll. 59% of voters say they are extremely concerned about inflation and higher prices. look, opec literally and figuratively has us over a barrel when no pun intended. and it s all because we had the ability to control the oil and gas production but we literally gave it away day one of the biden presidency. we are forwarding our own production. our strategic petroleum reserves are diminished to a point where we can t rely on it anymore giving them even more leverage from the point where we gave away our pipelines and shut down keystone. opec is
Wait till you see how their heroes are responding this morning. Good morning america. Happy friday. Got to take another look at that video right there. This whole town comes together. Look at all those musicians out there all to get the foo fighters to their town. Well tell you if it worked in a little while. The foo fighters ha heard. They practiced for a year for this. Come on foo fighters. Come on. Well have much more on that in just a bit. First we have new developments this morning in that missing plane mystery. The wing that washed ashore now being moved for forensic investigation and its offering new clues about what might have happened. Was someone trying to land it. Might be getting close to unraveling that. The extreme weather. Heat and misery from coast to coast and ginger starts us off. The hottest and driest day theyve had this week in the Pacific Northwest. There are heat advisories even excessive heat warnings for Portland Oregon and fire watches from montana to northern
Between 5 and 6 Million People told to evacuate. A quarter of the states population causing traffic jams on major highways. We are running out of time. The storm is going to hit. As irma hammers cuba the death toll rises in the caribbean with hurricane jose following close behind. Its now just hours before irma makes landfall. Today saturday, september 9, 2017. Announcer from nbc news this is a special edition of today, Hurricane Irma live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Look at those pictures. Good morning. Welcome to today this morning. In less than 24 hours irma is expected to make landfall in florida. The keys are expected to be the first part of the state to get hit. We have been saying it for days now. Again, folks, this is a monster storm. Its packing top winds of 155 Miles Per Hour as it batters cuba right now. Lets get to the latest headlines overnight. The storms path has shifted slightly taking a turn away from miami toward the west. Now florida residents on the west co