welcome back to our viewers and united states and around the world. i m john, those cnn center in atlanta. it is now 1 am on the u.s. u.s. east coast. the entire state of florida, embarrassing for the hurricane in. a massive storm stretching 100 miles across, which early made landfall on western cuba. knocking out the islands electricity grid causing a nationwide blackout. 11 million people right now in the dark waiting for more process to damage. as of this hour, no reports of any fatalities. since leaving cuba, it has gone in strength fueled by the warm waters of the gulf of mexico. as it heads to florida, now category three, sustained winds of about 120 miles per hour. along with life-threatening storm surge, florida is facing catastrophic flooding, strong powerful winds, all day long, tuesday, visitors across the state to make landfall, now expected sooner than first forecast, and further to the south. but in some parts, it has always been felt, conditions tore throughout
final hours of hurricane preparations. tampa bay police, making last-ditch efforts to warn residents and flood risk zones to leave. now it s a enforcement to let them know that you are in an area where you need to evacuate. this is not a drill. this is not the time to stay! serious warnings of residents, here this vulnerable area, expected to be in the crosshairs of hurricane and as it barrels to the west coast of florida. we have over 120 miles of coastline just in this city of tampa. at least 2.5 million floridians under various evacuation orders. it s a storm that is predicted to cause water damage like none before. when you talk about ten or 15 inches of rain, on top of this surge, it s unprecedented. no infrastructure is built for that. with this hurricane, a direct hit is unnecessarily the cause of severe flooding. the slow moving storm is just all just the coast of tampa bay, starting wednesday evening. it s gonna be in our, rivers
officials are hoping power will be resorted in the coming day, but admits it ll be sometime before the fourth set of the damage from hurricane and is known. i met in havana s cnn patrick oppmann. cuba and it s 11 million inhabitants are currently in a nationwide blackout. officials said late tuesday night. after a hurricane ian battered this islands according to officials, it damaged the islands electrical system, to a degree, that it led to rolling blackouts, across this island. even in central, eastern, cuba, it was not affected by the winds in the rain, from hurricane ian. to the west of havana, hundreds of thousands of people are without power because electric cables and electric posts were knocked down by the storm. in havana, initially, officials said that they took down power to the city s 2 million inhabitants, to keep from their
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illegally seized upon one way or another. by russia. with, us this hour, is my guest, staff writer to the new yorker, and prolific author writing on topics like russia, vladimir putin, donald trump, it s a long, long list, the most recent book is surviving autocracy. welcome to cnn newsroom. thank you for having me. okay so the referendums in the four russian occupied ukrainian provinces are straight from putin s playbook after the occupied occupation of crimea. which means any annexation, illegal annexation, is likely next. the vote, result, all being announced by ukraine, u.s., and europe, and the mayor of one occupied city in eastern ukraine to brett scribe the voting process of being carried out and gunpoint. saying that your times, they banked loudly, rang doorbells, they gave people a ballot and point with the rifles where to put the mark. the referendum was a sham in 2014, and crimea, it s a sham now so from the kremlin s point of view what is the value and all of this?