Im Jessica Dean in new york. We are following breaking News Tonight as florida is bracing for another major hurricane hurricane, and we have new information about that intensifying storm Hurricane Milton. Now forecast to become a category four. And is expected to make landfall later. For this week as a major hurricane, 51 counties across florida now under a State Of Emergency and mandatory evacuations have already been ordered in some areas. Governor Ron Desantis is expected to hold a briefing just moments from now, well continue to monitor that. And of course, all of this is happening just ten days after many of these same communities were devastated by Hurricane Helene Meteorologist Elisa Raffa is in the cnn extreme Weather Center tracking this storm for us and at least i know were getting all this new information. What are you what are you seeing . Jessica, i was literally just reading the latest update moments moments ago. The latest right now from the Hurricane Centers, we still h
to russia. the kremlin says it does not consider the arrest warrant to be legal. all of this comes against the back drop of chinese president xi jinping s scheduled visit to rue tonight, gillian turner at the white house with how the administration is reacting to the putin war crime story and next steps in ukraine. we begin with senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot. good evening, greg. hi, bret. president biden recently called russian president putin a war criminal for his conduct of the war in ukraine. now, someone else has with a bit more international legal punch. wanted for war crimes in ukraine, russian president vladimir putin. the international criminal court issuing an arrest warrant charging him and another official in the abduction of ukrainian children since russia s invasion last year. kids allegedly taken out of ukraine and sent to russia. children special protection under the geneva. russians say humanitarian reason and don t recognize the cour
Story, a bombshell report published by earlier today. That report reveals alleged emails between joe biden son and a ukrainian businessman. The Biden Campaign is pushing back on this report tonight. Otherwise, they were not on the campaign trail throughout the course of today. We are going to have much more on this story including the president s speech in des moines, iowa, tonight so we can hear his response, the first time he is reacting to this. Stay tuned for that news for the event and a little while. Tomorrow, both joe biden and the president will have a town hall in the night that was supposed to be the second president ial debate. That leaves just one more matchup between these two individuals. At that be next week in nashville, tennessee. Lets swing our attention back to capitol hill today. A judge Amy Coney Barrett now done with the question and answer, to very long days throughout which she was very composed and answered those questions in a very solid manner, i think both s
bret? bret: gillian turner on the north lawn. thank you. hunter biden s legal team going after the owner of that computer shop where he allegedly left his now infamous laptop. they say the owner had no right to copy biden s private information and distribute it. so there are a lot of people asking does this officially mean that hunter biden confirms it is his laptop. this comes amid new information about other members of the biden family, possibly benefiting from business deals, including one with china. here is senior national correspondent rich edson. president biden s son hunter is staying on the offensive. filing a new lawsuit against computer repair shop owner john paul mac isaac. alleging, quote. by disseminating mr. biden s private and sensitive data to others that he came to possess, mack isaac aided and abetted their violations of mr. biden s right to privacy. this suit is in response to mac isaac s lawsuit filed last year n. against hunter claiming
hunter defamed him. mac isaac maintains that april 2019 hunter brought a laptop to his shop. mac isaac recovered the data as requested. called hunter to pick it up. sent him an invoice. reached out again and then hunter never returned. to that, hunter s suit responds, quote: mr. biden is without knowledge sufficient to admit or deny the allegations. they said there was nothing to the laptop. i don t think the white house ever thought that i would get my hands on those bank records. oversight committee republicans are intensifying their investigation into president biden s family. it s international businesses and payments received from a chinese energy firm. chairman james comer today sent a letter to biden family associate rob walker requesting a transcribed interview as, quote: the committee as identified you as a critical witness in this matter and has reviewed evidence showing you received millions of dollars originating from a chinese energy company and elsewhere. comer says i