in puerto rico, which was slammed by hurricane fiona nearly a week ago, there are still broken trees, roads damaged and widespread power outages. fiona continues to cause havoc. in canada, it made landfall in nova scotia at hurricane strength. homes on the coast just washed away. what can we expect? reporter: ian is expected to rapidly intensify over the upcoming days as it moves into the gulf of mexico where the environment is a little more conducive for development. we re losing that wind shear. it changes with height as it moves off to the west at 16 miles per hour. a lot more convection. a lot more organized as we are looking at satellite. as we notice a bit more of a center, we ll gain some clarity as to where this storm is expected to arrive on somewhere the coastline of florida. so currently sitting down in the caribbean, expected to take its track into the gulf of mexico by monday becoming a category 2 storm, with winds expected around 100 miles per hour. tuesday mo
use of nuclear weapons, and he referenced there being a nuclear weapons document in russia that would determine when they would use such weapons, not giving a whole lot of new meat on the bone. but there was an interesting back and forth with one reporter who asked about president putin, saying that he had received some questions and concerns from president xi of china about the war in ukraine. and listen to what he said during that back and forth. i m asking you, are you coming under any pressure? i don t know, i m asking. no, no, no, no. you asked me what about, how do we feel under pressure from china? look, let s be honest are you coming under any pressure from china? you may tell your readers, listeners, viewers, that i avoided to answer your question. reporter: obviously pressure from china is something that the russian foreign minister didn t want to talk about today. we should note that the chinese foreign minister also delivered remarks here at the united
the united states successfully concluded an air strike in kabul, afghanistan that killed the immere of al qaeda. ayman al zawahiri. he was deeply involved in the planning of 9/11. let me make it clear again tonight that no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the united states will find you and take you out. and good morning to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is tuesday, august 2nd. i m brianna keilar. john berman is off. john avlon is with us this morning. and president biden delivering that message to the nation, that justice has been delivered. ayman al zawahiri, the leader of al qaeda, and the world s most wanted terrorist killed in a precision u.s. drone strike. zal zawahiri was bin laden s leader and the leader of the terrorist attack of 9/11, his death coming after the u.s. took out bin laden. these are image of the neighborhood where the taliban said the strike was carried out. mission was the
newsroom. alex marquardt in washington in for jim acosta. as rash president valentine attempts to control the narrative in his faltering war in ukraine, another top russian official is lashing out today speaking at the united nations general assembly moments ago. russia s foreign minister, sergey lavrov, slammed the united states, claiming the west is, quote, trying to destroy russia and remove it from the world s map. cnn national security correspondent kylie at wood is at the united nations. a lot of the angry bluster from sergey lavrov? that s right, we had a press conference with foreign minister lavrov, and what he said is a lot of what we heard during those remarks. going after the west. he was asked some direct questions but he really didn t give revealing answers that were more detail than we have heard from the russians in the past. he was asked about what the goals of russia s war in ukraine are, and he referenced only the statements from president putin. he was asked ab
want to talk about today. we should note that the chinese foreign minister also delivered remarks here at the united nations today, and one thing that he said is that all parties to the conflict in ukraine should prevent spill-over effects. of course, he didn t call out russia specifically, and that is in line with what we have seen from chinese officials. you talk to u.s. officials here, even though president xi expressed some of those concerns to president putin, we really haven t seen the chinese backing that up and putting any real pressure on russia to stop this war in ukraine. very interesting moment there, that nonanswer speaking volumes. kylie, switching out to rare good news, we have these two americans, veterans who are back on u.s. soil. they were captured by prorussian forces fighting on ukraine s side, they were held for the past several months. what do we know about how they were released and god home? alex druke and andy nguyen.