refusal to testify before the january 6th select committee and his failure to turn over documents. let s begin this morning outside the u.s. district court in washington, d.c. cnn political correspondent sara murray is there. how is all of this expected to play out today? reporter: well, you know, look, steve bannon is here in court, we expect this could take a couple of hours. what we know is that steve bannon is trying to get out of any kind of jail time. he was convicted on two counts for refusing to show up for a subpoena to testify before congress and refusing to hand over documents. the government has asked that he spend six months behind bars and they said he should pay a $200,000 fine. now, bannon s team has said, look, at the most he should get probation, he listened to his attorneys advice and if you are going to put him behind bars it should be house arrest only. they are also saying bannon plans to appeal his conviction and they re saying that any punishment he
Newsroom starts right now. Live from washington, im paula reed in for pamela brown tonight. The top stories, surging cases of a respiratory illness are forcing some hospitals to create tent cities just to deal with all the patients as Health Officials say they have seen more cases now than in the past two years. Plus, an underground network sending Abortion Pills from mexico to women in states where the procedure is now illegal. And chinas former president seated right next to the current one is shockingly yanked from the room as the communist Party Congress party comes to an end. Youre in the cnn newsroom. First tonight, breaking news, a deadly shooting in a hospital in dallas, texas. Details are still coming in to cnn, but so far police are confirming that at least two people are dead, both employees at the hospital. I want to get right now to cnns camila bernal. What are you hearing so far . Reporter so this shooting took place at Methodist Dallas Medical Center. According to author
Out of office, including campaigning with democrats. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Im fredricka whitfield. Welcome to a new 11 00 a. M. Eastern hour here on this sunday of the newsroom. Florida under a State Of Emergency this hour, as Tropical Storm ian gains strength. Ian is expected to become a hurricane today, and may peak as a category 4 storm before weakening and making a direct hit on florida as early as wednesday. Were expecting an update from Governor Ron Desantis minutes from now. Our reporter is in the weather center. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez is traveling with the president in wilmington, delaware, who announced a federal energy for the state. So lets begin with you, alison. You just got an update if the National Hurricane center. Tell us what youre learning. Lets look at the breakdown. The sustained winds are at 50 Miles Per Hour, gusting up to 65. That Forward Movement has increased, up to 14 Miles Per Hour to the westnorthwest. An
Supplies. And today Governor Desantis activated 2500 members of the National Guard and cnn correspondents are every angle. Lets get started with tom sater. This looks like a very powerful storm that could unleash a lot of fury on the gulf coast, something we havent seen so far during this hurricane season. And it sounds like people need to wake up and Pay Attention. Everywhere from pensacola to ft. Myers. We didnt haven would named storm for the entire month of august and now we have four of them. If it wasnt for ian, wed be talking about fiona, massive damage up in canada. Notice how wide it is, the sun is out here and getting the reflection, but you can see the circulation. There is the yucatan. But the infrared Satellite Imagery is a mess. It doesnt look impressive at all. At 8 00 a. M. This morning, Hurricane Hunters had a hard time finding the center. They did find it. It can jump around a little bit. And if that center jumps around, it will change the track. And that is important
despiteble act. lawmakers denounce political violence after nancy pelosi s husband was attacked in their home. as political danger grows what more can be done to stop. midterm countdown. republicans look to expand the map on election day. we re not going to see a red wave, we re going to see a red tsu tsunami. democracy is at stake in this election. what choice to voters make? i ll speak to the republican rick scott next. democratic senate candidate sherry beasley is ahead and gop outreach. democrats have always counted on latino support, but is that changing? our trip to two key states to track the gop effort to win over hispanic voters. it s right there for the taking. hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is counting the hours until the votes are counted. we are nine days out from the midterm elections, and all the close races keep getting closer as republicans grow more confident about their position and democrats worry even about r