spinning toward the west coast of florida this morning. bringing with it life-threatening storm surge, catastrophic winds and flooding. we ll have a live report from tampa in just a moment. and also ahead, a former d.c. metro police officer does not hold back at a sentencing for a capitol rioter. plus, we ll dig into new data that suggests significant covid waves could be coming this fall and winter. good morning. and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, september 28th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us and we re going to begin in florida where millions of residents are bracing for hurricane ian as the powerful storm barrels towards the state intensifying every hour. the storm is expected to make landfall on the southwest coast of florida, as early as this afternoon. just moments ago, it reached the status of category 4 hurricane. the center of the storm is then forecast to move over the central part of the state, with winds likely re
keep coming. willie? yeah. start in florida, though, this hour, mika. millions of residents are bracing for hurricane ian as that powerful storm barrels towards the state getting stronger by the hour. just this morning it became a category 4 hurricane expected to make landfall in the southwest coast of florida as early as this afternoon. the center of the storm forecast to move over the central past of the state with winds reaching more than 130 miles per hour. the national hurricane center also warning of dangerous storm surge and flooding with up to 18 inches of rain expected in some areas. more than 2.5 million people under evacuation orders along parts of coastal florida. the powerful storm passed the florida keys last night causing a couple of tornadoes and some damage there. officials say there also is significant flooding across that area. yesterday the hurricane battered western cuba knocking outing the island s electrical grid, causing a nation-wide blackout. offic
And thank you for tuning in to press tv world news. Our top iran has strongly condemn israels repeat attacks on syria saying that the regime uses such aggression to divert the worlds attention as crimes against palestinians. Irans ambassador, United Nations also deplored the presence of active terrorist groups in syria throughout the past 12 years. Amir said warned fight against terrorism should not be used as pretext to of violate syrian sovereignty and territorial integrity. He also slammed illegal presence of Foreign Military forces in syria as cause of instability in the country and region. Irovany reaffirmed irans position, the primary solution to the Syrian Crisis is political as any military option will only complicate the situation. He said the Islamic Republic is committed to collaborating with its partners with the framework. Kenstone with the Hamilton Coalition to stop the war, we asked him why israel continues attacking syria without being held accountable for crimes. Israe
Hello everyone and thanks for tuning in apress tv world news. Iran strongly condemns in the strongest terms latest incidents of desecration of the holy quran in the netherlands. Foreign ministry Spokes Person said the dutch authorities need to understand its their responsibility to prevent the repetition of such hateful acts under the guide. Of freedom of expression, he described descration of the quran as insult to religious values and sanctities of over two billion world muslims, his remarks came after a dutch citizen who heads an islamophobic group insulted the quran in front of embassies of several muslim countries in the of hague. It followed similar instances in sweden and denmark in recent months. The sacral religious acts have triggered mass protest throughout the muslim world with governments warning against testing the patients of muslims. Iran strongly condemns uh israels repeated attacks on syria saying regime uses such aggression to divert the worlds attention from its cri
Hello everyone, its 3 30 am in the irania capital and youre watching press tv world news. Now iran has a condemned in the in strongest terms a latest instance of in desecration of the holy quran in the netherlands. Foreign ministry spokes. He said the dutch authorities should understand the responsibilities and prevent repetition of such hateful acts under the guise of freedom of expression. He described as a creation of the quran as insult to religious values and sanctities of over two billion world muslims. His remarks came after dutch citizen who heads an islamophobic group insulted the quran in front of embassies of several muslim countries at the hague. It followed similar instances in sweden and denmark in recent months. The sacrilicious acts have triggered mass protest throughouut the muslim world with governments warning against testing the patients of muslims. Iran has successfully launched a new satellite interorbitamed strict sanctions imposed by western states. Telecom mini