out of office, including campaigning with democrats. you re live in the cnn newsroom. hello, everyone. thank you for joining us. i m 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. we re expecting an update from governor ron desantis minutes from now. our reporter is in the weather center. cnn s priscilla alvarez is traveling with the president in wilmington, delaware, who announced a federal energy for the state. so let s begin with you, alison. you just got an update if the national hurricane center. tell us what you re learning. let s 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 t
State about security challenges. I want to welcome my panelists up here. Thank you for being to participate in this discussion. Obviously, its the topic day jour for Election Administrators and folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community dealing with election cybersecurity, securing the elections process. Just as a way of background, this topic is the topic de jour coming out of the elections where we saw state actors targeting systems and vendors and sphere fishing attempts in 2016 as well as declaration of elections as Critical Infrastructure. By the department of security. I hope we can talk about the operating environment. S and what steps were looking to secure the process looking at 2018 and how you are. Jeremy gray was supposed to be here from l. A. County and he came down with the flu. We thank him for not coming. We thank him for not coming. I will tee it up to do quick three to five minute opening remarks and then get into the discussion if thats okay. My far right is
Thank you for being to participate in this discussion. Obviously, its the topic day jour for Election Administrators and folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community dealing with election cybersecurity, securing the elections process. Just as a way of background, this topic is the topic de jour coming out of the elections where we saw state actors targeting systems and vendors and sphere fishing attempts in 2016 as well as declaration of elections as Critical Infrastructure. By the department of security. I hope we can talk about the operating environment. S and what steps were looking to secure the process looking at 2018 and how you are. Jeremy gray was supposed to be here from l. A. County and he came down with the flu. We thank him for not coming. We thank him for not coming. I will tee it up to do quick three to five minute opening remarks and then get into the discussion if thats okay. My far right is jeremy epstein, a long time involved in Election Research and member of
Conversation. All right. We will go ahead and get started with the next panel. I want to thank you all for coming back first of all from the break. I want to welcome to panelists up here and thank you for willing to participate in the discussion. Obviously, it is the topic du jour for elections administrators and people in the Scientific Community dealing with election cybersecurity, and securing the election process. By way of background, this topic is obviously the topic du jour coming out of the 2016 election where we saw a nation state actors targeting state level election systems, and registration systems as well as vendors and a spearfishing attempt in 2016 as well as the declaration of the electionses as Critical Infrastructure by the department of homeland security. On this panel, i hope that we can delve into the issues and talk about the operating environment that the election official s a officials are in today, and share the expertise that you have and your experiences and
Being stuck with that great white. Lindsay i dont think i would be in the water ever again. Alc cede lindsay to talk more about the forecast. We have rain this morning too. Showers are light, guys. Hence the reflection you see over downtown tampa. A passing light shower. 75. That a big jump from yesterday in spots and with more moisture, spotty, mainly light rain, a little heavier in a few spots. And watch how quickly the showers are pushing through. And if we have that walk with showers from Macdill Air Force base here at fox 13 studios. Temple terrace has showers, even plant city. The sprinkles in hudson and 5 a junction. Your rain is the least measurable and check out the showers southeastern bulk. Heaviest is over lareda and portions of Highland County and this will be westward over the next 15 minutes. Temperatures out the doors, no 72 in sebring. 75 in st. Petersburg. 74 in sarasota. On this date, we should be at about 69 degrees. So above average. Now the rain chances today high