has been declared in florida as a tropical storm heads straight for the coast. live from the cnn weather center on the latest. and a look at russia s referendums across the russia-occupied ukraine in the way of annexing which president biden is calling a sham. node. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. and we begin in the north atlantic, where a deadly storm that caused massive destruction across several caribbean islands just made landfall in eastern nova scotia. damaging winds and heavy rain are pounding the region as the storm races northward. residents from all across atlantic canada did what they could before the sun went down to prepare including in nova scotia where people waited in long lines to stock up on supplies like food and propane. as you can see, it s not too bad. but we ll know for a week for, i m fine, because i have a trailer that i m staying into. so hopefully, it doesn t get blown away. this is completely useless. we
go, hurricane warnings that extend all the way up into southern georgia because of what we were talking about, the fast forward motion of this system. there won t be enough time for it to spin down with the friction over land before it moves up into georgia. jane: yeah so you need to be alert hunkering down as the morning opens up we re going to be seeing that really strong major category 4 hurricane potentially making impact there. ian: looks like we have video coming in out of a lucia county nearly all of florida seeing impacts from hurricane idalia. let s bring in fox 35 orlando reporter patrick perez. he s live in va lucia county. patrick what are the conditions now because we were just discussing some of these bands that moved from west to east across the peninsula, both sides of the state have been feeling these impacts reporter: ian i have to tell you for the most part tonight has been pretty calm except for probably within the past hour or so the wind has picked up.
because winds will be strong. great point, too, frictional effects important to point out, multiple bands, one band has two warnings and most recent tornado warning issued, a lot of spin in all the powerful bands which adds to the one-two punch of this. fast-forward motion, it is good, it gets the worst in and out, but for folks in southern georgia, fast-forward motion keeps this as a category 1 hurricane crossing the florida/georgia line. those are areas not used to hurricane force wind, their taste are wind is from tornado, not from hurricanes. look at stats for gainesville,
across eastern sections of nova scotia. we re talking 200 to 300 miles from the center. strong winds, the storm surge and the large waves swell across the gulf of st. lawrence, at its peak as we speak. as it races north, conditions will improve throughout the day across the coastal areas but we still have the hurricane warnings and threats ongoing for the next several hours. radar very busy for halifax and central and eastern sections of no nova scotia. you can see the areas, overnight, showers and thunderstorms continue overnight as the storm presses northward. but with the fast forward motion of this particular system, we re going to limit that flash flooding. we ve seen the reports on the round, electricity polls have been snapped, trees bent over and damage to buildings as well. in fact, the latest figures showing 360,000 people without power in nova scotia alone, kim.
hit. probably still on a curfew now. a lot of people coming home to destruction as they arrive back to their homes that may not even be there. it has been over land for not quite a day, but we re still looking at tropical storm winds. 30 miles west of augusta, georgia. this was the latest update as of 5:00 a.m. we are still seeing that fast forward motion. that s good news. we drive our cars sometimes 20-25 miles an hour, so you can image that speed. that is good news when it comes to the rainfall, not so much the winds. by 2:00, 45 miles an hour winds. that s still tropical force winds. this is still going on over the next 24 hours. we re going to continue to watch