the country s longest serving monarch. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. it is tuesday, september 20th, 4 a.m. here on the east coast of the united states where we are tracking hurricane fiona as the storm gains strength in the atlantic. fiona is now a category 3 hurricane barrelling closer to the turks and caicos islands after tearing through the dominican republic on monday. heavy rains and strong winds ripped through cities destroying buildings and homes. more than 1 million people are without running water in the dominican republic and officials say it s too soon to know the exact number of power outages. it s only a glimpse of the power of this storm, and that s expected to get even stronger through the weeks. let s turn to our meteorologist pedram javaheri who s keeping a close eye on the storm. all eyes on the storm. it is a major hurricane, category 3. possibly up to a category 4. the turks and caicos, home to 5,000 pe
with every day is brought to their front door, they all of a sudden go berserk and they re so upset this is happening. president biden responded overnight, accusing desantis and others of quote, playing politics with human beings. suggesting that those governors such as desantis should not interfere in the immigration process. instead of working with us on solutions, republicans are playing politics with human beings using them as props. what they re doing is simply wrong. it is unamerican, it is wreckless. the u.s. attorney for massachusetts will speak with the justice department about desantis transporting migrants to martha s vineyard as other atlantics are calling for an investigation. we ll take you there live in just in a moment. but we begin with a set back for the justice department in one of the investigations. a judge has named a special master to review documents seized at mar-a-lago but it paused the criminal investigation into classified materials confiscat
monday is focus on the gulf coast, tuesday from florida to massachusetts. there s also a component of severe weather. yes, tornadoes, damaging winds a concern monday along the gulf coast and tuesday further east to atlantic-side states. allison chinchar, thank you very much. with just eight days until the iowa caucuses, republican candidates are out in full swiwg makingng their pititch to votet. we re liveve on the cacampaign trail.
investigation into the flight. javier salazar is told one was paid to recruit others from san antonio. they were flown from florida to massachusetts where they were dropped off on the wealthy resort island with some cash and a map. i believe that they were preyed upon. somebody came from out of state, preyed upon these people. lawyered them with promises of a better life which is what they were looking for and with the knowledge they were going to cling to whatever hope they could be offered for a better life to just be exploited and hood winked which is nothing more than political posturing. ron desantis claims credit for the flight paid for with tax money. he said the migrants signed tax
a category 3 hurricane as it barrels towards turks and caicos. this after the storm hammered puerto rico leaving at least two people dead amid widespread devastation. and a texas sheriff says he plans to investigate whether laws were broken when florida governor ron desantis flew dozens of mexican migrants to martha s vineyard last week. he believes federal laws were broken and they were proomised work in florida and then flown to massachusetts. a judge will hold his first meeting at a new york courthouse in the coming hours. ahead of that the former president s lawyers are signaling they oppose having to immediately disclose information regarding declassification related to those documents found by the fbi. meanwhile, the justice department is proposing a system