alexis mcadams and live in new york city with more details for us. when we were out there last night for new year s eve celebrations we saw a lot of police activity in the area rushed in to help the three officers who are recovering we can tell you the teenage suspect is being called a violent islamic extremist who was on the fbi radar for weeks. take a look on your screen this is where it unfolded in midtown manhattan there were thousands of people out there with the three officers were attacked in the area and it was during the major celebrations with police say the 19-year-old trevor bickford of maine pulled out a machete style knife and started swinging he struck two officers in the head and injured a third nypd officer. what are those officers as a rookie cop who literally just got a job in new york city. all are expectcted to be okay investigators say this could be a possible terror attack, sources tell me the suspect s own family called the police on him back in dece
potentially hit. plus congresswoman liz cheney says she is ready to part ways with her party if donald trump becomes the nominee in 2024. we ll tell you how she plans to keep fighting to prevent the former president from running for the white house. and making a direct appeal to russian fighters being called up into harm s way. plus, a hollywood actress st stalked for more than a decade. we ll tell you about the dna technology that helped solve this crime. the start of a new week, sunday, september 25th. thank you so much for waking up with us. amara, good morning. it s always so refreshing to hear you say it s the start of a new week. we are watching one storm, all of florida watching the caribbean this morning as tropical storm ian continues to gain strength. the latest forecast shows it s growing to a category four hurricane over the gulf of mexico before slamming into florida. it would be the first major hurricane to hit the state in four years. so yesterday f
you re live in the cnn newsroom. hello again, everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. right now in the state of florida a state of emergency is in effect statewide, and the governor is calling up the national guard as tropical storm ian gains strength and moves closer to florida s west coast. ian is expected to intensify into a cat gather 4 had and making landfall as early as wednesday night. governor desantis is urging people to prepare now. expect heavy rains, strong winds, flash flooding, storm surge and even isolated tornadoes. make preparations now, and i know a lot of people have been doing it throughout the state of florida and the things you should be prepared with food, water, batteries, medicine, fuel. anticipate the closer you are to where the eye of the storm makes landfall, anticipate power outages. that is something that will likely happen with a hurricane of this magnitude. cnn s patrick ottoman is in havana, cuba, where warnings ar
hook for some of the statements that were made. so i m sure it s anxiety inducing for a lot of them and on top of everything else that they re watching politically, which if you look at any of the national polls that have come out lately, even though his base has remained solid, you see incremental degradation with the general electorate. losing to joe biden. i m sure some republican is going to come along and make that point in the primary. we ve seen very bad weeks for him before and he s managed to publicly at least in the court of public opinion he s been able to skirt around it. this feels different to me. and it may be different. first of all, when it comes to public opinion, something like 60%, 61% of the country does not want him to run in 2024. his base is solidly behind him and the republican voters are solidly behind him but the independents have walked away. in fact, the number goes up to 67% for independents don t want him to run. so things are not working th
solid, you can see incremental degradation with the general electric. losing to joe biden, and i m sure republicans will come along and make that point in the primary. and was,, you seen a bad week before and managed to publicly at least in the court of public opinion he has been able to skirt around it but this feels different. it might be different. when it comes to public opinion, something like 60% or 61% of the country doesn t want him to run in 2024. his base is solidly behind him and the republican voters are solidly behind him but independence have walked away, the number goes up to 67% for independence, they don t want him to run. things are not working that well politically. in the commercial sphere, which is really what the heart of the attorney general s case in new york is against them, this is going to hamper, even before they come to resolution, this is going to hamper his business operations, if you are a lender and a counterparty, a vendor, are you are ju