hello, and welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all over the world. you re watching cnn newsroom. i m kristie lu stout. it is now 2 am on the u.s. east coast. almost the entire state of florida is bracing for the impact of hurricane ian, a monster storm stretching 700 miles across and getting stronger. causing a nationwide blackout in cuba, ian is turning in the gulf of mexico as a category three hurricane with sustained winds just shy of a category four. and along with life-threatening storm surge, florida is facing catastrophic flooding and powerful winds. now, conditions will deteriorate throughout the night ahead of the expected landfall in the coming hours. more than two and a half million people are under some form of evacuation warning. state authorities say the time to leave is quickly running out. people in southwest florida, this is going to likely make landfall as a category 4 hurricane. there will be catastrophic flooding, and life-threat
nord stream gas pipelines. methane bubbles were seen rising to the surface of the baltics sea near the pipelines. seismologists say that there were explosions in the area on monday. it s not clear if that caused the leaks or who is behind it. russia cut off the flow of natural gas of one pipeline to europe over the warren ukraine, and the other was not operating commercial yet. clare sebastian joins me from. europe clare, europe is investigating ghastly s and suspicion is falling on russia? yeah, kristie, i think when you have three leaks into neighboring gas pipelines that really appear in the space of a day, and themselves very rare events. and two seismologist from two different countries registering events on the rector sale consistent with explosions. and then you do have european leaders really not shying away from the topic. that this could ve been sabotage. the swedish prime minister this is probably a delivered act.