just after 3:00 p.m. east coast, the eye crossed over a barrier island near ft. myers, florida. this is a live look at the satellite right now. you can see the immense size and strength mof the hurricane. the winds are 150 miles an hour. that s just shy of making this a monstrous category 5. this was the scene just ahead of landfall captured by a storm chaser in pine island, florida. these conditions are expected to worsen in the coming hours, believe it or not. more than 850,000 customers are without power across the state of florida. another major concern today is the storm surge. the storm surge is the abnormal rise of ocean water that s generated by the storm. the lee county sheriff expects that to be, quote, life changing today. that area includes ft. myers and the city of cape coral where the emergency management manager tells cnn, hurricane ian will likely be one of the worst the region has ever seen. we are covering the storm as only cnn can with our team of journalis
Watching to know that a new day is on the horizon. Oprah winfrey steals the show at the golden globe and makes history. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. He regrets not responding sooner to a book in which it slams the president and his family. They took every opportunity to undermine the book and bannon, and the president is defending his fitness for office. Hena doba is here in new york. Good morning, hena. Good morning, annemarie. The president will spend a good part of the day talking about plans to boost the development. In the meantime hes calling that book fire and fury a fake book by a totally discredited offer. President trump is back at the white house after huddling with Republican Leaders at camp david over the weekend. They were discussing the gops legislative agenda for 2018 while much of washington was still talking about fire and fury, a new book thats harshly critical of the trum
Watching to know that a new day is on the horizon. Oprah winfrey steals the show at the golden globe and makes history. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. He regrets not responding sooner to a book in which it slams the president and his family. They took every opportunity to undermine the book and bannon, and the president is defending his fitness for office. Hena doba is here in new york. Good morning, hena. Good morning, annemarie. The president will spend a good part of the day talking about plans to boost the development. In the meantime hes calling that book fire and fury a fake book by a totally discredited President Trump is back at the white house after huddling with Republican Leaders at camp david over the weekend. They were discussing the gops legislative agenda for 2018 while much of washington was still talking about fire and fury, a new book thats harshly critical of the trump admin
New hampshire. Both candidates have just about two weeks left now to campaign. What happens with the dust settles and our next president is declared . That is tonights big story. There has been so Much Division that you might even be wondering what it would take to bring the country back together. Eric glasser is asking people on the political front lines what they think, if anything, might help. Reporter with so Much Division, we asked people on the front line campaigning this if anything, it will take to heal come november 9th. Might not like who wins, but this is who you have to support. Reporter conceding that is highly unlikely, others recommended a sort of political ceasefire. National day of respect. The day afterwards. You know, invoke a day of just love and acceptance of everybody. Reporter to work together, some suggest starting with what you have in common. There is like an underlying kind of this is what we should be doing as good people. Put aside your differences for your
Finally some closure after a tragic crash. Polk deputies say theyve arrested the driver who took off. After hitting and killing a woman in lake wales and badly injuring a deputy. Charlie lewis will appear in court this afternoon. Sheriff grady judd says the 71yearold confessed to deputies he had been drinking at a party before the crash. Now judd says it could put him in jail for the rest of his life. Saturday mornings crash killed 33yearold jessica enchauteguiotero. Sheriffs Deputy Adam Pennell was severely injured. Jessica flagged down the deputy after crashing her car on state road 60. Thats when Officials Say lewis drove his blue ford f150 into them and kept going. An anonymous crimestoppers tip led them to lewis truck. He was arrested yesterday afternoon on his street. Just minutes from lewis will appear before a judge at 1 this afternoon. Police arrested a woman in saint pete for the death of her child. Who disappeared nearly 5 years ago from their home in bendale, West Virginia.