Out of office, including campaigning with democrats. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Im fredricka whitfield. Welcome to a new 11 00 a. M. Eastern hour here on this sunday of the newsroom. Florida under a State Of Emergency this hour, as Tropical Storm ian gains strength. Ian is expected to become a hurricane today, and may peak as a category 4 storm before weakening and making a direct hit on florida as early as wednesday. Were expecting an update from Governor Ron Desantis minutes from now. Our reporter is in the weather center. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez is traveling with the president in wilmington, delaware, who announced a federal energy for the state. So lets begin with you, alison. You just got an update if the National Hurricane center. Tell us what youre learning. Lets look at the breakdown. The sustained winds are at 50 Miles Per Hour, gusting up to 65. That Forward Movement has increased, up to 14 Miles Per Hour to the westnorthwest. An
generations. we know in our bones that our democracy is at risk and we know this is your moment to defend it, preserve and protect it, choose it. i want you to know we ll meet this moment. every freedom loving american needs to understand the time stands up to this growing left wing tyranny is right now. if you want to save your rights and liberties, you have to start by dealing a humiliating rebuke to the radical left of this election. this is so important, this election. the current and former president delivering their final speeches of this midterm campaign. but donald trump had a lot more than this election on his mind. we re also going to hear the closing pitches from the candidates themselves and several key races that could determine the balance of power in washington. plus, how speaker nancy pelosi gives her first interview since the brutal attack on her husband. we ll have all of that for you straight ahead. good morning. welcome to way too early on this tue
hurricane over the caribbean. we re live at the scene and with the forecast. we begin in ukraine where, for the second time within days, the city of zaporizhzhia is taking a deadly pounding from russian rockets. these are scenes of chaos after multiple rockets slammed into residential areas on saturday, reportedly killing at least 17 people. while further south, moscow is scrambling to get the bridge linking the occupied crimea with russia back up and running. a part of the bridge collapsed after a huge explosion and fire on saturday. now russia says repair work will be under way around the clock. some train and road traffic has already resumed, but drivers will go into the water divers, rather, will go into the water later today to see if the structure can still support trucks. scott mclean is keeping an eye on developments in ukraine including the deadly strike on zaporizhzhia. he joins us from london, scott? reporter: yeah, we don t have a ton of information about th
kevin: the president will speak at the un general asem blee a few hours from now, he has collected what he wants to say and sources say this will be a seminole moment in the short biden presidency. he is expected around 10:35 this morning. these things tend to slide as the day goes along, 10:35, could be closer to 11 or 11:30. we ll be watching. he will participate in meeting with un secretary general and have a bilat with the brand-new prime minister of the united kingdom. beijing considers its response to the president s repeated insistence that if china does invade taiwan, the u.s. will act. would u.s. forces defend the island? yes. to be clear, u.s. forces, u.s. men and women would defend taiwan in event of taiwan invasion? yes. kevin: surprised the reporter and many on the team at the white house. the address is expected to place china and taiwan issues front and center today and no, despite his previous comments to the contrary, no change in u.s. policy, tai
all of this. i m going to get to it. i ll see you tomorrow night. thanks. this is don lemon tonight, and i m in orlando florida, and being here, what s really amazing is the amount of water. as i said last night, this has been a water storm. it s all about the water. it s not about the wind. this hurricane dumped so much water on the state of florida. what you see behind me, these trees are usually under water behind me, so people would normally be walking behind me on this path. but now, if you go there, you re at your own risk. the destruction it s caused here is amazing inland, and it didn t even see the worst of hurricane ian. their whole neighbors, homes, everything people had in the world under water right now. also, it s important to talk about the bravery of the first responders risking their own lives, rescuing strangers, some of them people who stayed in their homes that were at risk. i went out on a small boat with orange county fire and rescue today. we talked wit