But it is just, you know, just an awful none of us have ever been in a position of reporting some of the things were seeing right now. And it is just a hard assignment. Colleagues are Bearing Witness for sure. Wolf, thank you so much. Well see you in the situation. Cnn news central starts right now. Were tracking major developments on day seven of fighting in the middle east. Im Brianna Keilar In Washington with Boris Sanchez. We have Anderson Cooper on scene in israel. We do have Breaking News. Israeli troops conducting raids inside gaza, they have done this, the Israel Defense forces saying they targeted terror cells and searched for hostages here in the past day. Hamas is believed to have up to 150 hostages inside of gaza, including some u. S. Citizens. Last hour President Biden spoke with the families of 14 americans who are still unaccounted for since the weekend attacks. Earlier today, the idf dropped flyers on gaza. Youre seeing them there on the screen. The flyers tell people i
Will take years to rebuild. Were hearing stories of people roaming the streets desparate for food and water in the immediate aftermath of the storm. And of boats and helicopters racing to evacuate all 1600 residents, telling people reluctant to leave, they have no choice. Just before i came on air i spoke to michaeljoseph, president of antigua barbuda red cross. He told me about the level of destruction in barbuda. It is completely devastated. We are talking about 100 rebuilding, 100 infrastructure renewal. We are talking about redeveloping livelihoods, were talking about reintegrating people back into new settings. Its literally building a country from its primitive time back up to 2017, pretty much. Has everyone left the island now . Is it completely empty . It is at this moment. The government asked for voluntary evacuation since yesterday and declared a mandatory evacuation today ahead of jose. And what do you imagine those people will do, where will they go, what will they live in
This forecast path. The weaker side on the western side. The advancing side on the eastern side could be where the stronger winds and typically the storm surge would be located. It could change more of a westerly track. Concern with strong wind gusts on the coastal areas. The cone of air does include portions of the bay area Highlands County meaning that within this time period, say, thursday at 2 00 p. M. , 130 miles an hour winds offshore. That is not what we would experience in places like polk county. Perhaps stronger wind gusts, 30, 40 miles an hour might be possible if it continues to follow the track. There is the center of the storm. You can follow it a little bit overcast around the center itself. Very close to the southeast and eastern tip of cuba at this point on the northerly path. Determine 139 miles an hour wind gusts. This is remarkable because the storm has interacted with land which usually weakens the storm. It shows the intensity and the size of the eye of the storm
Now we have got a lot to talk about. This is a look at what is going on with the storm, clearly it is trained to get better organized backup to winds of 120 Miles Per Hour, this is what you want to see, this is the forecast track. Winds of 130 through the bahamas, this is a closeup version this track goes over the cape which is exactly what the models have this track is going to bring significant damage to the east coast of florida, probably damage on like they have seen in a long time and maybe ever from jacksonville to Saint Augustine. This is the real deal. If you have anyone in the path of this storm from melbourne to jacksonville, northern florida, it is going to be an ugly situation. In 30 years of doing whether i have never suggested this, this is a storm a lot of folks across northern florida are t a should. For us, no changes, it will be windy, gusty winds, polk county a little nasty late tomorrow into friday, in terms of this track this is one model talking about a hurricane
We want to begin with steve gervy. 115mile winds and weaker as the last advisory at 5 00 according to the National Hurricane center. Decent weather conditions. This storm is expected to restrengthen. A look at max defender. You can see a few showers over on floridas east coast and right now things are quiet across the area and we do expect it to pick up tomorrow and on through friday. 115 Miles Per Hour winds moving northwest at ten Miles Per Hour. Battering the bahama. Every time you see the icon that is where the storm is located. This is the forecast track. Thursday at 8 00 p. M. With 130 Miles Per Hour winds and coming close to land fall around the space coast that is highly unusual for this area to off of the coast. The worst part of the storm to the east of the center. Friday at 8 00 a. M. With 130 Miles Per Hour winds and moving up the coast to just off of jacksonville and then curbing to the northeast. Some of these models did a loopy loop and it would weaken the storm as if it