welcome back to our viewers and united states and around the world. i m john, those cnn center in atlanta. it is now 1 am on the u.s. u.s. east coast. the entire state of florida, embarrassing for the hurricane in. a massive storm stretching 100 miles across, which early made landfall on western cuba. knocking out the islands electricity grid causing a nationwide blackout. 11 million people right now in the dark waiting for more process to damage. as of this hour, no reports of any fatalities. since leaving cuba, it has gone in strength fueled by the warm waters of the gulf of mexico. as it heads to florida, now category three, sustained winds of about 120 miles per hour. along with life-threatening storm surge, florida is facing catastrophic flooding, strong powerful winds, all day long, tuesday, visitors across the state to make landfall, now expected sooner than first forecast, and further to the south. but in some parts, it has always been felt, conditions tore throughout
almost the entire state of florida, think about that, is bracing for the impact of hurricane ian., a monster storm is expected, several hundred miles across, and getting stronger by the minute. that is after causing a nationwide blackout in cuba. ian is turning in the gulf of mexico as a category three hurricane with sustained wind of just shy of a category for. now, along with life- threatening storm surge, florida is facing catastrophic flooding and powerful wind. conditions will deteriorate throughout the night ahead of the expected level in the coming hours, more than 2 1/2 million people are under some form of evacuation at this hour. the window to leave is running out. even before the hurricane makes landfall, authorities are warning residents to be on alert for tornadoes overnight. these images show the impact earlier after a tornado hit the airport in south florida, causing significant damage to several aircraft hangers. our meteorologist attracting the system for us.
they discount a congressman and a staff members new book about a call from the white house to rioters during the insurrection. we ll look ahead to the midterms just six weeks from now and bring you an exclusive from nbc politics on which are the 25 key senate, house, and governors races that could determine the outcome for this year s contest and for 2024. and i ll be joined by former cia director, john brennan, to discuss the warning to putin of a catastrophic american response if he carries out his threat to go nuclear. good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington where president biden has approved a federal emergency declaration that s postponing his trip to florida as hurricane ian strengthens. it is pushing northwest up towards florida s west coast where millions of residents from tampa to key west are preparing for hurricane force winds and destructive storm surge, but there s still a lot of volatility in predicting the exact path of the storm. bill, there are parts
the way through january 6th, 2021, they have hit that milestone, in terms of where they have finished leaving us off in the time line and now my information is that they will go further after that, potentially telling viewers about what was happening in the white house, after january 6th we know that they have been doing depositions in this downtime period, with people like mike pompeo, and others, who were serving at the highest echelons of power in t that is one of the things they might be keeping out. but committee member after committee bumember, even as the have been mum on the details has made clear that there will be new things revealed in these hearing the at the same time, though,th halle, there is still lot of questions looming over this committee, that they still have to figure out. theth first of them that you re seeing there, ginni thomas interview, they keep saying this will be in therv coming weeks, r expectation is that is not going to happen between today an
and later we will take a closer look at the movement to ban certain books in schools and libraries across the u.s. what can be done to fight the bans, that s coming up. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. we begin in the atlantic basin where tropical storm ian continues to strengthen. fueled by warm energizing waters off the caribbean the latest forecast shows it growing to a category 4 hurricane over the gulf of mexico before slamming into florida. now, it would be the first major hurricane to hit the state in four years. president joe biden has declared a federal emergency in the state. florida governor ron desantis declaring a state of emergency as well and residents from the florida panhandle to the florida keys are being urged to prepare for storm surge, hurricane force winds and heavy rain. this is the calm before the storm, i ve seen lines at the gas stations and the natural gas, propane. they re taking it serious and i