keep coming. willie? yeah. start in florida, though, this hour, mika. millions of residents are bracing for hurricane ian as that powerful storm barrels towards the state getting stronger by the hour. just this morning it became a category 4 hurricane expected to make landfall in the southwest coast of florida as early as this afternoon. the center of the storm forecast to move over the central past of the state with winds reaching more than 130 miles per hour. the national hurricane center also warning of dangerous storm surge and flooding with up to 18 inches of rain expected in some areas. more than 2.5 million people under evacuation orders along parts of coastal florida. the powerful storm passed the florida keys last night causing a couple of tornadoes and some damage there. officials say there also is significant flooding across that area. yesterday the hurricane battered western cuba knocking outing the island s electrical grid, causing a nation-wide blackout. offic
control room to pull you have a live shot of the house floor. this is happening. we re about halfway through the alphabet. you see the shot of former house speaker, nancy pelosi. 14 members so far. 15 members so far have chosen somebody other than mccarthy. the vote is not final. the vote is not gavelled, however, if this holds, he will not be speaker for time number two. ali, what happens for time number three? what s the next card to play? that s the next question especially as you have members like chip roy of texas vowing he will still continue to hold mccarthy to a count on a whole list of concessions that he s been trying to get the leader to make over the course of the last few weeks and months. they have made inroads here. these members like roy. who chairs those committees and has prioritized for them, but especially to this idea of the motion to vacate. it s a move that would weaken the speaker and make it easier to oust members. mccarthy holding to a compromise i
knows who is responsible for the shooting to remain tight lipped. an energy company boss warns that half of uk households could face fuel poverty this winter because of rocketing energy prices. uk intelligence agencies are accused of tipping off indian authorities about a british national, who claims he s been tortured while in prison in the last hour, owami davies, the student nurse from essex who went missing more than six weeks ago, has been found alive and well in hampshire. she was located after a member of the public came forward following a police appeal. she was reported missing by her family onjuly the 6th. the search for ms davies by essex police, and then by the metropolitan police, has attracted a large amount of criticism after it was revealed that met officers had made contact with her but allowed her to leave; and then that police had released cctv footage of a different woman. let s hearfrom nigel penney detective chief inspector at metropolitan police and
wanted terror list with the word deceased. good evening, gentlemen. appreciate you joining us. alex, what are you learning about this mission and how it went down? this was a remarkable and complex mission. we got a lot of details from a senior administration official who spoke with reporters before president biden spoke with the nation. april president biden was briefed on the fact al-zawahiri was believed to be in the afghan capital of kabul living in that city and living there he was told with family members, his wife, his daughter, his grandchildren. now the intelligence community believed he never left the house, it was only his family members who went out and his wife and daughter used what this administration official called a terrorism trade craft to make sure they weren t tracked or detected. they failed on that front because patterns were detected and, in fact, al-zawahiri went on to be seen on the balcony of this safe house. a priority of president biden we are t
investigators aren t hearing from him either. chief pete arredondo essentially gone radio silent, not responding to a request for followup interview with investigators there for days. that according to the texas department ofof public safety. chief arredondo made the decision of course not to send officers into that classroom while the carnage was still taking place. every key piece of testimony and evidence will help those families get answers. the last thing we need is silence in the face of a need for those answers. the chief has not responded to multiple requests from cnn for comment on this. we are also learning more this morning about the gunman and how he got into that school. texas investigators now forced to walk back a claim they made that teacher propped over a door prior to the shooting that day. the teacher s lawyer pushed back on that account noting that the teacher shut the door when she realized there was a shooter on campus. authorities are looking into