for a rematch. and we begin this hour with tropical storm ian, and that s churning in the caribbean and getting stronger as it heads north towards cuba. now, ian, is expected to reach hurricane status monday before hitting western cuba. officials say they re expecting strong winds, heavy rain, and dangerous storm surges. now, ian then expected to turn into a major hurricane tuesday and forecast to hit the florida coast some time later this week. now, people in florida as you can imagine already preparing for ian. florida s governor has activated 2,500 national guard troops. tampa residents, meantime, are filling sandbags you see them there to try and prevent that flooding. and emergency management officials preparing for storm surges. we are loading and by the day we would have loaded 360 trailers and more than 2 million meals and more than 1 million gallons of water ready to be sent into impacted areas. you need to be prepared for sheltering in place. you may lose po
putin s plan to mobilize thousands more troops for his war in ukraine. and a historic election in italy where the most far-right ruling coalition since mussolini looks set to tak e power. and we begin this hour with tropical storm ian that s churning in the caribbean and gaining strengthen as it moves towards cuba. now it s expected to rapidly intensify before hitting western cuba with strong winds and dangerous storm surges. now, ian is expected to turn into a major hurricane tuesday and forecast to hit florida midweek. people in florida are already preparing for the storm, filling sandbags trying to prevent flooding. here s more now from the mayor. of course there s a high degree of worry whenever we have a named storm that we are in the trajectory or in the path of that storm. but we are preparing. you know, we like to rehearse and practice for these, but we certainly don t want it be on the main stage of ian. now, floridians are stocking up on emergency essentials
a pretty low lying area. that storm surge they re preparing for, what exactly might that look like when it comes to the businesses and the homes in that area? reporter: well, to give you a sense of howe things look where we are right now, we re at a park that s surrounded by three bays, the old tampa bay, the tampa bay and then that third bay. what they re worried about, especially the folks in pinellas county, that storm surge is going to flood things no matter what. even if that forecast track ends up having ian moving parallel to tampa bay and the tampa area, they still believe we re going to see a lot of that water making its way inland. so they want folks to go ahead and come out and get these sandbags. the lines at these three locations were pretty long. it s our understanding they re going to continue to do this today and tomorrow and most likely into wednesday. however, emergency officials again have been telling folks, try to get this done early because we could
hurricane fiona continues its dangerous march forth as it churns past bermuda. right behind fiona is a storm that could become a major concern next week. we ve got an update on all of that for you ahead. and the pressure on former president trump is mounting on multiple fronts. now the special master, who trump himself requested to review material seized from mar-a-lago is again putting his legal team on the spot giving the trump team until next friday to back up trump s name the fbi planted evidence during search of his private estate last month. we begin this hour with the growing backlash to russia s first draft since world war ii. joining me now, jay gray from kyiv, ukraine, also former u.s. ambassador to ukraine william taylor. he s vice president of russia and europe at the u.s. institute of peace. welcome all of you. jay, to you first. we ve seeing these emotional images from russia. families are parting, they re drafting men, boarding buses, heading to face a war an
use it. i got a bill i just paid and i can t use the water. hello and welcome, it is friday, september 2, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and philadelphia where u.s. president biden says donald trump hand his extremist supporters are a threat to the very soul of the nation. he lasted their election conspiracies, assault on civil rights and calls for political violence. plb i mr. biden is heoping to set the tone for the midterms. reporter: president biden delivered one of the most forceful speeches of his presidency thursday night in philadelphia taking direct aim at donald trump and what he says is the extremism that is coursing through the republican party. maga republicans have made their choice. they embrace anger, they thrive on chaos, they live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies. here in my view is what is true. maga republicans do not respect the constitution. reporter: this message coming nine weeks before the midterm election