welcome to the beat. i m katie fang, in for ari melber. we begin with the disturbing, violent rhetoric that s surging on the far right about a quote civil war. the new york times reporting, talk of civil war ignited by the mar-a-lago search, is flaring online. that search happened on august 8th. just hours after trump made the search public, mentions of civil war on twitter spiked a whopping 3,000%. the times says similar spikes happened on facebook, reddit, parlor, gab, and truth social. of course, some trump allies are fanning the flames. at a campaign event in arizona, michael flynn talked about governors declaring war. states rights, did you know that a governor can declare war? a governor can declare war, okay? and we re going to probably see that. that comes after margorie taylor greene said this at a trump rally in michigan. i m not going to mince words with you all. democrats won t republicans dead, and they ve already started the killing. when joe biden g
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
there it is expected to explode into an intense, powerful category 4 storm. then ian will likely weaken a bit before charging ashore somewhere along florida s gulf coast. florida s governor saying the storm s massive size means the entire state, the whole state wail be impacted. and he has activated the florida national guard. cnn meteorologist tom seder has been tracking all this in the weather center. what is the latest? well, it continues to look a little disorganized, really. it is a tropical storm. it s not moving very quickly, alex. only at 12 miles per hour, but it s getting ready to enter some of the warmest water in the entire atlantic. higher elevations, winds are light, so once it starts to feed on those warm waters, all cylinders are going to be firing up. now, the last few frames of this animation if you look near the center here, so deep convection is starting to occur. this could be the beginning. we ve been watching this since last thursday off the coast of
i m breaking up with him tonight. these shows changed the way that we think about sexuality. for god s sake, ellen, tell them you re gay! you re talking about gay rights. you re talking about women s rights. gender diversity. dismantling the patriarchy. you know, sexual revolution. so, i m officially out of men to [bleep]. i have to get married or move. but if you can make them laugh, then maybe we ll watch it again. anything and everything. let s get our sex talk on! oh, mom covered it all pretty good. yeah, maybe about the birds and the bees, but i m your daddy, son, and i m here to keep it 100, alright, despite the fact that your mother thinks that i m uptight. cray-cray, right? sitcoms are a great place to talk about taboo, awkward subjects like sex because it s disarming, and people just want to laugh. i want to go home to my own room to sleep in my own bed. i don t want another beer. would you like another beer? oh, yeah. but it s alway
bill: all that happening during a campaign event days before a national election. shocking a nation with some of the world s tightest gun regulations. violent crime in japan is rare. he was airlifted to a hospital with two gunshot wounds but they were fatal as doctors tried to revive him. the begunman was tackled at the scene. 41 years old. he is alive and an investigation underway how he got so close. alex hogan begins our coverage live in london with the late breaking details as we get more now. alex, hello. hi, bill. the former prime minister of japan has been assassinated. shinzo abe was at a campaign event when he was shot this taking place today in the western part of the country. minutes into his speech for a parliamentary election the 67-year-old conservative politician fell to the ground shot from behind. medics airlifted him to the hospital and doctors attempting to save him with blood transfusions before they officially declared him dead. the gunman is in c