with devastating winds, storm surge and flooding. our correspondents are in the heart of some parts of florida right now. we re tracking ian in the weather center as we bring you live special coverage of this hurricane disaster. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. this hour ian s brutal assault is still very much underway. hurricane force winds. brian todd is on the scene for us in naples, florida. brian, we re just beginning to understand the scope of the damage from ian. reporter: absolutely, wolf. people in this town just beginning to come to grips with this devastation. we are on a gulf shore boulevard here in naples, within 150 feet of the beach. a 12 foot storm surge pushed the water up underneath these apartments. now people are tossing their biggest positions on to the street like this. debris hazards are all over the place. and this comes as rescue
cities like charleston and pittsburgh and el paso and christchurch in new zealand that have been tragically been victimized by racist rampages and violent extremism fueled by racial hatred. the conversations across this country today do nothing for the families of the victims. they do not erase their pain or ease their horror of the loved ones violent deaths, but at least we have a quorum willing to acknowledge the problem. the ideology that fuels saturday s mass shooting no longer sits on the absolute fringes of our society. ten people were gunned down, three others injured at a supermarket by a shooter who traveled more than 200 miles to target a predominantly black neighborhood in buffalo, new york, a shooter who according to police this morning would have continued with his rampage if he had not been stopped and arrested by police. 11 of the 13 victims were black. the dead range in age from 32 years old to 86 years old. the shooter wrote a lengthy, in which he was inspir
cities like charleston and pittsburgh and el paso and christchurch in new zealand that have been tragically been victimized by racist rampages and violent extremism fueled by racial hatred. the conversations across this country today do nothing for the families of the victims. they do not erase their pain or ease their horror of the loved ones violent deaths, but at least we have a quorum willing to acknowledge the problem. the ideology that fuels saturday s mass shooting no longer sits on the absolute fringes of our society. ten people were gunned down, three others injured at a supermarket by a shooter who traveled more than 200 miles to target a predominantly black neighborhood in buffalo, new york, a shooter who according to police this morning would have continued with his rampage if he had not been stopped and arrested by police. 11 of the 13 victims were black. the dead range in age from 32
stocks which would used in the period to trump a fan to those pump stocks so that today they re not legal. president trump signed into law the background check bill. the biggest problems we found are the people that aren t getting fed in the data that s not getting fed in to the background check system where people who had criminal backgrounds were able to buy guns when they shouldn t have been. this was a real problem in some of these mass shootings like setting springs from a like charleston even in the parkland case the shooter shouldn t have been able to buy guns based on his past but yet the data wasn t fed into the background check system. let s make it work so that criminals aren t the ones who were getting guns but that law-abiding citizens still have the right to exercise their second amendment rights to defend themselves. i don t know if i heard a clear answer of what he will do but here was his comment last night on that. democrats want to confiscate guns from law-abidin
in the past couple of hours, able to strengthen to a category 3. these are the areas within say 50 to 70 miles, not only are we sees tropical storm winds, but even hurricane force winds expected within the next few hours. heavy rainfall on northwestern side of the storm right now. we expect this heavy rainfall to continue for much of thursday morning and much of the afternoon and evening hours. charleston could pick up as much as 6 to 10 inches of rainfall by the time we get into this time tomorrow as the storm begins to gradually pull away. here is the hour by hour breakdown. by 8:00 in the morning, we think the storm will be near its closest approach to charleston, again, 30 to 50 miles offshore. the storm surge at its highest across the region, potentially up to 7 feet. really important to note, when it comes to storm surge in a city like charleston where you re surrounded by two rivers and of course the ocean right in your doorstep here, you re going to have a tremendous amount of