Forecasters are warning this will be a Catastrophiclevel Storm when it makes landfall overnight along floridas West Coast. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im Dana Perino and hi to you, bill. Bill good morning to you. Bill hemmer live in orlando 100 miles due east of tampa, florida. The entire part of this state will get whacked starting later tonight. As we track this storm, right now 155 mileperhour winds, category 4 storm. A track were watching between clear water near tampa and down to fort myers. At some Point Somebody will feel the effects of this monster out there that is milton. Look at the size of this. Remember we were in Studio Yesterday and janice was with us and j. D. Was talking about the eye of the storm and how perfectly formed it was. Almost like a pin right there. Overnight it tended to change its shape a little bit. So the storm is shifting somewhat. Still moving east northeast but we wont know who is going to Take That wallop until milton makes up its min
United states and all around the world. Im rosemary church. Just ahead on cnn newsroom, former u. S. President donald trump says he wont stop talking about criminal cases against him as the judge in one of those cases sets a date to determine how evidence will be handled. Abortion rights advocates win a victory in ohio as voters say no to a republicanbacked measure to make it harder to amend the states constitution. And a 103yearold migrant arrives at the u. S. Border seeking asylum. Why she says she came. Live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. Good to have you with us. Well, donald trump is vowing he wont remain silent about the charges against him for trying to overturn the 2020 election. Campaigning in new hampshire, the former president called the case ridiculous and an attempt to take away his right to free speech. The u. S. District judge overseeing the case may have different ideas. Cnns Senior Legal Affairs correspondent paula reid begins our coverage.
primary opponents are very closely watching this and that s where we begin today with grady trimble. he s at the iowa state fair in des moines where some key republicans have been putting out early feelers for 2024. grady, good afternoon. good afternoon, trace. might make your head spin thinking that far ahead when we have mid terms a couple months away. some of the iowa voters i have spoken to think it s too early for potential presidential candidates to stop by. but that s what we re already seeing. in fact, former vice president mike pence will be here this afternoon. officially he s here to stump for senator chuck grassley who is expected to win in november. his trip to the iowa state fair, a popular campaign stop, is fuelling speculation that he might be running in 2024. adding to that is the fact that he was in new hampshire earlier in the week. he s not the first possible candidate to visit either of those two states. senator ted cruz was here in iowa campaigning for
name a full-time monkeypox coordinator as the world health organization declares a global public health emergency. a spokesperson for the w.h.o. joins me this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to all the latest developments in the january 6th investigation. the select committee is not slowing down at all. releasing new evidence today showing donald trump crossed out key parts of the speech he delivered the day after the capitol riot. our senior justice correspondent evan perez is on the story for us. he s joining us now. tell us more, evan. what are you learning? we know that the former president was resistant to trying to stop the violence. one of the things we learned from the committee today, this is incredible, that this did not make the cut for last week s hearing. what we learned from the committee, they released a video that indicates that he was resist
Islamaphobia. To all of you hurting, i want you to know i see you, you belong, and i want to say this to you, youre all american. Youre all american. You are all americans. That is part of President Bidens address to the nation from the Oval Office Last night. The president also called on all americans as well as congress to continue to support ukraine and israel in the vastly different wars each is fighting. Meanwhile, theres somehow even more republican led chaos on capitol hill. A third vote is now scheduled this morning on jim jordans bid to lead the lower chamber, and this comes as the temporary speaker is now threatening to resign. Well go through all of that just ahead, and were going to get expert legal analysis on the surprise guilty plea for one of the many defendants in the Georgia Election interference case. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, october 20th. Its friday. We made it. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us, and well begin