this afternoon it came ashore as near category 5 strength, as a high category 4 after bidding for hours as it approached. oh, you got to be kidding me! you got to be kidding me right now! right now it is still a category 3 storm, still a major hurricane with damaging winds spanning out 175 miles from the center. oh, my god. no less troubling than the winds tonight, potentially even worse hurricane ian is still pushing a massive storm surge onshore. forecasts as high as 18 feet in places where buildings living close to the water was why so many people moved there. take a look. this is fort meyers beach, and that is a community outreach center knocked off its foundation and floating down the street. making matters worse, the flood waters affecting residents who are doing the same to rescuers. a fire station here in naples is what first responders are up against along with anyone needing emergency help. and again, these conditions are not expected to improve throughout t
the united states and around the world. it s monday, october 17th. i m christine romans. we begin in ukraine s capital where rescue operations are under way right now after russian forces attacked just a short time ago using kamakazi drones. that s according to ukrainian officials. the city of kyiv hit at least four times. i want to get straight to cnn s clarissa ward. she is on the streets of downtown kyiv. clarissa, what are you seeing? what do we know? reporter: so, christine, we re here at the sites of one of those four explosions that woke kyiv up this morning. and i think you can see behind me this is an on going rescue effort. this is quite clearly a residential building. we have already seen one body being removed from here. we also saw another elderly woman being rescued from the rubble, actually from the balcony on the neighboring building. we just spoke with the head of the ambulance services who says they don t know for sure but they do believe it s likely that
dark. the governor clown ron desantis is set to speak at 8:45 this morning after this chilling assessment of ian s wrath. it s going to rank as one of the top five hurricanes to ever hit the florida peninsula. pete: flash flood warnings are in effect. we re live across the state with a firsthand look at the devastation. senior meteorologist janice dean is standing by. fox team weather starts with robert ray in fort myers right where the hurricane hit. robert? good morning guys. look at the devastation on the streets of fort myers. this was completely under water yesterday evening as the surge came in you could see some of that video will remnants of what was published in and around downtown here. there is just debris everywhere. the window field here yesterday was just tremendous we could barely stand by. this vehicle coming through. it s an active scene here this morning as believe it or not, there is some power that has come back at least in this part of fort myers, s
have begun arriving at westminster abbey for the funeral itself, president biden will be among them. soon the queen s coffin will be moved from westminster hall where she s been lying in state since wednesday, visited by hundreds of thousands of loyal subjects. britain s longest serving monarch on one last journey home, leading here, the grounds of windsor castle, where she ll be laid to rest and then rejoined with her beloved father, her mother, her sister and her husband. i m anderson cooper overlooking windsor castle with cnn s special live coverage. and i m erin burnett in london, overlooking the palace of westminster, where the royal procession gets under way this hour. here is what will happen. the queen s coffin will be curried from westminster hall inside the palace. it will be placed on a state gun carriage that will head to westminster abbey for the funeral service. with the royal family and members of the royal households walking behind. king charles will walk in
hurts working americans and help the rich and of course climate and the private jets. john kerry or whatever. what are we to make of the main focus of their screaming these days? they are a threat to our very democracy. that our democracy. extreme threat to our democracy. attacking our democracy. our democracy. our democracy. steve: republicans are threat to our democracy. really? didn t they push early voting to nullify the election campaign and protecting incumbents sending out ballots just after labor day which anything can happen in two months something wild like debates between the candidates. sorry you cannot change your vote. to rate it is early voting. you are political outsider to politics to get your name out there when voter start to pay attention sorry to me early voting. do republicans do that? now we know why. and we know that the republicans close well. that s why democrats want early voting is not about saving our democracy but their political sk