hello, and welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all over the world. you re watching cnn newsroom. i m kristie lu stout. it is now 2 am on the u.s. east coast. almost the entire state of florida is bracing for the impact of hurricane ian, a monster storm stretching 700 miles across and getting stronger. causing a nationwide blackout in cuba, ian is turning in the gulf of mexico as a category three hurricane with sustained winds just shy of a category four. and along with life-threatening storm surge, florida is facing catastrophic flooding and powerful winds. now, conditions will deteriorate throughout the night ahead of the expected landfall in the coming hours. more than two and a half million people are under some form of evacuation warning. state authorities say the time to leave is quickly running out. people in southwest florida, this is going to likely make landfall as a category 4 hurricane. there will be catastrophic flooding, and life-threat
almost the entire state of florida, think about that, is bracing for the impact of hurricane ian., a monster storm is expected, several hundred miles across, and getting stronger by the minute. that is after causing a nationwide blackout in cuba. ian is turning in the gulf of mexico as a category three hurricane with sustained wind of just shy of a category for. now, along with life- threatening storm surge, florida is facing catastrophic flooding and powerful wind. conditions will deteriorate throughout the night ahead of the expected level in the coming hours, more than 2 1/2 million people are under some form of evacuation at this hour. the window to leave is running out. even before the hurricane makes landfall, authorities are warning residents to be on alert for tornadoes overnight. these images show the impact earlier after a tornado hit the airport in south florida, causing significant damage to several aircraft hangers. our meteorologist attracting the system for us.
down the road, back to what they did throughout their russian occupation. just sitting here, they did not bother us. but she found them annoying. , matches, she says. they always ask, where are the ? the russians have left, or lie dead in the dirt. lives wasted for nothing. cnn, eastern ukraine. european leaders suspect sudden, mysterious leaks into nordstrom gas pipelines were caused by sabotage. methane bubbles were seen rising to the surface of the baltic sea near the damaged pipe lines, that is what you are looking out of there. seismologist reporting to explosions in the area on
nord stream gas pipelines. methane bubbles were seen rising to the surface of the baltics sea near the pipelines. seismologists say that there were explosions in the area on monday. it s not clear if that caused the leaks or who is behind it. russia cut off the flow of natural gas of one pipeline to europe over the warren ukraine, and the other was not operating commercial yet. clare sebastian joins me from. europe clare, europe is investigating ghastly s and suspicion is falling on russia? yeah, kristie, i think when you have three leaks into neighboring gas pipelines that really appear in the space of a day, and themselves very rare events. and two seismologist from two different countries registering events on the rector sale consistent with explosions. and then you do have european leaders really not shying away from the topic. that this could ve been sabotage. the swedish prime minister this is probably a delivered act.
pounds per square inch, climbing slightly. that s a little lower than they expected. they wonder, well, are there leaks anywhere? they did find some anomalies, some seepage in spots. they also found some methane bubbles but they don t think those are a concern or particularly from the leak in the well either. they think the reservoir has been depleted somewhat with oil the oil that s been leak into the gulf. that s certainly an option. they re continuing these tests. when or if they re going to pull the trigger, they haven t said that. they just said in the coming days a static kill procedure is possible. as you mentioned, it s basically the same as a top kill with the one exception the one advantage is that you don t have that oil spewing out of the well. you just have static pressure which is where they get the name static kill. they ll decide later in the week whether or not they are going to attempt that but there are risks. will those valves hold, will the well hold when you add