cnn newsroom. police make an arrest in connection with a series of killings in california. hear why they believe the suspect was out hunting for another victim. black smoke rises above iran s most notorious prison, one that holds political dissents, including some american citizens. a live report on the protest inside the facility. chinese president xi jinping prepares to make history. taiwan has it own response to xi s address at the chinese communist party congress. we re live in beijing and taipei with details. authorities in stockton, california, have arrested a man they believe is connected to a series of killings. they say the suspect was armed and on a mission to kill another victim. cnn s camila bernal reports. reporter: we have been following this story for days. and now authorities say they believe they have their suspect. this is 43-year-old wesley brownlee of stockton. and what authorities are saying is that they were able to arrest this man thanks
this update just moments ago. hurricane ian is a storm moving closer to floor at that s west coast bringing high winds, extremely heavy rain and life threatening storm surge flooding. already ian hitting key west with major storm surge flooding. more than 2 1/2 million people now under some level of evacuation warnings. officials escalating their urgent appeals to evacuate. if you are in an evacuation zone, your time to evacuate is coming to an end. you need to evacuate now. meteorologist chad myers is in the cnn weather center. chad, what s the latest on the predicted storm track here? it is still forecast to put all of that water into charlotte harbor, christine. this is and has been kind of looked at as a charrincharlie, s is not charlie. this is florida s katrina. charlie could almost fit inside the eye. the wind speeds of charlie were so significant but only in a small place. this storm has wind, surge, flooding, waves and even rainfall inside of florida of almost
good afternoon, i m yasmin vossoughian. we have a lot to cover for you this afternoon. out today, a big announcement about former president, barack obama, plans for midterm campaigning. and the places that will get a visit from the democrat s most powerful asset. plus, the georgia senate debate. while an abortion scandal hangs over his candidacy, it was a strange attempt at theater that got herschel walker a scolding. mister walker, you are very well aware of the rules tonight. yes. and you have a prop. that is not allowed, sir. we are going to have the highlights of reaction from voters in this key senate race. plus, new developments in the mar-a-lago documents case as the doj asks for an end to the special master. and the president is set to speak in just an hour or so about the top of the 3 pm hour, about the economy and the some tough inflation news this week. all of that, plus you have to hear it to believe it. at least one of our schools in our town has, in on
airstrikes at a town near the capital. it s hundreds of mile as way from the front lines, and it is an away by putin to instill fear by an army that has been failing on the battlefield. we have graphic new images from today which show the remains of what was a russian caravan near the city of lyman. car after car destroyed. the body of a russian soldier on the ground, russian belongings strewn across the road. it just bears testimony to what we are seeing. russia s retreat and ukraine s advances are both fast and furious. but today putin speaking out, saying that these regions of ukraine where we re seeing all of this are now fully part of russia. he told a conference of teachers that the vote in the sham referendums in those regions of ukraine were well, here s his words. the results of the referendums, frankly speaking, not only pleased me but also surprised me. i think the election observers know this as well. there was no desire to correct something, clean something up,
forecasters expect ian to intensify into a major hurricane in the next 24 hours before it makes landfall somewhere along florida s west coast. ian poses a formidable storm surge threat for the tampa area. let s begin with chad myers, he has the latest hurricane center advisory. and chad, something that i found interesting here, officials were saying there is a higher than usual unpredict ability about how strong this storm will be and where it is going to land. true. and i think we re getting we re anxious. we want this to be perfect. we want all of the models to line up and say this is what is going to happen and that hasn t happened. a few models on the right and the left, not really agreeing. so an 80 mile per hour storm at the 11:00 advisory two minutes ago. the storm does move across cuba overnight and into the southwestern part of florida with winds and waves already on shore by 8:00 wednesday morning. there will already be wind. but the storm is still growing. wher