for a rematch. and we begin this hour with tropical storm ian, and that s churning in the caribbean and getting stronger as it heads north towards cuba. now, ian, is expected to reach hurricane status monday before hitting western cuba. officials say they re expecting strong winds, heavy rain, and dangerous storm surges. now, ian then expected to turn into a major hurricane tuesday and forecast to hit the florida coast some time later this week. now, people in florida as you can imagine already preparing for ian. florida s governor has activated 2,500 national guard troops. tampa residents, meantime, are filling sandbags you see them there to try and prevent that flooding. and emergency management officials preparing for storm surges. we are loading and by the day we would have loaded 360 trailers and more than 2 million meals and more than 1 million gallons of water ready to be sent into impacted areas. you need to be prepared for sheltering in place. you may lose po
mostly concentrated in the big cities. clearly evidence by the way he governed since then he was rattled by this. so clearly they want to avoid this. they ve also been cracking down on things like desertion and evading the draft. putin signed into law amendments to the criminal code adding penalties to those over the weekend, so they are obviously anticipating some backlash, but these ethnic minorities already dissatisfied by the fact they feel some of their rights are being eroded by the kremlin, and now not only victims reportedly of the mobilization echds shows but also of the chaos around the mobilization. in this republic which you mentioned the head of the region said many of them have been erroneously drafted in. they don t have military experience and he wants them returned. so that s not going to improve morale or patriotism. around this as to whether it ll backfire, the jury is still out on this one. it s still early days. it seems at this point russia will be able to bring m