just moments ago making landfall in cuba. the storm is over the island s western tip as a major category 3 hurricane with a storm surge that had been forecast up to 14 feet. within hours ian will bear down on florida s west coast with high winds, heavy rains. what really has officials worried in florida and urgently calling for mass evacuations is a huge storm surge expected to peak tomorrow. tampa bay is pretty shallow and is going to be pushing a phenomenal amount of rain up into our bay. there s really no place for this water to go so the flooding, the surge is going to be monumental. while we talk about tampa bay, we really need to focus on the warned area and why the hurricane center is so worried about storm surge is this is some of the most vulnerable coast line in the united states with high populations. meteorologist pedram javaheri is live in the weather center with the latest update. they ve published a new outlook a minute and a half ago. what are they sayin
nancy pelosi s husband. deafening silence from brazil s defeated president. no concession from boll sonarob biden, pence, obama, cheney all campaigning for candidates just one week until mid-terms. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. the man accused of hitting paul pelosi on the head with a hammer has been charged with a long list of state and federal crimes, a among them, assault, attempted murder and attempted kidnapping 467892-year-old david depape confessed he wanted to hold the speaker hostage. yes, it appears as though this was based on his statements and comments that were made in that house during his encounter with mr. pelosi this was politically motivated. they say mr. depape wanted to press mrs. pelosi to, quote, tell the truth. we won t repeat it here, it s not true, except it hinges on the falsehood that paul pelosi was well acquainted with his attacker. there is absolutely no evidence that mr. pelos
Down yesterday. Israel says it will not allow supplies into the territory until all the hostages are taken by hamas are freed. The director of one of the hospitals there in gaza says that theres only enough fuel in their generators for the next 3 or 4 more days, including operating rooms and neonatal units that that if the generators stop, this hospital will become a mass grave because more than 120 wounded patients are on ventilators. A thousand patients are on dialysis and 50 premature babies are in incubators. Also we cant run intensive care and oxygen generation plants without electricity. Thus all of these people are facing certain death. Neighboring egypt is in talks with israel and the us to allow the delivery of food and fuel into gaza. But it has pushed back on proposals to allow a safe corridor for civilians to escape. Secretary of state Antony Blinken was in tel aviv today where he met with israelis who have seen their loved ones massacred or taken hostage by hamas militants
70s as we move into the late morning, were still a little bit cooler than we were yesterday at this point for most spots. But that turns around this afternoon and were actually going to be looking at a warmer afternoon ahead of us enough. So to get some of our inland areas back into the low 80s, all of your full breakdown as we approach the weekend. Still to come in your forecast, james. Okay, john, thank you. 10 oclock the time in our top story this morning. The San Francisco Teachers Union set to announce today whether they voted to authorize a strike. Teachers say theyre prepared to hit the picket line of necessary kron fours will. Tran has been following the story. Joining us from San Francisco will. We will know in 2 hours and now, james, whether or not the teachers have authorized a strike. I off all right. Well, well come back to will here in a little bit. But obviously, as he said in 2 hours, time will know what the teachers have voted to do. Like i said, teachers have said in
Representatives say they will be also monitoring their platform for antisemitic speech. Meantime, on capitol hill, democrats and republicans draft a bipartisan resolution condemning hamas at least 400 lawmakers have signed that resolution. Many of them say its just the beginning of what they are prepared to do to support israel. To make sure that israel has the weapon systems, the artillery and everything that they need so that israel can defend or we have the back of the israeli people. We have their back today. Well have it tomorrow. Well have it every day. President biden says the first round of military aid is on its way, including ammunition and interceptors. As for the millions of People Living in gaza, the Biden Administration says it is an active conversations to get civilians safely out of the work zone. Back here at home. We have new video tonight of the chaos just moments after a car crashed into the chinese consulate building in San Francisco. The man who took this video sa