a russian politician publicly calling for putin to resign. as dissent in russia appears to grow over its failures in ukraine. a municipal leader in st. petersburg spoke to me moments after leaving court today just after he paid a fine for speaking out against putin. in his first television interview, he was unafraid. he doubled down on his call for putin to step down. translator: we will continue to insist on his resignation. perhaps our words about putin have a harmful effect on russia, and the need to leave power will continue to spread. i said it s extraordinary, right? when he went to pay a fine and it could get a lot worse than that. he came out, and he doubled down. so i asked him, why is he speaking out right now? taking these incredible risks. and here is what he told me. translator: i have two little children. i don t want for them to go through what i am going through in 15, 20 years, namely, to be afraid of going out on the streets to speak their minds at dem
florida by midweek or so. so we ll be talking about this for a couple of days, early part of next week especially. so this starting small, 35 mile per hours, gusts to 45, moving west-northwest at 15. we already have tropical storm watches, hurricane watches in effect. the water is very warm in the caribbean as well as the gulf of mexico, so this is going to provide the storm with a ripe environment to thrive. we are going to see this storm intensify rapidly once it gets into the gulf of mexico, and that s the huge concern. this could be a category one storm as it crosses over cuba and a category 2, possibly three, and maybe even higher as we get closer to florida. forecasting right now with 115 mile per hour winds by wednesday afternoon. and i wouldn t be surprised if those winds go even higher. a lot of the forecast models agree on this forecast as well. and hurricane fiona and expected to be the largest storm to hit the nova scotia area in almost 350 years. when is that s
before making landfall somewhere along that western coast of florida by midweek or so. so we ll be talking about this for a couple of days, early part of next week especially. so this starting small, 35 mile per hours, gusts to 45, moving west-northwest at 15. we already have tropical storm watches, hurricane watches in effect. the water is very warm in the caribbean as well as the gulf of mexico, so this is going to provide the storm with a ripe environment to thrive. we are going to see this storm intensify rapidly once it gets into the gulf of mexico, and that s the huge concern. this could be a category one storm as it crosses over cuba and a category 2, possibly three, and maybe even higher as we get closer to florida. but the national hurricane center is forecasting right now with 115 mile per hour winds by wednesday afternoon. and i wouldn t be surprised if those models go even higher. a lot of the forecast models agree on this forecast as well. and hurricane fiona a
east. for the 19 children and two teachers gunned down inside their classroom one week ago there s growing anger now over the police response as the justice department prepare tuesday launch a review how law enforcement responded. reporter: we re now getting our first glimpse add some of the information related to officers outside robb elementary school as a massacre was unfolding on the inside. abc news obtained a portion of video that appears to be audio from one 911 operator relaying information from a child inside the classroom. you have a child on the line. reporter: cnn has not been able to independently confirm the audio or at what point in the incident it was heard. on friday the texas public safety director said there were at least eight 911 calls from two callers in the school pleading for help. investigators now say 19 officers waited outside the classroom where the gunman was for about 50 minutes until a customs and border patrol team decided to go in with
in mourning. vigils are under way and families are making funeral arrangements. a makeshift memorial with flowers and balloons is growing outside robb elementary school. u.s. president joe biden will travel to texas soon to visit the families of the victims. we must ask when in god s name will we do what needs to be done to if not completely stop, fundamentally change the amount of carnage that goes on in this country? to state the obvious like a lot of other people here i m sick and tired. i m just sick and tired of what s going on and continues to go on. and former friend says the gunman, salvador ramos, had a history of fighting as seen here in a video obtained by cnn. investigators say he was inside the school for 40 minutes to an hour barricaded inside two adjoining classrooms before he was shot and killed by a border patrol agent. more now on the investigation from cnn s ed lavandera. i m going to shoot an elementary school. reporter: that was one of the chill