zone, particularly in the southwest florida counties, your time to evacuate is coming to an end. you need to evacuate now. a life threatening category 4 storm headed right towards florida. i m john berman live in tampa this morning. brianna keilar is in washington and that is the news from overnight. hurricane ian strength jentd to a category 4 storm with sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. wind gusts of 165 miles per hour. the storm forecast has adjusted somewhat south of where i am in tampa headed right towards the fort myers area in florida about 100 miles south of here, but the threat to florida is enormous. more than 2 1/2 million people under some sort of evacuation order. yes, the wind speed is a serious threat now, a category 4 storm. storm surge where i am in tampa, they could see storm surge of 6 feet which would put the water pretty much right where i m stand going it hit the maximum levels down towards where the storm is expected to make landfall. they could
protests break out in schenn jiang over draconian covid measures even as the rest of the world has moved on. in china, if there are a handful of cases in any city, there are lockdowns, businesses are closed, public transportation can be suspended and people have to stand for hours in line for mandatory covid-19 testing. in shenzhen that is happening in a city of more than 18 million people for just ten local cases on tuesday. the reason some critics say is that chinese vaccines and antivirals are not as effective as alternatives in the western world that were developed but china refuses to buy refusing to admit that their domestic vaccines are not working well enough to protect the 1.4 billion people. i m nina dos santos in london. shakira is one step closer to facing tax fraud charges. they say she failed to pay over $15 million in income and wealth
the u.s. has warned of, quote, severe and overwhelming costs to russia s economy if vladimir putin invades ukraine. as many as 100,000 russian troops are amassed along the border there. the talks in geneva, switzerland r aimed at averting a war and deescalating the situation. but russia s foreign deputy minister says moscow is, quote, disappointed with the signals it s received from the united states ahead of the meeting. our reporters are tracking the latest developments ahead of that. white house correspondent jasmine wright and senior international correspondent fred pleitgen and europe editor nina dos santos. jeff, want to start with you. the white house as we said is threatening to impose these high-impact sanctions should russia invade ukraine. what more can you tell us? senior administration officials declined in a call with reporters to specifically get into exactly what they are preparing to impose should russia invade ukraine, but they use those words, severe and
as soon as possible. i m salma abdelaziz in london, more denials and more trouble for prime minister boris johnson. the latest accusation coming from one of his former top aides, dominic cummings accusing prime minister boris johnson, knowing an event on may 20, 2020, he also alleges the prime minister was urged to cancel it but brushed the concerns away. prime minister boris johnson has outright denied this claim saying he categorically believed that the event was a work function. still, there is a whole string of allegations of partying at downing street stretching from the first lock down in may of 2020 to spring of last year. all of this is under investigation. i m nina dos santos in london, authorities in greece, in introduced the latest strategies for elderly citizens to protect them against covid-19. it is come pulsely for those 60
again, reciprocity for senior administration officials, is a big word they told reporters yesterday. they want to see russian actions match u.s. actions so they want to see russia s offers match u.s. offers in terms of size and scope, and without that, officials say the u.s. will not move forward. now while officials aren t necessarily optimistic about what could come out of these talks starting tomorrow, they say that they are realistic about the high stakes situation that lies ahead. christi and boris? jasmine wright from the white house, thanks for walking us through that. let s dig deeper on the crisis in ukraine and also in kazakhstan. we have cnn s nina dos santos in london and fred pleitgen is on the border between kazakhstan and kyrgyzstan. something christi alluded to the russian foreign deputy minister saying that the nation is