coming out this wednesday. my guest will beat stephen for all of us watching this around the world, and many in britain, this week has been a reminder that grieving and loss of something that we all go through. it is a bond that we all share. certainly something i ve experienced and begun to explore and a very personal way and a new podcast. it s called oliver s. listen, you can put your cell phone now to the qr code on your tv screen for a link to it. or, you can find the podcast on apple podcasts, or wherever you might listen to podcasts. next episode is coming out this wednesday. my guest will beat stephen i m so glad you mentioned that. i don t know if it was appropriate to talk about it, but i think it s important as we watch this family grieving so publicly this week, and how tough it is for everyone. things we don t really share. and i know you lost a brother, you lost your mom. i lost my sister, i lost my dad and my grandmother and my stepdad. and it s things
you re live in the cnn newsroom. hello again, everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. right now in the state of florida a state of emergency is in effect statewide, and the governor is calling up the national guard as tropical storm ian gains strength and moves closer to florida s west coast. ian is expected to intensify into a cat gather 4 had and making landfall as early as wednesday night. governor desantis is urging people to prepare now. expect heavy rains, strong winds, flash flooding, storm surge and even isolated tornadoes. make preparations now, and i know a lot of people have been doing it throughout the state of florida and the things you should be prepared with food, water, batteries, medicine, fuel. anticipate the closer you are to where the eye of the storm makes landfall, anticipate power outages. that is something that will likely happen with a hurricane of this magnitude. cnn s patrick ottoman is in havana, cuba, where warnings ar
come with us. we re heading for the valley. going where? did you say? mexico. all the way down. you going all the way to mexico tonight in this old heap of junk? reckon the town will get along without us tli monday? oh, i reckon. i was young enough to bounce that far, i d go with you. the last picture show was a movie that, however old i was when i saw it, i said, oh my god this movie is about me. this movie is about us. this movie is about america as we are right now, here in the mid- 70s, not as we were back in the early 1950s. do you think the last picture show is a john ford type movie? no. i think it s a peter bogdanovich type movie. peter bogdanovic loved movies, had a sense of movie history, but had a very strong sensibility. he spoke to a new generation, both visually and emotionally. orson welles read the script. and i said, i d like to get that depth of feel, everything being sharp, the way you did in citizen kane, touch of evil.
since harry truman. can you imagine what that would be like to have that consistency? by the way. not for nothing, as they say. we talk all we want about a monarchy, and the shortcomings, and all of these things. but our democracy is being tested. our democratic principles are often being tested. so, we all live in a virtual political glass house. then we have someone who is acting like a monarch, but was a former president. thank you, laura i will see you tomorrow. it is good to be the, getting let us know. this is don lemon tonight and there s not going on tonight here in the uk. back at home, and around the world. we ve got new developments tonight on the special master and on subpoenas going out to trump associates. later in the broadcast, as ukraine turn the tide against fiber putin. all that is straight ahead. but i want to take a look at these pictures, pretty amazing. , we are still lining up in edinburgh where it is a little after three in the morning, waiting