polls in a snap election. we re live in rome with a look at the deepening political divide in the country. and nasa will test out a mission that sounds straight out of a hollywood movie, a spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid s moon. a look at the upcoming mission. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we are expecting an update at any moment from the national hurricane center with the latest forecast track of tropical storm ian which could be the first major hurricane to hit florida in four years. we begin in eastern canada where hundreds of thousand right side still without power. fiona is now a post tropical cyclone and continues to move through the region. hurricane force winds battered the maritimes as the storm made landfall saturday, the strongest storm on record to hit dan da s atlantic coast, huge waves battered the coastline causing severe flooding. police posted photos of destruction saying condition
new to you this morning eastern standard time sunday evening time local, it is currently making landfall across the polilo island off the coast of central luzon. 240 kilometer sustained winds, 150 miles per hour equivalent to a category 4 hurricane. look at that pin eyewall as it continues to move in a due westerly direction. that system is impressive. even though it s lost some organization, this is a formidable dangerous threat for the manila metropolitan as well as the eastern facing shoreline of southern and central luzon. this storm system has prompted the local meteorological agency ac across the philippines to hoist its highest storm signal, level 5 out of 5 and this is new information, by the way. that shading of purple has been extended inland and the shading of red, by the way, is the level signal 4 that extends all the way into manila as.