hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m john vause, at the cnn center in atlanta. as we head into the midnight hour on the u.s. east coast, almost the entire state of florida is bracing for the impact of hurricane ian, a monster storm stressing 500 miles across. which earlier made landfall on cuba, blocking out the eyelids electricity grid and causing a nationwide blackout. 11 million people right now are in the dark, waiting for morning to assess the damage. as of, now there are no reports of fatalities. since leaving cuba, ian has grown in strength, fueled by the warm waters of the gulf of mexico, as it heads towards florida, now category 3, with sustained winds of 135 miles per hour. along with life-threatening storm surge, florida is facing catastrophic flooding and strong powerful winds. all they, long tuesday, residents across the state braced for the hurricane to make landfall. now expected the first forecast, and further south.
orlando area. and of course, it will weaken as it moves across florida. you know, it could take the better part of probably all day tomorrow. there will be bad conditions across florida all day tomorrow, into the evening hours. and even into thursday, the next day, they will probably still be,, as it moves north across florida, still be getting those tropical storm force winds, all the way to midday thursday, maybe late thursday. and the fact that the landfall is actually moving further to the south, then it was predicted a little earlier. but that territory that s now aiming, for that is obviously an improvement from an earlier forecast which took a close in tampa, right? i mean, it s better obviously for tampa. but it s just putting different people at risk now. and, you know, i ve been kind anticipating this southward trend all day. actually, for a couple of days. so, i m never really thought the models, the solution, that wasn t going to. tampa and that s why i arrived in orl
mannered veteran attacking the decision, you have a problem. c-span is not going to go. this isn t a debate stage. they re doing the public business. bill: okay. what about the coverage from last night? what were your observations of the big rally in orlando? who covered it and who did not? fox news carried the whole thing live. msnbc didn t cover a minute of president trump kicking off his reelection campaign and cnn took two or three minutes and dumped out of it. what i have to say about this it s a lack of class. i m not saying the cable networks have to cover every trump rally. it turned into a highly partisan speech in orlando last night. but this really is sort of networks playing into what steve bannon called acting like the opposition party. to just simply say we would rather have our own pundits talking while the president is talking. spending the whole next day analyzing and picking apart what he said rather than letting our viewers hear from
[cheers and applause] sandra: the crowd went wild. president trump kicking off his campaign in orlando last night, raising $25 million in the last 24 hours alone, joe biden and bernie sanders quickly reacted in attack mode. an hour and a half speech of lies, distortion and total, absolute nonsense. listening to trump made me feel very much like he is a man living in a parallel universe. a man way out of touch with the needs of ordinary people. a man who must be defeated. sandra: that was
if you look at linda farrenstein and the prosecutors, they think that the city should never have settled the case. so, we ll leave it that the. in 1989, trump took out a four-page ad calling for the state to bring about capital punishment. the central five s convictions were vacated, after dna evidence linked a serial rapist to the crime and their confessions can thought to be coerced. the netflix series when they see us has generated outrage over all of this. still ahead, more from the president s 2020 kickoff rally in florida. he had plenty of support from the people of orlando last night. but not from the hometown newspaper, we ll explain that. plus, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is facing criticism from her