sounding the alarm along florida s west coast. people are urged to get out of florida s way. tampa s mayor tells residents if you can leave, just leave now. officials say the tampa region could see a storm of a lifetime. more than 15 million people are expected to feel the impact of ewh e ian when it arrives. 115 hour with the winds and could cause life-threatening storm surge, and storm surge is the biggest concern right now. so far ahead of the storm, the hospital in st. petersburg suspended service, transported patients, schooled and universities closed, at least three cruise lines re-routed passengers. the tampa bay airport will suspend operations at 5:00 p.m. today and nasa moved the artemis rocket back to the hangar for trekz. look at this video showing a steady stream of traffic leaving the tampa bay area monday night heading inland to safety. people hunkering down as well, though. the storm perhaps testing their patience. one tampa resident waited three hours to get
there it is expected to explode into an intense, powerful category 4 storm. then ian will likely weaken a bit before charging ashore somewhere along florida s gulf coast. florida s governor saying the storm s massive size means the entire state, the whole state wail be impacted. and he has activated the florida national guard. cnn meteorologist tom seder has been tracking all this in the weather center. what is the latest? well, it continues to look a little disorganized, really. it is a tropical storm. it s not moving very quickly, alex. only at 12 miles per hour, but it s getting ready to enter some of the warmest water in the entire atlantic. higher elevations, winds are light, so once it starts to feed on those warm waters, all cylinders are going to be firing up. now, the last few frames of this animation if you look near the center here, so deep convection is starting to occur. this could be the beginning. we ve been watching this since last thursday off the coast of
the tampa bay area monday night heading inland to safety. people hunkering down as well, though. the storm perhaps testing their patience. one tampa resident waited three hours to get free sandbags. u.s. military insulations are moving aircraft and ships out of the tampa and jacksonville areas, and to give you an idea just how massive this storm is, nasa released this video of hurricane ian taken from the international space station. cnn s carlos suarez is in gulfport, florida. patrick in havana and chad myers our meteorologist standing by at the weather center. first to florida. carlos a sense of what you re seeing? reporter: john and brianna, good morning. a second round of evacuation ordered will go into effect here in pinellas county later this morning. a number in gulfport already boarded up. firewood up. this a sense of humor.
only a handful conducting same sex marriages and encouraging parishioners in vote for the new family code. i have faith that love will win, she says. if it s a yes or a no it s the same. we tell our communicate no one can take away your value, who you are. if the family code passes they will also hold a civil wedding. to matter what takes place with the vote, they say the long journey to achieving true equality is only just beginning. alex cuban president on sunday said he thinks the referendum will pass and the family code will be approved. he also said there could be what he called a punishment vote. people who are upset with the cuban government s handling of the economy going out and voting no. the final results are expected to be released on monday. alex. patrick in havana.
concussions. a lot of them weren t at the same place at the same time. the state department sent people down and through investigating there was a sonic device placed in their residence. it s really serious. we don t know why it was. the officials are telling patrick in havana, they don t think it was ease dropping, more of a sonic attack, attacking the brain waves, maybe the people involved didn t know the damage but at least one of the people is going to have to use a hearing aide from now on. the cubans say they had nothing to do with it. the fbi is investigating. it happened late last year? started late last year through a period of several months. they are still investigating they are still investigating. in may, they had to bring them back for medical treatment. they say we have to bring some of our diplomats back, we want