field currently. they will work 24/7 until we get the lights back on, again as the governor said, not our first rodeo, but every storm is also different, and always poses different challenges. appreciate all the support from the state, governor, thank you, from local law enforcement as well, the national guard, this is a team sport and a team effort and we are going to all work together until we get florida back up on our feet and where we all want to be. thank you. and when fpl and the other companies have crews in, the ex ten to which that infrastructure has remained is critical because it s a lot easier for them to reconnect an existing system than to have to rebuild it. so to see some of that that was able to withstand is encouraging. it s also just a testament. some of these folks put money into the resilience of the infrastructure, and this is like the ultimate test. you have a hurricane that s a massive hurricane coming in at 155 miles an hour, producing this type of
of this hurricane. it could make landfall the next several hours and then work its way up the peninsula slowly, very slowly, bringing hurricane force winds here to tampa, to orlando before it heads out over the atlantic on the other side maybe sometime later tomorrow. obviously millions of people feeling the impact of this, a life threatening storm in some ways a near worst case scenario for some of the people south of here. there was an 8 a.m. update just in from the national hurricane center. i believe we have michael brennan at the national hurricane center to give us a sense of the very latest. sir, if you can hear me, where is ian, where is it going? it s located about 55 miles west of naples, we re expecting catastrophic impacts along the southwest border coast later today. the storm surge could be as high as 16 feet above ground level in the area near port charlotte, from inglewood down to the beach. can you walk me through the timeline from now over the next 24 ho
we have teams on the ground as we prepare for the eventual landfall. we are in florida, and carlos suarez is in tampa in gulfport, and carlos, as we ve been discussing, tampa, that is where the real worry is because they re worried about storm surge and a lot of the residential areas there are vulnerable. reporter: that is exactly right, jim and poppy. the concern is the forecasted five to ten foot storm surge with hurricane ian. we are in gulfport. that is about a half hour drive outside of tampa where a number of businesses right before the barrier islands have already boarded up. they have their plywood out and sandbags in place. other business owners, they re about to start doing that right now. in fact, mike jackson, you own a shop out here. you ve got your sandbags almost in place but you have to start doing some work out here. we have to board up the windows and try to cover up these windows an the door. we still have to sandbag our door after we put some spray foa
attacks on the fbi by congress members and the former president, just two days before what the white house says will be a primetime presidential address on the soul of the nation. if that weren t enough, his new tough talk comes just as the documents case is about to take another turn, with the justice department about to file new court papers tonight, aiming to block attempts by the former president to slow it down or stymie it. that is the backdrop to what joe biden said today in northeastern pennsylvania. let me say this to my maga republican friends in congress, don t tell me you support law enforcement if you won t condemn what happened on the 6th. don t tell me. can t do it. for god s sake, whose side are you on? whose side are you on? meantime, on his social media outlet, the former president today launched one post after another about the 2020 election, which he now says should be rerun, and the fbi. now, without specifically leveling blame, joe biden today spoke
live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rose richards. good to have you with us. we are following details in relation to a classified document stored inside former president donald trump s florida home. multiple sources tell cnn the intelligence community has been working with the fbi since mid- may to determine the level of the document secrecy. the review has allowed the agencies to determine whether any immediate efforts are needed to protect intelligence sources and methods. this is in addition to the damage assessment officials are conducting to determine if national security was put at risk by his handling of the documents. we also learned some seized documents may contain material covered by attorney-client privilege. this is the developing story from washington. reporter: the justice department suggesting it has already gotten into way in digging through documents seized from former president donald trump. it s too late. we are already looking at this