customers in florida. and the other major concern at this hour, the tornado watches in effect into the night. airport closures, the ripple effect now, and this hurricane now headed inland. headed straight for orlando before then tracking north. alerts at this hour up across florida, georgia, and now the carolinas. our meteorologists ginger zee and rob marciano both on the ground again tonight with our team across florida. also, the acting deputy director of noaa s national hurricane center right here with us tonight. what concerns him most as we head into the evening hours. the other major news this wednesday night, the u.s. state department now urging americans to leave russia immediately. the american embassy warning russians may force americans with dual citizenship into military service. and the allegations involving potential russian sabotage of the pipeline that would deliver russian natural gas into europe. ian pannell inside ukraine tonight. in this country, the m
airport closures, the ripple effect now, and this hurricane now headed inland. headed straight for orlando before then tracking north. alerts at this hour up across florida, georgia, and now the carolinas. our meteorologists ginger zee and rob marciano on the ground tonight with our team across florida. also, the acting deputy director of noaa s national hurricane center right here with us tonight. what concerns him most as we head into the evening hours. the other major news this wednesday night, the u.s. state department now urging americans to leave russia immediately. the american embassy warning russians may force americans with dual citizenship into military service. and the allegations involving russian sabotage into the pipeline that would deliver russian natural gas into europe. ian pannell inside ukraine tonight. in this country, the major news tonight on alzheimer s. a potential breakthrough. a promising new drug and what it s shown so far. also tonight, poli
alert residents in this mobile home park to seek shelter, the storm is coming. fema ready to respond as soon as it is safe. we ve prepositioned quite a bit of equipment so we can respond immediately. once we know what the impacts are and what the additional needs are, we re just going to continue to move that equipment in. but i think we re positioned really well to meet those immediate needs in the first few hours. reporter: president biden speaking with governor desantis, promising help. we ll be there to help you clean up and rebuild, to help get florida get moving again, and we ll be there at every step of the way. that s my absolute commitment to the people and the state of florida. this is a really, really significant storm. it will be one of the storms people always remember when they think about southwest florida, probably be the big one that they always remember. just extraordinary rescue images coming in there. rob now dealing with the winds still. rob, you and i we
got this under control, nothing more is going to come out. you see from the news this continues to be out there. continued revelations and i think it s something that a lot of donors are worried about. particularly when there s so many other potentially strong candidates in the republican field like a jeb bush or a marco rubio that occupy a similar place in the political spectrum to chris christie. he s losing ground and donors to these other rivals and if he s unable to put this behind him and if it goes away if it doesn t go away which seems unlikely, it s going to really hinder him. he s kind of plotting a late surge, letting others get out there in an aggressive way but the whole plan is predicated on coming out strong. that will be a problem if bridgegate is still hanging over him. politico s ken vogel, thank you so much. thank you, jose. first, more stunning rescue images out of nepal where the death toll from last week s