you are live in the cnn newsroom. we are monitoring two storms this morning. we begin in florida where in 24 counties there is a state of emergency. tropical storm ian is moving through the caribbean and could grow to a category 3 hurricane before it hits florida next week. residents from the florida panhandle to the florida keys are being told to prepare for storm surges, hurricane-force winds and heavy rainfall. meanwhile, hurricane henfiona i moving through eastern canada. you see the driving wind downing trees and breaking power lines. in novema scotia 300,000 customs are without power. residents in four provinces face severe weather as the storm moves north. cnn s allison chinchar and paolo suarez are joining us now. allison, we will get an update on tropical storm ian, which seems to be getting stronger? yes, a first look now that the sun is starting to come up over the visible satellite. we can look at tropical storm ian. it s starting to come together and look a l
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we are starting to see the active part of this and we can do more damage assessment. our thoughts out to people who are going to be suffering this for a while yet. and so you are in the very, very early stages of planning the damage assessment. have there been reports of severe damage or does it seem to be mostly manageable stuff? well, there is some severe damage for sure. we have just found out about an apartment that had a roof collapse. that s 100 people that we have to evacuate to a comfort center. that means that folks who are going to go there to get their cellphones charged and things like that, we prefer they don t do that while we are moving people in for their comfort and safety. our roads crews, parks and rec folks are looking to see here early this morning. we saw trees down and power lines. of course, we encourage people to be safe and stay away from