democrats who participated in a gun violence protest inside the general assembly we ll talk to one state lawmaker what calls the move a very dangerous precedent. a violent start to the holiest week in the middle east. new air strikes in response to dozens of rockets fired from the gaza strip in lebanon. we re going to bring you a live report from jerusalem. plus, classified documents detailing u.s. and nato plans on ukraine posted to social media we ll talk to one of the reporters who broke the story about how the pentagon is responding and it has been six months since hurricane ian decimated parts of florida we go back and see how communities there are rebuilding and we begin this hour with that extraordinary move in tennessee where the republican-led state house voted to expel two democratic lawmakers for an alleged rule violation for the first time in the state s history. people were removed from elected office before there, but never for violating decorum rules. j
and later we will take a closer look at the movement to ban certain books in schools and libraries across the u.s. what can be done to fight the bans, that s coming up. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. we begin in the atlantic basin where tropical storm ian continues to strengthen. fueled by warm energizing waters off the caribbean the latest forecast shows it growing to a category 4 hurricane over the gulf of mexico before slamming into florida. now, it would be the first major hurricane to hit the state in four years. president joe biden has declared a federal emergency in the state. florida governor ron desantis declaring a state of emergency as well and residents from the florida panhandle to the florida keys are being urged to prepare for storm surge, hurricane force winds and heavy rain. this is the calm before the storm, i ve seen lines at the gas stations and the natural gas, propane. they re taking it serious and i
it s being called the mission to save humanity. we ll take you inside nasa s plan to crash into an asteroid . we begin by tracking two dangerous storm systems. first, tropical storm ian churning across the warm, energizing waters of the caribbean right now. the latest forecast shows it strengthening to a category 4 hurricane over the gulf of mexico before slams into florida next week. it could be the first major hurricane to hit the state in four years. president joe biden has declared a federal emergency in the state. florida governor ron desantis declared a state of emergency as well. residents from the florida panhandle to the florida keys are being urged to prepare for storm surge, hurricane-force winds, and heavy rain. we want everyone to ensure that their emergency equipment, their hurricane shutters, their battery-operated radios, battery-powered, that they re all in good working order and that sufficient emergency supplies are on hand. seven days of perishable foo
polls in a snap election. we re live in rome with a look at the deepening political divide in the country. and nasa will test out a mission that sounds straight out of a hollywood movie, a spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid s moon. a look at the upcoming mission. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we are expecting an update at any moment from the national hurricane center with the latest forecast track of tropical storm ian which could be the first major hurricane to hit florida in four years. we begin in eastern canada where hundreds of thousand right side still without power. fiona is now a post tropical cyclone and continues to move through the region. hurricane force winds battered the maritimes as the storm made landfall saturday, the strongest storm on record to hit dan da s atlantic coast, huge waves battered the coastline causing severe flooding. police posted photos of destruction saying condition
on in the trump administration with jared kushner taking as we look at the text, entirely possible that joe biden was not sitting there as hunter biden is alleging. he alleges that he was in the text, entirely possible he wasn t, to your point there, raising some ethical considerations certainly at the least here. but i do, congressman, want to thank you so much. this is obviously going to be a day of some drama on wednesday. and obviously a lot going on with israel, as well, this week. thank you so much for your time. thank you. boris? flooding and extreme heat are not just plaguing the united states. it s hitting the entire globe. in fact, dozens have lost their lives after torrential rain hit south korea. a nightmare scenario that unfolded for many of them when we come back. and in europe, a second major heatwave in a week sparking fears of a major wildfire outbreak. we have a report for rome next.