this. president biden is set to speak in a few hours and all of this is occupied and announced a referendum this week. . and it s important to put some degree of qualification as to what russia says it s going to do. 300,000 is a lot. it is as people with military experience and those and the manpower has been pretty bad and it s likely the groups russia has called on have already been tapped to join the war. with it right equipment to actually be impactful because they ve really been struggling to keep their armed forces together over the past six months. this is an enormous task for russia while it s already on its back foot. but it will lead to some dramatic days ahead. these have these four referendum happening in freshly occupied areas. no doubt about it, these are just a number that we re going to hear on monday and tuesday that they allegedly claim that people in those areas want to be part of russia. russia will say, okay, we consider you part of our territory. what
maine to north carolina. the threat does on, under the wind picked up stream. ian going closer to florida where the governor declared a statewide emergency. florida residents buying up supplies in preparation for ian that could strengthen to a major hurricane in the coming days. talk fox team coverage, max gordon is in florida as the state prepares for ian s arrival but we begin with adam cost in the box for the center right now. beginning with the hurricane we ve been tracking last week now fiona post tropical system, still spinning activity across canada where it went on short but back behind it was a massive storm that made the ocean choppy and we see that as they have been swells, some cases five to 10 feet and we see recurrent warnings florida all the way up the east coast up into the new england area but this will wind down smile and the focus will be our next system tropical storm ian which is turning north in the last hour or so moving mostly west 16 miles an hour,
us from giving ukraine artillery and equipment they need to recapture the territory that s rightfully theirs, secretary blinken is right, strong words but the biden administration needs to back up giving ukraine what they need to carry on the fight. jon: i want to play sound from the pentagon press secretary pat ryder about russia mobilizing 300,000 reservists, here s the pentagon s thinking. it is our assessment that it would take time for russia to train and prepare and equip forces if you have significant challenges and have an interest systemic strategic issues that make any large military force capable. there s nothing to indicate it will get easier adding variables to the equation. jon: it sounds like his thinking lines up with yours. if ukraine carries on blistering counteroffensive from
yvgeny here where there s been fierce fighting last week and along the lines here. when you hear russia mobilizing 300,000 new troops, how do you think and where do you think they will be used? thank you for having me this morning, john. i will say the yellow area i can personally confirm. that has been liberated. i was there less than a week ago in the upper right corner. and the border of the fighting when i was there is about 70 kilometers, izyum, the pictures we re looking at are in the city of kharkiv and the picture you re looking at now is a strike on infrastructure.
i think that s a key difference. i d like to push back on that a little bit because i think there s a similarity there, too, in the sense that in 1914 there were certain things that great powers couldn t tolerate. brittain couldn t tolerate russia mobilizing. today i don t think in the end the united states can tolerate a terrorist state occupying territory in the middle east which is where this situation is going. i don t think iran can tolerate in the end a shiite power next to it that is defeated and i doubt that the saudis can tolerate in the end a shia crescent which stretches across that part of it. so this is a very important