you re live in the cnn newsroom. hello again, everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. right now in the state of florida a state of emergency is in effect statewide, and the governor is calling up the national guard as tropical storm ian gains strength and moves closer to florida s west coast. ian is expected to intensify into a cat gather 4 had and making landfall as early as wednesday night. governor desantis is urging people to prepare now. expect heavy rains, strong winds, flash flooding, storm surge and even isolated tornadoes. make preparations now, and i know a lot of people have been doing it throughout the state of florida and the things you should be prepared with food, water, batteries, medicine, fuel. anticipate the closer you are to where the eye of the storm makes landfall, anticipate power outages. that is something that will likely happen with a hurricane of this magnitude. cnn s patrick ottoman is in havana, cuba, where warnings ar
landfall, anticipate power outages. that is something that will likely happen with a hurricane of this magnitude. cnn s patrick ottoman is in havana, cuba, where warnings are in place and tom sater is in the weather system. you just got a new advisory from the national hurricane advisory? no big change really right now. we re looking at just an eruption of strength in the next 24 hours. 50-mile-per-hour winds and it s moving slower. we didn t have one named storm for the entire month of august, the first time in 25 years. now we re just past the peak of the season, september 10th f. it wasn t for ian we would be talking about fiona, massive damage in nova scotia and newfoundland. satellite imagery, and if you look closely, the sun is making it bright white, but there is circulation.