this could be the storm that we have hoped would never come to our shores. the one thing i hear most common after these disasters is if i had only known it would be this bad. and so i think that s my message to them is we re trying to communicate to you that it can be that bad. okay. many in florida are heeding those warnings with long lines for water, fuel, sand bags and other supplies. schools and parks are closing and tampa s international airport is set to suspend operations entirely tuesday evening. hospitals meantime are transferring patients and putting up these large barriers to protect them from the potential storm surge. now the nags wall weather center has a storm surge in effect for large swathes of florida. they re bracin g for the storm s. people need to heed the warning and get out now especially where the storm-filled waters surge and affect them. we re not going to have the ability to come out and get them. then there are these images from the gran
to lay flowers for mourners to pay their respects and say good bye to japan s longest serving prime minister. a large stream of protesters have been marching, chanting getting into altercations with police. things are starting to calm down at this point now that the state funeral has wrapped. paula? split screen was quite jarring. protesters inside and the reverence and flowers being presented as everyone took the turn to bow to shinzo abe s widow. will, we ll lean on you. you are now in taiwan. when you look at the relationship of taiwan, china, japan and then this funeral, there is so much more than meets the eye. reporter: yeah, you re right. you can really kind of look at what different countries did in terms of their delegations
for and against the state funeral have made their presence felt. of course, inside japan s famous indoor theater, a different scene played out. each guest had a chance to offer flower and video tribute with images of abe was played. the two most recent men to succeed abe as prime minister each delivered a speech. the constant theme from almost everyone who did speak including the current prime minister focused on abe s accomplishments, how much he would be missed. that he had so much more life to live. as a result high ranking officials and world leaders rows were blocked off and a police presence around tokyo has been drastically increased. just around the corner from where i m standing there are still long lines of people telling us that they ve been waiting for hours for a chance
tactics. pathetic, meadows responded. waldron and his attorneys didn t respond to a request for comment nor did an attorney for meadows. news of the texts comes as they prepare to meet thursday. it s their last public hearing before the committee releases their final report. to be sure, make sure you are front row center for cnn s special coverage of the committee s hearing including detail, analysis all starting noon eastern wednesday, 5 p.m. in london. still to come for us, we ll look at how u.s. markets might react in the hours ahead after economic uncertainty. japan holds a state funeral fora formerin prime minister shinzo ababe.at con happen. we ll tell you why. mobilization. the rare criticism coming from a