lifetime. we made the decision we were going to get out and go take some somewhere else. we were going to go to a hotel, i dobt have the money to go to a hotel, this was our best bet. todd: tampa international airport will suspend all flights 5 eastern tonight in preparation for the storm. carley: janice dean is tracking the storm andin jos us now. janice: this is a strengthening storm, about to move over the western portion of cuba, strengtheneds to category three storm and has a lot of warm water ahead of it. i m concern this is already a strong storm and fact it has all of the environmental conditions conducive to more strengthening. let s take a look, i m sorry, have problems with my map. here is what we know, ian continues to intensify to major hurricane in the last hour in cayman islands and cuba and those along the florida panhandle, don t want you to say this is not going to hurt me, this will impact the whole state of florida over next 24 to 48 hours. wat
thank you so much. did you hear that, whistleblower snowden expressing gratitude to vladamir putin for his newly granted citizenship. snowden tweeting, after two years of waiting and 10 years of exile, a little stability will make a difference for my family, i pray for privacy for them. snowden has been living in russia since 2013, claiming political asileum after he leaked information by the national security agency and has previously stated he would like to return to the u.s., but fears he would not receive a fair trial. todd: the associated press attempting to trace origin of her party back to musilini s government, the intercept
what, we don t know. president trump has called the nsa whistleblower a, quote, terrible traitor and tweeted before he was president that snowden deserves to be executed. this information comes after an nbc report which seems to take things a step further than our reporting, citing two government officials. nbc reports that russia is considering handing over snowden to the u.s. as, quote, a gift to president trump in an attempt to curry favor with the president. the concept of a gift speaks the intent. a gift could mean that the russians would give up snowden for nothing in return which is different than a bargaining chip, but it also raises questions as to whether there is a more sinister intent by the russians. why would they freely gift something to the americans? a putin spokesman tells nbc talk of returning snowden to the u.s. is, quote, nonsense. snowden tweeting just yesterday about this report, quote: finally irrefutable evidence that i never cooperated with russian intel.