for almost 25 years. saw a lot of storms here. this is by far the worst storm i have ever witnessed. just some of the scenes from florida yesterday. we got a better look at the destruction left behind by hurricane ian. we re tracking the storl again this morning. it is set to make land fall. the united states for a second time. meanwhile, congress is up against a deadline to keep the government running. and to provide critical awed for storm victims. also on the i had, the wife of a supreme court justice makes an alarming statement to the january 6th committee. that s all ahead on way too early. good morning. welcome to way too early on this friday, september 30th. thanks for starting your day with us. will we ll begin with the latest on ian. it has intensified into a hurricane again and is heading towards south carolina. after leaving a trail of absolute destruction in florida. it s expected to make land fall in charleston around noon today as a category one storm.
beach and charleston. we re looking at life threatening surge once again. life threatening flash flooding. lots of water. that was a big story in florida. also really gusty winds. the location south-southeast of charleston, south carolina. it is moving at 9 miles per hour. we expect it to pick up speed. so once again, a day with tropical alerts. 13 million people impacted through north carolina and south carolina, portions of georgia. we have a hurricane warning. that is in the red for parts of the coastline of south carolina. we re expecting storm surge of four to seven feet. flash flood warning in norfolk. 15 million people impacted. we re concerned about flash flooding. we re concerned about power outages. lots of trees throughout the care line yaz. gusty winds. we ll see the wet ground. that is going to bring down power line and trees. that leads to power outages. here is your forecast track as we go throughout the day.
but he also declined to comment. we want to thank our international viewers for watching. for you cnn newsroom with max foster is next. for u.s. viewers a brand new update on hurricane dorian s path. new day continues right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. good morning, everyone. this is cnn special live coverage of hurricane dorian. we just got the 8:00 a.m. advisory from the national hurricane center, and hurricane dorian is still a major hurricane, a category 3 storm. in fact, it gained strength overnight going from category 2 to category 3. it is now 70 miles from where i m standing south-southeast of charleston, and the impact here is the greatest we have seen so far on the mainland united states, which is to say we are getting winds i would say gusts
guess what she is going to reveal two weeks from yesterday all 10,000 pages. brian: like the who is who of this world. apparently it is. one of the lawyers in this the case who has seen the 10,000 pages said if it s revealed it will be life-changing for the names of people who will come out. apparently there is a, quote, little black book in epstein s in these documents. ainsley: uh-oh. people shaking in their boots. ly get to review those 10,000 pages? ainsley: do you want to. brian: it s going to be crazy. all the best, guys. steve: our lead story once again hurricane dorian is lashing the carolinas right now. you are looking live in charleston, south carolina. and as you can see, it is starting to storm surge there. live team coverage coming up next. introducing the first of its kind lexus ux and ux f sport.
langley air force base in virginia as well. they are moving their warplanes inland because the storm is coming. ainsley: janice, don t focus where the landfall is. charleston even though it doesn t look like on the map it s going to hit charleston north of that they re still going to feel the effects. steve: they re right now. brian: meteorologist talked about the storm and the president talked about the storm and immigration. numbers down 30 percent from july. there is still a lot needs to be done at the border, especially building the wall. paul ryan didn t give him money for it. the democratic house didn t give him money for it. so he is re-purposing funds to do it. he talked about that yesterday. first of all, we are using much less here than we anticipated. we thought this was going to be a direct originally, this was going to be a direct hit into miami and we are we would have been satisfied anyway. we need help at the border. the wall is being built. it s going up rapidly.