obviously, in the coup attempt and the insurrection. importing that i clarify that call was allegedly made by a committee investigator. all those details also worth knowing that we don t know many more details including who placed that call, what it was about, word fits in the entire january 6th committee investigation. you today, the biden ministration is going public with a stark warning to russian president vladimir putin over his most recent suggestion that he could potentially deploy nuclear weapons in ukraine. the white house is saying loudly and clearly today that the consequences for any such action by russia will be a catastrophic. we have communicated directly, privately to the russians at very high levels. there could be if they use nuclear weapons in ukraine. we have been clear with them and emphatic with them that the united states will respond decisively. they well understand what they would face if they went down that dark road. two new and notable po
the time of landfall? the more time our storm spends getting closer to the gulf coast, it may actually weaken after wednesday. we will have more wind disrupting the storm. two models to show you in two different scenarios. the european model has been stubborn. it has been keeping our storm very close to tampa, making landfall earlier and as a stronger major hurricane around the tampa area. that s probably around wednesday. many other computer models take the storm farther west to the panhandle. this would give the storm time to weaken before making landfall. of course, that is what we all want. you can see the spaghetti models that we see at this time of year. a lot of spread here. this is what we call high uncertainty in terms of the track this far out. the implications and the impacts for the panhandle in florida will be huge depending on where we fall along those spaghetti charts. rainfall forecast over the next seven days, no matter where it lands, we will see a ton of rain and sto
computer model forecast, the spaghetti charts, as we show them. this is from stormpulse.com, and there you can see the area we re watching, and those models all coming together pretty well, bringing them at earliest approach toward winward island probably not until thursday. if we would be talking about a u.s. impact which is possible, at the earliest, it would be about a week to a week and a half from now. so still a lot of question marks associated with this system. when we talk about the cape verdes and the development here, this is a typical area where we would see tropical storms or hurricanes develop in the month of august. so this green area across much of the atlantic into the caribbean, gulf of mexico, we can even see development across the east coast this time of year, and this darker orange area here across the leeward and winward islands is the area where most of them occur. just to kind of put this in perspective, and this is getting close to what we would call peak hurric