the queue for people waiting to pay their respects and file past the queen s coffin lying in state has reached capacity and no more are allowed to join. and i m lewis vaughan jones. in other news. act swiftly to save your lives the warning ofjapan s prime minister to people living in the path of a huge typhoon making landfall in the south. one of russia s most famous singing stars strongly criticises the war in ukraine, saying russian young men are dying for illusory aims. we are at westminster, where just within the past few minutes the queue for people joining to pay tribute to the queen has been closed. so the people behind me will be able to see and pay tribute to the queen lying in state at westminster hall, but, well, the people who have potentiallyjoined within the last few moments, they will not be able to make this journey that others have spent hours and hours attending, waiting to pay their respects. earlier on today. a minute s silence was held across the unit
northeast, accusing them of, quote, playing politics with human beings. they white house today the president is expected to personally meet for the first time with the families of brittney griner and paul whelan. the biden administration repeatedly saying securing their release from russian custody is top priority for him. let s begin this hour with our colleague katelyn polantz on the appointment of the special master to review the documents. it is a miracle as many pointed out that they agreed on someone, judge deary. i think the treat contentious issue that will lead to this appeal is what doj can and can t do as the special master goes through the stuff, right? right. and there is what this judge is able to do, whether she can or cannot do the things she s already done in this case. so the criminal investigation is paused, that s one thing judge aileen cannon did. the other thing is she has appointed special master judge raymond deary, he is a senior judge, very exp
it s being called the mission to save humanity. we ll take you inside nasa s plan to crash into an asteroid . we begin by tracking two dangerous storm systems. first, tropical storm ian churning across the warm, energizing waters of the caribbean right now. the latest forecast shows it strengthening to a category 4 hurricane over the gulf of mexico before slams into florida next week. it could be the first major hurricane to hit the state in four years. president joe biden has declared a federal emergency in the state. florida governor ron desantis declared a state of emergency as well. residents from the florida panhandle to the florida keys are being urged to prepare for storm surge, hurricane-force winds, and heavy rain. we want everyone to ensure that their emergency equipment, their hurricane shutters, their battery-operated radios, battery-powered, that they re all in good working order and that sufficient emergency supplies are on hand. seven days of perishable foo
polls in a snap election. we re live in rome with a look at the deepening political divide in the country. and nasa will test out a mission that sounds straight out of a hollywood movie, a spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid s moon. a look at the upcoming mission. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we are expecting an update at any moment from the national hurricane center with the latest forecast track of tropical storm ian which could be the first major hurricane to hit florida in four years. we begin in eastern canada where hundreds of thousand right side still without power. fiona is now a post tropical cyclone and continues to move through the region. hurricane force winds battered the maritimes as the storm made landfall saturday, the strongest storm on record to hit dan da s atlantic coast, huge waves battered the coastline causing severe flooding. police posted photos of destruction saying condition