the storm right now packing maximum sustained winds of 125 miles per hour. it is expected to strengthen further over the next 24 hours, and that s alarming to hear. ian is expected to hit florida s west coast late wednesday into thursday, and nearly 7 million people along the coast, including really all of tampa bay, a facing the risk of a life-threatening storm surge there. and people, they are all being urged to get out of harm s way and to do it now. tampa s mayor warning residents, if you can leave, just leave now. those are his words. florida s governor, ron desantis, announcing that the tampa bay airport will be closed starting tonight at 5:00 eastern time. he also expect he has also expected, desantis to speak at any moment from tallahassee. we ll give you detainee on those preparations from the storm and bring you his update live in just moment. we are covering this dangerous storm. the only way cnn can. let s go first to our carlos flores, who joins us in tampa
smuggling migrants at record numbers. lexis mcadams has the latest on the ground in eagle pass, texas. good afternoon alexis brick works we see this every single day the southern border. hundreds of walking across the border into the united states but many of them have no clue where they re going to go next they do not have a plan. once they are in the u.s. if they re willing to pay big money like thousands of dollars, there are new ways to smuggle them across the united states. just like this but what you re looking on your screen is a picture we just got an a little while ago from texas dps. this shows 19 migrants on this private plane in mcallen, texas for an investigator say three cars pulled up to the private airport and dropped off the migrants on friday. that is been a concerned citizen called 911 and the police showed up. the migrants were from central america. this is the second bus at a private airport in texas just in the past two weeks. humans are smuggled in, so
We knew that it was just a matter of time. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy is defending his decision to open an Impeachment Inquiry against president biden. To be able to get the answers to those questions, you are going to have to subpoena certain documents. Russian president Vladimir Putin met with north Koreas Kim Jong un amid speculation that kim could sell moscow weapons and ammunition to use against the ukrainians. Norah breaking news. The new ruling from a new mexico judge on the governors temporary ban on carrying a firearm. The Bernalillo County Sheriffs Office will not enforce this segment of the order. Devastation in libya. Flooding has killed thousands of people, leaving entire communities destroyed. Norah part two of our indepth interview with president ial hopeful ron desantis. Tonights focus On The Issues like the economy, abortion rights, and donald trump. Do you believe that voters will elect someone who is facing 91 criminal counts . Song of the year is taylor swift [che
Capture would occur. We knew that it was just a matter of time. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy is defending his decision to open an Impeachment Inquiry against president biden. To be able to get the answers to those questions, you are going to have to subpoena certain documents. Russian president Vladimir Putin met with north Koreas Kim Jong un amid speculation that kim could sell moscow weapons and ammunition to use against the ukrainians. Norah breaking news. The new ruling from a new mexico judge on the governors temporary ban on carrying a firearm. The Bernalillo County Sheriffs Office will not enforce this order. Devastation in libya. Flooding has killed thousands of people, leaving entire communities destroyed. Norah part 2 of our indepth interview with president ial hopeful ron desantis. Tonights focus On The Issues like the economy, abortion rights, and donald trump. Do you believe that voters will elect someone who is facing 91 criminal counts . Song of the year is taylor swift
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. A source familiar tells us that weisselbergs interview happened weeks ago and that it focused on Michael Cohen and the Hush Money Payments to two women who said they had affairs with trump, which trump denies. Weisselberg is a major player, in the secret reporting from a few weeks ago, cohen says he consulted with weisselberg, and in the plea deal, hes referred to as executive one, who arranged 420,000 in payments to cohen to pay him back for the payment he made to stormy daniels. He wrote please pay from the truth, post to Legal Expenses when he forwarded the invoices to another executive. Its very clear that hes played a key role. Athena how big a there et to President Trump is it that prosecutors are talking to weisselberg . This is certainly a big deal. Were talking about a person who has been working for trump for decades. He is the chief finance officer
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