now hitting south florida and the storm s eye is off of cuba s coast moving into the warm waters which means the storm could grow and get for powerful. it hit werp cuba hard overnight with winds and heavy rain just at-battering the island. the forecast models have it projected to make landfall in tampa bay as a major hurricane. storm surge is one of the biggest threats from the storm. and as much as two feet of rain could be falling in some parts of florida from this. officials there saying right now they are urging people into the storm s path to make the final presentations and of course to get out before it is too late. let s start with cnn s meteorologist chad myers tracking this for us. what is the latest. it does look like the 11:00 advisory has brought this storm a little bit farther to the south. we re still waiting for what we call the discussion. all of the words that they use to describe what their reason was, what the meaning is, where this is going from here. s
pact and added support for his war in ukraine. we re going to look at what kim jong own got out of the trip for north korea and a broader impact for both of their adversaries fire and floods. while the east bags and the west coast with wildfires that are torching hundred grids of buildings and forcing thousands of people to flee in texas. problem is water and they tropical storm do to make landfall here in the next 24 hours and remember i m bringing the incomparable willie mays, the iconic baseball player who may have been the greatest to ever play the game. we re following these major developing stories and many more we re all coming in right here to cnn news central we begin this hour with pomp and circumstance in north korea as vladimir putin and kim jong own looked a strengthen their alliance the russian president just wrapped up a rare visit to pyongyang, his first trip there in more than two decades. he was met with a lavish ceremony that included a military parad
Assistant to george w. Bush. Scott, let me start with you, were there echos of the axis of evil speech that president bush spoke about before the war against Saddam Hussein in 2003 . This definitely had shades of that remark and im glad to see that because during the campaign, donald trump ran as something of an isolationist and if you watched todays speech, he took you on a World Tour Of American Priorities and american engagement. If you were expecting donald trump the isolationist you did not get that today. It was a firm and measured speech today, he spoke in clear terms. I was proud to see him call out the programs on petfar and malaria that the United States has invested in. I think he hit all the right notes for his american audience. I think his base will love it. I think a lot of americans agree with his message on reforming the u. N. And some gallup polling conducted earlier this year, only 37 of americans felt the u. N. Was doing a good job and
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Quickly went to make mention we have an area of low pressure that could develop and bring rain along the coast of texas, this is separate from florence, several systems we are watching but the bottom line is we are uncertain. We are uncertain thursday and friday what happens. That cone of uncertainty getting wider. Bottom line North Carolina, South Carolina, georgia. If it stalls this is going to be a prolonged impact along the coast. Remember harvey when it stalls. Rob if it stalls over the ocean it could be good news in the Wind Department because it might lean less powerful winds. Going back to diana a couple decades ago. It stalls, moved southward before making landfall and it weakened to a category one. That would be awesome. However we want people to still
keep your eye on the ball. This is a category 4, still a major hurricane. We have to finetune the forecast. Along the coast, carolinas, georgia, virginia, keep watching. Jillian people who live along the North Carolina shorelin
hospitalized, but the catholic church is heading into its busiest time of the year, holy week. they re all kinds of masses and celebration to be presided over and that starts with palm sunday this weekend. david. david: a lot of prayers for the pope tonight. james, thank you. back here in the u.s. and there is growing concern over this major new storm barreling across the country, concerned that it could bring tornadoes and dangerous wind to that same part of the country hit with deadly tornadoes just days ago. let s get back to senior meteorologist rob marciano in the storm zone, he is now tracking the storm for us. a familiar path all over again. yeah, here we go again, david. coming friday, similar to last friday, and the storm coming into the west is also very similar. cold core, strong dynamic that will have no problem going cross-country. you see that west of san francisco, spiraling in, thunderstorms, could see some severe weather across california, one or 2 feet across utah