president erdogan saying there is a possibility he may have been killed inside the consulate. they have not provided any evidence. the official line from turkey is an official investigation is going on now. saudi arabia so far has denied the allegations he may have been killed. saying they are baseless allegations. saying he was in the consulate, but left afterwards. many say why doesn t saudi arabia release footage from the security cameras showing him leaving the building. some say the united states and president trump can do more by putting pressure on the crown prince for more answers. joe. jomana karadsheh in istanbul. thank you. another major storm bearing down on the u.s. hurricane watch in effect in northern florida. the full forecast and when this is supposed to hit next. minimums and fees.
university. erica, they re doing something really interesting. they have buses that they usually use to travel the team, they re using the buses to help evacuees. so what they re doing is they re going to other coastal colleges, they re also working with retirement homes and getting whoever they can to help them get to a safe place. that is good news indeed. appreciate the update. thank you. thanks to everyone for joining us. i m erica hill, in for poppy harlow. our breaking coverage of hurricane florence continues right now. this is cnn breaking news. good morning. welcome to our coverage of hurricane florence. that massive storm bearing down on the carolinas. i m kate bolduan in new york. and i m john berman live in oak island, north carolina. where the skies are just darkened and the winds, kate, have just begun to pick up. and john, thankfully, we ll have john, he s going to be with us this entire hour.
48-to-72 hours ahead. as we spoke earlier, it sounds like fema is getting ready and in position. we have seen signs that fema is here. that fema is ready. they know this is the storm the likes of which this area just has not seen. we have a brand new update from the national hurricane center. we will get to that in a moment. i want to show people fresh pictures of what this storm looks like. this is the satellite/radar imagery. you see the outer bands of the storm bearing down. particularly on the outer banks. islands off the coast of north carolina. 200 miles north of where i am right now. people are beginning to feel this storm. this is kill devil hills, north carolina. you see that flag just at a 90-degree angle right now because the winds are coming and they will be fierce. it is not just the strength of the storm which right now we understand is a category two.
and also said there are justices on the supreme court who would vote to overturn. he potentially is the fifth vote to overturn or at least chip away at roe v. wade in a way that undermines that long established precedent, and undercuts women s health care and reproductive rights. i hope that my colleagues would do more than simply rubber stamp this nomination. senator richard blumenthal, thank you for being with us as part of our coverage of those stories. up ahead we take a turn to a storm bearing down on millions of americans and we go there live. wn on millions of americans and we go there live when you have pain,
read can put the president at the center of his words, his public statements, his utterances about this potentially deadly storm bearing down on the carolinas. it s bizarre. well, this is why other presidents don t talk about themselves in the moments like this. they talk about the people in the path of the storm. now the president has issued a video. he has made some comments about those people in the path warning them to get away. he cannot stay away from this idea of what people are saying about him. this person says something nice about me. this person says we did a good job. this is a pattern with him that goes back through a year and a half in office and particularly seems, you know, jarring to some extent in a moment of national crisis when the issue is not how he feels about things but how his leadership is in terms of leading a country that s facing a deadly storm. peter baker, i bring it up because your paper in the op-ed published last week by anonymous described a two-t