out of office, including campaigning with democrats. you re live in the cnn newsroom. hello, everyone. thank you for joining us. i m fredricka whitfield. welcome to a new 11:00 a.m. eastern hour here on this sunday of the newsroom. florida under a state of emergency this hour, as tropical storm ian gains strength. ian is expected to become a hurricane today, and may peak as a category 4 storm before weakening and making a direct hit on florida as early as wednesday. we re expecting an update from governor ron desantis minutes from now. our reporter is in the weather center. cnn s priscilla alvarez is traveling with the president in wilmington, delaware, who announced a federal energy for the state. so let s begin with you, alison. you just got an update if the national hurricane center. tell us what you re learning. let s look at the breakdown. the sustained winds are at 50 miles per hour, gusting up to 65. that forward movement has increased, up to 14 miles per hour to t
on track to hit florida sometime this week with the panhandle in the entire west coast at risk. standing by. let s start with meteorologist tracking it all. where is it going to go? it does not look like a whole lot right now. lifting its way up towards the gulf of mexico. that is when this thing really strengthens. you only need 79-degree water to fuel a storm. suddenly this thing kind of explodes and become a big monster of a storm. hurricane morning s currently in cuba because this is where it will headfirst before lifting into the gulf of mexico and then we focus on florida. tuesday and wednesday, probably even thursday running up to the florida panhandle where this may make landfall. that would be a category four hurricane. this would be a strong one. you will kind of see as a storm comes together begins to strengthen, and i wall over the island of cuba on early early tuesday morning. even if you are not making landfall right away on the west coast of florida, gettin
economic direction, the biggest tax cuts and a half a century in a bid to kickstart growth. and the first woman to win back the booker prize twice, the celebrated author dame hilary mantell dies at the age of 70. welcome to bbc news. the g7, the group of seven wealthiest nations, have condemned the referendums being held in parts of ukraine to decide whether they want to join russia. it added the votes, which are being organised by moscow backed officials, are a breach of the united nations charter. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson, in the south, and cover around 15 per cent of ukraine s territory. voting is expected to run until tuesday, and the result seems almost certain to go in moscow s favour. these pictures, filmed in russian occupied donetsk, show representatives taking polling cards to people in their own homes. here, at least, it is not a secret ballot. m
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