Out of office, including campaigning with democrats. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Im 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. Were expecting an update from Governor Ron Desantis minutes from now. Our reporter is in the weather center. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez is traveling with the president in wilmington, delaware, who announced a federal energy for the state. So lets begin with you, alison. You just got an update if the National Hurricane center. Tell us what youre learning. Lets 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 the westnorthwest. An
house, only one seat to flip the senate and all eyes are on key battleground states. brooke singman has the latest, brooke: good morning, it is 5:00 a.m. and election day has officially begun, 34 million ballots have been cast by mail or in person at early voting centers according to the associated press. republicans are looking to flip both chambers of congress, 35 seats up for grabs and 435 house seats are up for election and all eyes on the battleground as republicans hope today is reverend up on failing democratic policies and could come down to pennsylvania, georgia, nevada and arizona, just four states. senate candidates speaking at rallies yesterday in one final effort to garner support. too many extreme positions in washington, too much out there pulling us away from where the real answers lie. i will bring balance to washington, but john fetterman will bring more extreme. dr. oz will still be a fraud, i need every one of you to get out to vote. so i can get to
it is just shy of that now. we won t get ahead of the news on this. we are expecting an official storm update at any moment. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. hurricane ian is now carrying sustained kinds of 155 miles per hour. if they gain to 157 it s a category 5. the biggest threats facing floridians are massive storm surge, raging winds, inland flooding, tornadoes, experts already using words like catastrophic to describe hurricane ian s potential. 21/2 million people are under evacuation orders. for those people in the storm s path directly, that swath that i just told you to the south, cape coral and to the north sarasota. it s too late to evacuate if you re still there according to the governor. governor desantis also saying it is time just to hunker down for you. he spoke last hour. this amount of storm surge. it will have very ferocious winds and it will be life threatening. people are taking a risk with their health, safety and lives by bein
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
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