early turnout. eva pilgrim and steve osunsami live in the battlegrounds. rick klein and rachel scott at the big boards tonight. they ll show us what to look for. also the other news this tuesday night. a hurricane warning now in effect for much of florida. mandatory evacuations under way in some areas. nicole gaining strength tonight. expected to make landfall as a hurricane. then moving right up the east coast into the northeast. georgia, the carolinas, washington, d.c., new york, to boston. ginger zee standing by in florida with the timing and the track tonight. the war in ukraine, of course, this is another issue we ll cover on this election. and tonight, what president zelenskyy is now suggesting when it comes to talks with vladimir putin. here at home, the high school shooting in seattle. what authorities have now revealed. also the search at this hour. one person killed, three rescued. reports of others swept away in flooding. and at the end tonight, the power
reporter: david, we are in a hurricane warning here from the space coast up to daytona beach, down to west palm. so, i want to take you to the map so you can see the timing of this. this is a thursday, early thursday landfall. and the impact is going to be wide. not just what you see in the cone, but well beyond it. it s going to take a sharp turn into georgia, south and north carolina and up the east coast. i m most concerned about beach erosion, surge up to five feet, isolated tornadoes, and that 600 miles wide, where you could see t tropical storm force winds. this is very late in the season to have a hurricane making landfall, david. all right, ginger zee live in florida tonight, where the wind is already picking up. ginger, we ll see you on gma in the morning. we turn now to the war in ukraine tonight. tonight, what president zell ben ski is now suggesting when it comes to talks with russian president vladimir putin. james longman in kyiv again tonight. reporter: tonight
of how government and regulations have their place. i remember after andrew a rigid new set of building codes that were implemented not only in south florida but across the entire state. how big of an impact do you think that will have when we have to face a cat 4, cat 5 storm? joe, you obviously have great insight. that was one of the biggest lessons learned from 25 years ago. i ll never forget being in a helicopter over ground zero which was downtown homestead florida. i saw only two buildings left. one was the bank building, and the other one was an old florida cracker house which had been built back in the 20s to withstand the winds, and everything, i mean everything, was levelled.
sliver. it will only be about half of that, and that will track who gets the worst of it. that s why all the people that s why yesterday they ordered the evacuations in areas of coastal counties outside of tampa. they know if we get a drift to the west, we could be talking about more of a direct hit almost like a charlie type storm in areas on the west coast of florida or maybe wilma. that s where wilma made the first land fall. florida is narrow. the storm from the south, there will be effects of hurricane force winds throughout the entire state. we re trying to pinpoint who is going to get the worst winds. who is going to get the category 4 winds? who is going to have their houses destroyed that won t be able to get back in them for weeks or months? that s what we re going to try to pinpoint in the next 24 to 48 hours. bill, thank you. we ll speak with the former florida governor on his state s preparations for the storm. with us now, senior political analyst mark halperin, nat
proceed, it s a catastrophic storm. it may even instead of weakening get a little stronger before landfall. we have hurricane warnings as you d expect in south florida, bahamas, hurricane watches. these will be expanded later on today t. whipped field is huge, this is much bigger than andrew was t. tropical storm force winds are if yell loaf. now, if you get into tropical storm force winds, that s when you lose power, 70 miles per hour, you can get structural and roof damage and the serious stuff and life threatening stuff. that when you go through the eye ap the hurricane force winds, 185 miles wide from the center. florida is 140 miles wide, everybody will get the tropical storm force winds. so let s get to the actual forecast path. this the a 5:00 a.m. update the next will be 11 of the a.m. it halls it at 150-mile-per-hour