just after 3:00 p.m. east coast, the eye crossed over a barrier island near ft. myers, florida. this is a live look at the satellite right now. you can see the immense size and strength mof the hurricane. the winds are 150 miles an hour. that s just shy of making this a monstrous category 5. this was the scene just ahead of landfall captured by a storm chaser in pine island, florida. these conditions are expected to worsen in the coming hours, believe it or not. more than 850,000 customers are without power across the state of florida. another major concern today is the storm surge. the storm surge is the abnormal rise of ocean water that s generated by the storm. the lee county sheriff expects that to be, quote, life changing today. that area includes ft. myers and the city of cape coral where the emergency management manager tells cnn, hurricane ian will likely be one of the worst the region has ever seen. we are covering the storm as only cnn can with our team of journalis
swift boats, all ready to move in and begin to go door-to-door when it is clear enough to be able to do so. power outages have slammed half a million. that is the latest number that we have over the course of this hour that we re now in. floridians on the ground as ian barrels towards their homes, their businesses. we have people all across the state with updates about different sections of the state, what it feels like, what s going on there. fox team coverage with all of our great weather team out there spread across the state as well. we begin with katie burn who is in orlando. katie, what can you tell us from where you are? all right. let s go to max gordon first. max is in tampa bay. max, tell us what you re seeing where you are. hi, martha. so we ve been hearing a lot about the storm surge concerns in the fort myers area. but up here where we are on the north end of the storm, we ve seen an erie sight along old tampa bay. we ve seen what is known as reverse storm surg
viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m max foster in london. bianca s off for the day. just ahead on cnn newsroom. there has been another set of documents that have been discovered. some of those documents have been classified. this is an ongoing process. he takes it seriously when it comes to classified documents. there s no indication that santos is going to resign because he clearly has no shame. we don t need george santos but if he wants to do the right thing, i think he should resign. his father s friends calling him a sociopath and be court documents dated in 2019. he s leaving tools, clues, signs everywhere. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. well, it is thursday, january 112th, silence speaks louder than words. in the case of the misplaced classified documents the white house is very quiet. that s after president biden s legal team found a second set of classified doc
a single corrupt computer file brought all of america s air traffic to a complete halt. how did it get there? and more republicans call for resume faker george santos to quit congress but not the republican with the power to push him out. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. good morning. we begin with a second batch of classified documents found by president biden s legal team. they found the first batch from mr. biden s time as vice president set off the search for this new discovery. it s unclear how many documents were in the second batch, where they were found or what they re even about. cnn s phil mattingly has more from the white house. reporter: as president biden and the white house counsel s office described the initial discovery of ten classified documents, documents that were turned over to the national archives and the justice department, justice department review ongoing, they never actually weighed in on
welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the breaking news. an additional classified documents and other government records just found by president biden s lawyers. let s go to our chief white house correspondent phil mattingly with the latest on that. tell us what you re learning about this second batch of material that was discovered. reporter: wolf, the last two days we ve been talking about the occasion where a personal lawyer for president biden on november 2nd, while going through personal items of an office the president no longer uses discovered classified documents and it ended up being ten in total. that process has kicked off what has been a justice department review of those classified documents, but it also, behind the scenes, kicked off an effort by the president s legal team to search any other locations for classified documents during his time as vice president. w