hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m john vause, at the cnn center in atlanta. as we head into the midnight hour on the u.s. east coast, almost the entire state of florida is bracing for the impact of hurricane ian, a monster storm stressing 500 miles across. which earlier made landfall on cuba, blocking out the eyelids electricity grid and causing a nationwide blackout. 11 million people right now are in the dark, waiting for morning to assess the damage. as of, now there are no reports of fatalities. since leaving cuba, ian has grown in strength, fueled by the warm waters of the gulf of mexico, as it heads towards florida, now category 3, with sustained winds of 135 miles per hour. along with life-threatening storm surge, florida is facing catastrophic flooding and strong powerful winds. all they, long tuesday, residents across the state braced for the hurricane to make landfall. now expected the first forecast, and further south.
hello, and welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all over the world. you re watching cnn newsroom. i m kristie lu stout. it is now 2 am on the u.s. east coast. almost the entire state of florida is bracing for the impact of hurricane ian, a monster storm stretching 700 miles across and getting stronger. causing a nationwide blackout in cuba, ian is turning in the gulf of mexico as a category three hurricane with sustained winds just shy of a category four. and along with life-threatening storm surge, florida is facing catastrophic flooding and powerful winds. now, conditions will deteriorate throughout the night ahead of the expected landfall in the coming hours. more than two and a half million people are under some form of evacuation warning. state authorities say the time to leave is quickly running out. people in southwest florida, this is going to likely make landfall as a category 4 hurricane. there will be catastrophic flooding, and life-threat
but we know that lisa hundred thousand were evacuated from the coastal areas of da nang, , just before landfall, the vulnerable in particular were taken to shelters. we also know it s a fairly heavy fishing area so there s more than 11,000 fishermen in the area. officials banned all of them from going out to. see others concern about whether livelihoods will have been destroyed along there as well. now, we re waiting for official results as to whether there has been significant damage. at this point, what we re seeing on social media is that trees, power lines are down. we re also seeing some flooding, roads blocked. but we ll have to wait for a better assessment. it is expected to further weekend as it crosses vietnam and further into southeast asia as well. but this is, as you mentioned, the same typhoon, the super typhoon at that point that hit the philippines. now we saw a rapid intensification of that particular typhoon saturday
trees, power lines are down. we are seeing some flooding, roads blocked. but we ll have to wait for a better assessment. it is expected to further weaken as it crosses vietnam and further into southeast asia as well. but this is, as you mentioned, the same typhoon, a super typhoon at that point, that hit the philippines. now, we saw a rapid intensification of that particular typhoon saturday into sunday when it made landfall. and we just heard this wednesday morning as well an update from officials there, saying that they believe eight deaths so far, five are still missing. but we re waiting to see what kind of impact this is had on vietnam. and joining us now from geneva, is mark how d-ing. a director of the australian national universities institute for climate, energy, and disaster solutions. mark, welcome to cnn. according question a lot of us, a lot of our viewers are having right now, especially as we look at these two monster storms raging into different corners of the world
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