london. max foster is off today just ahead on cnn newsroom. because they re not following democratic processes. that s why we felt that we had to break the wall. they rushed into it, and they rushed into a into a sinkhole. this is not america. what you saw by that one judge in that one court in that one state that s not america. a single judge can essentially undermine approval by the fda for other drugs. quite a bit of alarm among us officials, particularly at the pentagon, generates a lack of trust between nations, both friends and foes. life from london. this is cnn newsroom. max foster and bianca nobilo. it is monday, april 10th nine am here in london at four am on the u. s east coast. we begin in tennessee, where officials are set to determine the fate of expelled democratic state lawmaker justin jones in the coming hours. the nashville metro council will vote on whether terrain state him back into the states house of representatives. jones was one of the two black lawma
Power now. The winds are extremely high. And water is rising. Just clinging to i dont know what that is. Theyre flying around the streets. A cinder block wall that was the entire width of this area came down. Theyre coming through. We had some of the strongest winds here so far. Good to be with you this morning. Im francis rivera. And im philip mena. It is 4 30 in the east. Thank you for joining us for this Special Edition of early today. The strong winds of ian already impacting Daytona Beach along the western coast as it slowly moves towards orlando. The storm has been downgraded to a category one. It is still packing a powerful punch. There are nearly 2 1 2 million power outage as cross the state. Ian made land fall in Southwest Florida in the ft. Myers area where the storm surge submerged buildings. It could take days or weeks to know the full impact. The County Manager tells nbc news overnight they are getting a sense that the community has been decimated. And in port charlotte, n
in port charlotte is just north of where ian made land fall. they were hit from above and below. the storm surge flooded the emergency room and tore apart the fourth floor roof which is where theic intensive care unit is. doctors there forced to evacuate the hospital s sickest patients. the top of the hour, ian is posing a serious flash flooding risk. it movesin closer to orlando. the he feblgts are being felt along the west coast. this is video here from daytona beach. this morning we haveon an nbc tm covering it all over florida. standing by to give us live updates of the impact of ian. we re getting a clear look at just how hard hurricane ian hit cuba. let s bring in our reporter. what more can you tell us about the conditions on the island. good morning. what s going on in cuba is an unmitigated disaster. and as we remember that ian slammed into cuba, a cat 3 hurricane focusing primarily on this area. it is the center of cuban f cigars. it was devastating. as of t
power now. the winds are extremely high. and water is rising. just clinging to i don t know what that is. they re flying around the streets. a cinder block wall that was the entire width of this area came down. they re coming through. we had some of the strongest winds here so far. good to be with you this morning. i m francis rivera. and i m philip mena. it is 4:30 in the east. thank you for joining us for this special edition of early today. the strong winds of ian already impacting daytona beach along the western coast as it slowly moves towards orlando. the storm has been downgraded to a category one. it is still packing a powerful punch. there are nearly 2 1/2 million power outage as cross the state. ian made land fall in southwest florida in the ft. myers area where the storm surge submerged buildings. it could take days or weeks to know the full impact. the county manager tells nbc news overnight they are getting a sense that the community has been decima
miles an hour. it down trees and power lines, even without power. created storm surge in areas like fort myers and naples, florida. officials are warning residents about potential for flash flooding overnight, some areas inland could see over two feet of rain. let s go now to nbc news meteorologist michelle gross. michelle, you have been following the storm all day. what is the latest? i, there we are looking at really strong storm still. it is moving inland but we are still seeing winds at 90 miles an hour. so it s still moving on to his strength. it was a very storm strong category four storm, almost category five, really wide in distance as well and moving very slow. so, it s three things that kind of came together to make the worst-case scenario. we saw a really strong winds up to 135 mile an hour wind gusts in cape coral. and i was the story with the storm surge. what storm surges is a push of wind. it s a push of water, salt water, onto dry land. so, we saw feet,