jake tapper starts now. i interviewed elizabeth alexander a few months ago. she s lovely. interesting you got her to open up. gave the first poetry reading she read a poem aft barack obama s first inaugural. yeah, she s wonderful. i m sure this is an obvious one, but have you i assume you ve reached out to the white house, because president biden losing his son, losing his wife and young daughter back in the 70s, that would be very moving. i once had a very long off the record conversation with him about it, and he s that s one of his that s one of the subjects that he is most human and authentic. yeah, he s obviously experienced incredible loss and speaks on it well. yeah, that would be a good conversation. thanks, jake. all right, anderson. welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper in washington. tonight we are just two weeks away from the critically important midterm elections and i have been talking to strategists and pollsters from both parties today to tr
there is, it s a tomorrow morning. all past episodes are available now. you can go to the qr code on your screen for a link. it s a podcast about loss and grief. we have had a series of conversations with stephen colbert and others. this week s episode about the sudden loss of her husband in 2012 and how she and her two young children at the time coped with the grief and still do. that is episode seven of the podcast, comes out tomorrow morning. you can find it on apple caught passed or whatever you get your podcast. the nude continues right now. cnn tonight with jake tapper starts now. i interviewed elizabeth alexander a few months ago. she is lovely. that s cool. yeah she gave the first poetry reading she read a poem apricot hamas and our girl. she s wonderful. i m sure this is an obvious one, but i assume you have reached out to the white house because president biden losing his son, losing his wife and young daughter back in the 70s, that would be very moving. i o
welcome back to our viewers and united states and around the world. i m john, those cnn center in atlanta. it is now 1 am on the u.s. u.s. east coast. the entire state of florida, embarrassing for the hurricane in. a massive storm stretching 100 miles across, which early made landfall on western cuba. knocking out the islands electricity grid causing a nationwide blackout. 11 million people right now in the dark waiting for more process to damage. as of this hour, no reports of any fatalities. since leaving cuba, it has gone in strength fueled by the warm waters of the gulf of mexico. as it heads to florida, now category three, sustained winds of about 120 miles per hour. along with life-threatening storm surge, florida is facing catastrophic flooding, strong powerful winds, all day long, tuesday, visitors across the state to make landfall, now expected sooner than first forecast, and further to the south. but in some parts, it has always been felt, conditions tore throughout
around the eye some distance away, what happens is once it goes through the eye wall replacement cycle, the eye collapses and we ll watch the convection around it tighten back up like getting strong again. each time it goes through one of these and it can take several hours to do so, it gets stronger and it gets larger. this has enough time unfortunately to go through this cycle before it makes landfall so on a grander scale we re already starting to see some tornado warnings in the everglades right now. they have now posted a tornado watch that will be in effect until 5:00 a.m. that s an extraordinary amount of space and time to deal with that and the problems with the tornados, they re not like in the midwest and plains, they spin without notice, usually ef 1st and ef-2s. there is significant differences, jake, as we mentioned from where it would stall off the coast of the bay and turning to the right and we still could see that happen. there is plenty of time for this to h
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