what we re learning about that call. and the intensifying war of words between the u.s. and russia. top u.s. officials warning vladimir putin of catastrophic consequences just days after the russian leader issued a thinly veiled nuclear threat. all that playing out as outrage builds forcing hundreds of thousands of reservists into combat. the growing desperation leading to violence at an enlistment center. we begin with the threat from hurricane ian. we just got an update on its track and intensity. sam brock is in tampa, florida, and metrologist bill karins has a look at what we can expect. first to you, sam. i understand a mandatory evacuation is being called for the county where you are. what can you tell us? reporter: the threat is starting to feel a whole lot more real. right now for residents of this county in tampa, we re in tampa, hillsboro county is 1.5 million people. we found out that mandatory evacuations have been issued for portions of the county, zones a
being affected. are the models clearer now with who exactly will be hit? we re getting there. it s slowly to beginning to narrow more and more and areas from i m saying right now from sarasota, fort myers, through tampa, all and all of this is hard to picture how it won t be a billion dollar disaster. let s talk and see how strong they have it in this last update. it was 75. they have it up to 80 miles per hour. it continues to intensify. we had the report from havana right here. the storm is west of miami. even if the storm headed due north right now, it would head up towards florida. but it s going to take a bent here through western cuba. this part of cuba is flat,@not going to interrupt the storm much.
it should intensify to a category four late tuesday or earl wednesday. there s going to be large waves, but it will not be a direct hit or a lot of damage in the keys. and then we got this forecast that includes the cone. as i mentioned, almost fort myers, all the way over to panama city. this red line is what the forecast is. it could really there s a forecast error built in. that s why we have this cone. we could see a landfall of sarasota or could have it up here towards the big bend and maybe a big wind storm up towards tallahassee. the one thing we do know is it s going to peak in intensify as we go throughout wednesday morning, and then it s going to start to weaken. the further off the coast it is, the better. then it will weaken more and more by the time it makes landfall. that s bad for people in the panhandle. that s better than having a major hurricane making landfall.
already moving trucks, special trucks, that are going to be necessary to make the repairs of the damage that that storm could cause in that part of the country. we also know that they ve been distributing extra gas now and that part of the country, a lot of the people depend on gas tanks that have methane and that s how they cook, boil the water. the government has distributed more of those tanks as they prepare. when you look at cuba, this is a country with very limited resources, right? we see what s happening in florida. sam s reporting with people making these lines to buy everything they can. we don t have those stores in cuba. you don t have a store where you can buy all the water and all the food or supplies to protect your home. so people are basically buying a little bit of food which is all they can get. we ve seen longer lines and a lot of the stores that do have food available, and whatever it is they have to protect their businesses or their stores, they re using, but, aga
go ahead and follow local guidelines and embark on their storm preps now. as this new hurricane gains strength, millions are dealing with the aftermath of fiona. in puerto rico, about half of the nearly 1.5 million power customers were still without electricity yesterday. that s a week after fiona made landfall. the island s department of health reports that at least 16 people have died because of the storm. in canada, officials say the destruction on the atlantic coast is worse than anything they ve seen before. and it could take several months to regain restore critical infrastructure. homes were leveled because of rubble. fiona uprooted trees and power lines and one woman died after being swept out to sea. the canadian armed forces are being deployed to assist with the recovery efforts. violence in russia. a gunman with a swastika on his shirt kills more than a dozen