polls in a snap election. we re live in rome with a look at the deepening political divide in the country. and nasa will test out a mission that sounds straight out of a hollywood movie, a spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid s moon. a look at the upcoming mission. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we are expecting an update at any moment from the national hurricane center with the latest forecast track of tropical storm ian which could be the first major hurricane to hit florida in four years. we begin in eastern canada where hundreds of thousand right side still without power. fiona is now a post tropical cyclone and continues to move through the region. hurricane force winds battered the maritimes as the storm made landfall saturday, the strongest storm on record to hit dan da s atlantic coast, huge waves battered the coastline causing severe flooding. police posted photos of destruction saying condition
storm on record to hit dan da s atlantic coast, huge waves battered the coastline causing severe flooding. police posted photos of destruction saying conditions were like nothing they have ever seen before, homes washed away and entire streets flooded, littered with downed trees. prime minister justin trudeau offered his reaction earlier. we re thinking, first and foremost, the people who have had a terrifying past 12 hours, people who have seen their homes washed away, seen the winds rip school roofs off and as canadians, as we always do in times of difficulty we will be there for each other. meteorologists jacquelyn whitall and mark robinson from the weather network were in the midst of the storm when fiona hit land saturday. let s start with jacquelyn s coverage. all right. so we are in downtown charlottetown and getting a look