florida lawmakers can w disney on the docket, the one that ended the tax district after the magic kingdom came out against the don t say gay law. i m hallie jackson in washington, but let s start with nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter, and nbc news meteorologist bill karins. let s take a look about what we know about the story that has developed quite a bit over the last 18 hours or so. very strong earthquakes, two of them, in a region that includes part of turkey and syria. the first was early in the morning. 7.8 magnitude. the second later in the afternoon, 7.5. we know at least 3,000 people are dead. it s very likely that number, horrifically will go up. rescuers on the ground, countries around the world promising to send help as well. the quakes took place near the turkish city, pretty large, population, more than 2 million people, people as far away as egypt and israel felt this thing. that s the difference between new york and chicago. i want to get to molly
Hello, everyone good morning to you and welcome to cnn. This morning black. Well, it is always good to be with you. Thanks for joining us this morning happening now, earth is Weathering A Powerful Solar Storm brought a spectacular light show. Two parts of the us, but also threatened to disrupt life on the ground. Scientists say this massive Geomagnetic Storm is now a level five out of five or extreme with the potential to Impact Communications power grids, satellites, and the strength of the storm is causing auroras usually only seeing around the earths northern and southern then pulls to travel further out, appearing in many places that rarely, if ever see them also known as the lights. These pictures were taken in hastings, florida by a storm chaser just a beautiful hues there and these are images taken from a Plane Over Detroit the storm is expected to continue through the weekend now, this is the most powerful solar storm to hit earth since 2003. Cnns Kristin Fisher explains whats
Images. Wow, from the Northern Lights coasttocoast, even into the deep south overnight. Yeah. The Northern Lights, i mean, you can see them here in the south. Beautiful. I didnt get a chance there to see them because i didnt wake up last time. Now that you, allison, i tried i did not know but you will have another chance and were going to talk more about the timeline of that coming up. Okay. So well look forward to that. This is all coming from the strongest solar storm in nearly 20 years hitting earth right now. And it is far from over, as alison said, were Tracheid Tracking rather any potential problems so global communications, because thats a possibility too. Yes. And as we mentioned, if you miss it last night, you will have another opportunity again to see it yet again tonight. Again as bases as far south is florida, youre looking at an image here, just kinda looks weird having that palm tree in the foreground. The Northern Lights in the background, but some places, even as far aw
Planning to free the Dali Cargo Ship from the debris that has been laying across. Its bow, allowing the ship to eventually be floated and moved from the waterway. This comes a few days after the six and the final body was recovered from the water. Investigations will also are in investigators will also be having a hearing on capitol hill next week to discuss federal response to the catastrophe all right. Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me out for greek all right, we begin this hour with dramatic new developments in the middle east. Israeli military forces are calling for the immediate evacuations of some neighborhoods in in the Southern Gaza city of rafah. The idf says about 300 people have already fled the orders, come ahead of an anticipated idf Ground Offensive in an area more than 1 million palestinians where they are seeking refuge. This on the heels of a new report from the white house the Biden Administration says, its reasonable to assess that american weap
Is now prepared, see him theyre wearing of Viking Helmet as he showed up for the italian open today to the cheering crowds who were all like right in front of him as opposed to being overhead the world number one player is scheduled for his next to match on Sunday Against Chile is the hundred two below good luck hello again, everyone. Thank you. So much for joining me out for greek. A whitfield were monitoring several new developments in the war in gaza. Israels military is ordering immediate evacuations and parts of each mr. Rafah in gaza, south, the idf says about 300,000 people have already fled the evacuations happening following deadly overnight airstrikes in northern and central gaza. Hospitals in the area say the strikes killed at least 47 people. While another 15 were killed in separate strikes in rafah earlier today, the idf seemingly intensifying operations despite this morning from President Biden earlier in the week i made it clear that if they go into rafah, they havent go