Welcome everyone. Thanks for joining me. Im Omar Jimenez in for fredricka whitfield. Were going to start today with Breaking News because yet another Hurricane Threat is facing floridas West Coast. Just moments ago, tropical Storm Milton Florida as a category three storm in just a few days. Now, governor Ron Desantis has declared a State Of Emergency for 51 counties ahead of and it could bring devastating Storm Surge to parts of the state still recovering from Hurricane Helene. Cnns Rafael Romo joins me. Now, Rafael Helene slammed into florida just ten days ago. I know you were on the ground covering some of its devastation. Can you tell us what were learning now ahead of this potential impact here yes, some are high. This is probably going to feel like a onetwo punch for many floridians in addition to we clearing a State Of Emergency and 51 states, florida governor Ron Desantis has ordered Management Sites to be opened 24 7, so that many areas covered by debris after Hurricane Helene
Its Angeles Thanks for joining us. The news continues now right here on Cnn Mission by about two hours this morning. The Fiveday Polaris Dawn mission will carry four astronauts and feature the first ever commercial spacewalk. We had extensive live Coverage Plan here on cnn and over the next few hours, were also following another highly anticipated event, the us president ial debate set to take place later Today Or Vice president Kamala Harris, whos preparing to meet for the first time with warmer president Donald Trump when he to take the stage in Philadelphia Harris predicts trump will lie and attack could personally he plays through this really old and tired playbook, right . Where he, theres no floor for him in terms of how he will go and we should be prepared for that. We should be prepared for the fact that he is not burdened by telling the truth whats also say Harriss Campaign has been preparing for possible insults and Name Calling from Trump Or trumps team is previewing Attack
it is nothing short of a horrific tragedy. a massacre at a day care center in thailand. an attacker killed 36 people, most of them are children. officials say at tack started when a man armed with a gun and a knife entering the childcare facility and police say most of the victims were stabbed. most officials are saying the that attacker who killed himself is a former police officer. selina wang is tracking all of this live in tokyo. what is the very latest that you re learning? reporter: kate, we re just getting new details from the police about this horrific tragedy. the death toll has revisen to 3 people dead including 24 children and one pregnant woman. ten more are injured. earlier the government has described this massacre as a mass shooting but now they say many of the people died from knife stabbing wounds. police say that this 34-year-old gunman went to this nursery in northeastern thailand looking for his 2-year-old stepson. he went there and couldn t find him. he
there is a new twist today about that car bombing assassination of the daughter of a prominent putin ally. sources are telling cnn that the u.s. intelligence believes bomb that killed daria duggina was authorized by elements within the ukrainian government. cnn s natasha bertrand is live in wash. what else are you learning about this. reporter: so whaer we re learning that they have intelligence suggesting that elements within the ukrainian government, certain officials authorized an attack on alexander duggin who is a prominent political figure in russia, a thought leader there. but what happened was they got his daughter. because she was driving his car
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