those are mandatory evacuations for people 32 school districts are closing down. people are warning authorities here warning in pinellas county in particular to make sure you make your plan now and leave soon as this storm approaches because it will likely not stay as a category 1. we re expecting it to grow as it hits that very warm water which fuels this storm. there is also always the potential of tornadic activity as well. there are plenty of places people can go. but right now they re saying, look, get out of these zones where the storm surge could be dangerously high. let s bring in derek van dam standing right next to me. we re standing in this is the confusing thing for a lot of people especially visitors who are not familiar with what happens in a hurricane. you look behind you and it looks like paradise because it is. it is absolutely gorgeous. but in a split second, as these bands come, you can get slapped with very high winds and the rushing water. yeah, espec
good morning you were alive in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington today, democrats are breathing a sigh of relief after president biden s fiery state of the union address and his impassioned speech that lasted border an hour the president s son ought to diffuse concerns about his age and draw a stark contrast with the maga movement. he lambasted his republican rival more than a dozen times without ever saying his name referring to former president donald trump, simply as my predecessor, republicans in the meantime, sat on their hands. most of the night, not even president s call to defend democracy he could elicit a unified response and he had no qualms. the president had no qualms about pointing that out history is watching just like history watch three years ago on january 6 when i surrection storm this very capitol in place, a dagger to the throat of american democracy. my predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about january 6, i will not d
just moments ago making landfall in cuba. the storm is over the island s western tip as a major category 3 hurricane with a storm surge that had been forecast up to 14 feet. within hours ian will bear down on florida s west coast with high winds, heavy rains. what really has officials worried in florida and urgently calling for mass evacuations is a huge storm surge expected to peak tomorrow. tampa bay is pretty shallow and is going to be pushing a phenomenal amount of rain up into our bay. there s really no place for this water to go so the flooding, the surge is going to be monumental. while we talk about tampa bay, we really need to focus on the warned area and why the hurricane center is so worried about storm surge is this is some of the most vulnerable coast line in the united states with high populations. meteorologist pedram javaheri is live in the weather center with the latest update. they ve published a new outlook a minute and a half ago. what are they sayin