cubic meters of gas into the baltic sea. there s a toxic bubble field more than half a mile wide. you can only guess how many marine animals are being killed right now, countless. but the lasting damage may be to the atmosphere. it s 90% methane. methane, as biden has told us, is the key driver of global warming, which is an existential threat to humanity in planet. so if you re worried about climate change, what just happened to the pipelines is its close of the apocalypse as you can imagine. it wasn t an accident. the same ten leaks were det detected, there were two undersea explosions, each of which was equivalent to hundreds of pounds of tnt. nothing on nature can account for that. leaks were in three separate places. only one explanation. this was an act of industrial terrorism. that was obvious to the prime minister of poland and he wasted no time saying so. today, we are also dealing with an act of sabotage. we do not know the details of what happened yet. but we can
Deployed. karen maginnis is in the cnn weather center with a new forecast that s just come in. karen, what s the latest? thanks so much. we are continuing to watch this tropical storm. now, the last advisory came in just about 30 minutes ago. it still keeps idalia at about 70 miles per hour. it is situated over the yucatan strait. it is rapidly going to be pushing into the gulf of mexico. from there, it will push towards the north and the northeast. the time to make plans, to get your things in order, medicines, items for children, what should you do should there be a storm surge. right now, there s evacuations for zones a , the most qcriticl and prone to flooding. the commuter models are in agreement. they are suggesting this will make landfall in the big bend of florida. any change in the trajectory and
Is sort of bringing in this tropical system, probably at hurricane strength later on today right around that big bend area. tampa, still not going to be good for tampa, even though tampa for more than a hundred years has never seen a direct hit from a hurricane. now, just about a year ago, it was sanibel island, hurricane ian, category 5 hurricane, they are still recovering from that. i was there just a few months ago and it s sill devastating to look at that. so be prepared. that s the best advice right now. what are your evacuation routes? what will you do as far as medication? food, with children? they ve already cancelled schools in several counties here. take a look at this, for tampa, they ve upped the storm surge, 4 to 7 feet. but where you see the red, that s where it s going to be the strongest for right now. now, these commuter models could change. and if it wiggles a little bit more to the east by 50 or 75
An entirely different set of towns affected. between fort myers and tampa, now you ve got all the communities between sarasota and charlotte. between tampa and fort myers look like where land falls can it be. when we look at the wider view, it comes in here somewhere, let s say it comes in here around fort myers, there may be an evacuation, then it moves up north over orlando, it s under a hurricane warning for hurricane force winds there, then it loops out in jacksonville will get the search. this is going to be the entire state of florida under alert in terms of the commuter models will got, notice it s pushing even little more toward fort myers. we are very about this area from charlotte county, north of
It, as well. not quite reaching in the blizzard criteria we re fearing at this time. here s the evolution of the storm over the next 36 hours. d.c., new york, you re going to stay all-rain as the front lifts north. look at boston, into connecticut, new hampshire and vermont, and upstate new york. we have potential for a full-on ice storm. we could see imagery replay itself as we head into the monday morning commute. luckily, this is the holiday time. not that many schools open. not many people going to work, per se. but we have winter weather watches in anticipation of sleet and freezing rain. some of the commuter models for upstate new york, connecticut, new hampshire and vermont, could see half an inch of ice accumulate on the ground. you can imagine on trees and power lines, won t take long to take out the electricity there, as well. much to watch. that s heading into new year s eve. thanks, derek. we will have much more on