Ill get reaction from the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States. She joins us live this hour. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im Alex Marquardt, and youre in the situation room. We begin with a historic show of unity from the United States, japan, and south korea. President biden hosting his asian allies at camp david with an eye towards the military and economic threats that theyre all facing in the Pacific Region right now. Cnns Paula Hancocks is standing by in seoul. First lets get straight to cnns Arlette Saenz at camp david. What came out of this summit . Reporter President Biden hosted his first leaders as president here at camp david, and the president is hoping that the symbolism of this location of the pezs retreat will lend itself to this moment as two u. S. Allies with decades of fraught history have come together with the u. S. To enter this new trilateral agreement in part as they are dealing with gr
spinning toward the west coast of florida this morning. bringing with it life-threatening storm surge, catastrophic winds and flooding. we ll have a live report from tampa in just a moment. and also ahead, a former d.c. metro police officer does not hold back at a sentencing for a capitol rioter. plus, we ll dig into new data that suggests significant covid waves could be coming this fall and winter. good morning. and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, september 28th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us and we re going to begin in florida where millions of residents are bracing for hurricane ian as the powerful storm barrels towards the state intensifying every hour. the storm is expected to make landfall on the southwest coast of florida, as early as this afternoon. just moments ago, it reached the status of category 4 hurricane. the center of the storm is then forecast to move over the central part of the state, with winds likely re
they re already talking about rebuilding. native hawaiians kind of own the table. and then there is a transparency law in hawaii. and they re calling for that sunshine law to be in effect so there is transparency over what s happening when it comes to rebuilding plans, air and water, those sorts of things. but just in the near term, you ve got toxic materials blowing through the air there. they re starting to put a dust fence up to protect some of the surviving communities as well. but the cadaver dogs, we talked to a team, it s just meticulous painstaking work, alex, and some families are coming to grips with the idea that they may never have official confirmation that the people they love are gone. just such haunting, haunting images. bill weir, thank you so much for all of your extraordinary reporting. of course, our thoughts remain with the people of lahaina and all of hawaii. bill, thank you. for more information about how you can help hawaii wildfire victims, go to cnn.com/impa
this widespread racketeering case. now, we know the u.s. secret service has already been there a couple weeks. they ve been scoping out the jail. this is what you expect. you don t want to show up with the former president at a jail where he needs to be processed totally blind, not understanding how that process is going to go, how you re going to move him through the building, make sure he gets in and out safely and of course doesn t interact with the general population of the jail. and some of the other details, though, still need to be worked out. we re also learning trump s attorneys are expected to continue their conversations with the district attorney s office early next week. you wanted to show up at that jail with a bond agreement already set. so whatever the conditions might be for bond for donald trump, any conditions of release, you want that hashed out ahead of time, you want a judge to sign off ahead of time so you re not lingering around to get processed at the jail. y
that goal of breaking through that russian line? well, first of all, the quantity, of course, the quality itself as military people say, we still need more air defense. we still need more artillery. we still need more miss and everything we re receiving now including tanks, including armored vehicles because we still did not win and we have to liberate our territories. of course we very much welcome today s official confirmation from the united states, from jake sullivan and everyone in the team and secretary blinken on the willingness and readiness of the united states to through the transfer of f-16 platforms. as you know there was early approval, so we need all the capabilities not only to win today but also to build the future force of ukraine. sorry, go ahead, ambassador. sorry to cut you off.