viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca a oig. . i m max foster. just ahead russian forces trying and so far failing to make real head way in the opening stages of a new offensive. we re not only up against ukraine, but also against nato and especially the united states. to control the narrative early on. what folks are really concerned about is what happens later, what happens down the road, what happens three years from now. several buildings have collapsed. several people have been confirmed killed. hundreds injured. some of them in critical condition. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, february 21, 9:00 a.m. in london, 12 noon in moscow where vladimir putin is set to deliver a speech to the nation s top political and military leaders on the state of what he calls russia s special military operation in ukraine. mr. putin is expected to lay out his vision for wha
some of us across the northern plains and upper midwest highlighted in darker pink, that is 18 to 24 inches of snowfall. isolated higher amounts are possible where it is just a little bit warmer, now we re talking about the threat of significant icing. we ll have widespread power outages and nearly no travel expected with these conditions with over a half an inch of ice expected across northern illinois, just south and west of chicago. on top of it all, the warmer end of things, now we re dealing with flooding all the way from illinois back down through the southern mississippi valley where 2 to 4 inches of rain is expected all the way through the rest of the week. areas highlighted in yellow from chicago north of missouri where we are expected to deal with the heaviest rainfall. and where conditions are a little more vulnerable, highlighted in yellow here across missouri and back into oklahoma, this is where we could be dealing with not only the flooding rain threat but also
inches of rain, and of course, the ground is saturated here already. another thing to mention as we are looking at the time line for wilmington, wind gusts of 100, and the storm surge of 4 to 7 feet. all along the carolina coast, the continental shelf which follows along the eastern seaboard, you have the continental shelf, but it is a very shallow area here just offshore. so there is nothing really to impede that storm surge coming in. of course, on the land, it is very, very shallow, and look all of the way down to the coast charleston and you can expect the rainfall of 4 to 8 feet, and the storm surge of 2 to 4 feet, and andrea, this is an inland position, and fayetteville will be seeing the tropical storm conditions, and moving further to the west, and charlotte with 15 to 20-mile-an-hour wind gusts, and flooding rain threat as well. and then as we head to the south
islands in cape hatteras. this is a dangerous system. these are the time lines. wilmington, 70 to 90 mile per hour winds with gusts of over 100. rain of over 2 feet. storm surge, 4 to 7 feet. we get to myrtle beach, there could be a storm surge of 3 to 6 feet with 12 to 18 inches of rain. we move down to charleston. wind gusts of about 55 miles per hour or more. storm surges of 2 to 3 feet. rainfall, 4 to 8 feet. if you think, i m not at the coast, i m okay, well, fayetteville, you could see 6 to 10 inches of rain with tropical storm force tropical storm conditions and winds up to 60-mile-per-hour gusts. you move to the east. charlotte will see 4 to 7 inches of rain. there s a flooding rain threat. then we go into columbia. 5 to 8 inches of rain and tropical storm conditions. this is a system that depending on this path and, again, we may see a slowdown in the forward