on the asteroid. i was telling alex before when we were talking about this, when i kept hearing this incredible story yesterday about smashing into the asteroid, come on, what was i thinking. i was thinking aerosmith i don t want to miss a thing, hear the news story i don t want to close my eyes it was incredible. willie, stop him. a sappy summer movie. they tried to do this last night. you got bruce. you throw affleck in there, mika, if you don t know what we re talking about, this was a huge movie 25 years ago, with the plausible plot they trained oil drillers in a matter of days to become nasa astronauts and effectively do what we saw yesterday in real life, they knocked a rocket with a ship the size of a refrigerator, they knocked an asteroid off its course yesterday, nasa did this in real life. no liv tyler, now they know if something is barrelling toward earth, they have a decent chance of knocking it away. scientifically, the movie, i don t think it w
news. idalia is now a category 1 hurricane, maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour with stronger wind gusts. and it is expected to intensify to a potentially category 3 hurricane before making landfall in florida tomorrow. where millions are already under hurricane and storm surge warnings. right now, western cuba is feeling the brunt of the storm. then the track puts idalia coming on shore well north of tampa in florida s big bend. but, and this is a critical reminder particularly in this moment, a small shift in the track could put that population center more at risk. now sara arrived just a few hours ago in clearwater, florida. sar ra sara, what have you been seeing since you ve been on the ground? we ve been seeing people leaving because they have been warned this is going to get ready nasty, really quickly. we re talking about a major storm surge as well as high winds. there are now 14 counties that have been told to evacuate.
prejudices and preexisting beliefs. they ll look at facebook pages sent to them by conspiracy theorists or go on to crazy web sites that are run by third parties who have absolutely no credibility at all. you just put your finger on it, the people who want to have their views confirmed will find that confirmation somewhere, but there s no excuse for not having the facts. there are all of those places you just described. january 6th committee meets again tomorrow. we ll carry that live on msnbc of course coming out for the first time with a hearing in two months. other news this morning, hurricane ian has strengthened to a category 3 hurricane as it approaches cuba with powerful winds and dangerous storm surges. it s expected to hit the western part of the island nation when it makes landfall with wind speeds of 125 miles an hour. authorities have evacuated nearly 50,000 people from the capital city. ian then is expected to become a category 4 hurricane before making landfall in flo
into hurricane season. florida s governor said that the storm was expected to come ashore between 8am and 9am on wednesday. elsa is forecast to become a hurricane before making landfall, with landfall appearing most likely in the eastern big bend of florida nature coast north of tampa bay tomorrow morning. local residents have been preparing for a battering, and evacuation shelters are at the ready. this is going to be a water event. there is going to be flooding, there is going to be storm surge, and that s what is giving us the greatest concern. we learned our lesson from eta here last year. it was just a tropical storm, and just a tropical storm brought us about five inches of water inside the building, so we can t take it lately. after landfall, elsa is forecast to drop up to four inches of rain across the florida peninsula, with tornadoes possible across florida, georgia and south carolina. it also threatens the search
heartbeat. the trump team rebuking the author inferring it may be criminal. from what i understand, there could be an investigation if there s criminal activity behind it. there doesn t appear to be any. i think you know that and i don t know that. it really depends on what has been divulged by an individual. we ll find out if there was criminal activity involved. there was no classified information. well, we ll see. cnn newsroom starts now. all right. hello, again. thank you for joining me this sunday. i m fredericka whitfield. the eastern united states is in the path of hurricane florence. the storm is the first major hurricane expected to make a direct hit on the u.s. this season. florence is currently churning in the atlantic as a category 1 storm. and it s likely to grow to at least a category 3 hurricane before making landfall. the governors of virginia, north