area? well, there is one more tornado warning still in effect. it s mainly on that eastern coastline now. basically, if you ve we ve got radar for you here as well. in the ft. myers area, this is a pretty good-sized tornado. several videos are running throughout region and online that you can see the debris and obviously the damage. the national weather service out of tampa is already on the way with the crew to estimate the ferocity, how strong these winds were. what they will give a tornado a scale, but the warning now is all the way off on to the east coast so it s southeast, text yeah, excuse me, they will see that warning come to an end by 3:00 p.m. so that final line is making its way through miami right now and small spinups are possible until this exits the entire portion of the florida peninsula. wow, so many americans. yeah. so many americans getting wild weather this week. thanks so much, tom seder, we appreciate it, and we have some breaking news now on the dramat
tom seder, nadia row,o and dianne gallagher, thanks to all of you. the fbi has now identified the suspect in the hostage situation in texas. identified as m ha li faisal akram who was killed in an tense 11-hour standoff in the city of colleyville. he entered the beth israel synagogue during saturday morning sabbath services and took the rabbi and thee others hostage as the services were being livestreamed. one hostage was released several hours into the standoff after hours of negotiations. an elite fbi rescue team then breached the synagogue free roog the remaining hostages. president biden today calling the case an act of terror. i spoke this morning with the attorney general and got a rundown. he said there was overwhelming
when technology is easier to use. barriers don t stand a chance. that s why we ll stop at nothing to deliver our technology as-a-service. the heat wave engulfing the western u.s. refuses to let up. tens of millions of people are inextreme heat warnings and we could see more record high temperatures today. meteorologist tom seder is with us in the cnn weather center. tom. fredricka, it s great to celebrate the advances in science and technology getting to the edge of space, but can we all agree, let s find a way to make it rain out west. it will help cool things down, and already now, reservoirs are getting down to historic low
audio problems. we ll get that fixed the next time. complicating all of this, tropical storm elsa is moving forward. let s go to our meteorologist tom seder who is tracking this storm for us. tom, update our viewers. how close will elsa actually come to surfside? it depends on the elements you re looking at, wolf. at 3:30 this afternoon, the northern bands they re small in size this time of year. this is not going to be a monster hurricane. the northern periphery put in thunderstorms that warranted not only a severe thunderstorm warning but a tornado warning. that was for miami-dade. the tornado warning didn t include surfside, but it was miami just west. that validates them taking down the building right there. they ll have a few spin-up tornadoes possible. as the mayor said, they ve been watching this closely. it is shifting westward and that track is narrowing because we re getting closer and closer to landfall, so they re getting a better handle on this. this time of year, as
now. reporter: thank you so much for speaking with us. we appreciate it. all right, so just listening into this gentleman who obviously felt it. any time you feel the ground move, so many people off work today, right, celebrating this holiday. it is noteworthy especially when we re now talking about this 6.4 magnitude earthquake. i just want to relay this, this is from lax the airport there. all lax runways have been inspected with no reported damage to the airfield or the tunnel. operations remain normal. so that s the latest out of lax. tom seder? i m being told that was a parade, okay, so people parading along through the earthquake in los angeles. i know the epicenter you were saying what about 150 miles away closer towards las vegas? it s in between bakersfield and las vegas. pretty close to around death valley national park. but ridge crest is extremely close. 30,000 people live there.