also at this hour, hurricane hunters are flying into the eye of the storm right now and they will be talking with us live. what they re seeing right now with this hurricane. they are the noaa team sending real-time data back. and they re joining us tonight. the other news this tuesday night, the first results coming in from vladimir putin s referendums in eastern ukraine. russia tonight saying 96% of people are in favor of becoming part of russia. we saw the images, pro-russian soldiers armed with assault rifles going door-to-door to pick up ballots. tonight, the u.s. calling this referendum a sham. the new satellite images showing the mass exodus from russia. russian men looking to avoid the new draft. the line, ten miles long. and when putin is now set to address the russian people. ian pannell in ukraine tonight. back here at home, the january 6th rioter convicted of attacking an officer. the world has seen those images. tonight, sentenced to more than seven years in p
roads have been impassable. you see the devastation. you see how difficult that is to be anywhere near. carrie sanders was actually in the storm as the eye was making landfall. there is the wind speed as i m standing next to building. i can just take a knee here. okay, you guys got it. i m going back up. this is really hard. you get the idea. that s power that s mother nature that s the power of mother nature and that s what citizens have been urged to evacuate for. the journalist you see have safety techniques as well as back up to try to deal with covering the safely. but appreciate their service. it is going to push to florida. it s just gonna come in here for a second. it is a slow-moving aspect, eight miles per hour they re bracing for two months worth of rain according to estimates that will come down in a matter of days. we it is live in naples, ali, what are you seeing in your report? outer bands, it is a dirty end of the storm. obviously, this part hit us. a
also at this hour, hurricane hunters are flying into the eye of the storm right now and they will be talking with us live. what they re seeing right now with this hurricane. they are the noaa team sending real-time data back. and they re joining us tonight. the other news this tuesday night, the first results coming in from vladimir putin s referendums in eastern ukraine. russia tonight saying 96% of people are in favor of becoming part of russia. we saw the images, pro-russian sldiers armed with assault rifles going door-to-door to pick up ballots. tonight, the u.s. calling this referendum a sham. the new images showing the mass exodus from russia. russian men looking to avoid the new draft. the line, ten miles long. and when putin is now set to address the russian people. ian pannell in ewe train tonight. back here at home, the january 6th rioter convict of attacking an officer. the world has seen those images. tonight, sentenced to more than seven years in prison. and
those that have stayed? so we have got 900 search and rescue first responders sitting on go. they can t go save lives until they have a clear path. if you did not heed warnings, you will be taking your own life in your own hands and that is unfortunate because your devastation could have been avoidable. ashley: any places that were told to evacuate, this was going to be widespread, any places people can still heed the warning and leave or people who didn t leave are stuck where they are? ashley: you are pretty much stuck where you are. i m in tallahassee at the state eoc. this morning it was mild, the storm has not made landfall. outer bands can be spinning off tornados. i care about safety of first
go back to you. let s go back to nbc meteorologist angie lassman who continues to track this storm. what s the very latest there? the very latest is that we re starting to see this system weaken, but the impacts haven t changed that we expect for the rest of the day today for folks in georgia, south carolina, north carolina. the folks in florida, they re still getting some of these kind of feeder, you know, outer bands working through parts of tampa and south, but overall, places like where jose is, much quieter conditions when it comes to the rain, when it comes to the winds of course. some of that heavier rain lifting into parts of georgia, and we re seeing the implications from that with flash flood warnings up. just a quick note, we re talking category 1 hurricane right now, 80 miles per hour winds and moving at a fast pace of 20 miles per hour. so that quick pace is going to continue to kind of move this system right along. that helps when it comes to those highest rainfall tota