you re live in the cnn newsroom. hello again, everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. right now in the state of florida a state of emergency is in effect statewide, and the governor is calling up the national guard as tropical storm ian gains strength and moves closer to florida s west coast. ian is expected to intensify into a cat gather 4 had and making landfall as early as wednesday night. governor desantis is urging people to prepare now. expect heavy rains, strong winds, flash flooding, storm surge and even isolated tornadoes. make preparations now, and i know a lot of people have been doing it throughout the state of florida and the things you should be prepared with food, water, batteries, medicine, fuel. anticipate the closer you are to where the eye of the storm makes landfall, anticipate power outages. that is something that will likely happen with a hurricane of this magnitude. cnn s patrick ottoman is in havana, cuba, where warnings ar
intensification? at noaa research we are studying that this year. out with our planes every 12 hours right now studying the storm. a couple predictors, the ocean temperatures are extremely warm right now and not just at the surface. it s warm down to great depths so there s a lot of fuel to energize the storms. the winds will be favorable. you can get a storm to rapidly intensify pretty quickly and a lot of our models are suggesting we will indeed see that rapid intensification over the next couple of days. and so what about the data collection from the hurricane planes? what kind of information is being gathered? we have a lot of different things we re launching, the pair chutes to measure the atmosphere and ocean probes that look at that warm watt they re goes way down to great depths. doppler radar like we ll see on the news at night and it s
jeff bezos s rocket company blue origin. it s the same craft that took bezos to space this summer. bezos, a lifelong star trek fan, brought shatner as a guest along with audrey powers and two paying customers. the out of this world adventure lasting just ten minutes from take off to landing leaving all four passengers including shatner mesmerized by the view. weightlessness. oh, jesus. no description. this is nuts! oh, god. reporter: shatner and his crew mates experienced three minutes of weightlessness before the capsule started its descent back to earth. there go the pair chutes. that was unlike anything to describe. reporter: after landing safely, a blue origin crew secured the capsule and bezos i
live people but corpses. the plane was flown not by real pilots, it was on autopilot. the complicated procedure executed by live pilots who then ejected on pair chutes in the necessary spot, blown up without using an air-to-surface missile. this is the stuff people are hearing in russia. joining me now, managing editor of the new republic, linda kinsler, covering the conflict. welcome. thanks for having me. so this is one example. can you just tell me a couple of these stories that russians are being told? yes. well, basically, we have seen that the russian propaganda machine is out in full force, trying to deflect any kind of culpability for the accident. we have seen, first of all, that mh-370 rumor going on that it s the original plane that was hidden, taken to the netherlands and loaded with corpses, and then flown over ukraine. we ve also heard that, you know, the accident the plane was
passengers out of their seatbelts. experts say the crew, two were pinned down when air chutes deployed prematurely inside the plane deserve a lot of credit for getting people off quickly. they were able to evacuate people with half the exits available. that is probably what took the additional time because they couldn t exit in the direction of the fire. they re trying to take you away from the fire. and away from the catastrophic event and out of the aircraft. and they did that pretty well with the half the exits available. reporter: so the two who died were in the rear of the airplane which snapped off. statistically, jon, rule of thumb, aisle is better than window, back is bert than front. five rows closest to the exit are the safest. jon. jon: this was a boeing 777 plane first laughed in 1959. did that make a difference here? reporter: newer planes incontractor all the mistakes of the past and lessons from previous crashes. if you look inside the plane most of the seats you s