Hurricane making a likely turn to florida. Governor desantis urged residents to prepare for possible evacuation saying nows the time to stock up on sandbags, water, medication. Cnn is covering the storm. Carlos suarez is in tampa but i want to start with tom sater in the cnn weather center. I guess there will be states of emergency along the gulf coast. We are not there yet why this looks like a big and potentially very scary storm. It will be the first hurricane to make landfall in mainland u. S. This year but a major hurricane and it is going to carry all the characteristics on land. I know everyone from pensacola to cape coral wants to know. We just dont know yet. Satellite imagery, the visual imagery, looks good. Circulation. A center. Yucatan in mexico. Hurricane huntered this morns had a hard time finding the center. Again even if the center moves about 15, 20 miles in either direction that changes the end goal and the track. This is where it is concerning. Warmest waters in the
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john berman is off. hurricane ian now churning in the caribbean with 75 mile an hour winds. the storm s path is uncertain and that has all of florida preparing for a major hurricane. people are waiting in long lines outside of stores. they are looking to stock up on supplies while they can. essential items like bottled water flying off store shelves. residents are prepping homes and business bes for the heavy rain, strong winds and storm surge expected to come their way. ron desantis already declaring an emergency for the entire state activate ing the national guard and a hurricane watch has been issued along the west coast of florida including the tampa bay area. carlos swau resident is watching preparations. we have chad myers standing by in atlanta. let s start with carlos who are is live for us near a sandbag distribution center. tell us about some of these preparations. reporter: good morning the storm preparations are well underway. schools have been closed through
it s being called the mission to save humanity. we ll take you inside nasa s plan to crash into an asteroid . we begin by tracking two dangerous storm systems. first, tropical storm ian churning across the warm, energizing waters of the caribbean right now. the latest forecast shows it strengthening to a category 4 hurricane over the gulf of mexico before slams into florida next week. it could be the first major hurricane to hit the state in four years. president joe biden has declared a federal emergency in the state. florida governor ron desantis declared a state of emergency as well. residents from the florida panhandle to the florida keys are being urged to prepare for storm surge, hurricane-force winds, and heavy rain. we want everyone to ensure that their emergency equipment, their hurricane shutters, their battery-operated radios, battery-powered, that they re all in good working order and that sufficient emergency supplies are on hand. seven days of perishable foo
polls in a snap election. we re live in rome with a look at the deepening political divide in the country. and nasa will test out a mission that sounds straight out of a hollywood movie, a spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid s moon. a look at the upcoming mission. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we are expecting an update at any moment from the national hurricane center with the latest forecast track of tropical storm ian which could be the first major hurricane to hit florida in four years. we begin in eastern canada where hundreds of thousand right side still without power. fiona is now a post tropical cyclone and continues to move through the region. hurricane force winds battered the maritimes as the storm made landfall saturday, the strongest storm on record to hit dan da s atlantic coast, huge waves battered the coastline causing severe flooding. police posted photos of destruction saying condition