the storm right now packing maximum sustained winds of 125 miles per hour. it is expected to strengthen further over the next 24 hours, and that s alarming to hear. ian is expected to hit florida s west coast late wednesday into thursday, and nearly 7 million people along the coast, including really all of tampa bay, a facing the risk of a life-threatening storm surge there. and people, they are all being urged to get out of harm s way and to do it now. tampa s mayor warning residents, if you can leave, just leave now. those are his words. florida s governor, ron desantis, announcing that the tampa bay airport will be closed starting tonight at 5:00 eastern time. he also expect he has also expected, desantis to speak at any moment from tallahassee. we ll give you detainee on those preparations from the storm and bring you his update live in just moment. we are covering this dangerous storm. the only way cnn can. let s go first to our carlos flores, who joins us in tampa
cnn identified the house where it happened. and right now china is threatening to start air and sea military exercises around taiwan, this is a direct response to house speaker nancy pelosi s arrival there. the house speaker is the first high ranking u.s. official to visit taiwan in 25 years. a landmark flashed a sign that said speaker pelosi welcome to taiwan. china is not mincing words, the foreign ministry issued a statement, quote, this is a serious rye lags of the one china principle it has severe impact on the political foundation of china/u.s. relations. kylie atwood joins us now. tell us the reaction. the biden administration is trying to bring the temperature down right now. you see china raising the temperature and doing a number of things. taiwan said that a number of the government websites in the country have faced threats, cyber attacks in the last 24 hours as the trip was about to occur. we know there have been war planes that china has sent into taiwan s
Martha good afternoon. Im Martha Maccallum in new york. Theres 22 americans who have been killed so far. We hope that number will not go higher at this point. We also now know that there are 17 confirmed missing americans and the white house now confirms that a number of them are hostages which raises a number of questions about the back and forth and the understanding that those individuals are indeed being held by hamas. So hamas is using at least 100 people as Human Shields or leverage for their cause inside of gaza city. These are the terrified Family Members of those that are kidnapped and those who are defined as missing. Watch this. Theyre not part of this war. Citizens and civilians should not be taken. The number 1 message were trying to convey is that time is critical. She was shouting, mommy, they shout at us. Were all wounded. Theyre taking children, women, back to gaza to use as Human Shields. Its appalling. The world be has to step up and get these hostages out. Martha th
Could save some sort of real catastrophe here. Could save some sort of real catastrophe here. Thats what i ho ed catastrophe here. Thats what i heped for catastrophe here. Thats what i hoped for. Definitely catastrophe here. Thats what i hoped for. Definitely the catastrophe here. Thats what i hoped for. Definitely the sensej hoped for. Definitely the sense that this is a huge moment. I want to ask, with all of this in mind, you and i have spoken in mind, you and i have spoken in the past about the prospects for a longer ceasefire for a hostage deal, you are mentioning qatar. What do you think that all of this means for any prospects of either of those two options . I for any prospects of either of those two options . For any prospects of either of those two options . I think you have to compartmentalise those two options . I think you have to compartmentalise this which is what the saudis and qatari is angela aliens are doing now, lets compartmentalise this. You have this thing with h
Technologically. it would have been unimaginable in the months after the september 11th attacks, 21 years ago, that the united states would have been able to carry out an attack of this kind. we obviously searched for bin laden and al zawahiri and other members of al qaeda for many years and it was over that time that they developed the surveillance capability, the human assets, and then the ability using these reaper drones, which is what we assumed they used in this case to go do such a precision hit that left other family members in the building alive. on the other hand, you have to consider the fact that al zawahiri was in kabul, a capital that the united states helped control for two decades. and he felt comfortable enough to come back after the united states withdrew and the taliban took control. which gives you a sense of how