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how it really happened morning. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with president biden sounding very much like a candidate staying in the race. president will be back on the campaign trail today. this time in michigan, it s one of a handful well, battleground states, keto or november victory. this comes after last night s solo news conference that ended with some mixed reviews for the president. he stumbled in some early moments, confusing his own vice president with his biggest political foe look, i wouldn t have picked vice president trump to be vice president i think she s not qualified to be president so start there but, biden also had some strong moments last night showing sharpness and command like this condemnation of gun violence in america more children our killed or the by a bullet in any other cause of death. united states of america. what teller we doing? what are we doing of course, the president probably wishes he c ....
west more toward jefferson county and potentially into leon. what i would ask people to do now especially if they live on the river, its tributaries and the swanee river valley in columbia as well, please heed the warnings if shane or any local emergency managers ask for evacuation, please do that. you are going to lose power. if you are power dependent. if you are power dependent, you have to have that. you re going to lose power. we are going to lose power. so please make sure you go some place that has power. that can help you out. i m not going to talk about how columbia handles that. we have on our website at floridadisaster.org, that s our special needs registration but we are getting into a window where we re going to have to go direct with counties versus us getting that information and making sure it gets done on a county level. i ll let shane talk about that in columbia again, but again, if there s a doubt, call your local emergency management agency and liste ....
threatening storm surge. plus, mark meadows making an argument he hopes could shield him and potentially his boss from prosecution in georgia. is it a crime if you can claim you re just doing your job? a member of the tennessee three once again at the heart of a politically and emotionally charged scene inside the state house. the incident that justin jones calls a troubling abuse of power and prompted his fellow democrats to walk out. but we begin with less than 24 hours until hurricane idalia makes landfall in florida. and then the next 20 are critical. residents in low lying areas are being ordered to get out now with a storm surge of 12 feet possible in some areas. and while right now idalia is a category 1 hurricane, that storm is forecast to rapidly intensify today as it rips over those unusually warm gulf coast waters. by the time it hits the coast tomorrow, it could be a cat 3 or 4. and the timing just couldn t be worse. tampa bay is about to see what is c ....
about this hurricane that as you can see is just barrelling towards the west coast of florida. one of the things that was really interesting there that the governor is warning about is the potential for as this storm is heading there up into kind of that big bend area, that catcher s mitt we ve heard it referred to, there is a potential for this storm to make a little bit of a left turn and head more towards tallahassee. his point there is that don t think that if you are there in the panhandle, you are there in northern florida that you are out of trouble. he s saying everyone should be prepared in case this storm does make a turn. and he s telling people, look, you should be prepared to lose power. you need to get out of the way of storm surge. you don t have to go far, but far enough away to get out of the storm surge. 10 to 15 feet in some areas. we re talking about a lot of water and that water can be deadly. we have our cnn team tracking every angle of the storm. ....
worst in decades as local officials warn people that the time to leave is now. the hurricane could make landfall as a strong category 3 storm. of course we re tracking all the latest. and a funeral today for the man who led a failed revolt against vladimir putin. mercenary chief yevgeny prigozhin buried in a st. petersburg cemetery. but this won t lay to rest the questions surrounding his death. and stronger than fentanyl. a potent new opioid potentially even more deadly. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central . florida s west coast is now bracing for impact. right now hurricane idalia is quickly gaining strength over the gulf of mexico. expected to rapidly intensify into an extremely dangerous category 3 storm before hitting florida s big bend region early tomorrow morning. you can see here the first signs of impact in the u.s. on the coast. taking pictures. idalia s gusty winds whipping up waves ....