florida by midweek or so. so we ll be talking about this for a couple of days, early part of next week especially. so this starting small, 35 mile per hours, gusts to 45, moving west-northwest at 15. we already have tropical storm watches, hurricane watches in effect. the water is very warm in the caribbean as well as the gulf of mexico, so this is going to provide the storm with a ripe environment to thrive. we are going to see this storm intensify rapidly once it gets into the gulf of mexico, and that s the huge concern. this could be a category one storm as it crosses over cuba and a category 2, possibly three, and maybe even higher as we get closer to florida. forecasting right now with 115 mile per hour winds by wednesday afternoon. and i wouldn t be surprised if those winds go even higher. a lot of the forecast models agree on this forecast as well. and hurricane fiona and expected to be the largest storm to hit the nova scotia area in almost 350 years. when is that s
before making landfall somewhere along that western coast of florida by midweek or so. so we ll be talking about this for a couple of days, early part of next week especially. so this starting small, 35 mile per hours, gusts to 45, moving west-northwest at 15. we already have tropical storm watches, hurricane watches in effect. the water is very warm in the caribbean as well as the gulf of mexico, so this is going to provide the storm with a ripe environment to thrive. we are going to see this storm intensify rapidly once it gets into the gulf of mexico, and that s the huge concern. this could be a category one storm as it crosses over cuba and a category 2, possibly three, and maybe even higher as we get closer to florida. but the national hurricane center is forecasting right now with 115 mile per hour winds by wednesday afternoon. and i wouldn t be surprised if those models go even higher. a lot of the forecast models agree on this forecast as well. and hurricane fiona a
you got that sense talking to secretary mcdonough just how hefty this is, this task that is ahead of him but he says the va is ready to do it. i m glad you shined a light on the work that is done here. it s wonderful that it s happened, frustrating it took so long. certainly is. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it s thursday, august 11th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. there are some new revelations about the fbi s unprecedented search of mar-a-lago. the wall street journal reports sometime after trump first turned over 15 boxes of material to the national archives last winter, quote, someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club. sources tell cnn the fbi tried to avoid a spectacle at mar-a-lago, agents arriving in the late morning, they were not wearing fbi logo jackets that you commonly have seen at searches. remember
that, who doesn t live in community with someone like that, and has a perception of who we are based on falsehoods and lines. it is a win-win situation across the board when they get it right, as you pointed out. have a great rest of your evening, alicia. great to see you. same. tonight on the mehdi hasan show, a major, major victory tonight for the democrats and for our planet. the senate have passed inflation reduction act, capping of a historic week for the presidents joe biden, former white house chief of staff mick john podesta is here to explain what this all means. plus, disinformation wars. alex jones finally paid the price for his years of dangerous, toxic lies. but what about his gop enabling enablers? and covid, monkey pucks, and now polio? how these illnesses expose the fault lines and our unequal society? a powerful new book breaks it down. plus, my take on the latest violence in gaza. good evening. i am mehdi hasan. we begin tonight with brea
family, maybe a country, maybe a democracy. the toll, the human misery. but the question for a texas jury today is what it should cost conspiracy theorist alex jones. we now have our answer. nearly $50,. now, recall jones was already ordered to pay more than $4 million this what s called compensatory damages just yesterday. that to the parents of a beautiful 6-year-old child, a little boy killed in the 2012 attack. but today, they added $45.2 million on top of that, awarded him punitive or the punishment side of damages. why? for spewing lies that have caused unthinkable arm to one family of many families, destroyed by the sandy hook massacre. $50 million. and that s just one case. he has two more defamation trials awaiting him, so this is really far from over for the far-right conspiratorial host of infowars. this has really been a case that centered on lies, and throughout this trial, it felt like so many additional lies kept dpgetting exposed, like those texts that jones s