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my opponent has a problem with the truth. [ applause ] reporter: the highly anticipated georgia senate debate in the books. on abortion, i m a christian, i believe in life. i ve never pretended to be a police officer. [ cheers ] it s not a problem. this is real. four bodies pulled from an oklahoma river near an area cyclists were reported missing last week. all four bodies were submerged in water for what appears to be an extended period of time. i do suspect foul play. here in the kyiv region, critical power infrastructure was struck by those kamikaze drones. reporter: at the same time, we are hearing that ukrainian forces are moving forward in the southern direction around kherson. there s a race here to prepare new positions so they can t be seen by russian drones. i m pamela brown in washington, and you are in the cnn newsroom . and we begin this hour with a breakthrough for police and a sigh of relief for people in northern california. the city of stockt
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this storm will only continue to intensify. if you want to leave, as the governor has said, now is your last chance. we cannot send first responders into harm s way because you decided not to leave. 155 mile per hour winds. that is what hurricane ian is now producing as it bears down on florida s coast. i m john berman live in tampa this morning. brianna keilar is in washington. this is cnn s special live coverage of a storm that is getting more powerful by the minute. the national hurricane center just reported it had a plane flying through the center of this storm measuring sustained winds, sustained of 155 miles per hour. that is just 2 miles per hour short of a category 5 storm and it could still strengthen before it makes impact over the next few hours. expected to make landfall, direct landfall southwest of where i am south of where i am near the fort myers area. the wind speed just one of the major concerns here. the storm surge, which the wind speed only exacerbat
zone, particularly in the southwest florida counties, your time to evacuate is coming to an end. you need to evacuate now. a life threatening category 4 storm headed right towards florida. i m john berman live in tampa this morning. brianna keilar is in washington and that is the news from overnight. hurricane ian strength jentd to a category 4 storm with sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. wind gusts of 165 miles per hour. the storm forecast has adjusted somewhat south of where i am in tampa headed right towards the fort myers area in florida about 100 miles south of here, but the threat to florida is enormous. more than 2 1/2 million people under some sort of evacuation order. yes, the wind speed is a serious threat now, a category 4 storm. storm surge where i am in tampa, they could see storm surge of 6 feet which would put the water pretty much right where i m stand going it hit the maximum levels down towards where the storm is expected to make landfall. they could