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forecast models are putting florida in the bull eye s for a hurricane in days. this is what we re watching at this hour. thanks so much for being here. i m kate bolduan. putin s war on ukraine is where we do need to start at this hour. russia is staging referendums in four occupied areas of eastern ukraine beginning today. residents being forced to vote on whether the regions should become part of russia. the referendums are widely considered a complete sham of course but this is drawing global condemnation. ukraine s president zelenskyy is calling on russians now to revolt as putin is facing a growing decent from his people over his orders to mobilize 300,000 more soldiers. hundreds have been rounded up in anti war protests as we ve seen and more and more russians are trying to escape the draft and leave the country. cnn ben wedeman starts us off live from kharkiv on this referendum votes. what are you learning about how this will go? reporter: well, it s going, i th ....
where shark patrols are watching what beach goers are fearing the most. many of those vacationers being told to return to the office after the labor day market. the job with market s still pretty strong. will bosses be able to bring them back? and will artemis be able to launch today? after being scrubbed on monday, a weather front threatening today s takeoff. for now though it is still a go and so are we. welcome, everybody, glad to have you. hope you re having a great weekend, i m neil cavuto. let s go to alexis mcadams on shark patrol mode off the coast of new york. reporter: hi, or neil. we are out on a boat right now, take a look, and you can see the area right now here on long island. it s one of the busiest boating and beach weekends across the country, and they are ramping up patrols out many pull force throughout the weekend. already nearly 15 officers that are on patrol looking out for sharks, people operating recklessly and also boaters and jet skiers who c ....
reports of children sleeping on mats and overcrowded facilities. in reporter say the white house is keeping them in the dark of what is going on, watch this. since there aren t photos, why not release those? and have them invited to the briefing room and talk about the photos? if you want to grant access to the press, gooden utility hs? again, we grant transparency. remain committed to do that. the border is upset that they can t show up at the border, they can t do right aligns and can t question what is happening inside. it seems like why? i certainly wouldn t characterize it that way. speak with border towns are overwhelmed. so how is the situation on the ground in mexico any different? the situation on the ground is certainly challenging. bill: a lot of pointed questions from media outlets, frankly. if you are watching midday yesterday, i think you could say there was a different tone in that room. dana: there is a moment, a crisis, let s call it ....
Nova scotia. forecasters are watching a new threat, a tropical depression expected to become a major hurricane taking aim at florida. cnn chad myers joining us with the very latest. chad, what are you watching now? kate, i watched a little bubble of storms pop up around aruba yesterday afternoon and now we have this much bigger bubble and it is now tropical depression number nine and it will become a tropical storm or hurricane probably by this evening. the center of circulation is here, all the convection is here. hurricane center waiting for this to come around and get those winds a little stronger. when you have them separated, it s just not really an event, it s just a spin out there but the spin will get angry and organized and all of a sudden, we ll move this towards florida or the gulf, the center of the gulf of mexico. the reason this will get so strong so quickly, temperatures are in the lower to upper 80s ....
Woman along the coast seems to be crammed there to watch it. brandy campbell is among them. brandy. reporter: good morning, neilful well, look, it s summer in florida and, you know, at any moment we can see storms pop up. right now we are doing good, but we ve got to keep in mind it is hurricane season, and there are two tropical systems out in the link, earl and danielle. luckily, teams here are not worried about those storms as they are far away from us right now. let s take a look at artemis, the star of the show. right now teams are working on sealing a liquid hydrogen leak that they ve been working on for about an hour and a half. that s definitely going to mess with us with an on-time start here. hopefully, we have a launch. but artemis is the strongest rocket ever made for an uncrewed journey around the moon, and it s going to go further than any other human spacecraft. and the focus is to do a stress ....