of this hurricane. it could make landfall the next several hours and then work its way up the peninsula slowly, very slowly, bringing hurricane force winds here to tampa, to orlando before it heads out over the atlantic on the other side maybe sometime later tomorrow. obviously millions of people feeling the impact of this, a life threatening storm in some ways a near worst case scenario for some of the people south of here. there was an 8 a.m. update just in from the national hurricane center. i believe we have michael brennan at the national hurricane center to give us a sense of the very latest. sir, if you can hear me, where is ian, where is it going? it s located about 55 miles west of naples, we re expecting catastrophic impacts along the southwest border coast later today. the storm surge could be as high as 16 feet above ground level in the area near port charlotte, from inglewood down to the beach. can you walk me through the timeline from now over the next 24 ho
earner, we should say, for the russian president and some of those being downsized as well related to the progress of yevgeny prigozhin in the russian power structure. that s right. when yevgeny prigozhin appears in this very recent video talking about how wagner is going to make africa more free, we should be clear this is also about earning a lot of revenue, which was part of the question about what was putin going to do with the yevgeny prigozhin problem in the wake of that coup because wagner is incredibly important. but i think we should also note the general who suffered incredibly in stature when it came to vadladimir putin, we ha not seen him, who stood down in recent hours. we don t have all of the facts pinned down here but you do have russian state media saying this crash you are looking at, can i
thank you for being with us this morning. my pleasure, john. thanks for helping us get the message out. the rain bands passing through but you keep hearing these warnings and the superlatives now, the agreement superlatives as the storm approaches with winds of 155 mimes. miles per hour. hurricane ian barrelling towards florida. st. petersburg one of the many cities in its path. we ll be speaking to the mayor next. plus this as russians are trying to escape the country to avoid vadladimir putin s draft, there is an urgent warning to americans in russia, leave immediately. this is cnn s special live