unprovoked war of aggression in ukraine ambassador julie smith, thank you so much for being with us this morning. we do appreciate your time. we are getting fresh reporting from the fire lines, fast-moving wildfires out of california, a new our of cnn news central starts right now intense whipping when threatened to fuel a dangerous wildfire raging this morning in california, hundreds forced to evacuate and 15,000 acres already burned also, a weekend of deadly shootings across the united states in michigan s families ran for their luck hi is i after gunfire erupted at a community splash pad nine people injured. there. the gunman s motive under investigation this morning and the us surgeon general says he wants to see warnings on social media like the ones you see on cigarettes adding to the pressure on lawmakers to protect children on social media apps. kate bolduan out today, i m sarah saga, john berman, and this is cnn news central a felony conviction in the courtro
one of the calmest eyes i ve ever been in. in fact, the water was being pushed out and the water was very low on the front side. it was way past low tide low. as soon as the backside winds struck they weren t as strong as the front side but it pushed the onshore flow and water right on. around four feet of storm surge which is much less than we all feared. also the wind gauge captured an 85 mile-per-hour wind speed before it broke. useless at one point during the coverage. when you look at the impacts here, this is an unprecedented storm for this area. we ve never had in modern times, we put it in perspective, have we had a landfall direct hit in this portion of the big bend. for these people who evacuated bret: amy on fox weather. you can scan the qr code on the screen right now and get more of
30 to 40-mile-per-hour gusts. a squall just went through but this is where you get isolated power outages. nothing widespread. this isn t like what we saw with ian, a large powerful storm bringing in strong winds throughout a huge area, willie. you know, so we ll watch this perry. eventually this wind gauge will fail as the eye wall comes onshore but we ll have the direct receiptings here shortly. let s go to perry, florida, where we find gabe gutierrez, a town of about 7,000 people. gabe, looks like things have picked up since we saw you an hour ago? reporter: yeah, that s right, willie. as you can see the wind has picked up here. the rain, we ve been constantly getting pounded by the rain and actually just lost power at our hotel. just came back on but it s been flickering for the last 20 minutes or so. that s to be expected as we see these winds really pick up as bill has been mentioning over the coming hours. here in perry about 20 miles inland, so much of the talk surrounding
Strong winds toppled trees and snapped limbs, leading to multiple power outages affecting Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative members on Wednesday afternoon and evening, Sept. 7.