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has been declared in florida as a tropical storm heads straight for the coast. live from the cnn weather center on the latest. and a look at russia s referendums across the russia-occupied ukraine in the way of annexing which president biden is calling a sham. node. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. and we begin in the north atlantic, where a deadly storm that caused massive destruction across several caribbean islands just made landfall in eastern nova scotia. damaging winds and heavy rain are pounding the region as the storm races northward. residents from all across atlantic canada did what they could before the sun went down to prepare including in nova scotia where people waited in long lines to stock up on supplies like food and propane. as you can see, it s not too bad. but we ll know for a week for, i m fine, because i have a trailer that i m staying into. so hopefully, it doesn t get blown away. this is completely useles ....
Supplies like food and propane. as you can see, it s not too bad. but we ll know for a week for, i m fine, because i have a trailer that i m staying into. so hopefully, it doesn t get blown away. this is completely useless. we re used to winter blizzards and whatnot, but not hurricanes. let s bring in cnn meteorologist derek van dam. it just made landfall. how bad is it? yeah, this is likely to be a once in a generation storm for people across nova scotia and prince edward island. just to put it in context, the canadian hurricane centre put out a tweet, the lowest pressure of any storm recorded 931.6 millibars. that s a barometric pressure, lowest recorded ever in canada. incredible, right? this is a large storm. the tropical storm and hurricane force winds extend well out through the center of the storm which has just made landfall ....
Notice they had to furlough 300 employees and just last week i heard that in the northern california, very small community, had to furlough 60 employees. now that might not sound like a big number, but you think about those furloughed employees and their dependence now becomes for, you know, food service, food assistance, and general aid, particularly in the great plains area where there s already starting to be the winter blizzards are setting in and energy subsidies are important. all of those things require some assistance through the tribal government, who hasn t been paid. from this shutdown. jackie, you and i talked earlier during the sort of election cycle, and i m reminded again of that battle over the violence against women act and sort of the role that indigenous women were playing in that entire fight. and it just makes me think again, is there some sense that american indians are simply disposable because they are not politically relevant in the ways ....