Welcome, everyone. Thanks for joining me. Im Omar Jimenez in for fredricka whitfield. We start this hour with breaking News Hurricane Milton is now a category one hurricane threatening floridas West Coast with devastating Storm Surge, flooding, and damaging winds. Its forecast to intensify into at least a category three storm before making landfall in just a few days the team covering this dangerous storm, Cnn Correspondent Rafael Romo And Cnn meteorologist Elisa Raffa are here. I want to start with you, rafael, though what are we learning as far as preparations and other things go . Hey omar, this is a very serious situation in addition to the clearing of State Of Emergency and 51 counties, florida governor Ron Desantis has ordered Management Sites to remain open 24 7, so that many areas covered by debris after Hurricane Helene can be cleared before the arrival of milton, which became a hurricane this afternoon more than 800 guardsmen are currently deployed for debris removal, but the
course, put their spin on it with the associated press describing sb 14 this way,. the gop controlled legislature is pushing to make texas the latest conservative state to crack down on medical care and get this, the rights of transgender people, the rights of transgender people, that is not what this is about at all. we are talkingwh about children, children having life changing chiloperations that are irreversible. contrast this with washington state, where democrats havetorst just made it legal for doctors to perform a number of these procedures without parental consent. mastectomies, without parentaler consent and without even parental notification. enif there are, quote, compellig reasons not to notify pathe parent, imagine if this were your child. some are calling it statme are e sanctioned kidnapping. if you ask americans there are e no two sides to this debate. a new washington post poll found that an overwhelming majority of americans oppose puberty blocking hormones
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at this hour, a mysterious explosion behind russian lines in annexed crimea, what we re hearing on the ground about who is responsible. and president biden announces major conservation action just moments ago. is it enough to get him back in the good graces of environmental groups? we ll have a live report. and in los angeles, that teacher strike is under way today which means for 420,000 students, no teachers, no bus drivers, no lunch, and no options for countless parents scrambling to find child care. and a small group of trump fans making a show of support on the bridge at mar-a-lago as the manhattan grand jury gets ready to reconvene tomorrow. our reporters are following all the latest developments. and we begin with vaughn hillyard near mar-a-lago. what is the scene like there today? obviously even though trump said that he was going to get arrested today, that hasn t happened. but is there any sense of when i something might happen? reporter: and donald trump ca