city are you okay? rescuers, helping guide residents through submerged intersection, since, having been turned into a lake. then, there is this. the electricity crisis. the storm, knocking out power lines, in more than 2 million homes, and businesses, which have been plunged into darkness, across the state. meteorologist, pedram javaheri, tracking ian. he joins me. pedram, ian may have weekend, but is unleashing very dangerous conditions. where does it stand right now? kristie, we ve got the latest update from the national hurricane center. 11 hours overland, since it made landfall. you will notice, still, a category one. a drop from 90 miles per hour, to 75 miles per hour, leaving this as a low-end, category one hurricane. notice, on the back side of the storm system, the cloud field, beginning to break. as far as clearing skies, around portions of marco island, around areas up towards tampa. all of these areas, finally, seeing drier weather persist. just east of i
i want to welcome our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world i am live from the cnn headquarters. just ahead on cnn newsroom. there s going to be damages throughout the whole state and people in other parts of the state, be prepared for some impacts. i m concerned for people who either chose to ride the storm out or didn t know any better. why did you leave your home? this is the reason why, because these conditions are grueling. we have multiple residents including elderly residents trapped. we have water on the streets, down power lines, it s a dangerous situation. thursday september 29th, 4 am on the u.s. east coast where much of florida is still being hammered by heavy rains, hurricane-force winds and devastating flooding, irking ian has been downgraded to category one storm, it is now moving north east, it has knocked out power to 20% of the state, that s more than 2 million homes and businesses. these terrifying images are fr
field currently. they will work 24/7 until we get the lights back on, again as the governor said, not our first rodeo, but every storm is also different, and always poses different challenges. appreciate all the support from the state, governor, thank you, from local law enforcement as well, the national guard, this is a team sport and a team effort and we are going to all work together until we get florida back up on our feet and where we all want to be. thank you. and when fpl and the other companies have crews in, the ex ten to which that infrastructure has remained is critical because it s a lot easier for them to reconnect an existing system than to have to rebuild it. so to see some of that that was able to withstand is encouraging. it s also just a testament. some of these folks put money into the resilience of the infrastructure, and this is like the ultimate test. you have a hurricane that s a massive hurricane coming in at 155 miles an hour, producing this type of
challenge of taking on desantis in the fall. and the florida senate race now has its final match-up. val demings is facing off against marco rubio. a race the gop believe has it can win easily. but also where democrats have been widely outspending republicans and think that they have a chance to flip the state blue. also big night in new york, two powerful democrats capping off a highly competitive race. cnn projects jerry nadler will unseat carolyn maloney. redistricts forced them into the same districts with the nastier primary races of the year. and pat ryan beating the republican in a swing district. and so let s bring in cnn political analyst jackie kucinich, washington bureau chief for t the daily beast. so much to talk about. so jackie, in florida democrat charlie crist won his primary and will face off with governor desantis in november. crist is a former governor of course and former republican. is his past experience and name recognition enough to knock off the
We begin in morocco where were starting to understand the scope of a devastating earthquake where 2000 people are dead after 6. 8 magnitude earthquake rocked the country late friday. Another 2000 people are hurt. The u. S. Geological survey says that the earthquake was in americas high atlas mountains, about 50 miles southwest of marrakech. Meanwhile, its still very early and its not hard to see that the city has been left in shambles. Extensive damage, morocco today announcing three days of National Mourning. Adam parson of sky news is in marrakech with the latest. Here in marrakech, theyre having to come to terms with this burden of grief and the chaos that has followed this natural disaster. There is still real fear about what could happen. Heres a very good example of that nervousness. This restaurant behind me was badly damaged by the earthquake on friday, but it only actually collapsed hours, and hours later. And it is that nervousness thats affecting so many people here. Its wha