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coast of florida. 155-mile-per-hour wind speeds. thats just two miles short of a category 5 hurricane. its expected to make landfall about 100 miles south of here in the port charlotte area. rain 12 to 24 inches across much of the florida peninsula, challenge create freshwater flooding. the impact of this will be felt by millions in florida. already 200,000 people without power. thats before the storm even makes landfall. this will uproot peoples lives. its a life-threatening storm. th...

Punta gorda. we have activated all of our emergency vehicles. all of them are off the road for the time being, and theyll stay at higher ground area where everyone is protected and the vehicles are protected. everyone has to shelter in place. its not an option to continue to move around. the last i have heard is that its supposed to be hitting landfall in punta gorda, somewhere between 2:00 and 3:00 this afternoon. that being said, that will hopefully be the worst of it, and then well gradually ...

Capability, that could take down ukraine. and in my judgment, under 90 days. and that is from the north and belarus, east, russia, he has brought a maritime forces which could attack ukraines maritime border. all over the russian federation. and so are they going to go in? its an illogical decision, the ukrainians would fight and would have to find cities and keith. you name it. its an enormous ground area. it would frighten all of europe into coalescing around the nato even more strongly. it wo...

Or not to invade? >> there is an element of disbelief, looking at what putin has done over the last several months. there is no question that he has put together a mass of air land and sea military capability, that could take down ukraine. and in my judgment, under 90 days. and that is from the north and belarus, east, russia, he has brought a maritime forces which could attack ukraines maritime border. all over the russian federation. and so are they going to go in? its an illogical decision, t...

A senior u.s. defense official says ukrainians have pushed russian forces back on the east of kyiv and fred obviously talking in that piece specifically about the success of a group that few people thought would be fully prepared. ukrainian air force. you are not surprised at all by this performance and i know you trained with the ukrainian military. youve also observed exercises with russian forces. so how do you think ukraine is doing this? >> i had a smile when fred mentioned the clear sky ex...

The higher ground area. we could probably reach them if the water has not gone there. it will be challenges in this weather. >> so there are rescues taking place right now? >> no, no calls have come into our set-up. so no. were not sending anybody out if we cant have to. those people on the east bank are trammed on that side of the river. so those guys will try to make every attempt if something comes up. >> well let you get back to work. the president of plaques min parish. min parish over the ...

Electricity. leading house democrat is asking department of homeland security to investigate puerto ricos water situation following reporting that workers were distributing water taken from a federally designated hazardous waste site. cnn is in san juan with the latest. >> reporter: >> according to the latest numbers from officials here in puerto rico almost 70% of the island has had its water restored but there are still some serious questions concerning how the rest of the people here on the i...

Georgias sixth go congressional district, karen handel winning over jon ossoff. the race captured national attention and generated historic $50 million in campaign spending. ads for jon ossoff a big spending liberal seem to hurt. soldiers shot and kill a man that tried to bomb the century ral station. no one was injured after the man set off one small explosion in an under ground area of the station. >> as you can see here outside the train station there is a very heavy police presence of they...

Ministry of defense. lets start there. lets start with the transponder because everyone is talking about that, mike. >> absolutely. i sat on two boards of investigation, crash investigation and theres still really interesting questions that have to be answered from what the ground area radar controllers saw. now for me the key bit of equipment is the transponder. weve talked about this at length. what this does is give the aircraft position, altitude, speed, and uses it for traffic collision. ...

Security officers have sochi on lockdown. the u.s. has another 150 people on the ground providing american security. the main concern, a black widow homicide bomber. an evacuation plan is in place to get american athletes out if need be. some crazy video to show you. an avalanche swallowing up basically an entire time. it took about five minutes for the river of snow to bury a village in the alps. the village fortunately had already been evacuated. he picks the wrong house to target. a woman...