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
Instead of real peace, but the only Prizes Putin will give you in return are more suffering from disasters. We must restore nuclear safety, energy must stop being used as a weapon, we must ensure food security, we need to bring home all our captured soldiers and civilians, possibly deported to russia. We must uphold the u. N. Charter and guarantee our right, ukraines right to territorial integrity and sovereignty, just as we do for any other nation. We need to withdraw the russian occupiers, which will bring an end to the hostilities in ukraine, and we must hold those responsible for War Crimes accountable. We need to stop the destruction of nature caused by the war, and we must not allow a second phase of this russian invasion, and we need to make it clear the war is over. This is the peace formula. What part of these could be unacceptable to anyone who upholds the u. N. Charter . If someone in the world seeks alternatives to any of these points or tries to ignore any of them, it like
In an influence peddling scheme. Its a stunning allegation that raises a number of questions. Who is the whistleblower making this claim . Is that person credible . And what are authorities doing about it . The white house says the president has an unprecedented level of transparency and calls this a political attack. Senior National Correspondent rich edson is here with our top story. Good evening, rich. Rich good evening, bret. House Oversight Committee chairman james comer claims the fbi likely has a document describing this alleged Criminal Activity involving then Vice President joe biden. Comer has issued a subpoena for the purported document. He and senator Chuck Grassley have been investigating the biden family and their business conduct. They sent a letter this afternoon to attorney general Merrick Garland and fbi director chris wray claiming, quote a highly credible whistleblower maintains the Justice Department and fbi likely have a form that, quote describes an alleged Crimi
the leader of hamas, ismail haniyeh, has arrived in cairo for talks on a fresh ceasefire. israel s president has said his country is now ready for what he calls another humanitarian pause . nearly 20 thousand people are now reported to have been killed in gaza. 1,200 were killed and 240 taken hostage when hamas attacked israel on the 7th of october. the un security council is about to start discussing a new draft of a gaza resolution and a vote could take place any minute now. the white house has just said discussions for a humanitarian pause are quote very serious . it s all about the wording of the text. it s all about the wording. the draft is very long, but the key section talks of extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the gaza strip for a sufficient number of days to enable full, rapid, safe, and unhindered humanitarian access . it remains to be seen if the wording is now acceptable to the united states. in the past half hour, the us secretary of state
in an influence peddling scheme. it s a stunning allegation that raises a number of questions. who is the whistleblower making this claim? is that person credible? and what are authorities doing about it? the white house says the president has an unprecedented level of transparency and calls this a political attack. senior national correspondent rich edson is here with our top story. good evening, rich. rich: good evening, bret. house oversight committee chairman james comer claims the fbi likely has a document describing this alleged criminal activity involving then vice president joe biden. comer has issued a subpoena for the purported document. he and senator chuck grassley have been investigating the biden family and their business conduct. they sent a letter this afternoon to attorney general merrick garland and fbi director chris wray claiming, quote: a highly credible whistleblower maintains the justice department and fbi likely have a form that, quote: describes an