Second Asteroid News Today

john berman is off. hurricane ian now churning in the caribbean with 75 mile an hour winds. the storms path is uncertain and that has all of florida preparing for a major hurricane. people are waiting in long lines outside of stores. they are looking to stock up on supplies while they can. essential items like bottled water flying off store shelves. >> residents are prepping homes and business bes for the heavy rain, strong winds and storm surge expected to come their way. ron desantis...

you can see sustained winds are still 45 miles per hour gusting up to 60 miles per hour, still trying to get itself fully organized, but it is going to be heading into a more favorable environment in the next 24 to 48 hours, lower wind shear, lower sea surface temperatures. you have tropical storm watches for jamaica but hurricane watches for areas of the cayman islands. thats because in the short term we anticipate that storm will strength sboon a category 1, maybe a category 2 as its...

Operations center. 44 people in here alone. >> reporter: they will be able to watch the impact live , as will everyone on earth thanks to a camera mounted on the spacecraft. >> these are live images from dart right now. sdplr one of the most tense moments for the team will happen at 50 minutes to impact when thes spacecraft will switch sites from a bigger asteroid to a smaller second asteroid, which is the real target. >> at the very sweaty time for us. so we have a lot of contingencies built ar...