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climb along with the flood waters. we re learning at this hour that sheriff offices across the coast getting a number of calls from people trapped in their homes they didn t evacuate but as the lead county sheriff s office said winds need to drop to 45 miles per hour for them to safely attempt these rescues. we re going to have every corner of this disaster covered from reporters on the ground to residents in its path. but we begin in an area where residents have been advised to shelter in place, the tampa saint pete region and that s where we find fax weather s max gordon who is standing by. max what are folks bracing for there tonight? p pfrjts hey there, laura. well, this is an area where folks here were expecting the storm to make a direct hit and although it moved further to the south we aren t necessarily out of the woods just yet. some areas here are expecting around 20 inches of rain, and we are experiencing some of those heavy bands of rain right now as well as ....
And the metropolitan area of our lando, daytona beach, melbourne. so now we re at noon still in the hurricane force gusts, and look at this. 6:00 tomorrow evening, it still hasn t completely departed the general orlando area. add to that that was about the wind. add to that the national weather service is forecasting an extreme risk of flash flooding because intense rain, some areas up in a belt up in here, 30 inches, and isolated areas widespread up to 20 inches. that s tonight into the morning. now watch where it moves and notice orlando still in it, and that s tomorrow. so, you know, this is all going to just slowly move to the north and focus on orlando and then we get up to friday into saturday, and now everything moves up north to the carolinas and georgia, and after that it s going to move into north ....
Weapons in a belt-up, heavy populated area is almost always a war crime. this is one type of war crime among many, which it says russia has likely committed and is detailed in this report released today. phil black, stay safe. we will get back to you. also break tonight, president biden says the united states is sending ukraine a major new security package $800 million worth of drones attack helicopters, artillery and more. let s discuss with john kirby, press secretary, thank you for joining us. these are capabilities provided for the first time in this war. but can you tell us more about these new weapons and why the u.s. decided to step up its military support for ukraine now? the reason this package looks the way it does is because of conversations over recent days with ukrainians themselves, president biden spoke with president zelenskyy just today ....