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hello again. thank you for joining me again. i'm fredricka whitfield. russia said it will suspend its participation in the grain export deal with ukraine. ukraine's foreign minister telling russia to stop its "hunger games". nic robertson is in kyiv. nic, what's the significance of this move? >> reporter: this is very significant. russia says it has suspended the deal for an indefinite period. this was a deal that was struck by the u.n., two parallel deals, one with ukraine and one with russia, at the end of july. and it was struck because, since russia invaded ukraine, all the gra...

Wherever i can go with my kids to be in a stable, safe situation and an environment of our own, i'm all for that. >> reporter: parts of lee county, including ft. myers beach, still don't have power and running water. access across the sanibel causeway remains limited. not all schools have reopened. according to fema, $1.2 billion in grants, disaster loans and insurance payments have been made to the state of florida and households. now, whether the aid is enough or distributed fairly depends who you ask. >> we have gotten assistance from fema. i don't know what that assistance was. but they se...

Louisiana coastline. i think the path may be shifted slightly to the west, but probably not a lot for the 5:00 update coming later. here's what all of the computer models are saying. they have seemed to very much be pin pointing the state of louisiana with the strong side of the storm being into mississippi and southern alabama. the yellow line, alex, that actually is one of our more dependable computers. our european computer model. that update will be coming in shortly. if that switches to the west like the other ones did, expect the hurricane sacenter to have that hurricane going straight f...

Scenario. we've shifted that to the southwest portions of florida, including ft. myers and the marco beach area. it's still going to be bad in miami beach, west palm, but this does not appear to be worst-case scenario anymore. you can see the menacing eye. that's closing in on the northern coast of cuba. they're going to get raked with it for about 12 hours. you can see a wider view. this storm just blew up so wide. not really the intensity. it didn't get more intense, but in size it's huge. the cloud field goes from jamaica, down here, to areas of the northern and central bahamas. soon those ...