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the news. thank you so, much good evening everyone, i m laura coates and this is cnn tonight. our breaking news, a brand-new forecast for hurricane idalia, the storm rapidly intensifying as its lashing florida ahead of what is feared to be a catastrophic landfall on the states west coast in just a matter of hours. potentially deadly storm surge and hurricane conditions expected not only tonight, but also tomorrow. officials say that the surge could be a once in a lifetime event. idalia is now a category two, with maximum winds of 110 miles per hour. it is now forecast to become a powerful category four, before landfall tomorrow morning. we have got to 49 florida counties that are under states of emergency as we speak and as they are waiting to see what the next few hours will bring. we ll be covering everything as only cnn can tonight. we have got to teams out across the entire storm zone, we ve got chad myers in the cnn winter center, carlos flores is in tampa, brian t ....
and don t take anything for granted here. we have already had 11 tornado warnings, and there are more tornadoes possible. even and especially in the very outer bands of the storm. steve and it s just getting started. even the governor s command center lost power twice during the press conference, but they have got generators. listen, we have got live fox team coverage all morning long. senior meteorologist janice dean is here in the studio m. tracking the storm. steve harrigan is in participaten springs. brandy campbell live in tallahassee. start in clearwater where robert ray is standing by and in coronado street, right, robert? cared in a dough drive to be exact. off the gulf of mexico, clearwater beach. what we are seeing and experiencing as a team myself and two photographers, fox news photographers is a very heavy band that has just come in. one of our meteorologist at fox weather in new york alerted me that this was coming and, boy, was he right. because this is ....
election interference trial. we ll have legal analysis on both of these big developments in just a moment. plus new polling on president joe biden s re-election bid and the major concern that most americans have about a possible second term. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, august 29th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with a decision that sent waves through the nation s capitol yesterday, a start date for donald trump s federal election interference trial. in washington, d.c. district court judge tanya chutkan ordered jury selection to begin on march 4th of next year, just one day before super tuesday. now, prosecutors when asked for the trial to begin in early january of next year while trump s lawyers had proposed that it not start until april of 2026. yesterday judge chutkan said that neither of those dates were acceptable but that, quote, this case is not going to trial in 2026. the ....
a hurricane at any moment and potentially a cat 3 hurricane at land fall in florida. fox 13 reporter kylie jones is live in tampa which could take a direct hit. kylie, good evening. reporter: trace, good evening to you, too, and the clock is ticking for people to get supplies, and the supply is running low in a lot of places. people waited in line for hours today just to get sandbags. all of that happening while mandatory evacuations are already in place for parts of the county. take a look at this video from one of tampa s main sandbagging sites this afternoon. another site in tampa was forced to close early after running out of supplies. residents braved the lines for hours though saying they weren t taking any chances this time. the rush also left people trying their luck at multiple gas stations around tampa. some saying they were already out of gas by this afternoon. and that the store s shelves of water already sitting bear. a lot of people in the bay area are g ....
first tonight, the tragic headline just in from baltimore. search teams recovering the bodies of two workers on that bridge when it collapsed. the victims were still inside a red pickup truck. and tonight, you will see that surveillance showing flashing lights believed to be from those workers, the road crew, just before impact. also just moments ago tonight, we learned former connecticut senator and vice presidential candidate joe lieberman has died at the age of 82, after complications after a fall. what we ve learned. the storms tonight. there are flood watches up right now from florida all the way up to boston. bands of heavy rain moving up the east coast. rob marciano timing it out. breaking news tonight. a horrific scene unfolding in rockford, illinois. at least four people killed in a stabbing spree through a neighborhood. several others badly injured. what police revealed just a short time ago. tonight, disturbing allegations. what the utah women s baske ....