Gov. DeSantis: FL already experiencing storm surge from Idalia

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Hurricane Idalia is a powerful Category 2 storm and is still strengthening as it closes in on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Gov. Ron DeSantis provides an update as officials warn that catastrophic devastation and death are very possible. Parts of Florida are being lashed by Idalia right now. Plus, the Fulton County district attorney asked a Georgia judge for an October trial date for Trump and his 18 co-defendants. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happening now, breaking news.
0:04.4	Idalia is now a powerful category 2 hurricane and still strengthening as it closes in
0:09.5	on Florida's Gulf Coast.
0:11.5	We are standing by for an update from Florida Governor Ron
0:14.1	Desantis as officials warn that catastrophic devastation and death are very
0:18.8	possible. Parts of Florida are being lashed by Edalia right now as it barrels toward impact.
0:24.4	We are tracking the imminent threat of fierce winds, heavy rain, and a record storm surge.
0:29.7	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:32.6	Wolf Blitzer is off today.
0:34.3	I'm Alex Markward and get right to the breaking news. Hurricane
0:51.8	Idalia's growing strength and the urgent threat it is
0:54.7	posing to Florida's Gulf Coast. We are covering this storm as only CNN can with
0:59.6	correspondence fanned out all across the danger zone and weather experts tracking Eadalia's
1:05.0	power and its path. First to CNN meteorologist Chad Myers. Chad we do have a
1:10.4	new forecast out give us the latest.
1:13.0	100 mile per hour storm now.
1:14.8	Hurricane Hunter has been flying through the storm,
1:17.6	found a much lower pressure.
1:19.2	That lower pressure has significantly now increased the wind speed around the storm itself.
1:24.7	100 miles per hour but gust could be 120 and then the landfall about 20 miles farther west
1:30.8	than it was forecast to be.
1:32.2	The cone shifted about 20 miles farther to the west, closer
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