murder suspect. i don't believe that was fact checked, so there is a lot of tailoring within 24 hours we've seen. so it is possible but companies may have decided health misinformation, voting misinformation are two things that have very significant consequences on people's lives and those are topics that should be subject to fact check. one of the other things i want to add is that the platforms are not going to take things down or down rank them, fact checking is really the way that allows the preservation of free expression to the greatest extent possible. it says, this is what this person said and here's the counter to that speech. it's not taking down the speech. it's not stifling the speech, simply presenting an alternate point of view. >> thank you, renee. we appreciate your perspective on? >> thank you so much for having me. i'm brianna keilar and i want to welcome viewers in the

u.s. and around the world. this is cnn's special live coverage of a world facing an uncertain future. from a deadly pandemic spanning the globe -- >> just about a month ago, a barn being converted to a morgue in long island making the step to phase one. >> in brazil, the numbers continue to get worse for two days now, brazil had the worst number of deaths. >> to heartache in demand for justice in minneapolis. >> i can't breathe! i can't breathe! >> to tear gas and crisis in hong kong tor, to a historic la. that may forever change the way humans go to space. cnn is everywhere. first, i want to get to some live pictures you're looking at there coming to us from the kennedy space center in florida where just a short time from

now, the first manned rocket launch on u.s. soil in nine years is expected to happen. let's go to rachel crane there on the scene. just walk us through what's happening now. i have to tell you, rachel, it's a very different scene. oh, no. our signal just cut out but we saw what the astronauts here were doing. what do they have ahead for them over the next couple of hours as they get ready for this? >> reporter: the astronauts are ahead of schedule, already in the seats, strapped in right now. the weather here though, at kennedy space center, as you can see, my hair there, a tent next to us, it's not cooperating at the moment. obviously, weather in florida can be quite temperament tal, a 50/50 chance that the rocket will have liftoff but the space center and the people tuning around the world are crossing their fingers that this historic

launch will happen today. brianna? >> it's just so wild when you think about it. i think we forget how many times these launches get scrubbed because it's been so long, right? since we've had one. it's been what, since 2011, right? it's been nine years. so it's crazy. i will tell you, rachel, just having seen you, like, 20 minutes ago, the weather has changed quite a bit there, but again, you have some time ahead of you. so things can turn around here, and obviously, things are still at this point this time ago. so walk us through what the whole point of this mission is going to be as these two astronauts head up to the international space station. >> reporter: well, it's important to remember that this is actually a test mission, despite the fact there are two nasa astronauts on board headed to the international space station for a month to a little over perhaps three months here, and this is basically to certify dragon for crude launches for

nasa. spacex given a contract of over $3 billion by nasa to create a spacecraft that could carry u.s. astronauts to replace the shuttle that as you said was retired in 2011. since then, the u.s. has been reliant on russia to ferry our astronauts back and forth to the station and over the years, we've paid them over $4 billion, so the purpose of commercial crew was to have a home grown way of being able to get our astronauts back to the international space station and have it in the hands of commercial industry. so spacex pulls this off. they will be the first commercial company in history to send astronauts to orbit, brian brianna, so hopefully the weather cooperates and this will be a historic day and historic launch. >> as you said, it's 50/50 but let's look on the bright side of this, and let's get a reality check with our meteorologist tom sater. i was looking at rachel crane,

horizontal hair forecast that didn't seem that promising, tom, but give us the official look at what's happening for this launch. >> brianna, it's hard to believe, but just moments ago, a tornado warning was issued about 20 miles north of cape canaveral. north of titusville. still a 50/50 chance. i mean, florida was in a moderate drought at the beginning of the month and now they've had the wettest may on record and now what we had just this morning, what was an area of low pressure, we've been watching with rain for days and days became a tropical storm an hour before it moved inland. so in the southern flank of that tropical storm, in areas of south carolina, we're seeing the cloud cover, we're seeing the winds. winds must stay under 30 miles per hour. now, that's key, and the cloud cover up to about 162 feet. but with the shower and thunderstorm activity, we could

show you the indication here, the activity we've got surrounding this entire episode and this event, they are surrounding the entire region. now, again, you'll notice the flow is through south florida, south central florida offshore and again, when you talk about this, what we're looking at as far as the activity up in the atmosphere, it is a 50/50 chance. they're trying to thread the needle here, which can be a gamble, but they know what they're doing. they have these thresholds for a reason, but when you have a tropical storm that made landfall this morning to the state north and you have your wettest may on record with all of this activity in the area, it's a gutsy call. now, they still have saturday and sunday, obviously, and as that storm system bertha, as it's called. the tropical storm moves forward, conditions could be more favorable but it's those winds and again, when you look at conditions right now, you should have at least some areas of a window here, 79 degrees at

4:30, winds south at 10 but the gusts could be a big problem here. hopefully they'll be able to have a little bit of a window for this big event. >> they don't even -- the gusts can't go above 30 miles per hour, is that right? >> right. the gusts, it's cloud cover as well. i mean -- >> cloud cover -- >> it's what they're looking at here in these hours, it's a variety of elements. >> yeah, it's a variety of elements. one of the things rachel was saying is they have a different system than we've seen with other, this is a rocket launch, other shuttles. this actually has a system where they can abort their launch and propel themselves away from this crash, should there be any problems, for quite some time. so there's a launch pattern going all the way to ireland

that has to be clear and i expect that would sort of give some unusual conditions, maybe some tougher conditions when it comes to forecasting for getting a launch like this up versus a 2011 one. >> absolutely, i mean, you're talking about that kind of a distance, you do have some greater areas of clarity as far as the weather is concerned, and then retrieval and things of that nature. obviously, they don't want to go to that route because that's testing a whole other side to this, but 50/50, if we didn't have this area of low pressure become a tropical storm named this morning, one hour before it made landfall, things would look much better, but again, because that tropical storm is a tropical storm in nature, it is sweeping around on that backside of that storm. all of this moisture now moving across south central florida toward areas of cape canaveral. >> if they have saturday and sunday, and i know, look, i

would love it when i used to have to cover shuttle launches and landings because it's so much fun, right, it's such an amazing thing to watch, but you get stuck there some days because these would get scrubbed all of the time. if you look at saturday and sunday, what do things look like for the possibility of saturday or sunday where they might just say, we're kind of on the line here. this is a big, big deal today. we're just going to play this conservatively as we should and not do this. >> well, if you look at typical florida weather, and you're at the end of may, temperatures heat up, you have these onshore flows and offshore flows and storms do develop in the afternoons but you have more of an intermittent time period of windows that are a little bit larger. i mean, the real problem here is that we have bertha, which was named an hour before landfall. that's really what's causing the problems here instead of just feeling all systems go from this morning and now giving us a

50/50 chance. saturday and sunday, obviously, do look much better as this storm system will pull most of this moisture, the cloud cover, the gusty winds and everything away from cape canaveral, so we do have that to look forward to but they know what they're doing, and we take them at their word for this. if it's all go, it's all go for a good reason. >> tom, do not go far because we're going to be staying on this. we're going to get a quick break in but to recap what we're watching here, this is the kennedy space center at florida, the historic launch pad as we wait douglas hurley and bob behnken what's supposed to be a first rocket launch from u.s. soil since 2011, the first manned one for spacex. this is a big day. is it going to happen? everyone holding their breath down there in cape canaveral. we'll be right back.

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but look to the left of your screen and the lightning, i should say, that is really the problem. we're hearing thunder from the kennedy space center and there's some thresholds here for weather as we're looking for a launch here in a couple of hours and making it unclear right now, 50/50 is what they're putting it out on site at the kennedy space center for whether this is going to happen. rachel, you are there. i mean, so we're just kind of biting our nails at this point. i will say. it looks a little better. we need to keep an eye on these gusts of wind but you have, i just want to make clear to our viewers what they're watching here. they actually have the crew already, douglas hurley and robert behnken who are strapped in to this spacex crew dragon c capsule. tell us where we're at, rachel. >> they're actually running a

little bit of ahead of schedule, bob and doug hurley strapped in to their seats in dragon capsule and that hatch will close in just a couple of minutes now. 45 minutes before launch, that's when the critical go/no-go for fuel will take place. the rocket with liquid oxygen and kerosene and hopefully at 4:33 p.m. today, there will be a historic liftoff here at kennedy space center and 19 hours later, the astronauts will be arriving to the international space station and making history, but as you said, we are really biting our nails here. i mean, the weather keeps changing moment to moment and it's important to remember that nasa's not just monitoring the weather here at kennedy space center, it's all across that path in the off-chance the rescue operation is necessary

and dragon with a unique capabili capability, the crew dragon could potentially be the safest spacecraft they've ever flown and there's a lot going on here, a lot to be excited about and we are all crossing our fingers and toes that this launch takes off today. brianna? >> stay with me. not the least of folks hoping this takes off today, or not for safety going to be who we just saw there, the astronauts. doug and bob as you put it, rachel crane. i want to bring in cnn's miles o'brien and you know, miles, one of the highlights for me of what i've been able to do at cnn has been covering launches and so i think back now like a decade, when i was there with you, you're like mr. space. this is what you get into, this is what you know everything about and i just wonder what you're thinking as you're watching this mission at this

critical moment. >> i got to say, brianna, you are so impressive on that occasion trying to understand very complex thing for the first time, so you impress me as a very good reporter back in the day. for me, this is, you know, i've got some butterflies. and at that time, a lot of skepticism and concern that nasa's new course allowing commercial players to provide a service to them, there was a lot of skepticism whether this idea would really work and time and again, over the past decade, spacex founded by elon musk, 18 years ago has risen to the occasion.

the dragon falcon combination is tried and true. it's flown 21 times to the international space station. they did have one failure, learned a lot of lessons from that. to build a design to carry the cargo that would be adapted for human rating, so they were thinking about carrying people from the get-go. so while this is, you know, an important threshold, when we start strapping the in into a r this might be a system over the past decades. you get butterflies whenever you do this, this is a team that knows how to build a good system, that knows how to build a good rocket and they've proven the skeptics wrong time and again but that leaves us with the weather, of course, no one can control, and there's a tornado warning in the vicinity of the kennedy space center right now, and there's a huge tropical system in the southeastern pacific off of charleston.

the chances of the weather going green, as we say all the way up that coast, which it has to in case there's a scenario where they have to fish the capsule out of the water. the chances of that coming together seem slim, but what the heck? you might as well try. if nothing else, we'll have an extra rehearsal. on the verge of this milestone in florida, but we keep eye on a grim milestone, 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus, dr. anthony fauci with revealing comments about masks, vaccines as well as the future of schools. you'll want to hear this. stay with us. happen every day.

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on the verge of the crushing reality as the u.s. nears 100,000 deaths in this pandemic. 964,000 people have been taken from their families in four months as confirmed cases approach 1.7 million. the country is open, but how much really depends on where you live and so too do the trends, and look at this map here in the national picture is promising, a clear decline in new cases but then this red and this orange on the map, and moving much of the

south in the wrong direction. it means more people are outside, judging from the picture the long memorial day weekend and many americans who are disregarding what scientists now say is essential, that is wearing a mask. the president dismisses doing so as politically correct but his top expert, dr. anthony fauci said it's what every american should do, he says, that's why he does it. as the nation's leading infectious disease expert, dr. fauci trying to set an example by wearing his mask. it's a stark contrast to the president who still does not wear a mask in public. >> i wear it for the reason that i believe it is effective, it's not 100% effective. it's sort of respect for another person and have that other person respect you. you wear a mask, they wear a mask. you protect each other. i mean, i do it when i'm in the public for the reasons that,

"a," i want to protect myself and others and also because i want to make it be a symbol for people to see that's the kind of thing you should be doing. >> jason carroll following other headlines around the country. >> as the nation moves forward with easing restrictions and reopening businesses, there are worries about a so-called second wave of coronavirus. today, the country's leading health expert on the pandemic says it may not be inevitable if people take the proper precautions. >> to have the workforce, the system, and the will to do the kinds of things that are clear and effective, identification, isolation and contact tracing, we can prevent this second wave we're talking about. if we do it correctly. >> reporter: after seeing images like this of packed party goers at a pool over the holiday weekend, dr. anthony fauci also had this note of caution. >> that's inviting a situation that could get out of control.

don't start leapfrogging over some of the recommendations and the guidelines because that's really tempting fate and asking for trouble. >> reporter: a new study showing again the toll covid-19 has taken on the country. this year, the number of people dying each day in the united states since april is 10% higher than in previous years. that, according to the health care cost institute in washington. this as 14 states are still seeing increases of new cases. several located in the south. >> we see cases in the state, the number is not declining significantly and certainly should serve as a warning to all of us that this disease is not disappearing. >> reporter: another warning regarding the accuracy of antibody tests, the centers for disease control now says up to half of the time, those test results may be wrong. the cdc also says for now, the tests should not be used in making policy decisions about

returning to work or school. still, some communities feeling confident about reopening after seeing declines in the number of new cases. in florida, disney hopes to reopen its theme parks to the public in july while sea world proposed reopening june 11th, pending approval by the state. while in miami beach, restaurants on famed ocean drive with restrictions. on the other side of the coast, retail businesses, churches and pools can reopen in california, again, with limitations and a word of caution. >> i've been overwhelmed by 40 million americans living in the state of california. the vast majority doing the right thing, recognizing that this pandemic is not behind us. we're not into a second wave. we still haven't gotten through the first wave. >> back in new york, the epicenter of the pandemic, the numbers continue trending in the right direction, long island just outside of new york city has begun phase one of reopening

with some construction, manufacturing, and curbside retail. this as the state's governor met with president trump this afternoon about how to revive the economy. >> joining me now is dr. jorge rodriguez, an internal medicine and viral specialist, and doctor, first, i want to get your reaction to those comments that you heard in the report from dr. fauci. is it possible for the u.s. to avoid a second wave of the virus or is it just a matter of how big the wave is? >> i think you're right in the latter portion. i think that we're going to be in the slow, low simmer for many months, maybe even a year or so. how much we bring that to a boil really depends on what we do. the virus is not going to miraculously going to disappear. it's going to be present and as we see in different countries that have sort of softened the restrictions and you get spikes, it depends on how seriously we

all take this and what we do to prevent its spread. it's going to be here, we just need to keep it from snowballing. >> and you heard dr. fauci's comments about wearing a face mask, he said he does it as a symbol of what you should be doing, right, what people should be doing. we still see crowds of people standing close together, they're not wearing masks. do you think, what would you say to them and do you think there's any getting through to them? >> you know what? that's a great question, and i think that dr. fauci is doing the best thing that he can do which is to lead by example but it all leads to who you believe in, so if you are a supporter of the president, i think it's very important for him to set that example. i don't know how to get across to people, honestly, i think even in my own peer group and in my own patients, there are some people that just don't want to believe this is true because they haven't seen it.

it is true, and listen, up to 50%, depending on the study, you keep walking around, have the virus, just don't have symptoms or the symptoms are so little they don't pay attention to it. if people really want to love thy neighbor, you really need to be cautious and respectful of everyone around you, whether you know them or not. >> no, it's such a good point, you know, it's a way that everyone can kind of serve their country and their community right now. you mentioned the asymptomatic spread. new study of cruise ship passengers and they found that the silent infection rate, that asymptomatic infection rate may be much higher than previously thought, more than 8 in 10 people on board tested positive and did not have any symptoms. what does that tell you? >> that's very scary, isn't it? where eight out of ten people in a cruise ship may have the virus, may be coughing virus, in their saliva, kissing people

while they have the virus and don't have symptoms f. y. if you look at all the studies, they range from 1% world health organization study. in iceland. 10%, 50% or 80%, people are walking around with the virus without knowing it. that's why we need to be cautious and wear masks to wear other people and what it tells us, if we relax our guard, this thing really can snowball and that's, i guess, my word for the day. >> thank you. explaining that simmer and boil to us because i think that put it into perspective too, thank you so much, dr. rodriguez. as outbreaks are rising in plants across the u.s., one salon owner refused to cut the hair of local tyson workers. he's going to join me live. plus, we're following breaking news out of florida because there's a tornado warning that was just issued just ahead of this, what is

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go through this, bob, you can kind of, i think there's a lot of people muddling through what are the best practices, how do you serve people without taking on risk and i wonder, as you, we see this progression with you, what made you come to this decision to have a change of heart? >> if i may first make a brief statement, those folks truly are front line people we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude for what they're doing going through their efforts to feed hundreds of thousands of people literally. we certainly did not mean any disrespect and dishonor for those people, but when -- if i could place our decision making process into a context, the hair salons in our area were closed down in late march, so for the past two months, we are asked most salons to be preparing at my time of reopening.

with hand sanitizer, buying n thermometers and those kind of things preparing for what's a new world for us. we've done all those things, training documentation and during the week leading up to us reopening in north carolina, on the wednesday before we were to open on saturday, the news came out that 570 of the 2200 employees at the local tyson food plant had tested positive for covid-19. wilks county with 70,000 people and before that, 20,000 or 30,000 people who tested positive. in the local community, that was a big deal, the local director of the health department said that they believed there may be spikes emanating from that 570, of course, there could be false negatives, and so we had an extreme concern for two main reasons. one is our employer group, many

of whom i've known for 15 to 20 years and also, our civic duty for the local wilkesboro community, but we decided that maybe we should have those folks wait for roughly a two week period before we can serve them and at that time, a $3 discount to get their haircut. >> and so, look, it sounds like it was certainly a process, and we think we understand that because you're weighing all of these considerations, of course, they felt like they were being singled out and i wonder something, give us more context on this, because this actually was something that went beyond your store, right, there's been a lot of, i guess, companies or services in your area that have also been struggling with how to deal with this and there was kind of a pattern of excluding these tyson's workers. you were seeing that as well.

what do you do if tyson's workers and i don't know if this is a right or wrong answer because this is a tough problem for you, but what do you do if they come in and you start to see spikes and your employees getting infected? will you think about the decision you made? >> we have a fair amount of confidence in the cleaning procedures that we have installed. i would say that a hair salon going by the standards that are needed in this situation are safer than most retail environments, because both our patrons and our employees have masks. we require the use of hand sanitizer upon coming into this salon. we take the temperature with the touchless thermometer and go through battery of questions. most are not requiring masks of all employees, for example. and so we think it's as safe an environment as is possible and so we don't believe that's going to happen. but should it happen, we just

have to deal with it at that time. so what we did want to slowly understand is the perspective of the tyson employee. we did not fully understand how this was calling him out and offending them because of the local response to extend their dates by a couple of months, the babysitters who won't see their children anymore, that kind of thing. so we didn't realize -- >> yeah, no, and we certainly understand you joining us, bob. there's a lot of people in your position, and we appreciate you kind of walking us through your process. thank you. >> thank you very much. we're watching live pictures right now from kennedy space center because we're waiting to see if this historic spacex launch is actually going to be a go here. there was a tornado warning nearby but it just expired as

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protesters clashing with police in minneapolis over the death of george floyd, a black man who died in police custody. the four officers involved in the incident have been fired. floyd was arrested on monday after officers responded to a call about an alleged forgery. bystander video shows the 26-year-old being held down by a police officer with a knee to his neck and this was for several minutes as he repeatedly told officers that he could not breathe. a warning here that this video is very disturbing to watch.

>> i can't breathe. >> let him breathe at least. >> i condition breathe. [ inaudible ]. >> well floyd was declared dead at a hospital a short time after that incident where he said he was going to die. a criminal investigation has been launched into the death and the fbi is looking into potential civil rights violations. but floyd's family wants the officers involved to be charged with murder. >> there is definitely not enough justice for me or my family. i feel like those guys need to be put in jail. they murdered my brother. they killed him. they don't need to walk the

streets. and mess around and this happen to another family. >> my next guest has become one of the biggest justice advocates against police brutality after her son eric garner was killed by a new york city police officer, gen carr joining me now. and thanks when we heard george floyd saying the words i can't breathe in this video, i know i did and a lot of people heard the echoes of your son when they heard him say the exact same thing. what is your reaction to what you saw happen and what you've seen the repercussions be for these officers so far? gwen, you could hear me. it is brianna. >> i can hear you. >> okay. thank you so much. i wanted to ask you since you heard what george floyd said and

it was like an echo of what we heard your son say, i wanted to know what your reaction was to what you've seen happen and there and what your reaction is to what happened to the officers so far. >> well, to hear that young man cry out, i can't breathe, the same as my son did, it was so heart-wrenching. it brought back so many memories of what happened to me the day that my son was murdered. and i feel nothing but sympathy for that family. i feel empathy because i was there. i know what the pain must be like. and i just can't say enough words to show them how much i stand with them, how i want to be with them in this moment of despair. and as far as the officers, i am so glad that they've been fired

immediately. not like in my son's case. they waited five years, five years to even fire one officer when there was more involved. so i commend that mayor for firing those officers but it is not enough. criminal charges should also be brought before those officers, because it was outright murder what they did to that young man. and there is no excuse. you don't do that to a human being, no matter who they are. >> when you see -- you mentioned this, it was five years before any action was taken against any officer involved in your son's death. it was much more quick in the case of the officers. i wonder if you think anything has changed since your son died and you watch this happening, it is so much like what we heard your son say and yet the officers are being dealt with more quickly. has anything changed, do you

think? >> well, the change is coming about very slowly but it is bringing more awareness and people are seeing just how poignant and how disrespectful they treat people of color. they terrorize, they kill us and most of the time it is swept under the rug. but we cannot treat this as another news story. we have to get out and show support, we have to make all of america aware of this, america cannot be on your comfort zone any longer. you have to be uncomfortable about situations that happened like this. not only in my community, but in all communities around the nation. >> you spoke with george floyd's family. there are very few people who, i

think, are in a position of yours having taken this advocacy route and being able to share an experience like what you went through. i wonder what did you tell them and are you planning to help them build on some of the actions that you have helped move? >> well, when i spoke to them, i know that they were in pain because i know how i felt on those first few days after the death of my son. so i tried to tell them not to give up the fight and i'm glad that the officers were as -- as they were and i told them that i stand with them in solidarity. and i would -- if they need anything, if they need to call me, they could. and the pain is just so big. it came back to haunt me when i heard about this video, what

happened. even the age of the young man. it just struck me so hard. i could do nothing but tears just rolled down my face as i called them. >> gen carr, thank you so much, your voice on this is so important. thank you. >> thank you for having me. well she has been defending president trump's attacks on mail-in voting and now kayleigh mcenany is reporting her own record after a report shows she's been voting absentee for ten years. so let's get to jim acosta. how is she responded to this, jim? >> as you know the president is making this false connection between mail-in ballots and widespread voter fraud and it has gotten so out of hand that twitter posted a flag on one of the tweets encouraging people to get the facts on mail-in ballot

and it doesn't lead to voter fraud. but kale leigh has been weighing in on this but the tampa bay times is reporting she voted by mail 11 times over the last ten years. i asked her about this and she sent a statement over to us and this is what it says. absentee voting has the word absent in it for a reason. it means you're absent from the jurisdiction or unable to vote in person. president trump is against the democratic plan to politicize the coronavirus and expand mass mail-in voting without a reason which has a high propensity for voter fraud. she said this is a simple distinction that the media fails to grasp. a couple of things to point out, people would take issue with the portion of the statement is saying there is a good reason for people not to show up at the polls right now and that is because of the coronavirus and they don't want to get sick. there was a situation in wisconsin where people were showing up too the primary and getting sick as a result of the coronavirus. the other thing we should point

out according to the florida division of elections you could vote by mail without any reason. you don't have to be absentry or have a reason. they have no excuse mail-in voting in the state of florida and that is afact that escapes the white house press secretary in all of this but yet she's defending her record of voting by mail 11 times over the last 10 years. it is a right the president wants to have, a right the press secretary wants to have but they appear trying to be trying to deny it to have people vote by mail instead of catching the virus. >> i could think on two million reasons, right, for why this would be a possibility. jim acosta at the white house. thank you so much. and special coverage continues now with brooke baldwin. this is cnn breaking news. >> here we go. i'm brooke baldwin.

thank you for being here. you're watching cnn. we're tracking two major stories this hour. and you could see on your screen the number of covid-19 deaths in the u.s. is almost hit the 100,000 mark and we'll have much more on that in a moment. but we have to talk about what is happening in florida right now. breaking news, from the kennedy space center in florida, where bad weather is threatening the first launch of astronauts on u.s. soil in almost a decade. we have cnn space and innovation correspondent who is there but tom sater is our meteorologist. and tom, listen, florida weather is florida weather at the same time there has been a tornado warning and is that no longer, tell us about the conditions. >> right. well, like you said, it is florida but there is a lot of -- there is a variety of things going on here. we had a tornado warning that was issued before 3:00 p.m. just 20 miles north of