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in the united states and around the world. i'm john vause at cnn's world headquarters. in atlanta. it seems hurricane it is not done yet. in florida with a rising death toll on ongoing rescues, and looking like a wall zone. this color storm is gaining strength right now a category one, bearing down on charleston, south carolina, with all expected later friday. the death toll in florida stands at 19. a number of which is almost certain to rise in the coming days. the u.s. president on thursday warning of a substantial loss of life for me and. which one official has described as likely the biggest natural disaster the state has ever seen. and that is triggered the biggest disaster response in florida's history. tens of thousands of emergency workers deployed statewide. at this hour, almost 2.2 million homes and businesses remain without electricity. large areas of the state are underwater. in georgia, ian produced a -- rainfall, it up deterring some of the worst-hit areas. governor ron desantis describes a storm surge as biblical.

>> some of the damage was almost indescribable to see a house just sitting in the middle of a stereo bay. literally must have gotten picked up, flown because of the massive wind speed and the storm surge, and deposited in a body of water. there were cars floating in the middle of the water. some of the homes were totaled losses. >> ian is expected to hit south carolina around the same time on friday as high tide. greatly increasing the potential for flooding. and as a governor there is warning human error, the biggest risk factor the state is now facing. >> we know what's coming. so there is a little bit of wiggle room and exactly how strong the rains and how strong the winds will be. but the biggest variable is human reaction. is people failing to take the

necessary precautions. that's the real danger. we have is human error. >> and while it is now moved away from florida, the deadly threat from flash flooding and heavy rain remains. the full extent of damage caused by hurricane it will not be known for days, if not weeks, but when describing the devastation, officials and for that have repeatedly used words like historic, and catastrophic. here is cnn's ryan young. >> look at this mess! >> more than 2 million people still without power after it left behind a wake of destruction in southwest and central florida. >> flying debris, falling trees, tornadoes, life-threatening storm surge, and flooding, have created significant restoration challenges across the state. and in some cases, they need to rebuild rather than simply repair parts of our energy grid. >> as crews rush to restore power, floodwaters continue to rise, leading to water rescues across the orlando and yosemite area. crews are using arrows to pull people from their water logged

homes. >> and 2004, we had a hurricane but you know, wasn't that bad. we took off, we evacuate. when we come back, there was water in the streets, but not like this! >> the destruction and southwest florida, massive! homes underwater, torn apart, and some even on fire. peoples entire lives up rooted by ian. these images show how powerful hurricane ian was. when it slammed into southwest florida as a category four storm. bringing with a destructive winds, record rainfall, and storm surge reaching 12 feet in some places. >> you've got a hurricane that's a massive hurricane coming into at 150 miles per hour, producing this type of storm surge, dumping weighing, causing flooding, and if he can make it through that, you probably did it pretty good. so this is a 24/7 effort, to stabilize, and to restore. >> and even swamped across the

port charlotte for about above and below, forcing hospital employees to move patients. >> very, very quickly, we got people out of the icu. the problem then ended up being that the water flush down the stairwell that as we see here. and on to other floors. >> we saw scenes of flooding all over central florida. residents say they never seen the water rise so fast. the rain was unrelenting for hours and people are just hoping to dry out sometime soon. reporting in orlando, florida, ryan young, cnn. >> live now to meteorologist karen mcinnis, tracking the hurricane. forrest wears an l and where is it heading? >> now this is very interesting, john, you would simply have very solid information and we wouldn't see very much wiggle room as far as what is going on right now. but in fact, the national hurricane center has issued an advisory that came out at top of the hour 11:00. 15 minutes later, we saw the

winds associated with in having decreased now 85 miles an hour. that may seem like such an incremental nothing kind of bump up but as meteorologist, we see things like that we know something is evolving with the system. and it did, right now 85 mile per hour winds, moving towards the north and northeast. and, yes those vulnerable areas along coastal south carolina, standing up to north carolina. it is very vulnerable because it is low lying area. ecologically speaking, it is also very fragile. in addition to that, charleston south carolina is a very historic. all of these areas are magnificent in their own ways! but trust, and near and dear to my heart, because it is such a historic city. and very prone to flooding. we have said that all day long. because it is the low country. so, as it tracks towards the north and northeast, in about ten miles an hour, it's not moving slowly, not as slowly as it moves when it was making its

way to about 20 hours to make it across the peninsula of florida. but it is moving at about ten miles an hour. it is not a classic looking hurricane. by any means! but frankly, when it got out here, and then we watch it and with that gulf stream area, that is just off the coast here, we saw that with hugo back in 1989. that is a warm current that is just kind of parallels the coast, east coast of the united states. that was fueled to increase hugo. but now we are talking about ian, different iteration, not entirely different. but we do think that there will still be some energy that is going to be left over and so these coastal areas are going to be very fragile and very prone to flooding. now, here is the other shift, and that as it moves towards the north, you can see where this cone is charleston, myrtle beach. whereas before, it seems it was

more aims in that vicinity of charleston. and that is where the ashley river, cooper river comes together. a lot of people had moved there because they find just how defined charleston is. but now we are looking at this area, a little bit further towards the north. now charleston, you are not out of the words, but john, we are gonna take another eye out on, it's in the next 20 minutes, i'll have another update maybe we can get some additional information for you. >> karen, thank, you i remember hugo, that's a very good comparison to make, we appreciate that, thank you. >> judging by early assessment, the total cost of hurricane it will be in the tens of billions. one city alone, naples, just to the south where it made landfall in florida, the damage to government buildings, and equipment, as well the city here, -- and private homes and businesses a drive-by assessment by the city manager put the damage at more than $200 million. whatever the cost, we are covering and rebuilding is likely to take time. and for more on that,

commissioner rick acosta is on the line for marco island. he's one of one of five district colleagues, includes a city of naples. thank you so much for being with us again. when we were talking last time around this time, your biggest fear was for damage caused by that 12 foot storm surge. so now what's your assessment? >> well it's been all day, yesterday, driving in your community, and so is marco island. i also saw a big chunk of mark go falls, and i saw the pretty first damage. people that evacuated, on hand, sliding to put a lot of things out of the house. but you know, a lot of water rise, the level of flooding was something i've never seen before. you saw people that had four or five feet of water in their houses and i've heard from a lot of people who are currently evacuating, wanting to know where they can come back. the roads are open, nothing competing them from coming back, but a lot of them are going to be very surprised, very shocked, at the devastation that we've

had here due to the massive storm surge. >> when we are talking recovery here, are you talking about weeks, months, do you have a timeline here? do you know how long it will be? >> way more than months. even when i heard you said a few officials who are getting sort of estimates for damage. number, one i think it's really premature because i think a lot of things that we haven't even seen yet. i spent some time talking with the senior leadership from our utility company, one of the reasons why we all are still without power, in most places, in marco island, i would say the vast majority, that percentage of my district is still all totally in the dark, instead of repair as you would have sometimes some normal storms, when things have been knocked down or transformers. there is so much damage here due to the excessive amount of water from the surge that you are talking about replacements of major components, transformers, major pieces of our utility systems. just for the power alone, not

to mention all the other damage that we got, that's impacted our community here. >> and is to be clear, the power grid, it wasn't a situation in puerto rico where it was pretty bad shape before the hurricane arrives. what was the power grid like around your area, around marco island? was it in good shape? -- >> he generally do so much to protect yourself against that type of seawater hit, you know, this is one of those light once in a lifetime storms. and as i said before, this one was less about the winds for us, and it was more about the storm surge. we've had recently in 2017 where we recently hit by hurricane irma, which was a strong cat four, but that was more of a classic hurricane. i heard your last caller say that there is not or nothing classic about this hurricane. and that could not be more

true. the high levels of storm surge a lot of times that are estimated and then many times we get so much less than what is estimated, because they are trying to give you estimates on the side of caution. this hurricane, the way that it hit us, and we were on that southern, eastern side, of the eye. so maybe the i didn't hit us directly. but we were on as we said, 30 and of the hurricane, impacting my community directly. these are coastal communities, these are pieces of paradise that are all on the water. those storm surge was something that was horrific for and we saw every inch of what was projected, and it's all the damage yesterday firsthand throughout collier county. >> very quickly, collier county is under a 10 pm to 6 pm curfew, why is that being called? why is that needed? >> well i mean, that's normal,

just ensure that we keep, it to really help our first responders and our sheriffs and whatnot. to keep people in their homes and to make sure that we don't have any -- it's more of a preventative, and i'm here to tell you john, i've got several updates on the big heavy muscle movement type of thing. that we have going on in our community. we've had no issues with the curfew or pushback from people. i think folks know that when you don't have power, when you have an entire huge chunk of your county, of your community, that are in the dark, it's a matter of just public safety. and down, here people understand that. you, know this is part of florida that were no stranger to these type of storms. so folks know that that is part of a checklist to ensure public safety. and to have a proper and safe environment for our first responders that are out there, especially in the evening. >> rick locastro thank you so

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confirmed rescues so far, those numbers are expected to rise. more than 2 million homes and businesses still without power, ian is now turning over the atlantic as a category one hurricane. forecasts say that it is strengthening making a second landfall in south carolina in the coming hours. when it made landfall on wednesday, porch mice was one of the first communities to could take a direct hit. high winds and heavy flooding left the city devastated. and cnn's randi kaye is there. >> one hurricane in hit, this woman was alone in her home. >> when the surge took out my sliding glass doors, it was intense seconds. the water was up to my armpits. and at that point, you know, it was just struggling to get out of the house. >> gail sims 85 years old. she didn't sit back with her home and the river's edge mobile home community in north force myers could she thought the hurricane was heading more towards tampa. but when it didn't. >> i got clobbered with all the

furniture and stuff that was floating. i tried got shot into the wall, anyway, when i got to friends are open, there was a surge, and it took me to the middle of the yard. i thought to get back on the porch. >> gail suffered some bumps and bruises. but luckily, her neighbor, tom, was just a fuel doors down running out with his family. when she saw gayle's car he he knew she may need help. >> but did you find when you went to her house? >> i couldn't go up first because the river was coming across the 40 miles an hour. i found her on the front porch. water, in a chair, shaking really bad. kind of hypothermic. i conjure down. and then we made a long slow walk in four feet of water to my house. >> and you are 85, how grateful are you that somebody came and rescued you? >> tom is a blessing. >> a blessing? >> a blessing.

yeah >> she told me you are a blessing. >> well she's a blessing. i don't know about me, but she's a blessing. >> what made you go over and check on her? i love her, i mean you know. a lot of great people on every street like this. in america. >> meanwhile, tom and his family have their own story to tell. >> i was fine until some of the water came in from the back of the river. and then we were bailing into water started coming into the front. by then we got five or six feet of water in the house. >> was it scary? >> yeah, it was a little scary. it was scary when it kind of crossed through the windows and the doors. >> the water? >> yeah, it was like a big wave came through the windows and the doors. >> that sounds terrifying! >> yeah, it was really terrifying. >> another neighbor, marvin johnson said the water came up to feet in their house. they wore out the storm with his three dogs. >> how come you didn't evacuate? >> i felt safer in the house. >> throughout the day, a steady

stream of neighbors taking on neighbors and then homeowners moving to assess the damage. and take whatever they could save. no matter how small. >> we had to pick up our gecko. my wife leopard gecko, she's had it for 22 years. >> that thing is to be way over here? >> this couple had evacuated but took us inside their home to survey the damage. >> it's very flooded, it's ruins completely ruins. the couches are turned upside down, the toilet on the floor. there is water leaking in our cabinet. everything is ruined. >> they've only been living here in a year before the hurricane hits. >> it's just destroyed, and its ruins. and then you have to start all over again. and honestly, where do you start? how do you start in this! >> randi randy kaye, cnn, fort myers, florida. >> >> he joins this hour from orlando in florida. edmund, thank you for taking time for being with us. >> thank you so much for making the time to talk to me, we

really appreciate you all for getting this message out there. to your viewers. >> thank, you absolutely. >> now look at the hours after he made landfall on wednesday, you had tens of thousands of people in florida, headed for safety, and what more than 200 shelters that were operating by the red cross. what are these numbers looking like tonight in the overnight hours? >> that's correct. the last numbers we had were just over 30,000 people who were taking shelter and these pre storm evacuation fathers about 260 of them either run by the red cross or community partners. and that required a volunteer disaster staff, primarily volunteers of more than 700 people all across the states. tonight, those numbers, they are shifting a little bit. we are expected them to go up, but because the storm has permanently moved out of florida right now we are taking an assessment of the damage. we are talking with local emergency services all across the state. as well as municipalities. what are they saying in their communities now that they have come out of their shelter? fortunately enough, we did a

lot of storm prep ahead of and making landfall. so as the need arises, and we need to shift around resources and move stuff up. we were able to do so according to those needs. >> and just tell us the issue of the destruction here. we've gotten already in official word about the total and theory is, but it's going to be extensive, and is going to be widespread. despite the storm. how long will the red cross offer shelter. especially to those who don't have anywhere else to go? >> certainly. the red cross has made its mission to combat and eliminate human suffering wherever it is and whenever there is disasters like this, we are committed to staying on the ground and helping people for as long as we are able to. as long as they will welcome us. so we are going to, again, right now we are taking up those immediate needs. and start transitioning once we get the time and communication with emergency management services, with local municipalities approval. to that long term care and figure out how we can help people get back on their feet. and assessing what their needs are. >> and still early, obviously, but clearly there will be a lot

of long term needs it seems. after an. >> that's correct. we've heard from the governor, we've heard from the hurricane center. this is one of the top four most aggressive total damage hurricanes to ever hit the state. this is something that they are calling catastrophic. we know that as we continue to do damage assessments, that this is going to be something that is not going to impact just people in the days ahead, but week, months, possibly years to come. we are going to be here to help people get through it. >> i just and they made it, term there could be another state impacted by ian, once again headed over waters to gain strength and to reach hurricane status. and it seems to be getting ready for a second landfall somewhere in south carolina. maybe around charleston in about 12 hours or so. is the red cross ready to deal with two natural disasters, in two states at the same time? >> absolutely! the red cross has been fueling for as long as you've been around in this country. with multiple disasters going on in any given time. not just the big disasters like

the wildfires down in california, to the major hurricanes here in florida. but even just the home fires that happens. even in atlanta, for example, when back in georgia, we are constantly responding to those overnight home buyers. so big or small, the american red cross are going to be there to help people make a difference, and we are constantly planning and preparing for the next big thing to come. >> at this, point our survivors from hurricane ian, and the red cross. what do you guys need more than anything else? >> i would say there are two things right now that we can really use. first it's blood. we did a really good job pre storm landfall for an. getting hundreds of blood products from all across the country on to the shelves of medical centers and hospitals, ems centers. so that as they were needed, when this emergency started, doctors and ems crews were able to grab it off the shelves and go. but while we kept those shelves full for, now we know that they are going to need more supplies coming in. so i would encourage people, if you have a blood of points on

the books, please keep that appointments. and if you haven't made an appointment, to please call up the red cross are go to red cross. org. make a time to donate! additionally, monetary donations are greatly needed. i know sometimes people want to donate other things, food, clothing, right now, because of what we are trying to figure out in terms of the needs of these communities. that would act to do more harm than good if you are donating to. because we don't have the resources to process and sorted all. but what's making a monetary donation, we are able to spend that money, most effectively, immediately, in these communities, to help them. the easiest way to do that is go to red cross. or. make a donation there. you can call one 800, red cross, talk to someone and make a more monetary donation. or if you don't want to deal with somebody, simply text the word ian. i a and. one word 9099. it will automatically make a ten dollar donation, going towards this donations. >> great pitch at the. and thank you so much, that's good information!

we do want to, help and it's good to get it out there. we appreciate, that we appreciate what you're doing there in florida. thank you. >> thank you. >> and you can find more ways to help the victims of hurricane, and please go to cnn.com impact. >> georgia and the carolinas they have around two with hurricane ian. in florida, they are already now cutting costs in times. those damages and numbers are only rising. more on that when we return. for people who are a little intense about hydration.

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first chance for many to assess the extent of the destruction. for miles, entire communities devastated. countless cars and homes now set and lakes of stagnant water. parlance are down. -- >> marinas, left high and dry in the middle of residential areas. the cost will be staggering. u.s. president joe biden set the federal emergency response in motion with a major disaster declaration on thursday. for visiting the federal emergency headquarters, he said the pro bowler reports from florida, are not good. >> this could be the deadliest hurricane in florida's history. the numbers are still unclear but we are hearing early reports which may be substantial loss of life. >> ian left florida as a tropical storm but soon regained strike out there in the old atlantic to come a category one hurricane. again, cnn -- 's in myrtle beach, south

carolina. following this report. >> here in myrtle beach, residents are bracing for the impacts from hurricanes and. right now, we are at myrtle beach state park where the waves are already starting to look rough, you can see behind me, that's a lot more rough than it usually is. and, fact a double red flag warning in effect meaning that the local officials here want no one in that water. it's actually as a part to not see everybody in the water. you see one or two surfers trying to test their limits. there is a hurricane warning in effect some gust of winds around 20 to 25 miles per hour. it is a factor winds at this point. there's only a light drizzle, major impact of the hurricane expected to come into the overnight and early morning hours. short time ago, i did speak to the horry county management. they are in a wait and see mode, knowing that they are soon going to feel the impacts of the hurricane as i'm just getting hit by another gust of wind here. we know that there is a potential for major flooding, especially around the coast, right now though, there is no mandatory evacuations as they just wait and see.

for the worst to come. >> nick valencia, cnn, myrtle beach, south carolina. meanwhile -- it is once again you, it deviates on that path that we are all expecting, wears a? now >> all right, now we are just watching off the coast. deep convection's off the coast of south carolina. and i do think that this is where our eyes are going to be focused. we had singularly, just focus on charleston. it's so vulnerable. it's historic, it'll be devastating. not just for charleston, but all these other areas, hilton head, beaufort, into follies feet and southern island with hurricane hugo. decimated that area back in 1989 where we are not looking at a classic hurricane anymore. as it makes its way second passed across the mainland united states, after having moved across puerto rico, the peninsula of florida, not taking aim, probably somewhere

along the coast of south carolina, or deep convection has not there yet. but it is definitely on its way. here we have our latest information. 85 per mile winds, that's up about ten miles an hour from what we saw just about from the last reports around 5:00. wind gusts up to 100 miles an hour. moving to the north and northeast. but those wind field is enormous! it's 600 miles! extending all the way from the coastal sections of north central florida, all the way up to georgia, into south carolina, and north carolina. you are going to feel the effects of this increasing as we go through the early morning hours, and then about midday. we think about midday, early afternoon, is where we are anticipating landfall. where is landfall going to be? difficult to say now. if you had asked us about six hours ago, everybody was staring at charleston. now perhaps somewhere between charleston, myrtle beach. i don't want you to think that,

charleston is going to not be impacted by this. it certainly will. because we know charleston is deeply affected by the springtime rain. our thunderstorms. still a beautiful area, but here is what we think. it's out over the warm waters here. going to travel towards the north, and it this last path, it does appear as of charleston is going to be in that bull's-eye. wind gusts perhaps 60 miles an hour, however, it does look like midday, that's when we see some high tide. and we could see some of the storm surge there between three and seven feet certainly possible. and it'll continue this way more towards the north as it does, it's want to bring itself up but a lot of these areas are still very vulnerable. john, there's so much information. i'll be back tears at the top of the hour. we'll kind of expand on what we know more about hurricane and now. >> thank you -- >> vladimir putin illegal acts on the sham referendum. and after the break, why

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42 minutes past the. our foot only cutting the cost of the destruction caused by hurricane and. massive fields of debris some of the beaches on the southwest coast. some areas are still flooded from the massive storm surge. cnn's bill weir showed devastation and one community. >> this is just unbelievable! >> the amount of damage in this one neighborhood are between the river and the bay. the end just raked this thing i've been talking to the locals that tell me that the water came up so fast, so high, a lot of retirees, elderly folks, families here, working class sort of manufactured housing here. more expensive condos near the

river. we've got a mix here social economic mix. and ultimately, it comes down to where do you have to go from here? this is not stable. these people have lost everything. it is not back at the atlantic moving into south carolina, category one hurricane. forecasters are making a second landfall in the coming hours. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the state is now set for vladimir putin to announce the illegal annexation of four ukrainian provinces out to why they discredited referendums. just a few hours a signing ceremony were held at the kremlin. russian president expected to block a major speech. according to moscow-backed officials and provinces, overwhelmingly support of russia, but they've been multiple reports of election officials escorted by armed russian soldiers moving from door to door. with many votes cast at gunpoint. this video is from occupied zaporizhzhia, cnn cannot verify

the location. the referendums have been dismissed as illegal and a sham in much of the west. on thursday, the un secretary general antonio birx -- content and annexation effort as a violation of everything the international community stands for. and the u.s. president joe biden, made it clear, it's a nonstarter for washington. >> the united states will never, never, never recognize russia's claims on ukraine sovereign territory. this so-called referendum is a sham! an absolute sham! the results were manufactured in moscow. >> cnn's -- joins us now from london, and natalie, we know that the scoop eventually for those who was written back in 2014. the annexation of crimea. >> absolutely, don, we have seen this before, that pretext being laid out. by those sham referendums. as for key regions in ukraine, much as we saw with crimea in 2014. that's supposed overwhelming

vote and majority in favor of joining the russian federation repeated once again now in these four key regions. we saw those results, announced earlier this week. an overwhelming majority as well as expected really by the international community this is no surprise that we have seen this play out before by the kremlin. but of course this has been widely criticized by members of the international community as a sham referendum. those votes as you mentioned now, how that gun, put people going door to door, household household, essentially asking how does whether or not they want to join the russian federation. so this has come as no surprise. and as expected, this referendum has really laid out the pretext for this annexation that we are expected to be formally signed and in that ceremony by the russian president. later today in the kremlin, in moscow, today. we see the images circulating around social media of those preparations. already underway in moscow's red square. posters carrying the names of those key for key regions as

zaporizhzhia, kherson, donetsk, and the pants. and of course last night actually, we saw this so-called independent decree being signed by president putin for kherson and zaporizhzhia. that's expected to be followed by the south and the republics of donetsk. and luhansk, and that widespread criticism for the international community. not least of course from ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy who has warned that essentially will run under any prospects of future talks with moscow as essentially, impossible. take a listen. >> [speaking non-english] [interpreter] >> russia will not gain new territory in ukraine. russia will only annex itself to the disaster it has brought to the occupied territory of our country. a special meeting of the national security and defense council which convened will take place tomorrow. there will be decisions. we know how to react through any russian actions. [end of translation] >> in addition to those meetings being, held in ukraine, we also expect now the un security council to meet today

to vote on a draft resolution condemning the sham referendum, condemning the expected annexation of those four key regions and calling on a member states. not to recognize the annexation of these four key regions. we also heard criticism from the european union. they are now threatening also another packet of sanctions against the russian federation. >> don, nada bashir thank you for that. >> for a new -- vladimir putin, mistakes were made, apparently by others, but also the 300,000 met, being called up during the current mobilization. incorrectly, drafting the elderly, or those who are chronically ill. >> [speaking non-english] [interpreter] >> in the course of this mobilization many questions arise and it is necessary to correct all the mistakes and prevent them from happening. [end of translation] >> the protests have led two doses a positive thing

criticize by committees on state television. put this is -- dropping students, fathers, men who are either too young or too old to fight. -- natural gas pipeline seems more denser than initially reported. so it has confirmed a fourth late in the undersea pipelines bill to send russian gas to germany. -- in denmark also say the -- european officials say sabotage is the most likely explanation. the investigation is still ongoing. still to come here on cnn, the u.s. president goes to the dmz and north korea goes ballistic more details after the break. >>

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hurricane incoming and with one senior state official saying that the hurricane may be the largest natural disaster in florida's history. the storm but huge amounts of rain, wind, and cause storms are, just leaving catastrophic damage across the state. death toll from in the stands at 19. more than 2 million homes and businesses remain without power. some water systems and may towns and cities are completely broken down. cnn's don lemon spoke with first responders, rescuing residents in orlando. >> so you launch, here and you don't know what's under this water, how deep it, as for what you are going to hit? >> absolutely not. at the stat or this morning, part of it, the big issues that we had is navigating these waters. even though we know that we are in a neighborhood. you know the streets, dictate where we go. we've got hidden mailboxes, cover. it's >> three times right, here you can see how where they are. i mean some of them are covered, others are just picking out of the top here. >> hurricane ian has picked up strength over the atlantic. category one storm heading towards south carolina.

and expected to make landfall again in the coming hours. the u.s. vice president kamala harris has visited the dmz, demilitarized zone which divides north and south korea. through binoculars you can see a tower in north korea, folks on the other side, look back -- to short range ballistic missiles from the west coast, just hours after harrison left. launched two missiles from the east coast today before. cnn's paula hancocks live in seoul with the official count. four missiles after harris, there was expressing their displeasure i guess? >> well john, they are really provided a fairly tiny book end to her day trip, to south korea. wednesday night, they fired two short range missiles, the same just hours after she had left the region. that's unusual for north korea to file these missiles and the evening. usually the early morning a law that they favor which leads many to speculate that it was for the u.s. vice president south. but that's not the only thing

that's happening at the moment that is likely this placing the president. i'll tell the military drills, between the u.s. and south korea, and today, this, friday there is a trilateral drill which involves japan as well. so you have the uss ronald reagan here, along with a destroyer from japan and south korea, carrying out anti submarine drills which always annoy north korea. now we have heard from the presidential office here that president -- was brief just last week about the concern about the national security department that they believe north korea was likely to carry out a submarine launch ballistic missile launch eminently. so this could wealthy to show that they are able to counter any kind of attack that would come from the water. now while vice president barrett was here she did talk about north korea. she did point out that what they are doing at the moment is

destabilizing, also just by the very nature of going to the dmz, following many presidents and vice presidents before her, the tradition of standing very close to the border north korea. she wanted to highlight commitment to south korea as well. and that really is the message of many of these officials the british foreign minister was there just a day before. this is what those officials go to the dmz for to show the support for south korea. and in the case of vice president harris, she did look across using binoculars, to say quote, it's something to actually see this with your own eyes. john? >> indeed it is, live for us in seoul. >> thank you for watching cnn newsroom. i'm don, both live coverage of hurricane ian continues after a very short break. so in a moment.

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with the citi custom cash℠ card. i love it... [voice vibrating] welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john vause at cnn world coworkers in atlanta. it seems hurricane ian is not done yet. after leaving florida with the death toll looking like a war zone, this killer storm is gaining strength. right now category one bearing down in south carolina with landfall for friday. the death toll florida s