your garage. you can die from carbon monoxide poisoning. it's got to be outside your house. 20 feet away from doors and windows. and the exhaust needs to be pointing away from your house. please use that appropriately. there's obviously a need for power generation in these circumstances. we understand that. make sure that's being done outside and there's not exhaust coming into your house. we're going to be heading back after this to tallahassee to continue with preparation efforts. in the meantime, we'll hear from director guthrie, director morgan, and cfo jimmy petronis. >> thank you, governor, and thank you for your continued support and leadership in this disaster. i'm going to pick up where the governor left off about generator safety. please make sure that's 20 feet outside of your home. i know we've -- >> you're hearing emergency officials following governor ron desantis in florida talking

about this hurricane that as you can see is just barrelling towards the west coast of florida. one of the things that was really interesting there that the governor is warning about is the potential for as this storm is heading there up into kind of that big bend area, that catcher's mitt we've heard it referred to, there is a potential for this storm to make a little bit of a left turn and head more towards tallahassee. his point there is that don't think that if you are there in the panhandle, you are there in northern florida that you are out of trouble. he's saying everyone should be prepared in case this storm does make a turn. and he's telling people, look, you should be prepared to lose power. you need to get out of the way of storm surge. you don't have to go far, but far enough away to get out of the storm surge. 10 to 15 feet in some areas. we're talking about a lot of water and that water can be deadly. we have our cnn team tracking

every angle of the storm. i want to start with cnn's chad myers who's in the weather center. we heard a lot of warnings there. very good warnings, including that one about generator, you cannot operate a generator inside your house, and so many times we see people making it through the storm, and afterwards, that is actually the thing that will get them in trouble. certainly a good warning there. tell us what you're tracking. >> we're tracking now a 90 miles per hour storm. the storm is intensifying now. it does have an eye. it's hard to see from the key west radar because by the time the radar gets there, the earth, because it's round, is falling away from the radar site, and so we're 30,000 feet in the sky by the time the radar beam goes, but what we can see, without any distinction here, are the lightning strikes now right near the eye wall. that means that the storms around the eye are getting stronger. that's always an indication of a storm, any storm getting stronger around the eye where

the lightning is. had a wind gust in st. petersburg of 44 miles per hour. already had two tornado warnings because of land falling water spouts near marco island. all the things we talked about earlier, about the big storms to the east on the outer leg there of the storm, but obviously everybody looks at the center of the cone, but there are so many things away, hundreds of miles both ways, there will be power outages from the center of where this cone goes. and the governor was also talking about the storm surge. this is a big storm surge. this is 5 meters high. 15 feet high. so this water is not going to come in like a tsunami. it's going to be wave after wave after wave, each successive wave getting higher. all the way to st. marks, really in the way of the 15 foot potential surge. you need to get out of those areas. i know storm chasers want to be there to see it.

i don't recommend it at all. not with a storm like this. this is time to get away from the water for sure. 125 miles per hour winds right there on the shore. talked about tallahassee. a city that's full of trees. live oaks, pine trees, everything. these trees are going to come down, power lines are going to come down, and i'm telling you, the power is going to be out for weeks in some spots because there will be too many trees to get out of the way, too many lines to put back up before you can get that. so prepare almost like camping for the next two weeks in places, if you decide to stay. without power, it really does feel like camping. you kind of cook outside on a charcoal grill. you do all of these things, sometimes without water because the power is out, sometimes the water can be out as well. this is the time to prepare. the models have all really agreed. we talk about that potential turn to the left as the governor talked about or the potential turn to the right. the potential turn to the right is more likely.

just because that's where the trend is going, but the trend is still pretty much your friend here. if it does decide to turn a little bit to the right, the deal is the problem is that when you have a parallel, almost parallel to the coastline, 5 degrees difference brings it all the way over here, compared to 5 degrees difference on a landfall here, doesn't move it, maybe more than 5 miles. but when you have a land fall that's really very very parallel to the coast, that's when you get in trouble with these little slight wobbles, like charlie or like ian, just little tiny wobbles when you're paralleling. makes a very very big difference. >> thank you so much, chad, for taking us through that. we'll be checking back in with you, of course. jim. >> it has been through cuba and some areas of western cuba got more than 4 inches of rain overnight. many there without power. check out this time lapse video out of havana. the heavy rainfall making cuba's

capital just vanish as conditions worsened there. cnn's patrick ottoman is there in cuba, and i wonder, patrick, was it as bad as advertised as it came through? >> reporter: you know, we shot that time lapse video right where i'm standing this morning, and it was surreal to look out and not have the city be there anymore. i think an island is so used to hurricanes, people surely took precautions, but, you know, you hear a tropical storm. we have all gone through that many many times, and yet here we are, hundreds of thousands of people without power now in an area that was hard hit by a hurricane last year. so even a glancing blow can land sometimes pretty hard, jim, and you know, for the people whose houses were flooded, who have been out of power for days or weeks, probably feels like a direct hit, and so, you know, near 10,000 people were evacuated late last night.

that was the final number, we heard, we know now that most of western cuba is without power, officials working on getting the power back on, but that is going to be a very slow process, and flooding throughout much of -- you know, going from havana, west of the island. for an island as poor as this one, as lacking in resources, you know, if you get all of your belongings wet, if you have water come through, the roof feels catastrophic. you have to remind people watching, jim, what cuba faced was a far less powerful storm than what floridians are going to have arriving very very soon. even a tropical storm, a category 1 can be catastrophic. >> yeah, and the difference between a glancing blow and a direct hit. patrick ottoman and carlos suarez is right in the path of the storm. might not be quite a direct hit but certainly going to get a hit in tampa. storm surge the real threat there. i wonder how much are they

expecting and what can you do, really, in preparation for that? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, jim, so the biggest concern going into tomorrow is going to be the flooding as a result of this storm surge. the forecasting right now is calling for anywhere between 4 to 7 feet of it, and so you can imagine that some of these low lying areas in the tampa bay area will most likely flood. we're live right now alongside the river, alongside the bay out here, and i can show you exactly the concern going into the storm out here. you can see exactly where the water level is right now. we expect that this time tomorrow we'll have all of the storm surge. we're going to have all of this rain, and then we're also going to figure in high tide. so you can see why the concern is that as this hurricane makes its way off the coast of the tampa bay area, we are going to experience some sort of flooding. tampa general hospital, just on the other side of where we are, they have already put up their

flood gates. we're told that can handle a storm surge of up to 15 feet, we're expecting maybe half of that to take place. there are two mandatory evacuation orders that have gone out in this part of the state. over in pinellas county, the st. pete clear water area, there's one mandatory evacuation order there. the other is in hillsboro county, home to the tampa bay area. the city's mayor had a news conference earlier today where she talked about some of these preparations that are now underway. here's a bit of what she said. >> what we say is you hide from the wind and run from the water. so if you can just go in 10, 20 miles inland where the water won't be an issue, that's what we are advising to all of our residents. >> and in anticipation of whatever effects come this way, they have opened up hurricane shelters in hillsboro county.

we're told up to 20,000 people can be housed at these locations. right now, at least in this part of downtown tampa bay, what they want is folks that live in the low lying part of the town to go ahead and try to get more inland. jim and brianna? >> hide from the wind, run from the water. carlos suarez in tampa. thank you so much. >> so right now, there are some huge concerns about the small island of cedar key there in florida which could take a direct hit and face life-threatening storm surge. here's the deputy director of the national hurricane center with a dire warning for cedar key residents. >> look at the values up here in the big bend here. 8 to 12 feet along the nature coast and cedar key. cedar key is right smack in the middle of that area. i'm especially concerned for them. if you're watching from cedar key, it is imperative that you take this very seriously, and if ordered to evacuate, heed those evacuations immediately. the entire island could be completely cutoff.

>> and we are now learning that number could be higher, perhaps 10 to 15 feet. joining us is eric, the owner of tony's seafood restaurant on cedar key. thank you so much for being with us. you're dealing with so much right now. you have moved away from cedar key. you have heard the warnings. can you tell us a little bit about how you prepared the restaurant, and how you prepared yourself? >> well, basically, we have done this before. seven years ago we had hermine in 2016, and the tidal surge was really bad. it got into the restaurant waist high. so we've been down this road before. we do realize the seriousness of this, and all of our employees are out of town and safe. >> which is very good news. so you have dealt with this before, waist high water from storm surge before. now we're looking at, you heard

that 8 to 12 feet warning. it looks like it may be higher, 10 to 15 feet if the worst of this hits cedar key. what do you think that would look like going through cedar key, through your restaurant, what is that going to look like? >> well the big problem of the infrastructure of cedar key is really old, and a lot of wood, a lot of older structures. may have some issues standing up to the high winds and of course this tidal surge that we're really fearing right now. >> right now levee county is under mandatory evacuation orders. to sounds like the folks who work at your restaurant have heeded that. do you feel like most residents of cedar key have heeded that? do you know anyone who's riding this out or planning to on the island? >> i actually do know one that

said that he's going to try to hang in there. he doesn't live right in the main area where the water is, but there's always going to be die hards, people that are going to try to hang it out. you know, cedar key over the years has had a lot of storms, and it's a very resilient town. everybody that's there knows a lot of this and has always heeded proper warnings. i do believe that we're going to have some pretty bad damage in the town, but i do think that we will snap back. >> you obviously know the island fairly well. you're the former president of the chamber of commerce there. what are you most worried about? you're talking about damage there, but what are you most worried about in terms of the town's vulnerabilities? >> well, it's truly low lying, the proximity to the sea water, the rushing in, it's pretty

devastating, and all of our business, our commerce businesses over on the water front, fortunately tony's -- our business is in the downtown section, so we're not really on the water, but we're going to get it anyway, more than likely, and we've sandbagged and done everything that we can, but honestly, it's up to mother nature, and it is what it is, but like i said, cedar key is a very resilient town. it has stood this test of time for hundreds of years of storms. and we'll come back. and we'll persevere and we'll be back running again before you know it. >> well, eric, i love your attitude, and i'm so glad that you're in a safe place talking to us. we do appreciate your time today. and we wish you the best of luck. thank you so much. >> thank you. jim? >> drug companies are preparing

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cnn's jeremy diamond is at the white house following this for us. okay, jeremy, which medications is this going to affect, and when are people actually going to see these prices drop? >> they have just announced ten drugs that will be the first round of drugs to be negotiated between medicare and these drug companies. and these are all common drugs that are used to treat a range of conditions, everything from heart disease, cancer, diabetes and much more. i think we have the list of those ten drugs that we can put on the screen. but these drugs are responsible for about $3.4 billion of out of pocket expenses by medicare recipients just in the last year. now, when will this go into effect over the next year, the drug companies and medicare will negotiate the prices of these drugs, and it won't be until 2026, that medicare recipients will see the new prices kick in. but at that time, the white house estimates that these drug price negotiations will impact as many as 9 million americans

by that time, and then over the coming years, they will add more drugs to the list, 15 more drugs than the year after that, 15 after that, and then it will be 20 drugs per year in those subsequent years. >> drug companies, as i mentioned are fighting this, jeremy, could that derail this? >> yeah, look, there are eight federal lawsuits currently being brought against the administration questioning the legality of this program. these lawsuits are being brought by pharmaceutical companies, as well as trade association groups. i asked the president's domestic policy adviser today about the lawsuits and whether she's concerned about any of them. here's her answer. >> we are very confident in the law, and we should recognize there's no part of the institution that prohibits medicare drug negotiations, so we are very confident in these cases. and very confident that the law will deliver results, and just important to remember that basically what farmpharma is arg

in these court cases, they should have no limit to be able to charge whatever they want, and that is exactly why americans support american drug association by 80%. >> reporter: so you can hear there, the white house certainly seems confident in the legality of this program and the firm legal ground upon which they are standing here, but it is, nonetheless, an open question over these next couple of years. will any of these lawsuits derail the program, and will republican lawmakers that have sought to repeal the inflation reduction act, this is a key provision of that law. will they, perhaps, derail this program, but the white house points out, this is a program, a medicare drug produce negotiation that is deeply popular with the american public, and they believe that it will stand. >> and seniors who both parties rely on, it would be very hard for them to see their drug prices drop, and then have someone increase them. certainly something the white house is banking on.

jeremy diamond, live at the white house, thank you. jim. today there are serious new concerns about an emerging group of synthetic opioids, potentially more potent even than fentanyl, also more resistant to life saving medication that can reverse the es effects of an opioid overdose. cnn health reporter, jacqueline howard has looked into the study. first, i have to wonder why, i mean, why such power synthetic opioids, what are they for? >> well, jim, what i can tell you, this is a subclass of synthetic opioids, called nitozines, they are about a thousand times more potent than morphine, and in comparison, another powerful synthetic opioid, fentanyl, is about 100 times more potent than morphine. so that's a significant difference here, and what we have learned here in this new study that just came out today, jim, researchers looked at data

on emergency department patients hospitalized for an overdose, those patients using nitazenes needed more doses of naloxone to treat their overdose, compared with fentanyl. the study found 36% of fentanyl patients received two or more doses of naloxone compared with 67% of nitazene patients. the take away here is that if clinicians see more of these nitazene patients, they may need more doses of naloxone, because of the potency here. >> concerning given already the tremendous cost of opioids as we know them. jacqueline howard, thank you so much. and this is just in to cnn, the federal district judge who

is hearing mark meadows' request to move the georgia election subversion case from state to federal court now says he wants an additional briefing from both parties on meadows' bid. cnn's sara murray is with us now. this is notable here because it appears the judge is open reading this to both sides of the argument, open at least for now. so what happens now? >> well, yeah, i mean he obviously heard a lot yesterday, what was a full day hearing. there's more he wants to know about the law from both sides in this case. he's basically saying, look, this indictment is charging mark meadows, you know, with racketeering, it lays out a number of acts that are overt acts, essentially, in furtherance of this conspiracy, and he says, look, if one of these acts relates to mark meadows' official duties, his duties as white house chief of staff is that enough for him to be able to move this case against him to federal court or does that not meet the

threshold? he's ask mark meadows' attorneys as well as the fulton county district attorney to weigh in on this, and asking them to do it by 5:00 p.m. on thursday. an indication of timing guidance of when may the judge rule, we're not likely to get his opinion on this matter anytime before friday. again, arraignments are set in this case for september 6th. those may be done in person. those may be done remotely. they may be waived entirely, but the judge is aware that meadows wants him to rule on speedy fashion, and he wants more answers to outstanding legal questions before he does. >> we'll see if the questions now telegraph his potential decision here. sara murray, thank you so much. so officials have been warning that hurricane idalia would strengthen and that it would strengthen quickly. we have details next on how climate change is changing how these storms develop. we'll have that. and between the hurricane, taking aim at florida and the upcoming holiday weekend, gas prices could spike once again.

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at least 22 florida counties have issued evacuation orders ahead of hurricane idalia's expected land fall tomorrow morning. this is a storm that gained additional strength early this morning. it's compounding what scientists have been warning for the last several hurricane seasons, which is that climate crisis, the climate crisis we're seeing is making hurricanes intensify at a faster rate, and that's creating potentially deadly storm surge conditions. my next guest is michael mann, the director of the penn center for science, sustainability and media at the university of

pennsylvania. he has a new book about the climate crisis called "our p fragile moment," which is a very appropriate moment that we are in right now. tell us a little bit, michael, about what you're seeing and how the climate crisis is affecting this particular storm as we see this unusually warm water in the gulf. >> yeah, thanks, it's good to be with you, and you put your finger on it. we have bathtub level warmth with these waters in the caribbean and the tropical atlantic. it's been a record year. it's been the warmest year we've ever seen when it comes to atlantic ocean temperatures. and global temperatures as well. a piece of that could be this transition we're undergoing from a la nina to an el nino event, that's a sort of natural fluctuation in the climate, but it's riding on top of this tide of an ever warming planet from carbon pollution, from the

burning of fossil fuels and the heat isn't just at the surface, it's penetrating deeper into the ocean layers and that's when you see the sort of intensification. the rapid intensification events, when you have warm waters, not just at the surface, but below the surface because the hurricane churns up those deeper waters. and when they're cold, that dampens the hurricane because it's the warmth of the water that drives, that strengthens the storm, but when the churning of those waters doesn't bring up cold water anymore, because that warm water is penetrating deeper and deeper, that's when you see these very rapid intensification events, and there's a real worry among a number of observers right now that idalia could, in fact, strengthen into a cat 4 hurricane before it makes landfall. that would be catastrophic when it comes to the storm surge that would lead to. and the inland flooding will be a real problem as well. >> michael, i mean, that's a category 4.

we're talking serious business here. when you saw that number that was reported last month, those buoys off the southern tip of florida registering over 100, which may actually be a world record, what did you think about how that would portend for a very bad hurricane season ahead? >> yeah, i mean, almost unbelievable, right? those are hot tub temperatures. you're wading into the ocean and it feels like a hot tub, that's the sort of warmth we have seen in that part of the world this summer, and, you know, some of us, we're looking at this emerging el nino event. it turns out el ninos, the warming of the tropical pacific, it impacts weather patterns around the world, it actually leads to more of what we call wind sheer. wind going at different speeds or different directions as a function of height. and that tends to interfere with the nice vertical pattern that a

hurricane wants to form, and so el nino years with a greater wind sheer in the caribbean and tropical atlantic, tend to be relatively quiet hurricane seasons. we were looking at that thinking, well, you know, it's warm in the tropical atlantic, but, you know, there's an el nino, that's a mitigating factor, it will be, you know, above average, but not a hyper, sort of active season. what surprised us all was the excessive warmth that we've seen. it went well beyond what the forecasts held, and that excessive warmth is overcoming what would be the typical dampening effect of an el nino event, and, you know, these storms, dagain, when they encounter that very warm water, they can intensify quickly, and they can reach a higher maximum intensity. so sea surface temperatures throughout the tropical atlantic, the caribbean right now are going to support this major, monster category 4 and category 5 hurricanes if they have the chance to form.

>> it is very scary. michael, thank you so much. we are at a fragile moment, and we appreciate you explaining it to us. thank you so much. >> thank you, brianna. >> jim. with the labor day holiday around the corner, hurricane idalia could cause disruptions in gas refineries which might lead to higher gas prices. it could take gas line facilities offline. it's already leading some producers to evacuate oil platforms. cnn's paula newton has been following the story for us today. this is always a concern with big storms, either damage to those facilities or they get taken offline for a bit. do we know how many and where and what expected impact this will have? >> jim, we have had the announcement already from chevron that at least three would be taken offline. all eyes on the gulf of mexico now to see exactly how this storm wobbles, and, again, they will continue to assess the situation. there's two things i want you to remember about gas prices, jim, in the short term, even if this

hurricane doesn't affect you, it could affect your gas prices, and even in the long term, throughout the entire hurricane season, you do want to keep ahead of that forecast because it may affect what you pay at the pump. let's get first to the prices, jim, right now, the price today is $3.82, the national average, up $0.07 from about a month ago, and it's getting very close to that all important $4 a gallon price, and the problem there is that both psychologically and for inflation, that's a bad thing. what could still affect it? jim, it's all of those things that michael was just talking about. upped their hurricane forecast. we now have not a normal season on the horizon, but about a 2 in 3 chance of a worst than expected hurricane season. that will certainly impact gas pric prices if that comes to fruition.

we were discussing chevron, three already evacuated. more to come if this storm intensifies, and again, they're expecting it to be temporary. how great is the damage, they want to keep people safe. how long does it take before those facilities get back online. that's all important, jim, and again, we have to wait and see what the hurricane season brings. it will directly affect the prices you pay at the pump over the next few weeks, at least. . jim. >> and you make a good point. you don't have to live close to the refin eries for it to affec you where you live. still ahead, russia releasing rare footage of wrongfully detained american paul whelan. we have details on the footage and how his family is reacting to the video, next. heading on a family trip? nah, sorry son, prices are crazy, [son deflates] awh, use priceline.

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now, to a rare glimpse of american paul whelan who was detained at a prison camp inside russia. this comes from state-run russian media. whelan has been held there for more than four years, serve ago 16-year sentence on a charge the u.s. government deems valid. his brother david says this footage is the first time he has seen what paul really looks like going back to june 2020. in the video, whelan speaks briefly to a reporter. >> you understand when i say that i can't do an interview, which means i can't answer any questions. >> that's pretty much all he said. cnn's kylie atwood joins me now from the state department. kylie, does the state department have a view as to why russia released this video now, given it was shot three or four months ago? >> no, and that's the main question here, jim. state department spokesperson saying that they have no comment on the timing of this video.

as you said, it was shot in may. that's according to his brother who spoke with cnn about the video at the time. but there's a few things that we should note. you know, first of all, this is rare, it's quite interesting to see him in prison, you know, going about what is presumably his daily life. it does reflect what we have been told is included in his daily life in russian prison. but the other thing is as you said, this comes from rt, which is russian state media. this is propaganda video. so it's all tied to the kremlin. we know that the kremlin has, of course, you know, direct control over rt, direct control over the russian prison itself, and interestingly, david whelan, who is paul whelan's brother, told cnn that after this video was shot and paul whelan, you know, declined to actually engage in the interview, he was retaliated against by the prison because of that. but nonetheless, of course the family is, you know, they were happy to see him. it was the first time in years

that they had actually seen what paul whelan looks like. i want to read you a quote from david whelan telling cnn, quote, i wish i could see paul under better circumstances, but it was good to see him again and to see the fight remains in his eyes. it's good to know paul remains unbowed. of course we're taking all of this with a hefty grain of salt, but we should also, you know, try and consider the fact that this happens. this comes out as u.s. officials are clearly still working behind the scenes to try and get paul whelan and of course evan gershkovich, who's wrongfully detained in russia out of prison. both of them wrongfully detained but we haven't seen any substantiative movement on either of those cases in recent months, jim. >> and as you said, it's a propaganda video, so we have to take with a grain of salt some of the things we see in it. kylie atwood in the state department, thank you so much. now to a cnn exclusive, we are learning that a smuggler with ties to isis helped

migrants enter the u.s. from mexico, setting off alarm bells across the government. the fbi is working to identify the individuals who gained entry, and officials say some migrants are being closely watched as possible criminal threats. with more on this exclusive reporting, katie, what did you find here? >> this was really a case of bad timing. months ago, a cohort of uzbek nationa national crossed the southern border, vetted and released into the country pending a court date as is typical in this situation. it wasn't until later that the u.s. intelligence community learned that these people traveled to the united states with the help of a smuggling network that included an individual with some pretty troubling ties to isis. this obviously raised a lot of alarm bells across the federal government. the fbi really kind of scrambled into action to try to locate all of these people, assess them, investigate their backgrounds, determine whether or not they're a threat.

work that we should emphasize is ongoing. big response inside the federal government to this. >> what is the u.s. saying about this? >> so one of the first things that the u.s. government did was to try to disrupt the smuggling network, right, and so at u.s. request, the turkish government arrested members of this network including the isis-linked facilitator, and that allowed the u.s. to quickly get a sense that this person was not actually a member of isis. he's more like an independent contract with some personal sympathies for the group, right, and so that gave them some confidence fairly early on that this was more likely kind of a run of the mill human smuggling case rather than a potential terrorism case, and u.s. officials are saying on the record at this point that there is no indication that any of these individuals inside the united states are planning any kind of isis plot or part of any active planning or even have connections to the terror group at all. but that said, there are counter terrorism and intelligence officials inside the u.s.

government who we spoke to in the course of our reporting who said this whole episode really illustrates a pretty troubling vulnerability, it illustrates the possibility that terrorist groups could sneak across the southern border hiding in the surge of migrants seeking asylum in the united states. long been a boggy man on the political right, and for some counter terrorism officials in the u.s. government, they say this is the test case that shows the chink in the u.s. armor. >> thank you for the reporting, we appreciate it. >>. ahead, women in tennis proving they are elite athletes and mothers like never before. we're going to tell you about it. stay with "cnn news central." your record label is taking off. but so is your sound engineer.

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the u.s. open is under way and several of the players in the women's draw have something special in common. their moms. in all there are ten mothers competing in singles all trying to balt competition on the courts in new york while also holding serve at home. carolyn manno reports. >> i was looking at the clock actually. my kids are napping right now, which is awesome. >> reporter: these days caroline wozniacki is playing doubles off the court. after retiring three years ago and having two children, she's back in tennis' spotlight.

>> being a mom and role model for my kids and for them to be able to see me play, i'm excited about that. >> reporter: she is one of ten women in the open singles draw who are mothers disproving the notion that women must choose between sport and starting a family. >> a mother in torn in a lot of different directions. when she's competing at such a high level, it has to be difficult. >> reporter: fresh off a semifinal finish at wimbledon, svitolina's game is seemingly stronger in her return from maternity leave. >> i think it is good that they are doing it because it is also showing some of the younger players in their early tw20s th if i want to have kids, maybe i could have a child and come back and actually have a successful career afterwards. >> reporter: and azarenka, who returned to the game after the birth of her son leo, has been vocal about the fact that she wants the sport to stay in the foreground when it comes to brg

receive and inclusive attitudes toward working moms. and a change made by the women's tennis association back in 2019 now allows women to freeze their player rankings for up to three years so that they aren't penalized in tournament seeding for taking pregnancy leave. while more than 20 active players on the wta tour are successfully balancing motherhood with being a pro athlete, the sport's most coveted prize, a grand slam singles title, remains elusive for women who have given birth. it has been well over a decade since kim clister won three such titles. >> i hope i inspire a lot of other women who are hoping do the same thing but maybe don't know the way to start. it is a great feeling to have knowing that you can combine both and still play the sport that i love and also being a mother at the same time. >> reporter: this year's u.s. open is full circle for woz wozniacki who lost in that 2009

u.s. open final and now she will try to make a run with her family in tow. >> it is important that my kids believe that they can do whatever they put their minds to. if they work hard enough, the sky is the limit. there is nothing that they can't do. >> thanks to carolyn manno for that report. wozniacki is off to a good start, she won her first round match last night. and when we come back, hurricane idalia continuing to strengthen in the warm waters of the gulf of mexico. the latest on storm's track, next. s is to always support the pepeople who live and work there. because you call these commmmunities home, and we do too. pnc bank.

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