right now on "ana cabrera reports," hurricane idalia taking aim at florida. the storm strengthening overnight and poised to intensify further, potentially into a major hurricane. evacuations now under way in preparation for life threatening storm surge. we'll have the storm's latest track. plus, five hours on the stand, what mark meadows told a georgia court about his former boss donald trump. and terror at unc, students hanging out of windows, trying to escape the gunshots that killed a faculty member. what more we learned about the suspect who is now facing a first degree murder charge after

sending the campus into lockdown. it is 10:00 a.m. eastern. i'm lindsey reiser reporting from new york in for ana cabrera. we begin with hurricane idalia. the storm intensified overnight, now expected to strengthen further and make landfall in florida as a major hurricane, packing dangerous winds and a potential 12-foot storm surge. today, millions are under hurricane warnings and evacuation orders are now in place in more than 20 counties. nbc news meteorologist angie lassman is following the storm's track and priscilla thompson is in cedar key, florida. >> we have seen it strengthening this morning, lindsey with our most recent update now category 1, of course. that happened earlier this morning. but winds up to 80 miles per hour and moving north at 14 miles per hour. you can see it has become a little healthier when you try to

look at exactly where the eye is. it starts to clear a little bit. that gives us indication it is getting its act together, becoming more organized as it enters these very warm waters of the gulf of mexico and starts to push some rain on shore for the state of florida today. we have dealt with heavy rains across western cuba and it will move out for them. we're preparing not just across florida, but the southeast too. you see all the alerts up now, hurricane warning in effect for tampa, sarasota, including the nature coast, the big bend area, that's the bull's eye location where we see likely the greatest impacts, but far reaching. just because you're not in the cone in some locations it doesn't mean you won't be impacted by some stronger winds, by some power outages and some heavy rain as well. let's talk track though. this is what is really going to be impressive over the next 20 or so hours. by this time tomorrow, we could see a category 3 storm. this water in this region is some of the warmest across the world. we're talking nearly 90 degrees

in the gulf of mexico. record-breaking sea surface temperatures there and that's fuel for the storm to continue strengthening. we're expecting rapid intensification, that means 35-mile-per-hour increase, in a span of 24 hours. we're likely going to hit that. notice through the day today, we'll see some of the unsettled weather, outer rain bands working on shore for state of florida. so if you're preparing for this, in your neighborhoods, today, early morning in the next couple of hours, you'll want to wrap that up. by the time we get to this time tomorrow, it approaches the coastline in that unfortunate geography of florida, really puts it down the center of the big bend area. they have not seen category 3 system like this since the 1950s. so we'll likely see some of the strongest storms that a lot of folks living there have ever seen in their lifetimes and heavy rain spreading across parts of the southeast. carolinas and georgia get in on this action here as we get into later parts of wednesday and into thursday. finally it will move offshore, but between now and then, a

whole lot of rain to deal with. that storm surge is going to be a big problem and the winds will as well. >> strongest storms some people will be seeing in their lifetime. priscilla, how are people in cedar key preparing? >> yeah, lindsey, folks here have been working since this morning, racing against the clock to finish those storm preps. you see that truck back there filled with wooden boards like these to finish boarding up these businesses. we're along the water front here in cedar key and all you see is businesses boarded up and there is also this huge moving truck here. folks are looking to get everything that they can out some of the businesses. you see them loading up there. folks here very concerned about what is headed their way. i spoke to kara who owns the shop here. i want to play a little bit of what she had to say about what they're expecting. >> first time where i've actually been very nervous that cedar key as a whole, it is a special place to a lot of

people, might not be here when we get back. >> reporter: and so already the governor has declared a state of emergency in 46 counties including this one. folks here are under a mandatory evacuation order, they need to be out by 4:00 p.m. today. the folks here tell me they're trying to get out by around noon, a lot of work to be done here and already the governor says there are 5500 national guardsmen in place across the state where this is expected to be impacted with 2400 high water rescue vehicles prepared to handle any surge and rescue operations that may be needed. but as angie mentioned, we're talking about a 12-foot storm surge here, carol was telling me that when they got a nine-foot storm surge it wiped out the steps leading up to the shop, so you can imagine how impactful a 12-foot storm surge is going to be. heeding the warning from officials that now is the time to act and to try to get out before the storm moves in.

lindsey. >> priscilla thompson, thank you. angie, we'll check back in with you later this hour. in georgia, first of donald trump's 18 co-defendants pleaded not guilty in the sprawling fulton county case. ray smith is an attorney represented trump in georgia cases related to the 2020 election. he now pleaded not guilty to, quote, each and every charge of the indictment. and it comes after another co-defendant mark meadows spent five hours testifying yesterday as he tries to get his case moved to federal court. trump's former chief of staff described the conduct he's charged with as part of the job and said it was a 24/7 kind of job. joining us now from atlanta is nbc's blayne alexander, chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official and harry litman. what do we know about ray smith and do we expect any of the other co-defendants to enter a plea before that september 6th arraignment date? >> reporter: we could very likely seeing some like that,

lindsey. what we're expecting between now and then is, yes, any sort of flurry of motions or others to enter some sort of plea or some sort of activity, but what we're watching for here in fulton county is a ruling from that judge on the hearing that you just spoke about, the hearing that we were watching all day yesterday, not here at the superior courthouse, but federal courthouse, not too far away from where i am. that's because that ruling from the judge will determine how and where this moves forward. it was only mark meadows, the one who made the first appeal for the move from state court to federal court, but what happens in his case certainly would have larger ripple effect on possibly the other 18 co-defendants as well. so, what we saw yesterday during that hearing was mark meadows, the first person to take the stand. that was a surprise. we didn't know if he was going to be coming down and be present in georgia, but he testified for the better part of three and a half hours or so. and he during testimony, not his testimony, but during the day we

also heard some clips played from that infamous phone call between the former president and brad raffensperger, specifically one of the clips where mark meadows, also on that call, spoke up. take a look. >> what i'm hopeful for is there is some way that we can find some kind of agreement to look at this a little bit more fully. mr. secretary, i can tell you, you say there were only two dead people that would vote. i can promise you there were more than that. >> reporter: now, while he was on the stand, meadows was asked about that phone call. he said he believed that he was just kind of acting as almost a go between to help settle some pending litigation for attorneys on the call. really spoken in defense of what he says was his role as the white house chief of staff. remember, he's trying to move this case to federal court on the grounds that the alleged actions took place while he was acting in his federal capacity

as the chief of staff to the former president. >> blayne alexander, thank you so much. would you expect most of the other co-defendants who plead not guilty by september 6th, do you think any of them will enter a different plea? >> i don't think anyone will enter a different plea at this stage. it is typical at arraignment for people to plead not guilty, even if they intend to plead guilty at a later date. this is sort of a preliminary procedural step. you should expect not guilty pleas from each of the 19 defendants, that may change, of course, over time. >> it seemed to come as a shock to a lot of legal experts that meadows took the stand to testify. what is the thinking the legal team would put him up there? >> i think they're really going all in, lindsey, not just to try to get it in federal court, but a two-step move to thereafter get immunity because what he was doing -- he wasn't just acting -- this is legalese, but what he was doing had a

reasonable relationship to federal law and the real linchpin yesterday was when he was asked on cross examination what is the federal purpose in that call and meadows said somewhat hard to swallow, i was just trying to ensure there were free and fair elections. that's going to be the point that judge jones will really zero in on, what was he doing in that january 2nd call. >> but to open him up to cross examination, does it suggest there aren't other witnesses who would be willing to testify that meadows was acting in the scope of his duties. >> yes, but there may have been some, but no one nearly as good. he bears the burden here and i think what it really suggests is this is his total strategy. he's been thinking and pointing this way for a while. and he -- to execute it and establish his burden of proof, i think they felt there is no way around putting him on the stand. it is not something you would otherwise like to do for several

reasons. >> chuck, when asked by meadows' attorney whether his duties intersected with political matters, meadows said almost everything the president does has a political reaction. and state prosecutors brought up the hatch act. remind us what that is and does it apply here? >> so the hatch act generally, lindsey, prohibits, precludes federal employees from engaging in political work on, sort of on the government dime. you can't campaign, make phone calls, solicit funds, while you're working as a federal employee in a federal building. but you do on your own free time is up to you, more or less, but you can't work on behalf of a political candidate while in the office. these are things that harry and i know well as former department of justice employees. so, does it apply here? generally what matters here is whether or not as harry alluded to mr. meadows was working within the scope of his federal

employment. if he was, then he may well have a case to have this matter removed to federal court. and if he wasn't, the crux of what judge jones has to decide, it would remain in state court. i don't think he has a frivolous claim. i don't believe he ought to prevail because it strikes me that what he was doing had more to do with politics and less to do with his official federal duties. but it is not a frivolous claim. and by the way, even if he prevails and gets the case removed to federal court, he may be able to get it dismissed, but may end up being tried in federal court instead. so he may win the battle and still lose the war. this is really early in the ball game, much more to come. >> there would be a camera there in federal court. harry, we heard meadows on the phone call. how important was it for the d.a. to introduce that call as evidence and what is the significance of raffensperger's

testimony? >> so raffensperger was there to say, this seemed inappropriate and also he testified not just to the phone call, but to other times that meadows tried to reach out to him, it is the cornerstone, lindsey, of the charges against meadows. he somewhat credibly testified did meadows that some of the other things he was doing really were chief of staff-like, arranging conference calls and similar kinds of activities. but when it comes to trying to persuade him, can we keep this open, why is he trying to keep it open? obviously or the d.a. would argue because trump wants to sway the votes to his side to steal the election in essence. that's the core of the rico charge. so, that is really exhibit number one. remember how it happened. i think it is important, raffensperger when he was getting call the from the president, he had the foresight

to press record and otherwise this killer piece of testimony which will figure in trial if it is in state court again and again we would never have heard. >> chuck, we know attorneys for trump and jeffrey clark were in the overflow room. what are they trying to glean from yesterday's hearing? >> well, a couple of things. mr. clark, among others, also filed a similar motion to remove his case to federal court. so, of course, they want to see how it goes for mr. meadows. what questions are on the mind of the judge, what sort of cross examination did mr. meadows face from the state prosecutors. the clark team will be going through a very similar exercise presumably soon and so it makes sense they would go watch. and, by the way, there is an interesting open legal question, if mr. meadows prevails and has his case removed to federal court, there is one school of thought that suggests that every

other defendant just goes with him automatically. there is another school of thought that says each defendant will have his or her case for removal adjudicated on their individual merits. i don't know the answer to that question. but i can understand fully why anybody else who wants their case removed would want to watch these proceedings. >> harry litman, thank you so much. chuck rosenberg, you'll be joining us later in the hour. when we are back in 60 seconds, campus tragedy. a shooting at unc chapel hill a week into the school year. more on the suspected gunman now charged with first degree murder. also ahead, new revelations on the racist rampage in jacksonville. the college security guard who confronted the gunman now sharing his story. plus, new video shows a rescue helicopter just before it crashed into an apartment building. what we learned about what happened. and later, a major reckoning with sexism in spain after that controversial kiss at the world cup. t controversial kiss at the world

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this morning, a grad student was booked on a first degree murder charge after a deadly shooting rampage forced the unc chapel hill campus into lockdown yesterday. one faculty member was killed in the shooting. it happened at a science building. this morning, police have identified the gunman as tailei qi, and charged him with first degree murder charge and having a handgun on educational properties. nbc news correspondent ali vitali has the details. ali? >> reporter: less than 24 hours ago, this campus was on total lockdown, a scary start to the semester here. just one week after classes began at unc chapel hill -- >> possible active shooter on campus. >> reporter: -- a tragedy that has become all too familiar at schools nationwide. >> has a 9 millimeter, possible asian male. >> i'm aggrieved to report that

one of our faculty members was killed in this shooting. this loss is devastating. >> reporter: after the initial call for shots fired, the entire campus went on lockdown. a school alert warning and armed dangerous person on or near campus, go inside now, avoid windows. heavily armed officers swarmed the campus. some students walking down the street put their hands up. some sheltering in place. >> so immediately we all just stayed hiding in the stalls, squatting on the toilets, just scared. we didn't know what was happening. >> reporter: other terrified students fleeing through a first floor window, backpacks dangling. an elementary school across the road placed on lockdown. then, less than 90 minutes after the terrifying ordeal began -- >> i think that's him. >> reporter: a suspect was taken into police custody, captured live by our nbc news raleigh affiliate wral. >> to have the suspect in custody gives us an opportunity to figure out the why and even the how. >> reporter: and four hours after the chaos began, police giving the all clear.

but students left deeply shaken. >> honestly, it makes me feel a little bit sick because this is a situation we shouldn't have to be worrying about. >> reporter: and those who knew the suspect, stunned. >> i would have never guessed that he would be the kind of person who could possibly be capable of this kind of thing. >> reporter: the community waking up to a string of lingering questions this morning, including how and why this happened. local law enforcement getting an assist from the fbi's office in charlotte. that investigate, though, could take weeks. back to you. >> ali vitali, thank you. let's bring in retired fbi agent rob d'amico. thank you for being with us. we don't yet know the relationship of the suspect to the victim, if any. what would you be looking for here to learn about potential motive and how important will it be to find the gun? >> i think the biggest thing here now you'll start looking at record -- school records, was this person a professor of his,

where did that interaction come from? you'll do search warrants, get computers and phones, look up his searches he's done on the internet and try to figure out motivation, if he's not talking. part of it will be just talking to him, talking to his friends that were around him, trying to see what, you know, what was going through his mind when he did it. i think a couple of things that are coming out now i have two kids who went there, one is going to post grad school and the other one works at the university, they're kind of upset that he was in custody at 2:30, about an hour and a half after they got notified and all clear wasn't put out until 4:15 and then the injury. there was no report of an injury for a long time and we started suspecting because i was on the news during this time maybe there wasn't someone injured and i think it is important to get that out. i think the after action that the police are going to have to do is take a look at their actions too. it did end peacefully after that, but really what could they have done better is going to

come into play. >> and let's look at the a timeline of the events here. a long the lines of what you were saying. the campus was alerted of an armed and dangerous person at 1:03 p.m. the suspect taken into custody at 2:31 p.m. the lockdown wasn't lifted for another two hours. we heard a woman saying that they squatted in bathroom stalls, you see video of these students here that are jumping out of windows. obviously the police department is going to look at how things went. is this how things should go? >> i always hate to be the critic after the fact. but you have to really do good after action reports because if one of those students broke his leg or was killed falling out of a window and they already had him in custody, i think there is some issues there. and also police responding, police were coming from all over, blue lights and sirens, if one of them got in an accident after the fact he was captured, i think some of that goes back on the police department.

one of the things you can't really exercise in some of these tabletop exercises is dealing with the media. they teach it at the fbi national academy because it is getting so important, when do you put out the suspect's photo, how do you inform them of injuries and things like that without giving too much away? they probably haven't had this incident, so i'm hoping they're going to learn from it and say, hey, maybe if we put out someone was injured and it wasn't just a gun going off, people would have known there was a violent encounter. and, two, we have someone in custody, but we still need to keep everyone down, we need to make sure it wasn't another person or where we have the right one. i think that information would have helped. >> you just mentioned your own personal connection to the school and as a law enforcement professional and with so much knowledge of how things work. what are in general your closing thoughts? >> it is happening everywhere. i got a lot of hey, we're not

surprised by this anymore. kids' attitudes about it back in the day they flipped out. now they're almost living with that, what do i do type of thing, but when it happens close to home, two kids up there, i have my blue button shirt on, my coffee mug here, it hits home. i knew right away my kids were safe and not on campus that day. but then i started tracking it and they were sending me texts from their friends who were holed up in bathrooms. unfortunately it is becoming more expected. but one thing that comes with it then, kids are understanding how to react. i used to tell my kids when they were in middle school, don't go out the door, break the window, go out the window, you're on the first floor, because i knew that it is one of those things that are coming up now that that's really unbelievable. >> all right, rob d'amico, thank you for your time. next, new video captures a rescue helicopter spinning

wildly in the sky. what we're learning about the victims and the moments leading up to the crash. plus, why new surveillance video of the suspected jacksonville gunman reveals and why we're hearing from a school security guard who may have saved lives by confronting him. saved lives by confronting him

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trailing smoke before it crashed into an apartment building, killing a fire captain on board and a woman on the ground. nbc news correspondent tom costello has the latest. tom? >> reporter: good morning, all of that video we see should help investigators determine what went wrong, two people were killed, four injured, including two people on the ground, all in fair condition. the first sign of trouble came with smoke coming out that chopper in flight as it responded to a morning traffic accident with serious injuries. 8:45 a.m., metro fort lauderdale, residents looked up to see a broward county sheriff fire department helicopter trailing thick black smoke. just 650 feet in the air, the boom and tail rotor began buckling as the chopper started spinning out of control. then nosedived into an apartment building below. killed in the crash, an older female resident of the apartment

building. and fire captain paramedic terracen jackson on board the chopper, a 19-yeared very ran remembered for being thoroughly committed to his job. >> he was a rock star. he was one of the best of us. >> reporter: the rescue chopper had just lifted off, headed for a traffic accident with life threatening injuries. but within minutes, pilot darren roach radioed he was in trouble. >> we're having mechanical issues. we're headed back to our station. >> a fire broke out on board, they did their very best to try to extinguish that fire. >> reporter: seconds later, the horrific crash. the pilot and another paramedic were injured in the crash, as were two people on the ground, all taken to an area hospital. the chopper involved is a dual engine airbus euro copter 135 like this one used by police and rescue services worldwide. whatever went wrong, say experts, it was very quick and catastrophic. >> it is no longer flying.

the rotor is keeping it somewhat in the air, but it can't stay there. so it is not under control, it is spinning. >> reporter: this morning, the broward county fire and sheriff's departments are morning one of their own. >> captain jackson typified what it meant to be a brother firefighter. he perished doing what he loved. >> reporter: both the ntsb and the faa have investigators on the scene. they'll be looking at the chopper's safety and maintenance records, was there any recent trouble, did any pilot report a problem, how and exactly where did that fire break out on board? the sheriff points to their heroism. they were dealing with this on board fire and yet they took the time to radio that they could not respond to that traffic accident where a mother and daughter, a child, were seriously injured. back to you. >> tom costello, thank you. next in the path of a hurricane, how florida is preparing for idalia as it strengthens and inches closer to the western part of the state. and later, the complicated

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the moon and the king side? >> yeah, it is multiple things working together to kind of create a really bad situation for a big region of the country. we got that king tide, especially in -- on the southeast coast, where we're going to see still storm surge anywhere from 2 to 4 feet, up to 4 to 6 feet. that's a big issue. that's working on shore, right when we see the highest tide of the day and highest tide of the month. we also have the potential for, like lindsey said, 8 to 12 feet in some of the hardest hit areas where the storm surge will be the worst. that's up toward the nature coast, toward the big bend. we got a little bit more moderate storm surge for parts of the tampa bay area and points north of that. that doesn't mean that's nothing. we're still going to see likely issues with the barrier islands, evacuation zones we have known have been out. there is that storm surge i mentioned about parts of the southeastern coast. two to four feet from fernando beach up to charleston. this is historic storm surge in some of these places and with that highest high tide happening

right at the time of that wall of water is working in, we could see some records being broken in that area. on top of all of that, we also got some heavy rain. significant flooding is a very big issue we could see through the next couple of days. it stretches from right where we're expecting it to make landfall in that big bend area up to the carolinas, charleston, wilmington, stretching down toward cedar key, crystal river. we could have anywhere from 4 to 6 inches of rain, but up to a foot of rain in some of these spots. one thing to note, a lot of areas across florida need the rain. we're talking severe and extreme drought in some spots, but it is always problematic when we have a whole lot of rain working on shore all at the same time. the flood risk is going to be there, really be mindful of that. we know water is the number one killer of people and damager of structures when it comes to these situations. so we really want people to heed these warnings. >> good warning there, angie lassman, thank you. today, west virginiaens are waking up to a state of emergency after heavy rain

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>> judge chutkan is a no nonsense judge and i don't think she appreciated the bombastic comments claiming he was not only representing donald trump, but the u.s. constitution and the american body politic. and, you know, ultimately she didn't buy his legal arguments either, that he needed more than two years to get ready to try this case because of what he described as this huge volume of documents that the government is turning over in discovery. she appeared to adopt the government's perspective on this, which is, yes, there are a lot of documents, 12.8 million pages, but we live in an electronic age and you can use key word searches to make sense of them, most of them are duplicative anyway, a lot of them came from donald trump himself and a lot of this evidence had been made public months ago by the january 6th committee. so, you know, judge chutkan also asked john lauro to provide a reasonable estimate of how long he actually needed, but he didn't get off that april 2026

time frame which she said was a nonstarter and so at the end of the day, that may have hurt the trump legal team because she decided to set the trial date for only two months forward from when jack smith had originally requested it. >> so, chuck, trump posted on social media he wants to appeal that decision for the trial date. can he? >> no. not now. conceivably, if he's convicted, he could appeal it then, he could argue that on appeal following conviction, lindsey, that he wasn't given adequate time to prepare, but as a general matter, courts of appeal around the country give trial judges a lot of discretion to manage their courtroom and to manage the docket. so, can he appeal, yes, upon conviction. will he prevail on this point of appeal, i think it is highly unlikely. >> what do you make of the date she chose? like ken said, much closer to the date that prosecutors wanted rather than the april 2026 date that trump's attorneys wanted.

>> i think i'm biased here, lindsey. i think sometimes where you stand depends where you sit. i sat for a long time as a prosecutor in a federal district that moved very quickly, cases were set for trial expeditiously, continue anses were almost unheard of. my frame of reference is that six months is plenty of time to prepare. i don't mean this to be snarky or sarcastic. but if you got a lot of stuff to read, as a defense attorney, sit down and start reading it. >> chuck, the judge also told the court the public has an interest in the fair and timely administration of justice as well as reducing a defendant's opportunity to commit crimes while on pretrial release. what does that mean? is it odd she included that? >> you don't normally see that last clause. i mean, both sides, of course, lindsey, have a right to a speedy and fair trial. by shortening the window between today and the beginning of the trial date, in theory it gives

many trump and his minions less time to cause trouble. but there are remedies, some from the judge, perhaps finding them in contempt, some from prosecutors who are if they are some from the prosecutors where if they are concerned can supersede an indictment. both sides are entitled to a speedy trial. can we mention the trump schedule is packed between court trials and campaign trails. are you seeing a coordination between the courts when it comes to scheduling? >> well, judge chutkan mentioned she conferred with the truck in the new york case because that trial is also scheduled for march of next year, and i thought that was significant and suggests the judges will get their heads together on this

ultimately. this march date is not set in stone. as chuck said, it can be appealed. other issues of litigation could cause delays in this case, and it may not go to trial in march but could be april or may, and judge chutkan made clear she wants to get the case moving well before the 2024 election, and she has set a timetable to achieve that. >> thank you both. he only got one shot. this morning rapper, eminem, the cease and assist, and the campaign said we will have to leave the rapping to the real slim shady. a quick programming note. ramaswamy will be on with my

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kissing a star on the lips. spanish prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into whether this kiss was an act of a sexual assault, and he grabbed the player and kissed her on the mouth after the win last week. fifa suspended him for 90 days pending its own investigation. overnight the spanish soccer federation withdrew its support of him after an emergency meeting, saying he should immediately present his resignation because of the latest events and unacceptable behaviors that damaged spanish football. in locker room celebrations afterward, she could be heard saying, i didn't like it. he apologized the next day, but later in the week claimed -- she

lifted me off my feet and we tugged, accusing critics of social assassination. his family rushing to his support. his cousin says we don't think what is happening is fair, adding his mother has locked herself in a church and gone on a hunger strike. she said she was pressured to say at first the kiss was a natural expression of affection and gratitude, but now says at no time did i consent to the kiss he gave me. the incident sparking protests in spain and signs of support across the sports world. crowds cheered her at a game over the weekend with teams holding banners and u.s. players wearing wristbands saying we are with you, and it's the me too moment of spanish football. spanish men's teams and coaches

backed her phoes yo and her teammates, and many are refusing to play until he steps down. >> that does it for us today. josé diaz-balart picks up the news with the coverage of the hurricane idalia. good morning. it's 11:00 a.m. eastern. 8:00 a.m. pacific. i am josé diaz-balart. we begin this hour with hurricane, rapidly intensifying as it ramps up in the gulf of mexico heading towards florida. this massive storm -- take a look at the graphic. it's forecasts to turn into a category 3 before tomorrow morning, and counties here in florida are under evacuation orders and 14 million people across the u.s. are under hurricane and tropica