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1 Tropical Storm Ian Expected To Become Hurricane Today
Tropical Storm Ian is expected to become a hurricane today. To that end, Florida has activated more than two-thousand National Guard members as the storm intensifies and nears the state's coast. Forecasters say Ian is in the Caribbean Sea with maximum sustained winds of 60-miles-per-hour and could make landfall later this week. With all of Florida under a state of emergency, Governor Ron DeSantis is urging residents to prepare for power outages, fuel disruptions and evacuations. Ian could also reach major status – perhaps Category Four – by tomorrow. The worst part? The projected cone of landfall. It’s pretty wide – suggesting the entire state could be severely impacted. But at last check? It appears as though Ian will come ashore just north of Tampa.
2 Special Master Lays Out Timeline For Review In Trump Docs Case
Judge Raymond Dearie has laid the deadline – and the Justice Department must provide electronic copies of materials seized from former President Trump's Florida home by today. And that's not all. Trump's attorneys must say whether the former president is asserting attorney-client privilege or executive privilege, or whether the document is a person or presidential record. For any document marked privileged or personal, Trump's team must explain the reasoning for the declaration. What’s that mean? Former Trump Justice Department spokesperson Sarah Isgur says the special master is pushing the former president’s legal team to “put up or shut up.”
3 NASA To Crash Spacecraft Into Asteroid Today
Today’s the day that stuff of fiction and movies could become a real thing: NASA is set to purposely crash a spacecraft into an asteroid. The so-called "Double Asteroid Redirection Test" or "DART" will test whether it's possible to deflect a space rock on a collision course with Earth. The over 500-foot asteroid known as Dimorphos poses no threat to the planet, but scientists are eager to see if their probe will alter its nearly 12-hour orbit around larger asteroid Didymos. The DART spacecraft is scheduled to smash into the space rock at a staggering 15-thousand miles per hour at 7:14pm, Eastern time. But you won’t see anything up in the sky – as this will be happening about 6.5-million miles away from earth. The collision will air live on NASA TV.