It was moving inland, where it was expected to weaken, but residents of Central Florida could still experience hurricane-force winds.

Before passing through the Gulf of Mexico to Florida, Hurricane Ian yesterday tore through western Cuba where it killed two people and brought down the country’s power grid.

“It’s going to be a bad day, two days to be exact,” said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, stressing that people should rush to the safest shelter and stay there.

The federal government has sent 300 ambulances with medical teams and is ready to truck in 3.7 million meals and 3.5 million liters of water once the storm passes.

“We’re going to be there to help you clean up and rebuild, to help Florida get going again,” President Joe Biden said today.

Fueled by warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Ian strengthened overnight to a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 mph (250 km/h) and is within reach of the most dangerous Category 5, according to the National Hurricane Center.

More than 450,000 homes and businesses were left without power, and residents were warned they could be without power for days.

Florida Gov. De Santis said the state has search and rescue teams and 7,000 National Guard troops from Florida and elsewhere ready to help when the weather clears.

Parts of Georgia and South Carolina could also see flooding rain and some large waves on Saturday.

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp preemptively declared a state of emergency, ordering 500 National Guard troops to be on standby.

Donald Trump’s famous residence, Mar-a-Lago in Florida, was the subject of a raid by FBI agents, the former US president announced.

According to some sources, Trump was in New York at the time of the raid.

He claims that “a large number of agents” raided the property and ransacked it, even opening his safe.

Investigations are being conducted against the former US president related to the intrusion of protesters on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, as well as suspicions that he kept some official documents, including confidential ones, even though the law requires that the president must hand over all papers to the National Archives after the end of his term of office.

Trump is convinced that the search has something to do with his intention to run for the third time for the US president in the elections in November 2024.

“These are dark times for our nation. Such raids only happen in Third World countries. Unfortunately, the USA has become such a country with corruption at an unprecedented level,” said Trump.

Sources close to Trump confirmed anonymously to the media that the search was carried out on Monday afternoon, that the agents took away several boxes of documents which they consider to be “very few” and that there was no rummaging, no door breaking or any form of violence.

White House sources say they had no information that the FBI might search the former president’s home.

By the way, the head of the FBI is Christopher Wray, who was appointed to that position by Donald Trump towards the end of his term.

The Ministry of Justice, which is responsible for this case, did not make statements to the media.

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June 28, 2021 – 23:49

Rescue teams at Miami of Florida pulled the 10th dead body from the rubble of the 12- building on Monday.storey that collapsed last week.

Special teams used cranes, drills and infrared scanners during the quest to survive, in the hope that the air pockets created under the rubble could keep people alive.

Local authorities said 151 people continue to be considered missing, while the causes of the building collapse are still under investigation. / euronews

Joseph Biden also ordered the sending of federal aid to eliminate the consequences of the accident.

“The president has authorized the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all efforts to assist,” the White House said in a statement.

Twelve-storey a building near Miami, Florida, partially collapsed yesterday, and hundreds of firefighters and rescuers are still at the scene of the accident, as it is feared that a large number of people were in the building at the time of the demolition.

It is unknown at this time what caused the building to collapse.

The twelve-storey building was built in 1981 and has 130 apartments.