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Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) On The U.S. Government Shutdown As It Enters Second Day With No End In Sight; Prince William Gets Emotional About Losing His Grandmother, the Queen; Combs To Be Sentenced Tomorrow, Wants To Address Judge In Court. Aired 7:30-8a ET

Aired October 02, 2025 - 07:30   ET

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SARA SIDNER, CNN ANCHOR: A new day of the government shutdown now guaranteed to last at least until tomorrow when lawmakers return from the Jewish holiday. Republicans are pushing a seven-week funding extension with no extras. Democrats are insisting health care provisions be added.

No deal seems imminent at this point with hundreds of thousands of workers furloughed every day and some government services already being cut.

CNN's Camila DeChalus on Capitol Hill for us. Camila, are there any negotiations at all happening kind of behind the scenes at this moment?

CAMILA DECHALUS, CNN REPORTER: Good morning, Sara.

From what we're seeing right now is that we know that Senate Democrats and Republicans have been talking amongst themselves trying to see what terms that they're willing to negotiate on. But something that Democrats have made very clear is that they're not going to budge when it comes to the Affordable Care Act subsidies.

Now this is a big point of contention among Democrats and Republicans. Democrats are saying we want the Affordable Care Act -- an extension of these subsidies within any spending bill that we are going to support. But Republicans, meanwhile, are saying hey, we are willing to have these talks and negotiations around these subsidies, but we don't want to do it now. We want to do it later. And this is something that both sides are just saying that they're not willing to compromise on.

Take a listen to what two Democratic and Republican leadership -- what they had to say just yesterday.

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SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY): It's clear that the way of this shutdown is to sit down and negotiate with Democrats to address the looming health care crisis that faces tens of millions of American families.

REP. MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: There's nothing to negotiate. There nothing that we can pull out of this bill to make it any leaner or cleaner than it is. It's absolutely sparkling clean and it's only 24 pages long.

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DECHALUS: Now Sara, as you've seen, both sides are just saying that around this health care that is going to be a really big point of contention. And what we're going to see in the next few days is just them outlining things that they are willing to compromise on. But I think the one thing that is really clear is that federal workers and just Americans themselves -- they want to see the government open. It's just both sides coming up with a compromise in order to do that.

SIDNER: Yeah, and we will see. But we know there will be no big announcement on Friday.

Camila DeChalus, thank you so much. Appreciate it -- John.

JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: All right. One aspect of this are the threats coming from the White House. President Trump is urging Republicans to take this opportunity to "clear out dead wood, waste, and fraud."

With us now is Congressman Carlos Gimenez, a Republican from Florida. Congressman, always great to see you.

You have consistently been against government shutdowns, but how do you feel about using shutdowns for permanent layoffs, which is what the White House is now threatening?

REP. CARLOS GIMENEZ (R-FL): Look, as far as using a government shutdown for that purpose, I don't know how really, I feel about it. But we definitely do need to trim the federal workforce and do it in a way that we -- I believe we just have way too many workers in the -- in the workforce.

And when I was mayor of Miami-Dade County, one of the first things I did -- we had a -- close to 30,000 workers. I trimmed that force by about 2,000 and then skipped a beat. And I think we can do the same thing with the federal government. We need to get to right-size the federal government. If you can use the shutdown to do that well then, so be it.

So I guess I really don't have much of a problem with it --

BERMAN: You don't --

GIMENEZ: -- as long as it's done correctly and it's the right -- as long as it's done correctly and it's in the right places. It's not just hey, we're just going to cut out 100,000 people. I think it needs to be done the right way. And that -- you have to analyze it -- where is the fat -- and then cut it out.

BERMAN: I mean, a lot of times -- and the Constitution generally gives the power of the purse -- actually, not generally -- specifically to Congress --

GIMENEZ: Yes.

BERMAN: -- when you vote for appropriations and the like, right?

Well, on that note --

GIMENEZ: Um-hum.

BERMAN: -- the administration has suspended congressionally- appropriated funding to places like New York State where I am for a couple of very big infrastructure projects, which you and Congress appropriated money for. We're talking about tunnels over -- through the Hudson River and a subway line.

And also, Republican Congressman Mike Lawler -- he's not happy about this. Let me read you what Congressman Lawler wrote.

He said, "My office has been actively engaged with the White House since Tuesday morning to push the reversal of both these decisions and restoration of full funding. We will continue working with the administration and my colleagues in Congress to make sure New York gets the support it needs to protect its residents and strengthen our economy. Bottom line: we should not be cutting this crucial counterterrorism and infrastructure funding."

What do you think of what the congressman said there?

GIMENEZ: Well, I like Mike. Mike -- I don't know exactly what he's talking about or what the -- what the threat is. But Mike and I usually see eye to eye. And so he's protecting his district in New York, which is what he's supposed to since he represents that district in New York. And so, I would expect Mike to fight for his -- for his constituency.

BERMAN: Well -- but Congress passed this funding. This is funding for two projects. Specifically, that's what it is. It's for tunnels underneath the Hudson for trains and it's for a subway line here in Manhattan. Congress appropriated the money. The White House now says it's not going to spend it. Coincidentally, the two Democratic leaders dealing with this shutdown are from New York.

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Is this the right thing to do, Congressman?

GIMENEZ: Uh, look, the administration -- even when we pass projects the administration has to look at are they still viable. Are they still something that we should be spending our money on?

Again, I'm going to go back to my days as the mayor of Miami-Dade County. The -- those folks -- all those positions -- they were funded. It's just that we didn't feel that they were necessary and we saved the taxpayer money. And so at the end of the day that's what we did.

And I would expect that the Trump administration is going to look at every way, every project, et cetera. Are they -- are they still viable? Are they still needed? Is it something that the -- that the taxpayers should pay for? Uh, and so, I expect the administration to do that and do it on a daily basis so that we save the taxpayers.

Look, it is not our money. It belongs to the taxpayers of America.

BERMAN: Who gets to appropriate it?

GIMENEZ: And the American -- and if the administration comes back and says -- if the administration says hey, we really didn't need this -- we've already -- you know, we've already clawed back some money. The administration has come to us and said look, we didn't need this.

And so I would expect the administration to say we don't need this money and give it back. We're not going to do this. Here -- here's the claw back that we want. And then the Congress -- we would like for you to claw it back and save that money.

BERMAN: You seem to be working through this as we're talking here, Congressman, and working hard not to go against the administration here. But you also, I know, are a champion of the rights of Congress here. I mean, you spend a lot of time appropriating money.

What's the point if the administration is just going to unilaterally decide not to spend it?

GIMENEZ: Oh look, there's plenty of stuff that Congress passed during the Biden administration that I thought was a waste of money, OK? And frankly, that's what the -- what the Trump administration is doing now is finding those places where they think it's also a waste of taxpayer money and clawing that back.

I don't have -- I don't have really a problem with it. Give it back to us. Let's see if it's, in fact, we believe that it's necessary or not, and then -- and move on.

Different administrations have different priorities. And believe me, my priorities were --

BERMAN: Yeah.

GIMENEZ: -- never aligned with the priorities of the Biden administration. And so --

BERMAN: I understand. I understand. But he's not -- but this administration --

GIMENEZ: -- yeah. If the Biden administration -- if the Trump administration wants to claw some of that back, I'm fine. I'm fine with it, OK, as long as get to say so.

BERMAN: The Biden -- the Trump administration is not giving it back to you. The Trump administration is not giving it back to you to decide. They're deciding it on their own which, in a way, is taking away your Article I powers, but I hear you working through this.

I do want to ask one more thing about --

GIMENEZ: Yeah. We've had -- no, no, no, no. We've had -- we've had -- we've had some of these come back to us, OK?

BERMAN: Some, not all. Not all. You haven't had the --

GIMENEZ: And they said hey, we've got these 20 -- not all, but we've had some. We've had some, OK, and that's what I'll expect -- them to come back and say OK, we don't need this.

BERMAN: And you get to -- you get to vote -- vote recissions.

Understood. When you get to vote on recessions --

GIMENEZ: Yes.

BERMAN: -- that's a separate matter.

GIMENEZ: OK.

BERMAN: But when the administration decides to freeze it unilaterally, which they did in this case in New York, it's something else entirely. And Republican Congressman Lawler against it.

Just very quickly, one of the things that's happened in this negotiation is the administration is celebrating this AI meme of Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero with a mustache. Vice President Vance says he thinks it's funny. There are a lot of people looking at it saying it's just flat-out racist.

How does this help with the negotiations, Congressman?

GIMENEZ: Look, I think it's just making fun of Hakeem Jeffries. I think everybody needs to chill out a little bit, OK? It's -- and you're going to see more of these things happen. And so people need to develop a little bit thicker skin. And that's -- it comes with the territory when you are a politician. So I would expect a meme to come out on me. And so if you complain about it, you're just going to get more of it.

And so, no, I saw it, you know. OK, I kind of chuckled and then we move on.

BERMAN: No one would ever meme you, Congressman, but I do wonder what the -- what the thousands of furloughed --

GIMENEZ: Right, yeah.

BERMAN: I do wonder what the thousands of furloughed federal workers think and how they think this is helping them right now.

Congressman Carlos Gimenez, always enjoy talking to you. Thank you very much -- Sara.

SIDNER: All right. Thank you, John.

Breaking overnight the Trump administration is firing more DOJ officials, removing top national security prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Virginia. Sources say Michael Ben'Ary was fired after a right-wing activist and writer posted online that he was connected to the case of former FBI director James Comey. Comey was indicted last week but sources tell CNN Ben'Ary was not involved in the case.

CNN's Katelyn Polantz joining us now. This seems pretty unjust if this -- all of this as this works out is true that we know that he's being targeted by someone that is not in the administration and now he's been fired by the administration.

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KATELYN POLANTZ, CNN CRIME AND JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Sara, this isn't the first time that we have heard something like this related to somebody being fired within the Justice Department or in the FBI.

In this particular situation this is about fallout in the Trump administration related to what happened in the leadup to the indictment of Jim Comey and particularly, turmoil within the Eastern District of Virginia U.S. Attorney's Office.

So this prosecutor, Michael Ben'Ary -- he's been there a long time in the Eastern District of Virginia. Well-known for his work on national security cases. The chief of that section within that office. And that office does a lot of national security work. It's one of the premier offices in the Justice Department doing national security cases.

He was fired even though our sources tell us he wasn't involved in the prosecution or building the case against Jim Comey at all. But Comey is the person who is indicted by that office and has attracted a lot of attention on how the office handled the indictment of Jim Comey. There were prosecutors in that office who had written a memo internally to their bosses in the Trump administration saying that they had concerns there wasn't enough evidence to support a prosecution of Comey.

Then Donald Trump brought in a new U.S. attorney. They did push an indictment through the grand jury. Comey is now facing charges.

But Michael Ben'Ary -- he has lost his job and the reason -- or what appears to be the reason is that an online MAGA supporter and writer, Julie Kelly -- she posted on social media "One can only assume he was a big part of the internal resistance to the Comey indictment."

So Michael Ben'Ary does not have much recourse at this point in time -- fired.

SIDNER: Wow.

Katelyn Polantz, thank you so much. Appreciate your great reporting there -- John.

BERMAN: All right. Prince William opening up in a very candid interview with, of all people, actor Eugene Levy. The Prince of Wales appeared on Levy's show "THE RELUCTANT TRAVELER." He got emotional about his late grandmother Queen Elizabeth.

Let's get right to CNN's royal correspondent Max Foster with the latest on this. Good morning, sir.

MAX FOSTER, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, John. It really is a remarkable interview. I can't think of one that William has done like this for years where he really opens up about all the personal parts of his life. He's been very protected in recent years.

And as I understand it, Eugene Levy got this interview because he's doing a series about travel. He wants a host in each country, and they just aimed incredibly high. Prince William is an "American Pie" fan so maybe that was country to do with it.

But when you see this when it's released a bit later on, for a royal fan it is a really remarkable insight. It's based at Windsor Castle, which was Queen Elizabeth -- late Queen Elizabeth's favorite home. And they talk a bit about that and how he misses her, for example.

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EUGENE LEVY, "THE RELUCTANT TRAVELER": Do you miss your grandmother?

PRINCE WILLIAM, PRINCE OF WALES: I do, actually. I do miss my grandmother and my grandfather. Yeah, it's been quite a bit of change. So you do so -- you think about them not being here anymore.

LEVY: Yeah.

PRINCE WILLIAM: And particularly being in Windsor. For me, Windsor is her. So she loved it --

LEVY: Right.

PRINCE WILLIAM: -- here. She spent most of her time here. Showing you around today is very much the case. I'm trying to make sure I'm doing it the way she'd want you to see it. She had her horses here as well. As you can imagine, it was big deal for her. So that's why she loved it here.

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FOSTER: So three parts to it, really. The tour of the castle where they're chatting and then through the park. And then they end up in a pub, and they go into some really sensitive parts of recent years in the royal family. And Prince William describes last year when the princess had a cancer diagnosis as the worst year of his life. So there's some quite interesting insights here for the royal fans.

BERMAN: Eugene Levy, of course, Canadian. So I guess technically a subject of --

FOSTER: Yeah.

BERMAN: -- the royal family.

FOSTER: Absolutely.

BERMAN: Max, did you say that the prince is an "American Pie" fan? Of all parts of American culture to be attached to, it's "American Pie?"

FOSTER: Well, it comes up. I don't want to give too much away but he does mention it, yeah. He says he's of that generation. So he's feeling a bit older now as well, I think.

BERMAN: All right. Well, Max Foster, I guess another time we'll try to figure out what parts of that film he likes the most. Great to see you this morning, Max. Appreciate it.

SIDNER: Wow.

BERMAN: I'm just wondering.

SIDNER: I bet -- I guarantee you may never get an interview with Prince William.

BERMAN: One more reason.

SIDNER: All right. New this morning new changes coming to those ads on Facebook and Instagram. Meta says it will soon use conversations users have with its artificial intelligence chatbot to try to personalize and target those ads.

CNN's Clare Duffy is joining me now. I guess the big question is how annoying might this be, or will people be like, oh, I am interested in that?

CLARE DUFFY, CNN TECH REPORTER: I mean, that's Meta's argument here is that people will want to be targeted with ads based on things that they are telling its AI chatbot. Meta says that one billion people monthly now use its Meta AI chatbot, which you can access on Facebook and Instagram, and WhatsApp, and also through this standalone app.

And the company now wants to target people with ads and also make content recommendations based on those conversations with the AI chatbot.

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Now, Meta says that this is going to just be another signal that it uses. As we know, Meta is already so good at targeting us with ads, sometimes things that we don't even realize we wanted in the first place. But so far, it's been doing that based on data, like what we click on, what we watch, who we're connected to. Those are all inferences that Meta is making about what we might be interested in.

This AI system is different because it's going to be using what people directly tell the chatbot about their next trip that they're planning, or what problems they're having that a -- that a product might solve. I think that people need to understand how this is sort of different than the way that Meta has worked in the past.

Now, there are certain topics of conversations that Meta says it won't use to target ads. Things like religious views, sexual orientation, political views, health, racial or ethnic origin, philosophical beliefs. But this is already such a valuable advertising business and these

direct conversations that people are having with the chatbot could make it even more valuable for this company.

SIDNER: More valuable for the company but you might also imagine that people would be a little upset that their conversations with the chatbot where they're asking it questions -- sometimes very personal -- could suddenly show up in ads targeted at them. I mean, really, all of your information being used to sell you something.

DUFFY: Yeah. I think it's really important for people to understand, especially given how we know that people develop these really personal, close relationships with chatbots and they might be telling it really sort of personal, intimate things. I think people need to understand the way that might be used.

Now people will start to see notifications about this next week. It's going to go into effect in December -- December 16. And Meta also says there are ways to tweak the kinds of targeted ads you see. You can go to your ad settings and change your preferences. So if it thinks you're interested in a certain topic you can remove that topic.

But I still do think that this is very important for people to be aware of as they're interacting with this chatbot.

SIDNER: One hundred percent, they need to know this.

Clare Duffy, thank you so much.

DUFFY: Thank you.

SIDNER: Great reporting.

All right. Ahead, new video showing the moment a huge chunk of a New York City high-rise apartment building crashed to the ground. You hear the reaction there. New details on what could have caused this.

And a school project on the papal conclave turned into the trip of a lifetime. This is lovely. Wait until you see it.

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SIDNER: This morning we are learning new details about Sean Combs' sentencing tomorrow. In court documents Combs' lawyers say that he wants to address the judge before he is sentenced. The presiding judge has also granted the defense team's request for Combs to wear street clothes.

Let's bring in CNN legal analyst and defense attorney Joey Jackson, wearing his best steel blue suit and looking sharp this morning as always.

JOEY JACKSON, CNN LEGAL ANALYST, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY, FORMER PROSECUTOR: It's needs to happen. SIDNER: Speaking of wearing clothes, he's saying -- look, the judge says yes, you can wear your street clothes.

Does that -- does that tell us anything about what the judge may decide in this sentence?

JACKSON: So, Sara, good morning to you.

It does not, but it does say that the judge certainly wants to be fair and humane.

Now, understanding there's a distinction between wearing a jumpsuit before a jury who has to make a determination as to your case and wearing it before a judge who -- I mean, I think a judge can be fair no matter what you're wearing --

SIDNER: Right.

JACKSON: -- but I think it's only proper and appropriate on a day like this, which is very solemn.

You're going to hear victim impact statements. You're going to hear from him, as you just noted, that he wear a suit. and he presents to the judge what he believes to be appropriate in terms of what he wants to say.

SIDNER: Is there anything in cases like this -- he's got these prostitution charges that he's been convicted of. Is there anything that you have seen that a defendant can say to help their case? To mitigate the amount of time that a judge gives them.

JACKSON: So the answer is absolutely. And on a case like this you want to do a few things.

The first thing is you want to be contrite. There's something called remorse. You have to own up to the fact that there are people who were impacted by your conduct. And here, specifically, because of this conviction there are two particular victims. You can argue there are many more. But certainly there is Cassie Ventura and then there's a pseudonym Jane.

He was convicted of the counts -- transportation to engage in prostitution across state lines. You want to acknowledge that and be contrite in that.

The other thing related is you want to be accountable. It's not about this one, that one, the other one. No, it's about me. It's about you as a defendant and what you want to say, and you owning up to what you were convicted of.

And I think the last thing is the judge wants to know are you sufficiently rehabilitated, right? What are you -- and what have you done in jail, how have you spent your time, and how do you intend to spend your time moving forward such that you can be a better person and you could live a life that you think leads up to what society really should be about? So I think that's what we'll hear.

SIDNER: You had mentioned Cassie Ventura, which we know that's his former girlfriend who really came out very strongly in court. And she's going to have a victim impact statement calling Combs an abuser who she says has no interest in changing.

How much weight does the judge put on those who have been impacted in this case in such a difficult way?

JACKSON: So, Sara, I think a lot, right? The bottom line is that she has a story to tell. Now, she told that story to the jury and the jury convicted not as to racketeering --

SIDNER: Right.

JACKSON: -- which would have carried life, right? That he was running a criminal enterprise. Not as to even the sex trafficking charges --

SIDNER: Right.

JACKSON: -- but as to this charge. And as a result, she'll have a lot to say about it.

Having said that we should keep in mind that there are sentencing guidelines. Guidelines exist. They're not mandatory for the judge to follow but you want uniformity with respect to sentencing. So the sentencing commission has come up with these guidelines that consider what were you convicted of and what's your criminal history. The judge is not bound by them, but the judge is going to be using them.

Ironically, very briefly, you've got them all over the place. You have the defense that wants 14 months, saying the guidelines are appropriate for 14 months. You have U.S. Probation wanting as much as seven years, and you have prosecutors wants 11 years.

Now you may ask me what happened to the guidelines? They exist, but the manner in which you interpret them varies.

SIDNER: Hmm.

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JACKSON: So it will be up to the judge to make that determination. What, of course, Cassie Ventura and the other victim impact statements say has a lot to do with what the judge eventually I think will mete out here.

SIDNER: Let me ask you about -- you've got these big differences in the sentencing. And his jail time, right, already counts towards some of this.

Where do you see this going? Do we -- do we know what the actual maximum is in this case?

JACKSON: So I think the max, Sara, will be what the prosecution is looking for --

SIDNER: OK.

JACKSON: -- even though Mann Act is 10 and 10. We hear 20 years.

SIDNER: Yeah.

JACKSON: The max I think will be 11. I think that's way out of kilter though.

SIDNER: Yeah.

JACKSON: I think more appropriate would be what the case is about.

There's a big argument, very quickly, about whether you can use acquitted conduct. He was acquitted of racketeering.

SIDNER: Right.

JACKSON: Why are we using it? He was acquitted of this other -- you know, these sex trafficking --

SIDNER: The sex trafficking, right.

JACKSON: And the guidelines basically say that you no longer can use that acquitted conduct, so where are we fitting it in?

Prosecutors are saying well, it goes to his nature. It goes to his criminal history. It goes to his background. And the defense is saying this trial was about what it was about. He was convicted of these two charges.

SIDNER: Right.

JACKSON: Let's sentence on that and nothing else.

Where the judge lies on that issue -- whether he limits it to what he was convicted of or brings everything else in is going to be where the sentence falls.

SIDNER: Really interesting, Joey Jackson. Thank you so much -- appreciate it.

JACKSON: Always.

SIDNER: It's good to see you.

JACKSON: Great to see you, Sara.

SIDNER: John.

BERMAN: This morning new video of the moment an explosion destroyed part of a 20-story high-rise in New York. Investigators say a gas leak might be responsible for that destruction, though they've not determined the exact cause of the explosion as of now. Residents say it felt like an earthquake. Remarkably, no injuries or deaths reported in that, which is just amazing.

A big moment coming for a group of Chicago students. They're getting a meeting with the pope Back in May the students at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy made headlines for staging an elaborate conclave complete with cardinal costumes, white smoke, and a wee little pope.

Pope Leo is, of course, a Chicago native and a White Sox fan. The students have already met the pope's brother.

A Slovenian daredevil climbed all over a plane more than a mile and a half in the air. There's no harness there. Harness free, although you can see they did build in some little grips there. Also, he had Red Bull, which I'm sure helped in the process. The temperature felt like 14 degrees.

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DOMEN SKOFIC, RED BULL ATHLETE: The wobbles and the fluctuation of the G-forces and everything included, like just things I could not imagine how they're going to actually feel, and it was an incredible sensation. Much harder than on the ground. I thought I was prepared, but I wasn't.

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BERMAN: When he was done, he did a back flip off the plane, then glided down on a parachute. It looks like fun, not at all, Sara.

SIDNER: I'm sorry for cussing but hell, no.

BERMAN: Exactly.

SIDNER: What is going on? Why? I don't know. These --

BERMAN: He did get a 25-second reader out of it, so it's totally worth it. It's totally worth it.

SIDNER: OK, I will leave that to you, John Berman.

All right. New this morning in North Carolina's Outer Banks a seventh home has now fallen into the Atlantic Ocean. This is after those twin hurricanes churned up towering waves off the East Coast. Remember, those hurricanes didn't hit the coast, they were just off the coast. But they had these huge swells. And the homes now are mostly vacation renters and no one, thank goodness, was inside them when these collapses happened.

Overnight, Hurricane Imelda's eye passed though over Bermuda, slamming that island with 100-mile-an-hour winds.

Let's go straight to CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar. You're seeing the damage as these sort of two storms collide into each other and make this huge amount of swells there. But Bermuda actually got hit. What do we know about what happened there?

ALLISON CHINCHAR, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Right. So yeah, the worst of it happened overnight last night. You know, daylight is now out for a lot of these areas so they're likely going out to assess any damage they may have had from this storm as it passed over.

Again, you can see video here. Again, it's still dark out at this point in time when the video was taken but you can the trees swaying in the background. Again, they had very gusty winds and very heavy rain come through during the overnight hours. But now it is on its way away from Bermuda.

It is still a hurricane with sustained winds of 80 miles per hour. The forecast is for this to transition into extra-tropical at some point later on today -- likely by the time we get to early afternoon at the latest.

But there is Bermuda right through there. So again, you can see it's now starting to make its way away from the island. So conditions will start to rapidly improve here just every single hour we go and that storm gets farther and farther away.

Here is a look at the track. Again, still a tropical system right now but it's expected to transition to extra-tropical before it continues its way out over the open water.

You still have some gusty winds across portions of Bermuda, gusting up to around 40 to 50 miles per hour. We also have some gusty winds in some of these buoys there. Again, even though it's far away it's still a strong enough storm -- a potent enough storm to have some of those impacts even in faraway places.