Jan Crawford interviews Alexandra Huynh, the 2021 National Youth Poet Laureate. The 18-year-old Sacramento native tells us why she writes about identity and climate change, why she identifies with Hannah Montana and how she discovered that poetry could be her superpower. Source

After a public battle with the University of North Carolina over tenure, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the creator of The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones announced exclusively on “CBS This Morning” Tuesday that she will not be joining the university this fall. Nikki Battiste reports on the fallout and the support pouring in for Hannah-Jones. Source

“We just decided that he wouldn’t have wanted us not to and so we decided to do it in his honor,” said Mildred Wilson, who lost her husband to a heart attack when he had COVID-19. Source

After strengthening briefly to a Category 1 hurricane overnight, Elsa weakened back into a tropical storm, hitting Florida with winds of up to 65 mph. CBS News’ Laura Podesta reports on the storm moving up the Gulf Coast, and WFOR Miami’s Brooke Shafer joins CBSN from Surfside, where bad weather temporarily halted the search and rescue effort after the condo collapse disaster. Source

Florida is bracing for the landfall of Tropical Storm Elsa. It’s bearing down on the state, packing heavy rain and strong winds. Mireya Villarreal is in Holmes Beach, Florida, with the details. Source

A hurricane warning remained in effect Wednesday morning across a stretch of Florida’s west coast coast from Chassahowitzka to the Steinhatchee River. Source

Haiti president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated overnight at his private residence. Miami Herald Carribean reporter Jacqueline Charles, joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss further. Source

Deadly storm Elsa has complicated the rescue effort at the site of the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida. Crews are working around the clock as dozens remain unaccounted for, but leaders insist they’re not giving up hope. Manuel Bojorquez has the latest. Source

Hospitalizations are rising in the show me state, especially at Mercy Hospital Springfield, where a second ICU has been built to combat the wave of COVID cases. Nancy Chen reports. Source

Florida residents are packing sandbags as Elsa picks up steam heading toward the state. Also, President Biden calls out Russia as the U.S. responds to the latest cyberattack. All that and all that matters in today’s Eye Opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Source