putin s plan to mobilize thousands more troops for his war in ukraine. and a historic election in italy where the most far-right ruling coalition since mussolini looks set to tak e power. and we begin this hour with tropical storm ian that s churning in the caribbean and gaining strengthen as it moves towards cuba. now it s expected to rapidly intensify before hitting western cuba with strong winds and dangerous storm surges. now, ian is expected to turn into a major hurricane tuesday and forecast to hit florida midweek. people in florida are already preparing for the storm, filling sandbags trying to prevent flooding. here s more now from the mayor. of course there s a high degree of worry whenever we have a named storm that we are in the trajectory or in the path of that storm. but we are preparing. you know, we like to rehearse and practice for these, but we certainly don t want it be on the main stage of ian. now, floridians are stocking up on emergency essentials
first on this tuesday morning. i m currently tmorning.this situation looks like it s going to get much worse. opec set to meet to determine whether or not to buy $2 million of barrels per day per that s going to make inflation worse and drive prices up and would be a huge slap in the face to president biden who s been begging saudi arabia at increased output. voters, you really care about this but take a look at this recent fox news poll. 59% of voters say they are extremely concerned about inflation and higher prices. look, opec literally and figuratively has us over a barrel when no pun intended. and it s all because we had the ability to control the oil and gas production but we literally gave it away day one of the biden presidency. we are forwarding our own production. our strategic petroleum reserves are diminished to a point where we can t rely on it anymore giving them even more leverage from the point where we gave away our pipelines and shut down keystone. opec is
are so many on the west coast, even the midwest, feeling new pain of the pump? fox news @ night investigates why some areas are actually seeing prices rise. i know if nancy pelosi was no longer here there would be a lot of democrats that would feel free to do exactly what they know is best: vote for a secure border and work with us to have a bill on immigration reform. trace: what do democrats really think about border security? we asked some of them, including dhs secretary mallorca s. bill melugin joins us. fresh reaction from jim jordan about the ongoing crisis that are seven border. taking one for the team, that s what a democratic senate candidate said about steve scalise after the house republican was shot nearly killed at a congressional base for practice. our panel will have a lot to say about that later. we begin with the white house in cleanup mode following controversial remarks from vp kamala harris. white house white house corresponding kevin corke gets us
our legal panel is here to weigh in. and it made her admission from the cdc school students beheaded back, masks up again. will there be more push back against mandates? our bream panel debates. advances in dna technology may have helped solve the 40-year-old murder mr. other than-teenage girl in northern california last seen walking to a bus stop with her boyfriend. later found stabbed dozens of times. we begins and it with mar-a-lago at the aftermath of last week s raid continues to reverberate and things should get really interested in for the court rooms. correspondent matt finn tracking the latest developer tonight. good evening. because good evening, shannon. there is a lot of anticipation for this in person hearing on thursday and a federal judge will hear arguments on whether to unsealed the affidavit and other materials used to green light that search warrant of former president trump s mar-a-lago home. on wednesday, earlier wednesday, former president trump s vice