hello and welcome to inside politics, i m john king. new information about a january 6th mystery. cnn identifies the man on the receiving end of a nine-second call from the white house switchboard in the middle of the insurrection. plus, john fetterman and the finance question. republican mehmet oz says his senate rival needs to release his medical records. democrat fetterman shows voters his recovery is on track. president biden for closing bethlehem steel. 27 years ago. and i m the one that had a stroke. we begin, though, with florida bracing for hurricane ian. it s already rapidly intensifying. wind speeds have jumped 35 miles per hour in just the last day. it may turn into a category 3 or higher storm in the next 24 hours. people in the tampa area throwing sandbags as the storm churns in the caribbean. lines long to stock up on supplies, and florida governor ron desantis declaring an emergency for the entire state including activating the national guard. carlos suar
unclear exactly where ian could hit the rest. forecasters say if tampa takes a direct hit, it could be like nothing seen in this lifetime. in neighboring st. petersburg, the mayor there says it could be the storm they hoped would never come. across the state, people are gassing up, emptying shelves and filling sandbags. we have live team coverage. let s get right to our meteorologist tom saider for the latest timing impacts. tom. we have a lot to talk about and it s going to continue to change in the next couple of days, and it very slightly, 20 mile an hour shift in the eye means everything in florida. typically we have an icon over the center, but we took it away so we can start to see the bright colors of purple. so that convective activity is showing near the center. we re about 100 miles to the west of the cayman islands, south of the western tip of cuba. i want to show you the radar. this is the cayman islands. you can seat the pin wheel effect starting to see the eye