hello and thank you for being with us. i m ana cabrera in new york. hurricane ian is taking aim and florida is bracing. the powerful storm is expected to get stronger over the next few hours. a cat 4 before the end of the day. the track is shifting a bit, but it is still expected to be a major hurricane when it slams into florida tomorrow night. tampa s mayor says that area is expecting a, quote, devastating amount of water. evacuations are under way. people are boarding up homes and businesses. schools are closing, flights canceled. let s begin our coverage with john cangelosi from the national hurricane center in miami. thanks so much for joining us. update us on where the storm is right now and the latest forecast? sure, ana, here is the latest. hurricane ian starting to pull away from western cuba, max mim winds 115 miles an hour. the storm is wobbling around but generally moving to the north-northeast at about 10 miles an hour. let me show you the latest forecast. as y
necessarily focused on just the direct path and the direct impact of the storm. we are going to see some direct impacts along the west coast of florida and into the panhandle. but everybody in florida is going to have potential impacts from this storm. i ll be joined by marcus coleman, a veteran of fema and dhs who responded to multiple hurricanes. he ll have the latest information about where things stand now. the next january 6th hearing is just 24 hours away. and with several months worth of new evidence, actually an avalanche of new information according to one committee member, they have to decide what stays and what goes into tomorrow s two-hour presentation. nbc news has learned that one of those new pieces of evidence will be footage of donald trump s long-time friend roger stone interviewed by danish film makers four months before the 2020 election. in this clip, stone explains how trump is going to win no matter what. what they are assuming is the election will
nobody had ever seen. you know it s interesting, because he was so good at both really at heart he was a baseball player. is there a sense for you as you go through his life that had a started off playing baseball petite with all the injuries pin that he might have actually become more iconic baseball player? maurepas my child talent, his first ever major league was on december 2nd 1986. he beat out of grammar to second base which is preposterous. and behind the, played all these spots rick locking it. once scott looked at his clock and said i didn t get it, what did you get? he had 3.6 seconds. the second fastest recorder time in history for right handed hitter. he didn t and his first at bat. if you never got hurt or just discovered with, i honestly think we re talking about mike trout before march out. you are very prolific at
putting it in a drawer. locking it, telling cuomo he wasn t being taped and then saying personal things. if he were to testify, we would point out can you believe that this man would not lie in order to stay out of jail? speaking of taping, mr. mayor, on meet the press this morning, omarosa, who was fired from the white house eight months ago, played a tape or nbc played the tape of john kelly firing her in the situation room eight months ag . she claims he threatened her, the early stories that she taped donald trump. what you make of that? i don t know. i m not representing the president in that. a you are not handling the case. i think between john kelly and omarosa, i know them both well. i would go with the general, the marine corps general. so i don t want to get into that but a me ask you this. you want to be talking to
the highest ranking mafia person ever to testify. i m not comparing the two but is not unusual in trials for somebody that pleaded guilty to a crime to use as a witness. is not unusual and it is not unusual to try on it becomes a question on how bad is it and how clear is the impeachment? the reality is that on tape, michael cohen said all of the things that you would need to completely come to the conclusion that the president did nothing wrong. anything he says now will have to contradict that. and of course will utilize that because we believe he will be doing it in order to basically sing for his supper. i would not would michael cohen lie? a man as a lawyer taped his own client, him and that taped a number of reporters including people under circumstances that are really he took his phone, made a big play of putting it in a drawer. locking it, telling cuomo he