also tonight, the hurricane is forcing the january select committee to postpone the hearing that was scheduled for tomorrow. this as the panel had some big decisions to make and some new questions to answer. plus, russia is claiming victory after the sham annexation votes. what is vladamir putin s next move as russians protest and thousands plea his military draft? welcome to the situation room. i m pamela brown. let s get to the newest forecast for hurricane ian and the damage it will be doing by this time tomorrow. jennifer, what is the latest on ian s power and path? pamela, we are within that 24-hour window where this storm will make landfall as a category 3, winds of 120 miles per hour, but gusts are up to 150 miles per hour now and moving to the north at 10 miles per hour. this storm is going to run parallel to key west within the next hour or so. you can see very close right there, so they are going to get the worst of the weather. but the worst is to come, b
they re great people, beautiful state. you know about their football team? bill: a little bit. dana: governor desantis will give a update any moment now and bring it live. florida is bracing for what could be a once in a century storm. bill: the current storm track shows landfall sometime on thursday, maybe in tampa. if that were a direct hit, it would be the first major storm to hit tampa in more than 100 years. dana: forecasters are predicting storm sturge. people are boarding up homes and businesses. the amount of water may simply be too much to overcome. bill: here is what we know. governor desantis declared a state of emergency. tampa s international airport will shut down at 5:00 east coast time. dana: evacuation orders affecting hundreds of thousands of people. folks there say supplies are running low. shelves are totally empty. people are starting to panic. it is crazy now. people are crazy, all the flights are insane. there is no flights. i would ho
so moving. and william shatner, this guy, he s just people are just commenting, i m getting so many texts and seeing it on twitter, so many people talking about what an incredible guy he is. i m scoring points right now, the fact that you pulled out shatner s note lucy in the sky with diamonds, that s 100 points right there. you just came back from the today show, talking about the list with hoda. that was very moving too pop. oh, my gosh. a lot of tears. hoda s on the list and savannah nominated her and we have two women over 50 hosting the today show. talk about that never happen 20 or 30 years ago, how thing have changed. the second annual forbes 50 over 50 list has chemical engineers, actresses, singers, dancers, civil rights activists in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and, yes, 90s. these women are phenomenal and there are so many of them. there really are. it s an incredible list. jonathan lemire, the red sox have something in common with people on that li
reporting, but overnight they reported a stunning update claiming the woman behind the allegations is also the mother of one of walker s children. the daily beast explains why they held details about her, the woman, who is a registered democrat and years-long relationship with walker continued after the abortion told the daily beast the chief concern with revealing her name is because she wanted to protect her family s privacy address best she could. walker says he doesn t even know who the woman could be. the anonymous woman has now also alleged she had a child by you. your response? i say the same thing i said, that, you know, i know this is untrue. i know it s untrue. they keep telling me that and it s totally untrue. i m not sure why that would be told. i know nothing about any woman having an abortion and so they can keep coming at me like that. they are doing it because they want to distract people. for national republicans the response has not been to run away fr
suarez live in tampa. chad myers is tracking the storm. chad, we re talking about all of the computer models, the various paths. what are they telling us right now? they re getting more organized even though there are five or so different models that we look at. the ones that the american model was really way out in the middle of the gulf of mexico. that was last week. the european model was in the atlantic ocean, 700 miles away. now all of that has calmed down and narrowed down to about a 100 wide strip where not that much air, what a pretty picture as long as you doan have to deal with this. this is the hurricane. the visible picture from the sky. this is what it looks like when you talk about the hot towers. the big thunderstorms around what could be and likely later today an eye. the storm is now breathing. it is sucking air into it from the surface and it is blowing it up to those towers and out of the top and that is what we call a breathing, living, growing hurricane