options to wait out the storm. i ve never been in a hurricane. this is my first time. my first time at a shelter. but i feel better here than if i would be alone at home. those riding out the storm racing to get sandbags, facing lines for gas. out of water folks, no water. and the familiar scramble to stock up on food and water. then, hurry up and wait. randi kaye, cnn, bucha gorda, florida. now 30,000 power workers are on standby to restore power after hurricane ian moves into florida. the crews come from 23 states are across the u.s.. florida s largest you captivity county, florida power and light, says it has thousands of personnel and equipment ready across the state to respond to outages once it is safe to do so. the house select committee
come on, what s the name? not irma but ian. come on, ian! okay. so good humor there. that s despite dire warnings from authorities. some in florida are choosing to ignore evacuation orders in favor of, in fact, riding out that storm. parts of florida are already beginning to feel the impact. storm surge warnings have been issued for the lower florida keys. it is expected to make landfall on the gulf coast near port charlotte. meantime, the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection has postponed wednesday s hearing because of hurricane ian. the last hearing which is likely to be the last is expected to be announced soon. it s expected to announce how allies expected to claim victory regardless of the outcome. a federal trial that could pose a major test.
is just ahead. and a live look at wall street. futures board is back in the green following a volatile session yesterday. we ll look at the challenges the fed chairman now faces in trying to bring down inflation. good morning. welcome to way too early thank you for starting your day with us. there is a lot to cover this morning after a stunning day in washington and new york. first, we learn that new york attorney general latisha james filed a lawsuit against donald trump, the trump organization and three of trump s adult children. accusing them of fraudulent financial practices. we also learned of new developmentes from the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection.
abe assassinated during a campaign speech by a man with a homemade gun. and a new report shows the u.s. jobs market stayed strong last month despite high inflation and recession fears. this hour what the numbers could mean for the u.s. economy and for the biden administration. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. we begin this hour with a highly anticipated testimony of former white house counsel pat cipollone to the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. let s go straight to capitol hill. our reporter melanie is on the story for us. what do we know, first of all, about the testimony of this key witness? do we know if cipollone has been cooperating or not? reporter: well, pat cipollone has been testifying for eight hours and counting now behind
kevin mccarthy knew that donald trump wanted to come to the capitol. to do what? people died. there was medieval hand-to-hand combat. what is the pressure cooker today for kevin mccarthy, jim jordan, mr. perry, other witnesses who we now know a whole lot more about what they did and did not do on january 6th? well, the pressure cooker is they now know that there are people within the white house who knew everything and are willing to testify and there are going to be more. i m not a lawyer in all of this, but you do feel that the ground is shifting. over the last couple of days, jeffrey clark s, you know, is raided. you have john eastman s phone taken away. now you have evidence tying mark meadows to things like the rudy giuliani was doing, so i think that what you have is people realize that this is getting very real. you have the multiple tracks. you have what this committee is doing and the kinds of evidence they are putting together and the fact that we only know part