hearing, the last of this nature. member have been tight lipped about the exact theme but suggest it will include brand-new information as they continue to fill in the pieces of the puzzle surrounding the insurrection. i think it will be potentially more sweeping than some of the other hearings. but it will be very thematic. it will tell the story about a key element of donald trump s plat to overturn the election. and the public will certainly learn things it hasn t seen before. but it will also understand information it already has in a different context by seeing how it relates to other elements of this plot. none of the members would go any further in terms of exactly what we will see on wednesday. one of the biggest unanswered questions for the committee is what happens after wednesday s hearing. both adam schiff and liz cheney said if they decide to issue criminal referrals, the vote would likely be unanimous. cheney also said she will keep pushing to hold election
janice: this is the closest brush we have had with a hurricane. hurricane 3. not much higher in terms of what we were seeing yesterday 105 a strong category 2. we are at 115. and we are anticipating this to weaken a little bit. but you can see where we are already seeing those outer bands. by the way tropical storm force winds extend almost 200 miles now from the center of the storm. hurricane force winds still at 60 miles from the center of the storm. it s wide. this storm is going to effect awesome the carols, even up towards the delmarva over the next 24 to 48 hours. here are some of the current wind gusts gusting 58 miles offshore. 67 near the center of the storm. and 85 miles south-southeast of charleston. even though charleston is not going to get a direct landfall, the they are still seeing the worst of the storm surge, the worst of the rainfall, you know, the worst of the winds right now. we have a flash flood warning in effect.
sorry. i m joined by lars anderson, former senior fema official and founding partner of bluedot strategies. lars, what s your sense of what s going on here? yeah, you know, this is a really strange storm. i think, you know, we ve seen it over the past, you know, 24, 48 hours where it s just standing there and it s really historic in a lot of ways. the destruction in the bahamas is horrible. the people of florida shouldn t, you know, while the storm track doesn t exactly have it coming onshore, i think you still have to be aware of those storm surges. as people have said, the storm surges are the really dangerous point. if you look at what happened in 2013 with tropical storm sandy, storm surge that was the equivalent of a hurricane 3 sorry, a really strong hurricane in new york. so you got to be careful with, you know, the storm surges because that s the really important thing to look out for in those types of siptuations. somebody earlier said something interesting, part of the
widespread power outages. category 3 you are looking at wind speeds of 111 to 129 miles per hour. that s what the storm s at right now, devastating to homes and power outages for days to weeks. category 4 which is the category dorian could reach, has wind speeds ranging from 130 to 156 miles per hour, and it means catastrophic damage, very important to remember. the scale is just about wind strength. the majority of hurricane deaths usually are caused by storm surge and flooding. floridians have been stockpiling supplies preparing for the worst. the president has officially declared a state of emergency in florida. it allows federal money to be redirected and resources to be redirected to florida in anticipation of this storm. he has canceled his trip to poland to monitor the hurricane. let s get the latest on dorian s track. msnbc meteorologist michelle grossman joins me now. every update we get on this
hurricane makes it seem more serious. you are right, ali. it does seem like every update we get a little bit stronger and we made it to a category 3 storm. i love the explainer, a picture shows a thousand words and we need to get prepared. even looking at this enhanced image, you can see how much it has blossomed even in the past hour or so from your first frame to the last frame, there is that eye right there showing us how strong it is. let s look at the stats of where we re at right now. category 3 storm over those open waters, those warm waters helping it strengthen. and, yes, we will most likely see a category 4 storm. it is located 620 miles east of west palm beach, florida, 115 mile per hour sustained winds, gusts higher than that, and it s moving at 10 miles per hour. tonight it s going to begin to slow down and almost stall as it gets closer to land. so as we are tracking dorian, we are now at a category 3 storm. it seems unbelievable from day one on monday we were talking a