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
john: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour for this tuesday. i m john roberts. good to spend another hour with you. aishah: got it right. aishah hasnie in for sandra smith. betsy devos says democrats have simply not learned their lesson since governor youngkin pulled off an upset in virginia. ask her about that. also, the huge price tag on president biden s student loan handout. john: begin with breaking news of the major hurricane taking aim at the sunshine state. by and large, we are looking at really, really major storm surge up and down the west coast of florida. inland flooding, interruptions in things like power, we cannot unring the bell if you stay and you end up getting washed away with the historic storm surge. john: florida governor ron desantis warning folks do not overlook ian as the tampa area braces for a storm not seen in a century. the category 3 hurricane moving north, 115 mile an hour winds after blasting cuba this morning.
you hear that? the herschel walker exception. republicans want to eliminate all access to abortion in america for you. but if herschel walker or any other rich republican or republican at all was involved in an abortion, well, we re just going to have to pretend it never happened. plus ron johnson s statement that january 6th was no armed insurrection, that did not age well. it was refuted in the on earth keepers trial the day before he said it. cori bush s challenges to make it to congress, and why the midterm afflictions five weeks have so vitally important. we begin the reidout with president biden and the first lady touring the damage florida today, one week after hurricane ian made landfall. the storm killed more than 100 people and left thousands without a home to return to. president biden met with some of those families whose lives were upended, promising to help them rebuild. today we have one job and only one job, and that s to make sure the people of fl
airstrikes at a town near the capital. it s hundreds of mile as way from the front lines, and it is an away by putin to instill fear by an army that has been failing on the battlefield. we have graphic new images from today which show the remains of what was a russian caravan near the city of lyman. car after car destroyed. the body of a russian soldier on the ground, russian belongings strewn across the road. it just bears testimony to what we are seeing. russia s retreat and ukraine s advances are both fast and furious. but today putin speaking out, saying that these regions of ukraine where we re seeing all of this are now fully part of russia. he told a conference of teachers that the vote in the sham referendums in those regions of ukraine were well, here s his words. the results of the referendums, frankly speaking, not only pleased me but also surprised me. i think the election observers know this as well. there was no desire to correct something, clean something up,
jersey as much room as that takes up. and the reservoirs out west are down to almost zero. we re in a situation where the colorado river looks more like a stream. there s a lot going on. and i think the one thing thas finally ended is discussion of whether or not there s climate change and we should do something about it. folks, i also want to jill and i have had you all in our prayers, and i mean that sincerely. and we re here today because we wanted to tell new person that we re thinking of you, and we re not leaving. we re not leaving until this get done. i promise you that. you know, you walk around here, what s left of fishermen s wharf, and you don t have to have much imagination to understand that everything is historic, titanic, and unimaginable storm just ripped it to pieces. you got to start from scratch. got to move again. it s going to take a lot, a lot of time. not weeks or months. it s going to take years for everything to get squared away in the state of fl