holds. and signs of torture, the u.n. says it will send a team to ukraine s recently liberated town of izium where a mass burial site has been discovered. the late queen elizabeth will lie in state for just two more days before her state funeral begins monday morning. that is not much time for the hundreds of thousands of people still waiting to pay their respects to the beloved monarch. the queue to pass by her coffin stretches for miles along the river thames with people at the very end being advised their turn to say good-bye might not come until tomorrow. later today some near the front may witness the queen s eight grandchildren hold their silent vigil at her coffin. the queen s four children, king charles, princess anne, prince andrew, head their silent vigil on friday. this is a meticulously planned event and customs and traditions dating back centuries. and kate, first to the lineup, all these people who have come to see the queen, they expect some 2 million peopl
this could be the storm that we have hoped would never come to our shores. the one thing i hear most common after these disasters is if i had only known it would be this bad. and so i think that s my message to them is we re trying to communicate to you that it can be that bad. okay. many in florida are heeding those warnings with long lines for water, fuel, sand bags and other supplies. schools and parks are closing and tampa s international airport is set to suspend operations entirely tuesday evening. hospitals meantime are transferring patients and putting up these large barriers to protect them from the potential storm surge. now the nags wall weather center has a storm surge in effect for large swathes of florida. they re bracin g for the storm s. people need to heed the warning and get out now especially where the storm-filled waters surge and affect them. we re not going to have the ability to come out and get them. then there are these images from the gran
and hurricane irma, which veered at the last second. businesses are putting plywood up on windows. this is an ice cream shot trying to inject some levity, no ice cream for ian. sandbags are on the ground to prevent flooding. that s small potatoes in terms of mandatory evacuations. pinellas county and hillsborough county have about 2.5 million people collectively. the whole tampa bay area is 3.2. 75%, 08% of the people are in two counties that have mandatory evacuations. they re looking to move a million-plus people. that process started last night, 2:00 for hillsborough, 6:00 for pinellas. but you ll see the biggest chunks of people fry trying to get out today. the topography of this area, there are bays and inlets, barrier reefs, the bay on one side, the gulf on the other. the water has nowhere to go. storm surge right now certainly the biggest concern as the projections are between 5 and ten feet. for historical context, the last time a major hurricane struck tampa direct
called a january 6th rioter. plus, what new text messages from mark meadows reveal, and why a former congressman pressed the january 6th committee to press the wife of a supreme court justice. ten straight days of protest in iran for a woman killed over a hijab. now the regime is out with its own crowds pushing a different narrative. welcome to the lead i m kasie hunt in for jake tapper. we start with politics lead, we are less than 48 hours away from the next public january 6th committee hearing. cnn is learning about text messages from then trump chaief of staff mark meadows linking the white house with a pro trump operative who was trying to seize voting machines. we re going to have more on this exchange in just a moment. we re also learning about new links between the white house and a rioter on january 6th. denver riggleman who was an adviser to the january 6th committee is telling cbs 60 minutes. riggleman will join us on the lead in a moment. cnn s sara murr
category two hurricane, quicklyin tensefying as it gets closer to florida. residents of tampa area are preparing for the worst as warnings about ian grow more dire. and nasa will deliberately slam a spacecraft into an asteroid soon in a historic test of earth s defensing. we re getting the first live image this is lauer. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off tonight, i m alex marquardt in the situation room. we begin with all of krvn exclusive new reporting on the january 6 investigation including the new revelations about mark meadow s communications. cnn political correspondent sara murray has our report. reporter: as donald trump and his allies made a final push to overturn the 2020 election. there is still plenty of time to certify the correct winner. reporter: retired army colonel phil wald ron. the core of these voefting systems are rife with vulnerables. reporter: communicated with then white house chief o