weather center and patrick oppmann is in cuba for us. good evening to both of you. petra, i ll start with. you are looking at pictures released today by nasa, a live view of hurricane ian that can be seen from the international space station as it fights over the storm. that is massive. where is hurricane ian right now? what can we expect? don, we just got the advisory here. it s about 1100 miles south of the western tip of cuba. crew the brunt of the storm system is gonna be felt initially in cuba in the coming hours, don, we think this will increase to a category three possibly as early as the next three hours. beyond that, we watch what s in store here. the water temperatures across this region of the gulf of mexico are among the warmest oceanic heat content anywhere in the atlantic. you notice the model of cannons here is a bit all over the place the last couple days. really, the last 24 hours better agreement. the storm track will shift a little further towards the eas
him to say. right now in jackson, mississippi, residents are facing a fourth day without reliable running water. we re life on the ground. in ukraine, u.n. inspectors are at europe s largest nuclear plant under russian control amid fierce shelling in the area. we begin with what will be a crucial day in the legal battle over classified documents seized from donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the judge will hear arguments on the former president s request for a special master who filter out privileged materials. it comes hours after his legal team filed a defiant response to a blistering justice department filing late tuesday. his team argued it should have been, quote, fully anticipated that trump would have sensitive material at his home. his lawyers describe the documents as, quote, his own presidential records. even though the law says they belong to the government. trump s team also argued a special master to review the documents is needed because, quote, left unchec
one the midterms, but we had such a great sequence of events in june and july. it seems a little on time. i don t even know how many people might tune in for. let s talk about. unless he runs again, but the committee may make a criminal referral in the future. we know there is a separate parallel deal. investigation doj. the trump indictment, is it going to hover over the former president during the midterms? i don t. i agree actually, i think people are not voting on the snow. i think they are voting on the economy, inflation. i think if you are a democrat, you are voting on abortion and other issues. so i think the two parties have picked their issue sets. that s where we are, that s what we are going to see and we will see who turns out. however, where i fully agree, when the public turns its attention to who is going to be the commander-in-chief next, this issue of january six becomes front and center.
taking on the legal arguments and really doing a lot of damage to the trump position that he needed a special master to review in this case. rather than responding in a thoughtful, responsible way to those arguments, most of this reply brief is consumed with political rhetoric. there s very little rationale at the end of the day for the judge to use a special master here. ken s point that special masters are used in settings where lawyer s offices are searched and there s a lot of attorney/client material that relates to third-parties that isn t involved in the investigation doj is conducting, that s when you see special masters used. the whole point of getting a search warrant is so you can look through the materials you acquire for evidence that supports or either disproves the case you re working on. so, in essence what the trump lawyers are complaining about here is just the normal course of business. vaughn, obviously, we talked
report has damning evidence, two years of investigation doj concludes no obstruction, no collusion, nothing. they are not done with that. he says he will continue to investigate but we will be watching tomorrow as the process plays out whether a christmas gift or not, thanks for coming in. democrats pushing ahead with impeachment despite growing opposition in battleground states, new numbers from the washington post show 51% of those in key election states oppose impeaching donald from while 44% support it, a 7 point spread comes from an average:arizona, florida, michigan, pennsylvania, nevada coming to him for, north carolina and wisconsin. national polls virtually unchanged since before the impeachment hearings began, the latest shows 47% support impeachment, 43% oppose it. fox news alert, just hours from the next round of the nato summit were donald trump is bringing his america first philosophy to the stage.