expected tomorrow. governor ron desantis is going to be put to the test, forced to actually do his job. when he s used to spending most of his time hanging out on fox news and owning the libs. the approaching hurricane is also changed the january 6th committee s plans. we have our hands on some documentary footage of roger stone laying out trump s plot to steal the election. which the committee is expected to show when the hearing is rescheduled. also tonight, the senate takes up the electoral count act to protect democracy. and we re going to try to answer this question of why republican lawmakers still genuflect to trump and promote his lies. we begin with florida, bracing for ian, a major hurricane that could submerge large portions of the gulf coast. and it will be a test of leadership. governing, you see, is hard. it s unsexy, and not always television friendly. and governing through a crisis, well, that is where the proverbial rubber meets the road. president bide
and there you see it. a major storm heading for the tampa area that could deliver the first direct hit there in a century then not move for nearly two full days. already people in areas are ordered to leave. the local sheriff is warning anyone who defies the order and stays, you re on your own. we just received a new advisory from the national hurricane center. we re in the weather center with the very latest and new advisory. what does it say, tom? john, we don t have much in the way of changes except the pressure is dropping. and it usually takes a while when that pressure drops, the storm gets stronger. so what we re going to notice here is even though the winds have not changed, still 100 mile per hour sustained winds, they will start to increase now greatly. when that pressure drops, the equivalent to a stronger wind pattern. the they re just heat engines. they feed on that warm water. that warm water then as it rises up changes the energy and goes to wind the we re 13
weather center with the very latest. the new advisory, what does it say tom? well john, we don t have much the way changes except the pressure is dropping. i usually takes a while, when the pressure drops the storm get stronger. so we re gonna notice areas even though the winds have not changed, still 100 miles per hour sustained winds. they will start to increase. now when the pressure drops, the equivalent to a stronger wind pattern. in fact, these are just heat engines. they feed on that warm water. that warm water, then, as a rises up. change the kinetic energy and goes to wind. we are now about 130 miles from the land mass. but typically contracts with olena so break it down. there s already underwent a rapid intensification and will do it again. category four. i thought we had a category four passes close to tampa was in 1950. so there s a lot of people have never been through something like this. and even though john it goes before to a category one, they know attent
day, there is another question. do you indicted former president? what will that do to the country? what kind of precedent will that set? i don t want to see him indicted is a former president. but i also think they will be under a lot of pressure to indict him, because if anybody else would have gotten indicted, why not indict him? the justice department does have to decide by friday if it will accept a judges order to appoint a special master in the case or file an appeal. the doj appears to be widening its separate investigation into events leading up to the capitol riot. according to the new york times the fbi is looking to talk to more people, including william russell, a former white house aide who continued working for trump after he left office. the times said russell has been subpoenaed. it has been 20 months. tweet think about that. 20 months since the rioters stormed the capitol. today in an alarming report shows the extremism behind the insurrection. it is not g
the social media chaos machine? the 11th hour, wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. as the former president faces ongoing mar-a-lago investigations, steve bannon is expected to face a new indictment just hours from. now one of that his lawyers says that the onetime trump s trump strategist is on his way to surrender to manhattan s district attorney in the morning. washington post said this case probably similar to ban in federal indictment in a fraud scheme to build trump s border wall. but those charges never stop. trump pardoned abandon on his way out of the white house. bannon of course is now facing sentencing next month after defying a subpoena from the january 6th committee. trump himself may will be considering his next move in his battle with the department of justice over those classified documents he has been keeping down at mar-a-lago. he may want to pay close attention to the latest warning from his former attorney general, bill barr. t