unclear exactly where ian could hit the rest. forecasters say if tampa takes a direct hit, it could be like nothing seen in this lifetime. in neighboring st. petersburg, the mayor there says it could be the storm they hoped would never come. across the state, people are gassing up, emptying shelves and filling sandbags. we have live team coverage. let s get right to our meteorologist tom saider for the latest timing impacts. tom. we have a lot to talk about and it s going to continue to change in the next couple of days, and it very slightly, 20 mile an hour shift in the eye means everything in florida. typically we have an icon over the center, but we took it away so we can start to see the bright colors of purple. so that convective activity is showing near the center. we re about 100 miles to the west of the cayman islands, south of the western tip of cuba. i want to show you the radar. this is the cayman islands. you can seat the pin wheel effect starting to see the eye
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
call from the white house to a rioter on january 6th. the rioter s identity now revealed. the house select committee is preparing to hold what is likely to be its final investigative hearing. and dissent and chaos are spreading in russia. thousands have been detained amid protests against the war in ukraine as huge lines of cars jammed the borders, packed with russians desperate to escape vladimir putin s new military draft. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt here in the situation room . we begin coverage tonight with hurricane ian barreling toward florida, amid urgent warnings and evacuations. let s get straight to meteorologist tom seder standing by in the cnn weather center with a new forecast from the national hurricane center. tom, what is that new forecast saying about ian? the 5:00 p.m. advisory from the national hurricane center, we re seeing an increase in the winds because the p
we re tracking lee as it moves across the atlantic and closer to the east coast. rescuers scramble to reach a cave explorer more than 3,000 feet under the surface. new footage just released showing his condition. i m john berman with sara sidner and kate bolduan and this is cnn news central. some big questions lingering about the investigation in fulton county, georgia, over the 2020 election. they are about to be answered. next hour we expect to see the full and final unredacted report from the fulton county special grand jury. now, this was the grand jury that was brought together for the initial investigation that ultimately led to then the separate grand jury handing up indictments against form trump and 18 other co-defendants. back in february nine pages of this report were released to the public, you probably remember this, but a lot was missing, including who the jury thought should be charged with crimes. the judge overseeing that case held back portions the rep
wider women s summit making news about this issue. our job in the news is to make sure we report everything that we have. we have a denial there from the d.a. we have an accusation that it came from somewhere else. we don t have confirmation of where this came from, and even if the d.a. is telling what she believes is the truth, that she no one she knows did this, that doesn t mean they didn t. if you re in the d.a. s office, this stuff is coming out and you re going, okay, gear up for another big day, because this complicates matters. the testimony shows a lot. when you re covering this trial, the first headline is there is bad news for those remaining defendants holding out. we ve shown you the chart where you have key figures that face heat for the coup, in georgia and in the open jack smith case in d.c., where they re technically called unindicted coconspirators, but all that means is they could get indicted later. eastman, now face this newly revealed testimony from th