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
pet projects. cbs s nancy chen reports. and, like a scene out of a movie, nasa s plan to deliberately crash a spacecraft into an asteroid at 14,000 miles per hour. cbs s mark strassmann shows us why. the threat is very real. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us as we start a new week together. tonight, mandatory evacuation orders are already underway for hundreds of thousands of florida residents as hurricane ian gains strength as it bears down on the state s west coast. residents are filling up sandbags and flocking to grocery stores, clearing out the entire inventory of bottled water and other nonperishable food items. outside gas stations, long lines of cars wrapped around the block as residents waited for fuel for their vehicles and generators, ahead of expected power outages. tonight, ian is nearing the western tip of cuba as a st
hello and welcome to inside politics, i m john king. new information about a january 6th mystery. cnn identifies the man on the receiving end of a nine-second call from the white house switchboard in the middle of the insurrection. plus, john fetterman and the finance question. republican mehmet oz says his senate rival needs to release his medical records. democrat fetterman shows voters his recovery is on track. president biden for closing bethlehem steel. 27 years ago. and i m the one that had a stroke. we begin, though, with florida bracing for hurricane ian. it s already rapidly intensifying. wind speeds have jumped 35 miles per hour in just the last day. it may turn into a category 3 or higher storm in the next 24 hours. people in the tampa area throwing sandbags as the storm churns in the caribbean. lines long to stock up on supplies, and florida governor ron desantis declaring an emergency for the entire state including activating the national guard. carlos suar
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