its leader stewart rhodes gets ready to stand trial, facing allegations he helped to plot to end the transfer of power through violence. plus, young iranians risking everything to demand an end to ultra conservative religious government oppression and violence against women and the outrage is only growing. we begin with the return of the house january 6th committee. we are now less than 48 hours from the committee s next public hearing on wednesday. committee members remain mostly tight lipped about what evidence will be presented. congressman adam schiff indicated it would be sweeping. still unclear is whether the committee will bring up a significant allegation from its former technical adviser, denver riggleman, who told 60 minutes that a call was placed by the white house switchboard to a cell phone linked to someone in the mob that day. you get a real aha moment when you see that the white house switchboard had connected to a rioter s phone while it s happening. th
attacks on the fbi by congress members and the former president, just two days before what the white house says will be a primetime presidential address on the soul of the nation. if that weren t enough, his new tough talk comes just as the documents case is about to take another turn, with the justice department about to file new court papers tonight, aiming to block attempts by the former president to slow it down or stymie it. that is the backdrop to what joe biden said today in northeastern pennsylvania. let me say this to my maga republican friends in congress, don t tell me you support law enforcement if you won t condemn what happened on the 6th. don t tell me. can t do it. for god s sake, whose side are you on? whose side are you on? meantime, on his social media outlet, the former president today launched one post after another about the 2020 election, which he now says should be rerun, and the fbi. now, without specifically leveling blame, joe biden today spoke
of water until the water ran out. and after spending their day like this in 90-degree temperatures, many were turned away from the distribution event at hawkins airfield. the director of the state emergency management says seven distribution sites will be set up by thursday. in the meantime, people turned to stores where the shelves are nearly bare. it s very frustrating. it s very frustrating to have to fight for some water, you know what i m saying. you got to mess around and buy five cases of water just to stay hyd hydrated. reporter: it s just kind of scary. we don t know when anything s going to get done. you come in the store and it s empty. water we re talking about. let s back up and talk about how we got here. moderate flooding in jackson, mississippi, crippled the city s largest water facility. national guard troops trained for the devastation of hurricanes, they ve been deployed, but this is not a disaster, some once in a lifetime storm. american citizens i
we were just looking at a life house on the north shore of the detroit. river i am on an island in the middle of the. river that is detroit, believe it or not to my north. that is canada believe it or not to myself. when you are in detroit and you look at canada you re actually looking south to word windsor but i love being here partly because i can swim to my home country. it is saturday october the 22nd. that is the renaissance center, the home to general motors. from electability you re just looking at a detroit it is 9 am in the east, 6 am in the west. i m ali velshi. today 17 days before election day i am here in belle isle to state park in detroit michigan, in this crucial swing state to bring you a very special edition of velshi across america 2022. yesterday i had a fascinating and important conversation with a group of michigan but voters from across the political spectrum as election day approaches. we are going to share more of it with you in the coming hours even
you are live in the cnn newsroom. we are monitoring two storms this morning. we begin in florida where in 24 counties there is a state of emergency. tropical storm ian is moving through the caribbean and could grow to a category 3 hurricane before it hits florida next week. residents from the florida panhandle to the florida keys are being told to prepare for storm surges, hurricane-force winds and heavy rainfall. meanwhile, hurricane henfiona i moving through eastern canada. you see the driving wind downing trees and breaking power lines. in novema scotia 300,000 customs are without power. residents in four provinces face severe weather as the storm moves north. cnn s allison chinchar and paolo suarez are joining us now. allison, we will get an update on tropical storm ian, which seems to be getting stronger? yes, a first look now that the sun is starting to come up over the visible satellite. we can look at tropical storm ian. it s starting to come together and look a l