what we re learning about that call. and the intensifying war of words between the u.s. and russia. top u.s. officials warning vladimir putin of catastrophic consequences just days after the russian leader issued a thinly veiled nuclear threat. all that playing out as outrage builds forcing hundreds of thousands of reservists into combat. the growing desperation leading to violence at an enlistment center. we begin with the threat from hurricane ian. we just got an update on its track and intensity. sam brock is in tampa, florida, and metrologist bill karins has a look at what we can expect. first to you, sam. i understand a mandatory evacuation is being called for the county where you are. what can you tell us? reporter: the threat is starting to feel a whole lot more real. right now for residents of this county in tampa, we re in tampa, hillsboro county is 1.5 million people. we found out that mandatory evacuations have been issued for portions of the county, zones a
being affected. are the models clearer now with who exactly will be hit? we re getting there. it s slowly to beginning to narrow more and more and areas from i m saying right now from sarasota, fort myers, through tampa, all and all of this is hard to picture how it won t be a billion dollar disaster. let s talk and see how strong they have it in this last update. it was 75. they have it up to 80 miles per hour. it continues to intensify. we had the report from havana right here. the storm is west of miami. even if the storm headed due north right now, it would head up towards florida. but it s going to take a bent here through western cuba. this part of cuba is flat,@not going to interrupt the storm much.
already moving trucks, special trucks, that are going to be necessary to make the repairs of the damage that that storm could cause in that part of the country. we also know that they ve been distributing extra gas now and that part of the country, a lot of the people depend on gas tanks that have methane and that s how they cook, boil the water. the government has distributed more of those tanks as they prepare. when you look at cuba, this is a country with very limited resources, right? we see what s happening in florida. sam s reporting with people making these lines to buy everything they can. we don t have those stores in cuba. you don t have a store where you can buy all the water and all the food or supplies to protect your home. so people are basically buying a little bit of food which is all they can get. we ve seen longer lines and a lot of the stores that do have food available, and whatever it is they have to protect their businesses or their stores, they re using, but, aga
is difficult to find here and most of these evacuations that i mentioned, a lot of the preparations here are handled by the government. you ve got the government doing what they can to put in these evacuations in order and you have some private businesses using the limited resources they have to protect their property. we ve seen here in havana some of the gas stations close to the water are taking the pumps apart for the expectation of the water to rise. so these are all the preparations here in cuba, the hurricane expected to hit from the areas in havana and further west. that s going to be the worst-hit area. we expect the hurricane to touch havana or to touch cuba, that is, later this evening. we know that florida governor ron desantis is currently giving a press conference about the storm s path. we re monitoring and we ll bring you any details. bill, i was watching your report over the weekend and we had the u.s. model showing landfall in one area, the european showing anothe
headquarters in new york. right now bracing for ian. the storm now a category one hurricane is rapidly intensifying and heading straight for cuba, then florida. all of florida is now under a state of emergency. some parts of the state now forecast to see upwards of 15 inches of rain. the looming threat is sparking long lines at grocery stores and gas stations. we got a lot of water, food. we got a lot of gasoline. we re trying to be ready. who knows? it may be real bad, maybe not bad at all. if it is, we want to make sure we re ready. we re live in tampa in moments where some people were just ordered to evacuate. plus, fresh drama ahead of the january 6th committee hearing. they are aware of a call between a january 6th rioter and the white house on the day of the capitol attack.