storm barrels towards the course. property loss could be in the billions, human cost still unknown. as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we are tracking hurricane ian tonight as it closes in on florida s west coast. we just got the 11 pm forecast from the national hurricane center, and we ll bring you the latest on the huge storms path in just a moment. meanwhile, the january six committee has postpone tomorrow s hearing because of the storm. so far the hearing has yet to be rescheduled. but we are getting more video from a roger stone documentary that the committee is likely to feature once the hearing does happen. in one newly released clip, stone is heard talking about challenging the election results even before the election happened. what they are assuming is the election will be normal, the election will not be normal. oh east of the california result, sorry we re not expecting them, will challenge them
but we start tonight with a major political battle taking place across the country. as of today, we are just six weeks out from this year s midterms. despite economic and historical trends that could she should favor public, and this election is shaping up to be closer than anyone expected. thanks in large part to republican extremism and states across the country. from the supreme court s decision to overturn roe v. wade and subsequent state abortion bans, to election denialism, to a cruel political stunt using s a asylulm seekers, to book bans and censorship in the classrooms, republicans are executing on a radical agenda. those efforts are being led by red state governors. governors like texas greg abbott and florida s ron desantis. men who are pushing this extremism while they raise their own political profiles and jockey to inherit trump s mantles as leaders in the next generation of republican presidential hopefuls. on the other side of that fight our handful of democ
say way to go let s oh, it s about darn time somebody play that thing. and on that absolutely beautiful note, i wish all of you a very beautiful night. from our oliver colleagues across nbc nbc news, thanks for staying up with. associate the end of tomorrow. omorw.ro we have a lot to get to tonight including a major three category hurricane getting through tonight. the january six committee has postponed its to committee and light of hurricane ian bearing down on parts of florida, we ve decided to postpone tomorrow s posing ripper praying for the safety of all those storms back. love more on hurricane eat and a lease on january six investigation later this hour.