and hurricane irma, which veered at the last second. businesses are putting plywood up on windows. this is an ice cream shot trying to inject some levity, no ice cream for ian. sandbags are on the ground to prevent flooding. that s small potatoes in terms of mandatory evacuations. pinellas county and hillsborough county have about 2.5 million people collectively. the whole tampa bay area is 3.2. 75%, 08% of the people are in two counties that have mandatory evacuations. they re looking to move a million-plus people. that process started last night, 2:00 for hillsborough, 6:00 for pinellas. but you ll see the biggest chunks of people fry trying to get out today. the topography of this area, there are bays and inlets, barrier reefs, the bay on one side, the gulf on the other. the water has nowhere to go. storm surge right now certainly the biggest concern as the projections are between 5 and ten feet. for historical context, the last time a major hurricane struck tampa direct
and communities on the florida gulf coast are boarding up, stocking up and getting ready for impact and the possibility of a storm surge that could reach up to ten feet. people are taking it very seriously. we re trying to be ready. who knows, may be real bad or not bad at all, but if it is, we want to make sure we are ready. now, nasa is sharing this stunning view of the storm from the international space station. we have the latest. details emerging ahead of the january 6th hearing, and nbc is hearing from two services the secret service confiscated the phones of agents. and then footage that put roger stone s role in days leading up to the riots in focus. and then all facing seditious conspiracy charges. the impact this one trial could have on others surrounding january 6th. let s start with hurricane ian battering cuba before lowly making its way towards florida. joining me, bill karins, and ellison barber. ellison, let s go to you. the national hurricane center
the way through january 6th, 2021, they have hit that milestone, in terms of where they have finished leaving us off in the time line and now my information is that they will go further after that, potentially telling viewers about what was happening in the white house, after january 6th we know that they have been doing depositions in this downtime period, with people like mike pompeo, and others, who were serving at the highest echelons of power in t that is one of the things they might be keeping out. but committee member after committee bumember, even as the have been mum on the details has made clear that there will be new things revealed in these hearing the at the same time, though,th halle, there is still lot of questions looming over this committee, that they still have to figure out. theth first of them that you re seeing there, ginni thomas interview, they keep saying this will be in therv coming weeks, r expectation is that is not going to happen between today an
visiting hurricane damage regions, there are no paper towel rolls being tossed as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle, and a case against the former handling of white house documents appears to be growing by the day. tonight, reporting from the washington post and the new york times, seems to provide the justice department more potential evidence. both papers reporting the back in february, one of trump s lawyers refused his clients request to tell the national archives that everything had been returned. the post returns this. the lawyer declined because, he was not sure the statement was true, according to people familiar with the matter. the paper reports that that lawyer was alex cannon, who is responsible for the transfer of 15 boxes of presidential records, from mar-a-lago to the national archives back in january. he is the very same alex cannon who testified to the january 6th committee, that he told white house
against the former handling of white house documents appears to be growing by the day. tonight, reporting from the washington post and the new york times, seems to provide the justice department more potential evidence. both papers reporting the back in february, one of trump s lawyers refused his clients request to tell the national archives that everything had been returned. the post returns this. the lawyer declined because, he was not sure the statement was true, according to people familiar with the matter. the paper reports that that lawyer was alex cannon, who is responsible for the transfer of 15 boxes of presidential records, from mar-a-lago to the national archives back in january. he is the very same alex cannon who testified to the january 6th committee, that he told white house chief of staff mark meadows, that there was no evidence of voter fraud in 2020 election. the papers say that both trump and cannon have yet to respond to specific questions about this docu