Deadline in the 2020 election interference case. Hes got until 5 00 p. M. This afternoon to respond to special counsel jack smiths request for a protective order. Smith is trying to block trump from disclosing evidence and making Public Comments that could intimidate witnesses or undermine the case. Smith asked the judge to step in after trump issued a vague threat on social media on friday. He wrote in all caps, quote f you go after me, im coming after you. This morning, were also keeping a close watch on Fulton County, georgia, where trump is facing another potential indictment for trying to overturn the election. The streets around the courthouse are being shut down as the grand jury considers charges. Trumps lawyer went on a media blitz and appeared on all five networks sunday morning. He floated a new defense for trump, alleged will pressuring mike pence and georgia officials to overturn the election results. Youre saying that asking is action. No, asking is aspirational. Asking i
it is just shy of that now. we won t get ahead of the news on this. we are expecting an official storm update at any moment. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. hurricane ian is now carrying sustained kinds of 155 miles per hour. if they gain to 157 it s a category 5. the biggest threats facing floridians are massive storm surge, raging winds, inland flooding, tornadoes, experts already using words like catastrophic to describe hurricane ian s potential. 21/2 million people are under evacuation orders. for those people in the storm s path directly, that swath that i just told you to the south, cape coral and to the north sarasota. it s too late to evacuate if you re still there according to the governor. governor desantis also saying it is time just to hunker down for you. he spoke last hour. this amount of storm surge. it will have very ferocious winds and it will be life threatening. people are taking a risk with their health, safety and lives by bein
storm system that brought several tornadoes but more or less a wind threat across the eastern half of the country. today, this is what we re really concerned with. we have 120 million americans under the threat of severe weather. so d.c., once again, philadelphia, baltimore, new york city all the way to atlanta. damaging winds, very large hail, can t rule out a tornado. but let s focus in on that wind threat. the storm prediction center highlighted the mid atlantic as our greatest threat. this is a 45% likelihood anywhere within the particular location, you could pick a dot. within 25 mile radius you would have a wind damage event taking place within the next 12 hours. so that is what we re focussing in on. d.c., all the way to philadelphia. look at these storms just erupt on our forecast radar. this is really that time frame when you re driving home this evening. 4 to 6:00 p.m. and then again the chance of tornadoes definitely in the pipeline here. we look towards the southeast as our
that s why that happens this morning. we have cool pictures of that in a second. we re just now receiving our latest band of gusty winds and rain. but really for the tampa bay region the worst is yet to come probably hours away with the most water and wind happening then. as for landfall of cat four hurricane ian, it could be happening within the next two hours, likely in charlotte county, that is north of fort myers toward charlotte and punta gorda. this is exactly where in 2004 the destructive hurricane charley went ashore. those people remember those that were there then and still there now the damage that the flying debris could certainly cause. it was more of a wind damage event. as this hurricane moves north and east the rain and winds move up the state. this is going to be an all day or two affair for the sunshine
starts to slow down. here, this is every 24 hours. 24, 24, 24, 24, and now watch the next 24. not so far at all. so it begins to slow down, begins to turn to the right, if, jim, if we can get this turned to the right soon enough, we may have just a swing and a miss. that would be amazing. if it gets on land and it starts to turn and slows down, that s when we have a flood event on top of our storm surge event, on top of the wind damage event. so all the storms here, dorian, francis, jean, hugo all kind of coming from the same area. this is the problem. it s very warm out there. the water is extremely warm, 89 to 90 degrees. not a lot of sheer out there to tear it apart. the storm is going to be strong for its entire life time before it makes landfall somewhere.