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
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 postponed 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 these are the california result, sorry we re not expecting them, will challenge them in the court, if you actually show up at the electoral college, armed guards will show them a. on the president, a few, you re not stealing florida, i
we still have a little bit of time here, we could see this continue to strengthen. who once it hits 130 miles per hour that s when we re talking a category four. already starting to see strong storm surge in parts of the florida keys. here s the timing. right now we are anticipating this to make landfall to meet tomorrow evening to tomorrow night. we could see this continue to make landfall a little farther south if we get a more northwesterly trajectory. that will see upbringing in wednesday night into thursday morning. friday regardless, you re running out of time tonight. this is making landfall and before charlotte and fort myers just south of sarasota as a major hurricane category three. in that cone of uncertainty, we could still see it sway just a little bit. nonetheless everybody in that florida west coast line must be prepared. you can see it and drive in essential florida bringing heavy rain into places like orlando and, even towards jacksonville. the deadliest part of the hu
storm surge for areas like fort myers out towards port charlotte in their harbor there, and even up towards sara sota. the other thing i want to mention is the rainfall. we could pick up 24 inches of rain, we re talking 2 to 3 months of rain into the three days. that s gonna impact sarasota, tampa, down to jacksonville, down towards daytona beach. there s a lot of moving parts to this storm system. we re not just looking at the heavy rain. we re also looking at that potential for tornadoes. we ve already seen tornado warnings going off through the evening hours down in southern florida. and then the winds are gonna start to pick up tomorrow, and that will really cause some power disruption. we will see major power outages across central florida. stephanie? somara theodore, thank you for the update. forecasters are already warning the storm damage could cost billions of dollars. and they say climate change is super charging storm systems like this one. some florida republicans have be
running out of time tonight. this is making landfall and before charlotte and fort myers just south of sarasota as a major hurricane category three. in that cone of uncertainty, we could see its way just a little bit. nonetheless everybody in that florida west coast line must be prepared. you can see it and drive in essential florida bringing heavy rain into places like orlando and, even towards jacksonville. the deadliest part of the hurricane is the storm surge. right now we are expecting anywhere from 8 to 12 feet of storm surge for areas like fort myers out towards port charlotte in their harbor there, and even towards sara soda. the other thing i want to mention is the rainfall. we could pick up 24 inches of rain, we re talking 2 to 3 months of rain into the three days. that s gonna impact sarasota, tampa, down to jacksonville, down towards daytona beach. there s a lot of moving parts to this storm system. we re not just looking at the heavy rain. we re looking at that potential