dangerous move? and a story you ll see first out front. we re going to introduce you to a group of women learning to fire a gun for the first time. they say they don t feel safe in their cities anymore, and they are not republicans. let s go out front. and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, bracing, the state of florida, that s the right word for what s happening there tonight, bracing and preparing tonight for a direct hit as hurricane ian picks up speed. the storm is now a category 3. winds are 120 miles an hour. conditions are quickly deteriorating in the florida keys. tropical storm winds and a damaging storm surge are battering the island chain. that is tonight. now let me show you sombrero beach in marathon, florida. there you see the winds already hitting those palm trees. residents are being told to take cover. tornado warnings there have already begun. and this is all as ian is not even there. ian is still growing in strength feeding on those incr
asylum seekers in new york today and what officials say are the largest single day of migrants in the city so far. a small amount of rain. it is more than enough to force dozens of people to be evacuated from a national park in new mexico. health officials trying a new tactic to protect the most vulnerable from monkeypox by distributing the vaccine at pride parades. we begin with what s been the largest single day arrival of migrants in new york city to date. a mix of individuals now starting a new life in new york. after a 1700 mile trip from texas. these people to some degree are political pawns in a fight over u.s. immigration. texas governor abbott who sent thousands of migrants to cities like new york and washington, d.c. say it is president biden s border policies that forced the hand. democrats like new york mayor called the program inhumane with migrants said to be arriving hungry, thirsty and sick. abbott is just acting out of desperation was political said. this i
as the oath keepers. a new court filing is revealing the extensive planning of the far right malitia group, including a death list and attempts to obtain weapons ahead of january 6th. also today, former trump strategist steve bannon having a sudden change of heart. he faces possible jail time and now just days before his contempt trial, he says he is willing to testify before the january 6th committee after all. let s start with cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles. what are investigators hoping to reveal to the public during tomorrow s hearing? reporter: i think it s twofold. first, they want to make it clear those right wing extremist groups that came to the capitol on january 6th, the oath keepers, the proud boys, they came here with a specific intent, and that was to cause chaos and even use violence if it meant accomplishing their goals. and they re going to show that there was premeditation here to basically establish the fact that what happened on january 6th
let s begin this hour with whitney wild. what is the secret service saying? the secret service is saying that they are giving the january 6th committee a significant document production, but as you point out, a source is telling us that this does not include any of these potentially missing text messages that would have been generated on january 5th and january 6th, 2021. a secret service official told cnn that that s because the agency has not been able to recover any of those records that were lost during a phone migration around that time. one of the things the courses did tell us was that any message that was not uploaded by the employee as a government record, again, would have been lost during this migration. before this phone migration, secret service employees were supposed to manually back up their text messages so if any employees skipped that step or just forgot, this would have been permanently deleted when their phones were wiped during this now we know ill-tim
Youll be all over it for us as always, thank you so much. Monu raju in washington. Thank you for being with us on this tuesday afternoon. Getting word from the police chief there in houston, texas, the first Police Officer fatality in the storm, sergeant perez, 34 years with houston pd. Im brooke baldwin. The lead starts now. Welcome to the lead. Im Brianna Keeler in for jake tapper. Were going to begin with Breaking News in the national lead. President trump arriving in texas. He is about to get a tour of the Operations Center there after stopping in Corpus Christi today. Today there are new warnings to residents. Get out now as a levee is pushed to its limit in houston and harvey continues to relentlessly pour down on the gulf coast. Just moments ago we learned that a houston Police Officer,
sergeant steve perez, was killed in this storm drowning on his way to work on sunday. His police chief overcome with emotion as he was explaining the decision to not go in after him. It was too t