good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. happening right now, emergency preparations are under way in florida as residents brace for hurricane ian now barreling up the gulf of mexico and strengthening by the day. this as hundreds of thousands in puerto rico are still without power in the wake of hurricane fiona. meantime, in washington this week, we will hear from the house committee investigating the january 6th insurrection as the panel learns about a

reported phone call between the white house and one of the rioters involved in the attack. the u.s. is warning russia to stop what antony blinken calls loose talk about nuclear weapons as vladimir putin continues to face military challenges in ukraine. also this hour, we will get an update from iran where the leader is issuing a new warning in the wake of historic protests after a woman died in police custody. we begin this hour with the latest on hurricane ian which is intensifying quickly. the national hurricane center says it expects ian to rapidly strength especially today and produce significant wind and storm surge in western cuba. it is expected to make landfall between tonight and tomorrow morning, bringing more than 13 inches of rain.

in florida, governor desantis declared a state emergency across the entire state. and president biden approved a state of emergency already. tampa is now at a higher risk for heavy rainfall, storm surge and strong winds. residents there preparing for ian to potentially make ground as early as wednesday. it hasn't taken a direct hit from a major hurricane in 100 years. joining us now, john morales, meteorologist and hurricane specialist for nbc 6. and allison barber is in tampa this morning. what's expected from hurricane ian and what's its path? >> well, on the short-term here, it is expected to intensify rapidly, as you just said, because of very warm water and favorable winds a loft. the circulation has kept it from reaching 90,s 100,

110-mile-per-hour wind speeds just yet. right now it's a minimal intensity turk. but the expectation is before it reaches western cuba, it is expected to ramp up to be between a category 2 and category 3 hurricane. beyond that, a cat 4 is not out of the question. that would be in the southeastern gulf of mexico. then the question is when does it make that turn slightly towards the north and northeast to potentially threaten, well, from sarasota to tampa. i would say the entire west coast of florida is being threatened by what is expected to be a widening wind field which is going to bring that storm surge, in addition to the rain and the risk of tornados and very high winds. . >> and so, john, looking at that trajectory, i wonder what you are looking at as you scientifically look at this path. it seems as though all of florida that is affected could be getting hit with the eastern

side of the storm, the dirty side of the storm. >> well, jose, you're definitely savvy on hurricanes. you spent a good portion of your life in florida. this would be the active side of the storm. it's the storm where the tropical storm force winds extend out beyond 100 miles from the core of the system. so that's why for the florida keys, the lower florida keys, where key west sits, there is a tropical storm warning in effect even though it is forecast to pass over 100 miles from that location. the extensive wind field, on the dirty side, as you described. the rest of florida, shy add, will see that type of impact. rainfall could be in excess of 10 inches. plus the risk of tornados and very high winds. whoever gets the core of that will get high winds. but the main problem for florida, in my opinion, is the

storm surge and the water overall between rain and seawater causing flooding. there is the risk of substantial damage in the billions of dollars if this takes the right track at the right intensity towards the coast depending on where it makes landfall. >> as john was saying, the residents of cuba will be seeing the impacts of ian. you're in havana. how are people there preparing for the storm? >> jose, when you think of a country like cue barks you don't have the resources we have in the united states. so the preparations are different. you can't go a store and buy all the food that you can take home. you can't buy supplies to protect your home because of the limitations. we have seen longer lines at some of the stores that sell bread and other basic necessities. water. we saw preparations near the

water in havana where they expect waters to rise. gas stations are taking some of the pumps apart. people can only mope for the best and make sure that they are inside their homes when the hurricane passes. now, we know that the worst part of the hurricane will be west of havana, right? we are going to get rain and winds. you also have a lot of old structures in this country. they are brick structures, strong structures. many of them haven't received any maintenance in decades, right? so when you look at the west part of the country and that is going to be the most affected, they will be much more vulnerable because they have less resources to prepare. all they can do is sit tight at home and gather as little as they can extra food and water for when the storm hits this evening, jose. >> guad, people in cuba have already been dealing with, you know, covid and then dengue -- there's been a dengue outbreak

on the island. people are facing what could be a devastating impact with nonexistent health systems? . >> exactly, jose. you look at the infrastructure that exists in cuba, obviously it's limited. it has its issues. so people have been talking about what could happen to an area in the area west of havana where the hurricane is expected to hit. this is an area traditionally down as the cinderella of cue a about. it's a rural area. much less resources. maybe we could see the only very successful industry that remains which is the tobacco industry. the infrastructure, i've been told, is very old. people are saying with the hurricane going over the buildings, it could practically destroy it. and a lot of the food that comes to havana comes from the little food that cuba is producing.

this is what's at heat. >> i want to take you back here to florida now with the state of emergency declared across the entire state. how are residents in tampa responding? >> they are calm but definitely getting prepared. we've watched the last couple of hours people have steadily come through the doors at this home depot, stopping to stock up on gas canisters, generators, as well as cases of water. and we got here this morning, the generator stack was much further out than it is now. people we have spoken to say for better or worse, they are floridians. people say they are particularly paying closer attention to is the potential for storm surge. they want to make sure they have everything they need. they hope they don't need to actually use the things, but they are coming and making last minute runs like a generator just so they have it in the

event they need it. here's what we have heard. . >> i think i'm good with supplies. one thing i could not find was a generator. i went to five places yesterday. all emptied out. thought i would try this morning, and they are loaded up. >> the only thing i can say is, you know, try to go in with a good attitude. i think a lot of the forecasters are usually wrong. but i think people have a good sense of things. honestly, the surge is our biggest concern. for people right on the water, definitely evacuate if you're told to and take it seriously. try not to let it ruin your perspective of everything. >> reporter: so one thing officials both at the state and local level are reiteraing is, one, to know your home, whether or not it can handle heavy winds and rain and know your zone. know whether you're in an evacuation zone.

check what your zone is. >> state and local officials have been really preparing for something like this. how are you seeing them handling this in tampa? >> yeah. i mean, everybody is kind of in this let's prepare stage. that's what they are telling residents to do. from the state level, federal level, they are doing the same. one thing mention at a press conference yesterday as well as the emergency manager that head top official, if you will, they have pre-positioned 350 trailers at staging areas throughout the state. and on those trailers there's over 2 million meals, over a million gallons of water. they are in close communication with counties like this one. and if a county like this calls and says, hey, we need those types of resources, they can move them in. this is florida, so people are

pretty used to it. >> allison, guad and john, who is never wrong in his forecast, thank you all for being with us this morning. we're keeping an eye on wall street after a brutal end last week. the dow jones dropped 100 points at the open. it is at 170 amid surging interest rates and the british pound which has fallen to a new low against the dollar. it hit a new number for the year, 486 points. there you go. it looks like it will go past the 175 any second now. >> still ahead, new reaction after a former adviser to the january 6th committee makes an allegation about what happened january 6th between a rioter and the white house. first, a dozen story out of russia. a dozen people, including children, dead after a school shooting. the details next. you're watching "jose

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15 past the hour. this morning we are learning new details about a school shooting in russia that left at least 15 people dead. two dozen others injured. at least 11 children were among those killed, according to investigators. russian officials say the gunman was wearing a t-shirt with swastika and died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. joining us now with more is priscilla thompson who is following this story from london. priscilla, good morning. what more do we know about this horrible tragedy? >> reporter: yeah, jose. well, officials hearsay that the shooter entered that school this morning. he had a ski mask in all black. he began by shooting a security guard, officials say. that is when this rampage really began with several number of

people being killed, including students and teachers. this was a school that served grades 1 through 11. it's about 600 miles east of moscow. in addition to all of those who were killed, there were nearly two dozen people who were injured in all of this. we have seen videos of people evacuating where you can visibly see blood on them as they are trying to make their way out of this school. in terms of the shooter, as you mentioned, he did die by suicide. officials did release a video of the aftermath of the shooting. he can be seen in all black with a nazi symbol on his shirt. something that is very concerning to officials with russian officials calling this a terrorist attack, jose. so certainly very concerning and a lot of people very devastating as this continues to unfold. jose. >> priscilla thompson, thank you

so much. now to the latest on the war in ukraine. there were more protests over the weekend for president vladimir putin aepbs call for several hundreds of thousands to be called to the front lines. many are fleeing to avoid the draft. a man shot and wounded a military commissar in eastern russia. the local investigative committee says the gunman is now in custody. it comes as secretary of state antony blinken responded in an interview on cbs of "60 minutes" to a thinly veiled threat from putin to use nuclear weapons if he felt russia was under attack. >> i'm not going to get into what the consequences would be. any use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic effects for of course the country using them and many others as well. . >> if you can't give us

specifics about a u.s. response, can you tell us if the administration has a plan? >> we do. >> with us now to take a closer look is former u.s. ambassador to nato, now president of the chicago council on global affairs. ambassador, always a flash to see you. ukraine's president doesn't think putin is bluffing. how seriously should we be taking that threat? . >> we have to take it seriously because it is such a big threat. even if there's just a 1% chance that it gets executed we have to be aware if it happens it would have catastrophic consequences that secretary blinken has talked about. at the same time, he is saying he is not bluffing. anybody who plays poker, that tends to be an indication that you may not be serious. we have to take the threat seriously. i think the administration is. it's been looking at this from already before the war started

in february. it is drawing up a variety of different plans. and i have no doubt that vladimir putin knows exactly what it is we will do if he were to decide to use any nuclear weapon anywhere at any time. >> what do you think and what would be the united states response to something like that? >> well, it depends a little bit on where and how the russians would use nuclear weapons. but if it were a direct attack on a nato country, it would lead to the entire nato alliance getting involved into the war. probably only with conventional weapons. although the united states retains and nato has policies for using nuclear weapons in response to the actual use of weapons by an enemy like russia. but in and around ukraine or a

demonstration about the black sea, my sense is the united states and allies would directly intervene into the war in order to make sure that vladimir putin and russia not only don't succeed in ukraine but actually lose and get expelled from all of ukrainian territory. there is no interest in the white house or anywhere else to make this a war between russia and nato or russia and the united states but helping ukraine to defend itself against russia is something that would, i assume, come about because of the use of nuclear weapons. >> ambassador, i want to play more about what secretary blinken had to say on "60 minutes" on whether putin was losing the war in crain. let's listen. >> he's already lost what he was trying to achieve. what he said very clearly was the start is his objective was to erase ukraine's identity as an independent country. that has already failed. ukrainians are fighting for

their own land, for their own country. the russians are not. >> and it seems, ambassador, as though putin appears to be losing on many fronts. he's having to call up the draft, threatening possible nuclear weapons. every decision by every policymaker or war leader, there's a cost benefit analysis on doing things like what putin has been threatening and been doing with the draft. do you see them being cornered more ask approximate more and maybe coming to the realization, or in this case, the conclusion that maybe, well, he has no other option but to do this? >> yeah. unfortunately, i think he is cornered. and the real question is at what point does he realize that escalation doesn't achieve what he was hoping to achieve? i mean, just take this new draft that he is instituting, the idea that you can pluck people from the streets, force them through a training, and then send them

to the front and they will actually be effective soldiers is frankly ludicrous. these are people who don't want to go to war, who don't believe fighting in ukraine to expand the russian borders makes any sense. if they had thought that, they would have joined the war earlier. so this entire idea of sending more troops to the front, hoping you can scare nato and ukraine into surrender by threatening nuclear weapons are all signs of desperation. the real question is at what point does putin or those around him realize that further escalation actually only increases cost and has no benefit and that the time is really to end this war. and secretary blinken also said russia can do that today. they can stop fighting and move their forces back to russia, and the war would be over. >> yeah. i mean, when you think that for maybe putin human life has no value, then there is no cost to sending more human lives to be

destroyed. it's this weird kind of thing he is facing because of his actions, right, the 24th of february? it was a unilateral decision. >> yeah. he may not care about russian lives. the question is if the russian people at some point have suffered enough and say time has come that we really need to have a change in policy and start to use the totality of their power, which is the ability to get onto the streets and then hope that other forces in russian society, including the police, start agreeing that the time has come for not only a change in policy but perhaps a change in leadership. that, it seems to me, what putin is fighting right now. >> ambassador, it's a pleasure to see you. up next, the january 6th committee is about to hold its first public hearing since july. what we can expect. we will bring you a live report

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january 6th committee will be holding its first public hearing since july on wednesday. the hearing comes as former committee staff member denver riggleman made an allegation during cbs's "60 minutes". >> you get a real aha moment when you see the white house switchboard connected to a rioter's phone while it's happening. this is a big aha moment. >> wait a minute. someone in the would you say was calling one of the rioters while the riot was going on. >> on january 6th, absolutely. >> and you know both ends of that call. >> i don't know the white house end. >> and cnn is now reporting that the call lasted nine seconds and took place roughly an hour after the rioter left the building. nbc news is working to independently confirm this information. but in the meantime, the panel appears to be distancing itself from riggleman. a spokesperson said in a statement that he had, quote,

limited knowledge of the committee's investigation and he left before the hearings and much of the panel's most important investigative work was done. with us now to talk more about this, nbc news capitol hill ali vitale. he is co-author of "trump in the white house 2017-2021." what do we know about why the committee is distancing itself from riggleman's comments on "60 minutes"? . >> this is a committee that likes to control its own narratives for the very reasons they laid out. this is a former staffer who left before a lot of the work was done that eventually made its way into this summer series of hearings. what we have heard from several of the members over the course of the weekend is they are aware of this. but in the words of congressman raskin, he said it's one of thousands of pieces of information that the committee

has gathered. this is also a group of lawmakers, though, who doesn't tend to bury the lead. i have a feeling if this is something they knew that connected to a larger piece of this puzzle, it's probably something we would have heard about right now. nevertheless, congressman schiff saying it could be put into a later hearing. at the end of the day, we know they're pushing ahead to a hearing just a few days from now when they come back in session. it's not yet clear what we will hear specifically. they promise we will hear new information from the committee. this is likely, i'm told by my sources, the last hearing we will see before election day. though we expect to see hearings around an interim report. we know all of that is come in the fall and winter, jose. . >> peter, what are you looking for from this week's hearing? >> well, i think i want to see how they wrap this up. obviously, if new information comes out, that will be of interest. i think they are also talking about trying to make it a more

sweeping, step back kind of approach to this hearing heading into the election to tell voters and tell americans the sum total of what they have discovered and to try to make sense of all of this. all these hearings present so much information for a lot of viewers may all jumble together. what they are trying to do, in effect, is to provide a summary that will help shape our understanding of this event and help shape the discussion and debate that will happen about it through this campaign this fall. >> vice chair liz cheney appeared at the texas tribune fest over the weekend. what did she have to say about future plans? . >> peter and i were lucky enough to attend. cheney was the key note here. it is clear she is leaving congress. we're watching her sort of create this blueprint for what it will look like to be a cheney style republican in a trumpian era for the republican party.

she's laying out the metro, too, she is willing to campaign for democrats if she has to. here's more of what she said. >> we have an obligation to make sure, and i certainly will do whatever it takes to make sure donald trump isn't anywhere close to the oval office. i'm going to make sure donald trump -- i will do everything i can to make sure he is not the nominee. if he is nominee, i won't be a republican >> she is saying she is willing to campaign if they are running against election deniers. if trump is the nominee in 2024, she's leaving the party >> what happened january 6th is only one of several investigations surrounding donald trump. you took a closer look at these probes. which should probably donald trump be worrying the most about? >> yeah. it's a great question. there are so many, it's hard to keep track at times. letitia james, attorney general of new york, last week filed a civil lawsuit alleging all sorts

of business shenanigans. we are watching that. fulton county, investigation into the election manipulations there, efforts to manipulate the outcome. but i think the one that seems most proximate at the moment is the classified documents he took from the white house. that seems to be the greatest threat. he is not entitled to have under the law. what prosecutors were outlining, it's not just the taking of the documents, but the obstruction of justice they seem to be focused on, the idea that basic live trump refused to return documents and had his lawyers sign papers saying he had returned documents that he hadn't. that is a big potential threat there. we should always be careful. president trump -- former president trump has obviously escaped unscathed from a number of investigations in the past. we don't know which one is going to actually have traction in the

end or not. >> peter, i wanted to ask you about what are we going to learn in white house 2017-2021? >> not just to look at january 6th but understand it was not an outlier. it was a culmination of four years of war on institutions in american life. you have to understand january 20th, 2017 and every day that came in between, he tried to turn the intelligence agencies, department of justice, military, all of them into personal instruments of power which kul main ated in that post election time to hold onto power, even though the will of the voters is that he leave. it is interesting to find out why and how he got from paint a point a to point b. >> pleasure to see you both. thanks. up next, live in iran where the country's leaders are issuing new severe warnings to

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where protesters have taken to the streets for 10 consecutive nights in defiance of an unfor giving crackdown. severe warnings from the country's leaders. iran's president telling authorities they must deal decisively with those who protest the country's security. mahsa amini had been arrested for a strict violation of the dress code. this video shows amini collapsing. it's unclear what happened beforehand. police took amini to a hospital, where she died three days later. they deny mistreating her. demonstrations continue nationwide. women leading the charge in a monumental movement. they are burning head scars, facing off with riot police, and walking the streets boldly without a hijab despite the massive, possibly life

threatening, risks. >> this younger generation of iranians have lived their whole life in a securitized state, crumbling economy, a country isolated from the world. they've had enough. these are shaking the very foundations of the islamic public. >> reporter: security agents identifying people they believe were on the streets at night. at least 18 journalists have been arrested, many of them women. around the world, demonstrators showing support for the iranian people. protests in the u.s., france, germany, and canada. in london, there were violent clashes in the iranian embassy, taking all measures to crush dissent. leaving protesters struggling to upload images of the rolling crackdown. the government has also shut

down universities as they are a traditional hotbed of dissent. they are also accusing the united states of trying to violate iran's sovereignty, warning washington of a response. jose? >> ali, thank you so much. time for a look at more headlines beyond our borders this morning. at any moment now, the border between colombia and venezuela will reopen seven years after it officially closed to trade. the presidents of both countries are due to meet at the border any minute now. back in 2015, venezuelan president ordered the crossing of border points after an incident during anti-smuggling operations. colombia's new president promised to restore trade between the two. and preliminary results show italy has elected its first

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48 past the hour. in anticipation of hurricane ian, florida officials in hills pore row county, which includes tampa, just announced they are ordering a mandatory and voluntary evacuations for people living near the shore. the order goes into effect at 2:00 p.m. eastern today. over the weekend, a different storm, fiona, struck canada, causing homes to be swept away along the gulf in nova scotia. many communities in puerto rico are still recovering from the impact of hurricane fiona. the u.s. government has allocated more than $3 million for hazard mitigation after hurricane maria devastated the

island in 2017. but the "washington post" found just 5% of the available post-maria fema funds have been obligated, according to the data from puerto rico's recovery office. joining us now from puerto rico is a reporter behind this reporting, "washington post" texas correspondent. elise, great seeing you. why have so few of this mitigation projects even be started in puerto rico? >> reporter: so it's a flurry of factors. one is the mechanisms for disbursing, submitting proposals getting, you know, approval, getting it to a design stage, finding engineers, every step of that process has been super complicated and beset by bureaucratic hurdles. the trump administration kept some of the money from reaching the communities. the biden administration has helped to ease some of the

restrictions. but the process has been difficult to navigate for the central government, municipal governments. on top of that, you have puerto rico's bankrupt. these communities don't have the ability to front the cash to contractors, so the cash to contractors. it's so many complicated factors and it's amazing that i'm here in puerto rico five years later reporting the same story. >> yeah, what are people of puerto rico telling you? i mean it's almost as though they're just living the same nightmare over and over again. >> well, here we did a big project about what it's like to live without power in puerto rico based here. we revisited some of those same families and they're disappointed with the pay things are right now. they're back to going back to the local stream to get water to wash clothes and dishing, wondering when the politics will come on. some people have -- on an individual level, mitigated some

of that, they've gotten solar lights, solar panels through their homes, but it's extremely disappointing and the level of tolerance here is wearing thin. >> i'm wondering, is it just because the government officials are just so incapable of doing anything that in any way helps streamline the money that's already available? >> some of this work is really complicated work. it involves some complicated engineering and design that needs to take place. i think what it says is that the way that we think about disaster and hazard mitigation, about makes communities whole does not move quickly enough for an era of climate change. we're seeing these storms more frequently. they're coming with greater potency. this was a category one storm that did this to puerto rico. it seems that the infrastructure

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55 past the hour. let's take a look at wall street right now. earlier today we showed you it was down 175 points. now it's only down about 50 points. a lot of concern over the british pound which has fallen to a new low against the u.s. dollar. and we have new indications of where voters may stand with just 43 days until the midterm elections. new polling shows voters are split nearly down the middle on which party they think should lead congress. the republican party is at advantage on key issues on crime, inflation and the economy. democrats are maintaining a lead on other issues. joining us now is the dean of the clinton school of public service at the university of arkansas. she's an msnbc contributor. voter enthusiasm is a key

indicator. what are you hearing from organizations on the ground about the level of interest for these midterm elections? >> on the part of the democrats, the good news is that they have a lot more support than you would think you would have in the midterm coming after the president's election. that's the good news. but the not so good news, we'll say, for the democrats is where independents are falling. democrats and republicans showing high enthusiasm, right, but independents are a lot softer in their enthusiasm, in their likelihood of turning out. the other piece of not so great news for the republicans is that we see republicans with the very slight edge among independents. with all of these contests where they are so razor thin in terms of the margins, that really matters. the next 43 days, both parties

are going to be laser focused on these independents. >> and these independents are voting one way or another depending on what major issues, you think? >> and not all independents are the same, right? in this group we have our suburban white women. we have our latinos who have gone back and forth over the last couple of years. you have your true independents who just election by election will decide who to vote for. there's the moderate partisan in the independents as well as folks who every season their vote is up for grabs. and i think this is really where you see the advise -- ad buys. but it's going to have to be a ground game. they're going to have to touch folks where they are. >> and that includes the latino voter which is having a much more important role every single election time. but as you say, victoria, they're not monolithic.

>> they've never been monolithic. and i think the point that we had been seeing that election over election where their vote has to be won. and i think with the democratic party, they are recognizing that they can't assume, that they can't assume that latinos are going to vote for them. so there's that piece and also understanding that immigration, you can't can't assume that all latinos are going to be an expansion of the immigration policy. the devil is in the details. some latinos want a more restrictive immigration policy. >> always a pleasure to see you. i thank you very much for your time. that wraps up this hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can always reach me on twitter and instagram. be sure to follow the show online and thank you for the privilege of your time. lindsey reiser picks up with more news right now.

good morning. i'm lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york. right now bracing for ian. the storm now a category one hurricane is rapidly intensifying and heading straight for cuba, then florida. all of florida is now under a state of emergency. some parts of the state now forecast to see upwards of 15 inches of rain. the looming threat is sparking long lines at grocery stores and gas stations. >> we got a lot of water, food. we got a lot of gasoline. >> we're trying to be ready. who knows? it may be real bad, maybe not bad at all. if it is, we want to make sure we're ready. >> we're live in tampa in moments where some people were just ordered to evacuate. plus, fresh drama ahead of the january 6th committee hearing. they are aware of a call between a january 6th rioter and the white house on the day of the capitol