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Penlding while no wrong doing was found in 20 other cases. authorities said they didnt find sufficient evidence that any of the officers committed a crime. members of congress are expected to get a security briefing with law enforcement today about an upcoming rally at the u.s. capitol. authorities are bracing for potential clashes and unrest on saturday as far right groups are said to protest in support of those charged in the january 6th attack on the capitol. claiming theyre political prisone...

Look at the diversity here. look at the excitement here that is -- were all about pro-usa. donald trump is the one that has a problem with the citizens. >> this is very much the sentiment in los angeles. that this is their country. the one thing more obvious than last year, this is very much a political movement. in a reference to president trumps own words, from so many years ago, the one sign i saw today that seems to sum it up is the midterms. people looking forward to chucking the president ...

Drive there tonight to see what the situation is. i am sure they have some sort of emergency power where there is some sort of light, but yeah, this whole area has lost power and people are just going to have to deal with that tonight as darkness falls, but it does look like eventually in the next couple of three hours were going to see these winds really begin to fade and irma begin to move on up the coast towards you. anderson? >> drew, thanks very much. i want to alex marquardt about 50 miles...

Somewhere around 75 miles an hour with gusts of 100 miles an hour. >> i was speaking with the city managers office today. they said they are ready and waiting for irma. anderson, they dont have to wait much longer. >> yeah, alex. its bad enough to experience an earthquake as people on the east coast did during the day as we saw in miami and miami beach and west palm beach. it is an entirely different thing to experience hurricane-force winds in the dark of night when you cant see what is hurdlin...

City right now, the lights seem to be out around punta gorda which is across much of the state. its not clear if they are going to remain out for a long time. they were certainly expecting that this was probably happening at some point tonight but not clear why theyve gone out. i didnt see any transformers exploding, i didnt see any obvious reasons for it to go out but it is out right now and they have to figure out how to get it reestablished, like much of the state, millions and millions of pe...

Few people can be hurt. weve seen people walking around and we have seen some cars and hopefully they will be going inside soon, but what the city manager tom barwin told us is that he was hoping that this storm would barrel through earlier in the day. it shlowed down. we heard from the meteorologist it was moving at 14 miles an hour and that may have changed recently and what that means is that youre absolutely right. the worst of this is going to happen in the middle of the night. what the cit...

The winds are right now. we know that in about an hour, we can start to begin to feel hurricane force winds, somewhere between 75, 95 miles an hour with gusts up to over 100 miles an hour, so anderson, in the coming hours, in this darkness, it is about to get much, much worse. anderson? >> alex, just in terms of the next hour, youve been told tom sater told you 100-plus winds at this point, thats the estimate? >> reporter: yes, i just lost you for a second but yes, what were being told is that a...