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also tonight, the hurricane is forcing the january select committee to postpone the hearing that was scheduled for tomorrow. this as the panel had some big decisions to make and some new questions to answer. plus, russia is claiming victory after the sham annexation votes. what is vladamir putin s next move as russians protest and thousands plea his military draft? welcome to the situation room. i m pamela brown. let s get to the newest forecast for hurricane ian and the damage it will be doing by this time tomorrow. jennifer, what is the latest on ian s power and path? pamela, we are within that 24-hour window where this storm will make landfall as a category 3, winds of 120 miles per hour, but gusts are up to 150 miles per hour now and moving to the north at 10 miles per hour. this storm is going to run parallel to key west within the next hour or so. you can see very close right there, so they are going to get the worst of the weather. but the worst is to c ....
Path. correct? correct. if it s closer, the number will be higher. but it doesn t have to go over the dune to get into the inner coastal. it s going to go through the cuts where most of the boats come out. so the water will get back there whether it goes over the dune or not. there will be a 4 to 7 foot surge inland simply because the water will go through those cuts. and the water may be going through there at 40 knots. never would you get a boat out of there nor would you want to put a water in the boat at this point in time. but that water will fill in whether it goes over that dune or not. and talk to me about rainfall, chad. what s the rainfall expectation on the florida coast? it was a lot worse. we were looking at 10 to 20 inches along the coast. that now appears to be slightly offshore. here s the rainfall map. orlando here you re seeing in the white and green here. somewhere between 2 to 3 inches of rain. but along the coast, this is space coast all the way up to jackson ....
The severe thunderstorm watches from san antonio to great falls to salt lake city. and to bring you that rainfall map, so important along the mississippi, they don t want it. anywhere in the southeast, georgia, up through south carolina, pensacola, florida, for example, at a nine-plus inch deficit going into today, they need this rain. david? ginger zee with us tonight. ginger, thank you. and next here, there are new developments in the three americans who died at adjoining caribbean hotels within days of one another. tonight, the preliminary autopsy results are now in. we have new reporting on that. and it comes as another couple is now coming forward to say they are now suing after they got seriously ill at the same resort. abc s chief national affairs correspondent tom llamas is on the scene tonight. reporter: tonight, new details into how those three american tourists died in the dominican republic. preliminary autopsy results show 41-year-old miranda werner suffered a type o ....