Here are your Need2Know headlines for Tuesday, September 28, 2022. 

Hurricane Ian Strengthens, Artemis I Rocket in Storage, Asteroid Crash: What You Need2Know for Sept. 28, 2022

This morning. Let's start again with Hurricane Ian. It's now a major hurricane taking aim at Florida's West Coast. Tampa is expected to take a direct hit for the very first time in over a century. Experts are saying that the storm surge could also hit as high as 10 ft. Many counties have already begun evacuations in the area. He is expected to crawl up the Florida coast starting tomorrow, dumping catastrophic rain. In addition to deadly storm surges, the storm made landfall in CUBA this morning with winds of up to 125 MPH. Shannon doesn't look good there. And as Hurricane Hurricane Ian pushes towards florida last night, Nasa began rolling the Artemus one rocket back into shelter. The engineers steered the aircraft back into the vehicle assembly building at the Kennedy space station. In florida. Anticipating more trouble ahead of Hurricane Ian. The store may cause further delays and the moon mission launch, currently scheduled for october 2nd and let's stick with space here last night announced a spacecraft successfully made impact with an asteroid millions of miles away and the test was critical for figuring out whether we have the capability to deflect space rocks that could pose a threat to earth in the future. The asteroid called dim or fous did not the threat we should note, but still, Nasa scientists say it was great in terms of an ideal target for testing out an impact. It'll be several months before Nasa knows if and how it may have changed the asteroid's orbit. Alright, congratulations. Yeah, exactly. And the world of politics is waking up this morning, our own aerial Hickson is live in Washington D. C. To bring us the biggest stories unfolding in our nation's capital. And Ariel a familiar name back in the news. Right? That is right Shannon. As the relationship between Washington and Moscow dramatically weakens Russia granted citizen two former american intelligence contractor Edward Snowden to donate is one of 75 foreign citizens listed as receiving Russian citizenship decree signed monday by Russian president Vladimir Putin. Some background here. In 2013, Snowden leaked highly classified government surveillance programs by the National Security Agency used to capture communications data worldwide. This included releasing details on the U. S. Intelligence budget and the degree of um America's surveillance on foreign officials. Snowden said he released a classified information initially because he believed the U. S. Government went way too far and violated civil liberties. He also doubted that the Obama administration would act if he just made an internal whistleblower complaint. He was charged in 2013 with theft of government property as well as unauthorized disclosure of U. S. National security and intelligence information. And each charge carries a maximum 10 year penalty since the charges, Snowden has kept a low profile in Russia. Hence the citizenship there. But in 2019 he said he would return to the US if guaranteed a fair trial. Of course continues to heat up those discrepancies in that energy that we're seeing between Moscow and Washington. Yeah. Meanwhile Ariel, what's the latest with january 6th committee. And can we expect potential trial soon? Yes. So we now have a date and time for the next public hearing from the january six select House committee. The committee has announced it will hold a hearing this Wednesday at one p.m. Committee member. Adam Schiff says that this might be the last investigative hearing, but the committee might have an additional hearing to go over the report and look at their recommendations going forward. Committee Chair Bennie Thompson updated that timeline for that report saying they hope to complete it by mid october and finish up all of their work by the end of december. But keep in mind midterms are around the corner and definitely in their minds here. The team wants to get everything done as quickly as possible as the threat of losing the house republicans means the future of that committee is jeopardized, Thompson says that they are planning to sunset the committee by the end of the year. The panel has a spotlight on the number of trump allies and requested testimony from big names like jenny thomas, the wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence thomas, former trump strategist steve Bannon and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and right now the proud boys are also in the spotlight today. Sarai. Alright, a lot going on aerial Hickson live in Washington, D. C. Thanks for that update. All right. Meanwhile, other stories we're following for protesters continue in Russia protests excuse me in Russia. This after Putin's military mobilization there, that's where a gunman opened fire at a draft office in Siberia yesterday seriously wounding a recruitment officer. At least 54 recruitment centers and administrative buildings have also been set on fire just since the invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine began that according to an independent Russian news outlet, 17 attacks have occurred since last call. On Wednesday. Russian authorities could close the country's borders to keep draftees from leaving. An estimated 261,000 men fled Russia between last Wednesday and saturday alone. Fighter has asked the FDA to authorize its new covid booster shots that target the omicron be a five sub variant for Children ages 5 to 11. Now, fighter application comes before clinical trial results of the new vaccines have been published. The agency's vaccine advisory committee will meet on october 19th and 20th Moderna asked the FDA to authorize its omicron shots for kids ages 6 to 17 and that happened on friday. Now the C. D. C. Clear advisors omicron boosters for people ages 12 and older and Moderna's new shots for adults older earlier this month. Well, a word of warning. This next story contains very disturbing video colorado police cam footage shows the moment that a freight train struck a police put troll car with a 20 year old woman handcuffed in the backseat of that car. The colorado Bureau of investigation says your nd curios Gonzalez remains hospitalized with serious bodily injuries, all sustained in that crash, but she is luckily expected to survive. On september the 16th after she was pulled over, she was placed in the back of a police vehicle parked on train tracks, which was hit by the train. As officers were searching her car. At least one officer has been placed on paid leave.