charles ascension to the throne marks a pivotal moment for the united kingdom. it s facing a potential breakup scotland braces for independence. and uncertain world after leaving the eu. max foster is at buckingham palace. max, i show enjoyed your commentary. you ve been doing a great job. what is occurring at this particular moment? reporter: audiences at buckingham palace, so we re into the more mundane matters, if you like, after a lot of the pomp and ceremony where the king has to meet all the key people in the state and have meetings with them in order to govern over this state. look at the crowds. today the barriers have gone up. the roads are being closed. they re preparing for the massive state funeral which president biden confirmed he will be going to. we could see all the seniors heads of state from all around the world coming in. i know president putin enjoyed his visit to london. will he be allowed to come under sanctions is a big question. president xi enjoye
new charges against steve bannon this morning, welcome to viewers here in the united states and all around the world. long-time trump adviser and ally steve bannon expected to surrender to prosecutors in new york thursday to face state charges related to his fundraising effort to build a wall along the southern border. bannon allegedly defrauded donors who contributed to a we build the wall campaign. the crowd-funded border wall raised more than $25 million. according to prosecutors bannon falsely told donors that all the money contributed would go toward the construction effort. bannon in a statement calls the indictment phoney charges and a partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system. federal prosecutors charged bannon with the same alleged crime in 2020 but president trump pardoned bannon as he was leaving office. presidential pardons do not apply to state investigations, of course. cnn s kara scannell is joining us now with the details. what s the la
right now on andrea mitchell reports, less than a week before the midterms, the president will give a major speech tonight from washington on why he believes the future of democracy is on the ballot. barack obama has been crisscrossing the country for democrats. liz cheney crossing party lines. the basic question that you should be asking yourself is, who will fight for you? if the people in our party are not doing the job they need to do, then we re going to vote for the people in the other party, because we are americans above all else. this hour, a deeper dive into online misinformation campaigns in the wake of the attack on paul pelosi. this time, looking at pennsylvania. new reporting on how capitol police missed seeing the break-in live on video despite a security camera on the house. new we action to a north korean barrage of almost two dozen missiles, setting off alarms in south korea and new intelligence that kim jong-un is helping to arm russia against ukr
it s top of the hour on cnn newsroom. the death toll from hurricane ian has just gone up. it s now 104 lives lost. 100 of those in florida. search teams finding more bodies as they reach some of the hardest hit areas. more than half of those killed were in lee county which includes ft. myers beach. that city is now closed to everyone but search and rescue personnel. the mayor says there is no time line yet for when residents can return. lee county officials coming under some criticism for the timing of their evacuation orders. now dozens of miles inland in western florida in arcadia, river flooding is still causing problems. . this is five days after ian hit. cnn team on the ground says that part of the highway has disappeared under the water. and many people there are trapped. we were on the ground in arcadia, florida. you re hearing from people panicked there. what is the situation? well, allison, we re entering day four now of people not having electricity. so they don t
nuclear disaster. plus, apple alert. the tech giant warns a security flaw could allow iphones and ipads to get hacked. what should you do right now to protect your devices? welcome to the lead. we start with our politics lead. in the six words sounding new alarms in trump world. documents unsealed by a federal judge related to that fbi raid at mar-a-lago include the phrase, willful retention of national defense information. willful retention of national defense information. legal experts tell cnn that phrase sharpens the focus on the former president as a possible subject of the justice department s criminal investigation. in another trump related investigation, the one down in georgia, a federal judge there ruled that she will not put on hold the ruling that republican senator lindsey graham of south carolina must appear before that fulton county special grand jury next week. the prosecutors said in a filing today that graham s testimony is crucial to the investigation i