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Ukraines counteroffensive and sobering new assessment. And now it is time to set the rule of the road as they head to the trial, and trumps team is saying that the prosecutors are going after his First Amendment rights now. And 40 Million People are under severe threats today after the extreme storms have battered the United States over night. Im omar jimenez with kate bolduan and john berman. This is cnn news central. We have brandnew reporting this morning on ukraines counteroffensive in russia. Weeks into the fight, the reports from the battlefield are increasingly sobering. Specifically, concerns of the ability to retake specific territory. The National Security correspondent and the awardwinning author jim sciutto broke this reporting, and now he heard the reporting, and this is a marked change in weeks to folks in the u. S. And europe and the military and diplomacy and also lawmakers and there is a consistent read of the intelligence assessments here, and that is the counter offe
Good morning, everyone. So glad youre with us. It is a tuesday, full of news. Victor blackwell by my side. Good morning. Good to be back. Good to have you. Here all week. Five things to know for this tuesday, august 8th. New this morning, the east coast cleaning up after deadly storms, trees are down, roads are blocked. Hundreds of thousands of people without power. Already more than 300 flights cancelled. Happening today, the police chief in montgomery, alabama, is expected to reveal more information about that brawl that broke out on the citys river front. It started after a black dock worker was attacked by a group of white people. So far no arrests. But four warrants have been issued. Right now, Los Angeles City workers are on a 24hour strike. 11,000 workers including Sanitation Workers, engineers, life guards, all headed for the picket lines. They say its a fight for fair contracts. This hour, polls open in ohio as Voters Decide whether to make it harder to amend their state const
Now. I am writing myself a note. Its worth just put the 20 bucks in. Buy lottery ticket. Its tonight, right . Yeah. To do. I will do that. Maybe ill see you back here tomorrow morning. Would you come back if you won . Yes. Oh, okay. You not . No. A billion and a half dollars . Yes, i would. I like what i do. I like it too. But not when im a billionaire. I hear you, my friend, victor. Lets get to the powerful storms ripping across the east coast. Theyve been deadly. We know this morning at least two people have died, Hundreds Of Thousands of people, though, waking up to Power Outages this morning. Oh my god. That is a tree snapped in half in north carolina. While indiana residents are digging out after a tornado touched down there. Maryland state police say 47 people were rescued after being trapped in their vehicles for hours. Look at this. This is the people who were trapped between these power lines. Today already nearly 900 flights have been delayed. More than 300 cancelled. Here is
Donald trump. The Breaking News this hour we are following a defiant former president of the United States on the way to his new Jersey Golf Club right now after being arrested and arraigned on four serious, very serious criminal charges, stemming from his alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 president ial election in the United States. Trump proclaiming his innocence and accusing the Special Counsel of leading a political persecution. Wolf, of course, this is trumps third indictment in the past four months. It is the most serious set of charges he ever faced. As he did in new york and miami, the former president pleaded not guilty to all four counts today, Conspiracy To T Defraud the u. S. , conspiracy to obstruct proceed, obstruction of a proceeding and conspiracy against rights. I want to go our senior justice Correspondent Evan Perez from outside the federal courthouse here in washington where the former president made his initial appearance this afternoon. Evan, walk us through wha