We are live at the courthouse following every detail. An alleged Serial Killer in court. Just one hour from now the man accused of the Gilgo Beach Murders makes his second court appearance. He is charged now in three killings. The suspect in a fourth. Now his wife is telling cnn about the Police Search for evidence. And moscow under attack. A second drone strike there in as many days. More on ukraines apparent strategy as it unleashes on russian soil. We are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to Cnn News Central. This is a live look outside of the federal courthouse here in washington, d. C. , where the grand jury is convening right now in the Special Counsels investigation of efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Donald trump and his legal team now face the very real possibility that an indictment is about to drop. The former president himself predicting on his truth social account that charges could come any day now. And we are just lear
Ephemeral legislation. Yeah. That went from being the word of the day a couple days ago, to now i think its the word of the week. Ephemeral or malodorous, its one of the two. Its still early. We have a couple hours ahead. Maybe we can find another one. Meanwhile, the Florida Governor is seizing on a potential weakness in trumps third president ial bid. Well show you what he had to say about that, and how he responded to questions about his last name. Is it desantis, is it December Desantis . Did he answer it . He did, and it was unrevealing. Huh. Republicans are still upset with Kevin Mccarthy over the Debt Ceiling Deal. Wah. One calling for a day of reckoning. Are you kidding me . It is a day of reckoning for the extremists, who thought that they were going to be able to hold, not only congress and Kevin Mccarthy and the president hostage, but also hold the United States economy hostage. They werent able to do it. These guys struck a deal, and struck a deal that passed overwhelmingly.
defense today. the lead starts right now. might there be a breakthrough? after months of tuber vville blocking military promotions. the secretary tells cnn in an exclusive interview this blockade by tuberville has become a threat to national security. and major questions for the secret service today as the agency says it s closing it s case and that they could not figure out who dropped a baggy of cocaine inside the white house. plus one of california s premier hospitals facing a new federal civil rights investigation into its alleged treatment of pregnant black women. welcome to the lead i m jam tapper. we re going to start with our world lead. president biden today made quite the bold statement about putin s bloody war against ukraine. putin s already lost the war. putin has a real problem. how does he move from here? what does he do? there is no possibility of him winning the war in ukraine. he s already lost the war. that stunning assertion from biden at a new
fine. a lot of you will say, neil, don t talk. anyway, we ve got more on what s happening on the price front, where are that that s all going down for the time being, but the real trouble for much of the country and up to a third of all americans is this heat wave that s gripping a good part of the country. fox weather s robert ray in galveston, texas, where it s particularly hot. welcome, my friend. reporter: neil, good good morning to you. happy weekend, happy saturday. galveston island just off of houston, the gulf of mexico. and look at that, neil, this big seawall, 20-foot seawall, jetting down. it was created after the 1900 hurricane that still killed more people in america than any other natural disaster. it is scorching here this morning. temps expected to be in the mid if 90s, dripping as i speak right now. gulf of mexico temperatures above average, and that is concerning, definitely, as our tropical storm season is about to heat up in august and into september. in
just like a htidal wave that is the outside of the building, and that is the band skillet. people are wrapped up around the place. not only do we feed you like it is the afternoon, we pretend you have a game and we give you cutting edge turf in case you fall. they roll it up and they put it in the garage next door. my brother donated it here. i thought that was the stuff we had like 25 years ago if is turf tech. we wore the other stuff out. what do they call it when they take you what? crowd surf. we re going to see brian crowd surf. i know people that get crowd surfed and people grab you, you know? while they pass you they re grabbing. you have to be aware of the people making that possible. if you re going to surf us, promise not to grab us. we re not going to do it. listen one of the great things about fridays in the summer is we have barbecue for breakfast and look at that. this is a rib barbecue rib bouquet, courtesy of our friends, who are in