latest. we re going to get to everyone there, but let s begin first this hour with cnn correspondent keira scannell, who s outside that manhattan courthouse. keira we start with you because we want you to walk us through what happens now. good morning, jim and jessica s so now we understand from sources that former president trump is expected to be arraigned on tuesday. that means he will surrender. they will work out of time because of the big security issues around a former president coming to appear in court, so there s going to be discussions about security. they will set a time for him to come and surrender and he will surrender to the building behind me around the corner where the d a s office is there he will be processed, just like any other defendant. he will have a mug shot taken. he will be fingerprinted. he ll be read his rights. then, at some point, he will be brought down to the judge and that courtroom where the judge will read the police the charges to him and
says the judge overseeing his indictment hates him. see where this one is going to lead starts right now tuesday 2 15 trump s arraignment s set, according to cnn sources, the unprecedented security that now needs to happen for this unprecedented court appearance, plus 30 news organizations come to the defense of an american journalist detained in russia. their demands to putin and a friend of that reporter will also join me this hour. and from the midwest to the south confirmed tornadoes on the ground with the governor of kentucky, saying tonight s forecast is the worst he has ever seen. welcome to the lead on this busy friday. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we start in our politics lead with new developments surrounding the historic indictment against former president donald trump tuesday around 2:15 p.m. trump is expected to appear before manhattan judged to be arraigned, according to sources . the former president is facing more than 30 counts related to business
ahead. i ll speak with the family of paul weiland, another american, the kremlin has locked up on espionage charges and a group of military families gets the tragic news. nine service members killed when two black hawk choppers crashed. cnn has a crew right near that save. plus tension in the house from paper tossing to hallway shouting in your face. debates are getting heated on the hill. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we start today with our world lead. top u . s. officials are strongly criticizing russia after an american reporter was detained on charges of spying. evan gersh covic appeared in a moscow court today accused of trying to steal russian state secrets. his employer, the wall street journal, says it quote vehemently denies those claims. but now gorshkov itch faces up to 20 years in prison. and today , lawmakers on capitol hill are accusing russia of using this journalist as leverage, and the white house is dismissing the charges.
medicare. done. well this is cnn. the world s news network. top of the hour on this monday morning. hi, everyone. i m jessica dean. good to have you, jessica. i m jim sciutto. today a new york grand jury is reconvening as it continues to weigh potential charges against former president trump. might be seen indictment today. cnn is outside the courthouse. plus this happening right now. massive protests in israel not just protests, crippling union strikes, store and restaurant closures, even hunger strikes by several israeli mayors. all of this over prime minister benjamin netanyahu s planned overhaul of the judicial system , his firing of the country s defense minister for opposing him in that plan. is the u. s s closest ally in the region, moving further away from democratic principles. israelis fear so we re going to the latest from jerusalem. also today, another round of severe weather is expected to strike the southeast after devastating tornadoes ripped through the region
Cambodia. The new kings of baseball, the Boston Red Sox win the series at home, the first time in almost a century. Syria has destroyed all of its declared chemical weapons production equipment, according to a report from the International Chemical weapons watchdog. The u. N. Is satisfied declared production mixing and filling equipment has been eliminated. Live to istanbul. Omar al saleh has more on this from istanbul. This coming ahead of a deadline set by the u. N. Yes, thats true. Basically it says that syria did need that deadline. Now the opcw said that its inspectors visited 21 sites out of the 23 sites declared by syria. It said the other two sites were too dangerous to visit, but they were confident and satisfied with the removal of the equipment and it was brought to the inspectors and they oversaw the destruction of aerial bombs, war heads, as well as all the mixing and filling equipment. Now this brings us to the end of phase one, and two, which was meant to end by november