The sun coming up 6 00 a. M. Its wednesday, august 28th. And we have a lot to get to this morning. Including special counsel jack smith trying to salvage the federal Election Interference case against donald trump. Filing a formal indictment against the former president. Were going to bring you excellent analysis in just a moment. Meanwhile, donald trump now says that he will debate Vice President Kamala Harris in two weeks, but the Harris Campaign still needs to be resolved. And well have more details about that the operation that rescued an israeli man who was held hostage by hamas for more than 300 days. That comes as israel launches a broad operation in the west bank with raids and air strikes in that territory. Im Jonathan Lemire along with u. S. Special correspondent for bbc news katty kay in this morning for joe, mika and willie. Well be joined by Symone Sanderstownsend, and mike barnicle, and nbc news capitol hill correspondent, you just saw her on way too early, ali vitali. Lo
Mae jemison. Thank you and thanks very much for my sons question. Thanks for joining us. The news continues here on cnn hello, and welcome to our viewers joining us from the United States, canada, and all around the world. Im Christina Macfarlane, On Max Foster just ahead. Mike on or off the trump and harris teams, Squabble Over whether to leave microphones muted during the president ial debate, just two weeks out from the highly anticipated event russia unleashes a new wave of deadly strikes on ukraine a day after moscow launched one of its largest drone and missile attacks of the war so far and cited, fined, or even jailed San Franciscos aggressive approach to dealing with the citys Homeless Population cnn newsroom, with max foster and Christina Macfarlane exactly ten weeks from today, americans will head to the polls to pick their next president , democratic nominee Kamala Harris, was off to the Campaign Trail monday, but later this week, she and running mate tim walz will begin a b
Bret good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, Special Counsel jack smith has filed a reworked indictment in his election interference case against former president donald trump, the new filing keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against the former president following that Supreme Court opinion on broad immunity on former president s. So what about this . What goes on from here . Correspondent david spunt has details from the Justice Department tonight. Good evening, david. Bret, good evening to you. This is the new indictment of president donald trump, the former president still has the same four core charges from when he was indicted last year. But, as you mentioned, it narrows some of the language. The language is a little bit tighter and it takes out mentions of certain people that Special Counsel jack smith felt that he could not move forward if he wanted to be successful in court. Something else to point out, a brand new grand j
Im annemarie green. We begin this morning with americas staggering death toll. The latest figures reveal more than a quarter of a Million People in the u. S. Have died from covid. As cases spike across the country, more than 70,000 americans have been hospitalized. The Health Care System is feeling the strain. Debra is in washington. How are state and local governments responding now to this worsening crisis . It ranges. In north dakota, there is a mask mandate. In ohio, a 21day curfew and in florida, there are no changes. State and local governments are reimposing measures to slow the spread. I need to ask a little more. We know this will cause some more harm out there. Restrictions mostly on restaurants, bars and gyms come as the total number of americans who have died from covid19 passes 250,000. The rate of growth from the middle of october until now is something we have not seen since march. A record 79,000 americans are currently hospitalized. We dont want to think about what wil
Boeing 737 max airplane to fly again after two crashes that took the lives of 346 people well tell you what to do if you dont want to fly on this aircraft. And well tell you what to do to keep your immune system strong as we head into winter. Early today starts right now good morning im frances rivera. And im phillip mena. Fresh off the news that Pfizers Covid vaccine is 95 effective, just hours ago astrazeneca released its own optimistic findings phase two shows that the vaccine is safe and its generating an immune response. Sara harmon of nbc is joining us from london. What have we learned about this vaccine . Reporter hi, phillip its billioning are encouraging on the vaccine front this morning were waking up from great findings from astrazeneca. This is a phase 2 trial. It was published in the medical journal the lancet. Its producing am immune response in older adults we know thats important because most adults are at risk for the virus, both for complications and risk of death. We