In washington. Jim acosta has evening off. And we begin with Game Changing evidence in the Georgia Election interference of donald trump and his allies. Fulton county officials now have emails and Text Messages that directly connect members of trumps legal team to the breach of a Voting System in rural Coffee County. The new very many comes as fani willis prepared to present the case to a grand jury. She is expected to seek an indictment of more than a dozen people as early as tuesday. And that means this week a former u. S. President could be facing criminal charges in four u. S. Jurisdictions. We begin with Cnns Zachary Cohen who helped break this reporting. Zack, thank you for being with us. How significant is this new evidence that you all have uncovered that is lirnnking to e breach of the Voting System . Reporter these texts really do draw a direct line between members of trumps legal team an the breach if Coffee County, georgia. A rural republican heavy county, about 200 miles s
judge. a south florida airports still closed by floodwaters after the rainiest day in fort lauderdale history. and new restrictions on abortion pills kick in just hours from now will the u. s supreme court step in. good friday morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans today in air national guard i t specialist will make his first court appearance after his arrest in connection with a major leak of top secret defense documents. the exact timing for jack to share his arraignment in a boston courtroom has not yet been announced. cnn s oren lieberman has more on the investigation. rest from the pentagon. 21 year old member of the massachusetts air national guard is in custody arrested in connection to the massive leak of classified documents online, the fbi swooping in on titan, massachusetts, a tactical team moving in to arrest jack to shera after surveilling him for a couple of days. a u. s official said the plan was to arre
arraignment for former president trump. good morning, everybody. hope the weekend was grand. dana has the day off today. welcome back to our friend from washington aishah. aishah: historic week here in new york city. this is america s newsroom. right now the former president is getting ready to depart palm beach, florida, for new york city. that is where he will be arraigned on a reported 34-count indictment related to hush money payments made in the run-up to the 2016 election. the former president flies to new york at noon eastern. tomorrow at 11 eastern is arriving at the courthouse. aishah: the hearing to last 15, 30 minutes. after that he will head back to mar-a-lago and give a televised address at 8:15 eastern. bill: the nypd says it has been put on high alert. officers putting up barriers and closing streets. we ll see whether or not that s necessary in the end. they get ready to move a former u.s. president in and out of that courthouse swiftly and safely.
audience out there in television land. so, yes, they could do it, but i think it would be a big mistake. all right. more to come on this. we ll all be watching fulton county. thank you so much. we do appreciate it. thank you. and for days now police in atlanta have been preparing for the fulton county d.a. announcement as we mentioned a few minutes ago, the barriers are around the courthouse and they ve been closing streets in the vicinity. isabel is outside of the vicinity. what do you know about security preparations and you ve learned that officials have been talking to officials in other places where trump has already been indicted to learn from that? reporter: yeah, well jessica, the big question is will fulton county be yet another place where trump is charged and arrested? and it seems like regardless of what that answer will be, fulton county is ready. you could see the heavier police
at the pentagon. thanks, orrin. he will face a judge later today . alright fort lauderdale airport still closed by flooding at this hour after the rainiest day in fort lauderdale history. get this nearly 26 inches in 24 hours. officials don t expect the airport to reopen until nine a.m. today. weather forecasters call yesterday s delusion a one in 1000 year rainfall event, torrents of water, closing streets, pushing cars around trapping people in their homes and vehicles. fort lauderdale fire and rescue crews received more than 900 calls for assistance. the city says 600 people were taken to shelters. cnn s derek van damme live in the weather center of the picture is just really tell the story. the rain, though derek is mostly over around fort lauderdale, but what about the flooding? well it s going to take, uh, several hours if not days for that water to completely start to be removed from the roadways in downtown fort lauderdale. but this is what it looks like when you get 26 or near