i m victor blackwell. you re in the cnn newsroom. we begin with the news out of morocco of a devastating erk. the official death toll has risen to 1,037 deaths after a powerful magnitude 6.8 quake. the strongest to hit the north african nation in more than a century, it struck late last night, centered in the mountains surrounding marakesh, a tourist destination. the world health organization says more than 300,000 people in that city were affected. officials say there are more than 1,000 confirmed injuries, too, and with the sun up now, there is a race to reach victims in the most affected areas. but officials say rescue teams are struggling to get to those places. cnn s ben wedeman joins us now. rescue efforts are under way, but there is a concern this morning about aftershocks, especially knowing that morocco s infrastructure is not built for these kinds of large quakes. reporter: this is not considered a quake zone, in fact, and one of the problems is this earthquak
jurors listed 39 people they thought should face charges for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election. that is more than double the number who were charged in the end. we will break down some of the big names among those ultimately unindicted and why this matters. plus a philadelphia police officer has turned himself in after a deadly shooting as the district attorney release its unedited body camera footage of that incident, something the victim s family wanted the public to see in its entirety. we will have the latest. and the fbi chief issuing a stark warning about russian spies in the united states. he says the number operating here is still way too big. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. today we have brand-new information about the scope of the georgia election interference investigation into donald trump and the key take away, the sprawling rico case against the former president and 18
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