we start this hour of cnn news center with a touch of drama. the donald trump s civil fraud trial today in new york. his expert witness going after a lawyer for the new york attorney general. telling him, quote, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. some fireworks here. trump attending these proceedings to take a. a lot of attention on these. he is expected to take the stand next week as the final defense witness. cnn s kara scannell live for us outside of the court. tell us, kara, who is this expert witness for the defense? why did he get so upset? reporter: boris, breonna, this is an expert witness, the final expert witness that the trump team called on his defense. and accounting professor from new york university. professor eli bartov. he was asked questions, he had been testifying all morning on this. the lawyer for the attorney generals office subjected to one of the lines of questioning saying the accounting professor is not a banker, so he is not qualified to answe
conditions at gaza s largest hospital now described as catastrophic. newborn babies wrapped in foil to keep them alive. operating rooms out of service as fighting rages around the complex which israel says is a command center for hamas fighters. back on the witness stand, donald trump jr. is the first defense witness in the new york fraud trial against him, his father and their company. how their legal team hopes to undermine the case against them. and as the government shutdown looms, newly minted house speaker mike johnson struggling to control gop hard liners are following these major developing stories and many more. it s all coming in here to cnn news center. we start in gaza where essential units at the largest hospital are now in collapse. operating rooms are completely out of service. doctors are taking drastic measures to keep newborns alive. more than 7,000 people are currently sheltering at the al-shifa medical center and that includes some 1,500 patients and
Midatlantic tonight and eventually into the northeast tomorrow. This means, wolf, the Snow Drought for cities like new york, d. C. And philadelphia could end up being broken in the last 24 hours. Allison, thank you very much. Allison chinchar reporting. To our viewers, thanks very much for joining us. Ill be back 4 00 p. M. Eastern for cnns specialized coverage of the iowa caucuses. This is cnn news center. Inside politics is coming up next. Announcer today the iowa caucuses. In this highstakes race, who will come out on top . Cnn breaks it dodown with the bt team. Coverage s starts todaday at 4
shelter beds available at four locations for people to come off the streets tonight and through the remainder of this storm. rest assured the city crews and first responders are ready to respond to the impacts and emergencies that will come. beaches, parks, other public areas have been closed. residents have been encouraged to evacuate. let s go over to our cnn meteorologist karen mcginnis. what are we looking at here? a couple of things i want to mention, that is even though we keep giving you this update on the hurricane and how it looks like it s weaker or weaker and has lost some of its strength, it has not. it s still going to be exceptionally powerful which i ll outline in the next few minutes. i ll advise you at the top of the next hour 5 a.m. eastern time, 2 a.m. pacific time there s going to be another update from the national hurricane center.
it s also possible trump and his co-defendants might not have to show up in court for the first appearance for the arraignment and that is because the judge could conduct it virtually or allow them to wave the arraignment. clearly the clock is ticking. trump and his fellow 18 co defendants have until friday to turn themselves in. the reporting outside the fulton county jail, isabel rosales, cnn. the fbi is looking for a missing member of the proud boys days before he was due to be sentenced over the january 6th insurrection. he was convicted of seven charges related to his actions. the u.s. attorney says he s nowhere to be found. the fbi has put out a wanted poster. morell s attorneys have declined to comment so far. russian missile rips through a city in ukraine leaving death