good thursday morning i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. we are following breaking news this morning out of michigan. cnn learning disturbing details about a plot aimed at killing jewish elected officials in the state. among those targeted the michigan attorney general. we ll break down the details of that plot. coming up. plus today a pennsylvania man is expected in court after investigators say he hid explosives inside his luggage headed for orlando. investigators arrested him after he fled the airport. the latest on that case and the growing skcrutiny facing the aviation industry. and meeting with sergey lavrov for the first time since russia invaded ukraine. we ll bring that conversation to you. we want to begin with the breaking news out of michigan. the state s attorney general confirming she was one of the targets in a plot to kill jewish elected officials in that state. polo sandoval and john miller joining us now. polo, first tell us the details of the plot as
we begin in iran, where a large fire has been blazing at evin prison in the capital tehran. hundreds of political prisoners and dozens of dual nationals are held in the prison, as well as many protesters arrested during the past four weeks of riots around the country. officials say that eight people have been injured, and that the situation is now under control, but information is still trickling out of the country. well earlier i spoke to human rights activist sussan tahmasebi who is also one of iran s foremost feminist figures. i asked what she had learned about what s happening in evin prison in tehran. there is a lot of speculation and a lot of concern. we ve had different stories, people who have seen the video say that it seems that two awards, seven and eight, seemed to be the wards that have caught fire, and ward seven they next to the quarantine section of ward 240 where a lot of protesters who have been taken prisoner are being held. we don t know. it s a lot of spe
fox weather reporter robert ray is live in bermuda, what are you seeing this morning? yeah, good morning from bermuda, the small island out in the atlantic ocean, been getting pummelled anyway t by the hurricane issue the category 4 hurricane fiona, it is about parallel with the island of bermuda, look at the video from overnight and the wind is coming in, gusts up to 71 miles per hour and the past few hours that is almost hurricane strength. next two or three hours, it is expected to get more intense and taper off into the afternoon as it makes its way up into canada. if we can, take a look at this sail drone video from out in the atlantic ocean, this was yesterday, just a few hundred miles from the island of bermuda. look at the swells, 50-foot wave and that is happen ing around bermuda, just from the north carolina coast. thus far we are right on the virge of those gusts into the world of hurricanes, hurricane winds are 74 miles per hour and the rain continues to come i
we have a lot for you this hour, and we re following several major stories. president biden is about to sign a pact act, a major piece of legislation aim at expanding resources and benefits for millions of benefits exposed to those burn pits and other toxic substances. we ll take you live to the white house in just a moment for the signing. and it is just an extraordinary legal week for former president donald trump as he faces several major investigations. right now former president trump is sitting for a deposition with the new york attorney general s office, and this is in connection with a civil investigation into his businesses finances. it does come just two days after the fbi search his florida home known as mar-a-lago. the justice department was concerned trump had not returned sensitive documents. we have former details about how the president may frame his defense. let s begin this morning at the white house where president joe biden is about to sign that extra
against political opponents? the president believe in the rules of law and the independence of the department of justice. yes or no. it is a no for you. i m answering the question. you may not like it but i m answering the question. bill: or you could just say no. here is what we think we know at the hour. the search was related to a dispute with the national archives over the handling of presidential records is what has been reported. president trump left the white house with thoeps documents in january of 2021. later that year, the national archives contacted the president s team about potential classified information that was missing. dana: fast forward to january. the president voluntary gave more than a dozen boxes. in june d.o.j. visited mar-a-lago to get the transfer of more materials. bill: that s where things start to get murky. the talks broke down over the summer, sometime in june or july. the president disputes that however. federal officials viewed th