today. see you back here monday, same time, same place, 10:00 a.m. eastern. until then, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now good morning it s 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific any minute now attorney general merrick garland is expected to make a major announcement about charges against dozens of mexican drug cartels leaders and members. also the suspect in the biggest leak of military intelligence in decades appeared in court last hour what we re learning about how the suspected leaker got access to the classified documents. and breaking just moments anegotiation the legal battle over the abortion pill headed to the supreme court. and we are live in south florida where officials are assessing millions of dollars in damage from massive flooding after historic 26-inch rainfall. and we begin this hour with breaking news out of the department of justice. there you see the podium set up. two senior law enforcement
i m jose diaz-balart. right now, we are tracking the very latest on the deadly storms and tornadoes that slammed into parts of the south killing at least seven people. we ll bring you a live report from alabama. also this morning, we re following the very latest on the controversy surrounding the classified documents found at president biden s former office and delaware home. what the special counsel is looking into, coming up. on capitol hill a growing number of republicans are now call ong one of their own to step down after congressman george santos admitted to fabricating parts of his resume. we ll have congressman robert garcia about that and more. and here in miami, i had the chance to speak with the charity providing migrants with legal advice, food, and shelter. we ll discuss the challenges facing asylum seekers later this hour. we begin with the cleanup and recovery just beginning this morning after a dangerous storm system swept across parts of the unleashing a se
of the aggravating factor nikolas cruz knowingly created a great risk of death to many persons, yes. we the jury unanimously find that the state has established beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of the aggravating factor, the first-degree murder of gina montalto was committed, yes. we the jury find the existence of the aggravating factor that the first-degree murder of gina montalto was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel, yes. we the jury unanimously find that the state has established beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of the aggravating factor, the first-degree murder of gina montalto was committed in a premeditated manner without any pretense of moral or legal justification. yes. reviewing the aggravating factors that we unanimously found to be established beyond a reasonable doubt, we the jury unanimously find that the aggravating factors are sufficient to warrant a possible sentence of death, yes. one or more individual jurors find that one or more mitigat
killing 14 students and three staff members at marjorie stone douglas high school. kerry, what do we know at this hour? reporter: well, the families of the victims who have been enduring this really difficult penalty phase where all the information of every minute of every second of what happened have been notified by the court that the jury of 12 has now reached a decision on what the sentence will be and we expect that sentence will be delivered here at about 10:30. family members have been notified to be ready to go in the courtroom and sit where many of them have been sitting for the last four months. these are the pictures of the 17 victims. the students as well as the staff members who were massacred four years ago. it has been an extremely long journey for what they hope will be some sense of justice. the jury needs to be unanimous. if they are unanimous, it is a decision for death, then it will be up to the death to go forward with that as the actual sentence, but i
wildfire in the southwest. europe s heatwave leaves one of its major working rivers the rhine in germany too low for big trade ships. the riverbed of the mighty rina, look at it. we should be underwater here and yet the water levels have dropped so significantly that it is simply dried up. lawyers for donald trump. echoed with the referred the research of mr john s compound. as you can imagine, we are only getting this information right now and to reemphasise, this is a slightly unusual thing, the un ceiling of a warrant in the middle of an investigation. we are doing as we see the lines we will give them to you. when the lines we are seeing says that it involves alleged violations or potential violations of the espionage act and thatis violations of the espionage act and that is according to one reading of the warrant. the warrant also authorised the collection of a clemency document in search of the troubled florida home and there have been plenty, plenty of background