heritage. after all our flaws and disagreements, and the push and pull of all that makes us human there is a nation that cannot accomplish, there s nothing was nation cannot accomplish when we stand together, and defend with all of our hearts, that which makes us unique in the world. our democracy. we are not only a nation based on principles, but based on an idea. we are the most unique nation in the world. an idea, that everyone is created equally and should be treated equally throughout their lives. we don t always live up to it, but we never walked away from it. that is what makes us strong, that is what makes us who we are, and that is what those hijackers most hoped to destroy when they targeted our buildings and our people. they failed. no terrorist could touch the wellspring of our american power, and it falls enough to keep it safe on behalf of all those we lost 21 years ago, on behalf of all of those who have given their whole souls to the cause of this nation every
square. kevin mckacarthy s quest to become house speaker, and the time is running out before the vote. and a green light to treat an experimental drug for alzheimer s. that is what we re watching at this hour. hi, everyone, i m jessica dean in washington in for kate bolduan today. and we begin with new developments in the investigation into a machete attack near times square on new year s eve. cnn has learned that the 19-year-old suspect was added to a terrorist watch list more than two weeks before at tack. which injured three nypd officers. sourcing tell cnn fib agents interviewed the suspect in mid-december after family members grew more concerned about his plans to travel to afghanistan to join the taliban. we begin our coverage with cnn s gloria who is live in times square with the latest. and we learned the suspect was carrying a diary with him. what did authorities find inside? reporter: that is right, jessica. we ve been learning more about trevor bicford, 1
destruction in its wake. governor ron desantis says more than 1,600 rescues have been made so far. after the storm turned roads into rivers, destroyed or damaged thousands of buildings and homes, leaving some coastal communities just unrecognizable. that s right. and right now nearly 600,000 homes and businesses are still this morning without power in florida. some floridians still have no clean water. officials say they are only now beginning to really assess the full scope of the damage. in lee county where more than 42 people died as a result of the hurricane, that is more than half of the deaths from hurricane ian, officials in that county are defending their actions after facing quite a bit of criticism over the evacuation timeline there. critics are asking where mandatory evacuations were not issued in lee county until one day before ian s landfall. while surrounding counties had already been told to evacuate prior. our reporters, correspondents, are all standing by t
reporter ryan riley and kelly o donnell. i m andrea mitchell in washington. ryan, can you get us up to speed on the latest? in my read of this, she is also enjoining the government from using the seized materials for investigative purposes, but is not preventing the director of national intelligence from proceeding with the damage assessment, correct? that s right. it s a pretty devastating ruling for the government. the biggest question here was whether or not the special master was going to have authority over the executive privilege claims. that was really the biggest issue. if this was solely limited to attorney/client privilege, i don t think we d see as much strong opposition necessarily from doj. it would have been something they could have potentially lived with, because it s such a limited amount of the materials. but when you get into these questions of executive privilege, this really blows up the investigation and could really be a major setback to the investiga
jackson, mississippi exposing years of negligence and misplaced priorities by the states republican governor. mississippi state senator salim norwood weighs in. and we will go live to the kennedy space station in florida where nasa is once again getting ready to launch its artemis 1 mission around the moon. all of that and more is coming up. and a happy labor day weekend to, you and katie fang. over the last 24 hours, we have learned several new pieces of information about donald trump and the classified documents found at mar-a-lago. one of them trump might as well have been featured on an episode of hoarders. according to newly released documents from the doj, the fbi found more than 10,000 government documents and photographs. those are just the ones with our classification markings. that s just the beginning. we will get into that in just a moment. i just how bad things look for trump right now? listen to what is former attorney general bill barr and one time ally is sa