We are back live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We are tracking hurricane hilary. The system just weakened to a category 2 storm with winds of 110 miles per hour. The historic and potentially catastrophic storm is barrelling toward the southwestern United States, triggering the first ever Tropical Storm warning for millions of people in Southern California. The San Bernardino county Sheriffs Department just issued an Evacuation Warning for some areas in that part of Southern California. Thats just east of los angeles in the mountain and foothill areas. Hilary could bring a years worth of rain in a single day to parts of california, arizona, and nevada. Lets go straight to the cnn weather center, Meteorologist Derek Van Dam has been following the hurricanes path. I suppose its good news that the hurricane is weakening at some point, but that doesnt necessarily mean that people in that part of the country can let down their guards or folks in mexico as well. We should
We today uphold our solemn responsibility to ensure that everyone stands equal before the law. We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone their evidence can be tested in court and judged by a jury of citizen sdpgs we look at the fact, we look at the law and we bring charges. For the fourth time in as many months donald trump, the former president of the United States, is facing a criminal indictment. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, august 15th. Lets dive right into the latest indictment for the former president. The charges are from Fulton County, georgia, where trump and 18 others were named in a sweeping 41count indictment targeting alleged attempts to overturn the states 2020 Election Results, Fulton County District Attorney fani willis announced the charges just before midnight. The states role in this process is essential to the functioning of our democracy. Georgia like every state has laws that allow those who believe that results
with fulton county officials over the terms of his surrender. give us an idea of what that might look like. and this prospect that trump and these other defendants might be fingerprinted, have their mug shot taken. i would imagine being the expert that you are in the georgia legal system, it would be unusual if that does not occur. in fact, jim, the sheriff has said that will occur. unless someone tells him otherwise, these defendants are going to be treated like any other defendants. so, when grand juries issue indictments in certain cases, they issue arrest warrants, which they ve done in this case. in lieu of having those arrest warrants executed, these defendants can appear at the sheriff s office sometime before the 25th, which is this coming friday. at the sheriff s office, the normal plan is a patdown search, an intake interview to determine your criminal history, fingerprinting and a booking photo, which is commonly called a mug shot. again, the sheriff has said
much moisture being associated with the system as it moves on shore. jim? and people in that part of the country, please take all of these warnings very seriously. derek van dam, thank you very much. as we mentioned earlier, there are already evacuation warnings in place for parts of southern california. this could be the first time a storm like this has hit the state in more than 80 years. the california national garland guard is standing by ready to help. a state emergency official tells cnn it s an all hands on deck situation. we have swift water rescue teams, high-water vehicles positioned all over southern california. we ve also moved millions of pieces of commodities into the region, so cots, blankets, food, water, in case we need to set up shelters. we really want to be on the front foot of this and that s what s happening now. cnn s natasha chen is live in los angeles. natasha, looks like the winds are picking up there a bit. how are things looking? reporter: picking up
what we ve noticed is two important things about this track. not only is it speeding up, that forward speed continues to increase. it s also shifted a little further east. so, what that s going to do, just by the nature of the topography across the baja peninsula and into southern california, it means it will make landfall earlier than what we had anticipated, let s say, 12 hours ago. and also, with this increase in forward speed, if you ve been tuning in intermittently, this storm is more of a sunday storm for southern california and the southwestern u.s. so, we need, as weather kmurkters, to show you that because you may have anticipated a monday morning type of event but this is really sunday into monday and we have our flash flood threat across this region, a level four of four. some locations have never had this type of flood threat in all of its history. so, we re working on a major flooding potential with this system. this is the latest radar. dry along the coast, but look what