Packed. And im mike emanuel. We have coverage with adam klotz, and Christina Coleman in Pacific Palisades in california. Well start with you. Hi, mike, if might look like a beautiful beach day right now, but heavy rains and significant flooding is a big concern. L. A. Mayor karen bass says the city will be ready. The city is prepared. Were not waiting for the storm to hit. We have already begun working 24 7 to be ahead of the curve and to be ready as soon as the storm reaches our shores. Hurricane hilary is expected to make landfall in baja, california sometime tonight or tomorrow where theyre already seeing stormy conditions and that storm is expect today weaken into a Tropical Storm that could bring torrential rains into Southern California and nevada and the threat of mudslides and even tornados. Crews are sandbagging low lying areas here in parts of Southern California and arizona. Law enforcement is telling people to be ready to possibly be without power. They say if you have to g
Good evening, everybody. Im jim acosta. And what happens next week will be, to use one word, historic. A string of former Government Officials, including the former president , his chief of staff, his lawyers, a Top Justice Department official, Campaign Lawyers all expected to surrender in what Fulton County georgia District Attorney fani willis alleges was a criminal conspiracy to overturn 2020 election. A senior Law Enforcement official tells cnn former President Donald Trump is expected to turn himself in at the Fulton County jail at the end of next week, on thursday or friday. Trumps surrender and arraignment in georgia are likely to look different from those in his previous three criminal cases. The Fulton County sheriff has suggested he wants to treat trump and the others named in the indictment similar tany other defendant. That could mean that they would have mug shots taken and be fingerprinted. And all of this will happen just a day or two after the first republican debate, w
Hard questions on maui. How did this wildfire start . How did it grow so fast . Destroy lives all with so little warning . Now a top official in charge of the response to that crisis has quit even as he stands up for how his agency handled the disaster. Plus a historic hurricane. Hilary is now a huge category four storm. It could be the first storm of its kind to hit california in some 84 years. Some areas could get a years worth of rain in just one day. And justice deferred. Donald trumps legal team trying to push one trial years into the future. While the former president backtracks his plans to hold an explosive News Conference monday. Were following these developing stories and more right here all coming in to cnn news central. The origin and the response to the deadly maui wildfires are both under growing scrutiny. Just a couple of hours, residents of the devastated town of lahaina are set to hold a News Conference to address how officials responded to the disaster. It comes after
Ill get reaction from the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States. She joins us live this hour. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im Alex Marquardt, and youre in the situation room. We begin with a historic show of unity from the United States, japan, and south korea. President biden hosting his asian allies at camp david with an eye towards the military and economic threats that theyre all facing in the Pacific Region right now. Cnns Paula Hancocks is standing by in seoul. First lets get straight to cnns Arlette Saenz at camp david. What came out of this summit . Reporter President Biden hosted his first leaders as president here at camp david, and the president is hoping that the symbolism of this location of the pezs retreat will lend itself to this moment as two u. S. Allies with decades of fraught history have come together with the u. S. To enter this new trilateral agreement in part as they are dealing with gr
A search for answers. The atf now in maui investigating what sparked a catastrophic wildfire, as crews search for more than a thousand people still missing. And in the aftermath of the disaster, a top Emergency Management official stepping down even as he defends the response to the fires. Plus, delay, delay, delay. Donald trumps legal team testing the limits of that legal strategy, proposing to start one of his special counsel trials in april of 2026. Will the judge buy their reasons for the setback . And serious skepticism from the white house to the pentagon about ukraines current strategy and where kyiv is targeting its fight against russia. We are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. We start this afternoon with major growing questions on the cause and the response to the deadly maui wildfires. Right now, the atfs National Response team is joining the investigation. The death toll remains at 111. But a thousand people