forecast models are putting florida in the bull eye s for a hurricane in days. this is what we re watching at this hour. thanks so much for being here. i m kate bolduan. putin s war on ukraine is where we do need to start at this hour. russia is staging referendums in four occupied areas of eastern ukraine beginning today. residents being forced to vote on whether the regions should become part of russia. the referendums are widely considered a complete sham of course but this is drawing global condemnation. ukraine s president zelenskyy is calling on russians now to revolt as putin is facing a growing decent from his people over his orders to mobilize 300,000 more soldiers. hundreds have been rounded up in anti war protests as we ve seen and more and more russians are trying to escape the draft and leave the country. cnn ben wedeman starts us off live from kharkiv on this referendum votes. what are you learning about how this will go? reporter: well, it s going, i think, a
residents in jackson, mississippi, are fed up and frustrated with the on going water crisis. we have more on the latest efforts to get relief to those residents in desperate need. and it could be the end of an era for serena williams after the tennis legend gets knocked out of the u.s. open. we re going to have the highlights from last night s exhilarating game and a look back at her incredible career. we re to grateful to be with you. welcome to your weekend, your labor day, holiday weekend. it s saturday, september 3rd. great to be with you, amara. how is it going? great to be with you. it will be a lovely five hours together or so. i m getting comfortable. i have my cookies to keep me going. and my coffee. so i m ready. all the things that matter, right? for sure. as boris was mentioning, in a matter of hours, nasa will try again to launch its uncrewed artemis i rocket on a journey around the moon. preparations are under way right now at the kennedy space cen
make men more responsible fathers. that s one argument made to our report, you ll want to hear the exchange for yourself. good evening, i m erin burnett, out front on this friday, deep concern, white house officials privately expressing what s described as deep concern over classified documents found at trump s mar-a-lago home. the white house has remained silent publicly, but cnn learning tonight that behind closed doors it s a very different story. concerns are mounting that the information found at mar-a-lago could put sources and methods of the u.s. intelligence committee at risk, and part of that concern is likely stemming from the new documents released by a federal judge relating to the search of mar-a-lago. these are the papers that contained specific information about what the department of justice is investigating in terms of potential offenses. the words right here in that document under the search is related to a violation of, you see this line, willful retention
good morning. welcome to way too early. this is friday, september 23rd. i m sam stein in for jonathan. special master appointed a review the document that s the fbi seized from president donald trump s mar-a-lago home has given the former president s lawyers until a week from today. they gave them that line to back up trump s allegation that the fbi planted evidence during the august 8th search. trump and lawyers have publicly insinuated multiple times that acts planted evidence during the search without providing any proof of that claim. special master also told trump s legal team they must state by september 30 if they belief the seized items were incorrectly described in the 11 page inventory list which stated some of the documents were highly classified. trump claimed he declassified the documents he found that were found in the search that were marked classified and highly sensitive. however, lawyers have not made the assertions in actual court. yesterday s filing ju
and tearful families saying good-bye to loved ones departing for training. putin wants 300,000 new fighters to help turn the tide as the russian military suffers setbacks in ukraine. russia is saying the call up would be limited to those with military experience but reports say civilians also now are being conscripted. the new york times tells the story of a husband and father of five who received a summons at a 4:00 a.m. meeting where a train had been organized to take him to a military center. many men are fleeing russia to avoid the forced enlistment. this is traffic as people escape to nearby georgia. russian airporting have been packed with people trying to get out of the country. one human rights group said more than 1,300 people have been arrested in anti-car protests in moscow and st. petersburg over the past few days. also today, voting begins in four regions of russian-occupied ukraine, in a sham referendum that could lead to the annexation of 15% of ukrainian ter