i m bianca nobilo. and i m max foster. we re following this breaking news. a tragic scene unfolding at a building in johannesburg, south africa where fire has claimed at least 63 lives. we re to workers are conducting recovery operations. the flames proper out around 1:30 a.m. local time presumably while many inside were asleep. a spokesperson says the five-story building were filled with hundreds of settlements and we re hearing disturbing details about what theendured. let s go straight to david mckenzie. reporter: a terrible scene here. if we look at what is happening, there are police, firefighters. the building is just over my right shoulder. and in the early hours this morning maybe around 2w12:30 or 1:00, witnesses say the fire spread rapidly. and people were jumping out to try to escape the inferno. local administrators are saying that there were many children amongst those burnt in the fire. more than 60 people now dead and forensic teams were passing by our
russia and north korea now talking about a weapons deal? welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m omar jimenez. idalia is still causing havoc. now a tropical storm, idalia is bringing widespread life threatening flash flooding to southeastern north carolina as it slowly heads offshore. allison chinchar is live in the cnn weather center. what is the latest from the national hurricane center at this 5:00 a.m. forecast? obviously this hurricane now trap tropical storm has changed a lot over the last 24 hours. indeed it has. yes, the latest update still has the winds at 60 miles per hour, but they are gusting up around 70 miles per hour. the forward movement still pretty quick at about 21 miles per hour. we still have quite a significant amount of people without power right now. overall the bulk of them are across georgia and florida, but even through the carolinas, if you add all of it together, you are looking at roughly 300,000 people. they
a fourth indictment for the republican front-runner. it s a witch hunt. the ex-president prepares to surrender while his gop rivals prepare to debate. will trump s absence give any of his rivals a chance to emerge? you re there and you re able to tell people why you d do a good job being the next president of the united states. plus president biden celebrates the anniversary of his signature bill. so why do few americans know anything about it? and the tragedy of rudy giuliani. i never thought i d be indicted for being a fearsome, creative advocate. the mayor transformed into a conspiracy theorist and criminal defendant. good morning. welcome to inside politics sunday, i m paula reed. this week could prove pivotal for candidates trying to win. on wednesday in milwaukee, the first gop debate. at least eight candidates will be on that stage. asa hutchison is the latest to make the cut. he said he hit the donor requirements. but the elephants who won t be in th
i m bianca nobilo live from london. max foster has the day off but he ll be back monday. just ahead former president trump reacting to his georgia indictment for the first time on camera and calling for his party to come to his defense. president biden prepares to host the leaders of japan and south korea on friday at camp david. china and north korea high on the agenda. emergency alert. to you regret not sounding the sirens? i do not. that is what he said before suddenly resigning a day later. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, august 18, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington, d.c. where donald trump s legal team is proposing a new date for the trial in his federal election sub version case. the date? april 2026. which is years away. of course special counsel jack smith is pushing for the trial to start in the january of 1202. this comes on the heels of trump calling off the news conference
these are serious charges. these are like for the mafia or mob. what were they thinking? something that campaign can t get involved in. kids screaming, babies being handed off to other people. it was like out of a war movie. the historic town of lahaina burned to the ground. we ll find out what we could have done to prevent such loss of life to the best of our ability. live in london, this is cnn newsroom. it is august 14. and the district attorney is expected to present the case against donald trump this week. she could possibly seek more than a dozen indictment including a fourth round of charges for the former president. it comes as cnn has new details on the case. sources say there is new evidence linking donald trump s legal team to a voting breach. reporter: specifically he these text messages show that lawyers working for trump actively sought to get a written letter of recommendation in the days leading up to the breach. lawyers like rudy giuliani an