busy news day. hi everyone. i m jessica dean and this morning new details surrounding the indictment of former president donald trump, the first former u. s president to face an indictment on criminal charges cnn has learned. trump is expected to appear in a manhattan court tuesday. sources say. that s when he said to be arraigned. this is quite a day. quite a moment in u. s political history. donald trump, former president and current candidate for president in 2024. is facing. we re told more than 30 counts related specifically to business fraud. if convicted, trump could be sentenced to a maximum of four years in prison, though no legal experts believe that s likely all of this connected to his alleged role in a hush money payments scheme and cover up involving the adult film star stormy daniels overnight, his attorney, joe tacopina, says the former president is quote ready to fight. we re on this notable day our reporters, correspondents and guests all standing by to b
top of the hour this wednesday. i m jim sciutto. and i am erica hill. right now several key hearings happening on capitol hill. a pretty busy day in washington. this hour lawmakers will grill active administrator billy nolan after multiple close calls on the runway and some of the aviation incidents sparking safety concerns. also federal reserve chairman jerome powell appearing before lawmakers for the second day defending his decisions to raise interest rates in an effort to tamp down inflation. we re also watching the top u.s. intelligence officials testify, among them fbi director chris wray, the director of national intelligence avril haynes as what they see the biggest global threats facing the u.s. today. cnn s melanie is live on capitol hill today. several events and several bits of testimony on the hill today. walk us through what you re watching. yeah. a very busy day here on capitol hill. we are tracking a number of high-profile hearings, and i want to walk yo
country like just stashed on his person or in his home, giving them out. how in the world does that happen? shocking and it raises so many questions that we re going to get to this morning. it s one of many big stories we re covering. so let s get to the five things to know for this friday, april the 14th as we were just talking about the suspect in the leak of classified million terry documents will be arraigned in court today. federal court the fbi arrested him in massachusetts yesterday. officials tell cnn he s just 21 years old and he is a national guardsmen. alright, so that s a massachusetts and then in florida governor there. ron desantis has signed a six week abortion ban into law. the white house condemned it as extreme and dangerous. the man accused of killing tech exec bob lee set to appear in court today in san francisco. police say the suspect was someone lee knew also magic johnson maybe close to owning part of the washington commanders were told that deal is ne
newsroom. i m jim acosta in ft. myers, florida. first thing, we have some updated figures from here in the hurricane zone. sit the most current death toll of people who sadly did not survive hurricane ian here in florida. that new official death toll is now 74. 74 people here in florida have died now as a result of hurricane ian. of course, those figures are coming in. as they develop, we ll bring them to you. residents say there is a growing sense of fear that more bodies could be discovered. some areas remain fairly inaccessible to first responders. we ll show you what i saw on the ground. in the meantime, cnn has learned that a team that responds to mass fatality incidents has deployed equipment and personnel to assist medical examiners in boast counties here in southwest florida. officials in lee county where the majority of the deaths have concerned are facing a major concern. why were the first evacuation orders issued less than 24 hours before landfall? the county s ow
committee. the lead starts right now. 14 pages, trump gives the january 6th committee an earful as the panel tries to legally compel the former president to testify. but he never addresses the million dollar question. plus, debate night in one of the most competitive senate races in the country, the high profile republican help that herschel walker is getting after weeks of dealing with an abortion scandal. and cnn on the record with one of the three jurors who voted against the death penalty for the gunman behind the parkland massacre. i m brianna keilar in for jake tapper. we begin with president trump s response to the january 6th committee. in a long letter posted to his social site, he makes no mention whether he will comply with a subpoena. in this, trump reairs a lot of grievances and repeats claims about winning the 2020 election. he blames democrats for failing to protect the capitol on january 6th. he bashes the committee for what he calls very poor television rat