now. good evening everyone i m laura coast, and welcome to cnn tonight. there was involving the person right there with the name denied on top of his photo. the question is is the defendants of course who wanted to move their cases from georgia to federal court and the judge said no. no. to mark meadows. then of course he was trump s right hand man in his move to criminal case federal court is obviously not going to happen. what is happened right now he has already appealed. this is not just about him though. he is the first of five people who moved to to change their trials to federal court. plus am i asking, i know i m not, where is danelo cavalcante? he crab walked out a wall and out of prison right under the nose of prison officials. remember this? our guys are literally in the woods going through bushes checking sheds, checking urch clear houses. we are on line with the cert and tactical teams. we know the guard who was on duty when cavalcante escaped he has been f
after a powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake, after it struck friday night. its epicenter, located in the high atlas mountains, just southwest of marakesh, the quake was the strongest to hit the historic tourist area in over a century. and rescuers are now struggling to access the hardest-hit areas, after roads of course were damaged. one witness said they re hoping for miracles from the rubble. more than 700 people were injured in the quake and are in critical condition. intense aftershocks have hit the area. experts expect the death toll to rise. i heard people screaming. everyone went out of their houses, the street is full of people, and women screaming, that s what happened. and even now, people can t go back home, because they re still afraid. i want to bring in now cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman for more on this. ben, the destruction is devastating. i mean what are emergency crews up against, especially when you have an earthquake of this mag tuld,
coming up this hour, a powerful earthquake rocks morocco in the middle of the night, killing hundreds. we ll bring you the latest on the search and rescue operations. plus, president biden arrives at the g20 summit in new delhi, live to india for what we can expect from the meetings. possibly bad news for donald trump, a judge has rejected a bid by his former chief of staff mark meadows to move the case he faces in georgia to federal court. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin with breaking news out of morocco where the death toll from a powerful and devastating earthquake has gone up dramatically. the government says the quake overnight killed more than 600 people, and injured more than 300. and it s expected those numbers will rise, even more in the hours ahead. now, as you can see here, rescues are under way around the country. the u.s. geological survey says the 6.8 magnitude quake was the strongest in the region in
on residents to donate blood. the 6.8 magnitude quake struck in a remote area in the atlas mountains, around 45 miles south of the popular tourist destination marrakesh. tremors were also felt in the capital, rabat, some 350 kilometres away. president biden has said he s deeply saddened by the events. china s president xi has also sent a message of condolence. charlotte wright has this report. collapsed buildings and rubble strewn streets. the aftermath of a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8, leaving many hundreds dead across morocco. this is one of the country s biggest cities, marrakesh, a popular tourist destination, and 45 miles from the epicentre. as emergency workers picked their way through the debris, there are reports of families still trapped and many more injured. the floors were violently shaking, the walls were shaking, things were falling off shelving. i just didn t even know what to think. i then went into slightly more open space, in my bedroom, an
investigation. among them, senator lindsey graham why didn t the d.a. pursue them? how graham is reacting. and just in, the judge s ruling on mark meadows request to move his case to federal court. just breaking, the significant drop in the number of missing after the maui fires the race to rescue an american trapped more than 3,000 feet down a cave. why the mission could take days. and chaos at the u.s. open. protesters disrupting play one gluing his feet down the charges they face as coco gauff advances to her first u.s. open final. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening if you live along the east coast, you may already have an eye open for that monster hurricane lee. its explosive growth from a category 1 to a major category 5 hurricane in just 12 hours yesterday has forecasters in awe now, back down to a category 4, lee is the most powerful storm so far in the atlantic hurricane season at one point driving wind gusts of 165 miles