hello everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday i m fredricka whitfield. aren t new today, former president donald trump setting off a firestorm of controversy after an incendiary social media post trump posted the video on friday. this one featuring an image of president joe biden hogtied on the back of that pickup truck. the biden campaign is blasting the post inciting political violence. cnn s steve contorno joining us now with more on all of this, steve, i mean, what is the trump s campaign saying about this well fred perhaps. it s no surprise that there are downplaying the severity of this video that trump posted last night on truth social. if you take a look at the video, you can see there are two trucks, both of them sporting pro trump decals and flags. and on the second trump, there is this image of president biden, as you said, hogtied rather large image. and in a statement to cnn, does trump campaign said, quote, that picture was on the back of a
particularly under the 14th, president trump, briana will ripley. thank you for thareport and thank you so much for joining us. ac30 60 starts now and i don t 360 breaking news involving former president trump s criminal trials, including a new fight about limiting his repeated attacks on, uh, judges daughter, who has no connection to the trial at all also tonight, pushback on the former president s law and order comments at the wake of a fallen police officer were joined by the brother, brian sickness, the capital police officer who died after being assaulted during the january 6 attacks, and later, exactly one year after russia wrongfully detained a wall street journal reporter, a talk with the sister of having girls good evening. i m jim sciutto in for anderson to breaking developments in foreign revolving, former president trump s criminal trials this evening. first is whether the former president can continue his harassment of the daughter of the judge overseeing his
i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. the news continues on cnn right now tonight on 360 breaking news involving former president trump s criminal trials, including a new file eight about limiting his repeated attacks on, uh, judges, daughter, who has no connection to the trial at all. also, tonight, pushback on the former president s law and order comments at the wake of a fallen police officer were joined by the brother of brian signal, the capital police officer who died after being assaulted during the january 6 attacks and later, exactly one year after russia wrongfully detained a wall street journal reporter, a talk with the sister of evan gershkovich good evening. i m jim sciutto in for anderson to breaking developments in foreign revolving former president trump s criminal trials this evening first is whether the former president can continue his harassment of the daughter of the judge overseeing his hush money trial. a woman with no actual connection to the cas
it was the strongest storm to hit florida s big bend region in 125 years. now, tropical storm idalia is moving offshore leaving a path of destruction and massive flooding across the southeast. we ll have the latest on the devastation and cleanup still to come. another health scare for senator mitch mcconnell for the second time in two months the 81-year-old senate minority leader froze and appeared unable to speak while taking questions from reporters. the situation is sparking more questions about the top republican. and a tragic scene in south africa, 73 dead dozens more injured after a fire burns through a building full of families overnight. now rescue and recovery efforts are under way. i m boris sanchez with rahel solomon in for kate, sarah and john. this is cnn news central. this morning the road to recovery. after a once in a century hurricane, florida now beginning its first full day of cleanup as idalia now a tropical storm heads offshore. it s still packing s
i m like what they re used to it, but i m like, oh that s right. no more coach k. so it s a totally different something, but still very special nonetheless. yeah, absolutely. i like it. all right. carolyn, man. oh, thank you so much hello again. everyone. i thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. all right. new major developments just announced in that baltimore bridge collapse officials now say the first lift of a piece of the francis scott key bridge is expected to happen as soon as today. it s the first step in the process of eventually reopening a shipping channel to baltimore s critical port, cnn s gloria pazmino is in baltimore for us. so cool gloria, what more can you tell us about the plans ahead yeah. friday. good news in the sense that we are finally getting some news about the first step that the authorities are going to take in order to begin this massive cleanup project, as you said, they are going to move the first opponent we re shown