major highway collapse. it could big impact on travel. and the supply chain. we have a live report on that coming up. comprehensive coverage of the indictment of donald trump as he faces a tuesday arraignment on 37 criminal accounts connected with his hoarding of classified documents at mar-a-lago. the former president at this we can get his first public defense against the charges and a familiar refrain, he now has his 2024 primary opponents singing along with. the ridiculous and baseless indictment of me by the biden administration s weaponize department of injustice. when i m your president, we will and the years of politicization and the department of justice. you can t have one faction of society weaponizing the power of the state against the factions that it doesn t like. not everybody in trump s orbit apparently got of the memo. it s very damning. they say d of presenting trump as a victim here. victim of a witch hunt is ridiculous. we re gonna have much
philadelphia fire department says after the initial fire broke out gas lines kept exploding underground. a state transportation official say this is likely to shut down i-95 indefinitely. this philadelphian agrees. i was woken up to nothing but text messages, phone calls. i had no idea what was going on i got dressed and came out and looked down and i smelled a smoky smell and i was like damn dude it would be a rough couple of weeks is not getting fixed tomorrow. eric: most important roots in the northeast, cb is here with us. both lanes of i-95 are closed in northeast philadelphia as crews work on the bridge collapse. at an official seen a tanker truck caught fire under i-95 and northeast philadelphia near cottman avenue causing the northbound overpass to collapse and now 7 miles of i-95 north and southbound are closed. officials are warning other streets near the bridge could be closed as crews continue the cleanup. this happening on one of the oldest and most traveled
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m paula reid in washington. new details this hour about the suspect charged with murdering four university of idaho students in their beds seven weeks away. cnn has learned his father was with him as he dropped across country for the holidays after the crime took place. police began tracking them at some point during the trip. the suspect is now charged with four counts of murder in the first degrees. he s expected to waive extradition and return to idaho. cnn s jean coasarez is there. reporter: when i spot to hi attorney, he told me he believes they arrived in pennsylvania, the home their home, about december 17th. well, cnn has also spoken with someone and actually corroborated with two people that, along the trip, but it was in pennsylvania, that on december 16th, that they were at an auto repair shop. this person tells cnn they were getting some work done on the hyundai elantra. that s the white car, and that the suspect the def
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota in new york. hurricane ian has killed at least 13 people. it s the strongest storm to hit the west coast of florida in nearly 20 years. local officials say we should brace for that number of victims to rise. the life and death danger from ian continues as it pushes northeast, still pummelling florida. rescuers were pulling people from high water all day and night. survivors describe no time to wait as people had to carry children, as you can see, through chest-high waters. ian made landfall just west of cape coral. our cnn drone shows the devastation there. i mean obviously you can just see these are supposed to be streets, but they are completely flooded. nearby ft. myers and naples further south are both decimated. countless neighborhoods are still submerged in the floodwaters at this hour. the communities of sanibel and pine island are now cut off from the mainland after ian washed away parts of this causewa