the mayor of jackson, mississippi, with an ominous warning. flooding in parts of the state capital. a federal judge has indicated she s likely to grant a request from the former president s legal team to appoint an independent legal expert or special master to review evidence taken to an fbi search of donald trump s sprawling mar-a-lago estate. a hearing for a final decision scheduled for thursday. the application for a special master is seen by many experts has have nothing legal benefit and it s possibly a delaying tactic. meantime, the director of national intelligence will advise senior lawmakers on the potential risk to national security posed by top secret documents being kept in trump s florida residence. reporter: cnn has learned that director of national intelligence avril haines confirmed to lawmakers the intelligence community is working together with the justice department to review all relevant documents that have been retrieved from former president trump
how the state is preparing and why this will be the second round of flooding for some. plus, we are on the eve of history. one day away from the launch of artemis i, nasa s next mission to the moon. how the forecast is shaping up and some of the more interesting things that are heading up to space in that rocket. plus, how extreme weather is uncovering some of the world s ancient treasures. thanks so much for waking up with us this sunday, august 28th. we hope you re having a great weekend. the start of a new week. good morning. i have a confession to make, i just gorged myself with a cupcake for breakfast, so i m beating you out on the prosciutto, much healthier. good to be with you. the sugar keeping me awake. some news to get to this morning. up first, assessing the damage to national intelligence from classified documents found at donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the director of national intelligence tells congress she is conducting a damage assessment of the doc
here. stick around to see meaningful space speak mode to learn everything you need to know about the artemis 1 launch. then, for decades, the antiabortion movement had most of us convinced we were living in a so-called pro-life country. let s just marketing. a fall, overall americans are learning the truth about abortion. spoiler, alert abortion rights are popular. how we got to where we are and what it means for this year s elections, ahead. velshi starts now. good morning, it is sunday august 29th. i am ali velshi. for about a full year after donald trump left the white house, 184 unique classified documents totaling more than 700 pages of valuable intelligence reflectivity u.s. government was sitting at his palm beach resort in mar-a-lago. that batch was recovered in january of this year. since, then the national archives in the justice department have received even more classified material from trump this state. including, during a search of mar-a-lago three weeks ago. so
you re right. very, very somber moments, around 15 minutes, a vigil, around the queen s coffin, of princess, princess ann, prince charles, prince andrew, prince edwards, the queen s children standing there, in silence heads bowed maintaining that vigil and something the queen wanted, will have planned, and perhaps not necessarily in scotland, there were different plans depending on where she died, but we have been saying all day, wherever she is now, and wherever her soul is, she will have been very much enjoying seeing this opportunity that the fact that she died at balmoral has afforded scotland to pay respects to her. you sea her, her body slowly travel through edinburgh, in silence, and so silent, that you could hear the hooves of the horses, and that silence from the thousands of scottish people who came to see her and say goodbye, spoke volumes, and they came to i think to see the new king, and they once again, with the enormous pageantry and very, very personal moments
even as unemployment ticked up. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m brianna keilar and you re in the situation room. our top story tonight, the newly unsealed inventory from the fbi s mar-a-lago search and the questions that it s raising about former president trump s handling of highly classified material. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez is following the investigation for us. so evan, this full inventory shows more than 48 empty folders with classification banners as well as some personal items mixed in with government documents. what exactly does this more detailed list reveal? well, that s exactly right. you look at some of the haphazard way seemingly haphazard way in which some of these items were being stored, mixed in with items of clothing and news clippings and magazines, you have classified information, for instance, 18 documents that were marked top secret. 54 documents marked secret. a