Hurricane status. The National Hurricane center said the storm will likely cause catastrophic and lifethreatening flooding in the region. And in parts of the southwest United States through monday. Southern california its already impacting millions of people there. To make matters worse a 5. 1 magnitude earthquake also in Southern California earlier today. As of now there have not been any reports of damage or injuries. In historic rainfall and reports of flooding and Power Outages are already happening in the area. Like you see here in palm springs, california. According to the National Weather service the city has seen 2. 6 inches of rain since midnight in record high for the date. Mexico seen the worst flooding so far in places like santa rosa liana, one person drowned yesterday with his vehicle when it was swept away. Storms expected to be the first Tropical Storm in Southern California and 84 years. Were gonna be following all that for you and bring you updates if we have them thr
Im paula reid. Welcome to cnns special coverage of the 2024 election. The first debate and the surrender of former President Trump in georgia. We are on the cusp of a historic week for the nation and a pivotal week for the 2024 race. First, the former president and the latest indictment. Donald trump faces a friday deadline at noon to turn himself in to authorities in Fulton County, georgia. The result of his fourth criminal indictment. A senior Law Enforcement official tells cnn trump is expected to turn himself in thursday at the earliest. That would be just one day after the first debate of the 2024 president ial race which will take place without trump, who is the frontrunner for the repuican nomination. Just hours ago, he made it official, he wont attend. Now, the eht candidates who will attend all trail trump by doubledigit margins, and all of them are running out of time if they hope to catch him. Let me turn now to cnn senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz. Katelyn
Behavior and the stakes. It was a bracing message. He will be treated like any other defendant. Trump did not attend the hearing in washington today, and thats fine. You can have these kind of hearings among lawyers. His defense team entered this morning. We saw that, tracked that. Hearing about what, in other cases, might be a more routine matter. What are the rules of evidence before you go to trial . How can it be discussed . So this is basically the framework, ground rules, you may have heard the reference to a protective order. Now judge chutkan rejected Donald Trumps request to speak in broader general terms about some of that evidence. Hell be restricted from publicly discussing the sensitive materials. The ruling came out late today. The judge says if Defendant Trump receives sensitive materials has part of this case, meaning stuff he might not otherwise get but for being a criminal defendant, his lawyers may not allow Defendant Trump to write down any personally identifying in
Hill and this is cnn Closed Captioning brought to you by mesobook. Com our firm has offered a free book about mesothelioma for over ten years. Mesothelioma is really all we do. 80087 to 4901 today on inside Politics Court is now in session. Donald trump is at one of his regular Campaign Stops a courtroom. This time in florida. But there are actually two critical hearings that could determine if the former president will be on trial smack in the middle of the Republican Convention and were going to check again on both plus 15 states, 865 gop delegates. One night Super Tuesday is just four days away. Ill talk to nikki haley about how shell move forward. If donald trump runs a table next week. And the age old question, its dominating the president ial race. This our seniors and a pivotal Swing State Weigh in On Whether Biden and trump are both too old for the presidency. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and Inside Politics politics first up the clock is ticking just the way dona
good afternoon to you. reporters had their first chance to ask the white house about the cocaine discovered in the west wing sunday. there wasn t much reaction from the white house. instead, they punted to the u.s. secret service handling the investigation. a lot of questions unanswered at this point. listen to what karine jean-pierre had to say moments ago. where this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many west wing visitors come through this particular area. i just don t have anything more to share. it s under investigation by the secret service. and the secret service tells fox news that they re actively investigating what was going on behind the scenes sunday. first the alert came in to them that it was a hazardous material. they evacuated the building and decided to determine more later on through testing that it was cocaine that was discovered within the west wing. so still a lot of questions about who may have been in that area and we re waiting to