Trumps legal team will face the federal judge overseeing the 2020 election interference case. This as the Special Counsel requests an aggressive trial date. Meantime, trumps 2024 republican rivals are flocking to iowa for the annual state fair. Former Vice President mike pence is being heckled by some people at the fair as a traitor. A Covid Variant grips the country as Health Experts brace for a surge in the flu and rsv as well. A viral Triple Threat threatens america. And thousands of hackers are headed to las vegas for a chance to win millions of dollars in prizes to crack chatgpt. The white house is telling them, do your worst. Cnn this morning starts right now. Breaking news this morning, that death toll from the catastrophic set of wildfires across maui has risen to 55 people. Officials are warning its expected to increase as Search And Rescue efforts continue. We are seeing loss of life here. As you know, the number has been rising, and we will continue to see loss of life. Its
Good sunday morning. Its sunday, march 3. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im danny freeman. Hi, everyone. Good morning. Im jessica dean, victor blackwell, and amara walker are off this morning and heres what were watching free for you today. Super tuesday sprint. Its down to the wire for the nikki haley and donald trump campaigns. The former president s sweeping three more states this weekend while making a controversial comparison i stand before you today. Not only as your past and hopefully future president , but as a proud political dissident and as a public enemy of a rogue regime. This is a rogue and Dangerous Machine last lifesaving help from above the first wave of aid from the us. Air lands in gaza as the un now warns, Hundreds Of Thousands of people, there are on the brink of famine where the Ceasefire Talks between israel and hamas still now, thats ahead in a live report and fire and ice, the biggest wildfire in Texas History still raging Out Of Control this morning, while parts
before the u.s. defaults. not everyone is confident a deal can be reached, with at least one top republican negotiator warning a deal could come together as soon as today or fall apart entirely. what is the mood on capitol hill right now? reporter: good afternoon. the mood is more optimistic than we ve heard in days. negotiators here this morning are saying they think they re closing in on a deal and really it s all about having an agreement on the agreement and hashing out the remaining sticking points, which we re told are on work requirements and spending caps. we heard speaker mccarthy came to the capitol shortly before 10:30 a.m. this morning. he says he feels more confident than he has and they ve made progress, but some sticking points remain. i asked him if he thinks he would be able to get his full conference behind whatever deal they re able to strike, and he said he does think that will happen. he also said he thinks a deal could potentially come together as earl
the white house with a familiar comment today about this whole search and where it s going next. watch. again, i would refer you to the white house s counsel s office that has been regularly in touch with you answering these questions about this legal ongoing matter. i don t have anything to share. martha: nothing to share from the white house podium today. andy mccarthy and ari fleischer weigh-in on the growing situation surrounding folks that have classified documents at home. first to david spunt with all of the very latest on this from washington. hi, david. a few weeks ago, the president s team said the attorneys searched the rehoboth beach home and didn t find any classified documents. that s coming from the mouth of biden s legal team. if a search happens, that s a didn t situation. if there is a search in rehoboth beach, we ll hear about it after its concluded. that s the way this has been trickling down from the white house counsel s office. this is coming afte
destruction in its wake. governor ron desantis says more than 1,600 rescues have been made so far. after the storm turned roads into rivers, destroyed or damaged thousands of buildings and homes, leaving some coastal communities just unrecognizable. that s right. and right now nearly 600,000 homes and businesses are still this morning without power in florida. some floridians still have no clean water. officials say they are only now beginning to really assess the full scope of the damage. in lee county where more than 42 people died as a result of the hurricane, that is more than half of the deaths from hurricane ian, officials in that county are defending their actions after facing quite a bit of criticism over the evacuation timeline there. critics are asking where mandatory evacuations were not issued in lee county until one day before ian s landfall. while surrounding counties had already been told to evacuate prior. our reporters, correspondents, are all standing by t