value at $84.5 million. it s an interesting me. today, a jury ordered donald trump to pay writer e. jean carroll $83.3 million, approximately one trump park avenue, for defaming her. breaking that number down a little bit more, the jury awarded e. jean carroll $18.3 million to compensate her for the harm trump s lies caused her. they awarded her another $65 million in punitive damages to, well, punish donald trump, to deter him from defaming e. jean carroll ever again. we will have more on that in just a moment. a nine member jury took just two hours and 45 minutes to reach its verdict after hearing final arguments from trump, and carroll s lawyers. mr. trump himself spent the final day of the trial causing disruption. and when ms. carroll s lawyers were given closing arguments, he stood up and walked out of the room, at which point the judge interrupted ms. carroll s lawyers and order that the official record reflect donald trump s abrupt exit. at one point the judge had to
respiratory symptoms. and jofficials are advising you to put your masks back on to protect you from the smoke. and derek van dam is joining us from the cnn weather whycenter. yesterday the fire alarms went off at school because of the smoke. how will it be today? you ve heard the term you wait a couple minutes and the weather changes. this was literally a 15 minute time lapse and you can see the smoke that inundated new york city, the skyscrapers just becoming a martian landscape. social media was lighting up. it was incredible to see but also very dangerous. and yet another day of the smoke and haze across many of the many populated areas of the east coast. and in new york we still have haze and smoke present, but it is not as bad as it was last night. majority of the thickest has drifted further south. so washington, philadelphia, baltimore, those areas will wake up to almost choking-like air and hazardous air really as this smoke continues to settle in. that stretches ac
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edward lawrence joining us now with more from hiroshima. good to see you, e. ward. reporter: good evening, i can tell you that president joe biden is in for the night right now. very interesting, the g7 communique came out and specifically calls out china for the first time if the very specific terms. now, it s very specific if about saying that it s the not meant to thwart china s development or progress, but it does get very critical of china s actions in specifically the south china sea as well as including the actions they re taking with taiwan, saying that changes to the status quo would not be tolerated. it also calls on china to end the programs meant to undermine security and safety in other countries as well as end human rights abuses. now, critics say the president has been dragged into criticizing china, taking a long time to push back. china s within helping russia as russia continues to try and take ukrainian land. the ukrainian president made a surprise visit
Im jose diazbalart. Right now, we are tracking the very latest on the deadly storms and tornadoes that slammed into parts of the South Killing at least seven people. Well bring you a live report from alabama. Also this morning, were following the very latest on the controversy surrounding the classified documents found at President Bidens former office and delaware home. What the Special Counsel is looking into, coming up. On capitol hill a growing number of republicans are now call ong one of their own to step down after congressman George Santos admitted to fabricating parts of his resume. Well have congressman Robert Garcia about that and more. And here in miami, i had the chance to speak with the charity providing migrants with legal advice, food, and shelter. Well discuss the challenges facing Asylum Seekers later this hour. We begin with the cleanup and recovery just beginning this morning after a dangerous storm system swept across parts of the unleashing a series of destructive