It really is way to early on this monday on august 21st. Im Katty Kay On August 21st in for jonathan lemire. We begin with the Tropical Storm pummeling Southern California. Hilary is already smashing records for rainfall across california with some parts of the State Reporting nearly 3 inches of rain yesterday. In addition to the Tropical Storm, Southern California residents also experienced a 5. 1 magnitude earthquake yesterday. Officials are reporting it did not cause serious damage, but it did produce several aftershocks. In response to hilary, governor gavin newsom declared a State Of Emergency. Hilary is the first Tropical Storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, almost a century. Turning to politics and new polling shows Donald Trumps hold on the Republican Base is as strong as ever. In a yougov survey, trump leads ron desantis, 62 to 16 . In third place is entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Hes at 7 . All the other candidates at 5 or less. Among them, the poll shows they trust t
The ex president s of free speech is not absolute in his upcoming Election Interference Case. Plus, unethical and possibly eagle. Clarence thomass acceptance of luxury gifts and travel might finally force the court to take action. And breaking developments in the Georgia Election probe, excuse me. Strongest indication yet that a grand jury could indict donald trump in a matter of days. Im ayman mohyeldin, lets get started. We begin with that Breaking News out of georgia. Fulton County District attorney, fani willis, will be presenting her Election Interference Case against donald trump and his allies to a grand jury early next week. The atlanta general constitution is reporting that the timeline came into sharper focus when former georgia Lieutenant Governor jeff duncan independent journalist, george deede, separately confirmed that they can receive notifications that they will testify on tuesday. This means the public might know by tuesday whether jurors indict the ex president and ot
He will release his own 100 page report on what he calls the stolen georgia election, two pages bigger than the charge sheet against him and his 18 accomplices. And well tell you how the us Treasury Secretary came to accidentally eat Magic Mushrooms while on a visit to china. First a Welcome Development here in the uk. Inflation fell sharply to 6. 8 injuly, from 7. 9 injune. But it still means prices continue to rise. Prime minister rishi sunak says it shows his governments plan is working, but he cautioned against complacency. The drop was fuelled by lower energy costs. But Core Inflation which looks at price rises excluding food and energy remained unchanged. According to the office of national statistics, the rising costs of hotels, air travel, and rents are among the costs keeping inflation high. Economists are still expecting Interest Rates the tool used by the Bank Of England to control price rises to be raised further. Our economics editor faisal islam reports. The heat may be c
Imagine how terrifying donald trump, how terrified he has to be for him to follow the advice of his lawyers. Thats how terrified donald trump is tonight. For the first time. The breaking not surprising news of the night is that donald trump was forced to announce that he will not be having a special press event on monday to, as he put it, refute the 13 criminal charges against him delivered by a Georgia Grand Jury on monday. In a written statement tonight, donald trump said rather than releasing the report on the rigged and stolen georgia 2020 president ial election on monday my lawyers would prefer putting this, i believe, irrefutable and overwhelming evidence of Election Fraud and irregularities informal legal filings as we fight to dismiss this disgraceful indictment, therefore, the News Conference is no longer necessary, exclamation point. That statement is, of course a lie. There is no report. Donald trump has no. Report on trumps lawyers will not be putting irrefutable and overwh
Entered the tunnel . Prince harry was going to make sure that history was not repeated, basically saying back off, youre hounding her like you hounded my mother. She was betrayed by so many people. We only know half the story. It was getting late in the city of lights, that last saturday in august, 1997. But sidewalks cafes in paris were still bustling. The mulan rouge was aglow. Riverboats along the seine were teaming with for us, and the paparazzi was out in full force because a special visitor was in town, in fact, the most famous Women In The World, Princess Diana. For years, cameras had tailed her like sharks follow blood. And now, on this late, august night, the hunt was still on. As diana and her new lover, Dodi Al Fayed sped away from the paparazzi, who were in hot pursuit. Suddenly, the driver made an unexpected turn, into that tunnel, the pont de lama tunnel. Tunnel. Breaking news coverage. [inaudible] pursued by paparazzi. Indeed, Princess Diana has died tonight. It has been