president trump and going after his possible pending indictment as politically motivated. un-american, and another a partisan attempt to try to bring him down. a manhattan grand jury is hearing a case related to a hush money payment made to adult film star stormy daniels in the run-up to the 2016 election. today they will hear from one final witness robert costello, a one-time legal adviser to president trump s former attorney michael cohen. he is expected to rebut cohen who has been the key witness against donald trump, isn t he a known liar? just establishing that fact. the grand jury will then need to decide whether it will indict donald trump and that could happen as soon as tomorrow. several legal experts are questioning the strength of this case however, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg is looking to elevate the misdemeanor issue to a felony and make donald trump the first former president in history to face criminal charges. and house speaker kevin mccarthy went
busy news day. hi everyone. i m jessica dean and this morning new details surrounding the indictment of former president donald trump, the first former u. s president to face an indictment on criminal charges cnn has learned. trump is expected to appear in a manhattan court tuesday. sources say. that s when he said to be arraigned. this is quite a day. quite a moment in u. s political history. donald trump, former president and current candidate for president in 2024. is facing. we re told more than 30 counts related specifically to business fraud. if convicted, trump could be sentenced to a maximum of four years in prison, though no legal experts believe that s likely all of this connected to his alleged role in a hush money payments scheme and cover up involving the adult film star stormy daniels overnight, his attorney, joe tacopina, says the former president is quote ready to fight. we re on this notable day our reporters, correspondents and guests all standing by to b
new tornado emergency for you that storm right there is on the ground producing damage. we do know that it is a large and damaging tornado right now that just moved through winnie and parts of arkansas just to the north west of memphis, likely mrs memphis, but we ll keep watching that iowa city big storm just to your northwest was rotating for awhile. tornado was on the ground and things but on the ground since ottumwa, iowa, a long path so this area here from chicago through devenport all the way down to louisiana and mississippi, all part of the same system with e f to e f three s and larger likely with this not by tomorrow, this thing even gets to some of the big cities. now i m not e f two and e f three s. but watch this is hour by hour. i set this up because i know you all don t live in parts of arkansas but hour by hour as we roll this through the ohio valley down through tennessee, we go from seven o clock to nine o clock in advance again. back into the evening hours.
general is sounding off on a violent humanitarian crisis right now unfolding in sudan. these stories and more coming in on cnn news, central. outrage in kansas city this morning after a black teenager was shot in the head when he mistakenly went to the wrong address to pick up his younger brothers. this is 16 year old ralph jarl. he is currently hospitalized in stable condition . police said his parents asked him to pick up his siblings and an address on 115 terrorists. but instead he went to 115th street. and when he rang the doorbell, the homeowner shot him. the homeowner was taken into custody and after a 24 hour hold period was released pending further investigation. authorities so far have released few details. but the team s family say that they want police to identify the homeowner. cnn s camilo bernal, following this story for us, camilla bring us up to speed on the latest here. hey john. well thankfully, the family says that physically, ralph is doing well. but they
from just about anywhere. expand your team with a fiber freelancer. cnn presents a max original heaven s gate tomorrow at 10 on cnn. live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. the 19 sixties had the chicago eight today. nashville has the tennessee three. the state lawmakers, all democrats. targeted by republicans for leading a loud but peaceful protest on the house floor in that legislature. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left six people, including 39, year old children dead. to expel lawmakers justin pearson and justin jones are black. gloria johnson, who is white, kept her seat by just one vote. that fact has only added to the anger in tennessee and across the country. cnn correspondent isabelle rose saleh s joins us with more details as well, it seems like there s already a path potentially to return both of these lawmakers to their seats. so what? what happens next? jim it is very much within the realm of reality here