Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. A fresh start to your weekend. We thank you for starting with us. Im victor blackwell. Im amara walker. Thank you for sharing a part of your morning with us. The fight between Special Counsel and donald trump is heating up. Why theyre calling on the judge to take action after a social media post by the former president. This was crazy in new york city. Look at these pictures. There was some violence but a lot of chaos after a social Media Influencer posted about a give away and now that influencer is facing charges. And simone biles gets ready for a comeback after taking a break from the sport. We will have the latest on tonights competition. We begin with this latenight court filing from Special Counsel jack smith. He is now asking a federal judge to quickly set Disclosure Rules in the January 6th Case against former president donald trump. In the filing smith cited this social media post from trump earlier in the day that reads, if you go af
crystal was gone, and there were lots of reasons to worry. she had numerous lovers, me and women. you had the husband and boyfriend failing polys. on the same day the answer would have t wait hurricane harvey is movin in this direction and high water rescues. we re stuck in the house an immediately went to social media. what kind of things pictures of her and her license plate. someone knew where she was, someone that liked to play games. he thought he was smarter than we were willing to trade one nigh of freedom he said i m ready to talk let me go home and tomorrow morning i ll tell yo everything in exchange for the terribl truth. if he couldn t have her nobody could. crystal was young mom and brought th search for crystal to a halt - then hurricane harvey decimate her texas town and brought the search for krystal to a halt but in a lead investigator forged ahead, uncovering a series of clues and as the floodwaters receded, h discovered the
wait. hurricane harvey is moving in this direction and high water rescues. we re stuck in the house and immediately went to social media. what kind of things? pictures of her and her license plate. someone knew where she was, someone that liked to play games. he thought he was smarter than we were. willing to trade one night of freedom. he said i m ready to talk. let me go home and tomorrow morning i ll tell you everything. in exchange for the terrible truth. if he couldn t have her, nobody could. crystal was a young mom and brought the search for crystal to a halt, but an investigatior brought a series of clues and as flood waters receded, he discovered the same deadly storm that slowed the investigation had also flushed out crystal s killer. here is dennis murphy with before the storm. the woman captured on security camera moving ghost like from one room to the next is 37-year-old crystal mcdowell, a real else state agent from baytown, texas, it s
License plate. Someone knew where she was, someone that liked to play games. He thought he was smarter than we were. Willing to trade one night of freedom. He said im ready to talk. Let me go home and tomorrow morning ill tell you everything. In exchange for the terrible truth. If he couldnt have her, nobody could. Crystal was a young mom and brought the search for crystal to a halt, but an investigatior brought a series of clues and as flood waters receded, he discovered the same deadly storm that slowed the investigation had also flushed out crystals killer. Here is Dennis Murphy with before the storm. The woman captured on Security Camera moving ghost like from one room to the next is 37yearold Crystal Mcdowell, a real else state agent from baytown, texas, its thursday, august 25th, 2017. At 7 35 a. M. , crystal gets into her black Mercedes Coupe and backs out of the driveway. Looks like shes on her way to work, but crystal never makes it to the office that day. Texts, phone calls a
i m victor blackwell. you re in the cnn newsroom. we begin with the news out of morocco of a devastating erk. the official death toll has risen to 1,037 deaths after a powerful magnitude 6.8 quake. the strongest to hit the north african nation in more than a century, it struck late last night, centered in the mountains surrounding marakesh, a tourist destination. the world health organization says more than 300,000 people in that city were affected. officials say there are more than 1,000 confirmed injuries, too, and with the sun up now, there is a race to reach victims in the most affected areas. but officials say rescue teams are struggling to get to those places. cnn s ben wedeman joins us now. rescue efforts are under way, but there is a concern this morning about aftershocks, especially knowing that morocco s infrastructure is not built for these kinds of large quakes. reporter: this is not considered a quake zone, in fact, and one of the problems is this earthquak