Devastating wildfire. How a bay Area Organization is trying to help those who lost everything. And cutting the cord with and how the bay areas largest city is looking to create its own Utility Company and what it would have to do to get the approval. My from jaclyn square. This is morning time to the nine and good morning. Todays tuesday, august 15th. Were looking live at the bay area here. A little bit of congestion or i would say congestion, cloud cover coming over the bay. You see the san mateo bridge in the background. We have to continue to follow the news out of hawaii where its now been one week since the deadly fires broke out in maui. And crews are continuing to sift through the ruins of lahaina. The confirmed number of deaths has now climbed to 99. And keep in mind, hundreds of people are still unaccounted for in a city where about 12,000 people did once live. As jake kerr, alexis tells us only about 25 of the burned out area has been searched so far. A week after the deadlie
Conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 president ial election in this state. Amy for the fourth time in five months, a grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump. The indictment stems from a sweeping investigation by fami willis georgia, built around georgias rico low which is often used to go after organized crime. We will go to atlanta to speak with veteran journalist Michael Isikoff and get a response from latosha brown, cofounder of the black voters matter fund. We will also speak with longtime consumer advocate and former president ial candidate ralph nader who says special counsel jack smith january 6 indictment should include insurrection. It is important to say also that all president s violate laws , he has just taken it to a new and diverse height. But he is doing it so brazenly that if he gets away with that, he will continue to contribute to the institutionalization of lawlessness by president s of the United States. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welc
A conflict because the big question here is whether there was an actual conflict. The defendants were alleging that fani willis and not only that she had this romantic relationship with a lead prosecutor on the trump case . Case, but then she also benefited financially and he had to decide the judge had to sort of do this analysis. Is it enough that its just looks bad, but theres an appearance of a conflict or did they need to prove to the defendants at trump and his codefendants need to prove that there was an actual conflict now, again, i say that day fani willis can stay on this case. It also appears that the judge is saying that this appearance issue needs to be addressed before this can go forward. So this appears to be a pretty nuanced a ruling, but the headline is that the District Attorney at her office can stay on this case, but we continue to read to learn more about exactly what the judge is saying, about how you need to address the appearance of impropriety right . Paula re
Georgia, he met Misty Hampton, and somehow got her number and went back to the white house with it. And that was someone that they were on the phone with very quickly after that, obviously trying to get access to the Voting Software and Coffee County. When meadows went on to georgia, the Misty Hampton Coffee County story is interesting, just to remind folks of that story. Which cnn broke yesterday. And caitlin, you will jump in if i get any of this wrong. But it seems as though Coffee County Election Officials invited Trump Campaign officials to basically have access to their Voting Machines. Which according to prosecutors who is not illegal, is that right . Yes, it is not illegal. And she is somebody who basically had written this statement in and all of our colleagues are people who broke this fascinating story. But she had basically written the invitation to come and view the software, which they are not allowed to do. Those are messages that were then transmitted to Trump Campaign
Has now been criminally indicted three times. With the most recent federal indictment last week from special counsel jack smith. Part of his wide ranging investigation looked into the efforts by the former president and his allies to subvert Election Results in seven states after President Biden won in 2020. One of those states is georgia, which President Biden flipped blue for a win in 2020. President trump refused to accept the result and he and his allies engaged in a number of plots to overturn bidens win. Some of these actions were so aggressive they drew the attention of the Fulton County District Attorney, who launched her own criminal probe in 2021. Now a grand jurys been convened and the former president could face even more indictments in the weeks to come. So what exactly did trump and his allies do in georgia . And what charges might they face . Over the next hour cnns sara murray will lay out the entire investigation and piece together what we know about the pressure campa