Thank you, my, friends enjoy the rest of your. Evening good evening to you, welcome to ayman. We have some Breaking News out of morocco this hour. Unfortunately, Tragically Thousands are dead after a deadly 6. 8 magnitude earthquake struck near the city of marrakech. We will have the update in just a moment on that tragedy. Plus, a major win for prosecutors in georgia as a judge rules against mark meadows. But that could be a huge setback for donald trump. And senator tubervilles blockade, his colleagues wont call him out, but those who actually served will. Im Ayman Mohyeldin, lets get started. We start overseas with the powerful earthquake which has killed more than 2000 people, injuring more than 2000 others in moroccos Southern Region. Search and rescue teams are still reaching some of the most affected areas, many of which are remote in mountains as we see that staggering death toll continue to rise. Sky news correspondent adam parsons is in marrakech. Then marrakech is having to
Have been hit the hardest. This is the first earthquake of such magnitude to hit the area in more than 100 years. Lets go right to nbc news Foreign Correspondent matt bradley. What do we know about the efforts that are underway . Yes so far we are seeing local authorities and the military trying to bring people out of the wreckage. As you, said the death toll is now at 8000. It was only a couple hours ago the death toll is at 800. A couple hours before it was at 600. As you know from the earthquake that happened in turkey back in february, they have a way of climbing very high after Rescue Workers are able to get in and extracting dead bodies. Thats when we start to see these numbers going up and up. As you mentioned this is a 6. 8 magnitude earthquake according to the geological survey. That is the strongest earthquake to strike this country and 123 years. As you mentioned, this was in the high atlas mountains. About 50 miles away from the historic city america. There was some damage
campaign can do to win back those votes. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, september 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning with the latest out of fulton county, georgia. we ve learned that former president donald trump might try to move his pending election interference trial out-of-state court and into a federal one. in a court filing yesterday trump s attorneys formally notified the judge of the possible effort to make that move explaining that any decision must be filed within 30 days of trump s arraignment. that would give the former president until the end of the month to decide how to proceed. now, trump s former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, has already pushed to try to move his case to federal court and had a hearing on the matter last week. the judge is expected to make a ruling on the meadows request in the near future. meanwhile, fulton county d.a. fani willis is accusing o
to say about the possibility of taking the witness stand in his own defense in the classified documents case. and also ahead an update on president biden s covid status following the first lady s infection as he s set to leave today for a major summit overseas. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, september 7th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin with the first major hearing for the fulton county election interference case that ended in a loss for two defendants. sidney powell and kenneth chesebro were denied their requests to split their trials. the pair each requested speedy trials but did not want to be in court together. district attorney fani willis is still pushing to keep all 19 codefendants together, trying them all on the expedited trial date that chesebro was granted. now, fulton county superior court judge scott mcafee did not seemed convinced that could be possible. it just seems a bit unrealistic
politicsnation. tonight s lead, insecurity. right now, with liz then three weeks remaining in 2023, nation s security commitments hang in the balance. after senate republicans this week blocked a spending package that tucker s israel and ukraine aid with hopes of border security. the clock is running out to get something passed and then an election looms. and last, not republicans in georgia just gutted another congressional district led by a black democrat ahead of 2024. the democrat, georgia congresswoman lucy mcbath joins me shortly with reaction this week to what happened to her district and washington. just days after a mask shooting in las vegas. a kind of gun violence she spent more than a decade protesting against. we ll discuss that. later, i m joined by the eldest loving daughter of the late, great nelson mandela. here in studio. her new biography on her father looking at his human rights outcome from an internet angle. i ll ask her what she ate make of curr