east coast, 8:00 in los angeles and this is america s late news, fox news at night. breaking tonight, a middle school student running for commissioner of school spirit and patriotism was apparently told his speech could not have any reference to patriotism. we will have reaction. california lawmakers think the answer to skyrocketing retail theft is to put an employee at each self check out machine. kind of defeats the purpose. and a former new jersey gym owner arrested for staying open during covid just won a huge legal battle. but we begin with donald trump s fate now being in the hands of 12 anonymous new yorkers and after deliberating five hours and sending two cryptic notes, the jury was excused back the courtroom confused. nate foy is live outside the courthouse in new york with more on this. good evening. reporter: good evening trace. you mention the jury deliberated nearly five hours today and at the end of court they sent two notes. one has to do with revisiting tes
another it s like a whole new version of the guy that lives in the apartment, your bank in the maroon can be quiet all right. on that note. thanks to you guys. i appreciate you being here. thanks to all of you for watching. i m kasie hunt. don t go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now it all comes down to this seven men, five women are about to start deliberating and are about to decide the fate of a former president and current presidential candidate. a senior exclusive sean diddy combs under new scrutiny right now, sources tell cnn federal investigators are working to bring his accusers before a grand jury and people in texas could be in the dark 40 days is the latest word, the already deadly storms now leaving nearly half million texans without power and more bad weather is on the way. i m kate bolduan with john berman, sara sidner is out today. this is cnn news central good morning for the manhattan criminal court, where as soon as today history will be made, t
president trump: these charges are rigged. i mean that, mother teresa could not beat those charges. this is five weeks. five weeks of really essentially not campaigning although i took a big lead in the polls of the last few weeks. because i think the people of this country see that this is a big deal. sandra: a live look at the newark state supreme court in lower manhattan where 12 jurors will soon return to deliberate the fate of former president donald trump. they, the jury, are currently on lunch break. trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and that is where we are at the top of the 1:00 hour on the east coast. john, and by the way, the jury can continue deliberating, we should point out. but it is officially a lunch break. hello, and welcome. i m sandra smith. john: i m john roberts in washington and this is america reports. jury instructions wrapping up this morning pictures were sent out to deliberate. sandra: the judge instructed th
dana: bye. bret: see you, dana. good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, the jury has questions and wants to hear the judge s complex instructions to them again. the 12-person jury in the former president donald trump s trial deliberating for four and a half hours before being dismissed by the judge for the day. the panel sending two notes to the judge this afternoon asking to rehear potential crucial testimony about the alleged hush money scheme at the heart of this history-making case. and, asking to hear the judge s instructions to guide them on the law mooner time the presumptive presidential nominee calling the criminal case against the former president a political witch-hunt in comments just moments ago judge juan merchan gave the instructions on the law governing the case and what they can take into account in evaluating the former president s guilt or innocence. former president trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business r
hi, everyone. here we go. it is 4:00 in new york. oh, to be a fly on the wall behind these closed doors. in the courthouse that has seen no shortage of famous influential or wealthy criminal defendants. 12 new yorkers and seven men and five women are right now debating the fate of a former president of the united states and they have questions. the jury in the historic trump criminal election interference hush money trial is at this moment deliberating on the 34 felony counts trump is charged with by the manhattan district attorney. just in, in the last few minutes, a second note has been sent from the jury, they re asking to re-hear judge merchan s instructions to them and earlier they are requested testimony from david pecker and michael cohen. our journalists are standing watch and they are updating us and we ll update you as soon as we know anything. as of 4:00 p.m., the juries that deliberated for four hours after yesterday s marathon day of closing arguments, more than