Welcome to cnn this morning. Its saturday, august 19th. Im amara walker. Im victor black well. Thank you for spending part of your morning with us. Were learning more about what is expected to happen when former President Donald Trump surrenders to officials in the Fulton County jail in georgia. How this will look different and how the Secret Service is prepared. This hoss we have suffered is unspeakable and devastating. We will continue to mourn as we care for the survivors and begin to move forward together. So much heartbreak as the death toll in maui continues to climb. As were getting a closer look at the scope of the damage, what the governor is saying about the Recovery Efforts and whether tourists should continue to visit. Hurricane hilary is closing in on the southwest with a years worth of rain. Weve got a look at areas the most at risk. I look on the bus and really our kid is the last kid on the bus. Willie wont be riding the bus anymore. A nationwide shortage is causing cha
Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Im fredericka witfield. The southwestern u. S. Is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as hurricane hilary churns off the pacific. We just learned moments ago that the storm has weakened just a bit to a category 3 storm with 125 mile an hour winds. Its lashing mexico with strong winds and high waves right now. Forecasters warn it could dump more than a years worth of rain across parts of california, nevada and arizona. The storm is expected to weaken as it moves north, but the threat is so severe, a Tropical Storm watch has been issued for california, the first ever for that state. People there are trying to prepare as best they can. Cnn meteorologist Allison Chinchar is joining us. A new advisory has just been issued. While it may have been downgraded a little bit, thats still very threatening. Right. Keep in mind the weakening was forecast. We knew as it slid into cooler waters, this was going to happen. In terms of the fore
Greg it is trends wednesday. Less about trends than the last of confidence. We are seeing more example of people using the banner of trends to do bad things. Who can forget Kayla Lemieux . The two biggest glue guns you have ever seen. [laughter] i was so preoccupied with her story i forgot i only fish. [laughter] all right. Anyway, the teacher demanded that the school complied with her identity choices. So standards were dropped. Meanwhile, in prisons, violent male felons would identify as women to get into womens jails. Basic rules about rapists being that among women were somehow ignored. In sports, men were saying they were women and the doors swung open like a pair of untucked balls. [laughter] thank you. And now we have a new example, trans power lifter just set a canadian Womens National record at the canadian powerlifting 2023 Western Canadian championship in manitoba. Yeah, Watch Anne Porter the man in manitoba. Put the man in manitoba. [cheers and applause] greg wow. She is de
Describes it this way. This isnt just a fire that moved through. There are 200 foot tall fire cyclones. The firestorm that came through and burned the entire harbor down to the waterline. Were still working on the process of recovering our loved ones. They say 36 people have passed away. Everybody knows that number will be dramatically higher. Harris its affecting members of our own family at fox as well. First person i will share with you will cain will join us later this hour. His mom is in hawaii right now. Well have a crew as Well Reporting on the ground from maui and a report coming up in just a few minutes. Keep watching for that. First right now virginias Governor Glenn Youngkin is hosting an event to empower parents stressing their right to speak up about what and how their children are learning. Parents rights are a key issue in that state you know. It helped propel youngkin to the Governors Mansion and now after another altercation at a school Board Meeting, the Justice Depar
a fox news alert. a russian fighter jet collided with a u.s. drone over the black sea. here we go again, sandra. brand new at 2:00, sandra smith, the president has been briefed on the matter and the u.s. was operating in international air space. it posed a there s no one and the lust reach out the u.s. will reach out to russia about what we re learning. we re also keeping an eye on the pentagon briefing and we will bring news when we get it. we begin with news impacting every single american family and that is inflation. brand new numbers out today. the consumer price index up 6% from a year ago. 6% from already high prices and that means that families are already paying stubbornly high prices as they drop plans for summer travel. the federal reserve in a tough spot about whether or not to raise interest rates further. inflation is nowhere near where they want it to be, but the silicon valley bank collapse has the markets on edge. so you have to get that inflation