Essentially further restrict Abortion Rights. Now it has so many talk being how the fallout could reach all the way from this summer to november 2024. Emergency evacuations, people jumping into the ocean to stay alive. Hurricanecharged winds fueling a raging wildfire that is burning out of control. Im john berman with kate bolduan. Cnn news central starts now. New this morning, a memo that could be central to the January 6th Case against donald trump. What prosecutors call a plot to create a, quote, fake controversy that would derail the proper certification of biden as president elect. Now, the phrase Fake Electors has been tossed around for some time, but now the New York Times has obtained this key piece of evidence describing the alleged conspiracy. It was written by protrump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, this december memo explains in great detail how Fake Electors might swing the election or at a minimum and this is important muck up or slow down the process to, quote, buy the Trump C
the most revly traveled countries in the country. a tanker truck erupted between an i-95 overpass and spread to the lanes above that. high heat caused them to buckle and melt and eventually cause sections to crash to the ground. bill: a mess and still is. crews got the fire under control in an hour. the damage was done. the governor of p.a. set to issue a disaster declaration later today. one car remains trapped beneath that collapsed roadway. listen to this driver earlier today. watched it unfold and described what he saw. hit a bump, again not unusual because it s philadelphia and that section is under construction. after coming back knowing what i knew at that time, that the highway collapsed, you see there on the video i hit a bump that was essentially the road getting ready to collapse. bill: we are on the ground in philadelphia. how are they looking today? bill, good morning to you. we re not far from the scene of the collapse. look at the charred southbound lan
engaging in insurrection. plus explosions across ukraine after what kyiv calls the biggest wave of russian air attacks since the start of the invasion. and the moment people ran for their lives as a rogue wave slammed into the california coast. good morning. i m kasie hunt. it is friday, december 29. happy friday. 5:00 a.m. in washington and in maine, 2:00 a.m. out in california. those two states have differing decisions on whether to remove trump from the primary ballot over the 14th amendment insurrectionist ban. in california the secretary of state opted to keep trump on the ballot despite pressure from the lieutenant governor to remove the former president. contrast that with maine where yesterday democratic secretary of state 1450sheena bellows disqualified trump writing that it was an insurrection at the behest of then president trump. it became clear that it was an attack on the rule of law, that it was an insurrection and that the u.s. constitution does not tolera
money fraud. and the house republicans now war-gaming to attack the prosecutor. plus china s xi jinping touches down in moscow for his face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin. xi says china and russia share key goals. unclear, though, is whether putin gets the help he wants from china for his war in ukraine. and $3 billion. a swiss bank spends big to take over its struggling rival. financial markets are reacting positively, but what does this mean for your money? a first for us, though, a week that could bring history, criminal charges against donald trump. the former president predicts as much saying he expects to be arrested tomorrow. new developments underscore the tension an high stakes. the issue, the 2016 hush money paid to adult film star actress stormy daniels. longtime fixer michel cohen made that payment. trump says cohen falsified business records in the process. robert costello is a trump-connected attorney who once represented michael cohen. costello asked
to fly out of washington, d.c. until the 6:00 p.m. tonight. instead, they very quietly gathered a press pool and left yesterday about 4:15. the president appeared in kyiv, not on his original itinerary. we were told he was just coming to poland to commemorate the one year anniversary of the russian invasion instead he droons into an active war zone. the new york times is reporting that he took an hour s long train ride from poland into the ukrainian capital that is besieged by the russians right now and while there he announced an extra half a billion dollars in new u.s. security assistance. listen. that announcement includes artillery ammunition for himars and howitzers, nor javelins, raiders, they will protect the people from aerial bombardments. he rattled off a lot of different kinds of assistance. it is all equipment that the u.s. has given ukraine so far. ukrainians van v. been asking for f-16s that s not on the list of things the president gave as half a billion do