Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Im fredericka witfield. A Major Hurricane is barreling toward the southwestern u. S. Hurricane hilary has weakened to a category 3 as it hammers mexico with strong winds and high waves. Forecasters warn it could dump more than a years worth of rain across california, nevada and arizona in a short amount of time. The threat is so severe in the golden state that a Tropical Storm warning has been issued for the First Time Ever there. Cnn meteorologist Allison Chinchar is tracking the conditions. A years worth of rain in a short amount of time, how are they going to handle that . That is the big concern, because especially in the desert areas that ground is not able to absorb it very quickly, so a lot of it becomes runoff, leading to localized flash flooding. Sustained winds 125 Miles Per Hour gusting up to 155. Weve seen that Forward Movement pick up. Its starting to speed up. Thats important for the timing of a lot of the rain showers. W
Gillian 4 00 a. M. Thanks for having me. Im Gillian Turner and this is americas newsroom. The threat a repeating third grade now is being designed to motivate students to work harder in school as some schools are struggling to overcome major setbacks lingering from the pandemic. Bill third grade is a critical benchmark. Those who cant read are four times more likely to drop out of school. Gillian memphis, tennessee, 76 of third graders there right now not proficient in reading. Only 1 of those students were held back a year. Bill at problem chronic absenteeism. More than a quarter of students are missing at least 10 of the school year. It puts them of greater risk of dropping out. The governor from arkansas Sarah Huckabee sanders with us yesterday. We have to get back to the basics of teaching math, reading, writing and american history. We cannot perpetuate a lie to our students and push this Propaganda Leftist Agenda Teaching our kids to hate america and hate one another. Its one of
Staff member. Speaker kevin mccarthy. And the time to george santos. And pleaded not guilty, and the indictment says he asked for more than a dozen contributors to fund santoss campaign. He also got a 15 commission from it. Prosecutors allege hero a letter to santos back in 2022 saying quote, thinking my identity to big donor. You also wrote, highrisk reward. In everything i do. Something he said that in turn out to be true. Thank you so much for joining us tonight, cnn prime time with wolf blitzer starts right now. Excellent show, caitlin, thank you very much. To our viewers, good evening. Im wolf blitzer here in washington. We want to welcome you to cnn prime time. Theres Breaking News were following right now. A texas woman has been charged with threatening in a voice mail to kill the federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former president donald trump. Over his attempts to try to overturn the 2020 president ial election. The suspect, allegedly called the chambers a fede
Response Fire Hydrants without water and no Emergency Sirens were in the fire Zone A Small Town in kansas now a battleground over free speech after police raided a local newspaper. How the owner says it led to his mothers death. The new legal move by the subject of the oscarwinning movie The Blind Side. The former nfl star who was taken in by a wealthy family as a teen now says the story was all based on a lie. And the dramatic rescue caught on camera four divers missing for hours found by the coast guard nearly 50 miles off the carolina coast. Then the emotional reunion. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening as we come on the air in the west, were following lateBreaking News tonight in atlanta where a grand jury investigating 2020 Election Interference has returned indictments, though we do not yet know against whom with so many of the legal cases involving former President Trump happening behind closed doors, tonight we watched live as a clerk handed the ju
Monday. John roberts, great to be back after a few days not being able to talk. Gillian and glad to be back with you on the new set, its awesome. This is america reports, the desperate search for survivors is continuing across maui. John Recovery Teams with cadaver dogs going building to building with the 1,000 that remain unaccounted for. Gillian survivors reporting Warning Sirens never went off and crews say hydrants had no water pressure. No idea what was going on, no siren, nothing. My son was like oh, mom, is this it . What do you tell your kids . Right now the government is letting us down, so its really important that all the people of maui stick together, Come Together And Support One another at this crazy time. Some of my friends are saying you know who is missing, so and so, so and so, so and so, and thats when it clicks in my head a bit. We will build back together, find out what we could have done to prevent such loss of life. John max gordon live on the scene, are official