issue for all families. the governor and mayor pointing finishes about who is at fault, but a lot of residents want to know when will it get fixed. mikhail gorbachev is credited with bringing down the iron curtain and bringing together unity in europe. after 12 years under putin, gorbachev was in charge. he wasn t alone. welcome, it is wednesday, august 31, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and palm beach where donald trump s legal team has until tonight to respond to some explosive new allegations from the justice department. federal prosecutors claim government documents were likely concealed and removed from storage at mar-a-lago s resort as part of an effort to obstruct their investigation. the justice department was responding to trump s request for a special master to review materials seized from mar-a-lago. the department also says the former president lacks legal standing to intervene in its investigation since the documents belong to the gover
evacuation. why weren t residents in one county told to get out sooner? and is more tropical weather on the way? president biden set to visit the state this week. our rob marciano is standing by in hard-hit fort myers. developing overseas, ukrainian forces celebrate a stunning victory in a key city in the eastern donbas region. russian troops retreat just hours after vladimir putin claimed the city as part of russia. the setback raises fears that putin could resort to using a nuclear weapon. a former top u.s. general weighs in on what comes next. u.s. hostages freed. new details on the prisoner swap that brought seven americans home from venezuela and two convicted drug smugglers who were freed from an american prison. the deadly stampede at a soccer game. fans rush the field, police fire tear gas, at least 125 killed, including several teens attending their first game. the nfl is now updating its concussion protocols after two frightening injuries to the miami dolphi
documents marked top secret, 54 documents marked secret, and 31 marked confidential. they also found more than 48 empty folders marked classified, no info on where the contents of those folders are. they also collected more than 1,000 non-classified documents that do not belong to donald trump, they belong to the government. the inventory describes how the country s most sensitive secrets were tossed in boxes with newspaper clippings and even random items of clothing. some of these documents are so top secret, so tightly restricted, that they are only to be viewed in secure facilities. and this is just the stuff retrieved on august 8th. it does not include the hundreds of other classified files that federal investigators had worked to get back months earlier. joining me now is cnn political correspondent, and cnn judiciary committee and cnn legal analyst, who was house judiciary special council in donald trump s first impeachment trial. i just want to give people an example o
meetings from the very minute this storm was very unpredictable. reporter: the mayor of fort myers saying the county acted responsibly. warnings for hurricane season start in june. so, there s a degree of personal responsibility here. i think the county acted appropriately. the thing is that a certain percentage of people will not heed the warnings, regardless. some tough questions for officials today. let s get right to rob marciano in hard-hit fort myers. why was it such a challenge for officials in the hardest hit counties to issue those emergency orders? reporter: on the weather side, no question this was a tough forecast, as a matter of fact the national hurricane center was stressing the lack of confidence, the uncertainty from the very day the storm was conceived to when it made landfall. this was a challenge for forecasters, decisionmakers and residents on when to take action. all that said we still have issues. we still have challenges here. our drone shots show yo
they will get enough of a break where they could perhaps try again. that is the weather side of things. now to the technical side. you remember monday the biggest issue was a problem with engine number three. they weren t able to cool it down to the right temperature. they have to get the temperatures down to negative 420 degrees farenheit. and the reason why, they equate it to what you would see in a formula 1 race. the cars warming up their tires before a race. for a rocket launch like this, you have to do the opposite, you have to cool down the engines that much, negative 420 degrees f farenheit before launch. what they will do, they will start the cooldown process a little bit sooner in the countdown. and then they are also going to be doing a lot of work checking out what may be a faulty sensor. there is a chance that this oil