hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. destruction everywhere, that s how one survivor describes the aftermath of a powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck morocco friday, killing more than 1,000 people. it was the strongest to hit the area in over a century. rescuers are now struggling to access the hardest-hit areas after roads were damaged and we re seeing images of patients waiting outside hospitals, residents have been sleeping on the streets, fearing for the intense aftershocks. i want to bring in cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman for more. these first few hours, you mentioned the first 72 hours are critical in trying to locate survivors. what are you learning about the kind of rescue efforts that actually can happen, given so many roads and thoroughfares are impassable? keep in mind that the epicenter of this earthquake which happened at 11:15 friday evening local time was 45 miles southwest of marrake
now. good evening everyone i m laura coast, and welcome to cnn tonight. there was involving the person right there with the name denied on top of his photo. the question is is the defendants of course who wanted to move their cases from georgia to federal court and the judge said no. no. to mark meadows. then of course he was trump s right hand man in his move to criminal case federal court is obviously not going to happen. what is happened right now he has already appealed. this is not just about him though. he is the first of five people who moved to to change their trials to federal court. plus am i asking, i know i m not, where is danelo cavalcante? he crab walked out a wall and out of prison right under the nose of prison officials. remember this? our guys are literally in the woods going through bushes checking sheds, checking urch clear houses. we are on line with the cert and tactical teams. we know the guard who was on duty when cavalcante escaped he has been f
is expected to climb even higher as night continues to grind on there in morocco. sam kiley joins us from morocco. i think perhaps you saw the ceiling above you giving way just a touch. how are things where you re at? reporter: well, jim, you put your finger on what everybody here is most afraid of here in the medina in the old city of marrakech. an environment that certainly not in living memory and for many people, not even in the history books has any recollection of being worried about an earthquake. here you have the direct results of it. it is the collapse of a roof, that blank space there is the night sky above it. you have a roof, a floor, two ceilings, all collapsed down on to the ground here where i m standing. if you look at these buildings, we re in these very narrow streets, these very, very narrow streets. all of these buildings have enormous cracks down the side. the concern obviously is, if any of these cracks give way as a result of future tremors, then the
these cases. and what? the worst-case mario might be that you get a knock at your door from the sergeant at arms, maybe a slap on the wrist? best-case an aerial, politically, you get a badge of honor that you stuck it to the man. they were really more afraid of ignoring a doj criminal subpoena then a congressional one and they took their chances time and time again that the doj wouldn t prosecute you for laughing at a congressional subpoena. you know what else? in the past, that very thought process paid off. but now, this conviction, well this series of convictions, now puts the light back in the dog because when you are facing some jail time suddenly people start to take your requests more seriously. now, people like congressman jimmy jordan of ohio who, incels, you will recall was roundly criticized for, shall we say, not prioritizing congressional subpoenas aimed at him. now he is in leadership. so the big question is what we see the flood gates began to open and subpoena
more legal developments in georgia today. we are learning the sprawling election interference case that brought indictments for donald trump and 18 others could actually have been even more sprawling, special purpose grand jury underpinning that case especially recommended charging some 39 people. a reminder that panel did not have authority to indict, it could hear evidence, interview witnesses and offer recommendations. among those recommendations were charges for three current and former republican senators, south carolina s lindsey graham, georgia s two former senators kelly loeffler and david perdue, they were not indicted in the end. the report does not show us how the da decided which people ultimately made the cut as it were. cnn s paula reid is here. paula, a da does not have to indict all that a grand jury recommends to indict. by the way, some that were split votes in effect from the grand jurors, others were close to unanimous if not quite unanimous here. that