good morning, everyone. phil is making jokes before 6:00 a.m. it's friday. we're glad you're with us. five things to know for this friday, september 8th. we want to start with weather breaking overnight. hurricane lee intensify ing int a category 5 storm with sustained winds of 160 miles per hour. that was double what it was 24 hours ago. the big question, is it going to hit the east coast or make a turn and stay in the atlantic. and eight sightings, but an escaped murderer is still on the run. and new overnight, we're hearing from the american trapped 3,000 feet deep in a cave. he says he was very close to the edge suffering from internal bleeding and rescuers saved his life. this morning for if the first time we're expected to see the full report from the special grand jury in georgia. they are investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we'll see if it has any new information that was not included in the indictments against former president trump and his 18 codefendants. and a climate protesters glued his feet to the concrete floor delaying coco gauff's win by 50 minutes. "cnn this morning" starts right now. let's begin with with hurricane lee, which has strengthened to a powerful category 5 storm. it's churning in the atlantic. the system intensified very fast. it was a category 1 when speeds of 80 miles an hour. that's double to 160 miles an hour right now. the category 5 in just 24 hours. meteorologist derek van dam is live in the weather center with more. the question is where does it turn. >> that is the big question. right now, it's moving generally in a westerly direction, well north of the leeward islands and north of puerto rico. but look at day four and day five. this cone of uncertainty expands considerably because we expect this forward movement of the storm to slow down significantly. so why this cone of uncertainty? why so much uncertainty going forward in that turn and the strength as we look towards day four and five. pwe have to look at how the national hurricane center operates. it builds out the circles with this cone of uncertainty. five days out, they know their average error spread that was roughly about 230 miles. so that means as you go forward in time, the spread inner report possibilities increases. if you look outside of five days, the spaghetti model, the general consensus, it goes out in all directions t fans out. that shows you the uncertainty that we have currently with lee. we just don't know when it will make that turn. but there are a few factors we're paying close attention to. it will be moving over cooler water, so it will be a weaker storm. but one thing is for sure. it is a powerful monster that is currently in beast mode. it's the strongest storm in the atlantic basin since 201 where hurricane dorian. it has more than double d the criteria for rapid intensification. so at the very least, we will see large swells and large waves along the atlantic sea board starting sunday right through next week. but this thing blew up overnight. >> it really did. thank you so much for keeping an eye on it. there's been a new sighting of a convicted murder who escaped from a prison now more than a week ago. state police confirmed danelo cavalcante has been spotted at least eight times over the course of those eight days. one area they are focusing their search is a popular botanical garden three miles from the prison. ny freeman joins us live. the focus right now on the specific area, what's that tell you? >> reporter: we have seen over the past 12 hours a tremendous amount of police activity related to the manhunt of danelo cavalcante. we have seen troopers racing down winding roads in neighborhoods just like this one. we have seen the search area expand once again. and we got confirmation last night from the stit police there has been another sighting. lot me tell you what we know about this. it started last night really in the 6:00 hour. that's when we started to witness a tremendous amount of police activity. state troopers were rushing to close off many roads that frankly had not been closed off before. one trooper telling us as they were ushering us away they discovered some sort of new intel. we learned the botanical gardens, they were closing for the night. and that's been a spot where police have been focusing part of their attention over the course of the past nine days. we were that guests were told to leave. tenants were told to shelter in place. it was because police were searching an area of interest. we all got on the phone calling our sources, but we were able to confirm there was not a capture last night, but state police saying there was a confirmed siepgting. state police, while they have not gaten their hands on danelo cavalcante yet, they were still projecting optimism yesterday. listen to what the lieutenant colonel told the press yesterday afternoon. >> i have ever reason to believe he's still within that perimeter. we have had no sightings outside of that area. we have maintained a secure perimeter as we possibly could. >> reporter: so this manhunt still ongoing now on day nine. but i have to tell you, this is some of the most policed activity that we have seen in this entire search. >> danny freeman, you have been our eyes on the ground. keep us posted please. to d.c. now where there's another law enforcement search underway. police released a new video of a suspect who escape d two days ago. christopher haynes was spotted on this surveillance video jumping over a fence sba someone's backyard. he's wearing just socks, no shoes, and appears to be looking for something. there is a $25,000 reward for information on his capture. he made his escape from the hospital after assaulting a police officer. he was taken there after he complained about a ankle injury. teen sensation coco gauff headed to her first u.s. open final. she beat the 10 seed, 6-4, 7-5 in the semifinals, but the match was delayed for almost 50 minutes. four environmental protesters interrupted. three of them were removed. the fourth was a bit more complicated because he glued his feet to the concrete floor. >> i always speak about preaching about what you feel and what you believe in. it was done in a peaceful way, so i can't get too mad of it. i don't want it to happen when i'm winning, but if that's what they felt they needed to do to get their voices heard, i can't get upset at it. >> a great attitude. she's the young est american woman to reach the u.s. open final since serena williams won her first back in 1999. >> remarkably mature response to someone blew gluing their feet. all of her press conferences have been fantastic. we'll have more on this throughout the show. but we could see the full undedakt redact d report from the grand jury over donald trump's efforts to overturn the election president bush. a fundraiser at a golf club put a dent in rudy giuliani's legal bills as he fights theses cases, we'll discuss. save up to 30% nowow for a limited time. whether you're moving across town or acrossss the country. save up to 30% at pods.com today. i need it cool at night. you trying to ice me out of the bed? 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>> if you look at the page numbers of the report, there's about six pages in the middle that got cut out. awe low for spacing, it's not a short list. >> did you recommend charges against donald trump? >> we definitely heard a lot about former president trump and we definitely discussed him a lot in the room. i will say that when this list comes out, there are no major plot twists waiting for you. >> so today we're going to learn how closely this report lines up with the indictments that were landed down. we'll also learn if special grand jurors want ed to indict more people. >> that comes as trump tells the judge he may try to move his case into federal court. the same thing his former chief of staff is attempting to do right now. and another of the codefendants in georgia now has about a million dollars to put toward his roughly $5 million legal debt after $100,000 a plate fundraiser overnight. we have it all covered, but we'll start with sara murray, who spent too much time trying to explain internally the difference between a special grand jury and a grand jury that were all accurate. we have a teaser in february about what this might entail. what are you expecting to learn? what are you looking for given how close ily you have covered this case? >> it's been a long time coming, as you point out, to see the product of this special grand jury that did months and months of the actual investigating. they handed the findings off to decide whether to heed closely to them or to do her own thing. the first thing we're looking for is any kind of difference between who district attorney fani willis decided to bring charges against and who the special grand jury recommended. we do know that the special grand jury was unanimous on at least one point because we got this in the earlier excerpts that the judge released. that was after they heard from 7 witnesses they were not convinced of any fraud. we find by a unanimous vote that no widespread fraud took place in the georgia 2020 presidential election. that could result in overturning the elections. that was one of their primary take aways. the other thing i'm looking for today is anymore indication of who the special grand jury believes lied to them when i they came before and intensified. there was one person who ultimately was charged with perjury. he's a pro-trump attorney. here's what was said. a majority of the grand jury believes that perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses testify ing before th grand jury. they recommend appropriate indictments for such crimes where the evidence is com compelling. so i think those are the two areas where we could potentially see some news today. >> so we'll look out for that. it could come soon. we're also learning that trump likely going to try to move this case to federal court. does he have a stronger chance? >> it's hard to say if he's going to have a stronger chance. on the one hand, donald trump is the ultimate federal official because he was the former president of the united states. but mark meadows can essentially say anything he was doing, he was doing because he needed to offer his advice to the former president. that's one of the things that his attorneys argued when they went before this judge. i think what we saw from donald trump's team and his attorney's team yesterday preserving the opportunity to move to federal court while sort of hedging and waiting to see how this plays out for mark meadows. they didn't put forward their arguments before a federal court for why they think trump should maybe move there. that's probably because they are waiting to see what the judge is going to do in the meadows case. >> we'll watch. thank you so much for the updates. appreciate it. another conviction for a trump associate. a jury finding former adviser peter navorro guilty of contempt of congress for refusing to turn over documents. the trial lasted just over a day. the defense did not call any witnesses and nova ro joins steve bannon as the second former trump aid prosecuted for not cooperating with the committee. he faces one year in prison and $100,000 fine for each count. he has pledged to appeal based on executive privilege issues. this morning rudy giuliani is still really drowning in debt after former president trump posted a $100,000 per person fundraiser last night. giuliani struggling to pay millions of dollars in his legal bills for a host of lawsuits, criminal charges and last night's event was expected to take in more than a million dollars for his defense. kristen holmes is following all of it and join us now. how much would he have to get to sort of get out of this legal bill hole? >> good morning. we don't have the number exactly. one source estimated he has about $5 million in debt. we know that it's millions of dollars. and unlike these other aids, advisers, employees that trump has footed the legal bill for, the former president isn't doing the same for rudy giuliani. i talked to a number of trumped a providers who pushed back at this notion that he's not helping the former mayor and his long-time ally, pointing to these fundraisers. also pointing to the fact that at one point the save america pac that pays legal bills paid $300,000 in giuliani's debts. but as you noted, again, millions of dollars in legal debt. even if he was able to raise from this fundraiser more than a million dollars, there's a long way to go. we heard from one of giuliani's attorneys last night, who essentially said giuliani was going to need every penny he could get. >> i assume that they are trying to raise as much as possible. i think they are going to need it. i don't how much money you have. you can't outspend the state. knowing the scope, the length of this it trial, even the preliminary matters is going to be extremely costly. the state has nearly unlimited funds. >> we have heard this is a full-court press from giuliani's allies. they reached out to people who giuliani helped when he was mayor. people who sought favors from giuliani, as well as previous donors to giuliani's political endeavors. >> i work from the baseline that trump's camp will never be monolithic, but based on your reporting, is everyone inside the trump team supporting rudy giuliani at this point? >> there's a splut. you talk about former president trump himself. he's still fond of rudy giuliani. they describe a friendship. they had lunch and went and greeted supporters together. they have a relationship. this idea there's any kind of wedge between them does not exist. but there is a split within trump's orbit. some people saying it's important for trump to pay these bills, that he needs to keep giuliani in the fold. another section saying it's time to cut giuliani loose. we have no indication, one, that he's going to pay the bills, or two, he's going to cut giuliani loose in any way. when i raise these points with trump advisers, they say that trump himself is not going to be pushed into anything. he still said he didn't do anything wrong. but again, not really paying those bills yet. >> big bills, thank you very much. 22 days, it's the end of the deadline to avoid a government shutdown. it's quickly approaching and what's rising is tension in the ranks. ahead, what the party can't seem to agree on. we show ed him looking. >> i'm doing well. >> hear from the american trapped in the careful in turkey more than 3,000 feet deep. dry skin is sensitive skin, too. and it's natural. treat it that way with aveeno® daily moisture. formulated with nourishing, prebiotic oat. it's clinically proven to msturize dry skin for 24 hours. avno® (vo) in two seconds, eric will realize (man) [laughs] (vo) they're gonna need more space... gotta sell the house. 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