those are mandatory evacuations for people 32 school districts are closing down. people are warning authorities here warning in pinellas county in particular to make sure you make your plan now and leave soon as this storm approaches because it will likely not stay as a category 1. we re expecting it to grow as it hits that very warm water which fuels this storm. there is also always the potential of tornadic activity as well. there are plenty of places people can go. but right now they re saying, look, get out of these zones where the storm surge could be dangerously high. let s bring in derek van dam standing right next to me. we re standing in this is the confusing thing for a lot of people especially visitors who are not familiar with what happens in a hurricane. you look behind you and it looks like paradise because it is. it is absolutely gorgeous. but in a split second, as these bands come, you can get slapped with very high winds and the rushing water. yeah, espec
court. will trump follow suit? and just in, police releasing new surveillance video showing the jacksonville killer moments before he opened fire, targeting black shoppers. this as we re learning more about why he was forced to abandon what may have been an original plan. and prepare for evacuate. warnings now up for florida s gulf coast as tropical storm idalia rapidly intensifies. it is expected to be a major hurricane by the time it makes landfall. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erica hill in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, trump on trial. a federal judge announcing his 2020 election interference case will begin in march of next year. that is two years sooner than trump s team had requested. they wanted it pushed out to april of 2026. judge tanya chutkan saying it will actually begin in six months on march 4th, to be exact. that s one day before super tuesday. and while we re keeping track here, it also comes just two months before the start of his classi
the former secretary of state, hillary clinton, remains on track to clinch the democratic nomination. and france goes on strike over labor reforms proposals. major travel disruptions are expected throughout the country today. after weeks of violent protests, and have police demonstrations were banned anti-police demonstrations were banned earlier today. our top story this hour, demonstrators are preparing to take to the streets in cities across venezuela today, the first test of the state of emergency that was decreed by president nicolas maduro on monday. yesterday lawmakers moved to toect that announcement predict the imminent demise of venezuela possible opposition. here is our correspondent. byhe s being undermined lawmakers who rejected his state of emergency decree. nicolas maduro faces a battle in venezuela. earlier, the opposition leader called on his country to defy the declaration while urging the army to choose between the constitution and the president. this i
beating up the baby. throwing her around like a rag doll. the baby had a cracked skull and other injuries. the mother was in no position to take care of children. frankie and phillip at six and three were running amok and were unsupervised and what others saw was consistent with what happened on monday and that she didn t care for the kids and was neglectful and abused them by leaving these kids in the car. in one of the worst . things that i have ever seen, especially with a 13 day old. her appearance was one of a kid who had been pummeled. reporter: unbelievable. that family had moved into a hotel after a fire at their north reddington beach home so they were in the motel when all this happened. kathleen and asked her what happened to her little daughter that she seemed to be aloof and uncaring and didn t even ask about her daughter until an hour into the interview. guys? that is even more aggravating. but to talk about the angle of this story, we talk about two kids
going on. a single bullet fired by the police officer. the woman died. the family is going to speak momentarily with their attorney. paul callaghan is standing by. paul, the police have added a version of the body cam video. the family is gathering, i assume, to get answers in this case. what are your thoughts? john, i think it s a tough case for the police officer, because in terms of looking at that tape, a police officer has the right to use deadly force when he reasonably believes that serious force or deadly force is going to be used against him. and in this case all he knew was there was sort of a vague complaint about an open door at a residence, and he walks around. it looks like he s going past a gate of some kind which might give the person inside the house the thought that somebody was trying to break into the house. he does not identify himself as a police officer before he opens fire on the occupant of the house. so i think the police officer is going to have a