trump and the other 17 co-defendants. in washington, d.c. the judge there set a trial date of march 4th, 2024 for the special counsel s investigation into the alleged plot to overturn the 2020 election nationwide. that trial date is one day before super tuesday, the height of the 2024 presidential campaign theoretically. our reporters and legal experts are here to break down every single detail of today s developments. we ll start with more breaking news. just moments ago we got an update on idalia, the tropical storm currently building in the gulf of mexico and barreling towards florida. evacuation orders have already been issued along florida s west coast. idalia is on track to be a major hurricane when it makes landfall. let s get right to cnn s meteorologist chad myers. chad, what is in the latest forecast? a top speed of 130 miles per hour now, up from 125 at the 11:00 a.m. advisory. more time in the water, very, very warm water and an awful lot of watches and warnings
politics. i m dana bash in washington. a federal judge just set the country on a road towards a legal and political collision. march 4th, 2024, is when donald trump s federal trial will now start. march 5th is super tuesday, when mr. trump s name may be on the ballot in at least 15 states. evan perez is outside the alfred e. pettyman courthouse where this went down. what a morning. reporter: what a morning, dana. this got really heated very, very quickly. the prosecution, as you know, was asking for a trial in january, which the judge immediately said was too soon, but they laid out that they had provided about 12.8 million pages as part of the discovery and said only 47,000 pages were really key documents that the defense would need to prepare for trial, and, of course, that prompted a very impassioned response from john lauro, the lawyer for the former president. they said this was an absurd and ridiculous plan by the prosecution and says this is a request for a show tri
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper and we start today with some breaking news. a shelter in place warning at the university of north carolina, chapel hill. authorities say there is a, quote, armed and dangerous person on or near the campus. the governor roy cooper now pledging all resources to capture the person he is characterizing at the shooter. moments ago a law enforcement source told cnn that federal law enforcement has responded to the scene but at this point, there was no information, at least not yet, about anyone being shot. right now we re getting information in about a situation where somebody is armed and dangerous. but we do not yet know if anybody on the campus in chapel hill, north carolina, has been wounded or shot in any way. we re going to go now to former boston police commissioner ed davis. ed, right now this is an unusual situation. moments ago local schools around the unc campus at chapel hill were clear to
ahead. also in florida, we re learning new details about a shooting in jacksonville that left three people dead in what police are calling a racist attack. we ll bring you an update on the community and what comes next. and 60 years after martin luther king jr. delivered his famous i have a dream speech during the march on washington, we look at what his legacy means today. and we begin with two high stakes hearings underway right now that could potentially determine the course of two of the cases against former president donald trump. in atlanta, a federal judge is holding a hearing on a motion by former white house chief of staff mark meadows to remove his case from state court and send it to federal court. fulton county district attorney fani willis is expected to use this hearing to lay out some of her case against trump and his 18 co-defendants all accused of conspiring to overturn trump s 2020 election loss in georgia. she has subpoenaed key witnesses to test
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