that ruling came down hours after new york s attorney general hit the former president with a lawsuit accusing him, his family, their firm of years of fraud. now, in the mar-a-lago documents case the appeals court ruled the doj can now resume its review of classified documents seized from trump s home, and that overturns an earlier ruling that had paused the criminal investigation. let s go to cnn s jessica schneider. jessica, the appellate court, they had problems, several problems with arguments from the trump attorneys. yeah, they did. and this is a unanimous three-judge panel including two trump appointees. and they really did, victor, seem to take down the arguments from trump s legal team on every level. so the first thing they did is they said that by not allowing doj to incorporate these 100 classified documents into the criminal review the court said in their words it would impose real and significant harm on the united states and on the public since as the doj sai
were appointed by trump, said the justice department can resume its review of classified documents taken from mar-a-lago. the judges also called out the claims that the former president may have declassified documents that were seized pointing out there s no proof. this appeals court decision is one of two major legal blows for the former president in a single day. the new york attorney general filed a lawsuit against trump, his family and firm alleging wi wide-ranging fraud involving some of his properties and other assets. evan perez joins us now. evan, you have some new details. the special master, the independent oversear of the evidence, is putting some pressure on the trump team. explain. yeah, just in the past hour we have an order from raymond dearie, the senior judge serve agz the independent third party that is going to look through these 11,000 pages of documents. remember, this is something that donald trump himself and his lawyers had asked for. and now he is s
This could be their superstorm sandy. 24 states affected. $79 billion in damage. we could see hundreds of thousands lose power. we could see a high surge. we re talking 400 miles of wide stretch of tropical storm force winds. we re talking a generational storm for canada. in fact with the heavy rain, crashing seas, power outages for hundreds of thousands, this is going down in the record books. we re so watching the storm system off the coast of south america. that s the next one we ll be talking about but not until next week. we re in that peak season period. tom sater, thank you. top of the hour on c ncnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. a federal appeals court ruled with the justice department on several issues. this is the case of the classified government documents found at trump s florida home. the three judges, two of them