Im paula reid. Welcome to cnns special coverage of the 2024 election. The first debate and the surrender of former President Trump in georgia. We are on the cusp of a historic week for the nation and a pivotal week for the 2024 race. First, the former president and the latest indictment. Donald trump faces a friday deadline at noon to turn himself in to authorities in Fulton County, georgia. The result of his fourth criminal indictment. A senior Law Enforcement official tells cnn trump is expected to turn himself in thursday at the earliest. That would be just one day after the first debate of the 2024 president ial race which will take place without trump, who is the frontrunner for the repuican nomination. Just hours ago, he made it official, he wont attend. Now, the eht candidates who will attend all trail trump by doubledigit margins, and all of them are running out of time if they hope to catch him. Let me turn now to cnn senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz. Katelyn
morning from 50 cent. good evening. matt: good evening. he has a previous criminal history himself and is making headlines over a rather simple comment about bally s new bail policy. he wrote on instagram, l.a. is finished. watch how bad it gets out of there. shaking my head. he posted that caption while sharing a clip from a fox 11 l.a. report about the new nobel policy. here in l.a. county, police are no longer detaining people for crimes like theft, shoplifting, drug use, vandalism and many other nonviolent crimes and it means many people who are arrested for these crimes will be immediately released without paying any bail before their arraignment. the california judge who made the ruling important law enforcement officials to tell them why he should have not made the ruling but no one appealed and including the chief of police or district attorney george. an organization that helps victims heal from crimes is actually thinking 50 cents speaking out against the no bail
latest on the fight and the fallout. good evening. reporter: just a few days ago, twitter owner elon musk made headlines when he challenged meta ceo mark zuckerberg to a cage match. that cage match is still tbd but a legal battle between the two might actually be heating up. twitter is reportedly threatening to sue meta the parent company of facebook and instagram that is owned by zuckerberg alleging that a copy twitter with its remarkably similar new social media platform threads. that officially launched last night and is even being there for the twitter killer. in a letter published by the media reporter max bottani, musk s lawyers sent a cease and desist to zuckerberg claiming that mehta has engaged in systematic his appropriation of twitter s trade secrets and even hired a former twitter employees. musk responded to the lawsuit making headlines by tweeting, quote, competition is fine, cheating is not. fox news reached out to meta for comment. director andy stone respo
case, but what we know is this, the irs whistle-blower s lawyers have written to members of congress saying that the whistle-blower and his entire team have been removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistle-blower disclosures to congress. the whistle-blower previously alleged political interference in the investigation of that high-profile, controversial subject who fox has been told is hunter biden. as for the whistle-blower s removal from the investigation, his legal team says its client, was informed the change was at the request of the department of justice. the move was condemned as retaliatory action by house speaker kevin mccarthy who said by a twitter that republicans on the house, weighs and means committee, will expose any possible cover-up at the irs and republicans will protect the whistle-blowers who shine a light on government misconduct. congressman richard nea
welcome to the programme. the updates from turkey and syria are relentlessly grim. the deathtoll has now passed 20,000 but only a fraction of the devastated areas have been searched, with hope fading for those still trapped. though there are still miracles. these pictures have recently come in from diyarbakir and they show a little boy, six year old basir yildiz, being rescued. crews had been digging for him for 80 hours. but even for the lucky ones like basir, there are challenges ahead. the world health organization has talked about a new disaster, with thousands unable to find shelter, food and water. help is arriving the first aid has crossed into syria, through the one border crossing point that is open. and in the last hour, the director general of the who, dr tedros ghebreyesus, has said he is on his way to syria. for the latest, our chief international correspondent lyse doucet is in southern turkey. it s hard here in southern turkey really hard here, but it s