no donald trump, but plenty of fireworks at the first republican debate. i m the only person on the stage who isn t bought and paid for. now is not the time for on-the-job training. we don t need to bring in a rookie. with the front-runner s legal peril hanging over everything, can any of his rivals break through? republican candidate vivek ramaswamy is here. plus, burning down the house. with president biden s poll numbers stagnant, his one-time competitor heads to a key state with a warning. democrats must reject the corporate wing of the party. i ll speak with senator bernie sanders in moments. and still dreaming. 60 years later, martin luther king jr. s vision for america is still very much a work in prog progress. let s not give up, let s not give in. dr. king s son and family joins me to discuss what still needs to be done to make his dream a reality. hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is waking up to tragedy, again. auth
this morning we are set to learn significant new details in the trials of donald trump. two key hearings in two separate cases, one in d.c., one in fulton county, georgia, moving the legal drama surrounding the former president into a new phase. and police calling it a rampage motivated by hate. a white gunman targeting black people in jacksonville, florida. shooting and killing three victims at a dollar general store. what we re learning this morning. also a major hurricane threat, tropical storm idalia gaining strength turning in the warm waters of the gulf and taking aim at florida s west coast. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. and we are taking a look at governor ron desantis as he prepares to make remarks about hurricane idalia, as we just said. let s listen. we also have fdle on site today evaluating security on campus and making recommendations for any additional infrastructure imp
our house with ian. we ll make sure we have more sandbags than we did last time and more prep for water. better to be prepared versus not prepared and have regrets. we are getting prepared as best we can. adam is live from the fox weather center. it has been in cancun for two days. we watch it lift itself farther to the north running into the gulf of mexico waters. winds only around 30 miles-per-hour currently. it is only a tropical storm now and set to infence tie. this is that track and the intensification. it will lift across the gulf of mexico and over across the state of florida and into the southeast. don t just pay attention to what i m about to show you it will make landfall. the initial landfall early wednesday morning. still likely the nighttime hours overnight. tuesday night into early wednesday morning winds at 115 miles-per-hour a category 3 hurricane. big area here from near tampa stretching toward tropical storm storm watches stretching farther to the
california can t catch a break. this morning about 25 million people are under flood warnings across the western u.s. the damage storm hillary has lend where it s headed now. this is the week donald trump and 18 others now charged in georgia will have to surrender, turning themselves in to atlanta s fulton county jail, just as one of the accused makes a big move to try to get his charges dropped. president biden on his way to maui with more than 800 people still unaccounted for after the deadly wildfires. i m john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. this is cnn news central. this morning storm hillary is now moving north as a post-tropical cyclone after shattering rainfall records in southern california and leaving behind life-threatening flooding. flood watches remain in place for 25 million people up and down the west coast. look at those pictures out of cathedral city, california. this is video overnight showing part of the california desert, yep, under wat
fulton county jail after, of course, being criminally charged, allegedly trying to overturn joe biden s election victory in the state of georgia. meanwhile, mark meadows you know who that is, of course. he is trying a now last-ditch legal maneuver to try to avoid his own surrender by, of course, that friday noon deadline. and you ve got a dozen defendants, including the former president. they have all struck bond deals that have been signed by a judge. a dozen of course, is not yet 18. we also learned tonight that rudy giuliani set to meet with the fulton county da s office tomorrow. talk about a possible bond agreement i want to turn right now to cnn correspondent tom foreman. he s at the magic wall, breaking it down for us on what s happening right now. also cnn senior law enforcement analyst and former fbi director andrew mccabe and sarah matthews, and former federal prosecutor jeanne rossi. but back to you, tom foreman, in terms of what is going on right now. break