Thats what we have all these prosecutions happening across the country. Jenna griswold, always great to see you. Thanks for being with, us thanks for the things you do to keep our elections actually safe. She is the Secretary Of State, for colorado. Coming up in our next hour, were gonna call to order a Special Edition of the Velshi Banned Book Club. Ominous discuss with two call scholars, one of americas most important most divisive documents, the constitution of the United States of america. Were gonna dig deeper into the section of that same constitution that legal experts say disqualifies donald trump from holding the office of the president ever again. Another hour of velshi begins right now. Right now. Good morning, its saturday, august 19th. Im ali velshi. In the span of just 12 months, the twice impeached President Donald Trump has been charged with a total of 91 felony count. Stemming from criminal cases against. Tim he remains firmly at the top of the field of the republican
Property, no doubt. What else are they doing . How nervous are californians about this, guam . Alex, Today Is The Day to prepare for people here in Southern California. , so you have a mix of people who are concerned, and others that arent really preparing, because they say they live in an area that doesnt flood. Others dont really know what to do. So, possible flooding. California is an area that has a lot of hills of not. And so, people who live in low areas understands what can happen when they get a lot of rain. But people that ive spoken to tell me they have no idea what a Tropical Storm means in terms of that rain. Some of received say they might gets about a years worth of rain in just a few hours. So, they just know it might be an overwhelming amount of water. You see some of the people who are collecting sandbags. Theres locations like this set up all over San Diego County for people in those low areas who, months ago, experienced a lot of rain in california and now the proper
I want to bring in cnn correspondent brian todd who is in st. mark s, florida, just south of tallahassee. brian, how are evacuations going where you are? we have been talking about all the areas of florida, they have been asking folks to get out. the hurricane is now just hours away. it is just hours away, a, b the evacuation orders, we are told, are going pretty well. we talked to emergency management officials here in waukesha county, where st. marks is. they said that they had a pretty good response where people who are urged to get out. they are under mandatory evacuations. they are told that at deputies went house to house in st. mark s, where we are, and in the surrounding areas knocking on doors. they cannot, even in a mandatory evacuation, pull you out of your house forcibly leave but they can strongly urge you to and that is what they have been doing. i have been asking one emergency management official what he would tell people who elected to stay. he had one word answer, h
Strong as a category three in recorded history, there is no barometer ville how this area is going to be able to absorb the hit of the storm when it comes ashore. but, again, we are told that between six and nine feet of storm surge was expected to push this water from the st. mark s river, kind of like a snowplow, up into the town of st. mark s. again, as i just said a moment ago, the entire town is expected to be flooded at least to some degree in the coming hours. there is an emergency evacuation order in effect, we were told that sheriff deputies have gone door to door in this town trying to get as many people as they can to leave. and, we are also told that they did get a pretty good response in waukesha county where we are, from residents in the coastal areas. one of the emergency management officials told me that they got a good response as far as the number of people who decided to take the advice and leave. i asked one emergency management official what he would tell people wh
Fiscal year, then that just starts us out at a smaller balance of what we had anticipated our needs would be for fiscal year 24. are there any ongoing efforts, though, that you ve identified that would be at risk if it comes to that. again, the funding or the work itself does not stop. it s the funding that just gets delayed into the next fiscal year. there s still a lot of questions among officials in maui and lahaina and across hawaii about who is in charge in the hours as the fires burned and in the hours after. you re a veteran local emergency management official, state emergency management official, now at the federal level, how do you assess how officials there responded? are there lessons to be learned perhaps for other communities? and is your agency prepared to work with congressional republicans if they launch investigations as they say they